| ADRENERGIC | • adrenergic adj. Having the quality of adrenaline or epinephrine. • adrenergic adj. Containing or releasing adrenaline. • adrenergic adj. Activated by an adrenal mechanism. |
| ANECDOTAGE | • anecdotage n. Anecdotes considered as a group. • anecdotage n. Garrulous old age. • ANECDOTAGE n. anecdotes collectively; a collection of anecdotes. |
| ANTECEDING | • anteceding v. Present participle of antecede. • ANTECEDE v. to go before. |
| CENTIGRADE | • centigrade adj. (Of a scale) Having 100 divisions between two fixed points. • centigrade adj. Celsius (since 1948). • centigrade n. (Uncountable) A centigrade temperature scale having the freezing point of water defined as 0° and its… |
| CHALLENGED | • challenged adj. (Euphemistic) Lacking some physical or mental attribute or skill ; used after adverbs to make politically… • challenged adj. (Humorous) Used following adverbs to make adjectives in imitation of and mocking adjectives of this kind. • challenged v. Simple past tense and past participle of challenge. |
| DECADELONG | • decadelong adj. Alternative spelling of decade-long. • decade-long adj. Extending over a decade. • decade␣long adj. Alternative spelling of decade-long. |
| DECREASING | • decreasing v. Present participle of decrease. • DECREASING adj. diminishing. • DECREASING n. the act of diminishing. |
| DEFECATING | • defecating v. Present participle of defecate. • DEFECATE v. to void excrement, also DEFAECATE. |
| DEGENERACY | • degeneracy n. The state of being degenerate (in all senses). • degeneracy n. (Neuroscience) The ability of one part of the brain to take over another’s function without being overexerted. • DEGENERACY n. the state of being degenerate. |
| DIAGENETIC | • diagenetic adj. (Geology) of, or relating to diagenesis. • DIAGENETIC adj. pertaining to changes, such as recrystallization and replacement, that take place in sediments after their deposition. |
| ENCOURAGED | • encouraged v. Simple past tense and past participle of encourage. • ENCOURAGE v. to hearten, also ACCORAGE, ACCOURAGE. |
| ENDECAGONS | • endecagons n. Plural of endecagon. • ENDECAGON n. an eleven-sided polygon, also HENDECAGON. |
| GRANDNIECE | • grandniece n. A granddaughter of one’s sibling; a daughter of one’s nephew or niece. (Brother’s granddaughter: fraternal… • GRANDNIECE n. the granddaughter of one's brother or sister. |
| HENDECAGON | • hendecagon n. (Geometry) a polygon with eleven edges and eleven angles. • HENDECAGON n. an eleven-sided polygon, also ENDECAGON. |
| MEDEVACING | • medevacing v. Present participle of medevac. • MEDEVAC v. to evacuate the wounded from a battlefield by helicopter, also MEDIVAC. |
| MEDIAGENIC | • mediagenic adj. Thought of by the news media as an attractive subject. • MEDIAGENIC adj. able to present a good image in the media. |
| PAEDOGENIC | • paedogenic adj. Alternative form of pedogenic. • PAEDOGENIC adj. of an animal, reproducing in the larval stage. |
| PHAGEDENIC | • phagedenic adj. Relating to phagedena. • PHAGEDENIC adj. relating to phagedena, hospital gangrene, also PHAGEDAENIC. |
| REACCEDING | • reacceding v. Present participle of reaccede. • REACCEDE v. to accede again. |
| RECTANGLED | • rectangled adj. (Obsolete) rectangular. • rectangled adj. (Slang) tangled (from a rebracketing of "rectangle" as "rec tangle"). • RECTANGLED adj. rectangular. |