| ACCRUING | • accruing v. Present participle of accrue. • accruing n. An amount that is accrued. • ACCRUE v. to accumulate, also ACCREW. |
| ACENTRIC | • acentric adj. Not centered; without a centre. • acentric n. A segment of a chromosome that lacks a centromere. • ACENTRIC adj. without a centre. |
| ANARCHIC | • anarchic adj. Relating to, supporting, or likely to cause anarchy. • anarchic adj. Chaotic, without law or order. • anarchic adj. (Somewhat pejorative) Free-spirited; not bound by the rigors or expectations of society. |
| CANCRINE | • cancrine adj. (Rare) Of or pertaining to crabs. • cancrine adj. (Poetry) Palindromic; reading the same forwards or backwards. • cancrine adj. (By extension) Of or pertaining to reading something backwards. |
| CANCROID | • cancroid adj. Resembling a crab. • cancroid adj. Of or pertaining to cancer, especially to squamous cell carcinoma. • cancroid n. (Pathology) Any disease that resembles cancer. |
| CARBONIC | • carbonic adj. Of or relating to carbon. • CARBONIC adj. of or relating to carbon, as in carbonic acid. |
| CAVICORN | • cavicorn adj. (Zoology) Having hollow horns. • cavicorn n. (Zoology) Any animal having hollow horns. • cavicorn n. (Obsolete) A hollow-horned ruminant, one of a group formerly treated taxonomically as Cavicornia. |
| CHANCIER | • chancier adj. Comparative form of chancy: more chancy. • CHANCY adj. risky, also CHANCEY. |
| CHARACIN | • characin n. Any of many diverse fish, of the order Characiformes, related to the carp and catfish and including… • CHARACIN n. any carnivorous freshwater fish of the family Characidae, which includes the pirana, also CHARACID. |
| CHICANER | • chicaner n. One who uses chicanery. • CHICANER n. a person who chicanes, a quibbler. |
| COCINERA | • cocinera n. A female cook, in Spanish-speaking regions. • COCINERA n. (Spanish) a cook. |
| CRACKING | • cracking n. (Chemistry) The thermal decomposition of a substance, especially that of crude petroleum in order to… • cracking n. The formation of cracks on a surface. • cracking n. The production of a crack sound. |
| CRATONIC | • cratonic adj. Of or pertaining to a craton. • CRATONIC adj. relating to a craton. |
| CRUCIANS | • crucians n. Plural of crucian. • CRUCIAN n. a colourful carp, also CRUSIAN. |
| CYANURIC | • cyanuric adj. (Organic chemistry) Of, related to, or derived from cyanuric acid. • CYANURIC adj. as in cyanuric acid, a white crystalline powder commonly used to stabilize chlorine in swimming pools. |
| DRACONIC | • draconic adj. Relating to or suggestive of dragons. • draconic adj. (Rare, dated, has been replaced by "draconian") Very severe or strict; draconian. • DRACONIC adj. unusually harsh, also DRACONIAN, DRACONTIC. |
| NARCOTIC | • narcotic n. (Pharmacology) Any substance or drug that reduces pain, induces sleep and may alter mood or behaviour;… • narcotic n. Any type of numbing or soothing drug. • narcotic adj. Of, or relating to narcotics. |