| 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. |
| ABSCISSION | • abscission n. The act or process of cutting off. • abscission n. (Obsolete) The state of being cut off. • abscission n. (Rhetoric) A figure of speech employed when a speaker having begun to say a thing stops abruptly. |
| AMBISONICS | • ambisonics n. A form of surround sound reproduction, using two or more transmission channels and four or more speakers… • AMBISONICS n. the technique of reproducing and transmitting surround sound. |
| ANABOLITIC | • anabolitic adj. (Biochemistry) Relating to anabolism or to anabolites. • ANABOLITIC adj. relating to an anabolite, a product of anabolism. |
| ANTIBIOTIC | • antibiotic n. (Pharmacology) Any substance that can destroy or inhibit the growth of bacteria and similar microorganisms… • antibiotic adj. (Pharmacology) Of or relating to antibiotics. • antibiotic adj. (Obsolete) Of or relating to the theory that extraterrestrial life does not exist. |
| BASILICONS | • basilicons n. Plural of basilicon. • BASILICON n. (Greek) any of several ointments supposed to possess sovereign virtues. |
| BILOCATION | • bilocation n. (Forteana) The ability to be, or fact of being, in two places at once. • BILOCATION n. the ability to be in two places at once. |
| BIODYNAMIC | • biodynamic adj. Of, or relating to the effects of motion on living things. • biodynamic adj. (Anthroposophy, agriculture, pseudoscience) Of, or relating to a form of organic agriculture with mystical… • biodynamic adj. (New Age, psychoanalysis, pseudoscience) Of, or relating to a form of psychotherapy, massage and energy… |
| BIOHACKING | • biohacking n. (Informal) The manipulation of biological functioning through, among others, genetics, nutrition and… |
| BIONICALLY | • bionically adv. In a bionic manner. • bionically adv. With regard to bionics. |
| COHABITING | • cohabiting v. Present participle of cohabit. • COHABIT v. to dwell together as husband and wife. |
| CRIBRATION | • cribration n. The separation of the finer parts of drugs from the coarser parts by sifting. • CRIBRATION n. sifting. |
| ICEBOATING | • iceboating n. The act of travelling in a iceboat. • ICEBOATING n. the sport of using an iceboat. |
| INCUBATION | • incubation n. Sitting on eggs for the purpose of hatching young; a brooding on, or keeping warm, to develop the life… • incubation n. (Pathology) The development of a disease from its causes, or the period of such development. • incubation n. (Chemistry) A period of little reaction which is followed by more rapid reaction. |
| INSOCIABLE | • insociable adj. Not sociable or companionable. • insociable adj. (Obsolete) Incapable of being associated, joined, or connected. • INSOCIABLE adj. unsociable. |
| INSOCIABLY | • insociably adv. In an insociable manner. • INSOCIABLE adv. unsociable. |
| TIBOUCHINA | • tibouchina n. Any of various species of myrtalean trees of the genus Tibouchina, native to tropical America, many… • Tibouchina prop.n. A taxonomic genus within the family Melastomataceae – certain flowering plants. • TIBOUCHINA n. a plant of the Tibouchina genus of shrubs, with purple flowers. |