| ARTICLED | • articled v. Simple past tense and past participle of article. • articled adj. Bound under the articles of an apprenticeship. • ARTICLE v. in law, to charge with specific offenses. |
| ARTICLES | • articles n. Plural of article. • articles n. (Slang) Breeches; coat and waistcoat. • articles n. (Law) the period during which a person works as an articled clerk; articling. |
| ASPARTIC | • aspartic adj. Of or pertaining to aspartic acid or its derivatives. • ASPARTIC adj. as in aspartic acid, an amino acid found in young sugarcane, etc., and formed by the hydrolysis of asparagine. |
| CORTICAL | • cortical adj. (Anatomy) Pertaining to the outer layer of an internal organ or body structure, such as the kidney or the brain. • cortical adj. (Botany) Pertaining to the cortex of a stem or root—the tissue that lies inward from the epidermis… • CORTICAL adj. pertaining to the cortex. |
| CORTICES | • cortices n. Plural of cortex. • CORTEX n. (Latin) the outer layer of certain organs, esp. of the brain. |
| DESERTIC | • desertic adj. Of or pertaining to a desert or deserts. • DESERTIC adj. like a desert, arid and barren. |
| MORTICED | • morticed v. Simple past tense and past participle of mortice. • MORTICE v. to join or fasten securely, also MORTISE. |
| MORTICER | • morticer n. (Woodworking) Alternative spelling of mortiser. • MORTICER n. one who makes mortice joints, also MORTISER. |
| MORTICES | • mortices n. Plural of mortice. • mortices v. Third-person singular simple present indicative form of mortice. • MORTICE v. to join or fasten securely, also MORTISE. |
| PARTICLE | • particle n. A very small piece of matter, a fragment; especially, the smallest possible part of something. • particle n. (Physics) Any of various physical objects making up the constituent parts of an atom; an elementary… • particle n. (Linguistics) A part of speech that has no inherent lexical definition but must be associated with another… |
| PORTICOS | • porticos n. Plural of portico. • PORTICO n. (Italian) a formal entrance to a classical temple, church, or other building. |
| QUARTICS | • quartics n. Plural of quartic. • QUARTIC n. a function, curve or surface of the fourth degree. |
| URTICANT | • urticant adj. Causing itching or stinging. • urticant n. Such a substance. • URTICANT n. a substance that causes stinging or itching. |
| URTICATE | • urticate v. To have or produce a stinging sensation, as of nettles or urticating hair. • urticate adj. Marked by the presence of wheals. • URTICATE v. to cause to itch or sting. |
| VERTICAL | • vertical adj. Standing, pointing, or moving straight up or down; parallel to the local direction of gravity; along… • vertical adj. In a two-dimensional Cartesian co-ordinate system, describing the axis y oriented normal (perpendicular… • vertical adj. In a three-dimensional co-ordinate system, describing the axis z oriented normal (perpendicular, orthogonal)… |
| VERTICES | • vertices n. Plural of vertex. • VERTEX n. (Latin) the highest point of something. |
| VERTICIL | • verticil n. (Chiefly botany) A whorl, a group of similar parts such as leaves radiating from a shared axis. • VERTICIL n. (Latin) a circular arrangement of similar parts, a whorl. |
| VORTICAL | • vortical adj. Of or pertaining to a vortex; containing vortices; moving in a vortex. • VORTICAL adj. like a vortex, whirling, also VORTICOSE, VORTICULAR, VORTIGINOUS. |
| VORTICES | • vortices n. Plural of vortex. • VORTEX n. (Latin) a whirling mass of fluid. |