| ADOPTIOUS | • adoptious adj. (Obsolete) Adopted. • ADOPTIOUS adj. (Shakespeare) adopted. |
| APIVOROUS | • apivorous adj. That feeds on bees. • APIVOROUS adj. eating bees. |
| ATROCIOUS | • atrocious adj. Frightful, evil, cruel, or monstrous. • atrocious adj. Offensive or heinous. • atrocious adj. Very bad; abominable, disgusting. |
| AUTOCOIDS | • autocoids n. Plural of autocoid. • AUTOCOID n. a hormone secreted into blood, lymph, or sap, also AUTACOID. |
| AUTOGIROS | • autogiros n. Plural of autogiro. • AUTOGIRO n. (Spanish) a rotating wing aircraft, also AUTOGYRO. |
| AUTOICOUS | • autoicous adj. (Botany) autoecious. • AUTOICOUS adj. having male and female reproductive organs on the same plant. |
| BODACIOUS | • bodacious adj. (US) Audacious and unrestrained. • bodacious adj. (US) Incorrigible and insolent. • bodacious adj. (Australia, US, slang) Impressively great in size, and enormous; extraordinary. |
| BOUSOUKIA | • BOUSOUKI n. (Modern Greek) a Greek long-necked lute with 3 or 4 double courses of metal strings, also BAZOUKI, BOUZOUKI, BUZUKI. |
| HOMOUSIAN | • homousian adj. Alternative form of homoousian. • homousian n. Alternative form of homoousian. • HOMOUSIAN n. one who believes God the Son to be the same as God the Father. |
| HOUSTONIA | • houstonia n. (Botany) Any of the genus Houstonia of rubiaceous flowering plants. • Houstonia prop.n. A taxonomic genus within the family Rubiaceae – bluets. • HOUSTONIA n. a small North American plant with blue, white or purple flowers. |
| IONOPAUSE | • ionopause n. The boundary layer of the ionosphere, where it meets the mesosphere or exosphere. • IONOPAUSE n. the region of the earth's atmosphere at the outer limit of the ionosphere. |
| ISOGAMOUS | • isogamous adj. Relating to, or undergoing isogamy. • ISOGAMOUS adj. relating to isogamy, the conjugation of two gametes of equal size and form, also ISOGAMETIC, ISOGAMIC. |
| LABORIOUS | • laborious adj. Requiring much physical effort; toilsome. • laborious adj. Mentally difficult; painstaking. • laborious adj. Industrious. |
| OVIPAROUS | • oviparous adj. Egg-laying; depositing eggs that develop and hatch outside the body as a reproductive strategy. • OVIPAROUS adj. producing offspring through laying eggs which are incubated outside the body. |
| PAROICOUS | • paroicous adj. Alternative form of paroecious. • PAROICOUS adj. of certain mosses, having the male and female reproductive organs near one another, also PARECIOUS, PAROECIOUS. |
| SOLACIOUS | • solacious adj. (Obsolete) Affording solace. • SOLACIOUS adj. (archaic) giving solace. |
| VARIOLOUS | • variolous adj. (Medicine) Of or pertaining to smallpox. • VARIOLOUS adj. of or pertaining to the smallpox. |
| VORACIOUS | • voracious adj. Wanting or devouring great quantities of food. • voracious adj. Having a great appetite for anything. • VORACIOUS adj. greedy. |