| ACCENSION | • accension n. (Obsolete) The act of kindling or the state of being kindled; ignition. • ACCENSION n. the act of kindling or the state of being kindled. |
| ACCENTORS | • accentors n. Plural of accentor. • ACCENTOR n. a song bird. |
| ACCESSION | • accession n. A coming to; the act of acceding and becoming joined. • accession n. Increase by something added; that which is added; augmentation from without. • accession n. (Law) A mode of acquiring property, by which the owner of a corporeal substance which receives an addition… |
| ARCCOSINE | • arccosine n. (Trigonometry) Any of several single-valued or multivalued functions that are inverses of the cosine function. • ARCCOSINE n. a mathematical function. |
| ARCSECOND | • arcsecond n. A unit of angle; 1/60th of an arcminute, or 1/3600th of a degree. • arc-second n. Alternative form of arcsecond. • ARCSECOND n. a unit of angle measurement, 1/3600 of a degree, also ARCSEC. |
| CANCEROUS | • cancerous adj. (Oncology) Relating to or affected with cancer. • cancerous adj. (Figuratively) Growing or spreading rapidly to the point of harm. • cancerous adj. (Slang) Extremely unpleasant; detestable. |
| CHACONNES | • chaconnes n. Plural of chaconne. • CHACONNE n. (French) a Spanish baroque dance in triple time. |
| CHARNECOS | • CHARNECO n. (Shakespeare) a kind of sweet wine. |
| COCAINISE | • cocainise v. Alternative form of cocainize. • COCAINISE v. to anaesthetise with cocaine, also COCAINIZE. |
| COCINERAS | • cocineras n. Plural of cocinera. • COCINERA n. (Spanish) a cook. |
| COENACLES | • COENACLE n. a dining room, also CENACLE. |
| COENOSARC | • coenosarc n. (Zoology) Living body held in common by many organisms included in a composite zoophyte, by which they… • cœnosarc n. Obsolete spelling of coenosarc. • COENOSARC n. the common soft tissue which unites the polyps of a compound hydroid. |
| CONCAUSES | • concauses n. Plural of concause. • CONCAUSE n. a cooperating cause. |
| CONCLAVES | • conclaves n. Plural of conclave. • CONCLAVE n. the room in which cardinals meet to elect a pope; any secret assembly. |
| CORNACRES | • cornacres n. Plural of cornacre. • CORNACRE n. the letting by a tenant of small portions of land prepared for crop or grazing, also CONACRE. |
| CORNCAKES | • corncakes n. Plural of corncake. • CORNCAKE n. a cake made of maize meal. |
| COSECANTS | • cosecants n. Plural of cosecant. • COSECANT n. a trigonometrical function of an angle, also COSEC. |
| OSCITANCE | • OSCITANCE n. yawning, sleepiness, also OSCITANCY. |