| ADAPTATIONAL | • adaptational adj. Relating or pertaining to adaptation, or the adjustment of one thing to another; adaptive. • adaptational adj. (Biology) Applied to physiological or functional modifications of parts or organs, as distinguished… • ADAPTATIONAL adj. relating to adaptation. |
| AMALGAMATING | • amalgamating v. Present participle of amalgamate. • AMALGAMATE v. to unite in or as if in an amalgam; esp. to merge into a single body. |
| AMALGAMATION | • amalgamation n. The process of amalgamating; a mixture, merger or consolidation. • amalgamation n. The result of amalgamating; a mixture or alloy. • amalgamation n. (Obsolete) The intermarriage and interbreeding of different ethnicities or races. |
| ANACATHARSIS | • anacatharsis n. (Medicine) vomiting or expectoration. • ANACATHARSIS n. vomiting. |
| ANACATHARTIC | • anacathartic n. An expectorant or emetic medicine. • ANACATHARTIC n. a drug causing vomiting or expectoration. |
| ANAGRAMMATIC | • anagrammatic adj. Being or relating to an anagram. • ANAGRAMMATIC adj. like an anagram, also ANAGRAMMATICAL. |
| ANAPAESTICAL | • anapaestical adj. Anapestic. • ANAPAESTICAL adj. in the form of an anapaest, two short metrical syllables followed by one long one. |
| ANTIMACASSAR | • antimacassar n. A cover for the back or arms of a chair or sofa, originally to prevent them from being soiled by macassar oil. • ANTIMACASSAR n. a cover to protect the back or arms of furniture. |
| ANTIMALARIAL | • antimalarial n. An agent that prevents or counteracts malaria. • antimalarial adj. Preventing or counteracting malaria. • ANTIMALARIAL adj. effective against malaria, also ANTIMALARIA. |
| ARMAMENTARIA | • armamentaria n. Plural of armamentarium. • ARMAMENTARIUM n. the collection of equipment and techniques available to one in a particular field, esp. in medicine. |
| ASPARAGINASE | • asparaginase n. (Biochemistry) An enzyme that catalyzes the hydrolysis of asparagine to aspartic acid, used in chemotherapy. • ASPARAGINASE n. an enzyme that causes asparagine to hydrolyse to aspartic acid and ammonia. |
| BACCHANALIAN | • bacchanalian adj. Alternative letter-case form of Bacchanalian. • bacchanalian n. Alternative letter-case form of Bacchanalian. • Bacchanalian adj. Of or pertaining to the festival of Bacchus; relating to or given to reveling and drunkenness. |
| BACCHANALIAS | • bacchanalias n. Plural of bacchanalia. |
| CARAVANSARAI | • caravansarai n. Alternative spelling of caravanserai. • CARAVANSARAI n. a kind of unfurnished inn or extensive enclosed courtyard where caravans stop, also CARAVANSARY, CARAVANSERAI. |
| CARAVANSERAI | • caravanserai n. A roadside inn having a central courtyard where caravans can rest. • caravanserai n. (Humorous) An upscale hotel. • caravanserai n. A home or shelter for caravans. |
| PARATANIWHAS | • PARATANIWHA n. (Maori) a New Zealand plant with pink and red serrated leaves. |
| RASTAFARIANS | • Rastafarians n. Plural of Rastafarian. • RASTAFARIAN n. a member of rastafari, a West Indian cult which rejects western ideas and regards the Emperor Haile Selassie as divine. |
| SALAMANDRIAN | • salamandrian adj. Of, relating to, or resembling a salamander, the genus Salamandra, or the family Salamandridae. • SALAMANDRIAN n. a salamander of the order Batrachia. |
| TARANTARAING | • TARANTARA v. to make the sound of a trumpet or horn. |