| ACCOMPTANT | • accomptant n. (Obsolete) An accountant. • ACCOMPTANT n. an accountant, also ACCOUNTANT. |
| ACCOMPTING | • accompting v. Present participle of accompt. • ACCOMPT v. to explain in detail, also ACCOUNT. |
| ACCRUEMENT | • accruement n. The act of accruing. • ACCRUEMENT n. the act of accruing. |
| ACCUSEMENT | • accusement n. (Now rare) An accusation. • ACCUSEMENT n. (Spenser) an accusation. |
| CARTOMANCY | • cartomancy n. Fortune-telling using cards, as in tarot and Lenormand. • CARTOMANCY n. divination by the use of playing cards. |
| CATCHMENTS | • catchments n. Plural of catchment. • CATCHMENT n. the act of collecting water; the water collected from a river etc. |
| CATECHUMEN | • catechumen n. A convert to Christianity under instruction before baptism; a young or recent Christian preparing for confirmation. • CATECHUMEN n. one who is receiving religious instruction in preparation for baptism. |
| COMPACTING | • compacting v. Present participle of compact. • COMPACT v. to pack closely together. |
| COMPACTION | • compaction n. The process of compacting something, or something that has been compacted. • COMPACTION n. the act of compacting. |
| COMPLACENT | • complacent adj. Uncritically satisfied with oneself or one’s achievements; smug. • complacent adj. Apathetic with regard to an apparent need or problem. • COMPLACENT adj. marked by complacency. |
| COMPLICANT | • COMPLICANT adj. overlapping. |
| ICONOMATIC | • iconomatic adj. Expressing ideas by means of pictured objects. • ICONOMATIC adj. using pictures to represent sounds of words. |
| MARCESCENT | • marcescent adj. (Botany, of an organ, such as a leaf or blossom; rarely also used figurative) Withered, but still attached. • marcescent adj. (Mycology) Able to revive when moistened. • MARCESCENT adj. withering without falling off. |
| MONOCRATIC | • monocratic adj. Synonym of autocratic. • MONOCRATIC adj. autocratic. |
| SCARCEMENT | • scarcement n. (Architecture, engineering) An offset where a wall or bank of earth, etc., retreats, leaving a shelf or footing. • SCARCEMENT n. an offset where a wall or bank of earth, etc. retreats, leaving a shelf or footing. |
| SCIOMANTIC | • SCIOMANTIC adj. relating to sciomancy, divination with the help of ghosts. |