(transitive) To increase the amplitude of something, especially of an electric current.
(transitive) To render larger, more extended, or more intense.
(transitive, rhetorical) To enlarge by addition or commenting; to treat copiously by adding particulars, illustrations, etc.; to expand.
(translation studies) To add content that is not present in the source text to the target text, usually to improve the fluency of the translation.
ampoule
ampoule
noun
A small hermetically sealed vial, often used to contain a sterile solution suitable for injection.
ampules
ampules
noun
plural of ampule
ampulla
ampulla
noun
(anatomy) The dilated end of a duct.
(botany) The spongiole of a root.
(historical) An Ancient Roman two-handled vessel.
A vessel for containing consecrated wine or oil.
aplombs
aplombs
noun
plural of aplomb
bamalip
bedlamp
bedlamp
noun
A bedside lamp.
calcomp
camphol
camphol
noun
borneol
campily
campily
adv
In a campy manner.
clamped
clamped
verb
simple past tense and past participle of clamp
clamper
clamper
noun
(electronics) A circuit that restricts the amplitude of a waveform.
An attachment with sharp metal prongs, attached to a boot or shoe to enable the wearer to walk securely upon ice.
One who, or that which, clamps.
verb
(obsolete) To join in an unsystematic or haphazard fashion.
To complain in an irritating manner.
To crimp.
To move in a noisy and clumsy manner.
copalms
copalms
noun
plural of copalm
diploma
diploma
noun
A document issued by an educational institution testifying that the recipient has earned a degree or has successfully completed a particular course of study.
empaled
empaled
verb
simple past tense and past participle of empale
empaler
empaler
noun
Obsolete form of impaler.
empales
empales
verb
Third-person singular simple present indicative form of empale
empanel
empanel
noun
(law) A list of jurors; a panel.
verb
Alternative spelling of impanel
empearl
empearl
verb
Alternative form of impearl
emplace
emplace
verb
To assign a position to something, or to locate something at a particular place
emplane
emplane
verb
Alternative form of enplane
emplead
emplead
verb
(archaic, transitive) To accuse; to indict.
example
example
noun
A parallel or closely similar case, especially when serving as a precedent or model.
A person punished as a warning to others.
An instance (as a problem to be solved) serving to illustrate the rule or precept or to act as an exercise in the application of the rule.
Something that is representative of all such things in a group.
Something that serves as a pattern of behaviour to be imitated (a good example) or not to be imitated (a bad example).
Something that serves to illustrate or explain a rule.
verb
To be illustrated or exemplified (by).
exempla
exempla
noun
plural of exemplum
galumph
galumph
verb
(intransitive) To move heavily and clumsily, or with a sense of prancing and triumph.
haploma
haplome
haplome
noun
(genetics) A haplotype contig
haplomi
illampu
impalas
impalas
noun
plural of impala
impaled
impaled
adj
Pinned to something by piercing.
verb
simple past tense and past participle of impale
impaler
impaler
noun
One who impales.
impales
impales
verb
Third-person singular simple present indicative form of impale
impalsy
impalsy
verb
(transitive) To strike with palsy; to paralyze; to deaden.
impanel
impanel
verb
To enrol (jurors), e.g. from a jury pool; to register (the names of jurors) on a "panel" or official list.
impearl
impearl
verb
(transitive, poetic) To decorate as if with pearls.
(transitive, poetic) To form into pearls, or make pearly.
implant
implant
noun
(medicine) Anything surgically implanted in the body, such as a tissue graft or prosthesis, particularly breast implants.
(travel) A representative of a travel company, working within the office of a large client and exclusively dealing with that client.
verb
(intransitive) Of an embryo, to become attached to and embedded in the womb.
(transitive) To fix firmly or set securely or deeply.
