(philosophy) A theory, intermediate between realism and nominalism, that the mind has the power of forming for itself general conceptions of individual or single objects; the doctrine that universals have an existence in the mind apart from any concrete embodiment.
The art movement towards conceptual art.
conioselinum
coniospermous
conservatorium
conservatorium
noun
(music) conservatory
consumerism
consumerism
noun
A materialistic attachment to possessions.
A policy of protecting and informing consumers through honesty in advertising and packaging, improved safety standards etc
An economic theory that increased consumption is beneficial to a nation's economy in the long run.
consumerisms
consumerisms
noun
plural of consumerism
consumerist
consumerist
adj
Of or pertaining to consumerism; consumeristic.
noun
A proponent of consumerism.
consumerists
consumerists
noun
plural of consumerist
consumership
consumership
noun
The role or status of consumer.
consumingness
consumingness
noun
The quality or characteristic of being consuming.
consummative
consummative
adj
Serving to consummate or complete.
consummatively
consummativeness
consummativeness
noun
The quality of being consummative.
consumptible
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.
consumptively
consumptively
adv
In a consumptive manner.
consumptiveness
consumptiveness
noun
The state of being consumptive.
consumptives
consumptives
noun
plural of consumptive
conterminous
conterminous
adj
Alternative form of coterminous
conterminously
conterminously
adv
In a conterminous manner
conterminousness
conterminousness
noun
The state or quality of being conterminous.
contumacies
contumacies
noun
plural of contumacy
contumaciousness
contumaciousness
noun
The property of being contumacious.
contumacities
contumacities
noun
plural of contumacity
contumelies
contumelies
noun
plural of contumely
contumelious
contumelious
adj
(archaic, literary) Rudely contemptuous; showing contumely; exhibiting an insolent or disdainful attitude.
contumeliously
contumeliously
adv
In a contumelious, insolent manner.
contumeliousness
contumeliousness
noun
The state or quality of being contumelious.
cosmotellurian
coterminous
coterminous
adj
(by extension) Having the same scope, range of meaning, or extent in time.
(geography) Having matching boundaries; or, adjoining and sharing a boundary.
(law) Said of linked or related property leases that expire together.
Meeting end to end or at the ends.
coterminously
coterminously
adv
In a coterminous manner; ending together.
coterminousness
countercampaigns
countercampaigns
noun
plural of countercampaign
counterclaims
counterclaims
noun
plural of counterclaim
countercomplaints
countercomplaints
noun
plural of countercomplaint
countercriticism
countercriticism
noun
A criticism offered in response to a criticism by the opposing party.
countercriticisms
countercriticisms
noun
plural of countercriticism
counterdemonstration
counterdemonstration
noun
A demonstration in opposition to another demonstration
counterdemonstrations
counterdemonstrations
noun
plural of counterdemonstration
counterdisengagement
counterdogmatism
counterdogmatism
noun
Synonym of antidogmatism
counterenthusiasm
counterenthusiasm
noun
An enthusiasm that counters or goes against another enthusiasm.
counterestablishment
counterestablishment
noun
An establishment that opposes another establishment.
counterimpulse
counterimpulse
noun
An impulse that runs counter to another impulse.
counterinvestment
counterinvestment
noun
Synonym of countercathexis
countermanifesto
countermanifesto
noun
A manifesto opposing another manifesto.
countermanifestoes
countermines
countermines
noun
plural of countermine
countermissile
countermission
countermission
noun
A mission whose goal is to disrupt or retaliate against another mission.
countersmile
countersmile
noun
A smile in response to another person's smile.
counterstimulate
counterstimulate
verb
(transitive) To stimulate in an opposite manner or direction.
counterstimulation
counterstimulation
noun
Any treatment for pain based on distraction.
Stimulation in an opposite manner or direction.
counterstimulus
counterstimulus
noun
Any stimulus that causes counterstimulation
counterterrorism
counterterrorism
noun
Alternative spelling of counter-terrorism
counterterrorisms
criminousness
criminousness
noun
The state or quality of being criminous.
crystalloluminescence
culmigenous
culteranismo
culteranismo
noun
(literature) A literary style during the Baroque period of Spain, characterized by a very ornamental, ostentatious vocabulary and a message that is complicated by a sea of metaphors and complex syntactical order.
cuneiformist
cuneiformist
noun
A specialist or expert in cuneiform.
curmudgeonish
customariness
customariness
noun
The state or quality of being customary.
cynomoriaceous
daemonurgist
dehumanisation
dehumanisation
noun
Alternative spelling of dehumanization
demasculinisation
demasculinization
demasculinization
noun
(biology) The suppression of a male-orientated function by repressing male hormones
The removal of the testicles
demifusion
demodulations
demodulations
noun
plural of demodulation
demulsification
demulsification
noun
The breaking up of an emulsion.
demulsion
demulsion
noun
Something which has a soothing effect.
deorsumversion
deorsumversion
noun
(medicine) lowering of the eyes; downward gaze
deorusumduction
dermatoneurosis
dermoneurosis
desmoulins
despumation
despumation
noun
Separation of scum or impurities from liquid; clarification.
