CELERITY | • celerity n. Speed, swiftness. • celerity n. (Oceanography) The speed of individual waves (as opposed to the speed of groups of waves). • celerity n. (Hydrology) The speed with which a perturbation to the flow propagates through the flow domain. |
ENTIRELY | • entirely adv. To the full or entire extent. • entirely adv. To the exclusion of others. • ENTIRELY adv. completely. |
ENTIRETY | • entirety n. The whole; the complete or amount. • ENTIRETY n. completeness. |
ESTERIFY | • esterify v. (Chemistry, of an acid) To combine with an alcohol or (of an alcohol) to combine with an acid, to form an ester. • ESTERIFY v. to convert into an ester. |
ETERNITY | • eternity n. (Uncountable) Existence without end, infinite time. • eternity n. (Uncountable, philosophy, theology) Existence outside of time. • eternity n. (Countable) A period of time which extends infinitely far into the future. |
ETHERIFY | • etherify v. (Organic chemistry) To convert (An alcohol etc.) into an ether. • ETHERIFY v. to convert into ether. |
HEREDITY | • heredity n. Hereditary transmission of the physical and genetic qualities of parents to their offspring; the biological… • HEREDITY n. the genetic transmission of characteristics. |
LEGERITY | • legerity n. Alert quickness of mind or body. • LEGERITY n. quickness of the mind or body. |
LIENTERY | • lientery n. (Medicine) A form of diarrhea in which food passes through the body with little or no digestion. • LIENTERY n. the discharge of partially digested food. |
PERIPETY | • peripety n. Alternative form of peripeteia (“sudden change in circumstances; crisis”). • peripety n. (Psychoanalysis) The third stage of a dream in Jungian theory. • PERIPETY n. (Greek) a sudden change in a course of events. |
PERSEITY | • PERSEITY n. an independent existence per se. |
QUEERITY | • queerity n. (Dated) Queerness; something odd or strange. • queerity n. (Social sciences) Queerness, in the sense of not conforming to sexual or gender norms. • QUEERITY n. oddity. |
SERENITY | • serenity n. The state of being serene; calmness; peacefulness. • serenity n. A lack of agitation or disturbance. • serenity n. A title given to a reigning prince or similar dignitary. |
SEVERITY | • severity n. The state of being severe. • severity n. The degree of something undesirable; badness or seriousness. • SEVERITY n. the state of being severe. |
TEMERITY | • temerity n. (Uncountable) Reckless boldness; foolish bravery. • temerity n. (Countable) An act or case of reckless boldness. • temerity n. (Uncountable) Effrontery; impudence. |
THIEVERY | • thievery n. The act of theft, the act of stealing. • thievery n. (Obsolete) That which is stolen. • THIEVERY n. the act of stealing. |
TIGEREYE | • TIGEREYE n. a gemstone, a golden brown striped form of quartz. |
YEASTIER | • yeastier adj. Comparative form of yeasty: more yeasty. • YEASTY adj. like yeast, also YESTY. |
YPERITES | • yperites n. Plural of yperite. • YPERITE n. mustard gas. |