(chemistry, obsolete) An element that in combination produces amphid salt; applied by Jöns Jacob Berzelius to oxygen, sulphur, selenium, and tellurium.
apogamic
apogamic
adj
(botany) Of or relating to apogamy.
campaign
campaign
noun
(obsolete) An excursion into the countryside.
(obsolete) An open field; a large, open plain without considerable hills; a champaign.
A series of operations undertaken to achieve a set goal.
The period during which a blast furnace is continuously in operation.
verb
(intransitive) To take part in a campaign.
(transitive) Consistently ride in races for a racing season.
campings
campings
noun
plural of camping
champing
champing
noun
The practice of camping overnight in historic churches as a novelty or part of a holiday.
The sound or action of one who champs (bites or chews).
verb
Present participle of champ.
chomping
chomping
noun
The sound or action of one who chomps.
verb
present participle of chomp
chumping
chumping
verb
present participle of chump
clamping
clamping
noun
The act by which something is clamped.
verb
present participle of clamp
clomping
clomping
adj
That clomps.
verb
present participle of clomp
clumping
clumping
noun
A clump or cluster.
The sound of walking with heavy footfalls.
verb
present participle of clump
compinge
compinge
verb
(obsolete) To compress; to shut up.
compoing
compting
compting
verb
present participle of compt
cramping
cramping
noun
The action of something that cramps.
verb
present participle of cramp
crimpage
crimpage
noun
Money paid to a crimp for shipping or enlisting men.
The act or practice of crimping, or entrapping soldiers or sailors into service.
crimping
crimping
noun
The act by which something is crimped.
verb
present participle of crimp
crumping
crumping
verb
present participle of crump
dampings
dampings
noun
plural of damping
dimpling
dimpling
noun
The formation of a dimple.
verb
present participle of dimple
dumpings
dumpings
noun
plural of dumping
dumpling
dumpling
noun
(cooking) A ball of dough that is cooked and may have a filling and/or additional ingredients in the dough.
(endearing) A term of endearment.
(mildly vulgar) A piece of excrement.
By restriction, a food composed of a dough wrapper around a filling.
empaling
empaling
verb
present participle of empale
emptings
emptings
noun
(dated) The lees of wine or beer, used for their yeast in making bread, etc.
emptying
emptying
noun
(in the plural) Alternative form of emptins
The act by which something is emptied.
verb
present participle of empty
epigamic
epigamic
adj
(zoology) Attractive to the opposite sex
epigrams
epigrams
noun
plural of epigram
epigynum
epigynum
noun
Synonym of epigyne
flumping
flumping
verb
present participle of flump
gempylid
gempylid
noun
(zoology) Any fish of the escolar family, Gempylidae.
gimpiest
gimpiest
adj
superlative form of gimpy: most gimpy
gipsydom
gipsydom
noun
Alternative form of gypsydom
gipsyism
gipsyism
noun
Alternative form of gypsyism
glimpsed
glimpsed
verb
simple past tense and past participle of glimpse
glimpser
glimpser
noun
One who glimpses something.
glimpses
glimpses
noun
plural of glimpse
verb
Third-person singular simple present indicative form of glimpse
glumpier
glumpily
glumpily
adv
In a glumpy manner.
glumpish
glumpish
adj
(dialect, dated) grumpy; sullen; gloomy
grampian
grampian
Proper noun
a former local government region in north-east Scotland, which was created in 1975 and abolished in 1996.
graphium
graphium
noun
A butterfly of the genus Graphium.
A stylus (for writing).
gripment
grumphie
grumphie
noun
(Scotland) A sow (female pig).
grumpier
grumpier
adj
comparative form of grumpy: more grumpy
grumpily
grumpily
adv
In a grumpy manner; in a cranky manner.
grumping
grumping
verb
present participle of grump
grumpish
grumpish
adj
surly; sullen; gruff; grumpy
gumphion
gumphion
noun
(historical) A flag or banner carried in a funeral procession.
gumption
gumption
noun
(Britain) Common sense, initiative, resourcefulness.
(US) Boldness of enterprise; aggressiveness or initiative.
