| ACCENTUAL | • accentual adj. Of or pertaining to accent; characterized or formed by accent. • accentual adj. Designating verse rhythms based on stress accents. • ACCENTUAL adj. of or pertaining to accent. |
| ACCOURAGE | • accourage v. (Obsolete) To encourage. • ACCOURAGE v. (Spenser) to encourage, also ACCORAGE, ENCOURAGE. |
| ACCRUABLE | • accruable adj. Able to be accrued. • ACCRUABLE adj. capable of being accrued. |
| ACCUSABLE | • accusable adj. Liable to be accused or censured; chargeable with a crime or breach; blamable. • ACCUSABLE adj. liable to be accused; chargeable with a crime or fault. |
| ACICULATE | • aciculate adj. Furnished with aciculae. • aciculate adj. Acicular (needle-shaped). • aciculate adj. Marked with fine irregular streaks as if scratched by a needle. |
| ACUTANCES | • acutances n. Plural of acutance. • ACUTANCE n. a measure of photographic clarity. |
| CACAFUEGO | • cacafuego n. A spitfire. • cacafuego n. (By extension) A braggart. • CACAFUEGO n. (Spanish) a spitfire, blusterer, also CACAFOGO. |
| CALCANEUM | • calcaneum n. (Anatomy) The calcaneus. • CALCANEUM n. (Latin) one of the bones of the tarsus which in man forms the great bone of the heel, also CALCANEUS. |
| CALCANEUS | • calcaneus n. The large bone making up the heel of the human foot, the heel bone. • CALCANEUS n. (Latin) one of the bones of the tarsus which in man forms the great bone of the heel, also CALCANEUM. |
| CALCULATE | • calculate v. (Transitive, mathematics) To determine the value of something or the solution to something by a mathematical process. • calculate v. (Intransitive, mathematics) To determine values or solutions by a mathematical process; reckon. • calculate v. (Intransitive, US, dialect) To plan; to expect; to think. |
| CARUCAGES | • carucages n. Plural of carucage. • CARUCAGE n. a feudal tax levied on each carucate of land, i.e. as much land as may be tilled in a year and a day by one plough. |
| CARUCATES | • carucates n. Plural of carucate. • CARUCATE n. (historical) as much land as may be tilled in a year and a day by one plough. |
| CAUCHEMAR | • cauchemar n. (Folklore) A demon or witch in French folklore that drains a sleeping person’s energy by night. • CAUCHEMAR n. (French) a nightmare. |
| CRUSTACEA | • crustacea n. Plural of crustacean. • Crustacea prop.n. A taxonomic subphylum within the phylum Arthropoda – crustaceans. • CRUSTACEA n. a large class of arthropod animals with hard shells. |
| CUMACEANS | • cumaceans n. Plural of cumacean. • CUMACEAN n. a small crustacean living on the seabed. |
| SACCULATE | • sacculate adj. Sacculated. • SACCULATE adj. formed in a series of saclike enclosures, also SACCULATED. |