| CATECHUMENS | • catechumens n. Plural of catechumen. • CATECHUMEN n. one who is receiving religious instruction in preparation for baptism. |
| CHAMELEONIC | • chameleonic adj. Resembling a chameleon: readily changing color or other attributes. • CHAMELEONIC adj. of or like a chameleon. |
| CHECKMATING | • checkmating v. Present participle of checkmate. • CHECKMATE v. in chess, to put (a player's king) in checkmate; to defeat or render incapable of counterattack. |
| CHEIROMANCY | • cheiromancy n. Alternative form of chiromancy. • CHEIROMANCY n. divination by means of palmistry, also CHIROMANCY. |
| CHIROMANCER | • chiromancer n. One who practices chiromancy; a palm reader. • CHIROMANCER n. a palm-reader, also CHEIROMANCER. |
| CHROMINANCE | • chrominance n. The signal used in video systems to convey the picture’s colour information, separately from the accompanying… • CHROMINANCE n. the difference between a color and a chosen reference color of the same luminous intensity in color television. |
| COENENCHYMA | • coenenchyma n. Coenenchym. • COENENCHYMA n. gelatinous material uniting the polyps of an anthozoan colony. |
| COLLENCHYMA | • collenchyma n. (Biology) A living, elongated, mechanical and flexible ground tissue with angular pectin depositions;… • COLLENCHYMA n. the supportive tissue of plants. |
| COMANCHEROS | • Comancheros n. Plural of Comanchero. • COMANCHERO n. (Spanish) in the 19th century, a person who traded with the Plains Indians. |
| MACONOCHIES | • MACONOCHIE n. army tinned stew. |
| MECHANICALS | • mechanicals n. Plural of mechanical. • mechanicals n. (US) mechanical fixtures and fittings. • mechanicals n. (Recording) Royalties on the sale of recordings in the form of records, CDs, tapes, or similar objects. |
| 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. |
| MECHANISTIC | • mechanistic adj. Having the impersonal and automatic characteristics of a machine. • mechanistic adj. Predetermined by, or as if by, a mechanism. • mechanistic adj. (Philosophy) Having a physical or biological cause. |
| MECHATRONIC | • mechatronic adj. Of or relating to mechatronics. • MECHATRONIC adj. relating to mechatronics. |
| MELANCHOLIC | • melancholic adj. Filled with or affected by melancholy—great sadness or depression, especially of a thoughtful or introspective… • melancholic adj. (Dated) Pertaining to black bile (melancholy). • melancholic adj. (Classical temperament) Pertaining to the melancholic temperament or its associated personality traits. |
| MISCHANCIER | • MISCHANCY adj. unlucky, happening amiss. |
| NAMECHECKED | • namechecked v. Simple past tense and past participle of namecheck. • name-checked v. Simple past tense and past participle of name-check. • NAMECHECK v. to mention by name. |
| NONCHEMICAL | • nonchemical adj. Not chemical. • nonchemical n. A substance that is not a chemical. • NONCHEMICAL adj. not chemical. |
| SARCENCHYME | • sarcenchyme n. (Zoology) One of the soft tissues of sponges. • SARCENCHYME n. a soft tissue of sponges with close-packed cells and reduced gelatinous matrix. |