| ANTHOCHLORE | • ANTHOCHLORE n. a yellow pigment in flowers. |
| CEPHALOTHIN | • cephalothin n. (Medicine) A semisynthetic antibiotic related to cephalosporin. • CEPHALOTHIN n. a semisynthetic broad-spectrum antibiotic derived from cephalosporin and used in the form of its sodium salt. |
| CHAETOGNATH | • chaetognath n. Any of several marine worms of the phylum Chaetognatha. • chætognath n. Obsolete form of chaetognath. • CHAETOGNATH n. a kind of marine worm. |
| CHAFFINCHES | • chaffinches n. Plural of chaffinch. • CHAFFINCH n. a bird of the finch family. |
| CHAINWHEELS | • chainwheels n. Plural of chainwheel. • CHAINWHEEL n. a toothed wheel, as on a bicycle, which meshes with a chain. |
| CHAMBERHAND | • CHAMBERHAND n. (New Zealand) a worker in the cold storage area of a slaughterhouse. |
| CHARGEHANDS | • chargehands n. Plural of chargehand. • charge-hands n. Plural of charge-hand. • charge␣hands n. Plural of charge hand. |
| CHLOANTHITE | • chloanthite n. (Mineralogy) A skutterudite relatively rich in nickel. • CHLOANTHITE n. a nickel-rich variety of skutterudite, aka white nickel. |
| DETHATCHING | • dethatching v. Present participle of dethatch. • DETHATCH v. to remove thatch from. |
| ETHNARCHIES | • ethnarchies n. Plural of ethnarchy. • ETHNARCHY n. the dominion of an ethnarch. |
| HANDKERCHER | • handkercher n. Obsolete form of handkerchief. • HANDKERCHER n. a handkerchief, also HANDKERCHIEF. |
| HATCHELLING | • hatchelling v. Present participle of hatchel. • HATCHEL v. to separate flax fibres with a comb, also HACKLE, HECKLE. |
| HEXASTICHON | • HEXASTICHON n. a poem or stanza of six lines, also HEXASTICH. |
| HUNCHBACKED | • hunchbacked adj. Having an abnormally curved or hunched back. • HUNCHBACKED adj. having a hunchback. |
| HYACINTHINE | • hyacinthine adj. Of the colour of a hyacinth (either the gem or the flower); reddish-gold (chiefly with reference to hair). • hyacinthine adj. Curling like the petals of the hyacinth. • hyacinthine adj. Beautiful, like the mythological Hyacinthus. |
| PHYCOPHAEIN | • PHYCOPHAEIN n. a brown pigment found in seaweeds. |
| RHINOTHECAE | • RHINOTHECA n. the sheath of the upper mandible of a bird. |
| SHORTCHANGE | • shortchange v. To defraud someone by giving them less change than they should be given after a transaction. • shortchange v. (By extension) To deprive someone of something for which they paid. • shortchange v. To make disadvantaged by design. |