(biochemistry, pharmacology) A molecule that can combine with a receptor on a cell to produce a physiological reaction.
Someone involved in a contest or battle (as in an agon), protagonist.
The muscle that contracts while the other relaxes.
alongst
alongst
adv
(archaic) along
amongst
amongst
prep
Denotes a mingling or intermixing with distinct or separable objects. See usage note at amidst.
angelot
angelot
noun
(music) An old musical instrument of the lute kind.
A French gold coin of the reign of Louis XI, bearing the image of Saint Michael; also, a piece coined at Paris by the English under Henry VI.
A sort of small, rich cheese made in Normandy.
antigod
antigod
noun
(mythology) A preternatural being opposed to the gods.
antilog
antilog
noun
(mathematics) An antilogarithm.
apitong
apitong
noun
The medium hardwood tree Dipterocarpus grandiflorus.
athogen
athrong
athrong
adj
Thronged; crowded.
atoning
atoning
verb
present participle of atone
autoing
autoing
verb
present participle of auto
bagonet
batonga
bergton
bettong
bettong
noun
Any marsupial of the genus Bettongia, closely related to kangaroos.
biltong
biltong
noun
(South Africa, Zimbabwe) A South African food categorized by strips of lean meat cured by salting and drying, similar to American jerky.
boating
boating
noun
(historical) In Persia, a punishment of capital offenders, by laying them on the back in a covered boat, where they are left to perish.
The activity of going out onto a body of water in a boat.
verb
present participle of boat
bolting
bolting
noun
(law) A private arguing of cases for practice by students, as in the Inns of Court.
A sifting, as of flour or meal.
An act of bolting or running away.
verb
present participle of bolt
bonaght
booting
booting
noun
(MLE, criminal slang) Homicide by gunfire.
(computing) The act by which a computer is booted.
(obsolete) Advantage; gain; gain by plunder; booty.
A kicking, as with a booted foot.
verb
present participle of boot
botling
bultong
bultong
noun
Alternative form of biltong
cantdog
cantdog
noun
Alternative form of cant-dog
coagent
coagent
noun
An associate in an act; a coworker.
coating
coating
noun
(archaic) Cloth for making coats.
(law enforcement slang) A telling-off; a reprimand.
A thin outer layer.
verb
present participle of coat
cognate
cognate
adj
(linguistics) Descended from the same source lexemes (same etymons) of an ancestor language.
Allied by blood; kindred by birth; specifically (law) related on the mother's side.
Of the same or a similar nature; of the same family; proceeding from the same stock or root.
noun
(law, dated) One who is related to another on the female side.
(law, dated) One who is related to another, both having descended from a common ancestor through legal marriages.
(linguistics) A word either descended from the same base word of the same ancestor language as the given word, or strongly believed to be a regular reflex of the same reconstructed root of proto-language as the given word.
One of a number of things allied in origin or nature.
cognati
cognati
noun
(law) relatives by the mother's side
congest
congest
noun
(Ireland, Scotland, agriculture, history) A farmer whose lands do not support him adequately.
verb
To hinder or block the passage of something moving, for example a fluid, mixture, traffic, people, etc. (due to an excess of this or due to a partial or complete obstruction), resulting in overfilling or overcrowding.
costing
costing
noun
The estimation of the cost of a process or product.
verb
present participle of cost
cotinga
cotinga
noun
Any of the neotropical passerine birds of the family Cotingidae
dighton
dighton
Proper noun
a small city in Kansas, USA
a town in Massachusetts, USA.
doating
doating
noun
Obsolete form of doting.
verb
(obsolete) present participle of doat; doting
dotting
dotting
noun
A dotted pattern; a speckling.
verb
present participle of dot
dugento
egarton
egerton
egerton
Proper noun
Either of two villages in England.
A community in Nova Scotia, Canada.
emoting
emoting
verb
present participle of emote
ergotin
ergotin
noun
(medicine) An extract made from ergot.
footing
footing
noun
(accounting) A double-check of the numbers vertically.
(architecture, engineering) The thickened or sloping portion of a wall, or of an embankment at its foot; foundation.
(dated) A tread; step; especially, a measured tread.
(rare) A footprint or footprints; tracks, someone's trail.
