(medicine) A person, especially a man, who delivers a baby (in childbirth).
acrorhagus
acrorhagus
noun
Any of a set of marginal tubercles of sea anemones containing specialized nematocysts
afterhours
aftertouch
aftertouch
noun
(music, uncountable) Pressure sensitivity on an electronic synthesizer, allowing the musician to change the tone or sound of a note after it is struck.
(rare) A touch (feature or characteristic) added finally or as an afterthought.
(video games) A feature in football/soccer games allowing the player to swerve the ball immediately after kicking it.
amphigouri
amphoterus
anarthrous
anarthrous
adj
(biology, of a limb) Not having joints.
(biology, of an organism) Not having legs, wings, or other limbs.
(linguistics) Not having a determiner.
(linguistics) Not having an article (especially of Greek nouns).
Nouns indicating status often appear in anarthrous noun phrases, ie, as bare nouns.
antichorus
archemorus
archibuteo
arthroncus
aurophobia
aurophobia
noun
The fear of gold; by extension, the fear of wealth.
austrophil
authorhood
authorhood
Noun
The status or period of being an author.
authorised
authorised
adj
Alternative spelling of authorized
verb
simple past tense and past participle of authorise
authoriser
authoriser
noun
Alternative form of authorizer
authorized
authorized
adj
Explicitly allowed.
verb
simple past tense and past participle of authorize
authorizer
authorizer
noun
One who, or that which, authorizes.
authorizes
authorizes
verb
Third-person singular simple present indicative form of authorize
authorless
authorless
adj
Without an author.
authorling
authorling
noun
A young or insignificant author.
authorship
authorship
noun
The quality or state of being an author; the function or dignity of an author.
The source; origin; origination
autochrome
autochrome
noun
An early photograph produced by means of a glass plate coated on one side with a random mosaic of microscopic dyed grains of potato starch under silver halide emulsion.
autochromy
autochromy
noun
The production of autochrome photographs.
autographs
autographs
noun
plural of autograph
verb
Third-person singular simple present indicative form of autograph
autography
autography
noun
(countable, rare) An autobiography.
A process in lithography by which a writing or drawing is transferred from paper to stone.
Writing in one's own handwriting.
autoheader
autothermy
autotrophy
autotrophy
noun
(biology) The synthesis of food from inorganic substances, using heat or light as a source of energy
auxochrome
auxochrome
noun
(obsolete, chemistry) any atom or group which, when added to a chromophore, causes a bathochromic shift in its spectrum
auxotrophy
auxotrophy
noun
(biology) The inability of a microorganism to synthesize an organic compound required for its growth, often as a result of mutation.
bargehouse
behaviours
behaviours
noun
plural of behaviour
bluethroat
bluethroat
noun
A small Old World passerine bird, Luscinia svecica, the male in spring having a bright blue throat.
brachyoura
broadmouth
broadmouth
noun
One of the Eurylaimidae, a family of East Indian passerine birds.
canephorus
cartouches
cartouches
noun
plural of cartouche
catarrhous
catarrhous
adj
catarrhal
chadbourne
chapournet
characeous
characeous
adj
(botany) Belonging to the family Characeae of green algae.
charmonium
charmonium
noun
(physics) Any meson formed from a charm quark and its antiquark.
charthouse
charthouse
noun
(nautical) The place on a (Royal Navy) ship in which the course is plotted manually on charts
chaudfroid
chaudfroid
noun
Alternative form of chaud-froid
chiriguano
chivalrous
chivalrous
adj
(of a man) Honourable, especially to women; gallant.
involving chivalry.
choraguses
choriambus
choriambus
noun
(poetry) A metrical foot consisting of four syllables, of which the first and last are long, and the others short; a choreus, or trochee, united with an iambus.
chromatium
chteauroux
coauthered
coauthored
coauthored
verb
simple past tense and past participle of coauthor
coryphaeus
coryphaeus
noun
The leader of an opera chorus or another ensemble of singers.
cothurnate
cothurnate
adj
Relating to tragedy; solemn; grave.
Wearing a cothurn.
cothurnian
couchmaker
couchmaker
noun
A manufacturer of couches.
crouchback
curvograph
curvograph
noun
An arcograph.
cutthroats
cutthroats
noun
plural of cutthroat
doughmaker
duryodhana
duryodhana
Proper noun
A major character in the Hindu epic , the eldest of the Kauravas.
earthbound
earthbound
adj
(figuratively) Unimaginative or mundane.
(science fiction) Heading towards Earth.
Confined to the Earth; unable to leave Earth, either physically or spiritually.
euharmonic
euharmonic
adj
(rare) Pleasingly melodious or harmonious — applied especially to the euharmonic organ invented by Henry Ward Poole (1825-1890), in whose design mathematical principles of harmony were employed.
euphorbial
euphorbial
adj
(botany) Synonym of euphorbiaceous.
euphoriant
euphoriant
adj
Producing euphoria.
noun
A drug, stimulus, or other agent that produces feelings of euphoria.
exhumatory
exhumatory
adj
Relating to exhumation or disinterment.
farmhouses
farmhouses
noun
plural of farmhouse
farmhousey
farmhousey
adj
Resembling or characteristic of a farmhouse.
fautorship
fautorship
noun
The role or status of fautor.
fearnought
fearnought
noun
Alternative form of fearnaught
flushboard
flushboard
noun
Alternative form of flashboard
fourhanded
fourhanded
adj
Having four hands; quadrumanous.
