| BECROWDED | • becrowded v. Simple past tense and past participle of becrowd. • BECROWD v. to press closely together. |
| CECROPIAS | • cecropias n. Plural of cecropia. • CECROPIA n. a fast-growing tropical American tree of the mulberry family. |
| CECROPINS | • cecropins n. Plural of cecropin. • CECROPIN n. a peptide with antibacterial properties, originally obtained from the cecropia moth. |
| DECROWNED | • decrowned v. Simple past tense and past participle of decrown. • DECROWN v. to deprive of a crown, also DISCROWN. |
| NECROLOGY | • necrology n. (Church history) A church register containing the names of those connected with the church who have died. • necrology n. A listing of people who have died during a specific period of time. • necrology n. A notice of death. |
| NECROPHIL | • NECROPHIL n. someone who is morbidly attracted to corpses, also NECROPHILE. |
| NECROPOLI | • necropoli n. Plural of necropolis. • NECROPOLIS n. (Greek) a cemetery or burial place. |
| NECROSING | • necrosing v. Present participle of necrose. • NECROSE v. to affect with necrosis. |
| NECROTISE | • necrotise v. Alternative spelling of necrotize. • NECROTISE v. to affect with or undergo necrosis, also NECROTIZE. |
| NECROTIZE | • necrotize v. To undergo, or to cause necrosis; to become or to make necrotic. • NECROTIZE v. to affect with or undergo necrosis, also NECROTISE. |
| NECROTOMY | • necrotomy n. The dissection of a cadaver. • necrotomy n. (Medicine) The surgical removal of dead tissue, especially bone. • NECROTOMY n. the dissection of dead bodies; the removal of necrosed bone from a living body. |
| RECROSSED | • recrossed adj. Crossed a second time. • recrossed adj. (Heraldry) Having the ends crossed. • recrossed v. Simple past tense and past participle of recross. |
| RECROSSES | • recrosses n. Plural of recross. • recrosses v. Third-person singular simple present indicative form of recross. • RECROSS v. to cross again. |
| RECROWNED | • recrowned v. Simple past tense and past participle of recrown. • RECROWN v. to crown again. |
| SCARECROW | • scarecrow n. An effigy, typically made of straw and dressed in old clothes, fixed to a pole in a field to deter birds… • scarecrow n. (By extension, derogatory) A person regarded as resembling a scarecrow (sense 1) in some way; especially… • scarecrow n. (Dated) Synonym of crow scarer (“a farmhand employed to scare birds from the fields”). |
| SHARECROP | • sharecrop v. To participate in a financial arrangement in which a tenant farmer pays for use of land with a share… • SHARECROP v. of a tenant farmer, to supply, in lieu of rent, a share of the crop. |
| STONECROP | • stonecrop n. Any of various succulent plants of the Crassulaceae family, native to temperate zones, especially in genus Sedum. • stonecrop n. Certain plants of genus Lithospermum, in family Boraginaceae. • STONECROP n. a yellow flower of rockeries etc. |