| CRITHOMANCY | • crithomancy n. Divination by interpreting food, usually bread and grain used in sacrifice. • CRITHOMANCY n. divination by strewing meal over sacrificial animals. |
| CRITICALITY | • criticality n. The state of being critical. (Can we add an example for this sense?) • criticality n. (Education) A disposition for purposeful thinking and acting guided by criteria that are considered… • criticality n. (Physics) The point at which a nuclear chain reaction becomes self-sustaining. |
| CRITICASTER | • criticaster n. A petty or charlatan critic. • CRITICASTER n. an inferior or petty critic. |
| CRITICISERS | • criticisers n. Plural of criticiser. • CRITICISER n. one who criticises, also CRITICIZER. |
| CRITICISING | • criticising v. Present participle of criticise. • CRITICISE v. to censure, also CRITICIZE. |
| CRITICIZERS | • criticizers n. Plural of criticizer. • CRITICIZER n. one who criticizes, also CRITICISER. |
| CRITICIZING | • criticizing v. Present participle of criticize. • CRITICIZE v. to censure, also CRITICISE. |
| DIACRITICAL | • diacritical adj. Capable of distinguishing or of making a distinction. • diacritical adj. Of, pertaining to, or serving as a diacritic. • diacritical n. A diacritic (mark). |
| ESCRITOIRES | • escritoires n. Plural of escritoire. • ESCRITOIRE n. (French) a writing-desk, also SCRUTOIRE. |
| ESCRITORIAL | • escritorial adj. Of or pertaining to an escritoire. • ESCRITORIAL adj. relating to an escritoire. |
| HAEMATOCRIT | • haematocrit n. (British spelling, physiology) Alternative spelling of hematocrit. • HAEMATOCRIT n. a graduated capillary tube in which the blood is centrifuged, to determine the ratio, by volume, of blood cells to plasma, also HEMATOCRIT. |
| HEMATOCRITS | • hematocrits n. Plural of hematocrit. • HEMATOCRIT n. a graduated capillary tube in which the blood is centrifuged, to determine the ratio, by volume, of blood cells to plasma, also HAEMATOCRIT. |
| HYPERCRITIC | • hypercritic n. A carping or unduly censorious critic. • hypercritic adj. Hypercritical. • HYPERCRITIC n. one who is hypercritical. |
| NONCRITICAL | • noncritical adj. Not critical. • non-critical adj. Alternative form of noncritical. • NONCRITICAL adj. not critical. |
| PRECRITICAL | • precritical adj. Before a critical stage. • precritical adj. Prior to the critical philosophy of Immanuel Kant. • PRECRITICAL adj. prior to the development of critical capacity. |
| SCRITCHINGS | • scritchings n. Plural of scritching. • SCRITCHING n. a screeching. |
| SUBCRITICAL | • subcritical adj. Of less than critical importance. • subcritical adj. Having a numerical value less than some critical value. • subcritical adj. (Physics) Having insufficient mass to sustain a chain reaction. |