| ACCOUNTING | • accounting v. Present participle of account. • accounting n. (Business) The development and use of a system for recording and analyzing the financial transactions… • accounting n. A relaying of events; justification of actions. |
| ANTICANCER | • anticancer adj. (Medicine) That is used to treat cancer. • anti-cancer adj. Alternative form of anticancer. • ANTICANCER adj. of a drug, designed to prevent cancer. |
| CACHINNATE | • cachinnate v. (Intransitive) To laugh loudly, immoderately, or too often. • CACHINNATE v. to laugh loudly or immoderately. |
| CALCITONIN | • calcitonin n. (Biochemistry) A polypeptide hormone secreted by the thyroid gland that has the effect of lowering blood calcium. • calcitonin n. (Pharmacology) A synthetic or recombinant form of calcitonin used to treat Paget disease of bone and… • CALCITONIN n. a hormone secreted by the thyroid gland, controlling the rate of bone destruction. |
| CANONICATE | • canonicate n. The office of a canon; a canonry. • CANONICATE n. the rank or office of a canon. |
| CANONICITY | • canonicity n. The degree to which something is canonical. • CANONICITY n. the state of being canonical. |
| CANONISTIC | • canonistic adj. Of or pertaining to a canonist. • CANONISTIC adj. of or pertaining to a canonist. |
| CANTICOING | • CANTICO v. (Native American) to dance as an act of worship, also KANTIKOY, CANTICOY. |
| CINCINNATE | • CINCINNATE adj. relating to a cincinnus, a type of inflorescence. |
| COENACTING | • coenacting v. Present participle of coenact. • COENACT v. to enact together. |
| CONCERTINA | • concertina n. (Music) A musical instrument, like the various accordions, that is a member of the free-reed family… • concertina n. Something resembling a concertina, such as a folded book, a bus door or a set of picture frames that… • concertina n. Coiled barbed wire for use as an obstacle. |
| CONTACTING | • contacting v. Present participle of contact. • CONTACT v. to communicate with. |
| CUNCTATION | • cunctation n. (Obsolete) Delay, hesitation, procrastination. • CUNCTATION n. delay; procrastination. |
| FANTOCCINI | • fantoccini n. Puppets caused to enact dramatic scenes by means of machinery. • fantoccini n. The puppet shows in which they are used. • FANTOCCINI n. (Italian) mechanically worked puppets used in street theatre. |
| INDUCTANCE | • inductance n. (Physics) The property of an electric circuit by which a voltage is induced in it by a changing magnetic field. • inductance n. The quantity of the resulting electromagnetic flux divided by the current that produces it, measured… • INDUCTANCE n. the property of inducing an electromotive force by variation of current in a circuit. |
| NONASCETIC | • nonascetic adj. Not ascetic. • nonascetic n. One who is not an ascetic. • NONASCETIC n. one who is not ascetic. |
| SCINTISCAN | • scintiscan n. A scintigram. • scintiscan v. (Transitive) To produce a scintigram of. • SCINTISCAN n. a 2-D image from a radioisotope scan, also SCINTILLISCAN. |
| TECHNICIAN | • technician n. A person who studies or practises technology; an expert in a particular technology. • TECHNICIAN n. a specialist in the technical details of a subject or occupation. |