A ground for the foot; place for the foot to rest on; firm foundation to stand on.
A narrow cotton lace, without figures.
A relative condition; state.
A standing; position; established place; foothold.
Stability or balance when standing on one's feet.
The act of adding up a column of figures; the amount or sum total of such a column.
The act of putting a foot to anything; also, that which is added as a foot
The finer refuse part of whale blubber, not wholly deprived of oil.
verb
present participle of foot
gaetano
galeton
gangtok
gangtok
Proper noun
State capital of Sikkim (India).
gaonate
garston
genetor
genitor
genitor
noun
(obsolete, in the plural) The genitals
a biological parent (either male or female), or the direct cause of an offspring.
a generator; an originator
gentoos
geomant
geomant
noun
A geomancer.
geronto
gestion
gestion
noun
the act of managing, conducting or administrating something.
gigaton
gigaton
noun
A measure of the strength of an explosion or a bomb based on how many billion tons of TNT would be needed to produce the same energy.
One billion tons.
gitanos
gitonin
gitonin
Noun
A particular steroid glycoside.
gitoxin
gitoxin
noun
A cardiac glycoside from the woolly foxglove (Digitalis lanata).
glutton
glutton
adj
Gluttonous; greedy; gormandizing.
noun
(figuratively) One who consumes voraciously, obsessively, or to excess
(now rare) The wolverine, Gulo gulo.
One who eats voraciously, obsessively, or to excess; a gormandizer.
verb
(archaic) To glut; to satisfy (especially an appetite) by filling to capacity.
(obsolete) To glut; to eat voraciously.
gnomist
gnomist
noun
A gnomic writer
gnostic
gnostic
adj
(archaic, slang) knowing; wise; shrewd
Alternative letter-case form of Gnostic
godsent
godsent
adj
Sent by God or as if by God; unexpectedly beneficial.
gondite
gonitis
gonotyl
gonotyl
noun
A sucker surrounding the genital opening and often intimately associated with the acetabulum of certain trematode worms.
gotland
gotland
Proper noun
The largest island of Sweden, situated in the Baltic Sea
gownlet
gownlet
noun
A little gown.
grafton
grafton
Proper noun
Any of various towns across the English-speaking world.
a city in North Dakota, USA
a city in West Virginia, USA
gramont
granton
grantor
grantor
noun
(law) A person who grants something.
gratton
grifton
grotian
grotzen
guatoan
gulston
gunboat
gunboat
noun
(nautical) Any of the various types of small armed vessels.
gunport
gunport
noun
A hatch in the hull of a ship through which a cannon is fired.
gunshot
gunshot
noun
A bullet, projectile, or other shot fired from a gun.
The act of discharging a firearm.
The distance to which shot can be thrown from a gun; the reach or range of a gun.
The sound made by a discharging firearm.
guntown
hangout
hangout
noun
A casual meeting for informal chat.
A place for hanging out; an informal meeting-place.
hognuts
hognuts
noun
plural of hognut
hooting
hooting
noun
The sound of a hoot, or the occasion of producing this sound.
verb
present participle of hoot
hosting
hosting
noun
(computing) Running and maintaining a computer system on someone's behalf.
(obsolete) A battle.
verb
present participle of host
hotting
hotting
noun
(Britain) riding in a high-performance stolen car, especially as a form of display
verb
present participle of hot
houting
houting
noun
Coregonus oxyrinchus, an allegedly extinct European whitefish in the Salmonidae family.
hugoton
ignitor
ignitor
noun
Alternative spelling of igniter
ignotus
ilongot
ingoted
ingoted
verb
simple past tense and past participle of ingot
intrigo
jolting
jolting
adj
Causing or characterized by sudden abrupt movements.
Synonym of shocking
noun
gerund of jolt: an action or movement that jolts.
verb
present participle of jolt
jotting
jotting
noun
A brief note or sketch
verb
present participle of jot
ketogen
langton
lentigo
lentigo
noun
(medicine) A brown pigmented spot on the skin.
lingtow
lofting
lofting
noun
(mining) Lagging or longitudinal timber resting on caps to support the roof of a working.
(obsolete) An upper part; ceiling.
