Any snake in the family Colubridae, completely covered in scales and mostly nonvenomous.
columbid
columbid
noun
Any dove or pigeon in the family Columbidae.
columned
columned
adj
Having columns.
commodus
communed
communed
verb
simple past tense and past participle of commune
commuted
commuted
verb
simple past tense and past participle of commute
comoedus
compound
compound
adj
(mathematics) Dealing with numbers of various denominations of quantity, or with processes more complex than the simple process.
(music) An octave higher than originally (i.e. a compound major second is equivalent to a major ninth).
Composed of elements; not simple.
noun
(chemistry) A substance formed by chemical bonding of two or more elements in definite proportions by weight.
(chemistry, dated) A substance made from any combination of ingredients.
(linguistics) A lexeme that consists of more than one stem or an affix, e.g. bookshop, high school or non-standard.
(linguistics) A lexeme that consists of more than one stem.
(rail transport) A compound locomotive, a steam locomotive with both high-pressure and low-pressure cylinders.
A group of buildings situated close together, e.g. for a school or block of offices.
An enclosure for secure storage.
An enclosure within which workers, prisoners, or soldiers are confined.
Anything made by combining several things.
Short for compound exercise.
verb
(horse racing, intransitive) Of a horse: to fail to maintain speed.
(intransitive) To come to terms of agreement; to settle by a compromise.
(intransitive, finance) To increase in value with interest, where the interest is earned on both the principal sum and prior earned interest.
(transitive) To form (a resulting mixture) by combining different elements, ingredients, or parts; to mingle with something else.
(transitive) To settle amicably; to adjust by agreement.
(transitive, law) To settle by agreeing on less than the claim, or on different terms than those stipulated.
(transitive, obsolete) To compose; to constitute.
(transitive, see usage notes) To worsen a situation.
computed
computed
adj
Calculated, determined by computation.
Derived rather than measured.
verb
simple past tense and past participle of compute
conclude
conclude
verb
(intransitive) To end; to come to an end.
(logic) to deduce, to infer (develop a causal relation)
(obsolete) To include; to comprehend; to shut up together; to embrace; to confine.
(obsolete) To make a final determination or judgment concerning; to judge; to decide.
(obsolete) To shut up; to enclose.
(transitive) To bring about as a result; to effect; to make.
(transitive) To bring to an end; to close; to finish.
(transitive) To come to a conclusion, to a final decision.
To shut off; to restrain; to limit; to estop; to bar; generally in the passive.
conduced
conduced
verb
simple past tense and past participle of conduce
conducer
conducer
noun
That which conduces; a conducive factor.
conduces
conduces
verb
Third-person singular simple present indicative form of conduce
conducta
conducts
conducts
noun
plural of conduct
verb
Third-person singular simple present indicative form of conduct
conduits
conduits
noun
plural of conduit
confound
confound
noun
(statistics) A confounding variable.
verb
(archaic) To destroy, ruin, or devastate; to bring to ruination.
(dated) To damn (a mild oath).
(sometimes proscribed) To make something worse.
To cause to be ashamed; to abash.
To combine in a confused fashion; to mingle so as to make the parts indistinguishable.
To defeat, to frustrate, to thwart.
To fail to see the difference; to mix up; to confuse right and wrong.
To perplex or puzzle.
To stun or amaze.
confused
confused
adj
(of a person or animal) disoriented
(of a person) unable to think clearly or understand
chaotic, jumbled or muddled
embarrassed
making no sense; illogical
verb
simple past tense and past participle of confuse
confuted
confuted
adj
Disproved; refuted.
verb
simple past tense and past participle of confute
conidium
conidium
noun
(mycology) A fungal spore produced asexually in a conidiophore.
conjured
conjured
verb
simple past tense and past participle of conjure
consoude
consound
consound
noun
(botany, obsolete) Any of several healing plants of the genera Symphytum, Consolida, Ajuga, Bellis, etc., especially comfrey.
verb
(rare, archaic) Alternative form of confound: to damn
consumed
consumed
adj
construed with with Full of, exuding (also figuratively).
verb
simple past tense and past participle of consume
contrude
contused
contused
adj
That has suffered contusion; that has been contused.
verb
simple past tense and past participle of contuse
corduroy
corduroy
adj
Of a road, path, etc., paved with split or round logs laid crosswise side by side.
noun
(obsolete, Ireland, slang) Cheap and poor-quality whiskey.