(US) Energy of body and mind, enthusiasm.
gypsyism
gypsyism
noun
(offensive, ethnic slur) The practices or habits ascribed to gypsies, such as deception, cheating, and flattery.
The state of being a gypsy.
humphing
humphing
verb
present participle of humph
impaling
impaling
noun
The act of something being impaled.
verb
present participle of impale
impeding
impeding
verb
present participle of impede
impetigo
impetigo
noun
(pathology) A contagious bacterial skin disease forming pustules and yellow crusty sores, chiefly on the face and hands. It is common in children and infection is often through cuts or insect bites.
impinged
impinged
verb
simple past tense and past participle of impinge
impinger
impinger
noun
Any of several instruments in which fine particles (dust) in a gas are analysed by blowing them through a jet onto a wetted plate, prior to being counted. Typically used for particle analysis
impinges
impinges
verb
Third-person singular simple present indicative form of impinge
impledge
impledge
Verb
To pledge.
implunge
implunge
verb
(transitive, obsolete) To plunge (something into something else).
implying
implying
noun
implication
verb
present participle of imply
imponing
imponing
verb
present participle of impone
imposing
imposing
adj
Magnificent and impressive because of appearance, size, stateliness or dignity.
verb
present participle of impose
impregns
impregns
verb
Third-person singular simple present indicative form of impregn
impugned
impugned
verb
simple past tense and past participle of impugn
impugner
impugner
noun
One who impugns; one who opposes or contradicts.
imputing
imputing
verb
present participle of impute
lipogram
lipogram
noun
(literature) A word or writing that does not use a particular symbol or symbols.
malpighi
mappings
mappings
noun
plural of mapping
megilphs
megilphs
noun
plural of megilph
mispaged
mispaged
verb
simple past tense and past participle of mispage
mispages
mispages
verb
Third-person singular simple present indicative form of mispage
mopingly
mopingly
adv
While moping; sulkily.
multigap
multigap
adj
Having, or employing multiple gaps
opsigamy
opsigamy
noun
(rare) marriage at an old age
paganism
paganism
noun
Any indigenous polytheistic religion.
Any of a class of religions often associated with nature rituals.
pangamic
pangamic
adj
(eugenics, obsolete) Mating in an indiscriminate or random manner.
(organic chemistry) Of or pertaining to pangamic acid or its derivatives.
panglima
paradigm
paradigm
noun
(linguistics) A set of all forms which contain a common element, especially the set of all inflectional forms of a word or a particular grammatical category.
A pattern, a way of doing something, especially (now often derogatory) a pattern of thought, a system of beliefs, a conceptual framework.
An example serving as the model for such a pattern.
patagium
patagium
noun
A similar membrane between the body and wing of a bird.
One of the scales affixed to the pronotum of lepidopterous insects; the tegula.
The thin membrane that extends between the limbs and body of a bat or of gliding mammals.
pegamoid
pegamoid
noun
A waterproof varnish used, applied to surfaces, in bookbinding and upholstery
imitation leather
pergamic
perigeum
perigeum
noun
Archaic form of perigee.
phoenigm
phrygium
picogram
picogram
noun
A unit of mass equal to 0.000 000 000 001 grams. Symbol: pg
pigmaker
pigments
pigments
noun
plural of pigment
verb
Third-person singular simple present indicative form of pigment
pilgrims
pilgrims
noun
plural of pilgrim
pimgenet
pimpling
pimpling
verb
present participle of pimple
plimming
plimming
verb
present participle of plim
plumbing
plumbing
noun
(countable) A Murasugi sum where each disk summed along has its boundary subdivided into four segments.
(informal) A system of vessels or ducts in the human body, especially the genitourinary system.
(informal, figurative) Practical, concrete work serving to support other work.
The pipes, together with the joints, tanks, stopcocks, taps, and other fixtures of a water, gas, or sewage system in a house or other building.
