| ACADEMICAL | • academical adj. (Rare) Belonging to the school of Plato; believing in Plato’s philosophy; sceptical . • academical adj. Pertaining to a university or other form of higher education. • academical n. (Plural only) Academic dress, consisting of a cap and gown. |
| ACCIDENTAL | • accidental adj. Pertaining to accident and not essence; thus, inessential; incidental; secondary. • accidental adj. (Music) Adjusted by one or two semitones, in temporary departure from the key signature. • accidental adj. Occurring sometimes, by chance; occasional. |
| ACCLAIMERS | • acclaimers n. Plural of acclaimer. • ACCLAIMER n. one who acclaims. |
| ACCLIMATED | • acclimated adj. Accustomed, adapted or hardened to some environment. • acclimated v. (Chiefly US) simple past tense and past participle of acclimate. • ACCLIMATE v. (US) to habituate to a climate not native, also ACCLIMATIZE. |
| ACCLIMATES | • acclimates v. Third-person singular simple present indicative form of acclimate. • ACCLIMATE v. (US) to habituate to a climate not native, also ACCLIMATIZE. |
| ACICULATED | • aciculated adj. Alternative form of aciculate. • ACICULATED adj. marked as if with needle scratches, also ACICULATE. |
| ALCAICERIA | • ALCAICERIA n. (Spanish) a bazaar. |
| ALCHEMICAL | • alchemical adj. (Chemistry) Of or pertaining to the medieval chemical science and philosophy of alchemy. • alchemical adj. Of or pertaining to an unexplainable transmutation. • alchemical adj. Of or pertaining to the creation of something special out of a common material. |
| CAECILIANS | • caecilians n. Plural of caecilian. • CAECILIAN n. a tropical burrowing, wormlike amphibian, also COECILIAN. |
| CAILLEACHS | • cailleachs n. Plural of cailleach. • CAILLEACH n. (Gaelic) an old woman, also CAILLACH, CAILLIACH. |
| CALCEATING | • CALCEATE v. to shoe. |
| CALCINABLE | • calcinable adj. That may be calcined. • CALCINABLE adj. that may be calcined; as, a calcinable fossil. |
| CATALECTIC | • catalectic adj. (Poetry) (said of a line with incomplete meter) lacking a syllable at the end or ending with an incomplete foot. • catalectic adj. Incomplete; partial; not affecting the whole of a substance. • catalectic n. (Poetry) A line with incomplete meter, lacking a syllable at the end or ending with an incomplete foot. |
| CATALEPTIC | • cataleptic adj. Pertaining to, or affected by, catalepsy. • cataleptic n. A person experiencing catalepsy. • CATALEPTIC adj. afflicted with catalepsy. |
| CLAMANCIES | • CLAMANCY n. urgency. |
| CLAVICULAE | • claviculae n. Plural of clavicula. • claviculæ n. Archaic form of claviculae. • CLAVICULA n. (Latin) the collarbone, also CLAVICLE. |
| CLOACALINE | • cloacaline adj. Synonym of cloacal. • CLOACALINE adj. relating to the cloaca, also CLOACAL, CLOACINAL. |
| MECHANICAL | • mechanical adj. (Now rare) Characteristic of someone who does manual labour for a living; coarse, vulgar. • mechanical adj. Related to mechanics (the branch of physics that deals with forces acting on mass). • mechanical adj. Related to mechanics (the design and construction of machines). |
| PRAECOCIAL | • praecocial adj. (Zoology) Of or relating to the Praecoces. • PRAECOCIAL adj. of or relating to birds whose young are hatched with a covering of down and can leave the nest at once to seek food, also PRECOCIAL. |
| REACCLAIMS | • REACCLAIM v. to acclaim again. |