(transitive) To insert (something) surgically into the body.
implate
implate
verb
(transitive) To cover with plates; to sheathe.
implead
implead
verb
(law) to sue in court, raise an action against a defendant
implial
imposal
imposal
noun
The act of imposing; imposition.
kampala
kampala
Proper noun
The capital of, and largest city in, Uganda.
lampads
lampads
noun
plural of lampad
lampang
lampara
lampate
lampate
noun
(chemistry, obsolete) A supposed salt of lampic acid.
lampern
lampern
noun
1382, Wyclif's Bible, prologue to Job, page 671:
1589, Thomas Coghan, Haven of Health (1636), page 165:
1799, John Price, The Worcester Guide, page 55:
1936, Charles Tate Regan, Natural History, Ward Lock, page 194:
1956, R. Morris, "The Osmoregulatory Ability of the Lampern (Lampetra fluviatilis L.) in Sea Water during the Course of Its Spawning Migration", Journal of Experimental Biology, volume 33, page 235:
The European river lamprey, Lampetra fluviatilis.
lampers
lampers
noun
Alternative form of lampas
lampert
lampfly
lampful
lampful
noun
Enough to fill a lamp.
lamping
lamping
adj
(archaic) Bright, flashing, resplendent.
noun
(Britain, Ireland) A form of hunting, at night, in which bright lights or lamps are used to dazzle the hunted animal or to attract insects for capture.
verb
present participle of lamp
lampion
lampion
noun
A small oil lamp.
lampist
lamplet
lamplet
noun
A little lamp.
lamplit
lamplit
adj
Illuminated by a lamp or lamps.
lampman
lampman
noun
(historical) A person employed to clean and maintain lamps.
lampmen
lampmen
noun
plural of lampman
lampong
lampoon
lampoon
noun
A written attack or other work ridiculing a person, group, or institution.
verb
To satirize or poke fun at.
lamprel
lamprel
noun
(obsolete) The lamprey.
lampret
lamprey
lamprey
noun
Any long slender primitive eel-like freshwater and saltwater fish of the order Petromyzontiformes, having a sucking mouth with rasping teeth but no jaw.
lampron
lampron
noun
(obsolete) A lamprey.
lempira
lempira
noun
The currency of Honduras, divided into 100 centavos.
lepisma
leproma
leproma
noun
(pathology) An area of inflammation in the skin symptomatic of leprosy
lipemia
lipemia
noun
(medicine, pathology) An excess of lipids or lipoproteins in the blood.
lipmann
lipomas
lipomas
noun
plural of lipoma
lopeman
lopeman
noun
(obsolete) A tightrope walker.
lumpman
lymphad
lymphad
noun
(heraldry) A single-masted ship propelled by oars, usually indicating a Scottish title associated with islands.
lyopoma
magilps
magilps
noun
plural of magilp
malpais
malpais
noun
(geology) Land akin to badlands, but having volcaniclastic rather than sedimentary rocks.
(geology) Land having an underlayer of basaltic lava and little or no soil.
maniple
maniple
noun
(Ancient Rome, military) A division of the Roman army numbering 120 (or sometimes 60) soldiers exclusive of officers; (generally, obsolete) any small body of soldiers.
(Christianity, chiefly historical) In Western Christianity, an ornamental band or scarf worn upon the left arm as a part of the vestments of a priest in the Roman Catholic Church, and sometimes the Church of England.
(obsolete) A handful.
(obsolete, informal) A hand; a fist.
mapland
maplike
maplike
adj
Having the characteristics of a map.
mappila
mappila
Noun
A member of the largest Muslim community in Kerala state, India.
marlpit
marlpit
noun
(dated) A pit where marl has been dug.
marplot
marplot
adj
(now rare) That foils a plot; interfering.
noun
A meddlesome person whose activity interferes with the plans of others.
maypole
maypole
noun
(euphemistic) A penis, especially a large one.
(idiomatic) A very tall girl or young lady.
(ornithology) A maypole-like structure of sticks placed about a sapling in the bowers of certain species of bowerbird.
A pole, garlanded with streamers held by people who dance around it to celebrate May Day.
mcalpin
mcphail
millsap
misplan
misplan
noun
(rare) A poorly made or inappropriate plan.
verb
(transitive) To plan badly or incorrectly.
misplay
misplay
noun
A wrong play.
verb
(transitive) To play incorrectly or poorly.
nampula
napalms
napalms
noun
plural of napalm
verb
Third-person singular simple present indicative form of napalm
nymphal
nymphal
Adjective
of or pertaining to a nymph or nymphs
oilcamp
olimpia
olympia
omphale
omphali
omphali
noun
plural of omphalus
ooplasm
ooplasm
noun
The cytoplasm of an egg or ovum
optimal
optimal
adj
(artificial intelligence) Describing a search algorithm that always returns the best result.
