A peptide that participates in the regulation of the menstrual cycle, cell proliferation, apoptosis, metabolism, and many other diverse functions.
adtevac
adtevac
noun
A technique for drying blood plasma.
advects
advects
verb
Third-person singular simple present indicative form of advect
aviatic
aviatic
adj
Relating to aviation
avictor
avocate
avocate
verb
(obsolete) To call off or away; to withdraw; to transfer to another tribunal.
avocets
avocets
noun
plural of avocet
becivet
becovet
calvert
calvity
calvity
noun
(uncountable) Baldness.
An area of skin that has become bald.
captiva
captive
captive
adj
Held prisoner; not free; confined.
Of or relating to bondage or confinement; serving to confine.
Subdued by love; charmed; captivated.
noun
(figurative) One charmed or subdued by beauty, excellence, or affection; one who is captivated.
One held prisoner.
One who has been captured or is otherwise confined.
verb
(transitive, archaic) To capture; to take captive.
carvist
caterva
catvine
cautivo
cavated
caveats
caveats
noun
plural of caveat
verb
Third-person singular simple present indicative form of caveat
cavelet
cavelet
noun
A little cave.
cavetti
cavetti
noun
plural of cavetto
cavetto
cavetto
noun
(architecture) A concave moulding with a regular curved profile that is part of a circle.
cavorts
cavorts
verb
Third-person singular simple present indicative form of cavort
cavuoto
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
charvet
chetive
cheviot
cheviot
noun
A coarse woolen fabric made from the wool of Cheviot sheep.
chevret
civitan
civitas
civitas
noun
(Roman history) A city and its territory
(Roman history) The social body of the citizens united by law
(pedantic) A community.
(pedantic) A state, (chiefly) a city-state.
clavate
clavate
adj
(biology) Resembling a club, becoming increasingly wide from the base to the distal end.
colvert
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
corvets
corvets
noun
plural of corvet
verb
Third-person singular simple present indicative form of corvet
costive
costive
adj
constipated
miserly, parsimonious
couvert
couvert
noun
cover charge
coverts
coverts
noun
plural of covert
coveted
coveted
adj
Highly sought-after.
verb
simple past tense and past participle of covet
coveter
coveter
noun
One who covets.
covisit
cravats
cravats
noun
plural of cravat.
verb
Third-person singular simple present indicative form of cravat
crivetz
crivitz
cultive
culvert
culvert
noun
A channel crossing under a road or railway for the draining of water.
verb
To channel (a stream of water) through a culvert.
curvant
curvate
curvate
adj
bent in a regular form; curved
curvets
curvets
verb
Third-person singular simple present indicative form of curvet
curvity
curvity
noun
The state of being curved; a bending in a regular form; crookedness.
cutover
cutover
adj
Having been cleared of valuable timber.
noun
(by extension) Any process of quickly replacing a machine so as to minimize downtime.
An area of cutover land.
The discontinuity that occurs when switching from the Julian calendar to the Gregorian calendar.
The process of quickly replacing a telephone switchboard, in which the connections are duplicated to the new machine and the original connections are then suddenly disconnected.
cuvette
cuvette
noun
(analytical chemistry) a small vessel with at least two flat and transparent sides, used to hold a liquid sample to be analysed in the light path of a spectrometer
(military) a cunette
a pot, bucket, or basin, in which molten plate glass is carried from the melting pot to the casting table
an inner lid of a timepiece
devinct
dovecot
dovecot
noun
Alternative form of dovecote
evected
evectic
evector
evector
noun
(geometry) A differential operator that allows a contravariant to be constructed from an invariant.
evicted
evicted
verb
simple past tense and past participle of evict
evictee
evictee
noun
One who is evicted.
evictor
evictor
noun
One who evicts
evocate
evocate
verb
(rare) To evoke
To call up
factive
factive
adj
(epistemology, of a knowing agent) Which does not know any falsities: which knows only truths.
(grammar, of a verb) Licensing only those content clauses that represent claims assumed to be true.
(obsolete) Making.
noun
(grammar) A factive verb.
fictive
fictive
adj
Being feigned, ingenuine or unreal.
Having the characteristics of fiction: fictional.
