(transitive, obsolete) To renounce; to contradict.
abundances
abundances
noun
plural of abundance
accubation
accubation
noun
The act or posture of reclining on a couch, as practiced by the ancients at meals.
accumbency
accumbency
noun
(rare) The state of being accumbent or reclining.
ambulanced
ambulanced
verb
simple past tense and past participle of ambulance
ambulancer
ambulancer
noun
(military) A medic working in a mobile field hospital.
ambulances
ambulances
noun
plural of ambulance
verb
Third-person singular simple present indicative form of ambulance
arcboutant
background
background
adj
Less important or less noticeable in a scene or system.
noun
(computing) A type of activity on a computer that is not normally visible to the user.
(computing) The image or color over which a computer's desktop items are shown (e.g. icons or application windows).
(physics) Clipping of background radiation.
A less important feature of scenery (as opposed to foreground).
A part of the picture that depicts scenery to the rear or behind the main subject; context.
Information relevant to the current situation about past events; history.
One's social heritage, or previous life; what one did in the past.
verb
(journalism) To gather and provide background information (on).
To put in a position that is not prominent.
simple past tense and past participle of backgrind
bandcutter
bankruptcy
bankruptcy
noun
(finance, law) A legally declared or recognized condition of insolvency of a person or organization.
barbecuing
barbecuing
verb
present participle of barbecue
batocrinus
beautician
beautician
noun
One who does hair styling, manicures, and other beauty treatments.
beccabunga
beclouding
beclouding
noun
The process of becoming clouded or obscured.
verb
present participle of becloud
becousined
becrusting
bejaundice
benedictus
beneficium
bescouring
betancourt
bicornuate
bicornuate
adj
(medicine) Resembling a pair of horns, as a malformed uterus may.
bicornuous
bilifuscin
bilifuscin
noun
(biochemistry) A brownish-green pigment, derived from bilirubin, found in human gallstones and in old bile.
biloculina
biloculine
biloculine
adj
(biology) Characteristic of species of foraminifers in the genus Biloculina, now principally in Pyrgo.
Having two chambers or compartments.
binoculars
binoculars
noun
A hand-held device consisting of a series of lenses and prisms, used to magnify objects so that they can be better seen from a distance, and looked at through both eyes.
binoculate
binoculate
adj
Having two eyes.
binucleate
binucleate
adj
(biology) having two nuclei
noun
A cell that has two nuclei
bipunctate
bipunctate
adj
Having two punctures or spots.
bipunctual
bipunctual
adj
Having two points.
biscuiting
biunivocal
biunivocal
adj
Relating to two, related univocal terms, sources etc.
blanchinus
bontebucks
bontebucks
noun
plural of bontebuck
bouchaleen
bounceable
bounceable
adj
Able to be bounced
bounceably
bounceback
bounceback
noun
(Internet) An automated response to an email, indicating that it could not be delivered.
(marketing) A customized order form sent out with previously ordered goods, encouraging the customer to make a further order, perhaps motivated by a discount or free gift.
A rebound.
An economic recovery.
bounciness
bounciness
noun
The characteristic of being bouncy.
bouncingly
bouncingly
adv
With a bouncing motion.
brachyuran
brachyuran
adj
Of or pertaining to crabs.
noun
(zoology) A crab.
branchipus
branchiura
brunnichia
bubonocele
bubonocele
noun
(medicine) An inguinal hernia, especially of the incomplete variety in which the hernial pouch descends only as far as the groin, forming a swelling there like a bubo.
bubonoceze
buccaneers
buccaneers
noun
plural of buccaneer
buccanning
buccinator
buccinator
noun
(anatomy) A thin broad muscle forming the wall of the cheek.
buccinidae
bucconasal
bucconasal
adj
Relating to the cheek and the nose
bucconidae
bucconinae
buchbinder
buchenwald
buchmanism
buchmanite
buchnerite
buckatunna
buckhannon
buckhannon
Proper noun
a city in West Virginia, USA
buckhounds
buckhounds
noun
plural of buckhound
buckingham
buckingham
Proper noun
A place name:
A town in Buckinghamshire, England.
A former city in Quebec, Canada, merged into Gatineau in 2002.
An unincorporated community in Colorado, USA, named after a railroad official.
A census-designated place in Florida, USA.
A village in Illinois, USA.
An unincorporated community in Iowa, USA, named after Buckingham County, VA.
A former city in Texas, USA, now part of Richardson, Texas.
A census-designated place and county seat of Buckingham County in Virginia, USA.
A dukedom in the English peerage.
An English habitational surname derived from the place name.
bucklering
bucklering
verb
present participle of buckler
buckraming
buckraming
verb
present participle of buckram
bucorvinae
bullescene
bullnecked
bullnecked
adj
Having a thick, muscular neck
bullockman
bumsucking
bunchberry
bunchberry
noun
Cornus canadensis - Canadian bunchberry or eastern bunchberry.
Cornus suecica - Eurasian bunchberry or northern bunchberry.