The act of throwing up froth or scum.
desquamation
desquamation
noun
(medicine) The shedding of the outer layers of the skin.
desquamations
desquamations
noun
plural of desquamation
destructionism
deuteromyosinose
deuteronomist
deuteronomist
Noun
A writer of Deuteronomy in the Bible.
deuteronomistic
diadoumenos
diamantiferous
diamantiferous
adj
Yielding diamonds.
diamondiferous
diamondiferous
adj
(mineralogy) Yielding diamond.
diathermanous
diathermanous
adj
Having the property of transmitting radiant heat; diathermal.
dichotomousness
dichotomousness
noun
The quality of being dichotomous.
digoneutism
digoneutism
noun
The quality of being digoneutic.
dimensuration
diminuendoes
diminuendos
diminuendos
noun
plural of diminuendo
diplostemonous
diplostemonous
adj
(botany) Having twice as many stamens as petals in two whorls, the inner aligned with the petals.
(botany, uncommon) Having twice as many stamens as petals.
dipneumones
dipneumonous
disaccustomedness
discircumspection
discomedusan
discomedusan
adj
(zoology) Of or relating to the subclass Discomedusae.
noun
(zoology) A jellyfish of the subclass Discomedusae.
discommodiousness
discommodiousness
noun
The state or quality of being discommodious.
discommune
discouragement
discouragement
noun
Anything that discourages.
The act of discouraging.
The loss of confidence or enthusiasm.
discouragements
discouragements
noun
plural of discouragement
disemboguement
disemboguement
noun
The act of disemboguing; discharge.
disemboguing
disemboguing
verb
present participle of disembogue
disenamour
disenamour
verb
(transitive) To free from being in love; to cause to fall out of love.
disexcommunicate
disillusionment
disillusionment
noun
A feeling of disappointment, akin to depression, arising from the realization that something is not what it was expected or believed to be, possibly accompanied by philosophical angst from having one's beliefs challenged.
The act of freeing from an illusion; the state of being freed therefrom.
disillusionments
disillusionments
noun
plural of disillusionment
dismountable
dismountable
adj
capable of being dismounted
dismounted
dismounted
adj
Having gotten off one's horse, or been removed from its usual mounting, as with a statue off its pedestal, a framed picture from a wall, or a chandelier hanging from a ceiling.
verb
simple past tense and past participle of dismount
distemonous
documentalist
documentalist
noun
A person, especially a librarian, who is an expert in documents and documentation.
documentaries
documentaries
noun
plural of documentary
documentarist
documentarist
noun
A maker of documentaries.
documentations
documentations
noun
(very rare or non-native speakers' English) plural of documentation
dumbartonshire
duodenojejunostomies
duodenojejunostomies
noun
plural of duodenojejunostomy
echinodermatous
echinodermatous
adj
(zoology) Relating to Echinodermata; echinodermal.
echinospermum
ecumenopolis
ecumenopolis
noun
(chiefly science fiction) A city spanning an entire planet.
educationalism
educationalism
noun
The belief in education as an approach or strategy.
electroluminescence
electroluminescence
noun
(physics) The generation of light by the application of an alternating current to a semiconductor or phosphor, or by an electric discharge through a gas.
electroluminescent
electroluminescent
adj
having the quality of electroluminescence
emasculatation
emasculatations
emasculation
emasculation
noun
(medicine) The removal of the penis, testicles, and scrotum of (a male person or animal).
The act of depriving of virility, or the state of being so deprived; castration.
The act of depriving, or state of being deprived, of vigour or effectiveness.
emasculations
emasculations
noun
plural of emasculation
embourgeoisement
embourgeoisement
noun
A shift to bourgeois values and practices.
The process of adopting or the condition of adopting the characteristics of the bourgeoisie; bourgeoisification; the process of becoming affluent.
The proliferation in a society of values perceived as characteristic of the middle class, especially of materialism.
embryoniferous
embryoniferous
adj
(biology) Having an embryo.
emulations
emulations
noun
plural of emulation
emulsification
emulsification
noun
The process by which an emulsion is formed.
emulsifications
emulsifications
noun
plural of emulsification
emulsion
emulsion
noun
(chemistry) A colloid in which both phases are liquid.
(photography) The coating of photosensitive silver halide grains in a thin gelatine layer on a photographic film.
A stable suspension of small droplets of one liquid in another with which it is immiscible.
verb
(transitive) To paint with emulsion paint.
emulsionize
emulsionize
verb
(transitive) To make into an emulsion; to emulsify.
emulsions
emulsions
noun
plural of emulsion
verb
Third-person singular simple present indicative form of emulsion
emunctories
emunctories
noun
plural of emunctory
emuscation
emuscation
noun
(obsolete, rare) The removal of moss.
emydosaurian
enantiomorphous
enantiomorphous
adj
Of or pertaining to enantiomorphs or enantiomorphism; enantiomorphic
enantiomorphously
enantiomorphously
adv
enantiomorphically
encomimiums
encomiums
encomiums
noun
plural of encomium
endomysium
endomysium
noun
a layer of connective tissue which surrounds individual muscle fibers
endosporium
endosporium
noun
An endospore.
An intine.
enormious
entomophilous
entomophilous
adj
Of, pertaining to, or pollinated by means of entomophily.