| ACCIPITRINE | • accipitrine n. A hawk or a hawk-like bird. • accipitrine adj. (Ornithology) Like or belonging to the Accipitres; raptorial; hawklike. • ACCIPITRINE adj. relating to the bird family Accipitridae, which includes hawks. |
| ACIDIMETRIC | • acidimetric adj. (Chemistry) Describing a titration in which the titrant is an acid. • ACIDIMETRIC adj. relating to acidimetry, the measurement of the strength of acids. |
| CARNIFICIAL | • carnificial adj. Relating to a carnifex or executioner. • CARNIFICIAL adj. of or pertaining to butchers or executioners. |
| CICATRICIAL | • cicatricial adj. Caused by a scar. • CICATRICIAL adj. of or like a cicatrice. |
| CICATRISING | • cicatrising v. Present participle of cicatrise. • CICATRISE v. to form a scar, also CICATRIZE. |
| CICATRIZING | • cicatrizing v. Present participle of cicatrize. • CICATRIZE v. to form a scar, also CICATRISE. |
| CITHARISTIC | • citharistic adj. Pertaining or adapted to the cithara. • CITHARISTIC adj. relating to the playing of the cithara. |
| CRITICALITY | • criticality n. The state of being critical. (Can we add an example for this sense?) • criticality n. (Education) A disposition for purposeful thinking and acting guided by criteria that are considered… • criticality n. (Physics) The point at which a nuclear chain reaction becomes self-sustaining. |
| CURIALISTIC | • curialistic adj. Relating to a court. • curialistic adj. Relating or belonging to the ultramontane party in the Latin Church. • CURIALISTIC adj. relating to curialism. |
| DIACRITICAL | • diacritical adj. Capable of distinguishing or of making a distinction. • diacritical adj. Of, pertaining to, or serving as a diacritic. • diacritical n. A diacritic (mark). |
| INTRICACIES | • intricacies n. Plural of intricacy. • INTRICACY n. the state of being intricate. |
| MATRICLINIC | • MATRICLINIC adj. inherited from the mother; more like the mother than the father, also MATRICLINOUS, MATROCLINAL, MATROCLINIC, MATROCLINOUS. |
| PATRICLINIC | • PATRICLINIC adj. of animals and plants, showing the characters of the male parent, also PATROCLINAL, PATROCLINOUS. |
| RACIALISTIC | • racialistic adj. Of or pertaining to racialism or racism. • RACIALISTIC adj. relating to racialism. |
| SACRIFICIAL | • sacrificial adj. Relating to sacrifice. • sacrificial adj. Used as a sacrifice. • SACRIFICIAL adj. of or like a sacrifice. |
| SACRIFICING | • sacrificing v. Present participle of sacrifice. • SACRIFICE v. to offer up in sacrifice, also SACRIFY. |