The fruit of either of these plants.
bunchiness
bunchiness
noun
The quality or condition of being bunchy.
buononcini
buoyancies
buoyancies
noun
plural of buoyancy
butchering
butchering
noun
The act by which someone or something is butchered; a slaughter or killing.
verb
present participle of butcher
cabanatuan
cambyuskan
cannelburg
canonsburg
canterbury
canterbury
noun
A rack for magazines or other papers, usually wooden, often done as a decorative piece.
carbonuria
carbuncled
carbuncled
adj
Affected with a carbuncle or carbuncles; marked with red sores; pimpled and blotched.
Set with carbuncles (red precious stones).
carbuncles
carbuncles
noun
plural of carbuncle
censurable
censurable
adj
Deserving of censure; blameworthy.
censurably
censurably
adv
In a censurable manner.
chadbourne
chebulinic
chebulinic
adj
(organic chemistry) Relating to chebulinic acid or its derivatives
cherubicon
cherubikon
chosunilbo
chubbiness
chubbiness
noun
the state or quality of being chubby
claybourne
clothbound
clothbound
adj
(publishing) Bound with cloth, as opposed to other bindings such as paper or leather.
clubbiness
clubbiness
noun
The state or quality of being clubby, of resembling a small, selective group
clubmonger
clubridden
coambulant
cogitabund
cogitabund
adj
(archaic, literary) Deep in thought; meditative, thoughtful.
colubrinae
columbeion
columbiana
columbines
columbines
noun
plural of columbine
comburendo
combusting
combusting
verb
present participle of combust
combustion
combustion
noun
(chemistry) The act or process of burning.
(figuratively) Violent agitation, tumult.
A process whereby two chemicals are combined to produce heat.
A process wherein a fuel is combined with oxygen, usually at high temperature, releasing heat.
conalbumin
conalbumin
noun
(biology) One of the two major types of albumin found in egg white (the other being ovalbumin), which isolates and sequesters metallic contaminants in the egg white.
concubinal
concubinal
adj
Of or pertaining to concubinage.
concubines
concubines
noun
plural of concubine
concubitus
conducible
conducible
adj
conducive; tending; contributing
conducibly
conducibly
adv
In a conducible manner; so as to promote.
confabular
confabular
adj
Of or pertaining to confabulation.
confusable
confusable
adj
Able to be confused.
noun
A word or phrase that is easily confused with another
confusably
confusably
adv
In a confusable way; such that they may be confused.
confutable
confutable
adj
(archaic or formal) That can be confuted, i.e. shown to be false; disprovable.
conjugable
conjugable
adj
Capable of being conjugated.
conjugably
connubiate
connubiate
verb
(rare, slang) To live together as man and wife; to marry; (loosely), to have relations.
connusable
consubsist
consubsist
verb
(intransitive) To subsist together.
consumable
consumable
adj
That is consumed or depleted upon use.
That may be eaten.
noun
A material or product that is produced for consumption.
contribute
contribute
verb
(transitive, intransitive) To give something that is or becomes part of a larger whole.
corbovinum
corbovinum
noun
Alternative form of cor bovinum
corybulbin
cottonbush
coulterneb
coulterneb
Noun
The puffin.
counterbid
counterbid
noun
(business) A bid made in response to a previous bid by another party
verb
To make a counterbid
creedbound
crumblings
crumblings
noun
plural of crumbling
crunchable
crunchable
adj
That can be crunched.
culbertson
cumberland
cumberland
Proper noun
A maritime former border county of England, since 1974 absorbed into Cumbria.
A city in Maryland, USA
A CDP in Virginia, USA
A river in the eastern United States, tributary to the Ohio.
A town on British Columbia, Canada.
cumberment
cumberment
noun
encumberment; encumbrance
cummerbund
cummerbund
noun
(fashion) A broad sash, especially one that is pleated lengthwise and worn as an article of formal dress, as around a man's waist together with a tuxedo or dinner jacket.
curbstoner
curbstoner
noun
(slang, auto) A freelancer used car dealer who places for-sale ads and meets a prospective buyer at a designated curbside address.
curbstones
curbstones
noun
plural of curbstone
cuttlebone
cuttlebone
noun
cuttlefish bone
debauching
debauching
verb
present participle of debauch
debouching
debouching
verb
present participle of debouche
decubation
decubation
noun
(obsolete, rare, formal) The act of lying down.
decumbence
decumbence
noun
The act or posture of lying down.
decumbency
decumbency
noun
decumbence
ebenaceous
ebenaceous
adj
(botany) Belonging to the Ebenaceae.
ebullience
ebullience
noun
(figuratively) The quality of enthusiastic or lively expression of feelings and thoughts.
A boiling or bubbling up; an ebullition.
ebulliency
ebulliency
noun
ebullience
encumbered
encumbered
adj
Weighted down, loaded sufficiently to make slow.
verb
simple past tense and past participle of encumber
encumberer
encumberer
noun
One who, or that which, encumbers; an encumbrance.
encumbrous
encumbrous
adj
(obsolete) Of, pertaining to, or causing an encumbrance; cumbersome; troublesome.
enunciable
enunciable
adj
(of words, linguistic expressions, etc.) Capable of being distinctly enunciated or pronounced in speech.