A binary star in the constellation of Andromeda (formerly seen as part of Pegasus).
aphidozer
aphidozer
noun
A device like a hopperdozer for the removal of aphids.
aphorized
aphorized
verb
simple past tense and past participle of aphorize
aphorizer
aphorizer
noun
Alternative form of aphoriser
aphorizes
aphorizes
verb
Third-person singular simple present indicative form of aphorize
aphrizite
appetizer
appetizer
noun
A small, light, and usually savory first course in a meal
Something that creates or increases excitement for what is to follow.
apprizers
apprizers
noun
plural of apprizer
azeotrope
azeotrope
noun
(physics) A mixture of two or more substances whose liquid and gaseous forms have the same composition (at a certain pressure); the substances cannot be separated by normal distillation.
verb
To create a mixture of this kind.
azeotropy
azeotropy
noun
(physics, chemistry) The formation of an azeotrope; the condition of being azeotropic
baptizers
baptizers
noun
plural of baptizer
caponizer
caponizer
noun
A person or device that caponizes
comprized
comprized
verb
simple past tense and past participle of comprize
comprizes
comprizes
verb
Third-person singular simple present indicative form of comprize
copperize
copperize
verb
(transitive) To cover with copper.
deepfroze
disprized
disprized
adj
Undervalued, disparaged.
verb
simple past tense and past participle of disprize
disprizes
disprizes
verb
Third-person singular simple present indicative form of disprize
douzepers
douzepers
noun
plural of douzeper
ecphorize
ekphorize
epicurize
epicurize
verb
(intransitive) To feed or indulge like an epicure.
To profess or tend towards the doctrines of Epicurus.
epimerize
epimerize
verb
(chemistry) To convert, or be converted, into an epimer
evaporize
expertize
expertize
verb
(intransitive) To act as an expert.
(transitive) To give an expert opinion on; to assess.
foreprize
foreprize
verb
(obsolete) To assume, take for granted; to provide for beforehand; to anticipate.
hypocrize
japonizer
jasperize
jasperize
verb
To convert into, or make to resemble, jasper
mainprize
mainprize
noun
Alternative form of mainprise
misprized
misprized
verb
simple past tense and past participle of misprize
misprizer
misprizes
misprizes
verb
Third-person singular simple present indicative form of misprize
morphized
operatize
operatize
verb
(transitive) To convert into operatic form.
optimizer
optimizer
noun
(computing) A compiler or assembler that produces optimized code.
(computing) A program that uses linear programming to optimize a process.
A person in a large business whose task is to maximize profits and make the business more efficient.
orphanize
orphanize
verb
(transitive) To orphan.
overprize
overprize
verb
(transitive) To prize excessively; to overvalue.
paganizer
paganizer
noun
Agent noun of paganize: one who paganizes.
pamperize
pamperize
verb
(transitive, dated) To pamper.
panderize
papalizer
papalizer
noun
(rare) One who papalizes.
paralyzed
paralyzed
adj
Partly or wholly incapable of movement; disabled.
Rendered incapable of action.
verb
simple past tense and past participle of paralyze
paralyzer
paralyzer
noun
One who or that which paralyzes
paralyzes
paralyzes
noun
plural of paralyzis
verb
Third-person singular simple present indicative form of paralyze
parrotize
parrotize
verb
(transitive) To cause to behave like a parrot.
To parrot; to repeat what one has been told.
parsonize
pastorize
pastorize
verb
(intransitive, archaic) To perform the religious duties of a pastor.
patrizate
patronize
patronize
verb
(transitive) To act as a patron of; to defend, protect, or support.
(transitive) To assume a tone of unjustified superiority toward; to talk down to, to treat condescendingly.
(transitive) To make oneself a customer of a business, especially a regular customer.
(transitive, obsolete) To blame, to reproach.
pauperize
pauperize
verb
To make someone a pauper; to impoverish.
pearlized
pearlized
adj
Made to resemble pearl
pelorized
pelorized
adj
(botany) Exhibiting the abnormality called pelorism.
peptizers
peptizers
noun
plural of peptizer
perhazard
periodize
periodize
verb
(transitive) To divide (history) into periods.
