| ABRANCHIATE | • abranchiate adj. (Zoology) Without gills. • abranchiate n. (Zoology) An organism that does not have gills. • ABRANCHIATE adj. lacking gills, also ABRANCHIAL. |
| ACROPHOBIAS | • acrophobias n. Plural of acrophobia. • ACROPHOBIA n. fear of heights. |
| AGORAPHOBIC | • agoraphobic n. One who suffers from agoraphobia. • agoraphobic adj. Of, pertaining to or suffering from agoraphobia. • AGORAPHOBIC n. one with a morbid fear of open spaces. |
| AMPHIBRACHS | • amphibrachs n. Plural of amphibrach. • AMPHIBRACH n. a foot of three syllables, the middle one long, the first and last short. |
| ASTRAPHOBIC | • astraphobic adj. (Rare) Morbidly afraid of thunderstorms. • ASTRAPHOBIC adj. suffering from astraphobia, a morbid fear of thunder and lightning, also ASTROPHOBIC. |
| BARACHOISES | • BARACHOIS n. (French) a shallow lagoon formed by a sandbar, also BARRASWAY. |
| BAROGRAPHIC | • barographic adj. Measured using a barograph. • BAROGRAPHIC adj. relating to the measurement of pressure. |
| BATRACHIANS | • batrachians n. Plural of batrachian. • BATRACHIAN n. a frog or toad. |
| BRACHIATING | • brachiating adj. That moves by the use of limbs; especially by swinging through the trees using the arms. • brachiating v. Present participle of brachiate. • BRACHIATE v. to progress by swinging hand over hand, like a gibbon. |
| BRACHIATION | • brachiation n. (Zoology) Movement by swinging the arms from one hold to the next. • BRACHIATION n. the act of swinging by one's arms from place to place. |
| BRACHIATORS | • brachiators n. Plural of brachiator. • BRACHIATOR n. an animal, such as a gibbon, that progresses by brachiation. |
| BRACHIOSAUR | • brachiosaur n. Any of several massive, herbivorous sauropod dinosaurs, of the genus Brachiosaurus, from the Jurassic… |
| CHAINBRAKES | • CHAINBRAKE n. a cutoff safety device on a chainsaw. |
| CHAMBERLAIN | • chamberlain n. A senior royal official in charge of superintending the arrangement of domestic affairs and often charged… • chamberlain n. A high officer of state, as currently with the papal camerlengo, but normally now a mainly honorary title. • chamberlain n. (Obsolete) An upper servant of an inn. |
| CHAMBERMAID | • chambermaid n. A maid who handles the chores in a bedroom. • CHAMBERMAID n. a maid who makes beds and does general cleaning of bedrooms (as in a hotel). |
| HIBERNACULA | • hibernacula n. Plural of hibernaculum. • HIBERNACULUM n. (Latin) a shelter occupied during the winter by a dormant animal (as an insect or reptile). |
| HYPERCARBIA | • hypercarbia n. (Medicine) the condition of having an abnormally high concentration of carbon dioxide in the blood. • HYPERCARBIA n. hypercapnia, also HYPERCAPNIA. |
| TRIBRACHIAL | • TRIBRACHIAL adj. of or like a tribrach, also TRIBRACHIC. |