| ACQUIREE | • acquiree n. Something that is to be acquired, especially a company that is the target of a takeover. • ACQUIREE n. one that is acquired. |
| BARBECUE | • barbecue n. A fireplace or pit for grilling food, typically used outdoors and traditionally employing hot charcoal… • barbecue n. A meal or event highlighted by food cooked in such an apparatus. • barbecue n. Meat, especially pork or beef, which has been cooked in such an apparatus (i.e. smoked over indirect… |
| BERCEAUX | • BERCEAU n. (French) a cradle, a covered walk. |
| CAESURAE | • caesurae n. Plural of caesura. • cæsuræ n. Plural of cæsura. • CAESURA n. (Latin) a pause in a line of verse, also CESURA. |
| CARDECUE | • cardecue n. (Historical) An old French coin worth one quarter of an écu. • CARDECUE n. (French) an old French coin, also CARDECU. |
| CAUSERIE | • causerie n. An informal conversation, or casual short written article, especially on a serious topic. • CAUSERIE n. (French) a light and informal conversation; a brief, conversational essay. |
| CERULEAN | • cerulean n. (Countable and uncountable, color) A greenish-blue color. • cerulean n. (Countable) Any of various lycaenid butterflies of the genus Jamides. • cerulean adj. Sky-blue. |
| CREATURE | • creature n. A living being; an animal. • creature n. An unidentified, mysterious, and often monstrous animal or being. • creature n. (Sometimes derogatory) A human. |
| ECRASEUR | • ecraseur n. (Surgery) A surgical instrument intended to replace the knife in many operations, the parts operated… • écraseur n. Alternative form of ecraseur. • ECRASEUR n. (French) a surgical instrument in the form of a wire or chain loop which cuts as it tightens. |
| ENACTURE | • enacture n. (Obsolete) action, act of enacting. • ENACTURE n. (Shakespeare) a performance, a fulfilment. |
| ERUCTATE | • eructate v. (Formal, intransitive) To burp; to belch. • ERUCTATE v. to belch out, also ERUCT. |
| FARCEUSE | • farceuse n. A female farceur. • FARCEUSE n. (French) a (female) writer of farces. |
| HEUCHERA | • heuchera n. Any of the genus Heuchera of herbaceous perennial plants; coral bells, alumroot. • Heuchera prop.n. A taxonomic genus within the family Saxifragaceae – alumroots and coralbells. • HEUCHERA n. a North American plant with heart-shaped leaves and mostly red flowers. |
| PERACUTE | • peracute adj. Very sharp; very violent. • PERACUTE adj. violent. |
| REACCUSE | • reaccuse v. (Transitive) To accuse again. • REACCUSE v. to accuse again. |
| SECATEUR | • SECATEUR n. (French) a pruning tool. |
| SURCEASE | • surcease n. Cessation; stop, stopping; end. Respite, intermission. • surcease v. (Intransitive) To come to an end; to desist. • surcease v. (Transitive) To bring to an end. |
| ULCERATE | • ulcerate adj. (Palynology, of a pollen grain) Having an ulcus, a rounded pore-like aperture, at one or both poles. • ulcerate v. (Medicine, transitive) To cause an ulcer to develop. • ulcerate v. (Medicine, intransitive) To become ulcerous. |
| UNCREATE | • uncreate v. (Transitive) To kill; to destroy; to deprive of existence; to annihilate. • uncreate v. (Transitive) To undo the act of creating. • UNCREATE v. to deprive of existence. |
| VERRUCAE | • verrucae n. Plural of verruca. • VERRUCA n. (Latin) a plantar wart. |