| 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. |
| ACCIDENTALITY | • accidentality n. The quality of being accidental; accidentalness. • ACCIDENTALITY n. the quality of being accidental. |
| ACCREDITATION | • accreditation n. The giving of credentials. • accreditation n. The act of accrediting. • accreditation n. (Education) The granting of approval to an institution of higher learning by an official review board… |
| ACIDIFICATION | • acidification n. The act or process of making something sour (acidifying), or changing into an acid. • ACIDIFICATION n. the act of acidifying. |
| ACIDIMETRICAL | • acidimetrical adj. Alternative form of acidimetric. • ACIDIMETRICAL adj. relating to acidimetry, the measurement of the strength of acids. |
| 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. |
| APODICTICALLY | • apodictically adv. (Logic) In an apodictical manner. • APODICTICAL adv. (archaic) necessarily true, also APODEICTIC, APODEICTICAL, APODICTIC. |
| BACTERIOCIDAL | • bacteriocidal adj. Alternative form of bactericidal. |
| CARCINOMATOID | • carcinomatoid adj. (Medicine) Having an appearance resembling that of carcinomata, often histopathologically. • CARCINOMATOID adj. having the shape of a carcinoma. |
| 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. |
| DIACATHOLICON | • diacatholicon n. (Medicine, dated) A universal remedy; a certain purgative electuary. • DIACATHOLICON n. (obsolete) a purgative electuary, the drug being mixed with honey or syrup. |
| DIACRITICALLY | • diacritically adv. In a diacritical manner. • DIACRITICAL adv. distinctive; serving as a diacritic. |
| DIALECTICALLY | • dialectically adv. In a dialectical manner; logically. • dialectically adv. Regarding dialectics. • DIALECTICAL adv. relating to the dialectic, the art of arriving at the truth by disclosing the contradictions in the opponent's argument and overcoming them. |
| 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. |
| INCAPACITATED | • incapacitated v. Simple past tense of incapacitate. • incapacitated adj. Rendered unable to act; restricted from taking action. • INCAPACITATE v. to make legally incapable or ineligible. |
| 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. |
| UNDIALECTICAL | • undialectical adj. Not dialectical. • UNDIALECTICAL adj. not dialectical. |