(astronautics) A section or piece of a launch vehicle, rocket, or spacecraft that enters the atmosphere unprotected behind the nose cone or other body that is protected for entry.
(astronomy) A companion body that trails a satellite or spacecraft.
(nautical) The part of a vessel abaft midships.
The afterpart of a vehicle.
bailiffry
bifilarly
bifilarly
adv
In a bifilar manner.
biformity
biformity
noun
A double form.
bodysurfs
bodysurfs
verb
Third-person singular simple present indicative form of bodysurf
boyfriend
boyfriend
noun
A male friend.
A male partner in an unmarried romantic relationship.
brimfully
brimfully
adv
In a brimful manner
butterfly
butterfly
noun
(alternate history) A random change in an aspect of the timeline seemingly unrelated to the primary point of divergence, resulting from the butterfly effect.
(finance) A combination of four options of the same type at three strike prices giving limited profit and limited risk.
(in the plural) A sensation of excited anxiety felt in the stomach.
(medicine, attributive) A use of surgical tape, cut into thin strips and placed across an open wound to hold it closed.
(now rare) Someone seen as being unserious and (originally) dressed gaudily; someone flighty and unreliable.
(sports) A type of stretch in which one sits on the ground with the legs folded into a shape like that of a butterfly's wings, slightly rocking them up and down, resembling the wings fluttering.
(swimming) The butterfly stroke.
A flying insect of the order Lepidoptera, distinguished from moths by their diurnal activity and generally brighter colouring.
A person who changes partners frequently.
Any of several plane curves that look like a butterfly; see Butterfly curve (transcendental) and Butterfly curve (algebraic).
verb
(transitive) To cut (food) almost entirely in half and spread the halves apart, in a shape suggesting the wings of a butterfly.
(transitive) To cut strips of surgical tape or plasters into thin strips, and place across (a gaping wound) to close it.
(transitive, of the point of divergence of an alternate history scenario) To cause events after the point of divergence to not happen as they did in real history, and people conceived after the point of divergence to not exist in recognizable form, due to the random variations introduced by the butterfly effect.
carbonify
carbonify
verb
To convert to carbon; to burn or caramelize.
cymbiform
cymbiform
adj
(botany) Elongated and having the upper surface decidedly concave, as in the glumes of many grasses.
daftberry
doftberry
favorably
favorably
adv
In a favorable manner.
febricity
febricity
noun
feverishness
febrility
febrility
Noun
feverishness
ferryboat
ferryboat
noun
(nautical) A boat used to ferry passengers, vehicles, or goods across open water, especially one that runs to a regular schedule
fibrocyst
fibrocyte
fibrocyte
noun
An inactive connective tissue cell that is capable of forming collagen
fibrosity
fibrosity
noun
The quality of being fibrous.
fibrously
fibrously
adv
In a fibrous manner
fishberry
fishberry
noun
The poisonous fruit of Anamirta cocculus.
fisherboy
fisherboy
noun
A boy employed in catching fish; a young fisherman.
flamboyer
flamboyer
noun
(archaic) Any of various trees in the East and West Indies with brilliant blossoms, probably species of Caesalpinieae, especially of Delonix and Caesalpinia, all of which were formerly in the obsolete genus Poinciana.
freebooty
freebooty
noun
(obsolete) freebootery
fribblery
inferably
inferably
adv
Such that it may be inferred.
myofibril
myofibril
noun
(anatomy) Any of the cylindrical organelles, found within muscle cells, that are the contractile unit of muscles.
polyfibre
refutably
refutably
adv
So as to be refutable.
salubrify
salubrify
verb
(transitive) To make salubrious.
unbriefly
unbrutify
unbrutify
verb
(transitive) To make no longer brutish; to tame or civilize.
wolfberry
wolfberry
noun
Any of flowering species of the genus Lycium.
Lycium barbarum or Lycium chinense
The berry of this plant.
The western snowberry, Symphoricarpos occidentalis, a shrub native to nothern and central North America.