| ACICULATE | • aciculate adj. Furnished with aciculae. • aciculate adj. Acicular (needle-shaped). • aciculate adj. Marked with fine irregular streaks as if scratched by a needle. |
| APICULATE | • apiculate adj. (Botany) Having a short, sharply pointed tip. • APICULATE adj. of leaves, having a short point at the tip. |
| CALCULATE | • calculate v. (Transitive, mathematics) To determine the value of something or the solution to something by a mathematical process. • calculate v. (Intransitive, mathematics) To determine values or solutions by a mathematical process; reckon. • calculate v. (Intransitive, US, dialect) To plan; to expect; to think. |
| CIRCULATE | • circulate v. (Intransitive) to move in circles or through a circuit. • circulate v. (Transitive) to cause (a person or thing) to move in circles or through a circuit. • circulate v. To move from person to person, as at a party. |
| EJACULATE | • ejaculate v. (Transitive) To eject abruptly; to throw out suddenly and swiftly. • ejaculate v. (Intransitive) To say abruptly. • ejaculate v. (Biology, transitive) To eject or suddenly throw fluid or some other substance from a duct or other body structure. |
| FALCULATE | • falculate adj. (Zoology) Curved and sharp-pointed, like a falcula. • FALCULATE adj. curved and sharp-pointed, like a falcula, or claw of a falcon. |
| INOCULATE | • inoculate v. (Transitive, immunology) To introduce an antigenic substance or vaccine into something (e.g. the body)… • inoculate v. (Transitive, by extension) To safeguard or protect something as if by inoculation. • inoculate v. To add one substance to another. |
| JACULATED | • jaculated v. Simple past tense and past participle of jaculate. • JACULATE v. to throw or cast, as a dart. |
| JACULATES | • jaculates v. Third-person singular simple present indicative form of jaculate. • JACULATE v. to throw or cast, as a dart. |
| LOCULATED | • loculated adj. Locular. • LOCULATED adj. of e.g. an ovary, divided into compartments by septa, also LOCULAR, LOCULATE. |
| MACULATED | • maculated v. Simple past tense and past participle of maculate. • maculated adj. Having spots or blotches. • MACULATE v. to spot or stain. |
| MACULATES | • maculates v. Third-person singular simple present indicative form of maculate. • MACULATE v. to spot or stain. |
| OSCULATED | • osculated v. Simple past tense and past participle of osculate. • OSCULATE v. to kiss. |
| OSCULATES | • osculates v. Third-person singular simple present indicative form of osculate. • OSCULATE v. to kiss. |
| PECULATED | • peculated v. Simple past tense and past participle of peculate. • PECULATE v. to embezzle. |
| PECULATES | • peculates v. Third-person singular simple present indicative form of peculate. • PECULATE v. to embezzle. |
| SACCULATE | • sacculate adj. Sacculated. • SACCULATE adj. formed in a series of saclike enclosures, also SACCULATED. |
| SPECULATE | • speculate v. (Obsolete, intransitive) To think, meditate or reflect on a subject; to consider, to deliberate or cogitate. • speculate v. (Intransitive) To make an inference based on inconclusive evidence; to surmise or conjecture. • speculate v. (Intransitive, business, finance) To make a risky trade in the hope of making a profit; to venture or gamble. |
| SPICULATE | • spiculate adj. Covered with, or having, spicules. • spiculate v. (Transitive) To sharpen to a point. • SPICULATE adj. having a sharp point. |