| ACHROMATOUS | • achromatous adj. Lacking normal colour; colourless. • ACHROMATOUS adj. having little or no colour.
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| ANACHRONOUS | • anachronous adj. Anachronistic. • ANACHRONOUS adj. relating to anachronism.
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| AUTOMORPHIC | • automorphic adj. (Geology) Describing a mineral, in an igneous rock, that is bounded by its own crystal face; euhedral, idiomorphic. • automorphic adj. (Mathematics) Describing a number whose square ends in the number itself; circular.
 • automorphic adj. (Mathematics) Of or pertaining to automorphy or an automorphism.
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| AUTOTROPHIC | • autotrophic adj. (Biology) Relating to the production of organic compounds from carbon dioxide as a carbon source, using… • AUTOTROPHIC adj. capable of building up food materials from inorganic matter.
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| AUXOCHROMES | • auxochromes n. Plural of auxochrome. • AUXOCHROME n. a group of atoms that can be attached to a chromogen to convert it into a dye.
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| AUXOTROPHIC | • auxotrophic adj. (Biology) Describing a strain of organism that requires a specific metabolic substance that the parent… • AUXOTROPHIC adj. requiring a specific growth substance beyond the minimum required for normal metabolism.
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| CHAULMOOGRA | • chaulmoogra n. A tree found in Southeast Asia, Hydnocarpus wightiana, which yields an oil that was formerly used as… • CHAULMOOGRA n. a kind of Asian tree, yielding an oil used in the treatment of leprosy, also CHAULMUGRA.
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| CHIAROSCURO | • chiaroscuro n. (Painting) An artistic technique developed during the Renaissance, referring to the use of strong contrasts… • chiaroscuro n. (Painting) A monochrome picture made by using several different shades of the same color.
 • chiaroscuro n. (Art) A woodcut technique in which several woodcut blocks are used to print different shades of a color…
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| COAUTHORING | • coauthoring v. Present participle of coauthor. • co-authoring v. Present participle of co-author.
 • COAUTHOR v. to write together.
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| CREOPHAGOUS | • creophagous adj. Flesh-eating. • CREOPHAGOUS adj. flesh-eating, carnivorous.
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| DIACHRONOUS | • diachronous adj. (Geology) Varying in age from place to place. • diachronous adj. Alternative form of diachronic.
 • DIACHRONOUS adj. relating to the study of a language through its development.
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| HERCOGAMOUS | • hercogamous adj. (Botany) Not capable of self-fertilization; said of hermaphrodite flowers in which some structural obstacle… • HERCOGAMOUS adj. related to hercogamy, the prevention of self-pollination in plants.
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| HOMONUCLEAR | • homonuclear adj. (Chemistry, of a molecule) Having atoms of only one element, especially having elements of only a single isotope. • homonuclear adj. (Organic chemistry, of a reaction etc) Taking place within the same ring of a compound.
 • HOMONUCLEAR adj. of or relating to a molecule composed of identical nuclei.
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| LEUCORRHOEA | • leucorrhoea n. Alternative spelling of leukorrhea. • leucorrhœa n. Obsolete form of leucorrhoea.
 • LEUCORRHOEA n. an abnormal mucous or mucopurulent discharge from the vagina, also LEUKORRHEA.
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| TAUTOCHRONE | • tautochrone n. (Mathematics) A curve, such that a heavy body, descending along it by the action of gravity, will always… • TAUTOCHRONE n. a curve such that a particle travelling along it under gravity reaches a fixed point in the same time, no matter where it starts.
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| UROCHORDATE | • urochordate n. (Zoology) Any marine invertebrate of the subphylum Urochordata; the sea squirts. • UROCHORDATE n. a member of the Urochordata, tunicates.
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