| ACHALASIA | • achalasia n. (Medicine) A neuromuscular condition where a ring of muscles is unable to relax fully, causing obstruction… • ACHALASIA n. (Greek) failure of the muscles of the lower part of the oesophagus to relax, which prevents food from passing into the stomach. |
| ACHILLEAS | • achilleas n. Plural of achillea. • ACHILLEA n. a plant of the yarrow genus. |
| ASPHALTIC | • asphaltic adj. Resembling, containing, or relating to asphalt or bitumen. • asphaltic adj. (Obsolete) Of or relating to the Dead Sea (salt lake between Jordan and Israel). • ASPHALTIC adj. of or like asphalt. |
| BRACHIALS | • brachials n. Plural of brachial. • BRACHIAL n. the brachial artery or nerve. |
| CAILLACHS | • caillachs n. Plural of caillach. • CAILLACH n. (Gaelic) an old woman, also CAILLEACH, CAILLIACH. |
| CALLIPASH | • callipash n. Alternative form of calipash. • CALLIPASH n. a part of a turtle which is next to the upper shell, also CALIPASH. |
| CHAMISALS | • CHAMISAL n. (Spanish) a thicket of chamisos. |
| CHAPLAINS | • chaplains n. Plural of chaplain. • Chaplains prop.n. Plural of Chaplain. • CHAPLAIN n. a Christian clergyman attached to an institution, establishment, organization or family. |
| CHILLADAS | • CHILLADA n. (Spanish) in Mexican cookery, a spiced fried cake made from pureed vegetables. |
| DICHASIAL | • dichasial adj. Relating to a dichasium. • DICHASIAL adj. relating to a dichasium, a flower cluster. |
| HALACHIST | • HALACHIST n. a practitioner of Jewish religious law, also HALAKHIST. |
| MARISCHAL | • marischal n. (Scotland) marshal. • MARISCHAL n. (Scots) a marshal, also MARESCHAL. • MARISCHAL v. to marshal. |
| PACHALICS | • pachalics n. Plural of pachalic. • PACHALIC n. (Turkish) the territory of a pasha, also PASHALIK, PASHALIC. |
| PASHALICS | • pashalics n. Plural of pashalic. • PASHALIC n. (Turkish) the territory of a pasha, also PASHALIK, PACHALIC. |
| PHACELIAS | • phacelias n. Plural of phacelia. • PHACELIA n. any of various chiefly annual North American plants, with clustered blue, violet, or white flowers, frequently grown for ornament. |
| RACHILLAS | • rachillas n. Plural of rachilla. • RACHILLA n. (Greek) the central stalk or axis of a grass spikelet, also RHACHILLA. |
| SELACHIAN | • selachian adj. (Zoology) Pertaining to (what is now classified as) the superorder Selachimorpha or division Selachii… • selachian adj. Sharklike. • selachian n. (Zoology) Any organism of the superorder Selachimorpha or subclass Elasmobranchii; an extant shark (or… |
| THALASSIC | • thalassic adj. Of or relating to seas and oceans. • thalassic adj. Pelagic. • THALASSIC adj. marine; of the seas, esp. those which are small or inland. |