| declaim |
to speak or write for rhetorical impact, without logic or sincerity. [1/4 definitions] |
| decompose a number |
in mathematics education, to separate a number into its component place values. For example, to decompose the number 231 you would write "200+30+1". |
| deprecate |
to speak or write forcefully against. [1/2 definitions] |
| dictation |
the speaking or reading of words for a person to write down or a machine to record. [1/3 definitions] |
| drop (someone) a line |
to write a brief letter or note to (someone). |
| elegize |
to write an elegy or elegies. [1/2 definitions] |
| encipher |
to write (something) in code. (Cf. decipher.) |
| eulogize |
to speak or write high praise of; write or deliver a eulogy about. |
| euphemize |
to speak or write using euphemisms. [1/2 definitions] |
| fluency |
the ability to speak or write smoothly and easily in another language. |
| framer |
(usu. cap.) someone who writes a new law, esp. one of the statesmen who helped write the U.S. Constitution. [1/2 definitions] |
| get off |
to manage to say, write, or send (something). [1/10 definitions] |
| ghost |
to write (a book such as an autobiography) under the name of and as the agent for another person; ghostwrite. [1/7 definitions] |
| grease pencil |
a pencil made of compressed grease mixed with pigment, usu. wrapped in paper that unwinds in a spiral to expose the tip, used esp. to write on slick surfaces. |
| hack1 |
to write or modify programs for computers, usually with advanced skill and for pleasure. [1/12 definitions] |
| harp on |
(informal) to talk or write about something repeatedly and tiresomely. |
| historiographer |
a historian, esp. one commissioned to write a particular history, as of an institution. [1/2 definitions] |
| hyphenate |
to write, connect, or divide with a hyphen. [1/2 definitions] |
| illiteracy |
the condition of being unable to read and write. [1/3 definitions] |
| illiterate |
If a person is illiterate, they cannot read or write. [1/5 definitions] |
| ink |
to write or draw (something) with or as with ink. [1/4 definitions] |