(hydrology) a stream, conduit, pond or reservoir, of a hydroelectric power plant at the outlet of the turbines.
afterbody
afterbody
noun
(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.
alkylbenzenesulfonate
alkylbenzenesulfonates
artzybasheff
babyfied
babyfied
verb
simple past tense and past participle of babyfy
babyproofed
babyproofed
adj
Made babyproof.
balefully
balefully
adv
In a baleful, ominous manner.
banefully
banefully
adv
In a baneful way.
barefacedly
barefacedly
adv
In a barefaced manner
baufrey
bayfield
bayfield
Proper noun
A village in Barbados.
A town in Colorado.
A rural community in New Brunswick, Canada.
A community in Nova Scotia, Canada.
A village in Ontario, Canada.
A city and town in Wisconsin.
beatifically
beatifically
adv
In a beatific manner.
beatify
beatify
verb
(transitive) To make blissful.
(transitive) To pronounce or regard as happy, or supremely blessed, or as conferring happiness.
(transitive, Roman Catholicism) To carry out the third of four steps in canonization, making someone a blessed.
beatifying
beatifying
verb
present participle of beatify
beautifully
beautifully
adv
In a beautiful manner.
beautify
beautify
verb
(computing) Synonym of pretty-print
(intransitive, rare) To become beautiful.
(intransitive, rare) To make oneself beautiful.
(transitive) To make beautiful; to increase the beauty of.
beautifying
beautifying
adj
That beautifies; tending to make beautiful.
noun
The action of the verb to beautify.
verb
present participle of beautify
beefily
beefily
adv
In a beefy manner.
beefy
beefy
adj
(informal) Strong or muscular.
(informal) Sturdy; robust.
Containing beef.
Large; overweight; fat.
Similar to, or tasting like beef.
beetfly
beetfly
noun
Pegomya hyoscyami, a fly whose leaf miner larvae often damage the leaves of beets and other greens.
befancy
beffrey
beffroy
befittingly
befittingly
adv
In a befitting manner
behoovefully
belfry
belfry
noun
(architecture) A part of a large tower or steeple, specifically for containing bells.
(architecture) A tower or steeple specifically for containing bells, especially as part of a church.
(dialectal) A shed.
(obsolete) A movable tower used in sieges.
(obsolete) An alarm-tower; a watchtower containing an alarm-bell.
bellyfish
bellyflaught
bellyful
bellyful
noun
(informal) An undesirably large quantity of something.
Enough to fill one's belly; a large portion of food eaten.
bellyfull
bellyfulls
bellyfuls
bellyfuls
noun
plural of bellyful
benefactory
benefactory
adj
Yielding benefit; doing good.
noun
One who gives benefit to others; a benefactor.
beneficency
beneficency
noun
beneficence
beneficently
beneficently
adv
In a beneficent manner
beneficially
beneficially
adv
In a beneficial manner
beneficiary
beneficiary
adj
Bestowed as a gratuity.
Holding some office or valuable possession, in subordination to another; holding under a feudal or other superior; having a dependent and secondary possession.
noun
(insurance) One who benefits from the payout of an insurance policy.
(law) One who benefits from the distribution, especially out of a trust or estate.
One who benefits or receives an advantage.
beneficiaryship
beneficiaryship
noun
The role or status of beneficiary.
benzofuryl
benzoylformic
beryciform
beryciform
adj
(zoology) Belonging to the Beryciformes, an order of ray-finned fishes
noun
Any fish of the order Beryciformes
besanctify
bifurcately
bifurcately
adv
In a bifurcate manner.
blamefully
blamefully
adv
In a blameful manner.
blindfoldedly
blithefully
blithefully
adv
In a blitheful manner.
bodefully
bodysurfed
bodysurfed
verb
simple past tense and past participle of bodysurf
bodysurfer
bodysurfer
noun
One who bodysurfs.
bodysurfers
bodysurfers
noun
plural of bodysurfer
boldfacedly
bourgeoisify
bourgeoisify
Verb
To make bourgeois.
boyfriend
boyfriend
noun
A male friend.
A male partner in an unmarried romantic relationship.
boyfriends
boyfriends
noun
plural of boyfriend
brazenfacedly
brieflessly
brieflessly
adv
(law) Lacking briefs (clients).
briefly
briefly
adv
(duration) For a brief period.
(manner) In a brief manner, summarily.
To be brief, in short.
buffaloberry
buffaloberry
noun
Any of several shrubs, of the genus Shepherdia, native to North America.
