| ACCIDENTAL | • accidental adj. Pertaining to accident and not essence; thus, inessential; incidental; secondary. • accidental adj. (Music) Adjusted by one or two semitones, in temporary departure from the key signature. • accidental adj. Occurring sometimes, by chance; occasional. |
| ACCOLADING | • accolading v. Present participle of accolade. • ACCOLADE v. to give an accolade. |
| ACCORDANCE | • accordance n. Agreement; harmony; conformity; compliance. • accordance n. The act of granting something. • ACCORDANCE n. agreement, also ACCORDANCY. |
| ACCORDANCY | • accordancy n. (Obsolete, rare) accordance. • ACCORDANCY n. accordance, also ACCORDANCE. |
| ADIACTINIC | • adiactinic adj. (Chemistry) Not transmitting the actinic rays. • ADIACTINIC adj. denoting a substance that does not transmit radiation affecting photochemically sensitive materials, such as a safelight in a photographic darkroom. |
| ADJACENCES | • adjacences n. Plural of adjacence. • ADJACENCE n. the state of being adjacent or contiguous, also ADJACENCY. |
| ARCHDEACON | • archdeacon n. (Anglicanism, Eastern Orthodoxy) A senior administrative official in a diocese, just under the bishop… • ARCHDEACON n. a clergyman having the duty of assisting a diocesan bishop in ceremonial functions or administrative work. |
| ASCENDANCE | • ascendance n. Ascendancy, superiority; the act of ascending. • ASCENDANCE n. the state of being ascendant, also ASCENDANCY, ASCENDENCE, ASCENDENCY. |
| ASCENDANCY | • ascendancy n. Supremacy; dominant control; the quality of being in the ascendant. • ascendancy n. (Historical, Ireland, sometimes capitalized) A class of Protestant landowners and professionals that… • ascendancy n. (Ecology) A quantitative attribute of an ecosystem, defined as a function of the ecosystem’s trophic… |
| CACODAEMON | • cacodaemon n. A wicked or malevolent spirit as opposed to agathodemon (a good spirit). • cacodaemon n. Twelfth astrological House, from which only evil prognostics are alleged to proceed. (Can we add an… • cacodaemon n. (Obsolete) A nightmare. |
| CAMANACHDS | • camanachds n. Plural of camanachd. • CAMANACHD n. (Gaelic) the game of shinty. |
| CANCERATED | • cancerated v. Simple past tense and past participle of cancerate. • CANCERATE v. to grow into a cancer; to become cancerous. |
| CLADOCERAN | • cladoceran n. Any of the small crustaceans of the order Cladocera. • CLADOCERAN n. a small crustacean, aka water flea. |
| COADJACENT | • coadjacent adj. Mutually adjacent; contiguous. • COADJACENT n. something that is adjacent to another thing in experience or thought. |
| MANDIOCCAS | • MANDIOCCA n. (Tupi) a plant of the manioc genus, aka cassava, also MANDIOC, MANDIOCA, MANIHOC, MANIHOT, MANIOC, MANIOCA. |
| NONCARDIAC | • noncardiac adj. Not cardiac; not related to the heart. • NONCARDIAC adj. not related to the heart. |
| SANDCRACKS | • sandcracks n. Plural of sandcrack. • sand␣cracks n. Plural of sand crack. • SANDCRACK n. a deep crack or fissure in the wall of a horse's hoof, often causing lameness. |
| SUCCEDANEA | • succedanea n. Plural of succedaneum. • SUCCEDANEUM n. (Latin) a substitute; a remedy. |
| UNACADEMIC | • unacademic adj. Not academic. • UNACADEMIC adj. not academic. |
| VACCINATED | • vaccinated v. Simple past tense and past participle of vaccinate. • vaccinated adj. Being protected from a disease by having received a vaccine. • VACCINATE v. to inoculate with a vaccine. |