| BLASPHEME | • blaspheme v. (Intransitive) To commit blasphemy; to speak against God or religious doctrine. • blaspheme v. (Transitive) To speak of, or address, with impious irreverence; to revile impiously (anything sacred). • blaspheme v. (Transitive) To calumniate; to revile; to abuse. |
| BLASPHEMY | • blasphemy n. An act of irreverence or contempt toward a god or toward something considered sacred; an impious act… • blasphemy n. (By extension) An act of irreverence towards anything considered inviolable; the act of disregarding a convention. • BLASPHEMY n. impious speech. |
| EPHEMERAE | • EPHEMERA n. (Greek) an insect of the mayfly genus Ephemera, whose adult life is very short. |
| EPHEMERAL | • ephemeral n. Something which lasts for a short period of time. • ephemeral adj. Lasting for a short period of time. • ephemeral adj. (Biology) Existing for only one day, as with some flowers, insects, and diseases. |
| EPHEMERAS | • EPHEMERA n. (Greek) an insect of the mayfly genus Ephemera, whose adult life is very short. |
| EPHEMERID | • ephemerid n. Any mayfly in the family Ephemeridae. • EPHEMERID n. an insect of the mayfly family. |
| EPHEMERIS | • ephemeris n. (Obsolete) A journal or diary. • ephemeris n. (Astronomy, nautical) A table giving the apparent position of celestial bodies throughout the year;… • ephemeris n. Computer software that calculates the apparent position of celestial bodies. |
| EPHEMERON | • ephemeron n. Something short-lived or transitory. • ephemeron n. (Programming) A type of weak reference in a garbage collected programming language that does not permit… • EPHEMERON n. something of short lifetime. |
| EUPHEMISE | • euphemise v. Alternative spelling of euphemize. • EUPHEMISE v. to speak or write (of) euphemistically, also EUPHEMIZE. |
| EUPHEMISM | • euphemism n. (Uncountable) The use of a word or phrase to replace another with one that is considered less offensive… • euphemism n. (Countable) A word or phrase that is used to replace another in this way. • EUPHEMISM n. a figure of rhetoric by which an unpleasant or offensive thing is described or referred to by a milder term. |
| EUPHEMIST | • euphemist n. One who uses euphemisms. • EUPHEMIST n. one who engages in euphemism. |
| EUPHEMIZE | • euphemize v. (Intransitive) To utter one or more euphemisms; to speak euphemistically. • euphemize v. (Transitive) To describe in euphemistic terms. • EUPHEMIZE v. to speak or write (of) euphemistically, also EUPHEMISE. |
| GRAPHEMES | • graphemes n. Plural of grapheme. • GRAPHEME n. a unit of a writing system. |
| GRAPHEMIC | • graphemic adj. Of or pertaining to graphemes or their study. • graphemic adj. Being or that is a grapheme; being or that is an irreducibly meaningful unit of written language. • GRAPHEMIC adj. of or like a grapheme, a letter of the alphabet. |
| HYPHEMIAS | • HYPHEMIA n. a blood deficiency. |
| MORPHEMES | • morphemes n. Plural of morpheme. • MORPHEME n. a word or part of a word that contains no smaller unit of meaning e.g. 'man' or the 'ed' in 'walked'. |
| MORPHEMIC | • morphemic adj. (Linguistics) Of or relating to morphemics or to a morpheme. • MORPHEMIC adj. of or like a morpheme. |
| TELEPHEME | • telepheme n. (Obsolete) A message transmitted by telephone. • TELEPHEME n. a message by a telephone. |