ACCRETIONARY | • accretionary adj. Of, pertaining to, or in the form of an accretion. • ACCRETIONARY adj. relating to accretion, also ACCRETIVE. |
CONFIRMATORY | • confirmatory adj. Serving to confirm something. • CONFIRMATORY adj. serving to confirm. |
CONSECRATORY | • consecratory adj. That consecrates. • consecratory adj. Of or pertaining to consecration. • CONSECRATORY adj. serving to consecrate, also CONSECRATIVE. |
CONSERVATORY | • conservatory adj. Having the quality of preserving from loss, decay, or injury. • conservatory adj. (Rare) Relating to conservation. • conservatory n. (Obsolete) That which preserves from injury. |
CONSPIRATORY | • conspiratory adj. Of, or relating to a conspiracy. • CONSPIRATORY adj. relating to conspiracy, also CONSPIRATORIAL. |
CONTEMPORARY | • contemporary adj. From the same time period, coexistent in time; contemporaneous. • contemporary adj. Modern, of the present age (shorthand for ‘contemporary with the present’). • contemporary n. Someone or something living at the same time, or of roughly the same age as another. |
CONTRAYERVAS | • contrayervas n. Plural of contrayerva. • CONTRAYERVA n. a tropical American plant of the mulberry family, once believed to be an antidote to poisons. |
CONTRIBUTARY | • contributary adj. Obsolete form of contributory. • CONTRIBUTARY n. (obsolete) a person or thing that contributes, also CONTRIBUTORY. |
COUNTERPARTY | • counterparty n. (Finance, insurance, law) The other party to a financial transaction. • counter-party n. Alternative spelling of counterparty. • COUNTERPARTY n. a party set up in opposition to another party. |
COUNTERRALLY | • counterrally n. A rally (demonstration) held in opposition to another. • counterrally v. (Intransitive, rare) To carry out a counterrally. • counter-rally n. Alternative spelling of counterrally. |
GERONTOCRACY | • gerontocracy n. Government by elders. • GERONTOCRACY n. government by the aged. |
INCRETIONARY | • INCRETIONARY adj. relating to incretion, internal secretion. |
POSTCORONARY | • postcoronary adj. After coronary thrombosis. • POSTCORONARY adj. taking place after a coronary. |
PROTUBERANCY | • protuberancy n. The quality or state of being protuberant. • protuberancy n. A protuberance. • PROTUBERANCY n. a swelling or bump on the surface, also PROTUBERANCE. |
RENUNCIATORY | • renunciatory adj. Serving to renounce; rebellious, contrary. • RENUNCIATORY adj. relating to renunciation. |
SACRAMENTARY | • sacramentary adj. Of or pertaining a sacrament or the sacraments; sacramental. • sacramentary adj. Of or pertaining to the Sacramentarians. • sacramentary n. (Roman Catholicism) An ancient book of the Roman Catholic Church, containing the rites for Mass, the sacraments, etc. |
SECRETIONARY | • secretionary adj. Relating to secretions. • SECRETIONARY adj. relating to secretion. |
TERCENTENARY | • tercentenary n. The 300th anniversary of an event. • tercentenary adj. Of or relative to such an anniversary, or to a span of 300 years. • TERCENTENARY adj. pertaining to a three-hundred year anniversary. |
TRANSPARENCY | • transparency n. (Uncountable) The quality of being transparent; transparence. • transparency n. (Uncountable) Openness; accessibility to scrutiny. • transparency n. (Countable, art) A transparent artwork, viewable by shining light through it. |
TRICENTENARY | • tricentenary n. Tercentenary. • TRICENTENARY n. a three-hundred year anniversary, or the celebrations for it, also TERCENTENARY. |