(optics, physics) Absorbed radiation and incident radiation in a ratio format; a measurement that shows how well a surface absorbs radiation.
absorptions
absorptions
noun
plural of absorption
alphabeting
alphabeting
verb
present participle of alphabet
amphiboline
amphisbaena
amphisbaena
noun
(mythology) A mythical serpent having a head at each end of its body, able to move in either direction.
A member of a genus of lizards, native to the Americas, having extremities which are very similar.
anabaptisms
anabaptists
anabaptists
noun
plural of anabaptist
anabaptized
anabaptized
verb
simple past tense and past participle of anabaptize
anablepidae
analphabete
analphabete
noun
(rare) Alternative spelling of analphabet
analphabets
analphabets
noun
plural of analphabet
androphobia
androphobia
noun
Fear of or aversion to men.
anglophobes
anglophobes
noun
plural of anglophobe
anglophobia
anglophobia
noun
Alternative letter-case form of Anglophobia
anglophobic
anglophobic
Adjective
Having an aversion to England or the English.
anthophobia
anthophobia
noun
Fear of flowers.
antlophobia
antlophobia
noun
(rare) The fear of floods or inundation.
apoembryony
appointable
appointable
adj
Capable of being appointed.
approbating
approbating
verb
present participle of approbate
approbation
approbation
noun
The act of approving; an assenting to the propriety of a thing with some degree of pleasure or satisfaction; approval, sanction, commendation or official recognition.
backpacking
backpacking
noun
hiking and camping overnight in backcountry with one's gear carried in a backpack.
low-cost, generally urban, travel with minimal luggage and frugal accommodations.
verb
present participle of backpack
backpointer
backspacing
backspacing
verb
present participle of backspace
balanophora
balanophore
bankrupting
bankrupting
verb
present participle of bankrupt
bankruptism
bankruptism
noun
(obsolete) bankruptcy
bankrupture
bankrupture
noun
(dated) bankruptcy
baptizement
baptizement
noun
(archaic) baptism
bardolphian
barkpeeling
baronetship
baronetship
noun
baronetcy
batsmanship
batsmanship
noun
(cricket) A skilled or courteous display of skill as a batsman.
battleplane
battleplane
noun
An airplane for military use.
becarpeting
becarpeting
verb
present participle of becarpet
becrippling
becrippling
verb
present participle of becripple
bediapering
bediapering
verb
present participle of bediaper
beekeepings
belleplaine
bellerophon
bellerophon
noun
(paleontology) Any of the genus †Bellerophon of fossil gastropod shells, believed to belong to the Heteropoda, and peculiar to the Paleozoic age.
bellipotent
bellipotent
adj
(obsolete) mighty in war
bellmanship
benchership
benchership
noun
The role or status of being a bencher.
beneception
beneceptive
beneplacito
beneplacity
benthoscope
benzophenol
benzopyrene
benzopyrene
noun
(organic chemistry) A polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbon (having five fused benzene rings) that is both mutagenic and carcinogenic
bespangling
bespangling
verb
present participle of bespangle
bespreading
bespreading
verb
present participle of bespread
besprinkled
besprinkled
adj
Sprinkled.
besprinkler
besprinkler
noun
One who or that which besprinkles.
besprinkles
besprinkles
verb
Third-person singular simple present indicative form of besprinkle
besprizorni
bicomponent
bicomponent
adj
Having two components
bilipyrrhin
billposting
billposting
noun
The sticking of posters, notices and advertisements on walls.
bilophodont
bilophodont
adj
Having teeth with two fused ridges, of the type found one per tooth in lophodont teeth.
bipartition
bipartition
noun
Something that is bipartite
sharing or partitioning in two
verb
To partition into two.
bipectinate
bipectinate
adj
(biology) Having two margins toothed like a comb.
bipenniform
bipenniform
adj
Resembling a feather on both sides
bipennate
biphenylene
biphenylene
noun
(organic chemistry) A tricyclic aromatic hydrocarbon formed from two benzene rings joined by two adjacent single bonds; any derivative of this compound
bipinnariae
bipinnarias
bipinnately
bipinnately
adv
In a bipinnate manner.
bisdiapason
bistephanic
bistephanic
adj
(anatomy) Relating to, or connecting the two stephanions
blankenship
blaspheming
blaspheming
noun
An act of blasphemy.
verb
present participle of blaspheme
blueprinted
blueprinted
verb
simple past tense and past participle of blueprint
blueprinter
blueprinter
noun
A person or machine that produces blueprints.
boatmanship
boatmanship
noun
The art of managing a boat.
bonapartean
bonapartean
Adjective
Of or pertaining to or his family.
bonapartism
bonapartism
Noun
The practices and ideology of
bonapartist
bonapartist
Noun
One attached to the of
Adjective
Of or pertaining to
bondmanship
bondmanship
noun
The state of being a bondman.
bontempelli
bookkeeping
bookkeeping
noun
(accounting) The skill or practice of keeping books or systematic records of financial transactions, e.g. income and expenses.
(computing) General tasks for maintaining a system.
verb
present participle of bookkeep
boottopping
boottopping
noun
(nautical) Sheathing a vessel with planking over felt.
(nautical) The act or process of daubing a vessel's bottom near the surface of the water with a mixture of tallow, sulphur, and resin, as a temporary protection against worms, after the slime, shells, etc., have been scraped off.
botanophile
botanophile
noun
A person with an interest in botany.
brainpowers
brainpowers
noun
plural of brainpower
branchiopod
branchiopod
noun
Any of the very many aquatic crustaceans of the class Branchiopoda, such as the fairy shrimps and water fleas.
branchiopoo
breakpoints
breakpoints
noun
plural of breakpoint
brochophony
bromophenol
bromophenol
noun
(organic chemistry) Any phenol in which one or more hydrogen atoms of the benzene ring has been replaced by bromine
bromopicrin
bromopikrin
brontograph
brontograph
noun
A tracing or chart showing the phenomena accompanying a thunderstorm.
