(astronomy, geology) Any stony meteorite that contains no chondrules
adherences
adherences
noun
plural of adherence
almochoden
anchylosed
anchylosed
verb
simple past tense and past participle of anchylose
anderlecht
andromache
andromache
Proper noun
the wife of Hector
anemochord
anhydremic
anthicidae
archdeacon
archdeacon
noun
(Anglicanism, Eastern Orthodoxy) A senior administrative official in a diocese, just under the bishop, often in charge of an archdeaconry. As a title, it can be filled by either a deacon or priest.
archdivine
archfiends
archfiends
noun
plural of archfiend
archfriend
avalanched
avalanched
verb
simple past tense and past participle of avalanche
backhanded
backhanded
adj
(of writing) inclining to the left
Backwards, turned around.
Indirect.
Insincere, sarcastic, ironic, or self-contradictory.
Involving a backward flip of the hand.
Retrospective, occurring after the fact rather than in advance.
Self-serving, corrupt, slipshod, or neglectful.
With the back of the hand.
adv
In a backhanded manner.
verb
simple past tense and past participle of backhand
backhander
backhander
noun
(informal) A bribe, a secret payment.
(racquet sports) A player who plays a backhand shot.
(racquet sports) A shot played backhand, a backhand stroke.
(surfing) A surfer who approaches a swell with the wave behind them ("on their backhand") rather than facing the wave ("on their forehand").
A blow with the back of the hand.
A glass of wine given out of turn, the bottle having been handed backwards.
bedrenched
bedrenched
verb
simple past tense and past participle of bedrench
bedrenches
bedrenches
verb
Third-person singular simple present indicative form of bedrench
benchboard
branchdale
buchbinder
buchenwald
candlefish
candlefish
noun
An oily edible fish, Thaleichthys pacificus, from the northern Pacific, that was once dried and used as a candle or torch by the Chinook Indians.
caseharden
caseharden
verb
(by extension) To make insensitive to hardship.
To harden the surface of iron or steel by infusing carbon into the surface layer.
cerianthid
cerianthid
noun
Any tubular anemone of the family Cerianthidae
cetorhinid
cetorhinid
noun
(zoology) Any basking shark in the family Cetorhinidae.
chadbourne
chadderton
chadderton
Proper noun
a town in Oldham borough, Greater Manchester, England. Originally in Lancashire.
chaetodont
chaetodont
noun
(zoology) A chaetodontid.
chagrinned
chagrinned
adj
Alternative form of chagrined
chairmaned
chalcedony
chalcedony
noun
A form of fine-grained quartz that is nearly transparent or has a milky translucence; it fractures conchoidally.
chalinidae
challenged
challenged
adj
(euphemistic) Lacking some physical or mental attribute or skill ; used after adverbs to make politically correct adjectives.
(humorous) Used following adverbs to make adjectives in imitation of and mocking adjectives of this kind.
verb
simple past tense and past participle of challenge
champagned
champagned
verb
simple past tense and past participle of champagne
championed
championed
verb
simple past tense and past participle of champion
chancelled
chandelier
chandelier
noun
(obsolete, military) A portable frame used to support temporary wooden fences.
(surgery) An endoilluminator used in eye surgery.
A branched, often ornate, lighting fixture suspended from the ceiling
chandelled
chandelled
verb
simple past tense and past participle of chandelle
chandelles
chandelles
noun
plural of chandelle
verb
Third-person singular simple present indicative form of chandelle
chandlerly
chandlerly
adj
(obsolete) Like a chandler; in a petty situation.
changedale
changedale
noun
(Ireland, historical) A system of land tenure in which fields were reallotted when they went out of cultivation.
channelled
channelled
verb
(British spelling) simple past tense and past participle of channel
chaperoned
chaperoned
verb
simple past tense and past participle of chaperone
charadrine
chardonnet
cheddaring
cheddaring
noun
The stage of manufacturing Cheddar cheese and similar cheeses where the curd is cut into small pieces, often cubes, to drain the whey before being stacked and turned.
verb
present participle of cheddar
chelidonic
chelidonin
chelonidae
chemstrand
chiffonade
chiffonade
noun
A culinary preparation of herbs or leafy vegetables cut into long, thin ribbons.
verb
To prepare a chiffonade.
chilinidae
chinoidine
chinoidine
noun
Alternative form of quinoidine
chitinized
chitinized
adj
Modified by chitinization
verb
simple past tense and past participle of chitinize
chittenden
chittenden
Proper noun
an unincorporated community in Santa Cruz County, California, USA.
a town in Rutland County, Vermont, USA.
chlidanope
chlorodyne
chlorodyne
noun
A narcotic drug, made from chloroform, morphia and other substances.
chondrigen
chondrigen
noun
(biochemistry) The chemical basis of cartilage, converted by long boiling in water into a gelatinous substance called chondrin.
chondriome
chondriome
noun
(biology) The set of intracellular organelles contained in the cytosol.
chondrites
chondrites
noun
plural of chondrite
chondrogen
chondrogen
noun
Alternative form of chondrigen
chondrules
chondrules
noun
plural of chondrule
chowdering
chowdering
verb
present participle of chowder
christened
christened
verb
simple past tense and past participle of christen
chronicled
chronicled
verb
simple past tense and past participle of chronicle
chronodeik
chunderous
chunderous
adj
(Australia, slang) sickening; nauseating
cnidophore
cnidophore
noun
A structure composed of cnidoblasts
comprehend
comprehend
verb
(now rare) To include, comprise; to contain.
