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Accipitres :: Accipitres (pl. ) of Accipite.

Accipitres :: Accipitres (n. pl.) The order that includes rapacious birds. They have a hooked bill, and sharp, strongly curved talons. There are three families, represented by the vultures, the falcons or hawks, and the owls..

Actress :: Actress (n.) A female actor or doer.

Actress :: Actress (n.) A female stageplayer; a woman who acts a part.

Adulatress :: Adulatress (n.) A woman who flatters with servility.

Advoutress :: Advoutress (n.) An adulteress.

Ancestress :: Ancestress (n.) A female ancestor.

Antiputrescent :: Antiputrescent (a.) Counteracting, or preserving from, putrefaction; antiseptic..

Arbitress :: Arbitress (n.) A female arbiter; an arbitratrix.

Architectress :: Architectress (n.) A female architect.

Atresia :: Atresia (n.) Absence or closure of a natural passage or channel of the body; imperforation.

Auditress :: Auditress (n.) A female hearer.

Backstress :: Backstress (n.) A female baker.

Belles-lettres :: Belles-lettres (n. pl.) Polite or elegant literature; the humanities; -- used somewhat vaguely for literary works in which imagination and taste are predominant.

Benefactress :: Benefactress (n.) A woman who confers a benefit.

Buttress :: Buttress (n.) A projecting mass of masonry, used for resisting the thrust of an arch, or for ornament and symmetry..

Buttress :: Buttress (n.) Anything which supports or strengthens.

Buttress :: Buttress (v. t.) To support with a buttress; to prop; to brace firmly.

Buttressed :: Buttressed (imp. & p. p.) of Buttres.

Buttressing :: Buttressing (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Buttres.

Chantress :: Chantress (n.) A female chanter or singer.

Cloistress :: Cloistress (n.) A nun.

Coadjutress :: Coadjutress (n.) Alt. of Coadjutri.

Comfortress :: Comfortress (n.) A woman who comforts.

Competitress :: Competitress (n.) A woman who competes.

Conductress :: Conductress (n.) A woman who leads or directs; a directress.

Conirostres :: Conirostres (n. pl.) A tribe of perching birds, including those which have a strong conical bill, as the finches..

Correctress :: Correctress (n.) A woman who corrects.

Corruptress :: Corruptress (n.) A woman who corrupts.

Creatress :: Creatress (n.) She who creates.