illness caused by a change in atmospheric pressure
aerophagy
aerophagy
noun
(medicine) the swallowing of air, especially in hysteria.
aerophyte
aerophyte
noun
(biology) epiphyte
aeroscopy
aeroscopy
noun
(obsolete, meteorology) The branch of meteorology that involves the scientific examination of the various properties and composition of the atmosphere, and their variation
(rare) divination by observation of the sky
(zoology) aeroscepsy
afterplay
afterplay
noun
In human sexual behavior, the erotic acts done after finishing sex.
agriotype
agriotype
noun
An ancestral wild form of a domestic animal or plant.
agrypnode
albertype
albertype
noun
(historical) A picture printed from a kind of gelatine plate produced by means of a photographic negative.
ambrotype
ambrotype
noun
(photography, historical) An early type of photograph in which a glass negative appears positive when displayed on a black background.
apparency
apparency
noun
(obsolete) Appearance.
The position of being heir apparent.
The quality of being apparent; apparentness.
apteryges
apteryxes
apteryxes
noun
plural of apteryx
apyrexial
apyrexial
adj
(medicine) Relating to apyrexy.
apyrotype
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.
aspersory
aspersory
adj
aspersive
noun
Synonym of aspersorium
azeotropy
azeotropy
noun
(physics, chemistry) The formation of an azeotrope; the condition of being azeotropic
bapistery
bopyridae
bradypnea
bradypnea
noun
(medicine) A slow breathing rate, rhythm, or tidal volume.
bradypode
bryophyte
bryophyte
noun
(botany) Any plant of the division Bryophyta, defined sensu lato to comprise the mosses, liverworts and hornworts and corresponding to all embryophytes that are not vascular plants.
calypters
calypters
noun
plural of calypter
caprylate
caprylate
noun
(organic chemistry) Any salt or ester of caprylic acid
caprylene
caprylone
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.
caryopses
caryopses
noun
plural of caryopsis
cerotypes
cerotypes
noun
plural of cerotype
champerty
champerty
noun
(law) The investing of money into an individual's lawsuit.
chirotype
chrysopee
clapeyron
clepsydra
clepsydra
noun
A water clock, especially as used in the ancient world.
clypeolar
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).
coparceny
coparceny
noun
(law) An equal share of an inheritance.
copolymer
copolymer
noun
(chemistry) A polymer derived from more than one species of monomer.
cordyceps
cordyceps
noun
Any of the fungi of the genus Cordyceps, a genus of endoparasitoid sac fungi.
coryphaea
coryphaei
coryphaei
noun
plural of coryphaeus
coryphees
coryphees
noun
plural of coryphee
coryphene
coryphene
noun
(zoology) A fish of the genus Coryphaena.
creophagy
creophagy
noun
Alternative spelling of kreophagy
cryophile
cryophile
noun
(ecology) an organism that thrives at low temperatures
cryophyte
cryophyte
noun
(botany) Any plant that grows on ice or snow
(botany) Any plant whose buds overwinter below ground
cryoprobe
cryoprobe
noun
(surgery) An instrument used to apply extreme cold to a tissue as part of cryosurgery.
cryoscope
cryoscope
noun
A device used to measure the freezing point of a liquid (or the melting point of a solid).
cyphering
cyphering
noun
Skill in arithmetic.
verb
present participle of cypher
cypraeoid
cypressed
cypresses
cypresses
noun
plural of cypress
cyprinine
cypriotes
dalrymple
deceptory
deceptory
adj
deceptive
decrepity
decrepity
noun
(obsolete) Decrepitude.
decrypted
decrypted
verb
simple past tense and past participle of decrypt
depeyster
depletory
depletory
adj
Serving to deplete.
depravity
depravity
noun
(countable) A particular depraved act or trait.
(uncountable) The state or condition of being depraved; moral debasement.
