(grammar, semantics) The lexical aspect (aktionsart) of verbs or predicates that change in an instant.
(heraldry) An escutcheon or ensign armorial; a full display or depiction of all the heraldic components to which the bearer of a coat of arms is entitled; (now especially) a funeral shield: the hatchment.
(sociology) The successful completion of a socially defined goal or task, highlighting individual or group accomplishment.
(video games) An award for completing a particular task or meeting an objective in a video game.
A great or heroic deed or feat; something accomplished by valor or boldness.
The act of achieving or performing; a successful performance; accomplishment.
acriflavine
acriflavine
noun
(medicine) An antimicrobial flavonoid dye derived from acridine
activations
activations
noun
plural of activation
advancingly
advancingly
adv
In an advancing manner.
advocations
advocations
noun
plural of advocation
aggrievance
aggrievance
noun
oppression; hardship; grievance.
alivincular
alivincular
adj
(biology, of bivalves) Having the longer axis transverse to the hinge line
ambivalence
ambivalence
noun
A state of uncertainty or indecisiveness.
The coexistence of opposing attitudes or feelings (such as love and hate) towards a person, object or idea.
ambivalency
anchorville
antevocalic
antevocalic
adj
Synonym of prevocalic
antidivorce
antidivorce
adj
Opposing divorce.
antivenefic
antivirotic
antivirotic
noun
An antibiotic that is effective against viruses
archvillain
archvillain
noun
(chiefly narratology) A supreme villain; the most evil or powerful villain.
arvicolinae
autoclaving
autoclaving
noun
sterilization in an autoclave
verb
present participle of autoclave
autovaccine
autovaccine
noun
autogenous vaccine
avalanching
avalanching
verb
present participle of avalanche
avicularian
avicularian
noun
Any of the genus Avicularia of spiders.
avocational
avocational
adj
Of, relating to, or being an avocation.
bedcovering
bedcovering
noun
bedcover
beneceptive
benedictive
benedictive
adj
Of, relating to, or being a benediction or blessing.
noun
(linguistics) A particular verbal mood in Sanskrit language.
benefactive
benefactive
adj
(linguistics) Of or pertaining to the linguistic form or case or the semantic role of the beneficiary of an action. Expressed in English as "on behalf of" or "on one's behalf."
noun
A term or sentence element that serves a benefactive role or that is inflected for the benefactive case or a similar case (such as the dative case).
biconcavity
biconcavity
noun
The quality of being biconcave.
biconvexity
biconvexity
noun
The quality of being biconvex.
bivalencies
bivalencies
noun
plural of bivalency
bivouacking
bivouacking
verb
present participle of bivouac
bovovaccine
bovovaccine
noun
(historical) A vaccine to prevent tuberculosis in cattle.
branchville
cadaverines
cadaverines
noun
plural of cadaverine
cakravartin
cakravartin
noun
Alternative form of chakravartin
calvinistic
cannonville
cantilevers
cantilevers
noun
plural of cantilever
canyonville
captivating
captivating
adj
Showing great beauty; beautiful.
That captivates; fascinating.
verb
present participle of captivate
captivation
captivation
noun
The act of captivating or the state of being captivated.
caravanning
caravanning
noun
holidaying in a caravan, either mobile or in a permanent site
caregivings
caregivings
noun
plural of caregiving
carlinville
carlinville
Proper noun
a city in Illinois, USA
carminative
carminative
adj
Relieving discomfort of gas in the digestive tract.
noun
(medicine) A drug or substance that induces the releasing of gas from the digestive tract.
carnesville
carnivaller
carnivories
carnivorism
carnivorism
noun
The fact or practice of being a carnivore.
carnivority
carnivority
noun
The condition of being carnivorous
carnivorous
carnivorous
adj
(botany) Insectivorous: capable of trapping insects and absorbing nutrient from them.
Of, or relating to carnivores, or the taxonomic order Carnivora.
Predatory or flesh-eating.
carsonville
casanovanic
catonsville
cavalcading
cavalcading
verb
present participle of cavalcade
cavaliering
cavaliering
verb
present participle of cavalier
cavendishes
cavillation
cavillation
noun
The act of cavilling.
cavillingly
cavitations
cavitations
noun
plural of cavitation
centervelic
centerville
centerville
Proper noun
The name of many places in the United States of America:
an unincorporated community in Alabama.
an unincorporated community in Arkansas.
a neighbourhood in California.
a former settlement in California.
an unincorporated community in California.
a CDP in California.
a former settlement in California.
an unincorporated community in California.
an unincorporated community in Delaware; also spelt Centreville.
an unincorporated community in Florida.
a city in Georgia.
an unincorporated community in Idaho.
a town in Indiana.
an unincorporated community in Indiana.
a city in Iowa
an unincorporated community in Louisiana.