A heavy fabric, usually made of cotton, with vertical ribs.
A pattern on snow resulting from the use of a snow groomer to pack snow and improve skiing, snowboarding and snowmobile trail conditions. Corduroy is widely regarded as a good surface on which to ski or ride.
verb
To make (a road) by laying down split logs or tree-trunks over a marsh, swamp etc.
cornuted
cornuted
adj
Bearing horns; horned.
Horn-shaped.
verb
simple past tense and past participle of cornute
corundum
corundum
noun
(mineralogy) An extremely hard mineral, a form of aluminum oxide with the chemical formula Al₂O₃, that occurs in the form of the gemstones sapphire and ruby; it is used as an abrasive.
costumed
costumed
adj
Wearing a costume; disguised.
verb
simple past tense and past participle of costume
couderay
couldest
couldron
countdom
countdom
noun
The status or the territory of a count.
coupland
couponed
couponed
verb
simple past tense and past participle of coupon
courland
courland
Proper noun
A region in western Latvia.
A duchy in that region.
cournand
courtund
couvades
couvades
noun
plural of couvade
crocused
crocused
adj
On which crocuses are growing.
crouched
crouched
adj
In a crouching position.
Marked with, bearing, or wearing the sign of the cross.
verb
simple past tense and past participle of crouch
croupade
croupade
noun
A leap in which the horse pulls its hind legs up towards the belly.
crudwort
crunodal
crunodal
adj
(geometry) Possessing, or characterized by, a crunode.
crunodes
crunodes
noun
plural of crunode
crusados
crusados
noun
plural of crusado
cruzados
cruzados
noun
plural of cruzado
ctenodus
cuboidal
cuboidal
adj
(geometry) Of, pertaining to, or having the shape of a cuboid
Resembling a cube
cuboides
cuckhold
cuckhold
noun
Obsolete form of cuckold.
cuckolds
cuckolds
noun
plural of cuckold
verb
Third-person singular simple present indicative form of cuckold
cuckoldy
cuckoldy
adj
Characteristic of a cuckold.
cuckooed
cuckooed
verb
simple past tense and past participle of cuckoo
cuculoid
culloden
cupboard
cupboard
noun
(obsolete) A board or table used to openly hold and display silver plate and other dishware; a sideboard; a buffet. [14th–18th c.]
(obsolete) Things displayed on a sideboard; dishware, particularly valuable plate. [16th–19th c.]
(obsolete) Things stored in a cupboard; particularly food.
A cabinet, closet, or other piece of furniture with shelves intended for storing cookware, dishware, or food; similar cabinets or closets used for storing other items.
verb
To collect, as into a cupboard; to hoard.
cupidone
cupolaed
cupolaed
adj
Having one or more cupolas.
curdwort
cuspidor
cuspidor
noun
(chiefly US) A spittoon.
cussword
cussword
noun
Alternative form of cuss word
custodee
custodee
noun
One who is given custody of something.
custodes
custodes
noun
plural of custode
plural of custos
custodia
custodia
noun
(rare) pyx (container for the host)
customed
customed
verb
simple past tense and past participle of custom
cutdowns
cutdowns
noun
plural of cutdown
cydonium
danuloff
dartrous
dartrous
adj
(medicine) Relating to, or partaking of the nature of, the disease called tetter; herpetic.
debouche
debouche
verb
(hydrology, of a river or stream) To discharge into a larger body of water such as a lake or sea.
