| 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. |
| ACUPUNCTURE | • acupuncture n. The insertion of needles into the (living) tissue of the body, especially for purposes of pain relief. • acupuncture v. (Transitive) To treat with acupuncture. • ACUPUNCTURE n. the complementary therapy of puncturing the skin with needles at specified points in order to cure illness. |
| COMPORTANCE | • comportance n. (Obsolete) behaviour; comport. • COMPORTANCE n. (Spenser) comportment. |
| COUNTERPACE | • COUNTERPACE n. a step in opposition to another; a contrary measure. |
| NARCOLEPTIC | • narcoleptic n. One who suffers from narcolepsy. • narcoleptic adj. Pertaining to narcolepsy. • NARCOLEPTIC adj. relating to narcolepsy. |
| PATRICLINIC | • PATRICLINIC adj. of animals and plants, showing the characters of the male parent, also PATROCLINAL, PATROCLINOUS. |
| PATROCLINIC | • patroclinic adj. Synonym of patroclinous. • PATROCLINIC adj. of animals and plants, showing the characters of the male parent, also PATROCLINAL, PATROCLINOUS. |
| PLANTOCRACY | • plantocracy n. Government by plantation owners. • plantocracy n. The group of plantation owners who have power in such a government. • PLANTOCRACY n. government by plantation owners. |
| POCOCURANTE | • pococurante adj. Apathetic, indifferent or nonchalant. • pococurante n. An apathetic, indifferent or nonchalant person. • POCOCURANTE adj. (Italian) different, nonchalant. |
| PRACTICIANS | • practicians n. Plural of practician. • PRACTICIAN n. a practiser or practitioner. |
| PRACTICKING | • PRACTIC v. (archaic) to put (a theory, idea, etc.) into practice, also PRACTICK. |
| PRECONTACTS | • PRECONTACT n. prior contact. |
| PRECONTRACT | • precontract n. (Law) A contract preceding another, especially a contract of marriage which, according to the ancient… • precontract v. To contract prior to another process. • precontract v. To make a previous contract. |
| PREOCCUPANT | • preoccupant n. A prior occupant. • PREOCCUPANT n. a prior occupant. |
| REACCEPTING | • reaccepting v. Present participle of reaccept. • REACCEPT v. to accept again. |
| RECIPROCANT | • reciprocant n. (Mathematics) A contravariant expressing a certain condition of tangency; a differential invariant. • RECIPROCANT n. in maths, a differential invariant. |
| UNPRACTICAL | • unpractical adj. (Rare) Not practical, impractical. • UNPRACTICAL adj. not practical. |
| UNPRACTICED | • unpracticed adj. Not practiced; inexperienced. • unpracticed adj. Not carried out in practice; not usually done. • UNPRACTICED adj. not practiced, also UNPRACTISED. |