A peptide that participates in the regulation of the menstrual cycle, cell proliferation, apoptosis, metabolism, and many other diverse functions.
catvine
centavo
centavo
noun
(historical) The former subdenomination of some other currencies (in Brazil, Chile, Costa Rica, Ecuador, El Salvador, Guinea-Bissau, Mozambique, Portugal, Puerto Rico, São Tomé and Príncipe, and Venezuela).
A similar subdenomination of various other currencies (in Argentina, Bolivia, Brazil, Cape Verde, Colombia, Cuba, Dominican Republic, East Timor, Ecuador, Guatemala, Honduras, Mozambique, Nicaragua, and the Philippines).
Currency unit (hundredth of a peso) in Mexico.
centrev
civitan
convect
convect
verb
(intransitive) To undergo convection.
(transitive) To move (a warm fluid) upward through a cooler fluid, to transfer (heat or a fluid) by convection.
convent
convent
noun
(India) A Christian school.
A coming together; a meeting.
A gathering of people lasting several days for the purpose of discussing or working on topics previously selected.
A religious community whose members (especially nuns) live under strict observation of religious rules and self-imposed vows.
The buildings and pertaining surroundings in which such a community lives.
verb
(obsolete) To be convenient; to serve.
(obsolete) To call before a judge or judicature; to summon; to convene.
(obsolete) To meet together; to concur.
convert
convert
noun
(Canadian football) The equivalent of a conversion in rugby
A person who has converted to a religion.
A person who is now in favour of something that he or she previously opposed or disliked.
verb
(intransitive) To become converted.
(intransitive) To undergo a conversion of religion, faith or belief (see also sense 3).
(intransitive, marketing) To perform the action that an online advertisement is intended to induce; to reach the point of conversion.
(intransitive, ten-pin bowling) To score a spare.
(transitive or intransitive, soccer) To score (especially a penalty kick).
(transitive) To change (something) from one use, function, or purpose to another.
(transitive) To exchange for something of equal value.
(transitive) To express (a quantity) in alternative units.
(transitive) To express (a unit of measurement) in terms of another; to furnish a mathematical formula by which a quantity, expressed in the former unit, may be given in the latter.
(transitive) To induce (someone) to adopt a particular religion, faith, ideology or belief (see also sense 11).
(transitive) To transform or change (something) into another form, substance, state, or product.
(transitive, cricket) To increase one's individual score, especially from 50 runs (a fifty) to 100 runs (a century), or from a century to a double or triple century.
(transitive, intransitive, chess) To transform a material or positional advantage into a win.
(transitive, intransitive, rugby football) To score extra points after (a try) by completing a conversion.
(transitive, law) To appropriate wrongfully or unlawfully; to commit the common law tort of conversion.
(transitive, logic) To change (one proposition) into another, so that what was the subject of the first becomes the predicate of the second.
(transitive, obsolete) To cause to turn; to turn.
(transitive, obsolete) To turn into another language; to translate.
conveth
convict
convict
noun
(law) A person convicted of a crime by a judicial body.
A common name for the sheepshead (Archosargus probatocephalus), owing to its black and gray stripes.
A person deported to a penal colony.
The convict cichlid (Amatitlania nigrofasciata), also known as the zebra cichlid, a popular aquarium fish, with stripes that resemble a prison uniform.
verb
(chiefly religion) To convince, persuade; to cause (someone) to believe in (something).
(transitive) To find guilty, as a result of legal proceedings, or (informal) in a moral sense.
convite
convito
curvant
devinct
vacante
vatican
vection
vection
noun
(medicine, dated) The transference of the germs of disease from those who are sick to those who are well; infection.
(obsolete) Vectitation.
venatic
venatic
adj
Of, pertaining to or involved in hunting.
venetic
venetic
Adjective
of or pertaining to the Veneti people, their language or culture, or to the Veneto
Proper noun
An extinct Indo-European language that was spoken in ancient times by the Veneti tribe in the North-Italian Veneto and modern Slovenia, between the Po River delta and the southern fringe of the Alps. It should not be confused with Venetian, a Romance language presently spoken in the same region.
ventric
ventric
adj
ventral
vicente
vincent
vincent
noun
(historical slang) The victim or dupe in a betting game, especially bowls.