The edible berry of these plants.
buffoonery
buffoonery
noun
The behaviour expected of a buffoon; foolishness, silliness.
bukeyef
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.
butterflyer
butterflyer
noun
Alternative form of butterflier
butterflyers
butterflyers
noun
plural of butterflyer
butterflyfish
butterflyfish
noun
Any of a group of conspicuous tropical marine fish of the family Chaetodontidae; the bannerfish and coralfish are also included in this group. Butterflyfish are fairly small, mostly from 12 to 22 cm (c.7-9 in) in length.
butterflyfishes
butterflyfishes
noun
plural of butterflyfish
butterflying
butterflying
verb
present participle of butterfly
butterflylike
butterflylike
adj
Resembling or characteristic of a butterfly.
butteryfingered
byfield
byssiferous
byssiferous
adj
Bearing a byssus or tuft.
cerebriformly
cerebriformly
adv
In a cerebriform manner.
certifiability
certifiability
noun
The quality of being certifiable.
certifiably
certifiably
adv
Genuinely
Undoubtedly, demonstrably.
With the potential for certification.
coffeeberry
coffeeberry
noun
A shrub with glossy green leaves and bright red fruits that look like those of the coffee tree, native to the far western edge of North America, from Oregon to Baja California, Frangula californica
colymbriformes
corymbiferous
corymbiferous
adj
(botany) Bearing corymbs of flowers or fruit.
cymbaeform
daftberry
debatefully
defeasibility
defeasibility
noun
State or instance of being defeasible.
defectibility
defectibility
noun
deficiency; imperfection
defensibility
defensibility
noun
The state or quality of being defensible
defensibly
defensibly
adv
Defendably
In a defensible manner.
defibrillatory
definability
definability
noun
The quality of being definable.
definably
definably
adv
In a definable manner; identifiably.
deflagrability
deflagrability
noun
(chemistry, archaic) The quality of being deflagrable.
deflexibility
deformability
deformability
noun
(countable) A measure of the extent to which something is deformable (under standard conditions)
(uncountable) The state of being deformable
defrayable
defrayable
adj
Capable of being defrayed.
differentiability
differentiability
noun
The ability to be differentiated.
diversifiability
diversifiability
noun
The quality or capacity of being diversifiable.
doftberry
effumability
effumability
noun
(obsolete, rare) The capability of flying off in fumes or vapour.
embryoferous
embryoniferous
embryoniferous
adj
(biology) Having an embryo.
embryoniform
embryoniform
adj
(biology) Like an embryo in form.
emulsifiability
emulsifiability
noun
The quality or degree of being emulsifiable.
enforceability
enforceability
noun
The quality of being enforceable.
enforcibility
enforcibility
noun
Alternative form of enforceability
farkleberry
farkleberry
noun
(countable) A berry from a shrub of this species.
(uncountable) A species of Vaccinium (Vaccinium arboreum) native to the southeastern United States, from southern Virginia west to southeastern Missouri, and south to Florida and eastern Texas, and taking the form of a shrub (rarely a small tree) growing to 3-5 m (rarely 9 m) tall.
faussebraye
faussebraye
noun
(military) A second rampart, exterior and parallel to the main rampart, and considerably below its level.
faussebrayed
feaberry
feaberry
noun
(UK, dialect, archaic) A gooseberry.
feasibility
feasibility
noun
The state of being feasible or possible.
feasibly
feasibly
adv
In a feasible manner
febricity
febricity
noun
feverishness
febrility
febrility
Noun
feverishness
february
feebleheartedly
feeblemindedly
feeblemindedly
adv
Alternative form of feeble-mindedly
feebly
feebly
adv
In a feeble manner.
felsobanyite
fenberry
fenberry
Noun
The cranberry.
fermentability
fermentability
noun
The condition of being fermentable
ferreby
ferromolybdenum
ferromolybdenum
noun
An iron-molybdenum alloy.
ferryboat
ferryboat
noun
(nautical) A boat used to ferry passengers, vehicles, or goods across open water, especially one that runs to a regular schedule
ferryboats
ferryboats
noun
plural of ferryboat
ferrysburg
fertilisability
fertilizability
fertilizability
noun
The condition of being, or the extent to which something is fertilizable
feverberry
fibbery
fibbery
noun
The telling of fibs; lying, falsehood.
fibrinogenically
fibrinolyses
fibrinolyses
noun
plural of fibrinolysis
fibrocrystalline
fibrocyte
fibrocyte
noun
An inactive connective tissue cell that is capable of forming collagen
fibromyectomy
fibromyomectomy
filterability
filterability
noun
The state or condition of being filterable.
fingerberry
fireboy
fireboy
noun
A young fireman.
fishberry
fishberry
noun
The poisonous fruit of Anamirta cocculus.
fisherboy
fisherboy
noun
A boy employed in catching fish; a young fisherman.
flabbergastingly
flabbergastingly
adv
Surprisingly, astonishingly or amazingly
flamboyance
flamboyance
Noun
The condition of being flamboyant.
A group of flamingos.
flamboyances
flamboyances
noun
plural of flamboyance
flamboyantize
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.
flebotomy
flexibility
flexibility
noun
The quality of being flexible; suppleness; pliability.