noun

1. (Roman Catholicism, historical) One of a college of seventy-two officers of the papal court whose duty was to make a short minute of a decision on a petition, or reply of the pope to a letter, and afterwards expand the minute into official form.
2. A person who abbreviates or shortens.

noun

1. Alternative form of above stairs.

adj

1. Of or pertaining to a dismissal or an acquittal.

adj

1. Acclivous

noun

1. plural of activation

noun

1. An advertisement written in the form of an objective editorial, presented in a printed publication, and usually designed to look like a legitimate and independent news article.

noun

1. plural of advocation

noun

1. (archaic) A female advocate.

noun

1. (biology) A state of inactivity and metabolic depression during summer: the summer version of hibernation.
2. (botany) The arrangement (vernation) of the parts of a flower inside a bud; prefloration.
3. (obsolete) The spending or passing of a summer.

noun

1. (grammar) An affix.

noun

1. (informal) Provocation, irritation, annoyance.
2. An extrinsic circumstance or accident which increases the guilt of a crime or the misery of a calamity.
3. Exaggerated representation.
4. The act of aggravating, or making worse; used of evils, natural or moral; the act of increasing in severity or heinousness; something additional to a crime or wrong and enhancing its guilt or injurious consequences.

noun

1. the act of alleviating; relief or mitigation.
2. the act of reducing pain or anything else unpleasant; easement

noun

1. plural of alleviator

adj

1. alleviative

noun

1. The deposition of alluvium (sediment) by a river.

noun

1. (geology) An eroded structure of honeycomb-like cavities

adj

1. Having the form of alveoli, or little sockets, cells, or cavities.

adj

1. Alternative spelling of ambilevous

noun

1. (psychology) A personality trait having balanced characteristics of both extroversion and introversion.

noun

1. Liability to be removed or dismissed from office.

noun

1. A creature that eats animals

noun

1. (medicine) The state or condition of being anteverted.

adj

1. Synonym of prevocalic

adj

1. Opposing divorce.

adj

1. (politics) that serves to alleviate poverty

noun

1. An antibiotic that is effective against viruses

noun

1. plural of appositive

adj

1. Expressing approval.
2. Sanctioning officially, giving authorization or approval to something.

noun

1. (linguistics) A word or grammatical form which denotes a positive affect expressing the appreciation or approval of the speaker.

adv

1. in an approving manner

noun

1. plural of arborvitae

noun

1. plural of arbovirus

adj

1. (algebra, of a binary operator *) Such that, for any operands a,b and c, (a*b)*c=a*(b*c); (of a ring, etc.) whose multiplication operation is associative.
2. (computing) Addressable by a key more complex than an integer index.
3. Pertaining to, resulting from, or characterised by association; capable of associating; tending to associate or unite.

adj

1. Characterized by assorting.

adj

1. Containing both aural and visual elements.

noun

1. sterilization in an autoclave

verb

1. present participle of autoclave

noun

1. autogenous vaccine

Adjective

1. Of or relating to Averroism.

adj

1. Of, relating to, or being an avocation.

noun

1. (chiefly humorous) Weight; heaviness.
2. (historical) The official system of weights used in the UK between 1856 and 1963. It had been the customary system in London since 1300.
3. (historical) The official system of weights used in the USA between 1866 and 1959.
4. (obsolete) Merchandise.

adj

1. Of or relating to avolition; lacking willpower.

adj

1. (zoology) Eating, or having a diet based on, berries

noun

1. bedcover

noun

1. An approach to psychology focusing on observable behavior which, generally assuming that behavior is determined by the environment and denying any independent significance for mind, largely ignores any pathophysiological processes which may, or may not, underlie subjective, behavioral phenomena.

noun

1. One who studies behavior of humans or animals.

adj

1. (British spelling) Of or pertaining to behaviour.

adv

1. Alternative form of behovingly

noun

1. The quality of being biconcave.

noun

1. The quality of being biconvex.

noun

1. plural of bidonville

noun

1. (biology, medicine) Biologic activity, such as biochemical or immunologic reactivity: the biologic effect (function or dysfunction, benefit or toxicity) of a substance.

verb

1. present participle of bivouac

Proper noun

1. A in the U.S. state of that is the of

noun

1. plural of bloviation

noun

1. (Buddhism) A person who has taken specific lay or monastic vows and who is on the road to perfect knowledge; specifically, one who foregoes personal nirvana in order to help others achieve enlightenment.
2. (Buddhism) An enlightened being existing in a form of existence beyond the ordinary forms of physical reality understood and acknowledged by scientific thought, resembling the Western notion of angels, but with a wealth of its own nuances and expectations. These include the compassionate working for enlightenment of all sentient beings.

noun

1. plural of bolshevism

verb

1. simple past tense and past participle of bolshevize

verb

1. Third-person singular simple present indicative form of bolshevize

noun

1. The rearing and care of cattle.

noun

1. (historical) A vaccine to prevent tuberculosis in cattle.