(military, of a body of soldiers) To enter into battle.
decoctum
decolour
decolour
verb
(transitive) To deprive of colour; to bleach.
decorous
decorous
adj
Marked by proper behaviour.
decorums
decorums
noun
plural of decorum
decouple
decouple
verb
(transitive, intransitive) To unlink; to take or come apart.
(transitive, military) To muffle the seismic waves of (a nuclear explosion) by performing it underground.
decourse
decurion
decurion
noun
(historical) A member of local government in ancient Rome.
(historical) An officer in charge of ten men in the ancient Roman army.
deductio
defamous
defamous
adj
(obsolete) defamatory
defluous
defluous
adj
(obsolete) Flowing down; falling off.
defusion
defusion
noun
(proscribed) The act of defusing.
(psychology) The separation of an emotion or behavior-provoking verbal stimulus from the unwanted emotional or behavioral response as part of a therapeutic process. A neologism meant to indicate the reversal of thought-emotion-action fusion.
Misspelling of diffusion.
deignous
deignous
Adjective
haughty; disdainful
delirous
delitous
deloused
deloused
verb
simple past tense and past participle of delouse
delouser
delouser
noun
A device that removes lice.
delouses
delouses
verb
Third-person singular simple present indicative form of delouse
delusion
delusion
noun
A false belief that is resistant to confrontation with actual facts.
A fixed, false belief, that will not change, despite evidence to the contrary.
That which is falsely or delusively believed or propagated; false belief; error in belief.
The state of being deluded or misled, or process of deluding somebody.
delusory
delusory
adj
tending to delude
demounts
demounts
verb
Third-person singular simple present indicative form of demount
denounce
denounce
verb
(US, historical) To claim the right of working a mine that is abandoned or insufficiently worked.
(transitive) To announce the termination of; especially a treaty or armistice.
(transitive) To criticize or speak out against (someone or something); to point out as deserving of reprehension, etc.; to openly accuse or condemn in a threatening manner; to invoke censure upon; to stigmatize; to blame.
(transitive) To make a formal or public accusation against; to inform against; to accuse.
(transitive, obsolete) To make known in a formal manner; to proclaim; to announce; to declare.
(transitive, obsolete) To proclaim in a threatening manner; to threaten by some outward sign or expression; make a menace of.
depilous
depilous
adj
hairless
deposure
desirous
desirous
adj
Feeling desire; eagerly wishing; eager to obtain.
desmodus
despouse
destrudo
destrudo
noun
(Freudian psychology) A destructive impulse, the opposite of libido.
desultor
detoured
detoured
verb
simple past tense and past participle of detour
detrusor
detrusor
noun
(anatomy) A smooth muscle in the wall of the bladder that relaxes to allow urine to be stored and contracts to expel it; often used attributively.
deuteron
deuteron
noun
(physics) the atomic nucleus of a deuterium atom, consisting of a proton and a neutron
deutovum
deutovum
noun
The incompletely developed larva of a mite after shedding of the chorion
devolute
devolute
verb
(obsolete) To devolve.
devoured
devoured
verb
simple past tense and past participle of devour
devourer
devourer
noun
One who devours.
devouter
devouter
adj
comparative form of devout: more devout
devoutly
devoutly
adv
In a devout manner.
dextrous
dextrous
adj
(chiefly UK) Alternative spelling of dexterous.
deyhouse
dhourras
diabolus
diabolus
noun
(music) Synonym of tritone
diaconus
dialogue
dialogue
noun
(authorship) In a dramatic or literary presentation, the verbal parts of the script or text; the verbalizations of the actors or characters.
(computing) A dialogue box.
(philosophy) A literary form, where the presentation resembles a conversation.
A conversation or other form of discourse between two or more individuals.
verb
(informal, business) To discuss or negotiate so that all parties can reach an understanding.
(obsolete) To take part in a dialogue; to dialogize.