(weightlifting, sports) To split (a training program) into segments of a few weeks or months, so that training begins at lower intensity and is gradually increased to high intensity.
perozonid
persicize
personize
personize
verb
(archaic) To personify.
petrinize
petrinize
Verb
To cause to conform with the writings or doctrines of
petrolize
petrolize
verb
(transitive) To treat (water) with kerosene in order to exterminate mosquitoes.
To convert into a petroleum-based economy.
pezograph
pezograph
noun
(astronomy, geology) A regmaglypt.
pforzheim
picturize
picturize
verb
(transitive, rare) To adorn with pictures; to illustrate.
(transitive, rare) To represent in a picture or a motion picture; to depict.
pillarize
pillarize
verb
(society, ergative) To divide into social pillars, in which each social group has its own social institutions.
pillorize
pillorize
verb
(transitive) To set in, or punish with, the pillory.
pindarize
piperazin
pizzerias
pluralize
pluralize
verb
(intransitive, UK) To hold more than one ecclesiastical benefice at the same time.
(intransitive, grammar) To take a plural; to assume a plural form.
(transitive) To multiply; to make manifold.
(transitive, grammar) To make plural.
poetizers
poetizers
noun
plural of poetizer
pogromize
pogromize
verb
Synonym of pogrom (“to persecute or massacre”)
polarized
polarized
adj
(US) Having a distinctive polarization.
(US) Of a group or situation, being at two or more extremes.
verb
simple past tense and past participle of polarize
polarizer
polarizer
noun
(physics) Any device that produces polarized light.
One who polarizes; one who divides a group or community into two extremes.
polarizes
polarizes
verb
Third-person singular simple present indicative form of polarize
policizer
posterize
posterize
verb
(basketball, slang) To score a slam dunk by leaping over another player.
To reduce the number of colors in an image, changing a continuous gradation of tone to several regions of fewer tones, with abrupt changes from one tone to another.
posturize
posturize
verb
(intransitive) To posture.
powderize
powderize
verb
(intransitive) To be reduced to powder
(transitive) To reduce to powder
prebronze
preconize
preconize
verb
To proclaim in public; especially (of the Pope) to announce the appointment of a bishop.
preffroze
prefreeze
prefreeze
verb
(transitive) To freeze in advance.
prefrozen
prefrozen
verb
past participle of prefreeze
prehazard
preiotize
prelatize
prelatize
verb
(intransitive) To uphold or encourage prelacy; to exercise prelatical functions.
(transitive) To bring under the influence of prelacy.
preludize
prestezza
prestezza
noun
(art) A painting technique which uses a series of fast brushstrokes to create the impression of faces and objects, rather than working out their details
privatize
privatize
verb
(computing, transitive) To make (a variable, etc.) private in scope.
(economics) To release government control (of a business or industry) to private industry.
prizeable
prizeable
adj
Alternative form of prizable
proenzyme
proenzyme
noun
(biochemistry) Any inactive precursor of an enzyme that is converted to an enzyme by proteolysis; a zymogen
profanize
prologize
prologize
verb
Alternative form of prologuize
promazine
promazine
noun
A phenothiazine antipsychotic.
propolize
propolize
verb
Of honeybees, to apply propolis to something.
protozoea
protozoea
noun
(zoology) A group of larval stages in the growth of decapods in which the antennae are used for movement, and mandibles for chewing.
prozymite
prozymite
noun
(Roman Catholicism, historical, derogatory) One who administers the Eucharist with leavened bread, in particular a member of the Eastern Orthodox Church.
prytanize
pulverize
pulverize
verb
(American spelling) Alternative spelling of pulverise
purpurize
pyrolyzed
pyrolyzed
verb
simple past tense and past participle of pyrolyze
pyrolyzer
pyrolyzer
noun
Alternative form of pyrolyser
pyrolyzes
pyrolyzes
verb
Third-person singular simple present indicative form of pyrolyze
rapturize
rapturize
verb
(intransitive) To enter a state of rapture.
