(obsolete outside dialects) The Eurasian siskin or spruce siskin, Spinus spinus, a small green and yellow finch related to the goldfinch.
aberduvine
aberduvine
noun
Alternative form of aberdevine.
acervation
acervation
noun
(obsolete, rare) A heaping up; accumulation
acervuline
acervuline
adj
Resembling little heaps.
acriflavin
acriflavin
noun
Alternative form of acriflavine
adenoviral
adenoviral
adj
(medicine) Of, pertaining to, or caused by an adenovirus
adenovirus
adenovirus
noun
(medicine) Any virus of the family Adenoviridae, many of which are responsible for respiratory infections in humans
adventured
adventured
verb
simple past tense and past participle of adventure
adventurer
adventurer
noun
(video games) A player of adventure games or text adventures.
A person who seeks a fortune in new and possibly dangerous enterprises.
A person who tries to advance their social position by somewhat devious means.
A soldier of fortune, a speculator.
One who enjoys adventures.
adventures
adventures
noun
plural of adventure
verb
Third-person singular simple present indicative form of adventure
advertence
advertence
noun
The quality of being advertent
advertency
advertency
noun
The quality of being advertent.
aeviternal
aeviternal
adj
(theology) Pertaining to aeviternity, a state between eternity, which is unchanging and outside of time, and temporality, which is subject to change and to death or annihilation. Things aeviternal are creations, like the temporal, but everlasting, like the eternal.
affrontive
affrontive
adj
Tending to affront or offend.
aggrieving
aggrieving
verb
present participle of aggrieve
aldrovanda
andreyevka
animadvert
animadvert
verb
(intransitive) To criticise, to censure.
(intransitive, law, archaic) To turn judicial attention (to); to criticise or punish.
(intransitive, obsolete) To consider.
antecavern
anteverted
anteverted
adj
Turned or tipped forward.
verb
simple past tense and past participle of antevert
approvance
approvance
Noun
Approval.
archdivine
arenzville
arvicoline
arvicoline
adj
That inhabits meadows; rural
noun
Any rodent of the subfamily Arvicolinae
avantgarde
avantgarde
noun
Alternative form of avant-garde
avanturine
avanturine
noun
Alternative form of aventurine
avaradrano
avengeress
avengeress
noun
(rare) A female avenger.
aventurine
aventurine
noun
(mineralogy, by extension) A variety of translucent quartz, spangled throughout with scales of yellow mica.
A kind of brownish glass containing gold-coloured spangles.
aversation
aversation
noun
(obsolete) A turning from with dislike; aversion.
averseness
averseness
noun
The quality of being averse; opposition of mind.
avertiment
avertiment
noun
(obsolete) advertisement (public notice).
avirulence
avirulence
noun
The state of being avirulent.
azovernine
barneveldt
basinerved
beaverskin
beaverskin
noun
The pelt of a beaver.
beaverteen
beaverteen
noun
A kind of fustian made of coarse twilled cotton, shorn after dyeing.
beavertown
belgravian
belgravian
Adjective
Of or pertaining to Belgravia, London.
Of or pertaining to the fashionable or aristocratic life; fashionable, aristocratic.
Noun
A resident of Belgravia, London.
A member of the fashionable or aristocratic society assumed to reside in Belgravia.
belverdian
berreaving
biliverdin
biliverdin
noun
(biochemistry) A green tetrapyrrolic bile pigment, a product of heme catabolism, responsible for the greenish color sometimes seen in bruises.
borodankov
bravadoing
bravadoing
verb
present participle of bravado
brevetting
breviconic
breviconic
adj
(malacology) Relating to, or composed of, brevicones.
bronxville
brookhaven
brookhaven
Proper noun
Any of several towns and cities in the United States and Canada:
a city in Mississippi, USA, and the county seat of Named after Brookhaven, New York.
brownville
brunsville
bucorvinae
burnsville
burnsville
Proper noun
A city in Minnesota.
A town in Mississippi.
A town in North Carolina.
A town in West Virginia.
cabdriving
cabdriving
noun
The trade of a cabdriver.
cadaverine
cadaverine
noun
A foul-smelling diamine produced by protein hydrolysis during putrefaction of animal tissue. Cadaverine is a toxic diamine with the formula NH₂(CH₂)₅NH₂.
caernarvon
cantalever
cantalever
noun
Dated form of cantilever.
cantaliver
cantilever
cantilever
noun
(architecture) A beam anchored at one end and projecting into space, such as a long bracket projecting from a wall to support a balcony.
