| ANGLOPHONIC | • Anglophonic adj. English-speaking. • ANGLOPHONIC adj. speaking or using English (esp. as opposed to French), in everyday affairs. |
| APOCYNTHION | • apocynthion n. (Astronomy) The point in an orbit around the Moon that is most distant from that body. • APOCYNTHION n. the point at which a spacecraft in lunar orbit is furthest from the moon. |
| APOLLONICON | • apollonicon n. (Music) A particular type of barrel organ that also had a keyboard. • APOLLONICON n. a gigantic barrel organ, partly automatic. |
| COMPANIONED | • companioned v. Simple past tense and past participle of companion. • COMPANION v. to keep someone company. |
| COMPONENTAL | • componental adj. Having or relating to components. • COMPONENTAL adj. relating to a component, also COMPONENTIAL. |
| CONTRAPTION | • contraption n. A machine that is complicated and precarious. • contraption n. (Figuratively, derogatory or ironic) Any object. • CONTRAPTION n. a device, a gadget. |
| CORNUCOPIAN | • cornucopian adj. In great abundance, very abundant. • CORNUCOPIAN adj. of the nature of a cornucopia. |
| CTENOPHORAN | • ctenophoran n. Any comb jelly of the phylum Ctenophora. • CTENOPHORAN n. a member of the Ctenophora, transparent, free-swimming marine organisms resembling jellyfishes, also CTENOPHORE. |
| FRANCOPHONE | • francophone adj. Alternative letter-case form of Francophone. • francophone n. Alternative letter-case form of Francophone. • Francophone adj. French-speaking. |
| NONCOPLANAR | • noncoplanar adj. Not coplanar. • NONCOPLANAR adj. not coplanar. |
| NONOPERATIC | • nonoperatic adj. Not operatic. • NONOPERATIC adj. not operatic. |
| NONTROPICAL | • nontropical adj. Alternative form of non-tropical. • non-tropical adj. Not tropical; not characteristic of or located in the tropics. • NONTROPICAL adj. not tropical. |
| PANOPTICONS | • panopticons n. Plural of panopticon. • PANOPTICON n. a prison in which all prisoners can be watched from one point. |
| PICAROONING | • picarooning v. Present participle of picaroon. • PICAROON v. to act as a pirate. |
| PLANOCONVEX | • planoconvex adj. (Optics, of a lens) Having one side plane and the other convex. • plano-convex adj. Flat or plane on one side and rounded on the other, such that the center is thicker than the edges. • PLANOCONVEX adj. of a lens, part of an animal or plant, etc.: having one surface plane and the opposite one convex. |
| SYNCOPATION | • syncopation n. (Linguistics, phonology) The contraction of a word by means of loss or omission of sounds or syllables… • syncopation n. (Music) The quality of a rhythm being somehow unexpected, in that it deviates from the strict succession… • SYNCOPATION n. a shift of accent in a musical passage that occurs when a normally weak beat is stressed. |