| ANASTROPHE | • anastrophe n. (Rhetoric) Unusual word order, often involving an inversion of the usual pattern of the sentence. • ANASTROPHE n. an inversion of the usual syntactical order of words for rhetorical effect e.g. 'To market went she'. |
| APOSTROPHE | • apostrophe n. (Orthography) The text character ’, which serves as a punctuation mark in various languages and as a… • apostrophe n. (Rhetoric) A sudden exclamatory piece of dialogue addressed to someone or something, especially absent. • APOSTROPHE n. the addressing of a personified thing rhetorically. |
| CATANANCHE | • CATANANCHE n. any plant of the South European genus Catananche, some of which are grown for their blue and white flowers. |
| DISSHEATHE | • dissheathe v. (Obsolete, intransitive) To become unsheathed. • DISSHEATHE v. to become unsheathed. |
| EPISTROPHE | • epistrophe n. (Rhetoric) The repetition of the same word or words at the end of successive phrases, clauses or sentences. • EPISTROPHE n. the ending of successive clauses with the same word e.g. 'government of the people, by the people, for the people'. |
| LIMITROPHE | • limitrophe adj. Border, frontier; being or existing along a border or frontier. • limitrophe n. A border state or area. • LIMITROPHE adj. near the frontier or border. |
| MESOSCAPHE | • mesoscaphe n. A submersible submarine designed for drifting on sea currents in the middle depth layers of the ocean. • MESOSCAPHE n. a submersible bathing chamber for use at depths less than a bathyscaphe. |
| MICROFICHE | • microfiche n. A sheet of microfilm, six by four inches, holding several hundred reduced images of document pages… • microfiche n. A device used to magnify and read these sheets. • microfiche v. (Transitive) To convert (documents) to microfiche format. |
| OUANANICHE | • ouananiche n. (Dated) Alternative form of wananish. • OUANANICHE n. a landlocked variety of the Atlantic salmon, found in lakes in SE Canada. |
| OUTBREATHE | • outbreathe v. (Transitive) To exhaust or deprive of breath. • outbreathe v. (Transitive) To breathe out; expire. • outbreathe v. (Intransitive) To issue as a breath; exhale. |
| PHILOSOPHE | • philosophe n. Any of the leading philosophers or intellectuals of the 18th-century French Enlightenment. • philosophe n. (Derogatory) An incompetent philosopher; a philosophaster. • PHILOSOPHE n. (French) a philosopher. |
| SABRETACHE | • sabretache n. (Historical) A leather pocket or pouch worn hanging from a cavalry officer’s belt. • SABRETACHE n. (French) a satchel suspended from a cavalry officer's belt. |
| SYNECDOCHE | • synecdoche n. (Rhetoric) A figure of speech that uses the name of a part of something to represent the whole, or the… • synecdoche n. (Rhetoric) The use of this figure of speech. • SYNECDOCHE n. a figure of speech by which a part is used for the whole (as fifty sail for fifty ships), or the whole for a part (as the smiling year for spring). |
| ULTRAFICHE | • ultrafiche n. An ultramicrofiche. • ULTRAFICHE n. a sheet of microfilm the same size as a microfiche but with a greater number of microcopied records on it. |