| BENEDIGHT | • benedight adj. (Obsolete, poetic) Blessed; benedict. • BENEDIGHT adj. blessed. |
| BENIGHTED | • benighted adj. (Obsolete or poetic) Overtaken by night; especially of a traveller, etc.: caught out by oncoming night… • benighted adj. (Obsolete) Plunged into darkness. • benighted adj. (Figuratively) Lacking education or knowledge; unenlightened; also, lacking morality; immoral, unscrupulous. |
| DEHISCENT | • dehiscent adj. (Medicine) Of or pertaining to dehiscence, i.e., a rupture, as with a surgical wound opening up, often… • dehiscent adj. (Botany) Which dehisces or presents dehiscence. • DEHISCENT adj. gaping, bursting open, as the capsule of a plant. |
| DINOTHERE | • dinothere n. Alternative form of deinothere. • DINOTHERE n. an extinct elephantine mammal with downward-curving tusks, also DEINOTHERE, DEINOTHERIUM, DINOTHERIUM. |
| DISTHENES | • disthenes n. Plural of disthene. • DISTHENE n. a mineral, aka cyanite or kyanite, so called in allusion to its unequal hardness in two different directions. |
| ECHINATED | • echinated adj. Echinate; prickly. • ECHINATED adj. prickly like a hedgehog, bristly, also ECHINATE. |
| ENHYDRITE | • enhydrite n. (Mineralogy) A mineral with cavities containing water. • ENHYDRITE n. a mineral with fluid inclusions. |
| ENLIGHTED | • enlighted v. Simple past tense and past participle of enlight. • ENLIGHT v. to shed light on. |
| ETHNOCIDE | • ethnocide n. The deliberate and systematic destruction of an ethnic group, accomplished either by destroying the… • ETHNOCIDE n. the extermination of a racial or cultural group. |
| HERNIATED | • herniated adj. Having or forming a hernia. • herniated v. Simple past tense and past participle of herniate. • HERNIATE v. to protrude through an abnormal body opening. |
| HIDDENITE | • hiddenite n. (Mineralogy) A pale green form of spodumene that is sometimes used as a gemstone. • HIDDENITE n. an emerald-green variety of spodumene found in Carolina. |
| INEARTHED | • inearthed v. Simple past tense and past participle of inearth. • INEARTH v. (archaic) to inter. |
| INHERITED | • inherited v. Simple past tense and past participle of inherit. • inherited adj. Obtained via an inheritance. • inherited adj. Hereditary. |
| KITCHENED | • kitchened adj. Equipped with a kitchen. • kitchened adj. Relegated to the kitchen. • kitchened v. Simple past tense and past participle of kitchen. |
| LIGHTENED | • lightened v. Simple past tense and past participle of lighten. • LIGHTEN v. to reduce the weight of. |
| PETHIDINE | • pethidine n. (Pharmacology) A synthetic compound used as a painkilling drug, especially for women in labor. • PETHIDINE n. a pain-relieving drug used in childbirth, etc. |
| RIGHTENED | • rightened v. Simple past tense and past participle of righten. • RIGHTEN v. (archaic) to set right. |
| THICKENED | • thickened v. Simple past tense and past participle of thicken. • THICKEN v. to make thick. |
| TIGHTENED | • tightened v. Simple past tense and past participle of tighten. • TIGHTEN v. to make tight. |
| TREPHINED | • trephined v. Simple past tense and past participle of trephine. • TREPHINE v. to cut holes in the skull with a surgical saw, also TREPAN, TRAPAN. |