| ACROPHOBIC | • acrophobic adj. Of or pertaining to or suffering from acrophobia. • acrophobic n. A person who has acrophobia. • ACROPHOBIC adj. suffering from acrophobia, fear of heights. |
| ACROPHONIC | • acrophonic adj. Conforming to acrophony. • ACROPHONIC adj. relating to acrophony, the use of a word starting with a letter of the alphabet as the name of the letter, also ACROPHONETIC. |
| CACOGRAPHY | • cacography n. Bad spelling or punctuation, especially unintuitive spellings considered as a feature of a whole language or dialect. • cacography n. Poor or illegible handwriting. • CACOGRAPHY n. bad handwriting (the antithesis of calligraphy) or orthography. |
| CACOTROPHY | • cacotrophy n. (Medicine, obsolete) Disordered or defective nutrition. • CACOTROPHY n. bad or inadequate diet. |
| CATAPHORIC | • cataphoric adj. Of or relating to cataphora. • CATAPHORIC adj. relating to a cataphora, a rhetorical term. |
| COWPUNCHER | • cowpuncher n. (Informal) A cowboy. • cow-puncher n. Alternative form of cowpuncher. • COWPUNCHER n. a cowboy. |
| CROSSPATCH | • crosspatch n. A grumpy, bad-tempered or irascible person. • cross-patch n. Alternative form of crosspatch. • CROSSPATCH n. a bad-tempered person. |
| CRYOPHILIC | • cryophilic adj. (Microbiology) growing best at low temperatures, typically below 10 degrees Celsius. • CRYOPHILIC adj. cold-loving. |
| CYCLOGRAPH | • cyclograph n. Arcograph. • cyclograph n. Cyclogram. • CYCLOGRAPH n. an instrument for describing arcs of circles without compasses. |
| HOROSCOPIC | • horoscopic adj. Relating to horoscopes. • HOROSCOPIC adj. relating to a horoscope. |
| HYPOCRITIC | • hypocritic adj. Synonym of hypocritical. • hypocritic n. A hypocrite. • HYPOCRITIC adj. characterized by hypocrisy, also HYPOCRITICAL. |
| MICROCHIPS | • microchips n. Plural of microchip. • microchips v. Third-person singular simple present indicative form of microchip. • MICROCHIP n. a chip of silicon. |
| PERCHLORIC | • perchloric adj. (Chemistry) Describing compounds containing the most highly oxidized state of chlorine. • PERCHLORIC adj. containing more oxygen than chloric acid, esp. applied to an oily explosive acid, HClO4. |
| PLEOCHROIC | • pleochroic adj. Having the property of pleochroism. • PLEOCHROIC adj. displaying different colours when seen from different directions, also POLYCHROIC. |
| POLYCHROIC | • polychroic adj. Having many colours. • POLYCHROIC adj. displaying different colours when seen from different directions, also PLEOCHROIC. |
| SCHIZOCARP | • schizocarp n. (Botany) A dry fruit that develops from multiple carpels and splits into multiple, one-seeded mericarps at maturity. • SCHIZOCARP n. a compound fruit splitting into several one-seeded ones, e.g. the winged seed pod of maple trees. |