| ACQUITTALS | • acquittals n. Plural of acquittal. • ACQUITTAL n. the act of acquitting. |
| ACTUALISTS | • actualists n. Plural of actualist. • ACTUALIST n. a person who deals with or considers actual facts. |
| ACTUALITES | • ACTUALITE n. (French) the real state of affairs. |
| ACTUATIONS | • actuations n. Plural of actuation. • ACTUATION n. a bringing into action; an effecting. |
| AUSCULTATE | • auscultate v. To listen (for example to the heart or lungs) by auscultation; to examine by auscultation. • AUSCULTATE v. to listen to the sounds made by internal organs (heart, lungs, etc.) to aid in a medical diagnosis. |
| AUTARCHIST | • autarchist n. A proponent of autarchy. • AUTARCHIST n. one who practises autarchy. |
| AUTOMATICS | • automatics n. Plural of automatic. • AUTOMATIC n. an automatic gun. |
| CATAMOUNTS | • catamounts n. Plural of catamount. • CATAMOUNT n. any of various large wild cats, applied esp. to the leopard, panther or ocelot, also CATAMOUNTAIN. |
| CAUTERANTS | • cauterants n. Plural of cauterant. • CAUTERANT n. a cauterizing substance. |
| FACTUALIST | • factualist n. A proponent of factualism. • FACTUALIST n. one who adheres to facts. |
| PUTTANESCA | • puttanesca n. A cooking sauce made from tomato flavoured with garlic, anchovies, capers and olives, created in Naples. • puttanesca adj. (Usually postpositive) Served with puttanesca sauce. |
| REACTUATES | • reactuates v. Third-person singular simple present indicative form of reactuate. • REACTUATE v. to actuate again. |
| SUBACETATE | • subacetate n. (Chemistry) An acetate containing an excess of the basic constituent. • SUBACETATE n. an acetate in smaller proportion. |
| SURFACTANT | • surfactant n. (Chemistry) A surface-active agent, or wetting agent, capable of reducing the surface tension of a liquid;… • surfactant n. (Biochemistry) A lipoprotein in the tissues of the lung that reduces surface tension and permits more… • SURFACTANT n. a substance which reduces surface tension. |