Foolish; absurd; ridiculous; inclined to incessant merriment or laughter.
abrading
abrading
verb
present participle of abrade
acaridan
acaridan
noun
Synonym of acarid
acridane
acridane
noun
Alternative form of acridan
acridian
acridian
adj
Relating to insects of the family Acrididae
noun
Any of the family Acrididae of grasshoppers, crickets, locusts etc.
acridine
acridine
noun
(countable, organic chemistry) Any of many derivatives of this compound
(uncountable, organic chemistry) A tricyclic aromatic heterocycle, dibenzopyridine, obtained from coal tar; it is used in the manufacture of dyes and drugs
acridone
acridone
noun
(organic chemistry) An tricyclic heterocyclic ketone derived from acridine; any derivative of this compound
adendric
adendric
adj
Not dendric.
adermine
adhering
adhering
verb
present participle of adhere
adjoiner
adjuring
adjuring
noun
adjuration
verb
present participle of adjure
adlerian
adlerian
Adjective
Of or relating to (1870–1937), Austrian medical doctor, psychotherapist, and founder of the school of individual psychology.
admiring
admiring
adj
Feeling or showing admiration.
noun
admiration
verb
present participle of admire
adoniram
adorning
adorning
noun
(archaic) An adornment.
verb
present participle of adorn
adrenine
adriaens
adrianna
adrianna
Proper noun
name, a variant of Adriana.
adrianne
adrienne
agrionid
airbound
airbound
adj
Of a pump etc.: containing too much air, such that the flow is impeded.
amerinds
amoinder
anandria
anandria
noun
(pathology) A lack of male virility
ancyroid
andirine
andiroba
andiroba
noun
Any of the South and Central American trees of the genus Carapa, especially Carapa guianensis.
The high-end wood of the andiroba tree.
andirons
andirons
noun
plural of andiron
andorite
andorite
noun
(mineralogy) A white mineral containing antimony, lead, silver, and sulfur.
andrenid
andrenid
noun
(zoology) Any member of the family Andrenidae of bees.
andriana
androids
androids
noun
plural of android
androsin
aneroids
aneroids
noun
plural of aneroid
anhydric
anhydric
adj
anhydrous
aniridia
aniridia
noun
A rare congenital condition characterized by the underdevelopment of the iris of the eye.
ankyroid
antacrid
antacrid
adj
(archaic, medicine) Serving to correct acrimony of the humours.
anteriad
anteriad
adv
(biology) Towards the anterior part of the body
antherid
antidora
antidora
noun
plural of antidoron
antidrag
antidrag
adj
That counteracts drag (resistance to movement)
antidrug
antidrug
adj
Against drugs; advocating against drug use.
aprendiz
arachnid
arachnid
noun
Any of the eight-legged creatures, including spiders, mites, and scorpions, of the class Arachnida.
araneida
araneids
araneids
noun
plural of araneid
arcadian
arcadian
adj
(literature) Ideally rustic or pastoral.
Furnished with arcades.
Pertaining to an arcade.
arcading
arcading
noun
(countable, architecture) An arrangement of arcades.
(uncountable, video games) The playing of arcade games.
ardolino
aridness
aridness
noun
The state or quality of being arid.
armenoid
armenoid
Noun
A member of a subtype of the Caucasian race, similar to the Dinaric but with slightly darker pigmentation, found mainly in the northern part of Western Asia.
arointed
arointed
verb
simple past tense and past participle of aroint
arriding
arriding
verb
present participle of arride
arsedine
arsedine
noun
(obsolete) An imitation gold used in gilding.
arsenide
arsenide
noun
A compound with arsenic in oxidation state −3.
An ion that is an arsenic atom with three extra electrons and charge −3.
atridean
awarding
awarding
noun
The act of bestowing an award.
The act of giving by official decision such as giving a contract.
verb
present participle of award
badarian
badineur
banditry
banditry
noun
Acts characteristic of a bandit; armed robbery.
bardings
bardings
noun
plural of barding
bardling
bardling
noun
An inferior bard.
bearbind
bearbind
noun
European bindweed, lesser bindweed (Convolvulus arvensis).
Hedge bindweed (Calystegia sepium)
bearding
bearding
noun
(television) An undesirable video artifact whereby darker parts of a signal bleed across horizontally into the brighter parts.
verb
present participle of beard
befriend
befriend
verb
(transitive) To become a friend of, to make friends with.
(transitive) To favor.