(transitive) To put in a state of rapture.
rebaptize
rebaptize
verb
(transitive) To baptize again.
spiralize
spiralize
verb
(transitive or intransitive) To form into a spiral.
spiritize
supersize
supersize
verb
(transitive) To increase the size of something, especially to unusual proportions.
surprized
surprized
verb
simple past tense and past participle of surprize
surprizes
surprizes
noun
plural of surprize
verb
Third-person singular simple present indicative form of surprize
temporize
temporize
verb
(intransitive) To deliberately act evasively or prolong a discussion in order to gain time or postpone a decision, sometimes so that a compromise can be reached or simply to make a conversation more temperate; to stall for time.
(intransitive, archaic) To comply with the occasion or time; to humour, or yield to, current circumstances or opinion; also, to trim (“fluctuate between parties, so as to appear to favour each”).
(intransitive, by extension) To discuss, to negotiate; to reach a compromise.
(intransitive, obsolete) To delay, especially until a more favourable time; to procrastinate.
(transitive, dentistry) To apply a temporary piece of dental work that will later be removed.
torporize
torporize
verb
To fill with torpor; stupefy.
trapezate
trapezate
adj
Having the form of a trapezium; trapeziform.
trapezial
trapezial
adj
(anatomy) Of or pertaining to the trapezium bone of the wrist.
(anatomy) Of or pertaining to the trapezius muscle.
In the form of a trapezium.
trapezian
trapezian
adj
(geometry) Having opposed trapeziform faces.
trapezing
trapezing
verb
present participle of trapeze
trapezist
trapezist
Noun
A gymnast who performs on a trapeze.
trapezium
trapezium
noun
(anatomy) The trapezium bone of the wrist.
(geometry, Britain, Australia, New Zealand) A quadrilateral with two sides parallel.
(geometry, US, dated) A four-sided polygon with no parallel sides and no sides equal; a simple convex irregular quadrilateral.
(restrictively) A quadrilateral with two sides parallel and two sides non-parallel.
A region on the ventral side of the brain, either just back of the pons Varolii, or, as in man, covered by the posterior extension of its transverse fibers.
trapezius
trapezius
noun
(anatomy) A large vertebrate skeletal muscle divided into an ascending, descending, and transverse portion, attaching the neck and central spine to the outer extremity of the scapula; it functions in scapular elevation, adduction, and depression.
trapezoid
trapezoid
noun
(anatomy) The trapezoid bone of the wrist.
(geometry, Britain, Australia, New Zealand) A convex quadrilateral with no sides parallel.
(geometry, US) A (convex) quadrilateral with two (non-adjacent) parallel sides.
trepanize
tupperize
vampirize
vampirize
verb
(transitive) To drain the resources or life force of.
(transitive) To make into a vampire.
vaporized
vaporized
verb
simple past tense and past participle of vaporize
vaporizer
vaporizer
noun
(medicine) A device with a heating element, used to vaporize a liquid solution with medicine. The produced vapor condensates into fine aerosols, forming a mist inside the device, to be inhaled by the patient for delivery of the medicine into the lungs.
A device with a heating element, used to vaporize a liquid.
vaporizes
vaporizes
verb
Third-person singular simple present indicative form of vaporize
vapourize
vapourize
verb
Canadian and Oxford British spelling of vaporize
zaporogue
zaporozhe
zealproof
zephyrean
zephyrian
zephyrous
zephyrous
adj
(of a fabric, garment, etc.) Light, fine, soft.
Breezy; blown by a breeze.
Like a zephyr; (of a wind) soft, gentle, refreshing.
zippering
zippering
verb
present participle of zipper
zoetropic
zoetropic
adj
Of, pertaining to, or reminiscent of a zoetrope.
zooperist
zoosperms
zoosperms
noun
plural of zoosperm
zoosphere
zoosphere
noun
(ecology) A layer in which animals are present.
The animals of the Earth, especially as an ecosystem.
zoospores
zoospores
noun
plural of zoospore
zoraptera
zosterops
zygophore
zygophore
noun
(mycology) A specialized hyphal branch giving rise to isogametes that unite to produce a zygospore
zygoptera
zygosperm
zygosperm
noun
(botany) A spore formed by the union of the contents of two similar cells, either of the same or of distinct individual plants. They are found in certain orders of algae and fungi.
zygospore
zygospore
noun
(botany) A spore formed by the union of several zoospores.
(botany) A zygosperm.
zymophore
zymophore
noun
(biochemistry) The active part of an enzyme that is responsible for its function.