| AEROTACTIC | • aerotactic adj. Relating to aerotaxis. • AEROTACTIC adj. relating to or showing aerotaxis. |
| ANAPTYCTIC | • anaptyctic adj. (Phonology) Of or pertaining to anaptyxis; of a vowel having been inserted into a word. • ANAPTYCTIC adj. relating to anaptyxis, the insertion of a vowel between two consonants for ease of pronunciation, also ANAPTYCTICAL. |
| APODEICTIC | • apodeictic adj. Affording proof; demonstrative. • apodeictic adj. Incontrovertible; demonstrably true or certain. • apodeictic adj. (Logic) Of the characteristic feature of a proposition that is necessary (or impossible): perfectly… |
| APOPLECTIC | • apoplectic adj. (Medicine) Of or relating to apoplexy. • apoplectic adj. Marked by extreme anger or fury. • apoplectic adj. (Archaic) Effused with blood. |
| ASYNTACTIC | • asyntactic adj. Not syntactic. • ASYNTACTIC adj. loosely put together, irregular, ungrammatical. |
| CATALECTIC | • catalectic adj. (Poetry) (said of a line with incomplete meter) lacking a syllable at the end or ending with an incomplete foot. • catalectic adj. Incomplete; partial; not affecting the whole of a substance. • catalectic n. (Poetry) A line with incomplete meter, lacking a syllable at the end or ending with an incomplete foot. |
| DIAZEUCTIC | • diazeuctic adj. (Music, obsolete) Disjoining two fourths. • DIAZEUCTIC adj. relating to diazeuxis, the separation of two tetrachords by a whole tone. |
| DYSPRACTIC | • DYSPRACTIC adj. suffering from dyspraxia, also DYSPRAXIC. |
| ECPHRACTIC | • ecphractic adj. (Medicine, dated) Serving to dissolve or attenuate viscid matter, and so remove obstructions; deobstruent. • ecphractic n. (Dated) Any medicine of this kind. • ECPHRACTIC adj. (obsolete) serving to remove obstructions. |
| EMPHRACTIC | • emphractic adj. (Medicine) Having the quality of closing the pores of the skin. • EMPHRACTIC adj. blocking the pores of the skin. • EMPHRACTIC n. a substance that stops the pores of the skin. |
| EPIDEICTIC | • epideictic adj. Of or pertaining to rhetoric of ceremony, declamation, and demonstration, most often the rhetoric of… • EPIDEICTIC adj. done for show or display, also EPIDEICTICAL. |
| HYPOTACTIC | • hypotactic adj. Of or relating to hypotaxis. • HYPOTACTIC adj. relating to hypotaxis, a dependent or subordinate relationship of clauses with conjunctions. |
| IDIOLECTIC | • idiolectic adj. Pertaining to an idiolect. • IDIOLECTIC adj. of or like an idiolect, a distinctive individual form of speech, also IDIOLECTAL. |
| MALOLACTIC | • malolactic adj. (Winemaking) Describing a type of fermentation in which malic acid is converted into lactic acid. • MALOLACTIC adj. relating to the conversion of malic acid to lactic acid in the production of wine. |
| PARATACTIC | • paratactic adj. Pertaining to or using parataxis. • PARATACTIC adj. of pertaining to, or characterized by, parataxis, also PARATACTICAL. |
| PERITECTIC | • peritectic adj. (Physics) Describes the isothermal reversible reaction of a liquid phase and a solid phase to form a… • peritectic n. The second solid phase so-formed. • PERITECTIC n. a temperature at which a melting reaction takes place. |
| PLEONECTIC | • pleonectic adj. Greedy; covetous. • PLEONECTIC adj. greedy; covetous. |
| RHEOTACTIC | • rheotactic adj. (Biology) relating to rheotaxis. • RHEOTACTIC adj. relating to rheotaxis, the movement of an organism in response to a current of water. |
| UNDIDACTIC | • undidactic adj. Not didactic. • UNDIDACTIC adj. not didactic. |