| ACARICIDE | • acaricide n. Any substance which kills acarids (mites and ticks). • ACARICIDE n. a substance that kills mites and ticks. |
| CARCINOID | • carcinoid n. (Medicine) A form of slow-growing tumour originating in the neuroendocrine system. • CARCINOID n. a benign or malignant tumour arising from the mucosa of the gastrointestinal tract. |
| CHLORIDIC | • chloridic adj. Of, containing, or relating to a chloride. • CHLORIDIC adj. of or like a chloride. |
| CIRCADIAN | • circadian adj. (Biology) of, relating to, or showing rhythmic behaviour with a period of 24 hours; especially of a… • CIRCADIAN adj. occurring every twenty-four hours. |
| CIRCUITED | • circuited v. Simple past tense and past participle of circuit. • CIRCUIT v. to move around. |
| CORTICOID | • corticoid n. (Medicine) Any substance (especially a drug) whose action is similar to that of a hormone of the adrenal cortex. • CORTICOID n. any of the steroid hormones produced in the adrenal cortex, also CORTICOSTEROID. |
| CRICETIDS | • cricetids n. Plural of cricetid. • CRICETID n. a member of the Cricetidae, a family of rodents including gerbils. |
| CRUCIFIED | • crucified v. Simple past tense and past participle of crucify. • crucified adj. That has been subject to crucifixion. • CRUCIFY v. to put to death on a cross. |
| CYLINDRIC | • cylindric adj. Of or relating to cylinders; shaped like a cylinder. • CYLINDRIC adj. shaped like a cylinder, also CYLINDRICAL. |
| DIACRITIC | • diacritic adj. Distinguishing. • diacritic adj. (Orthography, not comparable) Denoting a distinguishing mark applied to a letter or character. • diacritic n. A special mark added to a letter to indicate a different pronunciation, stress, tone, or meaning. |
| DICENTRIC | • dicentric adj. (Genetics) (of a chromosome) Having two centromeres (an aberration). • dicentric n. A chromosome that has two centromeres. • DICENTRIC n. a chromosome having two centromeres. |
| DICHROMIC | • dichromic adj. Furnishing or giving two colours; said of defective vision, in which all the compound colours are resolvable… • dichromic adj. Containing two atoms of chromium. • DICHROMIC adj. able to see two colours and two only, as in red-green colour-blind persons who see only blue and yellow. |
| RADICCHIO | • radicchio n. A cultivar of chicory (Cichorium intybus var. foliosum) with red leaves and a slightly bitter taste… • RADICCHIO n. (Italian) a purple-leaved variety of chicory from Italy. |