| ANCIENT | • ancient adj. Having lasted from a remote period; having been of long duration; of great age, very old. • ancient adj. Existent or occurring in time long past, usually in remote ages; belonging to or associated with antiquity;… • ancient adj. (History) Relating to antiquity as a primarily European historical period; the time before the Middle Ages. |
| ANTEING | • anteing v. Present participle of ante. • ANTE v. to put a fixed stake in the pot at poker. |
| ANTIENT | • antient n. Obsolete spelling of ancient. • antient adj. Obsolete spelling of ancient. • ANTIENT adj. (obsolete) ancient. |
| ANTIGEN | • antigen n. (Immunology) A substance that induces an immune response, usually foreign. • ANTIGEN n. a substance that stimulates the production of antibodies, also ANTIGENE. |
| ANTIMEN | • antimen adj. Alternative form of antiman. • ANTIMAN n. a homosexual man. |
| ENATION | • enation n. (Botany) A small outgrowth on the surface of a plant organ. • enation n. (Botany, uncountable) The generation of such an outgrowth. • enation n. (Grammar) The property of being enate. |
| ENTRAIN | • entrain v. To draw along as a current does. • entrain v. (Chemistry) To suspend small particles in the current of a fluid. • entrain v. (Mathematics) To set up or propagate a signal, such as an oscillation. |
| GENTIAN | • gentian n. Any of various herbs of the family Gentianaceae found in temperate and mountainous regions with violet… • gentian n. The dried roots and rhizome of a European gentian (Gentiana lutea), used as a tonic. • GENTIAN n. any plant of the genus Gentiana, herbs, usually blue-flowered, abounding chiefly in alpine regions. |
| INANEST | • inanest adj. Superlative form of inane: most inane. • INANE adj. empty, senseless. |
| INFANTE | • infante n. (Historical) Any son of the king of Spain or Portugal, except the eldest or heir apparent. • Infante prop.n. A surname from Spanish. • INFANTE n. (historical) a title borne by every one of sons of the kings of Spain and Portugal, except the eldest or heir apparent. |
| MANNITE | • mannite n. (Dated, organic chemistry) mannitol. • MANNITE n. a sweet alcohol obtained from manna, also MANNITOL. |
| NANITES | • nanites n. Plural of nanite. • NANITE n. a microscopically small machine or device, perhaps only a few atoms wide, manufactured using nanotechnology. |
| NEATNIK | • neatnik n. A stickler for neatness or cleanliness. • NEATNIK n. a compulsively neat person. |
| PANTINE | • PANTINE n. (obsolete) a pasteboard jumping-jack, fashionable in the 18th century. |
| PINNATE | • pinnate adj. Resembling a feather. • pinnate adj. (Botany) Having two rows of branches, lobes, leaflets, or veins arranged on each side of a common axis. • pinnate adj. (Zoology) Having a winglike tuft of long feathers on each side of the neck. |
| STANINE | • stanine n. A method of scaling test scores on a nine-point standard scale with a mean of five and a standard deviation of two. • STANINE n. a nine-point scale on which test scores can be grouped in descending order of achievement, first developed by the US Air Force. |
| TANNIES | • tannies n. Plural of tannie. • TANNIE n. (South African) literally aunt, a title of respect for an elderly woman. |
| TRANNIE | • trannie n. Alternative spelling of tranny (“mechanical transmission”). • TRANNIE n. (colloquial) transistor, also TRANNY. |