| ECHOLOCATE | • echolocate v. To locate by means of echolocation. |
| ECHOLOCATED | • echolocated v. Simple past tense and past participle of echolocate. |
| ECHOLOCATES | • echolocates v. Third-person singular simple present indicative form of echolocate. |
| ECHOLOCATING | • echolocating v. Present participle of echolocate. |
| ECHOLOCATION | • echolocation n. The use of echoes to detect objects as observed in bats and other natural creatures. Also known as biosonar. • ECHOLOCATION n. determining the position of objects by means of supersonic vibrations echoed from them, as a bat does. |
| ECHOLOCATIONS | • echolocations n. Plural of echolocation. • ECHOLOCATION n. determining the position of objects by means of supersonic vibrations echoed from them, as a bat does. |
| HOLOCAINE | • holocaine n. (Pharmacology) Phenacaine. • HOLOCAINE n. a kind of surface anaesthetic for the eye. |
| HOLOCAINES | • HOLOCAINE n. a kind of surface anaesthetic for the eye. |
| HOLOCAUST | • holocaust n. (Religion) An offering or sacrifice to a deity that is completely burned to ashes. • holocaust n. (By extension). • holocaust v. (Religion, also figuratively) To sacrifice (chiefly an animal) to be completely burned. |
| HOLOCAUSTAL | • holocaustal adj. Of or relating to a holocaust. • HOLOCAUSTAL adj. relating to a holocaust, also HOLOCAUSTIC. |
| HOLOCAUSTIC | • holocaustic adj. Of or relating to a holocaust. • HOLOCAUSTIC adj. relating to a holocaust, also HOLOCAUSTAL. |
| HOLOCAUSTS | • holocausts n. Plural of holocaust. • Holocausts n. Plural of Holocaust. • HOLOCAUST n. a complete or wholesale destruction, esp. by fire. |
| HOLOCENE | • Holocene adj. (Geology) Of a geologic epoch within the Neogene period from about the year 10 000 BC to the present; the age of man. • Holocene prop.n. (Geology) The Holocene epoch. • HOLOCENE adj. relating to the second and most recent epoch of the Quaternary period. |
| HOLOCRINE | • holocrine adj. (Anatomy, biology, histology) Of or relating to a mode of secretion in some exocrine glands in which… • HOLOCRINE adj. applied to a gland whose secretion is composed of its own disintegrated cells. |
| HOLOCRYSTALLINE | • holocrystalline adj. (Mineralogy) Completely crystalline; said of a rock like granite, all of whose constituents are crystalline. • HOLOCRYSTALLINE adj. wholly crystalline in structure, without glass. |
| POSTHOLOCAUST | • postholocaust adj. After the Holocaust. • POSTHOLOCAUST adj. following the Holocaust. |