| APPETENCY | • appetency n. Strong desire; craving; powerful instinct. • APPETENCY n. strong craving or powerful desire, also APPETENCE. |
| CARPENTRY | • carpentry n. (Uncountable) The trade of cutting and joining timber in order to construct buildings or other structures;… • carpentry n. (Countable) A carpenter’s workshop. • carpentry n. (Uncountable) A collection of timber connected by being framed together, as the pieces of a roof, floor… |
| COPAYMENT | • copayment n. (US) A fixed fee paid by subscribers to a medical insurance scheme for each treatment or service in… • COPAYMENT n. a joint payment. |
| CYANOTYPE | • cyanotype n. (Uncountable) An early photographic process employing paper sensitized with a cyanide. • cyanotype n. (Countable) A photographic print produced by means of this process. • CYANOTYPE n. a blueprint. |
| CYTOPENIA | • cytopenia n. (Cytology) A reduction in the number of blood cells for any of several reasons. • CYTOPENIA n. a deficiency of one or more types of blood cell. |
| ENCRYPTED | • encrypted adj. Being in code; having been encrypted. • encrypted v. Simple past tense and past participle of encrypt. • ENCRYPT v. to put a message into code. |
| GENOTYPIC | • genotypic adj. Of or pertaining to a genotype. • GENOTYPIC adj. relating to a genotype, the set of genes of an individual. |
| IMPOTENCY | • impotency n. (Dated) impotence. • IMPOTENCY n. lack of power, also IMPOTENCE. |
| NEOPHYTIC | • neophytic adj. (Biology) Being or relating to a neophyte. • NEOPHYTIC adj. of or like a neophyte, a person who is new to a subject. |
| NYCTALOPE | • NYCTALOPE n. (Greek) one afflicted with nyctalopia, the condition of seeing poorly at night or in partial darkness, while the day sight is normal; erroneously, the opposite condition, also NYCTALOPS. |
| NYMPHETIC | • NYMPHETIC adj. of or like a nymphet. |
| PACHYTENE | • pachytene n. (Biology) The third stage of prophase 1 of meiosis, during which the chromosomes shorten and divide… • PACHYTENE n. the stage of the prophase of meiosis following zygotene. |
| PECCANTLY | • peccantly adv. In a peccant manner. • PECCANT adv. sinning; guilty of transgression. |
| PENITENCY | • penitency n. Obsolete form of penitence. • PENITENCY n. the state of being penitent, also PENITENCE. |
| PENTARCHY | • pentarchy n. (Politics) Government by five persons. • pentarchy n. A governing body consisting of five persons. • pentarchy n. A federation of five nations, each under its own government or ruler. |
| PETULANCY | • petulancy n. Petulance; petulant attitude or behaviour. • PETULANCY n. peevish impatience, also PETULANCE. |
| PHLYCTENA | • phlyctena n. A small vesicle. • PHLYCTENA n. (Greek) a small blister or vesicle, also PHLYCTAENA. |
| SYNCOPATE | • syncopate v. (Transitive, linguistics, phonology) to omit a vocalic or consonantal sound or a syllable from a word; to use syncope. • syncopate v. (Transitive, music) to stress or accentuate the weak beat of a rhythm; to use syncopation. • SYNCOPATE v. to shorten a word by cutting out its middle. |
| TACHYPNEA | • tachypnea n. Alternative spelling of tachypnoea. • TACHYPNEA n. abnormally rapid breathing, also TACHYPNOEA. |