| ACCEDENCE | • accedence n. The act of acceding. • ACCEDENCE n. the act of acceding. |
| ACCIDENCE | • accidence n. (Grammar) The accidents or inflections of words; the rudiments of grammar. • accidence n. The rudiments of any subject. • accidence n. A book containing the first principles of grammar; (by extension) a book containing the rudiments of… |
| ACESCENCE | • acescence n. The quality of being acescent; the process of acetous fermentation; a moderate degree of sourness. • ACESCENCE n. the act of turning sour, acetous fermentation, also ACESCENCY. |
| ACESCENCY | • acescency n. Synonym of acescence. • ACESCENCY n. the act of turning sour, acetous fermentation, also ACESCENCE. |
| BACKCHECK | • backcheck v. (Transitive, ice hockey) To check (an opposing player) while skating toward or near one’s own goal. • backcheck v. (Intransitive, ice hockey) To engage in checking while skating toward or near one’s own goal. • backcheck v. (Quality control) To check someone else’s work after they have completed it, in a backward-looking type… |
| BECCACCIA | • BECCACCIA n. (Italian) a woodcock. |
| BECCAFICO | • beccafico n. A small bird, Sylvia hortensis, the figpecker. • BECCAFICO n. (Italian) a garden warbler or related bird, considered a delicacy by Italians. |
| CACHAEMIC | • cachaemic adj. Of or relating to cachaemia. • CACHAEMIC adj. (archaic) relating to cachaemia, a degenerated or poisoned condition of the blood. |
| CACHECTIC | • cachectic adj. Having cachexia; wasting away from a disease or chronic illness. • CACHECTIC adj. relating to cachexy, severe wasting of the body, also CACHECTICAL, CACHEXIC. |
| CACOETHIC | • cacoethic adj. Ill-conditioned, malignant; cacoethical. • cacoethic adj. (Medicine, obsolete) Of or pertaining to a cacoethes (a malignant tumour or ulcer). • cacoëthic adj. Alternative form of cacoethic. |
| CACOGENIC | • cacogenic adj. (Medicine) Of or relating to cacogenesis. • cacogenic adj. (Archaic) Tending toward racial deterioration through bad sexual selection. • CACOGENIC adj. reducing the quality of a race. |
| CALCICOLE | • calcicole n. Any plant that thrives in a soil rich in lime or chalk, but cannot tolerate acidic conditions. • CALCICOLE n. a plant thriving on limy soil. |
| CATHECTIC | • cathectic adj. Of or pertaining to a connection that is charged with emotional energy. • CATHECTIC adj. invested with mental or emotional energy. |
| CEVAPCICI | • cevapcici n. A Balkan dish of grilled minced meat. • CEVAPCICI n. (Yugoslavian) kebabs of minced beef and pork flavoured with mint and paprika. |
| CICATRICE | • cicatrice n. (Medicine) a scar. • CICATRICE n. the scar of a healed wound, burn, etc., also CICATRIX. |
| CLOCKFACE | • clockface n. Alternative spelling of clock face. • clock␣face n. The surface of a clock that contains the dial and hands. • Clock␣Face prop.n. A suburban village in the Metropolitan Borough of St Helens, Merseyside, England (OS grid ref SJ5291). |
| COCCYGEAL | • coccygeal adj. Relating to the coccyx. • COCCYGEAL adj. pertaining to the coccyx, the tailbone, also COCCYGIAN. |
| COPACETIC | • copacetic adj. (US, slang) Fine, excellent, OK, in excellent order. • COPACETIC adj. (US colloquial) sound, adequate, excellent, also COPASETIC, COPESETIC, COPESETTIC, KOPASETIC. |
| CYCLECARS | • cyclecars n. Plural of cyclecar. • CYCLECAR n. a type of motor vehicle. |
| OCCUPANCE | • occupance n. Occupancy. • OCCUPANCE n. the act or fact of occupying, also OCCUPANCY. |