Word Meanings - LUNITIDAL - Book Publishers vocabulary database

Pertaining to tidal movements dependent on the moon. Bache. Lunitidal interval. See Retard, n.

Related words: (words related to LUNITIDAL)

• INTERVALLUM
  An interval. And a' shall laugh without intervallums. Shak. In one of these intervalla. Chillingworth.
• TIDAL
  Of or pertaining to tides; caused by tides; having tides; periodically rising and falling, or following and ebbing; as, tidal waters. The tidal wave of deeper souls Into our inmost being rolls, And lifts us unawares Out of all meaner cares.
• BACHELORISM
  Bachelorhood; also, a manner or peculiarity belonging to bachelors. W. Irving.
• BACHELOR
  A kind of bass, an edible fresh-water fish of the southern United States. (more info) bacalar, Sp.bachiller, Pg. bacharel, It. baccalare), LL. baccalarius the tenant of a kind of farm called baccalaria, a soldier not old or rich enough to lead
• DEPENDENT
  1. Hanging down; as, a dependent bough or leaf. 2. Relying on, or subject to, something else for support; not able to exist, or sustain itself, or to perform anything, without the will, power, or aid of something else; not self-sustaining;
• INTERVAL
  Difference in pitch between any two tones. At intervals, coming or happening with intervals between; now and then. "And Miriam watch'd and dozed at intervals." Tennyson. -- Augmented interval , an interval increased by half a step or half a tone.
• LUNITIDAL
  Pertaining to tidal movements dependent on the moon. Bache. Lunitidal interval. See Retard, n.
• RETARDATION
  The keeping back of an approaching consonant chord by prolonging one or more tones of a previous chord into the intermediate chord which follows; -- differing from suspension by resolving upwards instead of downwards. 4. The extent to which anything
• BACHELRY
  The body of young aspirants for knighthood. Chaucer.
• PERTAIN
  stretch out, reach, pertain; per + tenere to hold, keep. See Per-, 1. To belong; to have connection with, or dependence on, something, as an appurtenance, attribute, etc.; to appertain; as, saltness pertains to the ocean; flowers pertain to plant
• BACHELORSHIP
  The state of being a bachelor.
• RETARDATIVE
  Tending, or serving, to retard.
• INTERVAL; INTERVALE
  A tract of low ground between hills, or along the banks of a stream, usually alluvial land, enriched by the overflowings of the river, or by fertilizing deposits of earth from the adjacent hills. Cf. Bottom, n., 7. The woody intervale just beyond
• DEPENDENTLY
  In a dependent manner.
• BACHELORDOM
  The state of bachelorhood; the whole body of bachelors.
• RETARDMENT
  The act of retarding; retardation. Cowley.
• RETARDER
  One who, or that which, retards.
• RETARD
  1. To keep delaying; to continue to hinder; to prevent from progress; to render more slow in progress; to impede; to hinder; as, to retard the march of an army; to retard the motion of a ship; -- opposed to Ant: accelerate. 2. To put
• BACHELOR'S BUTTON
  , A plant with flowers shaped like buttons; especially, several species of Ranunculus, and the cornflower and globe amaranth . Note: Bachelor's buttons, a name given to several flowers "from their similitude to the jagged cloathe buttons,
• BACHELORHOOD
  The state or condition of being a bachelor; bachelorship.
• COTIDAL
  Marking an equality in the tides; having high tide at the same time. Cotidal lines , lines on a map passing through places that have high tide at the same time.
• INTERDEPENDENT
  Mutually dependent.
• KNIGHT BACHELOR
  A knight of the most ancient, but lowest, order of English knights, and not a member of any order of chivalry. See Bachelor, 4.
• CAROTID; CAROTIDAL
  Pertaining to, or near, the carotids or one of them; as, the carotid gland.
• INDEPENDENT
  Belonging or pertaining to, or holding to the doctrines or methods of, the Independents. (more info) 1. Not dependent; free; not subject to control by others; not relying on others; not subordinate; as, few men are wholly independent. A dry, but
• SELF-DEPENDENT
  Dependent on one's self; self-depending; self-reliant.