| ACROLITHIC | • acrolithic adj. Relating to, or like, an acrolith. • ACROLITHIC adj. pertaining to, or like, an acrolith, a statue with a wooden trunk and stone head and extremities. |
| CRITHIDIAL | • crithidial adj. (Zoology) Of or relating to the Crithidia. • CRITHIDIAL adj. relating to the flagellate genus Crithidia. |
| DITHIONATE | • dithionate n. (Inorganic chemistry) The oxyanion S2O62- derived from dithionic acid; any salt containing this ion. • DITHIONATE n. a salt of dithionic acid. |
| DITHIONITE | • dithionite n. (Chemistry) any salt or ester of dithionous acid, H2S2O4. • DITHIONITE n. any salt of dithionous acid. |
| DITHIONOUS | • DITHIONOUS adj. as in dithionous acid. |
| ENDOLITHIC | • endolithic adj. Within rock. • ENDOLITHIC adj. living within or penetrating deeply into stony substances, e.g. endolithic lichens. |
| LITHIFYING | • lithifying v. Present participle of lithify. • LITHIFY v. to petrify, convert to rock. |
| LITHISTIDS | • lithistids n. Plural of lithistid. • LITHISTID n. any of the Lithistida, hard stony sponges. |
| MEGALITHIC | • megalithic adj. Of or pertaining to megaliths, to the people who made them, or to the period when they were made. • MEGALITHIC adj. relating to a megalith. |
| MESOLITHIC | • Mesolithic adj. Of or referring to the Middle Stone Age (also the Mesolithic period or the Mesolithic age), a prehistoric… • Mesolithic n. Short for the Mesolithic period. |
| MONOLITHIC | • monolithic adj. Of or resembling a monolith. • monolithic adj. Consisting of a single chunk of hard material rather than an assembly of discrete parts. • monolithic adj. (Figurative) Having a massive, unchanging structure that does not permit individual variation. |
| NEOLITHICS | • Neolithics n. Plural of Neolithic. • NEOLITHIC n. the later, more advanced, Stone Age. |
| ORNITHINES | • ornithines n. Plural of ornithine. • ORNITHINE n. a bird. |
| TITHINGMAN | • tithingman n. (Law, historical) The chief of a tithing. • tithingman n. (Obsolete) A ruler or leader of ten men; a decurion. • tithingman n. (UK, law) A peace officer; an underconstable. |
| TITHINGMEN | • tithingmen n. Plural of tithingman. • tithing-men n. Plural of tithing-man. • TITHINGMAN n. the chief man of a tithing; one elected to preside over the tithing. |
| TRITHIONIC | • trithionic adj. (Chemistry) Containing three sulfur atoms. • TRITHIONIC adj. designating a certain thionic acid. |
| WRITHINGLY | • writhingly adv. With a writhing motion. • WRITHING adv. twisting, squirming. |
| XENOLITHIC | • xenolithic adj. Being or pertaining to a xenolith. • XENOLITHIC adj. of or like a xenolith, a rock fragment foreign to the igneous mass in which it occurs. |