(uncountable) A drafting technique whereby curved lines are generated to be used in plans for streamlined objects such as aircraft and boats.
verb
present participle of loft
longest
longest
adj
superlative form of long: most long
verb
(archaic) second-person singular simple present form of long
longtin
longton
looting
looting
noun
The act of stealing during a general disturbance.
verb
present participle of loot
lotting
lotting
verb
present participle of lot
louting
louting
verb
present participle of lout
magneto
magneto
noun
A small magnetic dynamo, especially one that provides power to the spark plugs of a small internal combustion engine (now mostly used in aircraft).
megaton
megaton
noun
A measure of the strength of an explosion or a bomb based on how many million tons of TNT would be needed to produce the same energy.
mitogen
mitogen
noun
Any substance that stimulates mitosis
moating
moating
verb
present participle of moat
molting
molting
noun
A molt; the shedding of skin, feathers, etc.
verb
present participle of molt
montage
montage
noun
(countable) A composite work, particularly an artwork, created by assembling or putting together other elements such as pieces of music, pictures, texts, videos, etc.
(uncountable) The art or process of doing this.
verb
(transitive) To combine into, or depict as, a montage.
montagu
mooting
mooting
noun
The activity of taking part in a moot court.
verb
present participle of moot
mosting
negaton
negaton
noun
(physics) A normal, negatively-charged electron, especially in comparison with a positon
negator
negator
noun
(grammar) A word (or other structural element) which causes negation (such as the word not in English).
One who, or that which, negates.
negrito
negrito
noun
Either of two species of bird in the genus Lessonia.
netcong
nothing
nothing
adv
(archaic) Not at all; in no way.
noun
A nobody (insignificant person).
A trivial remark especially in the term sweet nothings.
Something trifling, or of no consequence or importance.
pron
An absence of anything, including empty space, brightness, darkness, matter, or a vacuum.
Not any thing; no thing.
notogea
nottage
nougats
nougats
noun
plural of nougat
noughts
noughts
noun
plural of nought
verb
Third-person singular simple present indicative form of nought
noughty
noughty
adj
Obsolete form of naughty.
nugator
octagon
octagon
noun
(geometry, also attributively) A polygon with eight sides and eight angles.
(martial arts) Often in the form Octagon: the arena for mixed martial arts.
ogtiern
ogtiern
noun
(Scotland, historical) The person who is fourth in the line of descent from a thane.
onegite
onegite
noun
(mineralogy) A form of amethyst having hair-like inclusions of goethite
onsight
onsight
adj
(climbing) Without having previously seen the terrain.
verb
(climbing, transitive) To perform a climb without having previously seen the terrain.
onstage
onstage
adj
On the part of a stage that is visible to the audience.
adv
Taking place on the part of a stage that is visible to the audience.
orating
orating
verb
present participle of orate
ortygan
ortygan
noun
One of several species of East Indian birds of the former genera Ortygis and Hemipodius in the family Turnicidae, resembling quails.
oughtnt
ousting
ousting
noun
The act by which somebody is ousted.
verb
present participle of oust
outgain
outgain
verb
(transitive) To outperform on a quantitative measurement.
outgang
outgang
noun
An exit or egress.
An outgate; a cattle-gate.
The act of giving up occupancy of property.
outgnaw
outgnaw
verb
(transitive) To gnaw more or better than; to surpass in gnawing.
outgone
outgone
verb
past participle of outgo
outgrin
outgrin
verb
(transitive) To surpass in grinning.
outguns
outguns
verb
Third-person singular simple present indicative form of outgun
outings
outings
noun
plural of outing
outking
outlung
outrang
outrang
verb
simple past tense of outring
outring
outring
verb
(intransitive) To ring out; to clamour.
(transitive) To surpass in volume of ringing sound; to ring louder than.
outrung
outrung
verb
past participle of outring
outsang
outsang
verb
simple past tense of outsing
outsing
outsing
verb
(transitive) To sing better, longer or louder than.
outsung
outsung
verb
past participle of outsing
outwing
outwing
noun
In various birds, an outer wing
verb
(transitive) To surpass or outstrip in flying.
pageton
paktong
paktong
noun
An alloy of zinc, copper and nickel, closely resembling silver, of Chinese origin; any of a number of similar alloys developed in imitation of the Chinese product.