(transitive, dated) To act as a friend to, to assist.
behinder
behinder
adv
(nonstandard) comparative form of behind: more behind
noun
A person employed in metalworking to take folded metal sheets from the doubler and pass them back to the rollerman.
beringed
beringed
adj
Wearing a ring or rings.
verb
simple past tense and past participle of bering
berlinda
bernardi
bhandari
bicorned
bicorned
Adjective
Having two horns; bicorn.
bilander
bilander
noun
(nautical, historical) A small two-masted merchant vessel, fitted only for coasting, or for use in canals, as in Holland.
bindoree
birdikin
birdikin
Noun
A young bird.
birdings
birdland
birdling
birdling
noun
A little bird; birdie; a nestling (young bird, baby bird).
birdnest
birdnest
noun
Alternative form of bird's nest
verb
(intransitive) To become entangled or dishevelled, like a bird's nest
(intransitive) To collect eggs from bird's nests
(transitive, intransitive) To make or nestle in a bird's nest
birdsong
birdsong
noun
(ornithology) A vocalisation made by a bird for the purposes of courtship.
Vocalisations made by birds, considered collectively.
blinders
blinders
noun
plural of blinder
blinkard
blinkard
noun
(obsolete) One with bad eyes.
A dim-witted or stupid person; an idiot.
boarding
boarding
noun
(ice hockey) A penalty called for pushing into the boards.
(uncountable) The riding of a skateboard.
A structure made of boards.
The act of a sailor or boarding party attacking an enemy ship by boarding it.
The act of people getting aboard a ship aircraft, train, bus, etc.; embarkation.
verb
present participle of board
bodieron
borodino
braconid
braconid
noun
Any of the parasitic wasps of the family Braconidae.
bradding
bradding
verb
present participle of brad
braiding
braiding
noun
A braided trimming used as decoration on clothes or curtains.
verb
present participle of braid
brainard
brainerd
brandais
brandeis
brandice
brandied
brandied
adj
Strengthened or flavoured with brandy.
verb
simple past tense and past participle of brandy
brandies
brandies
noun
plural of brandy
verb
Third-person singular simple present indicative form of brandy
brandify
branding
branding
noun
The process in which a mark, usually a symbol or ornamental pattern, is burned into the skin of a living person or animal.
The promotion of a commercial brand of product in order to give it greater public awareness.
verb
present participle of brand
brandise
brandise
noun
(archaic) A three-legged stand for a pot or pan over a fire.
brandish
brandish
noun
The act of flourishing or waving.
verb
(transitive) To bear something with ostentatious show.
(transitive) To move or swing a weapon back and forth, particularly if demonstrating anger, threat or skill.
breading
breading
noun
The coating of a thin slice of meat in flour, egg and breadcrumbs prior to frying
verb
present participle of bread
breeding
breeding
adj
Of, relating to or used for breeding.
noun
(gay slang) Ejaculation inside the rectum during bareback anal sex.
Descent; pedigree; extraction.
Nurture; education; formation of manners.
Propagation of offspring through sexual reproduction.
The act of copulation in animals.
The act of insemination by natural or artificial means.
The good manners regarded as characteristic of the aristocracy and conferred by heredity.
verb
present participle of breed
brendice
brideman
brideman
noun
Alternative form of bridesman
bridging
bridging
adj
That acts as a bridge (in many contexts)
noun
(architecture) The system of bracing used between floor or other timbers to distribute the weight.
The act of building a bridge.
verb
present participle of bridge
bridgman
bridgton
bridling
bridling
noun
The act of one who bridles.
verb
present participle of bridle
bridoons
bridoons
noun
plural of bridoon
brigands
brigands
noun
plural of brigand
brindell
brindisi
brindisi
noun
A drinking song in which each person is toasted.
brindled
brindled
adj
of a brownish, tawny or gray colour, with streaks or spots; streaky, spotted
verb
simple past tense and past participle of brindle
brindles
brindles
noun
plural of brindle
verb
Third-person singular simple present indicative form of brindle
brodekin
brodekin
noun
Alternative form of brodequin
brontide
brontide
noun
A sound like that of distant thunder, some of which may have seismic origins.
brooding
brooding
adj
(of a bird) Broody; incubating eggs by sitting on them.
Deeply or seriously thoughtful.
noun
A spell of brooding; the time when someone broods.
verb
present participle of brood
brunhild
brynhild
burnside
burnside
noun
(especially in plural) A moustache, with whiskers on the cheeks but no beard on the chin.
cancroid
cancroid
adj
Of or pertaining to cancer, especially to squamous cell carcinoma
Resembling a crab
noun
(pathology) Any disease that resembles cancer
Squamous cell carcinoma
candider
candider
adj
comparative form of candid: more candid
carangid
carangid
noun
(zoology) Any fish belonging to the family Carangidae, the jackfish.
cardanic
cardiant
cardiant
noun
(medicine, dated) A remedy that affects the heart.
cardigan
cardigan
noun
A type of sweater or jumper that fastens up the front with buttons or a zipper, usually machine- or hand-knitted from wool.
cardinal
cardinal
adj
(nautical) Of or relating to the cardinal directions (north, south, east and west).
