| ACCUSATION | • accusation n. The act of accusing. • accusation n. (Law) A formal charge brought against a person in a court of law. • accusation n. An allegation. |
| ACINACEOUS | • acinaceous adj. (Botany) Containing seeds or stones of grapes, or grains like them. • ACINACEOUS adj. full of kernels. |
| ACOUSTICAL | • acoustical adj. Of or pertaining to hearing or acoustics. • ACOUSTICAL adj. relating to the science of sound, also ACOUSTIC. |
| ANACOUSTIC | • anacoustic adj. Anechoic, soundless. • anacoustic adj. (Physics) Describing the upper reaches of the atmosphere, and of space, in which the concentration of… • ANACOUSTIC adj. unable to support the propagation of sound; soundless. |
| AURISCOPIC | • auriscopic adj. Relating to auriscopy. • AURISCOPIC adj. relating to an auriscope, an instrument for examining the ear. |
| AUTOSCOPIC | • autoscopic adj. Relating to autoscopy. • AUTOSCOPIC adj. relating to autoscopy, hallucination of an image of one's body. |
| CACUMINOUS | • cacuminous adj. (Rare) Having a pyramidal top. • CACUMINOUS adj. with pointed or pyramidal top. |
| CAPRICIOUS | • capricious adj. Impulsive and unpredictable; determined by chance, impulse, or whim. • CAPRICIOUS adj. subject to whim; impulsive and unpredictable. |
| CICLATOUNS | • ciclatouns n. Plural of ciclatoun. • CICLATOUN n. (obsolete) a costly cloth, of uncertain material, used in the Middle Ages, also CICLATON. |
| CISTACEOUS | • cistaceous adj. (Botany) Belonging to the family Cistaceae of rockroses. • CISTACEOUS adj. of or like a Cistus, the rockrose genus. |
| CORIACEOUS | • coriaceous adj. (Botany) Resembling leather; leathery. • CORIACEOUS adj. of plant structures, having a leathery appearance, also CORIOUS. |
| COULIBIACS | • coulibiacs n. Plural of coulibiac. • COULIBIAC n. (Russian) a Russian fish pie, also COULIBIACA, KOULIBIACA. |
| CURVACIOUS | • curvacious adj. Alternative form of curvaceous. • CURVACIOUS adj. pleasingly curved, also CURVACEOUS. |
| DIACOUSTIC | • diacoustic adj. Relating to diacoustics. • DIACOUSTIC adj. pertaining to the refraction of sound. |
| ERICACEOUS | • ericaceous adj. (Botany) Of or pertaining to the heath family (Ericaceae). • ericaceous adj. (Especially of a plant) Acid-loving, thriving in acidic conditions. • ericaceous adj. Acidic, acid-based. |
| NOCTILUCAS | • noctilucas n. Plural of noctiluca. • NOCTILUCA n. (Latin) a roughly spherical marine dinoflagellate of the genus Noctiluca, which is strongly phosphorescent. |
| PROCACIOUS | • procacious adj. Bold, forward, insolent. • PROCACIOUS adj. bold; impertinent. |
| SDRUCCIOLA | • sdrucciola adj. (Rare, prosody, of a rhyme) Formed of words stressed on their antepenults and rhyming on all three final syllables. • SDRUCCIOLA adj. (Italian) (of rhyme) triple. |
| SUBOCEANIC | • suboceanic adj. Beneath the surface of the ocean. • SUBOCEANIC adj. below the ocean. |