(figure skating) A technique, similar to the spread eagle, in which the skater travels along a deep edge with knees bent and bends their back backwards, parallel to the ice.
A beam anchored at one end and used as a lever within a microelectromechanical system.
verb
To project (something) in the manner of or by means of a cantilever.
canvassers
canvassers
noun
plural of canvasser
caravaneer
caravaneer
noun
The leader or driver of the camels in a caravan.
caravaning
caravaning
verb
present participle of caravan
caravanist
caravanist
noun
(UK, Australia, New Zealand, South Africa) One who travels in a caravan (towed furnished vehicle).
A member of a caravan (convoy or procession of travellers with animals, cargo, etc.)
caravanned
caravanner
caravanner
noun
(UK) A person who holidays in a caravan (mobile home).
A person who leads a caravan (trail of animals).
carnivaler
carnivoral
carnivoral
adj
(obsolete) carnivorous
carnivores
carnivores
noun
plural of carnivore
cavalryman
cavalryman
noun
A soldier in the cavalry.
cavalrymen
cavalrymen
noun
plural of cavalryman
cavernitis
cavernitis
noun
(pathology) inflammation of the corpus cavernosum
cavernlike
cavernlike
adj
Resembling or characteristic of a cavern.
cavicornia
cervantist
cervantite
cervantite
noun
(mineralogy) An orthorhombic-pyramidal mineral containing antimony and oxygen.
changeover
changeover
noun
A conversion or transition from one thing to another.
chernovtsy
chervonets
chervonets
noun
Any of several former currencies of Russia: applied to various foreign gold coins prior to the reign of Peter I of Russia, then to a Russian gold coin of 1701-1757, and finally to a 1922 currency of the Soviet Union.
chervonetz
chervontsi
chevrotain
chevrotain
noun
Any of several small hornless ruminants of the family Tragulidae (genera Hyemoschus, Moschiola, and Tragulus), native to tropical rainforests of South and Southeast Asia, and Central and West Africa; a mouse deer.
chivareing
chivariing
chivariing
verb
present participle of chivari
circumvent
circumvent
verb
(transitive) to avoid or get around something; to bypass
(transitive) to outwit or outsmart
(transitive) to surround or besiege
cleverness
cleverness
noun
Something clever, or done cleverly.
The property of being clever.
coderiving
cogovernor
cogovernor
noun
Someone who governs something together with someone else
coinventor
coinventor
noun
One who invents something jointly with another person or persons.
conceivers
conceivers
noun
plural of conceiver
concretive
concretive
adj
Promoting concretion.
confervoid
confervoid
adj
Resembling conferva algae.
confervous
confervous
adj
Relating to, consisting of, or resembling confervae.
conservacy
conservant
conservant
adj
Having the power or quality of conservation; conserving.
conservate
conservate
verb
(dated, transitive) To conserve.
(nonstandard, intransitive) To practice conservation.
conservers
conservers
noun
plural of conserver
conserving
conserving
adj
Accompanied by conservation.
verb
present participle of conserve
contorsive
contortive
contortive
adj
Showing contortion.
contravene
contravene
verb
(transitive) To act contrary to an order; to fail to conform to a regulation or obligation.
(transitive, obsolete) To deny the truth of something.
contrivers
contrivers
noun
plural of contriver
contriving
contriving
noun
The act of one who contrives.
verb
present participle of contrive
controvert
controvert
verb
(intransitive) To be involved or engaged in controversy; to argue.
(transitive) To argue against (something or someone); to contradict, to deny.
(transitive) To dispute, to argue about (something).
convergent
convergent
adj
(mathematical analysis, topology) Of a sequence or series in a topological space, converging to a (finite, proper) limit.
That converges or focuses; converging
noun
(mathematics) The rational number obtained when a continued fraction has been terminated after a finite number of terms.
converging
converging
adj
approaching each other at a point; convergent.
noun
convergence
verb
present participle of converge
conversant
conversant
adj
(obsolete) Concerned; occupied.
Closely familiar; current; having frequent interaction.
Familiar or acquainted by use or study; well-informed; versed.
noun
One who converses with another.
conversely
conversely
adv
(conjunctive, loosely) From another point of view; on the other hand.
(often conjunctive) With a reversed relationship.
conversing
conversing
noun
conversation
verb
present participle of converse
conversion
conversion
noun
(American football) An extra point (or two) scored by kicking a field goal or carrying the ball into the end zone after scoring a touchdown.