an unincorporated community in Louisiana.
a former town in Maine.
a village in Massachusetts.
a city in Minnesota.
a city in Missouri
unincorporated communities in and New Jersey.
a town in New York.
a small town in North Carolina.
an unincorporated community in Ohio.
a village in Ohio.
a city in and Ohio.
a small borough in Pennsylvania.
a borough in Pennsylvania.
a CDP in South Carolina.
a small city in South Dakota.
a town in Tennessee
a small city in Texas
a small community in Texas, also known as Little Centerville.
a city in Utah.
unincorporated communities in and Virginia.
a CDP in Washington.
unincorporated communities in and Wisconsin; both are also spelt Centreville.
a small town in Wisconsin.
an unincorporated community in Wisconsin.
centreville
centreville
Proper noun
a village in New Brunswick, Canada.
a part of a town (Centreville-Wareham-Trinity) in Newfoundland, Canada.
subdivision on Nova Scotia, Canada.
communities in and Nova Scotia.
a community on Nova Scotia.
a community in Ontario, Canada.
a ghost town in northern British Columbia, Canada.
a city in Alabama, USA
the alternative spelling for Delaware, USA.
a city in Illinois, USA.
a town in Maryland, USA
a village in Michigan, USA
a town in and Mississippi, USA.
a ghost town in Texas, USA
centumviral
centumviral
adj
Of or pertaining to the centumviri
cevadilline
chauvinisms
chauvinisms
noun
plural of chauvinism
chauvinists
chauvinists
noun
plural of chauvinist
chenevixite
chenevixite
noun
(mineralogy) A monoclinic-prismatic mineral containing arsenic, copper, hydrogen, iron, and oxygen.
cheneyville
chevronwise
chevronwise
adv
(heraldry) Synonym of chevrony: chevron-like, in the manner of a chevron.
chivareeing
chivareeing
verb
present participle of chivaree
cinevariety
cinevariety
noun
(historical) A kind of variety show incorporating bioscope film.
circovarian
circovarian
adj
Surrounding an ovary
circumvents
circumvents
verb
Third-person singular simple present indicative form of circumvent
civilianize
civilianize
verb
To change the status of (a member of the armed forces) to that of a civilian.
To convert from military to civilian operation or control.
civilnesses
clairvoyant
clairvoyant
adj
(computing) Relating to a form of parallel processing algorithm given advance information about the problem.
Able to foresee the future.
Able to see things that cannot be perceived by the normal senses.
Of or relating to clairvoyance.
noun
A person able to foresee the future
A person able to see things that cannot be perceived by the normal senses
clavecinist
clavecinist
noun
A musician who plays the clavecin.
clavicornes
clavicornia
coadunative
coadunative
adj
Serving to coadunate or unite.
coevalneity
coevolution
coevolution
noun
(ecology, evolutionary theory) The evolution of organisms of two or more species in which each adapts to changes in the other.
coextensive
coextensive
adj
(logic) Having the same extension—the object or set of objects to which a term refers.
Having the same spatial limits or boundaries; sharing the same area.
Occurring over the same period of time; contemporaneous.
cognitively
cognitively
adv
Relating to thinking (cognition).
cognitivity
coinventing
coinventing
verb
present participle of coinvent
coinventors
coinventors
noun
plural of coinventor
coinvestors
coinvestors
noun
plural of coinvestor
combinative
combinative
adj
Of, pertaining to, or resulting from combination.
Serving, tending, or able to combine.
comminative
comminative
adj
Of or relating to commination.
communitive
communitive
adj
Relating to community.
compunctive
compunctive
adj
(obsolete) Sensitive with regard to wrongdoing; conscientious.
concavation
concavation
noun
The act of making concave.
concavities
concavities
noun
plural of concavity
conceivable
conceivable
adj
Capable of being conceived or imagined
conceivably
conceivably
adv
In a conceivable manner; possibly.
concrescive
concrescive
adj
Growing together, or into union; uniting.
conditivium
condivision
condonative
condonative
adj
(obsolete) Condoning; betokening, or relating to, condonement or condonation.
conflictive
conflictive
adj
Causing conflict.
confutative
confutative
adj
That confutes
congelative
congelative
adj
That which tends to congeal.
congerville
congressive
congressive
adj
Encountering, or coming together.
conjugative
conjugative
adj
Of, relating to, or producing combination or conjunction; combinative or connective.
conjunctiva
conjunctiva
noun
(anatomy) A clear mucous membrane that lines the inner surface of the eyelid and the exposed surface of the eyeball or sclera.
conjunctive
conjunctive
adj
(astrology, astronomy) Relating to a conjunction (appearance in the sky of two astronomical objects with the same right ascension or the same ecliptical longitude).
