| ATHERMANOUS | • athermanous adj. Not transmitting heat. • ATHERMANOUS adj. impervious to radiant heat. |
| AUTOCEPHALY | • autocephaly n. (Christianity) The condition where a church’s leaders have severed ties to a larger body and thus no… • AUTOCEPHALY n. self-government. |
| AUTOCHANGER | • autochanger n. A device for playing multiple music media of a certain kind (Gramophone records, compact discs, etc… • autochanger n. (Computing) An automatic tape loader, for switching automatically between several computer backup tapes. • AUTOCHANGER n. a device by means of which records are dropped from a stack one at a time onto the turntable. |
| AUTOGRAPHED | • autographed v. Simple past tense and past participle of autograph. • AUTOGRAPH v. to sign with an autograph. |
| AUTOPHAGIES | • autophagies n. Plural of autophagy. • AUTOPHAGY n. sustenance by self-absorption of the tissues of the body, also AUTOPHAGIA. |
| BEHAVIOURAL | • behavioural adj. (British spelling) Of or pertaining to behaviour. • BEHAVIOURAL adj. relating to behaviour, also BEHAVIORAL. |
| CHARTACEOUS | • chartaceous adj. Resembling paper or parchment; papery. • CHARTACEOUS adj. papery. |
| GUACHAMOLES | • GUACHAMOLE n. (Nahuatl) a kind of dip, also GUACAMOLE. |
| HAEMAGOGUES | • HAEMAGOGUE n. a drug that promotes the flow of blood, also HEMAGOG, HEMAGOGUE. |
| HARBOURAGES | • harbourages n. Plural of harbourage. • HARBOURAGE n. shelter, harbour, also HARBORAGE. |
| OUANANICHES | • OUANANICHE n. a landlocked variety of the Atlantic salmon, found in lakes in SE Canada. |
| RHAMNACEOUS | • rhamnaceous adj. Of or pertaining to plants in the family Rhamnaceae, the buckthorns. • RHAMNACEOUS adj. relating to the buckthorn family. |
| SCARAMOUCHE | • Scaramouche prop.n. A roguish clown character from the 16th-century Italian commedia dell’arte. • SCARAMOUCHE n. a bragging cowardly buffoon, also SCARAMOUCH. |
| SPATHACEOUS | • spathaceous adj. (Botany) Having or resembling a spathe; spathal. • SPATHACEOUS adj. having a spathe. |
| THAUMATROPE | • thaumatrope n. A toy made of a card with an image on each side; when twirled, the images combine. • thaumatrope n. A zoetrope. • THAUMATROPE n. an optical toy in which pictures on both sides of a card are seen to combine when the card is rotated rapidly. |