| ACCESSARY | • accessary n. (Law) Someone who accedes to some act, now especially a crime; one who contributes as an assistant or… • accessary adj. (Law) Accompanying as a subordinate; additional; accessory; especially, uniting in, or contributing… • ACCESSARY adj. accompanying, as a subordinate, also ACCESSORY. |
| ACCESSORY | • accessory adj. Having a secondary, supplementary or subordinate function by accompanying as a subordinate; aiding in… • accessory adj. (Law) Assisting a crime without actually participating in committing the crime itself; being connected… • accessory adj. Present in a minor amount, and not essential. |
| CARYOPSES | • caryopses n. Plural of caryopsis. • CARYOPSIS n. (Greek) a dry indehiscent fruit characteristic of grasses. |
| CARYOPSIS | • caryopsis n. (Botany) A type of fruit in which the fruit skin is stuck to the seed coat; especially the grain of a cereal. • CARYOPSIS n. (Greek) a dry indehiscent fruit characteristic of grasses. |
| CASSOWARY | • cassowary n. A large flightless bird of the genus Casuarius that is native to Australia and New Guinea, has a characteristic… • CASSOWARY n. (Malay) any large flightless bird of the genus Casuarius, related to the emu. |
| CASUISTRY | • casuistry n. The process of answering practical questions via interpretation of rules, or of cases that illustrate… • casuistry n. (Derogatory) A specious argument designed to defend an action or feeling. • CASUISTRY n. plausible but flawed moral reasoning. |
| CHRYSALIS | • chrysalis n. The pupa of a butterfly or moth, enclosed inside a cocoon, in which metamorphosis takes place. • chrysalis n. The cocoon itself. • chrysalis n. (Figurative) A limiting environment or situation. |
| CHUPRASSY | • chuprassy n. Alternative form of chaprasi. • CHUPRASSY n. (Urdu) an office messenger, a household attendant, also CHAPRASSI. |
| CROSSWAYS | • crossways n. Plural of crossway. • crossways adv. Transversely; crosswise. • CROSSWAY n. a road that crosses another road. |
| CRYOSTATS | • cryostats n. Plural of cryostat. • CRYOSTAT n. a refrigeration apparatus. |
| CYTASTERS | • CYTASTER n. a structure formed in a cell. |
| DYSCHROAS | • DYSCHROA n. discoloration of the skin from disease, also DYSCHROIA. |
| DYSCRASIA | • dyscrasia n. (Ancient usage) Imbalance of the four bodily humors (blood, black and yellow bile, phlegm) that was… • dyscrasia n. (Modern usage) Any bodily disorder, especially regarding the blood. • DYSCRASIA n. (obsolete) a disordered condition of the body attributed originally to unsuitable mixing of the body fluids or humours. |
| DYSCRASIC | • dyscrasic adj. Of or relating to dyscrasia. • DYSCRASIC adj. relating to dyscrasia, a disordered condition of the body, also DYSCRATIC. |
| NECESSARY | • necessary adj. Required, essential, whether logically inescapable or needed in order to achieve a desired result or… • necessary adj. Unavoidable, inevitable. • necessary adj. (Obsolete) Determined, involuntary: acting from compulsion rather than free will. |
| SPAGYRICS | • spagyrics n. Plural of spagyric. • SPAGYRICS n. the science of alchemy. |
| SYCAMORES | • sycamores n. Plural of sycamore. • SYCAMORE n. the great maple. |