| ABDICATION | • abdication n. (Obsolete) The act of disowning or disinheriting a child. • abdication n. The act of abdicating; the renunciation of a high office, dignity, or trust, by its holder. • abdication n. The voluntary renunciation of sovereign power. |
| ABREACTION | • abreaction n. (Psychoanalysis) The re-living of an experience with a view to purging its emotional dross. • ABREACTION n. the resolution of a neurosis by reviving forgotten or repressed ideas of the event first causing it. |
| ACCUBATION | • accubation n. The act or posture of reclining on a couch, as practiced by the ancients at meals. • ACCUBATION n. the act of reclining while eating. |
| ACTIONABLE | • actionable adj. That can be acted on; that can be used as the basis for taking action. • actionable adj. (Law) Affording grounds for legal action. • ACTIONABLE adj. that can be actioned. |
| ACTIONABLY | • actionably adv. In an actionable manner. • ACTIONABLE adv. that can be actioned. |
| ANABOLITIC | • anabolitic adj. (Biochemistry) Relating to anabolism or to anabolites. • ANABOLITIC adj. relating to an anabolite, a product of anabolism. |
| BOTANICALS | • botanicals n. Plural of botanical. • BOTANICAL n. a drug made from vegetable matter. |
| CANALBOATS | • CANALBOAT n. a boat used on canals. |
| CARBONATED | • carbonated adj. Containing carbon dioxide gas under pressure, especially pertaining to beverages, as natural mineral… • carbonated adj. (Mineralogy) Containing calcium carbonate, often as a result of mineral carbonation. • carbonated v. Simple past tense and past participle of carbonate. |
| CARBONATES | • carbonates n. Plural of carbonate. • CARBONATE v. to combine or impregnate with carbon dioxide. |
| COHABITANT | • cohabitant n. A person who cohabits with another. • COHABITANT n. one who dwells with another, or in the same place or country. |
| COMBATANTS | • combatants n. Plural of combatant. • COMBATANT n. one engaged in combat. |
| CONTRABAND | • contraband n. (Uncountable) Any goods which are illicit or illegal to possess. • contraband n. (Uncountable) Goods which are prohibited from being traded, smuggled goods. • contraband n. (Countable, US, historical) A black slave during the American Civil War who had escaped to, or been… |
| CONTRABASS | • contrabass n. The part or section one octave lower than bass. • contrabass n. Double bass; string bass. • contrabass n. Any of the several contrabass instruments. |
| OUTBALANCE | • outbalance v. To have more influence or significance than another; to preponderate or outweigh. • OUTBALANCE v. to outweigh; to exceed in weight or effect. |