(transitive) To put into dialogue form.
dicerous
diductor
diductor
noun
A divaricator muscle in arthropomatous brachiopods
didymous
didymous
adj
(botany, zoology) Twin, twinned; growing or occurring in pairs.
diecious
diegueno
diffusor
diffusor
noun
Alternative form of diffuser
digamous
digamous
adj
(botany) androgynous
Pertaining to a second marriage, i.e. one taking place after the death of the first wife or first husband.
digenous
digenous
adj
(biology) Relating to digenesis.
digonous
digonous
adj
(obsolete, rare) Having two angles.
digynous
digynous
adj
(botany) Having two styles or pistils.
diluendo
dilution
dilution
noun
(finance) Short for share dilution.
A solution that has had additional solvent, such as water, added to it into order to make it less concentrated.
The process of bringing in unskilled workers to replace skilled ones, for example during wartime.
The process of making something dilute.
dilutors
dilutors
noun
plural of dilutor
diluvion
diluvion
noun
Synonym of diluvium
dimerous
dimerous
adj
(botany) In two parts; having two parts in each whorl of a flower.
(entomology) Having two-jointed tarsi.
dinosaur
dinosaur
noun
(colloquial) any member of the clade Dinosauria other than birds.
(figuratively, colloquial) Anything no longer in common use or practice.
(figuratively, colloquial) Something or someone that is very old or old-fashioned, or is not willing to change and adapt.
(proscribed) Any extinct reptile, not necessarily belonging to Dinosauria, that existed between about 230 million and 65 million years ago.
(sciences) any of the animals belonging to the clade Dinosauria, especially those that existed during the Triassic, Jurassic and Cretaceous periods and are now extinct.
dioicous
dioicous
adj
Alternative form of dioecious
dionysus
dionysus
Proper noun
The god of wine, specifically its intoxication and social influence, but also the patron of agriculture and the theater. Also related to the mystery of religion, as in "spiritual intoxication".
dioscuri
diovular
diplodus
dipnoous
dipnoous
adj
Having both lungs and gills.
disbogue
disbound
disbound
adj
(of a page) removed from a bound volume
verb
To extend beyond its normal bounds
discloud
discloud
verb
(archaic) To clear of clouds.
disclout
disclout
verb
(transitive) To divest of a clout.
discount
discount
adj
(of a store) Specializing in selling goods at reduced prices.
noun
(figurative) A lack or shortcoming.
(finance) A deduction made for interest, in advancing money upon, or purchasing, a bill or note not due; payment in advance of interest upon money.
(psychology, transactional analysis) The act of one who believes, or act as though they believe, that their own feelings are more important than the reality of a situation.
A reduction in price.
The rate of interest charged in discounting.
verb
(psychology, transactional analysis) To believe, or act as though one believes, that one's own feelings are more important than the reality of a situation.
To deduct from an account, debt, charge, and the like.
To leave out of account or regard as unimportant.
To lend money upon, deducting the discount or allowance for interest
To lend, or make a practice of lending, money, abating the discount
To take into consideration beforehand; to anticipate and form conclusions concerning (an event).
discourt
dishouse
dishouse
verb
(transitive) To deprive of house or home.
dishumor
dishumor
noun
Alternative form of dishumour
dismount
dismount
noun
(gymnastics) The part of a routine in which the gymnast detaches from an apparatus.
verb
(computing, transitive, intransitive) To make (a mounted drive) unavailable for use.
(intransitive) To come down; to descend.
(military, transitive) To throw (cannon) off their carriages.
(transitive, intransitive) To (cause to) get off (something).
disodium
disodium
noun
(chemistry, in combination) two atoms of sodium in a compound
disporum
distomum
disunion
disunion
noun
separation of a union
disvouch
disvouch
verb
(obsolete, transitive) To discredit or contradict.
ditokous
ditokous
adj
(zoology) Having two kinds of young.
(zoology) Producing only two eggs in a clutch.
divulsor
divulsor
noun
(surgery) An instrument used for dilating the urethra or other canal
dizygous
dizygous
adj
dizygotic
djeloula
djibouti
djibouti
Proper noun
in Eastern Africa, official name: Republic of Djibouti