| AGRYPNOTIC | • agrypnotic adj. (Medicine) Preventing sleep; causing wakefulness; insomniac. • agrypnotic n. (Medicine) A medication that prevents sleep. • AGRYPNOTIC n. a drug or agent that reduces insomnia. |
| CACOGRAPHY | • cacography n. Bad spelling or punctuation, especially unintuitive spellings considered as a feature of a whole language or dialect. • cacography n. Poor or illegible handwriting. • CACOGRAPHY n. bad handwriting (the antithesis of calligraphy) or orthography. |
| CARPHOLOGY | • carphology n. Alternative form of carphologia. • CARPHOLOGY n. fitful plucking movements as in delirium. |
| CEROGRAPHY | • cerography n. The art of making characters or designs in, or with, wax. • cerography n. A method of making stereotype plates from inscribed sheets of wax. • CEROGRAPHY n. writing or printing on plates spread with wax. |
| COPROPHAGY | • coprophagy n. The eating of feces. • COPROPHAGY n. feeding on dung. |
| COPYGRAPHS | • copygraphs n. Plural of copygraph. • COPYGRAPH n. a process for copying type. |
| CRYPTOGAMS | • cryptogams n. Plural of cryptogam. • CRYPTOGAM n. a plant reproducing by spores and not seeds, e.g. ferns, mosses, fungi etc. |
| CRYPTOGAMY | • cryptogamy n. The condition of being a cryptogam. • cryptogamy n. Cryptogamic botany. • CRYPTOGAMY n. the state of being a cryptogam, reproducing by spores and not seeds. |
| CRYPTOGRAM | • cryptogram n. Encrypted text. • cryptogram n. (Games) A type of word puzzle in which text encoded by a simple cipher is to be decoded. • CRYPTOGRAM n. anything written in cipher, also CRYPTOGRAPH. |
| CYCLOGRAPH | • cyclograph n. Arcograph. • cyclograph n. Cyclogram. • CYCLOGRAPH n. an instrument for describing arcs of circles without compasses. |
| CYMOGRAPHS | • cymographs n. Plural of cymograph. • CYMOGRAPH n. an instrument for tracing the outline of mouldings, also CYMAGRAPH. |
| ECHOGRAPHY | • echography n. (Medicine) The use of ultrasound as a diagnostic aid. • ECHOGRAPHY n. medical examination of the internal structures of the body by means of ultrasound. |
| MYOGRAPHIC | • myographic adj. Pertaining to myography. • MYOGRAPHIC adj. relating to myography, the description of muscles, also MYOGRAPHICAL. |
| PROFLIGACY | • profligacy n. (Countable) Careless wastefulness. • profligacy n. (Uncountable) Shameless and immoral behaviour. • PROFLIGACY n. the state of being profligate. |
| PSYCHOGRAM | • psychogram n. (Psychology, dated) A composite psychological measurement that attempts to integrate various interrelated… • psychogram n. (Psychology, dated) A kind of visual diagram of an individual’s personality. • PSYCHOGRAM n. writing supposedly produced under influence of spirits. |
| PYROGALLIC | • pyrogallic adj. (Chemistry) Of, or relating to pyrogallol (pyrogallic acid). • PYROGALLIC adj. relating to pyrogallol. |