| ACCIDENTALISM | • accidentalism n. Accidental character or effect. • accidentalism n. The belief that outward appearance often contrasts with substance or essence (after Thomas Aquinas). • accidentalism n. A system of medicine based on belief that symptoms of disease are caused by external factors. |
| ACCOMMODATORS | • accommodators n. Plural of accommodator. • ACCOMMODATOR n. one who accommodates. |
| ANTIDESICCANT | • antidesiccant adj. Preventing desiccation. • antidesiccant n. A substance that prevents desiccation. • ANTIDESICCANT n. a chemical which prevents or inhibits the drying-out of a plant, etc. |
| BACKSCATTERED | • backscattered v. Past participle of backscatter. • BACKSCATTER v. to scatter in this way. |
| BACKSCRATCHED | • backscratched v. Simple past tense and past participle of backscratch. • BACKSCRATCH v. to scratch the back; (figurative) to do favours in return for favours, to engage in servile flattery. |
| CHARACTERISED | • characterised v. Simple past tense and past participle of characterise. • CHARACTERISE v. to give a character to, also CHARACTERIZE. |
| CLADISTICALLY | • cladistically adv. Regarding or in terms of cladistics. • CLADISTIC adv. relating to cladism, a method of taxonomy. |
| CLAUDICATIONS | • claudications n. Plural of claudication. • CLAUDICATION n. the state of being lame. |
| CYCLANDELATES | • CYCLANDELATE n. a drug whose effect is to dilate the veins, etc., used to improve circulation e.g. in cerebrovascular disease. |
| DIALECTICIANS | • dialecticians n. Plural of dialectician. • DIALECTICIAN n. one who is skilled in or practices dialectic. |
| DISCAPACITATE | • discapacitate v. (Transitive) To deprive of capacity; to incapacitate. • DISCAPACITATE v. to incapacitate. |
| MISCALCULATED | • miscalculated v. Simple past tense and past participle of miscalculate. • MISCALCULATE v. to calculate wrongly. |
| SCRATCHBOARDS | • scratchboards n. Plural of scratchboard. • SCRATCHBOARD n. a scraperboard. |
| TRISACCHARIDE | • trisaccharide n. (Biochemistry) An oligosaccharide consisting of three monosaccharide units joined together. • TRISACCHARIDE n. a sugar that yields on complete hydrolysis three monosaccharide molecules. |