The best, most favourable or desirable, especially under some restriction.
noun
The best of its kind
pabalum
pabulum
pabulum
noun
(figuratively) Bland intellectual fare; an undemanding diet of words.
(figuratively) Food for thought.
Food or fodder, particularly that taken in by plants or animals.
Material that feeds a fire.
palamae
paleman
palermo
palermo
Proper noun
A province of Sicily, Italy.
The capital city of the province of Palermo and of Sicily.
A district of Buenos Aires, Argentina.
pallium
pallium
noun
(Christianity) A woolen liturgical vestment resembling a collar and worn over the chasuble in the Western Christian liturgical tradition, conferred on archbishops by the Pope, equivalent to the Eastern Christian omophorion.
(historical) A large cloak worn by Greek philosophers and teachers.
(malacology) The mantle of a mollusc.
(obsolete, meteorology) A sheet of cloud covering the whole sky, especially nimbostratus.
palmary
palmary
adj
(anatomy) Palmar.
Principal; chief.
Worthy of the palm; preeminent; superior.
palmate
palmate
adj
(botany) (leaves) Having more than three leaflets arising from a common point, often in the form of a fan.
(chiefly botany) Having three or more lobes or veins arising from a common point.
(rare) Hand-like; shaped like a hand with extended fingers
(rare) Having webbed appendage; palmated.
noun
(chemistry) A salt or ester of ricinoleic acid (formerly called palmic acid); a ricinoleate.
palmers
palmers
noun
plural of palmer
palmery
palmery
noun
A palm tree plantation.
palmful
palmful
noun
Enough to fill the palm of one's hand.
palmier
palmier
adj
comparative form of palmy: more palmy
noun
A type of puff pastry biscuit made in the shape of a palm leaf and rolled in sugar.
palming
palming
verb
present participle of palm
palmira
palmira
noun
Archaic form of palmyra.
palmiro
palmist
palmist
noun
A fortuneteller who uses palmistry.
palmite
palmite
noun
Ellipsis of palmite rush. (Prionium serratum), a robust evergreen semiaquatic flowering plant of southern Africa.
palmito
palmito
noun
Synonym of heart of palm
palmore
palmula
palmyra
palmyra
noun
A palm (Borassus flabellifer) with straight black upright trunk and palmate leaves, whose wood, fruit, and roots can be used for many purposes.
palomar
palumbo
pamella
pamlico
pamplin
parmele
paulism
peelman
pelamyd
pelioma
pelioma
noun
(medicine) A livid ecchymosis.
pelmata
pelmata
noun
plural of pelma
perlman
phlegma
pimelea
plagium
plagium
noun
(Scots Law) abduction, especially of a child
plasmas
plasmas
noun
plural of plasma
plasmic
plasmic
adj
Of or pertaining to plasma.
plasmid
plasmid
noun
(cytology) A loop of double-stranded DNA that is separate from and replicates independently of the chromosomes, most commonly found in bacteria, but also in archaeans and eukaryotic cells, and used in genetic engineering as a vector for gene transfer.
plasmin
plasmin
noun
(biochemistry) A proteolytic enzyme that dissolves the fibrin in blood clots.
plasmon
plasmon
noun
(genetics) All the genetic material in an organism.
(physics, astronomy) The quantum of waves produced by the collective effects of large numbers of electrons when disturbed from equilibrium.
plasome
plasome
noun
(archaic) A hypothetical unit of protoplasm; the smallest possible particle of protoplasm, further division of which would destroy its structure and necessitate chemical change.
playman
pleroma
pleroma
name
(Gnosticism) The spiritual universe seen in terms of the full totality of the powers and essence of God.
noun
(botany) A plant of the genus Pleroma.
(botany) The central portion of the primary meristem.
(chiefly theology) A state of perfect fullness, especially of God's being.
plowman
plowman
noun
A man who plows land with a plough.
plugman
plumach
plumade
plumage
plumage
noun
(ornithology, collective noun) Layer or collection of feathers covering a bird’s body; feathers used ornamentally; feathering.
Finery or elaborate dress.
plumate
plumula
plumula
noun
(botany) A plumule.
polearm
polearm
noun
A close-quarter combat weapon with the main fighting part of the weapon placed on the end of a long shaft, typically of wood.
poleman
poleman
noun
One who tests the depth of the water using a pole, while aboard a vessel.