| ACROTERION | • acroterion n. Alternative form of acroterium. • ACROTERION n. a pedestal or ornament at the angle of a pediment, also ACROTER, ACROTERIUM. |
| BARRACOONS | • barracoons n. Plural of barracoon. • BARRACOON n. (Spanish) an enclosure or barrack formerly used for the temporary confinement of slaves or convicts. |
| CARTOONIER | • CARTOONY adj. resembling a cartoon. |
| 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. |
| CONJURATOR | • conjurator n. (Obsolete, law) A person who swears an oath along with others. • CONJURATOR n. one who swears or is sworn with others. |
| CONTRACTOR | • contractor n. A person or company that builds or improves buildings. • contractor n. A person or company that performs specific tasks like electrical or plumbing work in construction projects. • contractor n. A person or company hired to maintain existing facilities like air conditioning systems, groundskeeping, etc. |
| CONTRAPROP | • CONTRAPROP n. a contra-rotating propeller. |
| CORMORANTS | • cormorants n. Plural of cormorant. • CORMORANT n. a shiny black webfooted seabird. |
| CORONARIES | • coronaries n. Plural of coronary. • CORONARY n. an artery supplying blood to the heart. |
| CORRASIONS | • corrasions n. Plural of corrasion. • CORRASION n. the action of wearing away (land) through the action of loose solid material. |
| CORRODANTS | • corrodants n. Plural of corrodant. • CORRODANT n. a corrosive agent, also CORRODENT. |
| FORNICATOR | • fornicator n. An unmarried person who engages in sexual intercourse, especially when considered to be of an illicit… • FORNICATOR n. one who fornicates. |
| INCORPORAL | • incorporal adj. Obsolete form of incorporeal. • INCORPORAL adj. (archaic) incorporeal, also INCORPORALL. |
| NONREACTOR | • nonreactor n. Someone who cannot react; one who does not react. • NONREACTOR n. someone who does not react. |
| PORNOCRACY | • pornocracy prop.n. (Roman Catholicism, historical, sometimes capitalized) The period of the papacy known as the saeculum… • pornocracy n. (Derogatory, often figuratively) A government by, or dominated by, prostitutes or corrupt persons. • pornocracy n. (Derogatory) A societal culture dominated by pornography. |
| PROCARYONS | • PROCARYON n. the nucleus of a blue-green alga, bacterium etc., also PROKARYON. |
| RANCOUROUS | • rancourous adj. Obsolete form of rancorous. |
| SCORZONERA | • scorzonera n. A herb from southern Europe (Pseudopodospermum hispanicum, syn. Scorzonera hispanica), having yellow… • Scorzonera prop.n. A taxonomic genus within the family Asteraceae – salsify. • SCORZONERA n. (Italian) a plant of the genus Scorzonera, black salsify. |