| 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. |
| ACCLIMATED | • acclimated adj. Accustomed, adapted or hardened to some environment. • acclimated v. (Chiefly US) simple past tense and past participle of acclimate. • ACCLIMATE v. (US) to habituate to a climate not native, also ACCLIMATIZE. |
| ACICULATED | • aciculated adj. Alternative form of aciculate. • ACICULATED adj. marked as if with needle scratches, also ACICULATE. |
| 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. |
| CALCULATED | • calculated v. Simple past tense and past participle of calculate. • calculated adj. Arrived at or determined by mathematical calculation; ascertained mathematically. • calculated adj. Carefully thought out or planned. |
| CANCERATED | • cancerated v. Simple past tense and past participle of cancerate. • CANCERATE v. to grow into a cancer; to become cancerous. |
| CARDCASTLE | • cardcastle n. Synonym of cardhouse. • CARDCASTLE n. a tower built with playing cards. |
| CARYATIDIC | • caryatidic adj. Of or relating to a caryatid. • CARYATIDIC adj. of or like a caryatid, a draped female figure supporting an entablature, also CARYATIC, CARYATIDAL, CARYATIDEAN. |
| CATHODICAL | • CATHODICAL adj. relating to a cathode, also CATHODAL, CATHODIC, KATHODAL, KATHODIC. |
| COADJACENT | • coadjacent adj. Mutually adjacent; contiguous. • COADJACENT n. something that is adjacent to another thing in experience or thought. |
| COARCTATED | • coarctated v. Simple past tense and past participle of coarctate. • COARCTATE v. to press together; to crowd. |
| CORADICATE | • coradicate adj. (Linguistics) Sharing a common root. • CORADICATE adj. of the same root. |
| DIACAUSTIC | • diacaustic adj. Relating to the caustic curves formed by the refraction of light. • diacaustic n. A refracting lens, which can be used to cauterise. • diacaustic n. The curve or surface formed by the intersection of refracted light rays. |
| DIDACTICAL | • didactical adj. Didactic. • DIDACTICAL adj. designed or intended to teach, also DIDACTIC. |
| SACCULATED | • sacculated adj. Furnished with or formed of a sac or sacs. • SACCULATED adj. formed in a series of saclike enclosures, also SACCULATE. |
| 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. |