| BROOCHING | • brooching v. Present participle of brooch. • BROOCH v. to adorn with a brooch. |
| CHINAROOT | • chinaroot n. Alternative form of China root. • china-root n. Alternative form of China root. • china␣root n. Alternative letter-case form of China root. |
| CHIRONOMY | • chironomy n. (Rhetoric) The art of using effective hand gestures, especially (historical) in Greco-Roman contexts. • chironomy n. (Music) The skill of conducting music with hand gestures. • CHIRONOMY n. the art of gesticulation or mime. |
| CHONDROID | • chondroid adj. Resembling cartilage. • chondroid n. (Surgery) A "stone" formed of pus present in guttural pouches. • CHONDROID adj. like or resembling cartilage. |
| CHORIONIC | • chorionic adj. Of or pertaining to the chorion. • CHORIONIC adj. relating to the chorion, the outer foetal envelope. |
| CHORIZONT | • chorizont n. (UK) One who challenges a widely held assumption of authorship for a major work, especially one who… • CHORIZONT n. a person who disputes identity of authorship, esp. one who ascribes the Iliad and Odyssey to different authors, also CHORIZONTIST. |
| CORNICHON | • cornichon n. A dill-pickled gherkin cucumber. • cornichon n. A French-style pickled miniature cucumber. • CORNICHON n. (French) a small pickled gherkin. |
| HOLOCRINE | • holocrine adj. (Anatomy, biology, histology) Of or relating to a mode of secretion in some exocrine glands in which… • HOLOCRINE adj. applied to a gland whose secretion is composed of its own disintegrated cells. |
| HONORIFIC | • honorific n. A title. (e.g., Mister, Misses, Doctor, Professor) • honorific n. A term of respect; respectful language. • honorific n. (Linguistics) A word or word form expressing the speaker’s respect for the hearer or the referent. |
| ISOCHRONE | • isochrone n. An isoline on a map or chart connecting points that have the same value for some time-related variable. • isochrone n. (Mathematics) A semicubical parabola. • ISOCHRONE n. a line connecting points of equal time difference, also ISOCHRON. |
| ISOCHRONS | • isochrons n. Plural of isochron. • ISOCHRON n. a line connecting points of equal time difference, also ISOCHRONE. |
| MONORCHID | • monorchid adj. Having only one testicle within the scrotum. • monorchid n. An individual having only one testicle within the scrotum. • MONORCHID adj. having only one testicle. |
| NONHEROIC | • nonheroic adj. Not heroic. • NONHEROIC adj. not heroic. |
| NONRHOTIC | • nonrhotic adj. Alternative spelling of non-rhotic. • non-rhotic adj. Of an accent, most often one of English: not pronouncing the written letter "r" unless it is followed… • NONRHOTIC adj. denoting or speaking a dialect of English in which preconsonantal r's are not pronounced. |
| ORTHICONS | • orthicons n. Plural of orthicon. • ORTHICON n. a kind of television camera tube. |