ACADEMICAL | • academical adj. (Rare) Belonging to the school of Plato; believing in Plato’s philosophy; sceptical . • academical adj. Pertaining to a university or other form of higher education. • academical n. (Plural only) Academic dress, consisting of a cap and gown. |
ACALCULIAS | • ACALCULIA n. an inability to do simple mathematical calculations, also DYSCALCULIA. |
ACARICIDAL | • acaricidal adj. Deadly to acarids. • ACARICIDAL adj. relating to an acaricide, a substance that kills mites and ticks. |
ACROAMATIC | • acroamatic adj. Esoteric, abstruse; (in particular) taught orally to select students and not disseminated. • acroamatic adj. (Education) Based on lectures or exposition by monologue. • ACROAMATIC adj. abstruse, esoteric, also ACROAMATICAL. |
ALCAICERIA | • ALCAICERIA n. (Spanish) a bazaar. |
ANACLASTIC | • anaclastic adj. Produced by the refraction of light, as seen through water. • anaclastic adj. Springing back, as the bottom of an anaclastic glass. • ANACLASTIC adj. refractive; of or pertaining to refraction. |
ANARCHICAL | • anarchical adj. Anarchic. • ANARCHICAL adj. relating to anarchy, the complete absence of law or government, also ANARCHAL, ANARCHIAL, ANARCHIC. |
ATARACTICS | • ataractics n. Plural of ataractic. • ATARACTIC n. a tranquillizing drug, also ATARAXIC. |
CACCIATORA | • cacciatora n. A style of cooking in which meat is cooked in a sauce containing mushrooms, shallots, tomatoes, white wine and herbs. • CACCIATORA adj. (Italian) of meat, cooked with tomatoes, mushrooms, onions and herbs, also CACCIATORE. |
CACHAEMIAS | • cachaemias n. Plural of cachaemia. • CACHAEMIA n. (archaic) a degenerated or poisoned condition of the blood. |
CAPACITATE | • capacitate v. (Transitive) To make capable of functioning in a given capacity. • capacitate v. (Transitive, zoology) To alter sperm to allow it to fertilize eggs. • capacitate v. (Transitive, mathematics) To reach maximum throughput on at least part of a constrained network. |
CARAPACIAL | • carapacial adj. Relating to a carapace. • CARAPACIAL adj. of or like a carapace. |
CARICATURA | • caricatura n. Archaic form of caricature. • CARICATURA n. (Italian) a caricature. |
CASCARILLA | • cascarilla n. A euphorbiaceous West Indian shrub (Croton eleutheria). • cascarilla n. The aromatic bark of this shrub, formerly used as a gentle tonic or mixed with tobacco for smoking. • CASCARILLA n. (Spanish) a euphorbiaceous West Indian shrub; its aromatic bark. |
CATACLASIS | • cataclasis n. (Geology) cataclastic rock (a type of metamorphic rock that has been wholly or partly formed by the… • cataclasis n. (Geology) A process of formation of such rock. • CATACLASIS n. the deformation of rocks by crushing and shearing. |
CATACLINAL | • CATACLINAL adj. of streams, valleys, etc., running in the direction of the dip of the surrounding rock strata. |
PARATACTIC | • paratactic adj. Pertaining to or using parataxis. • PARATACTIC adj. of pertaining to, or characterized by, parataxis, also PARATACTICAL. |