Proper noun

1. The name of many places in the United States of America:
   1. a former settlement in California.
   2. an unincorporated community in California.
   3. a CDP in Florida.
   4. an unincorporated community in Florida.
   5. a ghost town in Illinois. It was the former county seat.
   6. an unincorporated community in Illinois.
   7. an unincorporated community in Indiana.
   8. a small home-rule class city in Kentucky
   9. an unincorporated community and CDP in Louisiana.
   10. an unincorporated community and CDP in Maryland.
   11. a small city in Minnesota.
   12. an unincorporated community in Mississippi.
   13. a neighbourhood in New York City.
   14. a CDP in Ohio.
   15. a city in Oregon.
   16. a borough in Pennsylvania.
   17. an unincorporated community in Pennsylvania.
   18. an unincorporated community in South Dakota.
   19. a city in Tennessee
   20. a city in Texas
   21. an unincorporated community in Vermont.
   22. an unincorporated community in Washington.
   23. an unincorporated community in West Virginia.
   24. a village in Wisconsin.
2. a former community in British Columbia, Canada.
3. a community in Ontario, Canada.
4. a suburb of New South Wales, Australia.

adj

1. Tending to erode limestone.

noun

1. The act of captivating or the state of being captivated.

noun

1. plural of captivator

noun

1. The fact or practice of being a carnivore.

noun

1. The condition of being carnivorous

adj

1. (botany) Insectivorous: capable of trapping insects and absorbing nutrient from them.
2. Of, or relating to carnivores, or the taxonomic order Carnivora.
3. Predatory or flesh-eating.

noun

1. The act of cavilling.

noun

1. plural of cavitation

adv

1. (heraldry) Synonym of chevrony: chevron-like, in the manner of a chevron.

adj

1. Surrounding an ovary

verb

1. (intransitive) To revolve or move around something.
2. (transitive) To roll round; to cause to revolve; to put into a circular motion.

adj

1. (computing) Relating to a form of parallel processing algorithm given advance information about the problem.
2. Able to foresee the future.
3. Able to see things that cannot be perceived by the normal senses.
4. Of or relating to clairvoyance.

noun

1. A person able to foresee the future
2. A person able to see things that cannot be perceived by the normal senses

noun

1. plural of clavichord

adj

1. Bearing a club.
2. Bearing a key.

adj

1. Serving to coadunate or unite.

adj

1. Having the power to cause coagulation

verb

1. To cultivate along with another organism

verb

1. Third-person singular simple present indicative form of codiscover

noun

1. (ecology, evolutionary theory) The evolution of organisms of two or more species in which each adapts to changes in the other.

adj

1. (logic) Having the same extension—the object or set of objects to which a term refers.
2. Having the same spatial limits or boundaries; sharing the same area.
3. Occurring over the same period of time; contemporaneous.

noun

1. plural of cofavorite

Proper noun

1. A town in Alabama.
2. A town in Mississippi.
3. A ghost town in Texas.

adv

1. Relating to thinking (cognition).

adj

1. (grammar, of a verb) Inflected to express plea, insistence, imploring, self-encouragement, wish, desire, intent, command, purpose, or consequence.
2. Encouraging.

noun

1. (grammar) The cohortative mood.

verb

1. present participle of coinvent

noun

1. plural of coinventor

noun

1. plural of coinvestor

noun

1. plural of collective

adj

1. (chemistry, physics) Describing any property that depends only on the number of molecules present.

adj

1. Of , pertaining to, or representing a collocation

adv

1. in a collusive manner; fraudulently through collusion

adj

1. Rare spelling of colorative.

adv

1. In a combative way.

noun

1. Synonym of combativeness

adj

1. Of, pertaining to, or resulting from combination.
2. Serving, tending, or able to combine.

adj

1. Of or relating to commination.

adj

1. Relating to community.

adj

1. (algebra, of an algebraic structure) Having a commutative operation.
2. (mathematics, of a binary operation) Such that the order in which the operands are taken does not affect their image under the operation.
3. (mathematics, of a diagram of morphisms) Such that any two sequences of morphisms with the same initial and final positions compose to the same morphism.
4. Relating to exchange; interchangeable.

adj

1. (obsolete) Comparable; bearing comparison.
2. Approximated by comparison; relative.
3. Of or relating to comparison.
4. Using comparison as a method of study, or founded on something using it.

noun

1. (chiefly in the plural) Data used to make a comparison.
2. (grammar) A construction showing a relative quality, in English usually formed by adding more or appending -er. For example, the comparative of green is greener; of evil, more evil.
3. (grammar) A word in the comparative form.
4. (obsolete) An equal; a rival; a compeer.
5. (obsolete) One who makes comparisons; one who affects wit.

adj

1. (biochemistry) Inhibiting the action of an enzyme by binding with it.
2. (economics) Capable of competing successfully.
3. (euphemistically, of prices) Cheap, especially used of quality products.
4. (of someone's character) Inclined to compete.
5. Of or pertaining to competition.

adj

1. Having the quality of entering into composition; compounded.

adj

1. That compresses

noun

1. plural of compulsive

adj

1. (obsolete) Sensitive with regard to wrongdoing; conscientious.

adj

1. calculating, shrewdly or selfishly reckoning
2. of or relating to computation, computational

noun

1. The act of making concave.