| ACADEMICAL | • academical adj. (Rare) Belonging to the school of Plato; believing in Plato’s philosophy; sceptical . • academical adj. Pertaining to a university or other form of higher education. • academical n. (Plural only) Academic dress, consisting of a cap and gown. |
| ADAMANCIES | • adamancies n. Plural of adamancy. • ADAMANCY n. unyielding hardness, also ADAMANCE. |
| ADAMANTEAN | • adamantean adj. Of adamant; hard as adamant. • ADAMANTEAN adj. (Milton) of adamant; hard as adamant, also ADAMANTINE. |
| ADAMANTINE | • adamantine adj. Made of adamant, or having the qualities of adamant; incapable of being broken, dissolved, or penetrated. • adamantine adj. Like the diamond in hardness or luster. • ADAMANTINE adj. of adamant; hard as adamant, also ADAMANTEAN. |
| AMANTADINE | • amantadine n. (Pharmacology) A drug used especially as the hydrochloride C10H17N·HCl to prevent infection (as by an… • AMANTADINE n. a drug used to prevent infection by preventing the virus penetration of host cells. |
| AMYGDALATE | • amygdalate adj. Of or pertaining to almonds. • amygdalate n. (Obsolete, uncountable) almond milk. • amygdalate n. (Organic chemistry, countable) Any salt or ester of amygdalic acid. |
| ANAGRAMMED | • anagrammed v. Simple past tense and past participle of anagram. • ANAGRAM v. to transpose letters to form new words. |
| ANANDAMIDE | • anandamide n. (Biochemistry) A derivative of arachidonic acid that occurs naturally in the brain and in some foods… • ANANDAMIDE n. a brain receptor that is released naturally from neurons and is thought to be associated with the pleasurable effect of certain drugs. |
| AQUAFARMED | • AQUAFARM v. to cultivate food fish. |
| CALAMANDER | • calamander n. A valuable furniture wood from India and Ceylon, of a hazel-brown color, with black stripes, very hard… • CALAMANDER n. (Sinhalese) a hard valuable wood of the ebony genus. |
| DAMAGEABLE | • damageable adj. (Obsolete) Hurtful; pernicious. • damageable adj. Capable of being injured or weakened, susceptible to damage. • DAMAGEABLE adj. capable of being damaged. |
| DIASTEMATA | • diastemata n. Plural of diastema. • DIASTEMA n. (Greek) a space between consecutive teeth. |
| MACADAMISE | • macadamise v. Alternative form of macadamize. • MACADAMISE v. to cover a road with small broken stones, also MACADAMIZE. |
| MACADAMIZE | • macadamize v. To cover, as a road, or street, with small, broken stones, so as to form a smooth, hard, convex surface. • MACADAMIZE v. to cover a road with small broken stones, also MACADAMISE. |
| MALADAPTED | • maladapted adj. Of any evolving or learning entity, not well adapted for its environment. • MALADAPTED adj. not well adapted. |
| MARMALADES | • marmalades n. Plural of marmalade. • MARMALADE n. a jam or preserve made from the pulp and sometimes rind of citrus fruit. |
| MAZARINADE | • mazarinade n. (Historical) A scurrilous anti-governmental pamphlet published in mid-seventeenth-century France. • MAZARINADE n. (historical) a satire or pamphlet against Cardinal Mazarin. |
| MEGAFARADS | • megafarads n. Plural of megafarad. • MEGAFARAD n. a measure of electrical capacity, one million farads. |
| SALAMANDER | • salamander n. A long, slender, chiefly terrestrial amphibian of the order Caudata, superficially resembling a lizard. • salamander n. (Mythology) A creature much like a lizard that is resistant to and lives in fire (in which it is often… • salamander n. (Cooking) A metal utensil with a flat head which is heated and put over a dish to brown the top. |