To understand or grasp fully and thoroughly.
conhydrine
conhydrine
noun
(organic chemistry) A vegetable alkaloid, C₈H₁₇NO, found with conine in the poison hemlock (Conium maculatum).
crunchweed
cynghanedd
cynghanedd
noun
(prosody) The complex system of internal assonance, alliteration and rhyme in Welsh strict-meter poetry.
cynthiidae
dachshunde
dachshunde
noun
Alternative form of dachshund
daphnaceae
deaconhood
deaconhood
noun
The state or office of being a deacon; deaconship.
deaconship
deaconship
noun
The position or role of a deacon.
debauching
debauching
verb
present participle of debauch
debouching
debouching
verb
present participle of debouche
decahedron
decahedron
noun
A polyhedron with ten faces.
decarhinus
decathlons
decathlons
noun
plural of decathlon
decohesion
decohesion
noun
A loss of cohesion
dehiscence
dehiscence
noun
(botany) Opening of an organ by its own means (such as an anther or a seed pod) to release its contents.
(medicine) A rupture, as with a surgical wound opening up, often with a flow of serous fluid.
(rare) Opening, gaping, in a general sense.
detachment
detachment
noun
(countable) Any smaller portion of a main body separately employed.
(countable, military) A permanent unit organized for special duties.
(countable, military) The unit so dispatched.
(uncountable) Absence of bias; impartiality; objectivity.
(uncountable) Indifference to the concerns of others; disregard; nonchalance; aloofness.
(uncountable) The action of detaching; separation.
(uncountable) The state of being detached or disconnected; insulation.
(uncountable, military) The separation of a military unit from the main body for a particular purpose or special mission.
dictaphone
dictaphone
noun
A dictation machine.
dinarchies
dinarchies
noun
plural of dinarchy
diphygenic
diphygenic
adj
(zoology) Having two modes of embryonic development.
disbenched
disbenched
verb
simple past tense and past participle of disbench
disenchain
disenchain
verb
(transitive) To free from restraint.
disenchant
disenchant
verb
(transitive, of a person) To disappoint.
(transitive, of a person) To free from illusion, false belief or enchantment; to undeceive or disillusion.
(transitive, of a thing) To remove a spell or magic enchantment from.
disencharm
disencharm
verb
To free from the influence of a charm or spell; to disenchant.
ditrochean
ditrochean
adj
(linguistics) Consisting of two trochees.
docentship
echeneidae
echeneidid
echeneidid
noun
(zoology) Alternative form of echeneid.
echidnidae
echinoderm
echinoderm
noun
An animal of the phylum Echinodermata, comprising radially symmetric, spiny-skinned marine animals including seastars, sea urchins, sea cucumbers, crinoids, and sand dollars.
echinoidea
enchiladas
enchiladas
noun
plural of enchilada
enchiridia
enciphered
enciphered
verb
simple past tense and past participle of encipher
encroached
encroached
verb
simple past tense and past participle of encroach
endarchies
endarchies
noun
plural of endarchy
endimanche
endlichite
endmatcher
endmatcher
noun
A device for preparing the ends of floorboards so that they will fit together precisely.
endochrome
endochrome
noun
(botany) Any colouring matter within the cells of plants.
(zoology) The coloured endoplasm of a cell.
endolithic
endolithic
adj
Within rock.
endopathic
endophasic
endophasic
adj
Being or pertaining to endophasia (internal, unvocalized speech).
endophytic
endophytic
adj
Growing inside another organism, e.g. of parasites or cancer tumors.
Of or relating to an endophyte.
endorachis
endothecal
endothecal
adj
Relating to the endotheca.
endothecia
endothecia
noun
plural of endothecium
enhydritic
enhydritic
adj
Of or relating to enhydrite.
enschedule
enschedule
verb
(transitive) To insert into a schedule.
entrenched
entrenched
verb
simple past tense and past participle of entrench
eunuchised
eunuchised
verb
simple past tense and past participle of eunuchise
eunuchized
eunuchized
verb
simple past tense and past participle of eunuchize
faceharden
franchised
franchised
verb
simple past tense and past participle of franchise
frenchweed
gesithcund
gesithcund
adj
Having the rank of a gesith (member of the king's retinue) in medieval England; well-born.
haciendado
haciendado
noun
Alternative form of hacendado
hallucined
handcuffed
handcuffed
verb
simple past tense and past participle of handcuff
handpicked
handpicked
adj
(figurative) Selected with great care or by insiders or an individual.
Picked by hand rather than by machinery.
verb
simple past tense and past participle of handpick
handscrape
hedonistic
hedonistic
adj
Devoted to pleasure; epicurean.
hellanodic
hellanodic
Noun
A judge or umpire in games or combats.
hendecagon
hendecagon
noun
(geometry) a polygon with eleven edges and eleven angles.
heraclidan
herodianic
hexadecane
hexadecane
noun
(organic chemistry) Any of the very many isomeric aliphatic hydrocarbons of general formula C₁₆H₃₄
hexadecene
hexadecene
noun
(organic chemistry) Any of several isomeric alkenes having sixteen carbon atoms and one double bond
hinderance
hinderance
noun
Archaic spelling of hindrance.
hindrances
hindrances
noun
plural of hindrance
hydnaceous
hydnaceous
adj
(mycology) Belonging to the Hydnaceae.
hydracetin
hydraucone
hydrogenic
hydrogenic
adj
(chemistry) hydrogen-like
intrenched
intrenched
verb
simple past tense and past participle of intrench
keypunched
keypunched
verb
simple past tense and past participle of keypunch
kitchendom
kitchendom
noun
(dated) The domain of the kitchen; kitchenry.
ldenscheid
lichenised
lichenised
adj
Alternative form of lichenized
lichenized
lichenized
adj
(mycology, of a fungus) Adapted to live as a symbiont in a lichen.
verb
simple past tense and past participle of lichenize
machinated
machinated
verb
simple past tense and past participle of machinate