| ACROPHONIC | • acrophonic adj. Conforming to acrophony. • ACROPHONIC adj. relating to acrophony, the use of a word starting with a letter of the alphabet as the name of the letter, also ACROPHONETIC. |
| ANEMOCHORE | • anemochore n. An organism that spreads by wind, as a plant with wind-borne seeds. • ANEMOCHORE n. a plant in which the fruits or seeds are dispersed by wind. |
| APOCRYPHON | • APOCRYPHON n. a hidden or secret thing. |
| CARTOONISH | • cartoonish adj. Exaggerated or caricatured, in the manner of a cartoon. • CARTOONISH adj. like a cartoon. |
| CHINAROOTS | • chinaroots n. Plural of chinaroot. • china-roots n. Plural of china-root. • china␣roots n. Plural of china root. |
| CHONDROMAS | • chondromas n. Plural of chondroma. • CHONDROMA n. a benign cartilaginous growth. |
| CHROMONEMA | • chromonema n. (Genetics) The central coiled filament of a chromatid upon which the chromomeres lie. • CHROMONEMA n. the coiled filamentous core of a chromatid. |
| CHRONOGRAM | • chronogram n. A sentence or inscription whose letters, when interpreted according to a system (such as Roman numerals)… • chronogram n. (Genetics) A phylogenetic tree that has branch spans proportional to evolutionary time. • CHRONOGRAM n. an inscription whose letters form a Roman numeral date. |
| COANCHORED | • coanchored v. Simple past tense and past participle of coanchor. • COANCHOR v. to present televised news reports jointly. |
| COMANCHERO | • Comanchero n. (Historical) A Hispanic trader of New Mexico who made a living by trading with the nomadic plains tribes… • COMANCHERO n. (Spanish) in the 19th century, a person who traded with the Plains Indians. |
| HALOCARBON | • halocarbon n. (Organic chemistry) any compound formally derived from a hydrocarbon by replacing at least one hydrogen… • HALOCARBON n. a compound consisting of carbon and one or more halogens. |
| HARMONICON | • harmonicon n. (Dated, music) The harmonica. • harmonicon n. (Historical) An acoustic apparatus that produces a musical note when a long dry tube, open at both ends… • HARMONICON n. a harmonica, also ARMONICA, HARMONICA. |
| HOMORGANIC | • homorganic adj. (Phonetics) Of consonants: having the same place of articulation. For example, labial m, b, p, alveolar… • homorganic adj. (Medicine) produced by the same or homologous organs. • homorganic n. (Phonetics) A consonant having the same place of articulation as another. |
| ISOCHRONAL | • isochronal adj. Having the same duration. • isochronal adj. Happening at regular periods; isochronous, periodic. • isochronal adj. (Computing, of data) Time-dependent. |
| OCTAHEDRON | • octahedron n. (Geometry) a polyhedron with eight faces; the regular octahedron has regular triangles as faces and… • OCTAHEDRON n. (Greek) a solid bounded by eight plane faces, also OCTOHEDRON. |
| ORTHOCAINE | • orthocaine n. Methyl m-amino-p-hydroxybenzoate, a fine white crystalline powder used as an anesthetic on open wounds. • ORTHOCAINE n. a white crystalline substance used as a local anaesthetic. |