ABDICANT | • abdicant adj. (Rare) Abdicating; renouncing. • abdicant n. One who abdicates. • ABDICANT n. one who abdicates. |
ABIDANCE | • abidance n. The act of abiding or continuing; abode; stay; continuance; dwelling. • abidance n. Adherence; compliance; conformity. • ABIDANCE n. the act of abiding. |
AMBIANCE | • ambiance n. A particular mood or atmosphere of an environment or surrounding influence. • ambiance n. (Computer graphics, 3D models) A secondary color of a polygon that becomes more pronounced with shading. • AMBIANCE n. the mood or atmosphere of a place or situation, also AMBIENCE. |
ANABATIC | • anabatic adj. (Of a warm air current) rising (up a slope). • anabatic adj. (Medicine) Of or pertaining to anabasis. • anabatic n. Short for anabatic wind. |
ANABOLIC | • anabolic adj. Of or relating to anabolism. • anabolic n. An anabolic steroid. • ANABOLIC adj. pertaining to a process of food being built up into protoplasm. |
BACCHIAN | • bacchian adj. (Rare) jovial or drunken. • BACCHIAN adj. relating to the bacchius, a type of metrical foot, also BACCHIAC. |
BANAUSIC | • banausic adj. (Formal) Of or pertaining to technical matters; mechanical. • banausic adj. (Formal) Uncultured, unrefined, utilitarian. • BANAUSIC adj. mechanical, utilitarian or routine, as opposed to inspiring or imaginative, also BANAUSIAN. |
BARBICAN | • barbican n. A tower at the entrance to a castle or fortified town. • barbican n. A fortress at the end of a bridge. • barbican n. An opening in the wall of a fortress through which the guns are levelled; a narrow loophole through… |
BOTANICA | • botanica n. A shop that deals in herbs and charms used especially by followers of santería. • BOTANICA n. (Greek) a shop that sells herbs and magic charms. |
BRAINIAC | • brainiac n. (Slang, sometimes derogatory) A very intelligent and usually studious, erudite person. • BRAINIAC n. a very intelligent person. |
BRANCHIA | • branchia n. A gill or other organ having the same function. • BRANCHIA n. (Latin) a gill. |
CANNABIC | • cannabic adj. Pertaining to hemp or cannabis. • CANNABIC adj. of or like cannabis. |
CANNABIN | • cannabin n. (Organic chemistry) The resin extracted from hemp (Cannabis sativa, variety Indica), responsible for… • CANNABIN n. a resin extracted from cannabis. |
CANNABIS | • cannabis n. A tall annual dioecious plant (Cannabis, especially Cannabis sativa), native to central Asia and having… • cannabis n. A mildly euphoriant or sedating, intoxicating hallucinogenic drug prepared from various parts of this plant. • cannabis n. The purified and decarboxylated resin of the cannabis plant used for medicinal purposes rather than… |
CANNIBAL | • cannibal n. An organism which eats others of its own species or kind, especially a human who eats human flesh. • CANNIBAL adj. practising cannibalism. • CANNIBAL n. one who eats his own kind. |
CARABINE | • carabine v. (Transitive, nautical or rock climbing) To attach via carabiner. • carabine n. (Military) A carbine. • CARABINE n. a rifle with a relatively short barrel, also CARABIN, CARBINE. |
CARABINS | • carabins n. Plural of carabin. • CARABIN n. a rifle with a relatively short barrel, also CARABINE, CARBINE. |
CINNABAR | • cinnabar n. A deep red mineral, mercuric sulfide, HgS; the principal ore of mercury; such ore used as the pigment vermilion. • cinnabar n. A bright red colour tinted with orange. • cinnabar n. (Countable) A species of moth, Tyria jacobaeae, having red patches on its predominantly black wings. |