An instrument for making such tracings, such as a recording brontometer.
brontoscopy
brontoscopy
noun
divination by thunder
bulbocapnin
bulbospinal
bulbospinal
adj
(anatomy) Of, pertaining to, or connecting the medulla oblongata and the spinal cord.
Of an animal: exhibiting only the reflexes that are integrated within the spinal cord and medulla oblongata, and not those from the midbrain and cortex, as a result of decerebration.
bumpinesses
bumpinesses
noun
plural of bumpiness
buprestidan
buprestidan
noun
(zoology, chiefly in the plural, dated) Any of a number of jewel beetles of the family Buprestidae, usually with shiny metallic colours.
bushmanship
bushmanship
noun
The survival skills of a bushman.
buzzerphone
buzzerphone
noun
(military, historical) A portable buzzer system for transmitting messages in Morse code.
campbellton
campbeltown
capableness
capableness
noun
The state or quality of being capable.
clinophobia
clinophobia
noun
fear of going to bed
cnidophobia
companiable
companiable
adj
(obsolete) companionable; sociable
compensable
compensable
adj
Able to be compensated; entitling one to compensation.
conceptible
conceptible
adj
Capable of being conceived; conceivable.
dienbienphu
dispensable
dispensable
adj
(biochemistry, nutrition, of an amino acid) Not essential to be taken in as part of an organism's diet, as it can be synthesized de novo.
(of a law, rule, vow, etc.) Subject to dispensation; possible to relax, exempt from, or annul.
Able to be done without; able to be expended; easily replaced.
Capable of being dispensed; distributable.
dispensible
dispensible
adj
Alternative form of dispensable
embonpoints
embonpoints
noun
plural of embonpoint
enetophobia
enetophobia
Noun
A fear of pins and needles.
epembryonic
expendables
expendables
noun
plural of expendable
explainable
explainable
adj
Able to be explained or understood
expoundable
expoundable
adj
Able to be expounded.
expungeable
expungeable
adj
Alternative form of expungible
felinophobe
felinophobe
noun
A person who dislikes cats.
feminophobe
francophobe
gymnophobia
gymnophobia
noun
An inordinate fear or hatred of nudity.
haptoglobin
haptoglobin
noun
(biochemistry) A protein in blood plasma that binds free hemoglobin released from erythrocytes and thereby inhibits its oxidative activity.
hebephrenia
hebephrenia
noun
(clinical psychology) A form of schizophrenia characterised by inappropriate behaviour and emotional responses.
(obsolete) A type of mental disorder occurring during puberty characterized by silly behavior and inappropriate laughter.
hebephrenic
hebephrenic
adj
Pertaining to, or characteristic of, hebephrenia.
noun
An individual who exhibits hebephrenia.
husbandship
husbandship
noun
The role or status of a husband
hyperbatons
hyperbatons
noun
plural of hyperbaton
hyperborean
hyperborean
adj
Pertaining to the extreme north of the earth, or (usually jocular) to a specific northern country or area.
noun
(Greek mythology) One of a race of people living in the extreme north, beyond the north wind.
(usually humorous) Any person living in a northern country, or to the north.
hypnophobia
hypnophobia
noun
The fear of falling asleep.
hypnophobic
hypnophobic
adj
Exhibiting or relating to hypnophobia.
hypobenthos
impenitible
impenitible
adj
(archaic) Incapable of repenting.
implantable
implantable
adj
Capable of being, or designed to be, implanted (within the body etc.)
noun
A device that can be implanted surgically.
impoundable
impoundable
adj
Capable of being impounded.
impregnable
impregnable
adj
(figuratively) Too strong to be defeated or overcome; invincible.
(military) Of a fortress or other fortified place: able to withstand all attacks; impenetrable, inconquerable, unvanquishable.
Capable of being impregnated; impregnatable.
impregnably
impregnably
adv
In an impregnable manner; so as to defy attack.
improbation
improbation
noun
(law, Scotland) The act by which falsehood and forgery are proved; an action brought for the purpose of having some instrument declared false or forged.
disapproval
inadaptable
inadaptable
adj
Not adaptable.
inappetible
indeposable
indeposable
adj
Incapable of being deposed.
inescapable
inescapable
adj
Impossible (unable) to avoid or escape; not escapable.
inescapably
inescapably
adv
In an inescapable manner.
inexposable
infrapubian
inseparable
inseparable
adj
Unable to be separated; bound together permanently.
noun
Something that cannot be separated from something else.
inseparably
inseparably
adv
In an inseparable manner.
inspectable
inspectable
adj
Able to be inspected.
insuperable
insuperable
adj
Impossible to achieve or overcome or be negotiated.
Overwhelming or insurmountable.
insuperably
insuperably
adv
In an insuperable manner.
japanophobe
japanophobe
Noun
One who hates or fears Japan or the Japanese.
kabirpanthi
koniophobia
limnophobia
lophobranch
lophobranch
noun
(zoology) Any member of the order Lophobranchii of fishes.
maniaphobia
maniaphobia
noun
An abnormal fear of being distraught or mentally ill.
An abnormal fear of being insane.
manipulable
manipulable
adj
Gullible or susceptible to persuasion.
Suitable for, or able to be subjected to manipulation.