| ABACTERIAL | • abacterial adj. Not caused by bacteria; characterized by a lack of bacteria. • ABACTERIAL adj. not caused by or characterised by the presence of bacteria. |
| ACROAMATIC | • acroamatic adj. Esoteric, abstruse; (in particular) taught orally to select students and not disseminated. • acroamatic adj. (Education) Based on lectures or exposition by monologue. • ACROAMATIC adj. abstruse, esoteric, also ACROAMATICAL. |
| ATARACTICS | • ataractics n. Plural of ataractic. • ATARACTIC n. a tranquillizing drug, also ATARAXIC. |
| AUTARKICAL | • autarkical adj. Autarkic. • AUTARKICAL adj. relating to autarky, absolute sovereignty, also AUTARCHIC, AUTARCHICAL, AUTARKIC. |
| BATRACHIAN | • batrachian n. (Rare) A frog or toad. • batrachian adj. Pertaining to or resembling a frog or toad. • BATRACHIAN adj. pertaining to frogs or toads. |
| CACCIATORA | • cacciatora n. A style of cooking in which meat is cooked in a sauce containing mushrooms, shallots, tomatoes, white wine and herbs. • CACCIATORA adj. (Italian) of meat, cooked with tomatoes, mushrooms, onions and herbs, also CACCIATORE. |
| CARICATURA | • caricatura n. Archaic form of caricature. • CARICATURA n. (Italian) a caricature. |
| CARYATIDAL | • caryatidal adj. Of or relating to a caryatid. • CARYATIDAL adj. of or like a caryatid, a draped female figure supporting an entablature, also CARYATIC, CARYATIDEAN, CARYATIDIC. |
| CATENARIAN | • catenarian adj. Catenary; like a chain. • CATENARIAN adj. of or pertaining to chains. |
| CHARISMATA | • charismata n. Plural of charism. • charismata n. Plural of charisma. • CHARISMA n. (Greek) a special magnetic appeal, also CHARISM. |
| CROTALARIA | • crotalaria n. (Botany) Any of the genus Crotalaria of herbaceous plants and woody shrubs. • Crotalaria prop.n. A taxonomic genus within the family Fabaceae – the rattlepods, of Africa. • CROTALARIA n. any plant of the sunn hemp genus Crotalaria. |
| DRAMATICAL | • dramatical adj. Of, pertaining to, or characteristic of drama or the theatre. • DRAMATICAL adj. of or pertaining to the drama; theatrical. |
| LACTARIANS | • lactarians n. Plural of lactarian. • LACTARIAN n. a vegetarian whose diet includes dairy products. |
| MARCHANTIA | • Marchantia prop.n. A taxonomic genus within the family Marchantiaceae – a group of liverworts. • MARCHANTIA n. a liverwort of the Marchantia genus. |
| PANCRATIAN | • pancratian adj. Athletic. • PANCRATIAN adj. pancratic; athletic. |
| PARATACTIC | • paratactic adj. Pertaining to or using parataxis. • PARATACTIC adj. of pertaining to, or characterized by, parataxis, also PARATACTICAL. |
| RAGMATICAL | • ragmatical adj. (Obsolete) Wild or riotous. • RAGMATICAL adj. riotous, disorderly. |
| SCARLATINA | • scarlatina n. (Pathology) scarlet fever. • SCARLATINA n. scarlet fever. |
| TRACTARIAN | • Tractarian n. (Anglicanism) A member of the Oxford movement. • Tractarian adj. Pertaining to the ideas of Ludwig Wittgenstein’s Tractatus Logico-Philosophicus. • TRACTARIAN n. a writer of tracts, also TRACTATOR. |