(cytology) a type of cell, present in adipose tissue, where fat is stored as a source of energy
allotypic
allotypic
adj
Of, due to, or pertaining to an allotype.
anaptychi
anaptychi
noun
plural of anaptychus
antipyics
antipyics
noun
plural of antipyic
antitypic
antitypic
Adjective
antitypical
apocalypt
appetency
appetency
noun
Strong desire; craving; powerful instinct.
archetype
archetype
noun
(literature) A character, object, or story that is based on a known character, object, or story.
(psychology) According to Swiss psychologist Carl Jung: a universal pattern of thought, present in an individual's unconscious, inherited from the past collective experience of humanity.
(textual criticism) A protograph (“original manuscript of a text from which all further copies derive”).
An ideal example of something; a quintessence.
An original model of which all other similar concepts, objects, or persons are merely copied, derivative, emulated, or patterned; a prototype.
verb
To depict as, model using, or otherwise associate an object or subject with an archetype.
asphyctic
asphyctic
adj
Pertaining to asphyxia.
asynaptic
asynaptic
adj
(genetics) Relating to asynapsis
autoscopy
autoscopy
noun
The experience of seeing one's body from the outside while awake, as if disembodied.
autotypic
autotypic
adj
Relating to an autotype
biplicity
biplicity
noun
Doubleness, the state of being double.
The state of being twice folded; reduplication.
byproduct
byproduct
noun
Alternative form of by-product
cacopathy
callitype
calotypic
calotypic
adj
Of or relating to calotypes.
calypsist
calypters
calypters
noun
plural of calypter
calyptras
calyptras
noun
plural of calyptra
campylite
campylite
noun
(mineralogy) A variety of mimetite.
capitally
capitally
adv
(dated) Excellent.
(not comparable) By capital punishment.
Chiefly; principally.
caprylate
caprylate
noun
(organic chemistry) Any salt or ester of caprylic acid
captaincy
captaincy
noun
(historical) An administrative division of the former Spanish and Portuguese colonial empires.
The jurisdiction of a captain.
The rank or status of a captain.
captainly
captainly
adj
Befitting a captain.
captainry
captainry
noun
(obsolete) Power or command over a district; chieftainship.
captivity
captivity
noun
(obsolete) A group of people/beings captive.
The state of being captive.
The state or period of being imprisoned, confined, or enslaved.
carpentry
carpentry
noun
(countable) A carpenter's workshop.
(uncountable) A collection of timber connected by being framed together, as the pieces of a roof, floor, etc.; work done by a carpenter.
(uncountable) The trade of cutting and joining timber in order to construct buildings or other structures; woodworking.
catalepsy
catalepsy
noun
(pathology) A severe bodily condition, described in psychiatric pathology, marked by sudden rigidity, fixation of posture, and loss of contact with environmental conditions.
cataphyll
cataphyll
noun
(botany) A leaf, sometimes abortive, sometimes persistent, that does not develop into a photosynthetic structure, but instead fulfills protective or storage functions. Examples include cotyledons, bud-scales, glochids, rhizome-scales, and bulb-scales.
cataplexy
cataplexy
noun
(medicine) An abrupt loss of muscle tone, sometimes associated with narcolepsy.
cenotaphy
cenotaphy
noun
(obsolete) A cenotaph.
cerotypes
cerotypes
noun
plural of cerotype
champerty
champerty
noun
(law) The investing of money into an individual's lawsuit.
chemitype
chemitype
noun
(dated) Any of a number of processes by which an impression from an engraved plate is obtained in relief, to be used for printing on an ordinary printing press.
chemitypy
chemitypy
noun
(historical) A process for obtaining casts in relief from an engraved zinc plate. A fusible metal is heated so that it melts and fills the hollows of the engraving, which is then destroyed using hydrochloric acid.
chirotype
cityscape
cityscape
noun
The view of the buildings of a city, usually referring to a pictured landscape.
clypeated
clypeated
adj
Alternative form of clypeate
coenotype
coenotype
noun
(biology) The type of organism in a coenopopulation
collotype
collotype
noun
(countable) An image produced by this process
(uncountable) A dichromate-based photographic process formerly used for large-volume mechanical printing
collotypy
colortype
colortype
noun
(photography, historical) A color print that is produced by combining the images from three photo-engraved plates, each contributing a single primary color (red, blue, or yellow).
colpotomy
colpotomy
noun
Surgical creation of a hole through the vagina to the rectouterine pouch, using a scalpel incision to drain the fluid.
compactly
compactly
adv
In a compact manner
copiosity
copiosity
noun
copiousness
copyright
copyright
noun
(countable) Such an exclusive right as it pertains to one or more specific works.
