| ABDICATING | • abdicating v. Present participle of abdicate. • ABDICATE v. to renounce or surrender formally, as one's power or office. |
| ABDICATION | • abdication n. (Obsolete) The act of disowning or disinheriting a child. • abdication n. The act of abdicating; the renunciation of a high office, dignity, or trust, by its holder. • abdication n. The voluntary renunciation of sovereign power. |
| ABDICATIVE | • abdicative adj. (Rare) Causing, or implying, abdication. • abdicative n. (Logic) A reasoning from the negative. • ABDICATIVE adj. relating to abdication. |
| ABORTICIDE | • aborticide n. The act of destroying a fetus in the womb; feticide. • aborticide n. An agent responsible for an abortion (the destruction of a fetus); abortifacient. • ABORTICIDE n. the killing of a fetus; abortion. |
| ADIABATICS | • adiabatics n. Plural of adiabatic. • ADIABATIC n. a curve on a graph relating to an adiabatic process, one without transfer of heat. |
| BACTERIOID | • bacterioid adj. (Rare) Resembling a bacterium. • BACTERIOID n. a swollen bacterium living symbiotically in the root-nodules of beans and other plants, also BACTEROID. |
| BENEDICITE | • benedicite n. Alternative letter-case form of Benedicite. • Benedicite n. A canticle, the Latin version of which begins with the word benedīcite (“praise ye!”), which may be… • BENEDICITE n. (Latin) a blessing, a grace at table. |
| CHILDBIRTH | • childbirth n. The fact or action of giving birth to a child, as the culmination of pregnancy. • child-birth n. Alternative form of childbirth. • CHILDBIRTH n. the act of giving birth. |
| DIABETICAL | • diabetical adj. Archaic form of diabetic. • DIABETICAL adj. pertaining to diabetes. |
| DIBASICITY | • dibasicity n. (Chemistry) The property or condition of being dibasic. • DIBASICITY n. the quality of being dibasic. |
| DOCIBILITY | • DOCIBILITY n. docility, also DOCIBLENESS. |
| ENDOBIOTIC | • endobiotic adj. (Of a parasite or symbiont) living within the tissues of a host. • endobiotic adj. (Medicine) Originating within an organ or biological system. • endobiotic n. (Medicine) An endogenous substance that influences the functioning of an organ or biological process. |
| IMBRICATED | • imbricated adj. Overlapping, like scales or roof-tiles; intertwined. • IMBRICATE v. to lay overlapping one another. |
| INDICTABLE | • indictable adj. (Of an act) Subjecting one to an indictment. • indictable adj. (Of a person) Able or deserving to be indicted. • INDICTABLE adj. that can be indicted. |
| INDICTABLY | • indictably adv. (Law) Subject to indictment. • INDICTABLE adv. that can be indicted. |
| SCABRIDITY | • scabridity n. The quality of being scabrid. • SCABRIDITY n. (archaic) the state of being scabrid, scabrous. |
| SUBACIDITY | • subacidity n. The quality of being subacid. • SUBACIDITY n. the state of being subacid. |
| TROPICBIRD | • tropicbird n. Any of the various seabirds of the family Phaethontidae, typically found in the open ocean in the tropics. • TROPICBIRD n. any aquatic bird of the tropical family Phaethontidae, having long slender tail feathers and a white plumage with black markings. |
| TUBIFICIDS | • tubificids n. Plural of tubificid. • TUBIFICID n. a tubifex, a freshwater tubicolous worm used as bait. |