ALCOVED | • alcoved adj. (Sometimes in combination) Having (a specified type or number of) alcoves. • ALCOVED adj. having an alcove. |
ALCOVES | • alcoves n. Plural of alcove. • ALCOVE n. (Arabic) a vaulted or arched recess in a room-wall, formerly especially one for a bed. |
AVOCETS | • avocets n. Plural of avocet. • AVOCET n. a wading bird with a long bill bent upwards towards the tip, also AVOSET. |
CABOVER | • cabover n. A style of truck, bus, or van that has a vertical front or "flat face", with the cab of the truck sitting… • CABOVER n. a truck or lorry with the cab over the engine. |
CAVEOLA | • caveola n. A small (50–100 nanometer) invagination of the plasma membrane in many vertebrate cell types. • CAVEOLA n. a tiny pit in a cell membrane. |
CAVETTO | • cavetto n. (Architecture) A concave moulding with a regular curved profile that is part of a circle. • CAVETTO n. (Italian) a concave moulding. |
CENTAVO | • centavo n. Currency unit (hundredth of a peso) in Mexico. • centavo n. A similar subdenomination of various other currencies (in Argentina, Bolivia, Brazil, Cape Verde, Colombia… • centavo n. (Historical) The former subdenomination of some other currencies (in Brazil, Chile, Costa Rica, Ecuador… |
COAEVAL | • coaeval adj. Alternative form of coeval. • coaeval n. Alternative form of coeval. • coæval adj. Alternative spelling of coeval. |
COEVALS | • coevals n. Plural of coeval. • COEVAL n. a person of the same age. |
CONCAVE | • concave adj. Curved like the inner surface of a sphere or bowl. • concave adj. (Geometry, not comparable, of a polygon) not convex; having at least one internal angle greater than 180 degrees. • concave adj. (Functional analysis, not comparable, of a real-valued function on the reals) satisfying the property… |
COUVADE | • couvade n. A practice among some peoples, such as the Basques, of the husband of a woman in the last stages of… • couvade n. Sympathetic pregnancy: the involuntary sympathetic experience of the husband of symptoms of his wife’s… • COUVADE n. (French) a primitive birth ritual. |
EVOCATE | • evocate v. (Rare) To evoke. • evocate v. To call up. • EVOCATE v. to evoke. |
OCTAVES | • octaves n. Plural of octave. • OCTAVE n. a set of eight musical notes. |
OVERACT | • overact v. (Acting) To act in an exaggerated manner. • overact v. (Obsolete, transitive) To act upon, or influence, unduly. • OVERACT v. to act with exaggeration. |
VACUOLE | • vacuole n. (Cytology) A large membrane-bound vesicle in a cell’s cytoplasm. • vacuole n. A small empty or air-filled space or vacuity. • VACUOLE n. a small cavity in organic tissue. |
VOCABLE | • vocable n. (Linguistics) A word or utterance, especially with reference to its form rather than its meaning. • vocable n. (Music) A syllable or sound without specific meaning, used together with or in place of actual words in a song. • vocable adj. (Linguistics) Able to be uttered. |
VOMICAE | • vomicae n. Plural of vomica. • VOMICA n. (Latin) a cavity in the body containing pus. |