(grammar) Of a personal pronoun, used only in immediate conjunction with the verb of which the pronoun is the subject, such as French je or Irish sé
(grammar) Relating to a conjunction (part of speech).
(grammar) Relating to the conjunctive mood.
(grammar, of a verb) Subjunctive: inflected to indicate that an act or state of being is possible, contingent or hypothetical, and not a fact.
(logic) Of or relating to logical conjunction.
(obsolete) Closely united.
noun
(grammar) A conjunction.
(logic) A conjunction.
connectival
connectives
connectives
noun
plural of connective
connerville
connivances
connivances
noun
plural of connivance
connivantly
connivently
conniveries
conniveries
noun
plural of connivery
connivingly
connivingly
adv
In a conniving manner.
connotative
connotative
adj
that implies or suggests something else
connotively
consecutive
consecutive
adj
following, in succession, without interruption
having some logical sequence
noun
(linguistics, countable) A linguistic form that implies or describes an event that follows temporally from another.
(music, countable) A sequence of notes or chords that results from repeated shifts in pitch of the same interval.
(uncountable and countable) Consecutive interpretation.
constatives
constatives
noun
plural of constative
consumptive
consumptive
adj
(pathology) Relating to pulmonary tuberculosis.
Having a tendency to consume; dissipating; destructive; wasteful.
Of, or relating to consumption.
noun
A person suffering from pulmonary tuberculosis.
contracivil
contractive
contractive
adj
Able to contract; contractile
contrastive
contrastive
adj
Contrasting.
contrivable
contrivable
adj
Capable of being contrived, invented, or devised.
contrivance
contrivance
noun
A (mechanical) device to perform a certain task.
A means, such as an elaborate plan or strategy, to accomplish a certain objective.
Something overly artful or artificial.
contrivancy
contrivancy
noun
Alternative form of contrivance
contrivedly
contrivedly
adv
In a contrived manner.
convallaria
convallaria
noun
Any member of the genus Convallaria; a lily of the valley.
convallarin
convallarin
noun
(biochemistry) A cardiac glycoside obtained from lily of the valley (Convallaria majalis)
convections
convections
noun
plural of convection
conveneries
convenience
convenience
noun
(chiefly Britain) Ellipsis of public convenience: a public lavatory.
A convenient time.
Any object that makes life more convenient; a helpful item.
The quality of being convenient.
verb
To make convenient
conveniency
conveniency
noun
(obsolete) Convenience.
conventical
conventical
adj
conventual
conventicle
conventicle
noun
A Quaker meetinghouse.
A secret, unauthorized or illegal religious meeting.
The place where such a meeting is held.
verb
To hold a secret, unauthorized or illegal religious meeting.
conventions
conventions
noun
plural of convention
conversible
conversible
adj
(archaic) Capable of being converted.
(obsolete) Capable of being substituted or swapped (with another thing).
Alternative form of conversable
conversions
conversions
noun
plural of conversion
convertible
convertible
adj
(finance) Able to be exchanged for a different class of security (usually common stock) under certain set terms.
(historical numismatics) Able to be exchanged for specie.
(logic) Able to undergo conversion (i.e., inversion) without falsehood.
(numismatics) Able to be exchanged for foreign currency.
(obsolete) Able to be easily digested.
(obsolete) Able to be turned in a different direction.
(vehicles) Able to change from a closed to an open frame and back again.
Able to be exchanged, one for the other, especially
Able to be turned to a different purpose.
Able to be turned to a different religion or belief.
noun
(computing) A computer able to convert from laptop to tablet and back again.
(dated, in the plural) Interchangeable things or terms.
(finance) A convertible security: a stock, bond, etc. that can be turned into another (usually common stock) under certain set terms.
(vehicles) A convertible car: a car with a removable or foldable roof able to convert from a closed to open vehicle and back again.
convertibly
convertibly
adv
in a convertible manner
convexities
convexities
noun
plural of convexity
conveyorise
conveyorise
verb
Non-Oxford British English standard spelling of conveyorize.
conveyorize
conveyorize
verb
(transitive, rare) To streamline (an industrial operation) by means of conveyors.
convicinity
convicinity
noun
(archaic) Immediate vicinity; neighbourhood.
convictable
convictable
adj
Capable of being convicted.
convictfish
convictible
convictions
convictions
noun
plural of conviction
convictment
convincedly
convincedly
adv
In a convinced manner; with belief or conviction.
convincible
convincible
adj
(obsolete) Capable of being disproved by argument; refutable.
Capable of being convinced or won over.
convivially
convivially
adv
In a convivial manner
convocating
convocating
verb
present participle of convocate
convocation
convocation
noun
(collective) A flock of eagles.
An academic assembly, in which the business of a university is transacted.
An assembly of the clergy, by their representatives, to consult on ecclesiastical affairs.