The trade or occupation of a plumber.
plumming
plumming
noun
(mining) The operation of finding, by means of a mine dial (compass), the place where to sink an air shaft, or to bring an adit to the work, or to find which way the lode inclines.
verb
present participle of plum
plumping
plumping
noun
The act by which something is plumped.
verb
present participle of plump
pomading
pomading
verb
present participle of pomade
preimage
preimage
noun
(mathematics) For a given function, the set of all elements of the domain that are mapped into a given subset of the codomain; (formally) given a function ƒ : X → Y and a subset B ⊆ Y, the set ƒ⁻¹(B) = {x ∈ X : ƒ(x) ∈ B}.
priggism
priggism
noun
(obsolete) Roguery; thievery.
The quality or state of being priggish; the manners of a prig; exaggerated propriety, fussiness about trivialities.
primages
primages
noun
plural of primage
primghar
primings
primings
noun
plural of priming
primming
primming
verb
present participle of prim
primping
primping
noun
The act of one who primps.
verb
present participle of primp
progamic
progamic
adj
(biology) That promotes fertilization
psalming
psalming
verb
present participle of psalm
pugilism
pugilism
noun
Fighting with fists.
pumicing
pumicing
verb
present participle of pumice
pygidium
pygidium
noun
(zoology) The caudal plate of trilobites, crustacea, and certain insects.
pygmyish
pygmyish
adj
Like a pygmy; dwarfish.
pygmyism
pygmyism
noun
Dwarfism.
rimpling
rimpling
verb
present participle of rimple
rumpling
rumpling
noun
The act by which something is rumpled.
verb
present participle of rumple
sampling
sampling
noun
(music) Electronically splicing pieces of previously recorded sound as part of a composition, especially as part of hip-hop or electronic dance music.
(signal processing) The measurement, at regular intervals, of the amplitude of a varying waveform in order to convert it to digital form.
(statistics) The analysis of a group by determining the characteristics of a significant percentage of its members chosen at random.
A sample.
The process or technique of obtaining a representative sample.
verb
present participle of sample
scamping
scamping
verb
present participle of scamp
simpling
simpling
noun
An expedition to gather plants; a herborizing.
verb
present participle of simple
skimping
skimping
adj
scanty; meagre; done inefficiently.
verb
present participle of skimp
slumping
slumping
adj
something that makes a slumping voice
noun
the result of a slumping movement, like that of a mountain
verb
present participle of slump
sphygmia
sphygmic
sphygmic
adj
(physiology, rare) Of or pertaining to the circulatory pulse.
stamping
stamping
noun
A method of manufacturing using dies and extreme pressure.
A part made by such a method.
The sound or action of one who stamps.
verb
present participle and gerund of stamp
stomping
stomping
adj
In a way that stomps or suggests stomping; stompy; thumping.
noun
The act of one who stomps.
verb
present participle of stomp
stumping
stumping
noun
(cricket) The act of somebody being stumped.
verb
present participle of stump
swamping
swamping
noun
An act of swamping (drenching or filling with water).
verb
present participle of swamp
tempting
tempting
adj
Attractive, appealing, enticing.
Seductive, alluring, inviting.
noun
The act of subjecting somebody to temptation.
verb
present participle of tempt
thumping
thumping
adj
(informal) Exceptional in some degree.
noun
(sports) A heavy defeat.
A dull, heavy sound.
verb
present participle of thump
tramping
tramping
noun
(Australia, New Zealand, uncountable) Walking in the countryside for pleasure or sport; hiking
The act or sound of one who tramps, or walks heavily.
verb
present participle of tramp
tromping
tromping
verb
present participle of tromp
trumping
trumping
noun
(poetic, archaic) The sound of a trumpet.
The act by which something is trumped, topped or capped.
verb
present participle of trump
umpirage
umpirage
noun
(law, archaic) The office (or term of office) of an umpire
umpiring
umpiring
verb
present participle of umpire
upcoming
upcoming
adj
Eggcorn of up-and-coming.
Happening or appearing in the relatively near future.
Pertaining to to upcome
noun
The act of coming up.
The activity of to upcome
comeuppance; deserts
verb
present participle of upcome
upmaking
upmaking
noun
(nautical, historical) Pieces of plank or timber piled on each other as filling up in building, especially between the bilgeways and ship's bottom, preparatory to launching.
(printing, historical) The arrangement of lines into columns or pages.