| ACANTHACEOUS | • acanthaceous adj. (Botany): Of, pertaining to, or resembling, a member of the Acanthaceae family. • acanthaceous adj. Armed with prickles, as a plant. • ACANTHACEOUS adj. prickly; of the Acanthaceae. |
| ACIDANTHERAS | • acidantheras n. Plural of acidanthera. • ACIDANTHERA n. a plant of the genus Acidanthera of white-flowered plants of NE Africa. |
| ANACATHARSES | • ANACATHARSIS n. vomiting. |
| ANACATHARSIS | • anacatharsis n. (Medicine) vomiting or expectoration. • ANACATHARSIS n. vomiting. |
| ANACATHARTIC | • anacathartic n. An expectorant or emetic medicine. • ANACATHARTIC n. a drug causing vomiting or expectoration. |
| ANACOLUTHIAS | • anacoluthias n. Plural of anacoluthia. • ANACOLUTHIA n. a nonsequential syntactic construction in which the latter part of a sentence does not grammatically fit the earlier. |
| ANALPHABETIC | • analphabetic adj. (Not comparable) (of symbols) Not alphabetic. • analphabetic adj. (Comparable) (of a person) Illiterate, unable to read or write. • analphabetic n. An illiterate person. |
| ANAPHYLACTIC | • anaphylactic adj. Pertaining to anaphylaxis. • ANAPHYLACTIC adj. of, relating to, affected by, or causing anaphylaxis. |
| ANTASTHMATIC | • antasthmatic adj. (Pharmacology) Relieving the symptoms of asthma. • antasthmatic n. (Pharmacology) Drug that relieves the symptoms of asthma. • ANTASTHMATIC n. an agent that counteracts asthma, also ANTIASTHMATIC. |
| ANTHOMANIACS | • anthomaniacs n. Plural of anthomaniac. • ANTHOMANIAC n. one suffering from anthomania, an obsession with flowers. |
| ANTIBACKLASH | • antibacklash adj. (Mechanics) Countering or preventing backlash (jarring reflex motion in machinery). • ANTIBACKLASH adj. arising in opposition to a backlash. |
| CANTHARIDIAN | • cantharidian adj. Composed of cantharides. • CANTHARIDIAN adj. of or like a cantharid, also CANTHARIDAL, CANTHARIDIC. |
| CHARLATANISM | • charlatanism n. (Uncountable) The state of being a charlatan. • charlatanism n. (Countable) An act of a charlatan. • CHARLATANISM n. the state of being a charlatan. |
| HAMANTASCHEN | • hamantaschen n. Traditional Ashkenazi three-cornered cookies eaten during the Jewish holiday of Purim. The filling may… • HAMANTASCH n. (Yiddish) a three-cornered pastry traditionally eaten during the Jewish festival Purim. |
| PARENCHYMATA | • parenchymata n. Plural of parenchyma. • PARENCHYMA n. the ordinary soft thin-walled tissue of plants, not differentiated into conducting or mechanical tissue. |
| PHANTASMICAL | • phantasmical adj. Alternative form of phantasmic. • PHANTASMICAL adj. of the nature of a phantasm, also PHANTASMAL, PHANTASMIC. |
| TAUROMACHIAN | • tauromachian adj. Of or pertaining to bullfighting. • tauromachian n. A bullfighter. • TAUROMACHIAN adj. pertaining to bullfights. |
| TRACHEARIANS | • TRACHEARIAN n. a member of the Trachearia. |