(uncountable, Christian theology) Inborn corruption, entailing the belief that every facet of human nature has been polluted, defiled, and contaminated by sin.
desperacy
displayer
displayer
noun
One who, or that which, displays.
dispurvey
dispurvey
noun
(obsolete) dispurveyance
verb
(transitive, obsolete) To strip of provisions; to disfurnish.
dropberry
dupuytren
ecstrophy
emmetropy
emmetropy
noun
Alternative form of emmetropia
emphrensy
employers
employers
noun
plural of employer
empyreans
empyreans
noun
plural of empyrean
empyreuma
empyreuma
noun
(obsolete, chemistry) The peculiar smell and taste arising from products of decomposition of animal or vegetable substances when burnt in close vessels.
empyrical
empyrical
adj
Containing the combustible principle of coal.
empyrosis
empyrosis
noun
(obsolete) A general fire; a conflagration.
encrypted
encrypted
adj
Being in code; having been encrypted.
verb
simple past tense and past participle of encrypt
epharmony
ephoralty
ephoralty
noun
The body of ephors collectively.
The rank or office of an ephor.
ephydriad
ephydriad
noun
(rare) A dryad, a water nymph.
epigraphy
epigraphy
noun
Inscriptions collectively.
The study or decipherment of inscriptions, especially of ancient ones.
epihydric
epilatory
epilatory
adj
Synonym of depilatory
epirogeny
epistylar
epistylar
adj
Of or relating to an epistyle.
epitrophy
eriophyes
eriophyid
eriophyid
noun
(zoology) Any mite in the family Eriophyidae.
eucryphia
eucryphia
noun
Any tree of the genus Eucryphia
eurypelma
euryphage
euryphage
noun
(ecology) Any animal that eats a large variety of food.
eurypygae
eurypylus
euryscope
eurytopic
eurytopic
adj
(biology) Describing a plant or animal that is found in a wide range of environments, and is thus widely distributed
exemplary
exemplary
adj
Deserving honour, respect and admiration.
Of such high quality that it should serve as an example to be imitated; ideal, perfect.
Providing an example or illustration.
Serving as a warning; monitory.
noun
(obsolete) A copy of a book or a piece of writing.
(obsolete) An example, or typical instance.
expiatory
expiatory
adj
Of or pertaining to expiation.
expletory
expletory
adj
Serving to fill up; expletive; superfluous.
expressly
expressly
adv
Exclusively.
In an express or explicit manner.
expulsory
expulsory
adj
Synonym of expulsive
exsputory
exstrophy
exstrophy
noun
(anatomy) The eversion or turning out of any organ, or of its inner surface.
(especially) A congenital malformation of the bladder in which the normally internal mucosa of the organ lies exposed on the abdominal wall because of failure of union between the halves of the pubic symphysis and between the adjacent halves of the abdominal wall.
extempory
eyeopener
eyeopener
noun
Alternative form of eye-opener
eyepopper
eyepopper
noun
Alternative form of eye-popper
ferrotype
ferrotype
noun
A photograph produced by this means.
An early photographic process in which the image is made on an iron plate having a sensitized surface film.
verb
to take a ferrotype photograph
flypapers
flypapers
noun
plural of flypaper
verb
Third-person singular simple present indicative form of flypaper
foreplays
foreplays
verb
Third-person singular simple present indicative form of foreplay
fourpenny
fourpenny
adj
(dated) Costing fourpence.
noun
A coin or stamp worth fourpence.
geography
geography
noun
(archaic) an atlas or gazetteer.
(astronomy) Similar books, studies, or regions concerning other planets.
(chiefly business and marketing) A territory: a geographical area as a field of business or market sector.
(chiefly upper-class UK, euphemistic) The lavatory: a room used for urination and defecation.
(figuratively) The relative arrangement of the parts of anything.
A description of the earth: a treatise or textbook on geography
Any subject considered in terms of its physical distribution.
Terrain: the physical properties of a region of the earth.
The physical arrangement of any place, particularly (UK, slang) a house.
