(transitive) To distinguish things by contrasting their different qualities.
counterdistinguish
counterdistinguish
verb
Synonym of contradistinguish
countershading
countershading
noun
A pattern of animal colouration, existing as a form of camouflage, characterised by darker pigmentation of the upper side and lighter of the underside.
curmudgeonish
dichogamous
dichogamous
adj
(botany) Exhibiting dichogamy.
diphthongous
dishonouring
dishonouring
verb
present participle of dishonour
dolichoglossus
doughbellies
doughfaceism
doughfaceism
noun
(derogatory) The character of a doughface; pliability.
doughiest
doughiest
adj
superlative form of doughy: most doughy
doughiness
doughiness
noun
The state or condition of being doughy.
doughtiest
doughtiest
adj
superlative form of doughty: most doughty
doughtiness
doughtiness
noun
The quality of being doughty.
downrushing
downrushing
verb
present participle of downrush
draughtswomanship
draughtswomanship
noun
draughtsmanship by a woman
droughtiest
droughtiest
adj
superlative form of droughty: most droughty
droughtiness
droughtiness
noun
Dryness of the weather; lack of rain.
duodenocholangitis
enshrouding
enshrouding
noun
The process or situation of something being enshrouded; a covering.
verb
present participle of enshroud
gerrhosaurid
gerrhosaurid
noun
(zoology) Any member of the family Gerrhosauridae of plated lizards.
gerrhosauridae
glochideous
groundfishes
groundfishes
verb
Third-person singular simple present indicative form of groundfish
guidebookish
guidebookish
adj
Having the tone or style of a guidebook.
gumpoldskirchner
haloragidaceous
haloragidaceous
adj
(botany) Belonging to the Haloragidaceae.
hollidaysburg
hollidaysburg
Proper noun
a borough in Pennsylvania, USA
honeyguides
honeyguides
noun
plural of honeyguide
housebuilding
housebuilding
noun
The building of houses
householding
householding
adj
Having the role of householder; managing a household.
noun
Management of a household; housekeeping.
The fact of being a householder; ownership or occupation of a house
housemaiding
housemaiding
verb
present participle of housemaid
huntingdonshire
huntingdonshire
Proper noun
A former inland county of Eastern England now absorbed into Cambridgeshire.
hydatigenous
hydropigenous
indigotindisulphonic
lodginghouse
magnetofluidmechanics
middlesbrough
middlesbrough
Proper noun
A town in the North East of England on the River Tees.
musophagidae
nonanguished
nondichogamous
nondichogamous
adj
Not dichogamous.
nondistinguishable
nondistinguishable
adj
indistinguishable
nondistinguishableness
nondistinguishably
nondistinguished
nondistinguishing
nondistinguishing
adj
That does not distinguish.
nonextinguished
overdistraught
pedagoguish
pseudepigraphous
pseudepigraphous
adj
Inscribed with a false name.
pseudoanthropological
pseudobiographic
pseudobiographical
pseudobiographical
adj
Apparently, but not truly, biographical.
pseudobiographically
pseudochronologist
pseudographia
pseudographize
pseudoparthenogenesis
pseudopsychological
pseudopsychological
adj
Apparently, but not actually, psychological; employing false psychology.
puddinghouse
roughdries
roughdries
verb
Third-person singular simple present indicative form of roughdry
roughriders
roughriders
noun
plural of roughrider
shouldering
shouldering
noun
(architecture) The process of bracing a load with a jutting structural member such as a corbel or bracket.
A flanged portion of something, similar to a lip but occurring on the side rather than the rim.
The act of pushing or barging with the shoulder.
The rounding and raising of the top edges of slate tiles.
verb
present participle of shoulder
shrouding
shrouding
noun
A shroud (annular plate at the periphery of a water wheel, forming side of bucket).
verb
present participle of shroud
southbridge
southbridge
noun
(computing, electronics) A secondary microchip connected to the CPU only through the northbridge.
spridhogue
sulphindigotate
sulphindigotate
noun
(organic chemistry) A salt or ester of sulphindigotic acid.
sulphindigotic
sulphoindigotate
sulphoindigotic
thoroughstitched
thousandweight
uncomprehendingness
uncomprehendingness
noun
The quality of being uncomprehending.
undelightsome
undelightsome
adj
Not delightsome.
underclothings
underclothings
noun
plural of underclothing
underhorsing
undershooting
undershooting
verb
present participle of undershoot
undershoring
undersomething
unmethodising
unspotlighted
unspotlighted
adj
Not spotlighted.
unstraightforward
unstraightforward
adj
Not straightforward; oblique, evasive, equivocal, indirect.
unstraightforwardness
unstraightforwardness
noun
The state or quality of being unstraightforward; a lack of straightforwardness; obliqueness, evasiveness.