| 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. |
| 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. |
| 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. |
| APPARATCHIKS | • apparatchiks n. Plural of apparatchik. • APPARATCHIK n. (Russian) a member of the (Soviet) bureaucracy; now extended to apply to any inflexible organisation man, particularly in a political party. |
| CATAPHYSICAL | • cataphysical adj. Unnatural; going against nature. • CATAPHYSICAL adj. unnatural. |
| 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. |
| PARAPHRASTIC | • paraphrastic adj. Pertaining to a paraphrase. • paraphrastic adj. (Grammar) Of a Latin conjugation: composed of the verb sum with participial forms of the verbs conjugated… • PARAPHRASTIC adj. of the nature of a paraphrase, also PARAPHRASTICAL. |
| PHANTASMICAL | • phantasmical adj. Alternative form of phantasmic. • PHANTASMICAL adj. of the nature of a phantasm, also PHANTASMAL, PHANTASMIC. |
| TACHYCARDIAS | • tachycardias n. Plural of tachycardia, which can refer to types of tachycardia, cases of tachycardia, or episodes of tachycardia. • TACHYCARDIA n. quick heart-rate. |
| TACHYPHASIAS | • TACHYPHASIA n. abnormally rapid or voluble speech, also TACHYPHRASIA. |
| TACHYPHRASIA | • tachyphrasia n. Tachyphemia. • TACHYPHRASIA n. abnormally rapid or voluble speech, also TACHYPHASIA. |
| THALASSAEMIC | • thalassaemic adj. Alternative form of thalassemic. • thalassaemic n. Alternative form of thalassemic. • THALASSAEMIC n. a person who has the blood disorder thalassaemia. |
| THALASSOCRAT | • thalassocrat n. One who rules over the sea. • THALASSOCRAT n. one who has maritime supremacy. |
| TRACHEARIANS | • TRACHEARIAN n. a member of the Trachearia. |