(uncountable) The right by law to be the entity which determines who may publish, copy and distribute a piece of writing, music, picture or other work of authorship.
(uncountable, informal, nonstandard) A violation of copyright law; copyright infringement.
verb
(transitive or intransitive) To obtain or secure a copyright for some literary or other artistic work.
corruptly
corruptly
adv
In a corrupt manner, corruptly
cryopathy
cryopathy
noun
(pathology) Any morbid condition caused by coldness
cryophyte
cryophyte
noun
(botany) Any plant that grows on ice or snow
(botany) Any plant whose buds overwinter below ground
cryptarch
cryptical
cryptical
adj
cryptic
cryptogam
cryptogam
noun
Any plant that reproduces using spores (rather than seeds), formerly placed in the taxonomic group Cryptogamae, which included ferns, mosses, algae, fungi, lichens and liverworts.
cryptonym
cryptonym
noun
A secret name, a code name.
cryptopin
culpatory
culpatory
adj
Expressing blame; censuring.
cumaphyte
cyanotype
cyanotype
noun
(countable) A photographic print produced by means of this process.
(uncountable) An early photographic process employing paper sensitized with a cyanide.
cyclopite
cymaphyte
cynoclept
cypriotes
cyptozoic
cystocarp
cystocarp
noun
A minute vesicle in some seaweeds, containing the reproductive spores.
cytolymph
cytolymph
noun
Synonym of hyaloplasm
cytopenia
cytopenia
noun
(cytology) A reduction in the number of blood cells for any of several reasons.
cytophaga
cytophagy
cytophagy
noun
(cytology) The ingestion of cells by phagocytes.
cytoplasm
cytoplasm
noun
(cytology) The contents of a cell except for the nucleus. It includes cytosol, organelles, vesicles, and the cytoskeleton.
cytoplast
cytoplast
noun
(biology) The intact cytoplasm of a cell from which the nucleus has been removed.
cytoproct
cytoproct
noun
(biology) The anal opening in a unicellular organism.
cytospora
deceptory
deceptory
adj
deceptive
decrepity
decrepity
noun
(obsolete) Decrepitude.
decrypted
decrypted
verb
simple past tense and past participle of decrypt
diapyetic
diapyetic
adj
Inducing or relating to suppuration, or diapyesis.
diptychon
duplicity
duplicity
noun
Intentional deceptiveness; double-dealing.
dyspeptic
dyspeptic
adj
(figuratively, comparable) Irritable or morose.
(pathology, not comparable) Of, relating to, or having dyspepsia or indigestion.
noun
A dyspeptic person.
dysphotic
dysphotic
adj
Alternative spelling of disphotic
ecstrophy
ectophyte
ectophyte
noun
(biology) Any plant that lives as a parasite on the surface of another organism
ectoplasy
encrypted
encrypted
adj
Being in code; having been encrypted.
verb
simple past tense and past participle of encrypt
epicenity
epicenity
noun
Property of being epicene.
epicotyls
epicotyls
noun
plural of epicotyl
epinyctis
epiphytic
epiphytic
adj
(biology, botany) Of or pertaining to an epiphyte
noun
Synonym of epiphyte
eucalypti
eucalypti
noun
plural of eucalyptus
eucalypts
eucalypts
noun
plural of eucalypt
eurytopic
eurytopic
adj
(biology) Describing a plant or animal that is found in a wide range of environments, and is thus widely distributed
extispicy
extispicy
noun
(countable) A specific instance of such divination.
(uncountable) Haruspicy: the study and divination by use of animal entrails, usually the victims of sacrifice.
genotypic
genotypic
adj
Of or pertaining to a genotype
geophytic
geophytic
adj
Relating to geophytes
glyptical
glyptical
adj
Alternative form of glyptic
hemitypic
heptarchy
heptarchy
noun
A government of seven people.
A group of seven states, especially (historical) those in Anglo-Saxon Britain.
The realm so ruled.
holotypic
holotypic
adj
Relating to a holotype
homotypic
homotypic
adj
(botany) Said of a taxon name which shares the exact same type as a different name and thus must necessarily refer to the same taxon.
hydroptic
hydroptic
adj
Alternative form of hydropic
hypinotic
hypinotic
adj
Relating to hypinosis.
hypnocyst
hypnocyst
noun
(biology) A cyst in which some unicellular organisms temporarily enclose themselves, from which they emerge unchanged, after a period of drought or deficiency of food.
hypnoetic
hypnotics
hypnotics
noun
plural of hypnotic
hypocaust
hypocaust
noun
An underfloor heating system, even without such an underfloor space or flue, as adapted for modern housing.