(chemistry) A chemical reaction wherein a substrate is transformed into a product.
(computing) A software product converted from one platform to another.
(law) Under the common law, the tort of the taking of someone's personal property with intent to permanently deprive them of it, or damaging property to the extent that the owner is deprived of the utility of that property, thus making the tortfeasor liable for the entire value of the property.
(linguistics) The process whereby a new word is created without changing the form, often by allowing the word to function as a new part of speech.
(logic) The act of interchanging the terms of a proposition, as by putting the subject in the place of the predicate, or vice versa.
(marketing) An online advertising performance metric representing a visitor performing whatever the intended result of an ad is defined to be.
(mathematics) A change or reduction of the form or value of a proposition.
(obsolete) The act of turning round; revolution; rotation.
(rugby) A free kick, after scoring a try, worth two points.
(slang, board games) Changing a miniature figure into another character, usually by mixing different parts, or molding the model's parts, or doing both.
The act of converting something or someone.
conversive
conversive
adj
(archaic) Ready to converse; social.
Capable of being converted or changed.
conversusi
convertend
convertend
noun
(logic) Any proposition which is subject to the process of conversion; so called in its relation to itself as converted, after which process it is termed the converse.
converters
converters
noun
plural of converter
converting
converting
verb
present participle of convert
convertise
convertism
convertite
convertite
noun
(obsolete) A convert.
(obsolete) A reformed prostitute.
convertive
convertors
convertors
noun
plural of convertor
convincers
convincers
noun
plural of convincer
convocator
corbovinum
corbovinum
noun
Alternative form of cor bovinum
corycavine
covariance
covariance
noun
(object-oriented programming) The conversion of data types from wider to narrower in certain situations.
(statistics) A statistical measure defined as scriptstyle operatorname Cov(X,Y)= operatorname E((X-𝜇)(Y-𝜈)) given two real-valued random variables X and Y, with expected values scriptstyle E(X),=,𝜇 and scriptstyle E(Y),=,𝜈.
covenanter
covenanter
noun
One who makes a covenant.
covenantor
covenantor
noun
The party who makes a covenant.
coventrate
coventrate
verb
(transitive) To devastate by heavy bombing.
coventries
coventrize
covertness
covertness
noun
The characteristic of being covert.
cravatting
cravatting
verb
present participle of cravat.
cravenette
cravenette
noun
(countable) A waterproof coat made from this material.
(uncountable) A certain waterproof material.
verb
(transitive) To waterproof by a particular process.
cravenness
cravenness
noun
The state of being craven.
credencive
credensive
crevassing
crevassing
verb
present participle of crevasse
cuernavaca
culveriner
curvedness
curvedness
noun
The property of being curved.
curvetting
curvetting
noun
Alternative form of curveting
czerniakov
davenports
davenports
noun
plural of davenport
delivering
delivering
noun
An act of delivering.
verb
present participle of deliver
demivirgin
demiwivern
derivation
derivation
noun
(genealogy, linguistics) The act of tracing origin or descent.
(grammar) Forming a new word by changing the base of another word or by adding affixes to it.
(mathematics) The operation of deducing one function from another according to a fixed definition, referred to as derivation or differentiation; this is the inverse operation to integration.
(medicine) A drawing of humors or fluids from one part of the body to another, to relieve or lessen a morbid process.
A leading or drawing off of water from a stream or source.
That from which a thing is derived.
That which is derived; a derivative; a deduction.
The act of receiving anything from a source; the act of procuring an effect from a cause, means, or condition, as profits from capital, conclusions or opinions from evidence.
The state or method of being derived; the relation of origin when established or asserted.
deservings
deservings
noun
plural of deserving
devanagari
devonshire
devonshire
Proper noun
The former (pre-1974) name for the county of Devon, England.
devoration
devoration
noun
(obsolete) The act of devouring.
devourment
devourment
noun
The act of devouring something.
disproving
disproving
verb
present participle of disprove
disserving
disserving
verb
present participle of disserve
disventure
disventure
noun
(obsolete) A disadventure.
divergence
divergence
noun
(calculus) the operator which maps a function F=(F₁, ... Fₙ) from a n-dimensional vector space to itself to the function ∑ᵢ₌₁ⁿ(∂F_i)/(∂x_i)
(obsolete) disagreement; difference
The degree to which two or more things diverge.
The process in which two or more populations accumulate genetic changes (mutations) through time.