The study of the physical properties of the earth, including how humans affect and are affected by them.
geomorphy
geomorphy
noun
geodesy
geomorphology
gephyrean
gephyrean
adj
(zoology, obsolete) Belonging to the class Gephyrea of worms.
noun
(zoology, obsolete) Any of the Gephyrea.
gynophore
gynophore
noun
(botany) The stalk of a pistil; the stalk, present in certain flowers (such as those of the genera Telopea and Brachychiton), which supports the gynoecium.
gynospore
gyroplane
gyroplane
noun
Any aircraft that obtains lift from both rotating blades and small wings.
gyroscope
gyroscope
noun
An apparatus composed of a wheel which spins inside of a frame (gimbal) and causes the balancing of the frame in any direction or position. In the form of a gyroscopic stabilizer, used to help keep aircraft and ships steady.
harpalyce
harpylike
harpylike
Adjective
Resembling a harpy; ravenous or shrewish.
hemitropy
hemitropy
noun
(crystallography) Twin composition in crystals.
heptarchy
heptarchy
noun
A government of seven people.
A group of seven states, especially (historical) those in Anglo-Saxon Britain.
The realm so ruled.
heteroepy
honeydrop
horoptery
horseplay
horseplay
noun
Rough or rowdy play that can often result in unintentional physical harm.
verb
To engage in horseplay.
humphreys
hydropses
hydrotype
hyperacid
hyperacid
adj
Highly acidic.
hyperbata
hyperbola
hyperbola
noun
(geometry) A conic section formed by the intersection of a cone with a plane that intersects the base of the cone and is not tangent to the cone. The function y(x) = 1/x draws a hyperbola.
hyperbole
hyperbole
noun
(countable) An instance or example of such overstatement.
(countable, obsolete) A hyperbola.
(uncountable, rhetoric, literature) Deliberate or unintentional overstatement, particularly extreme overstatement.
hypercone
hypercone
noun
(geometry) A four-dimensional surface related to the three-dimensional cone
hypercube
hypercube
noun
(computing) A computer architecture in which each processor is connected to n others, by analogy with a hypercube of n dimensions.
(computing) A data cube with more than three dimensions.
(geometry) A geometric figure in four or more dimensions, which is analogous to a cube in three dimensions. Specifically, the n-dimensional equivalent of a cube for any non-negative integer n.
(geometry) Such a figure in four dimensions; a tesseract.
hyperemia
hyperemia
noun
(pathology) excess of blood in a body part.
hyperemic
hyperemic
adj
Pertaining to, or exhibiting hyperemia; congested with blood.
hyperenor
hyperfine
hyperfine
adj
Extremely fine, especially of the hyperfine structure in the spectra of atoms and molecules.
hyperform
hypergamy
hypergamy
noun
Act or practice of seeking a spouse of higher socioeconomic status or caste status than oneself.
hypergols
hypergols
noun
plural of hypergol
hypericin
hypericin
noun
(organic chemistry, medicine) A red-coloured anthraquinone derivative, extracted from St John's wort or prepared synthetically, used as an antidepressant and antiviral agent.
hypericum
hypericum
noun
(botany) Any of many flowering plants of the genus Hypericum, the St John's worts.
hypernote
hypernote
noun
(Internet) An annotation provided in hypertext format.
An annotation on another annotation.
hyperopes
hyperopes
noun
plural of hyperope
hyperopia
hyperopia
noun
(pathology) A disorder of the vision where the eye focusses images behind the retina instead of on it, so that distant objects can be seen better than near objects.
hyperopic
hyperopic
adj
Farsighted; of, having, or pertaining to hyperopia.
hyperpnea
hyperpnea
noun
(medicine) Deep and rapid respiration that occurs normally after exercise or abnormally with fever or various disorders.
hyperpure
hyperpure
adj
Highly pure
hypertely
hypertely
noun
(biology) An extreme degree of imitative colouration
hypertype
hypethral
hypethral
adj
Alternative form of hypaethral
hypocrite
hypocrite
noun
Someone who practices hypocrisy, who pretends to hold beliefs, or whose actions are not consistent with their claimed beliefs.
hypocrize
hypoderma
hypoderma
noun
(botany) A layer of tissue beneath the epidermis in plants, performing the physiological function of strengthening the epidermal tissue. In phanerogamous plants it is developed as collenchyma.
(zoology) An inner cellular layer which lies beneath the chitinous cuticle of arthropods, annelids, and some other invertebrates.