Resulting from imaginative creation: fanciful or invented.
noun
(Internet slang) In claimed cases of dissociative identity disorder: an introject based on a character from a fictional work.
hective
lavatic
lavatic
adj
Like lava, or composed of lava; lavic.
motivic
motivic
adj
(music) Used as, or relating to, a motif.
octaval
octaval
adj
(music) Of, pertaining to, or relating to an octave.
Octonary; expressed in base-8; octal, octonal.
Proceeding by intervals of eight.
octaves
octaves
noun
plural of octave
octavia
octavic
octavic
adj
(mathematics) Synonym of octic
octavie
octavla
octavos
octavos
noun
plural of octavo
octavus
overact
overact
verb
(acting) To act in an exaggerated manner.
(obsolete, transitive) To act upon, or influence, unduly.
overcut
overcut
adj
(participial adjective) Excessively cut.
noun
(motor racing) A pit stop strategy in which a driver seeks to gain an advantage over someone else by pitting after them and running in clean air to make up time.
An opening resulting from such cutting; an extreme incision or wound.
The act or result of excessive cutting.
verb
(transitive) To cut excessively.
ovicyst
oviduct
oviduct
noun
(anatomy) A duct through which an ovum passes from an ovary to the uterus or to the exterior.
ovistic
ovistic
adj
Relating to ovism.
ovocyte
ovocyte
noun
oocyte
pictavi
provect
provect
adj
(obsolete) Carried forward; advanced.
sattvic
sattvic
adj
Relating or conforming to sattva (one of the gunas in Hindu philosophy).
sective
sective
adj
(obsolete) sectile; capable of being cut.
tactive
uveitic
uveitic
adj
Relating to uveitis.
vacante
vacated
vacated
verb
simple past tense and past participle of vacate
vacates
vacates
verb
Third-person singular simple present indicative form of vacate
vacatur
vacatur
noun
(law) An announcement in court that something is cancelled or set aside; an annulment.
vacuate
vacuate
verb
To empty; to clear out.
vacuist
vacuist
noun
(philosophy) One who holds the doctrine that the space between the bodies of the universe, or the molecules and atoms of matter, is a vacuum.
vacuity
vacuity
noun
An empty or inane remark or thing.
Idleness; listlessness.
Physical emptiness, an absence of matter; vacuum.
vatical
vatical
adj
Of or pertaining to a prophet; prophetic.
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.
vectors
vectors
noun
plural of vector
verb
Third-person singular simple present indicative form of vector
vecture
vecture
noun
(obsolete) The act of carrying; conveyance; carriage.
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
verdict
verdict
noun
(law) A decision on an issue of fact in a civil or criminal case or an inquest.
An opinion or judgement.
vetches
vetches
noun
plural of vetch
viaduct
viaduct
noun
(transport) A bridge with several spans that carries road or rail traffic over a valley or other obstacles.
viatica
viatica
noun
plural of viaticum
vicente
vicoite
vicomte
vicomte
noun
A French viscount.
victims
victims
noun
plural of victim
victoir
victors
victors
noun
plural of victor
victory
victory
intj
Used to encourage someone to achieve success, or to celebrate a success or triumph.
noun
(Roman mythology) Alternative letter-case form of Victory (“(uncountable) the Roman goddess of victory, the counterpart of the Greek goddess Nike; also (countable), an artistic depiction of her, chiefly as a winged woman”)
(uncountable) The condition or state of having won a battle or competition, or having succeeded in an effort; (countable) an instance of this.
verb
(transitive, obsolete, rare) To defeat or triumph over (someone or something).
victrix
victrix
noun
Female victor; victress.
victual
victual
noun
(Scotland) Grain of any kind.
(archaic) Food fit for human (or occasionally animal) consumption.
(archaic, chiefly in the plural) Food supplies; provisions.
Edible plants.
verb
(intransitive) To eat.
(intransitive, chiefly military, nautical) To lay in or procure food supplies.
(transitive, reflexive, chiefly military, nautical) To provide (military troops, a place, a ship, etc., or oneself) with a stock of victuals or food; to provision.
vincent
vincent
noun
(historical slang) The victim or dupe in a betting game, especially bowls.
vindict
vitalic
vitalic
adj
Pertaining to life; vital.
vitrics
vitrics
noun
Articles of glassware collectively.
The art or study of the manufacture and decoration of glassware.