| ANACREONTIC | • anacreontic adj. (Prosody) Pertaining to the style of the Greek poet Anacreon, who wrote of wine and love; (specifically)… • anacreontic adj. Characterised by festivity and the celebration of love and/or drinking; bacchanalian, amorous. • anacreontic n. (Poetry) A short lyrical piece about love and wine. |
| ASCENDANCES | • ascendances n. Plural of ascendance. • ASCENDANCE n. the state of being ascendant, also ASCENDANCY, ASCENDENCE, ASCENDENCY. |
| BACKCHANNEL | • backchannel v. To employ a back channel. • backchannel v. (Linguistics) To employ non-verbal (oral and visual) means to influence a speaker without interruption. • backchannel n. Alternative form of back channel. |
| CACHINNATED | • cachinnated v. Simple past tense and past participle of cachinnate. • CACHINNATE v. to laugh loudly or immoderately. |
| CACHINNATES | • cachinnates v. Third-person singular simple present indicative form of cachinnate. • CACHINNATE v. to laugh loudly or immoderately. |
| CANCELATION | • cancelation n. (Sometimes proscribed) Alternative spelling of cancellation. • CANCELATION n. the act or an instance of canceling, also CANCELLATION. |
| CANCERATING | • cancerating v. Present participle of cancerate. • CANCERATE v. to grow into a cancer; to become cancerous. |
| CANCERATION | • canceration n. The act or state of becoming cancerous or growing into a cancer. • CANCERATION n. the act of cancerating. |
| CANONICATES | • canonicates n. Plural of canonicate. • CANONICATE n. the rank or office of a canon. |
| CATANANCHES | • CATANANCHE n. any plant of the South European genus Catananche, some of which are grown for their blue and white flowers. |
| CONCATENATE | • concatenate v. To join or link together, as though in a chain. • concatenate v. (Transitive, computing) To join (text strings) together. • concatenate adj. (Biology) Joined together as if in a chain. |
| CONTRADANCE | • contradance n. Alternative spelling of contra dance. • contra␣dance n. (Dance) A type of folk dance style in which couples dance in two facing lines of indefinite length. • contra␣dance v. To participate in a contra dance. |
| MECHANICIAN | • mechanician n. (Dated) One skilled in the theory or construction of machines. • mechanician n. (Dated) One skilled in building, using, or repairing machines, or who makes machines or tools. • mechanician n. (Dated) One skilled in mechanics. |
| NECROMANIAC | • NECROMANIAC n. one suffering from necromania. |
| NONACADEMIC | • nonacademic adj. Not academic; not related to academia. • nonacademic n. One who is not an academic. • non-academic adj. Alternative form of nonacademic. |
| NONCHALANCE | • nonchalance n. Indifference, unconcern; carelessness; coolness; disregard, detachment. • NONCHALANCE n. the state of being nonchalant. |