An underfloor space or flue through which heat from a furnace passes to heat the floor of a room or a bath.
hypocotyl
hypocotyl
noun
(botany) In plants with seeds, that portion of the embryo or seedling between the root and cotyledons.
hypocrite
hypocrite
noun
Someone who practices hypocrisy, who pretends to hold beliefs, or whose actions are not consistent with their claimed beliefs.
hypotaxic
hypotheca
hypotheca
noun
(microbiology, planktology) The lower or posterior half of the theca of a thecate protist such as a diatom or dinoflagellate
hypothecs
hypothecs
noun
plural of hypothec
hypotonic
hypotonic
adj
(medicine) Showing less than normal tension in the muscles or muscle tissue.
(of a solution) Having a lower osmotic pressure than another.
hypotoxic
hypotoxic
adj
Less than usually toxic
hypotrich
hypotrich
noun
Any of a group of ciliate protozoa, of the subclass Hypotrichia, included among the spirotrichs, mostly oval in shape with a rigid pellicle and isolated tufts of cirri on the ventral surface of the cell.
hypotypic
iconotype
iconotype
noun
(taxonomy) An illustration of a biological specimen that serves as a holotype or lectotype (type specimen and it becomes the type illustration). It is not an illustration of a holotype or lectotype. In the 18th and early 19th century, iconotypes were designated as type specimens when preserved specimens were not available. In the 21st century, iconotypes are being used where a live animal is recorded and then released.
idiotypic
idiotypic
adj
Of or pertaining to an idiotype
implicity
implicity
noun
(obsolete) The quality of being implicit.
impotency
impotency
noun
(dated) impotence
lectotype
lectotype
noun
(taxonomy) A biological specimen or illustration later selected to serve as definitive type example of a species or subspecies when the original author of the name did not designate a holotype.
lipectomy
lipectomy
noun
(surgery) The surgical removal of fat from the body
lipocytes
lipocytes
noun
plural of lipocyte
lipolytic
lipolytic
adj
Of or pertaining to lipolysis.
lymphatic
lymphatic
adj
(anatomy) Pertaining to lymph or the lymphatic system.
(obsolete) Madly enthusiastic; frantic.
Lacking energy or enthusiasm; having characteristics once associated with an excess of lymph: lack of muscle tone, paleness, sluggishness, etc.
noun
(anatomy) A vessel that transports lymph.
lyotropic
lyotropic
adj
(chemistry, physics) describing a liquid crystal that exhibits phase transitions as a function of concentration
metatypic
microtype
mimotypic
monotypic
monotypic
adj
(taxonomy) Relating to or exhibiting monotypy.
mycophyte
myctophid
myctophid
noun
Any of the small deep-sea fish of the large family Myctophidae, known for their conspicuous use of bioluminescence.
myctophum
myectopia
myopathic
myopathic
adj
Pertaining to myopathy
mythopeic
necrotype
neophytic
neophytic
adj
(biology) Being or relating to a neophyte.
nyctalope
nyctalops
nyctalops
noun
A person who has nyctalopia, night blindness.
nyctalopy
nyctalopy
noun
Archaic form of nyctalopia.
optically
optically
adv
regarding or using optics
pachyntic
pachyntic
adj
(medicine) Pertaining to an abnormal or pathological thickening or hardening of a part; increasing the thickness; relating to pachynsis.
pachyotia
pachytene
pachytene
noun
(biology) The third stage of prophase 1 of meiosis, during which the chromosomes shorten and divide into four chromatids.
panchayat
panchayat
noun
(South Asia, chiefly India) A village council or local government.
panchayet
pantarchy
paralytic
paralytic
adj
(UK, Australia, Ireland, slang) Very drunk.
Affected by paralysis; paralysed.
Pertaining to paralysis.
noun
A drug that produces paralysis.
Someone suffering from paralysis.
paratypic
paratypic
adj
Relating to a paratype
parmacety
parmacety
noun
(obsolete) A sperm whale.
(obsolete) Spermaceti.
patchouly
patchouly
noun
Alternative spelling of patchouli
peccantly
peccantly
adv
In a peccant manner.
penectomy
penectomy
noun
(surgery) The surgical removal of the penis.
penitency
penitency
noun
Obsolete form of penitence.
pentarchy
pentarchy
noun
(politics) Government by five persons.
A federation of five nations, each under its own government or ruler.