| ACQUAINTANCE | • acquaintance n. (Uncountable) A state of being acquainted with a person; originally indicating friendship, intimacy… • acquaintance n. (Countable) A person or persons with whom one is acquainted. • acquaintance n. (Uncountable) Such people collectively; one’s circle of acquaintances (with plural concord). |
| ANTHOMANIACS | • anthomaniacs n. Plural of anthomaniac. • ANTHOMANIAC n. one suffering from anthomania, an obsession with flowers. |
| CANALISATION | • canalisation n. The conversion of a river or other waterway to a canal. • canalisation n. The management of something using defined channels of communication. • canalisation n. (Genetics) The ability of a genotype to produce the same phenotype regardless of variability of its environment. |
| CANALIZATION | • canalization n. Alternative spelling of canalisation. • CANALIZATION n. the construction of canals, also CANALISATION. |
| CANTHARIDIAN | • cantharidian adj. Composed of cantharides. • CANTHARIDIAN adj. of or like a cantharid, also CANTHARIDAL, CANTHARIDIC. |
| CATAMOUNTAIN | • catamountain n. (Also attributively) A leopard, a panther (Panthera pardus); also, an ocelot (Leopardus pardalis). • catamountain n. (By extension) A man living in the mountains. • CATAMOUNTAIN n. any of various large wild cats, applied esp. to the leopard, panther or ocelot, also CATAMOUNT. |
| CONTRANATANT | • CONTRANATANT adj. swimming upstream. |
| 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. |
| INCAPACITANT | • incapacitant n. Any device or substance used to incapacitate a person or crowd. • INCAPACITANT n. a substance that can temporarily incapacitate a person, used esp. as a weapon in biological warfare. |
| INTRACRANIAL | • intracranial adj. Of or pertaining to the brain or inside of the head; within the cranium. • INTRACRANIAL adj. existing or occurring within the cranium. |
| NONADIABATIC | • nonadiabatic adj. (Physics) Not adiabatic. • NONADIABATIC adj. not adiabatic. |
| TRANSCRANIAL | • transcranial adj. Passing through the cranium. • TRANSCRANIAL adj. across the cranium. |
| UNANALYTICAL | • unanalytical adj. Not analytical. • UNANALYTICAL adj. not analytical, also UNANALYTIC. |
| VACATIONLAND | • vacationland n. An area that is often the site of vacations, or well suited for vacations. • Vacationland prop.n. The co-official nickname for the state of Maine in the United States. • Vacationland prop.n. A region of Ohio in the north-central part of the state, along the western half of the Lake Erie shoreline… |