| CARBURATION | • carburation n. Alternative spelling of carburetion. • CARBURATION n. combination with carbon. |
| CARBURETION | • carburetion n. The process, as occurs in a carburetor, of mixing fuel with oxygen or air in appropriate proportion for combustion. • CARBURETION n. the process of carburetting. |
| CARNIVOROUS | • carnivorous adj. Of, or relating to carnivores, or the taxonomic order Carnivora. • carnivorous adj. Predatory or flesh-eating. • carnivorous adj. (Botany) Insectivorous: capable of trapping insects and absorbing nutrient from them. |
| CENTURIATOR | • centuriator n. A historian who distinguishes time by centuries, especially one of those who wrote the Magdeburg Centuries. • CENTURIATOR n. one of a group of sixteenth century Reformed divines of Magdeburg who compiled a church history in 13 volumes, each volume covering a century. |
| CONTRARIOUS | • contrarious adj. (Archaic, of persons) Tending to counter, oppose, resist, argue. • contrarious adj. (Archaic, of things) Harmful, vexatious. • CONTRARIOUS adj. (archaic) contrary, perverse, also CONTRAIR, CONTRARY. |
| CORONAVIRUS | • coronavirus n. (Virology) A member of the family Coronaviridaews, comprising viruses which infect animals and human… • coronavirus n. (Metonymically) An illness caused by a coronavirus. • Coronavirus prop.n. Alternative letter-case form of coronavirus (“the virus SARS-CoV-2 or the disease COVID-19”). |
| CORRUGATING | • corrugating v. Present participle of corrugate. • CORRUGATE v. to wrinkle or draw into folds. |
| CORRUGATION | • corrugation n. The process of corrugating; contraction into wrinkles or alternate ridges and grooves. • corrugation n. Washboarding (the appearance of ripples or bumps on a dirt or gravel road). • CORRUGATION n. the act of corrugating. |
| COUNTERRAID | • counterraid n. A raid carried out in response to another raid. • counterraid v. To carry out a counterraid. • COUNTERRAID v. to make a retaliatory raid. |
| HURRICANOES | • hurricanoes n. Plural of hurricano. • HURRICANO n. (Shakespeare) a hurricane. |
| INTEROCULAR | • interocular adj. Between the eyes. • INTEROCULAR adj. between the eyes. |
| INTRAOCULAR | • intraocular adj. (Ophthalmology) Inside or within the eye. • INTRAOCULAR adj. situated or occurring within the eyeball. |
| MERCURATION | • MERCURATION n. conversion into a mercury compound. |
| NONCIRCULAR | • noncircular adj. Not circular. • non-circular adj. Alternative form of noncircular. • NONCIRCULAR adj. not circular. |
| PROCURATION | • procuration n. The act of procuring; procurement. • procuration n. The management of another’s affairs. • procuration n. The instrument by which a person is empowered to transact the affairs of another; a proxy. |
| RUBRICATION | • rubrication n. A form of calligraphy, in medieval manuscripts, in which added text was coloured in red. • RUBRICATION n. the act of rubricating. |