Requiring four hands.
Requiring or involving four people.
a fourhanded card game
frankhouse
fratcheous
fraunhofer
grasshouse
guacharoes
guacharoes
noun
plural of guacharo
guanophore
guanophore
noun
A type of chromatophore, in the skin of some fish and reptiles, that contains granules of guanine
guardhouse
guardhouse
noun
A station for guards, especially at the entrance of a town, castle, etc.
Synonym of military prison.
halfhourly
halosaurus
harborough
harborough
noun
Obsolete spelling of harbour
harbourage
harbourage
noun
(Britain) Alternative form of harborage
harbouring
harbouring
verb
present participle of harbour
harbourous
hardbought
harmonious
harmonious
adj
Having components pleasingly or appropriately combined.
Melodious; in harmony.
Showing accord in feeling or action.
harmoniums
harmoniums
noun
plural of harmonium
haubergeon
haubergeon
noun
Alternative form of habergeon
haustorial
haustorial
adj
Relating to a haustorium.
haustorium
haustorium
noun
A cellular structure, growing into or around another structure to absorb water or nutrients, such as a cotyledon.
A root of a parasitic plant modified to take nourishment from its host.
herbaceous
herbaceous
adj
(botany) Not woody, lacking lignified tissues.
(dated) Feeding on herbs and soft plants.
(wine) Not woody in flavor.
herbagious
hereabouts
hereabouts
adv
Near here.
hexamerous
hexamerous
adj
(botany) In six parts; occurring in sixes.
hexandrous
hexandrous
adj
Alternative form of hexandrian
hogansburg
holothuria
homagyrius
homuncular
homuncular
adj
Of or pertaining to a homunculus.
honorarium
honorarium
noun
Compensation for services that do not have a predetermined value.
honourable
honourable
adj
Britain standard spelling of honorable.
honourably
honourably
adv
In an honourable manner.
horselaugh
horselaugh
noun
A loud, boisterous laugh.
houndshark
houndshark
noun
Alternative spelling of hound shark
housebreak
housebreak
verb
(intransitive, US) To break into a house, typically to burgle it.
(transitive, US) To train an animal to avoid urinating or defecating in the house, except within a litterbox, toilet, or other receptacle.
housecraft
housecraft
noun
The art of homemaking.
housewares
housewares
noun
plural of houseware
humaniform
humaniform
adj
Like a human or that of a human in form or appearance.
noun
(science fiction) A robot resembling a human.
humiliator
humiliator
noun
One who humiliates.
humoralism
humoralism
noun
(obsolete, medicine) The doctrine that diseases proceed from the humours; humorism.
(obsolete, medicine) The state or quality of being humoral.
humoralist
humoralist
noun
One who favors the humoral pathology or believes in humoralism.
hurlbarrow
hyaluronic
hyaluronic
adj
Of or pertaining to hyaluronic acid or its derivatives
hydragogue
hydragogue
adj
(medicine) Causing a discharge of water; expelling serum effused into any part of the body, as in dropsy.
noun
Any medicine of this kind, usually a cathartic or diuretic.
hydraucone
hyponeuria
hyporadius
hypotarsus
hypotarsus
noun
(anatomy) A process on the posterior side of the tarsometatarsus of many birds; the calcaneal process.
journalish
kharroubah
khartoumer
lachrymous
largemouth
largemouth
adj
Applied to various kinds of fish characterized by a large mouth.
noun
A creature of this kind.
leucorrhea
leukorrhea
leukorrhea
noun
(pathology) Thick, whitish vaginal discharge.
marcushook
morgenthau
moucharaby
moucharaby
noun
A mashrabiyya.
mouthparts
mouthparts
noun
plural of mouthpart
mucorrhoea
naturopath
naturopath
noun
(alternative medicine) A practitioner of naturopathy, a nature healer
neuropathy
neuropathy
noun
(medicine) Any disease of the nerves and nervous system, usually and more specifically the peripheral nervous system, thus including both non-neuraxial and neuraxial instances of neural damage or dysfunction but excluding the neuraxis's psychiatric aspects (mental illnesses).
(medicine) Any disease of the peripheral nervous system; peripheral neuropathy.
neurophagy
nordhausen
notharctus
nothosauri
oberhausen
ochraceous
ochraceous
adj
Ochre-colored.
oophorauxe
ophisaurus
orichalcum
orichalcum
noun
A valuable yellow metal known to the Ancient Greeks and Romans; now sometimes interpreted as referring to a natural alloy of gold and copper, and sometimes treated as a mythical substance.
ornithurae
osphradium
osphradium
noun
(zoology) The olfactory organ in certain molluscs, linked with the respiration organ. Its main function is to test incoming water for silt and other possible food particles.
outbreathe
outbreathe
verb
(intransitive) To issue as a breath; exhale.
(transitive) To breathe out; expire.
(transitive) To exhaust or deprive of breath.
outchamber
outchamber
noun
An outer or external chamber.
outcharmed
outcharmed
verb
simple past tense and past participle of outcharm
outchatter
outchatter
verb
(transitive) To chatter more than.
outdraught
outhearing
outhearing
verb
present participle of outhear
outmarched
outmarched
verb
simple past tense and past participle of outmarch
outmarches
outmarches
verb
Third-person singular simple present indicative form of outmarch
outreached
outreached
verb
simple past tense and past participle of outreach
outreaches
outreaches
noun
plural of outreach
verb
Third-person singular simple present indicative form of outreach