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- ADROITdeft, dexterous, or skillful
- AFFEERTo assess or reduce an arbitrary penalty or amercement to a precise sum; to fix the market value of.
- AFFICHEA written or printed notice to be posted, as on a wall; a poster; a placard.
- AFFOORDObsolete spelling of afford.
- AISLEDHaving aisles.
- AISLINGA kind of Irish poem, developed during the late 17th and 18th centuries, in which Ireland appears to the poet in a vision in the form of a woman, lamenting the state of the Irish p
- ALEPHSplural of aleph
- ANKYLOTICOf or pertaining to ankylosis.
- ANOMALOUSDeviating from the normal; marked by incongruity or contradiction; aberrant or abnormal.
- ANTIPATHYOften followed by against, between, for, or to: a (deep) feeling of dislike or repugnance, normally towards a person and less often towards a thing, often without any conscious rea
- ANTISEXUALOpposing or disapproving of sexual intercourse.
- APHASICAffected by, or pertaining to, aphasia.
- APHIDIANLike an aphid.
- APHIDIANSplural of aphidian
- APIARIANPertaining to bees or beekeeping.
- APIARIANSplural of apiarian
- APIARIESplural of apiary
- APIARISTbeekeeper
- ASEXUALITYThe state or quality of being asexual: The quality of experiencing little or no sexual attraction.
- ASPICA meat or fish jelly.
- ATAXYataxia
- ATOMIZERSplural of atomizer
- AVOIDANTExhibiting avoidance; avoiding something.
- AXOLOTLA critically endangered salamander found in the elevated lakes of Mexico, Ambystoma mexicanum.
- AXOLOTLSplural of axolotl
- AXONSplural of axon
- BAYWOODThe wood of the bay tree.
- BEKNIGHTEDsimple past and past participle of beknight
- BEMUSINGWryly perplexing.
- BEQUEATHTo give or leave by will; to give by testament.
- BHAJIAny of various Indian dishes of fried vegetables.
- BLASTOIDA member of an extinct class of echinoderms, the Blastoidea.
- BLASTOIDSplural of blastoid
- BLEMISHINGpresent participle and gerund of blemish
- BLIGHTEROne who blights.
- BLIGHTERSplural of blighter
- BOOLEANS
- BOXENMade of boxwood.
- BUXOMESTsuperlative form of buxom: most buxom
- CACOPHONYA mix of discordant sounds; dissonance.
- CALYXESplural of calyx
- CANKEROUSInfected with canker; ulcerous.
- CANKERYFull of canker (plant disease); diseased and decaying.
- CANTOOne of the chief divisions of a long poem; a book.
- CAPITALISENon-Oxford British English standard spelling of capitalize.
- CAPTAINRYPower or command over a district; chieftainship.
- CAULKEDsimple past and past participle of caulk
- CHIRAL(geometry, physical chemistry) that exhibits chirality; as in the left-handed and right-handed versions of a helix, or a molecule with L- and D- stereoisomers.
- CHOTTA dry salt lake, in the Saharan area of Africa, that stays dry in the summer but receives some water in the winter.
- CHTHONICDwelling within the underworld.
- CINEMATOGRAPHYThe art, process, or job of filming movies.
- CLOACAEplural of cloaca
- CLOISTERINGpresent participle and gerund of cloister
- CLUNKIESTsuperlative form of clunky: most clunky
- CONJUGATESplural of conjugate
- CONKThe shelf- or bracket-shaped fruiting body of a bracket fungus (also called a shelf fungus), i.e. a mushroom growing off a tree trunk.
- CONKEDsimple past and past participle of conk
- COQUETA flirtatious female; a coquette.
- CROQUETINGpresent participle and gerund of croquet
- CUNTISH
- CUPPYHaving the form of a cup.
- CYNOPHOBIAAn irrational fear or hatred of dogs or other canines.
- CYNOPHOBIASplural of cynophobia
- CYNOPHOBICOf or relating to cynophobia, having an irrational fear or hatred / dislike of dogs or other canines.
- CYPHERINGpresent participle and gerund of cypher
- CYTOPATHICThat damages or destroys cells
- DAQUIRISplural of daquiri
- DIAPHRAGMSplural of diaphragm
- DIGRAPHICOf or pertaining to a digraph.
- DISAVOWEROne who disavows.
- DOMINATRIXESplural of dominatrix
- DROOGA violent young gang member or a hooligan.
- DROOGISHAmoral and savage, like a droog.
- DYSLEXIAA learning disability characterized by reading and writing difficulties.
- EIDOLAplural of eidolon
- ELOCUTIONISTSomeone who practices or teaches elocution.
- EMBLAZONEDMarked by light that blazes out.
- ENCLOISTERTo shut away in a cloister.
- ENCLOISTERSthird-person singular simple present indicative of encloister
- ENWOMBTo place or cause to be contained in the womb; to make pregnant; to conceive.
- ENWREATHMisspelling of enwreathe.
- ENWREATHEDsimple past and past participle of enwreathe
- ENWREATHESthird-person singular simple present indicative of enwreathe
- EPIGENETICSThe study of the processes involved in the genetic development of an organism, especially the activation and deactivation of genes.
- EPITAXYAn overgrowth in which the overlying crystal is either induced into the same orientation, or otherwise grows under the influence of the underlying crystal into the same orientation
- EPITHETICOf or relating to epithets.
- EPITHETSplural of epithet
- EQUESTRIANOf horseback riding or horseback riders.
- ERSATZAn inauthentic or inadequate substitute or imitation.
- EUKARYOTICHaving complex cells in which the genetic material is organized into membrane-bound nuclei.
- EUTAXYGood or established order or arrangement.
- EVOLUTIONARYOf or relating to the biological theory of evolution.
- EXARCHSplural of exarch
- EXARCHYThe jurisdiction of an exarch (any definition); an exarchate.
- EXCULPATINGpresent participle and gerund of exculpate
- EXCULPATIONThe act of exculpating from alleged fault or crime.
- EXCULPATIONSplural of exculpation
- EXEUNTA stage direction for more than one actor to leave the stage.
- EXFOLIATESthird-person singular simple present indicative of exfoliate
- EXORCISEDsimple past and past participle of exorcise