Word Meanings - ELECTROGRAPH - Book Publishers vocabulary database

A mark, record, or tracing, made by the action of electricity.

Related words: (words related to ELECTROGRAPH)

• TRACHEA
  The windpipe. See Illust. of Lung.
• TRACHELORRHAPHY
  The operation of sewing up a laceration of the neck of the uterus.
• TRACHYSPERMOUS
  Rough-seeded. Gray.
• TRACHENCHYMA
  A vegetable tissue consisting of tracheæ.
• TRACHELIPOD
  One of the Trachelipoda.
• TRACHELIDAN
  Any one of a tribe of beetles which have the head supported on a pedicel. The oil beetles and the Cantharides are examples.
• TRACTORATION
  See PERKINISM
• TRACKLAYER
  Any workman engaged in work involved in putting the track in place. -- Track"lay`ing, n.
• TRACTITE
  A Tractarian.
• ACTION
  Effective motion; also, mechanism; as, the breech action of a gun. (more info) 1. A process or condition of acting or moving, as opposed to rest; the doing of something; exertion of power or force, as when one body acts on another; the effect of
• TRACKWALKER
  A person employed to walk over and inspect a section of tracks.
• TRACTARIAN
  Of or pertaining to the Tractarians, or their principles.
• TRACTARIANISM
  The principles of the Tractarians, or of those persons accepting the teachings of the "Tracts for the Times."
• TRACHEITIS
  Inflammation of the trachea, or windpipe.
• TRACHEARY
  Tracheal; breathing by means of tracheæ. -- n.
• TRACHYTIC
  Of, pertaining to, or resembling, trachyte.
• ACTIONABLE
  That may be the subject of an action or suit at law; as, to call a man a thief is actionable.
• TRACKMAN
  One employed on work on the track; specif., a trackwalker.
• TRACTION
  1. The act of drawing, or the state of being drawn; as, the traction of a muscle. 2. Specifically, the act of drawing a body along a plane by motive power, as the drawing of a carriage by men or horses, the towing of a boat by a tug. 3. Attraction;
• RECORDATION
  Remembrance; recollection; also, a record. Shak.
• INTRACTABILITY
  The quality of being intractable; intractableness. Bp. Hurd.
• MALACOSTRACOLOGY
  That branch of zoölogical science which relates to the crustaceans; -- called also carcinology.
• TETRACOLON
  A stanza or division in lyric poetry, consisting of four verses or lines. Crabb.
• LADY'S TRACES; LADIES' TRESSES; LADIES TRESSES
  A name given to several species of the orchidaceous genus Spiranthes, in which the white flowers are set in spirals about a slender axis and remotely resemble braided hair.
• REACTIONIST
  A reactionary. C. Kingsley.
• SUBCONTRACTOR
  One who takes a portion of a contract, as for work, from the principal contractor.
• RETRACTOR
  One who, or that which, retracts. Specifically: In breech-loading firearms, a device for withdrawing a cartridge shell from the barrel.
• PYROELECTRICITY
  Electricity developed by means of heat; the science which treats of electricity thus developed.
• MADEFACTION; MADEFICATION
  The act of madefying, or making wet; the state of that which is made wet. Bacon.
• TETRACORALLA
  See RUGOSA
• DETRACTIVE
  1. Tending to detractor draw. 2. Tending to lower in estimation; depreciative.
• REDACTION
  The act of redacting; work produced by redacting; a digest.