| ADHOCRACY | • adhocracy n. (Business, organizational theory) An organizational system designed to be flexible and responsive to… • ad-hocracy n. Alternative form of adhocracy. • ad␣hocracy n. Alternative form of adhocracy. |
| ARCHDUCAL | • archducal adj. Pertaining to an archduke or archduchess. • ARCHDUCAL adj. of or pertaining to an archduke or archduchy. |
| ARCHDUCHY | • archduchy n. The territory (principality) of an archduke. • ARCHDUCHY n. the territory of an archduke or archduchess. |
| CARDPUNCH | • cardpunch n. Alternative form of card punch. • card␣punch n. (Computing, historical) A machine that punches holes in a punch card. • CARDPUNCH n. a machine which perforates cards to record data. |
| CATCHWORD | • catchword n. (Printing, historical) A word under the right-hand side of the last line on a book page that repeats… • catchword n. (Theater) The last word of a speech, serving as a cue for the next speaker. • catchword n. A word or expression repeated until it becomes representative of a party, school, business, or point of view. |
| CHANCROID | • chancroid n. (Pathology) A sexually transmitted infection, caused by bacteria of species Haemophilus ducreyi, characterized… • chancroid n. A sore characteristic of this infection. • CHANCROID n. a type of venereal sore. |
| CHARACIDS | • characids n. Plural of characid. • CHARACID n. any carnivorous freshwater fish of the family Characidae, which includes the pirana, also CHARACIN. |
| CHILDCARE | • childcare n. (Uncountable) The act, practice, or occupation of supervising and taking care of young children. • childcare n. (Countable) A place where young children are supervised while away from their parents or guardians. • CHILDCARE n. care of children, esp. as professionally provided. |
| CLOCHARDS | • clochards n. Plural of clochard. • CLOCHARD n. (French) a beggar; a vagrant. |
| COCHAIRED | • cochaired v. Simple past tense and past participle of cochair. • co-chaired v. Simple past tense and past participle of co-chair. • COCHAIR v. to serve jointly as chairman. |
| CRACKHEAD | • crackhead n. (Derogatory, slang) A person who is addicted to or regularly uses crack cocaine. • crackhead n. (Derogatory, slang, US) Someone whose thinking makes no sense; a fool or an idiot. • crack␣head n. Alternative spelling of crackhead. |
| CRAUNCHED | • craunched v. Simple past tense and past participle of craunch. • CRAUNCH v. (dialect) to chew with a crackling sound, also CRUNCH, CRANCH. |
| DECACHORD | • decachord n. An Ancient Greek musical instrument with ten strings, resembling the harp. • decachord n. Anything having ten parts. • DECACHORD n. an old ten-stringed musical instrument. |
| DECKCHAIR | • deckchair n. Alternative spelling of deck chair. • deck-chair n. Alternative spelling of deck chair. • deck␣chair n. A folding chair in which a wooden frame supports a length of canvas; traditionally used on the beach… |
| OCTACHORD | • octachord n. A musical instrument with eight strings. • octachord n. A musical system of eight tones. • OCTACHORD n. an instrument of eight strings; a system of eight tones. |
| RADICCHIO | • radicchio n. A cultivar of chicory (Cichorium intybus var. foliosum) with red leaves and a slightly bitter taste… • RADICCHIO n. (Italian) a purple-leaved variety of chicory from Italy. |
| SCRAICHED | • SCRAICH v. (Scots) to screech, shriek, also SCRAIGH, SCREECH, SCREICH, SCREIGH, SCRIECH, SCRITCH, SKREEGH, SKREIGH, SKRIECH, SKRIEGH. |
| SCRANCHED | • scranched v. Simple past tense and past participle of scranch. • SCRANCH v. to crunch. |
| SCRATCHED | • scratched adj. Produced by scratching. • scratched v. Simple past tense and past participle of scratch. • SCRATCH v. to make a thin, shallow cut on, also SCRAB, SCRAT, SCRATTLE, SCRAWM. |
| SCRAUCHED | • SCRAUCH v. (Scots) to squawk, also SCRAUGH. |