Describing a "natural" number used to indicate quantity (e.g., zero, one, two, three), as opposed to an ordinal number indicating relative position.
Having a bright red color (from the color of a Catholic cardinal's cassock).
Of fundamental importance; crucial, pivotal.
noun
(Roman Catholicism) One of the officials appointed by the pope in the Roman Catholic Church, ranking only below the pope and the patriarchs, constituting the special college which elects the pope. (See Wikipedia article on Catholic cardinals.)
(color) A deep red color, somewhat less vivid than scarlet, the traditional colour of a Catholic cardinal's cassock. (same as cardinal red)
(grammar) Short for cardinal numeral, a word used to represent a cardinal number.
(mathematics) Short for cardinal number, a number indicating quantity, or the size of a set (e.g., 0, 1, 2, 3). (See Cardinal_number.)
(now historical) A woman's short cloak with a hood, originally made of scarlet cloth.
(obsolete) Mulled red wine.
Any of a genus of songbirds of the finch family, Cardinalis.
Any of various related passerine birds of the family Cardinalidae (See Wikipedia article on cardinals) and other similar birds that were once considered to be related.
Short for cardinal flower (Lobelia cardinalis), a flowering plant.
Short for cardinal tetra (Paracheirodon axelrodi), a freshwater fish.
cardinas
cardines
cardines
noun
plural of cardo
cardings
cardings
noun
plural of carding
caridean
caridean
noun
Any shrimp of the infraorder Caridea.
centroid
centroid
noun
(geometry, physics, engineering, of an object or a geometrical figure) The point at which gravitational force (or other universally and uniformly acting force) may be supposed to act on a given rigid, uniformly dense body; the centre of gravity or centre of mass.
(geometry, specifically, of a triangle) The point of intersection of the three medians of a given triangle; the point whose (Cartesian) coordinates are the arithmetic mean of the coordinates of the three vertices.
(graph theory, of a tree) Given a tree of n nodes, either (1) a unique node whose removal would split the tree into subtrees of fewer than n/2 nodes, or (2) either of a pair of adjacent nodes such that removal of the edge connecting them would split the tree into two subtrees of exactly n/2 nodes.
(mathematical analysis, of a function) An analogue of the centre of gravity of a nonuniform body in which local density is replaced by a specified function (which can take negative values) and the place of the body's shape is taken by the function's domain.
(of a finite set of points) the point whose (Cartesian) coordinates are the arithmetic mean of the coordinates of a given finite set of points.
(statistics, cluster analysis, of a cluster of points) the arithmetic mean (alternatively, median) position of a cluster of points in a coordinate system based on some application-dependent measure of distance.
children
children
noun
plural of child.
chondria
chondric
chondrin
chondrin
noun
(organic chemistry) A colourless, amorphous, nitrogenous substance resembling gelatin, formed from cartilaginous tissue by long-continued action of boiling water.
chording
chording
noun
(computing) The ability, using a keyboard or similar device, to enter characters or commands in the form of "chords" by pressing several keys simultaneously.
An arrangement of musical chords.
verb
present participle of chord
chundari
ciderkin
ciderkin
noun
(historical, possibly dialectal) A weak cider made by steeping the refuse pomace in water; considered a drink for commoners, and traditionally often given to children.
cindered
cindered
verb
simple past tense and past participle of cinder
clarinda
clarinda
Proper noun
A city in Iowa, USA
clorinda
clorinde
cnidaria
cnidaria
noun
cnidarian
codriven
codriven
verb
past participle of codrive
confider
confider
noun
One who confides.
congroid
congroid
noun
Any eel of the suborder Congroidei.
consider
consider
verb
(ditransitive) To assign some quality to.
(intransitive) To think about something seriously or carefully: to deliberate.
(transitive) To look at attentively.
(transitive) To take up as an example.
(transitive) To think about seriously.
(transitive) To think of doing.
(transitive, parliamentary procedure) To debate (or dispose of) a motion.
To believe or opine (that).
To have regard to; to take into view or account; to pay due attention to; to respect.
coordain
coordain
verb
(transitive) To ordain or appoint for some purpose along with another.
cordinar
cordiner
cordiner
Noun
A shoemaker.
cordings
cordings
noun
plural of cording
cordwain
cordwain
noun
A kind of leather from Córdoba, originally of tanned goatskin, later of horsehide.
corindon
cornbind
cornbind
noun
A weed that binds stalks of corn, such as field bindweed, Convolvulus arvensis or black bindweed, Fallopia convolvulus