AURISCOPIC | • auriscopic adj. Relating to auriscopy. • AURISCOPIC adj. relating to an auriscope, an instrument for examining the ear. |
CACIQUISMS | • CACIQUISM n. government by a cacique, a West Indian or American Indian chief. |
CADUCITIES | • caducities n. Plural of caducity. • CADUCITY n. the quality of being transitory or perishable. |
CANALICULI | • canaliculi n. Plural of canaliculus. • CANALICULUS n. a small bodily channel, like a tear duct. |
CAPPUCCINI | • cappuccini n. (Less common) plural of cappuccino. • CAPPUCCINO n. (Italian) black coffee with a little milk. |
CAPRICIOUS | • capricious adj. Impulsive and unpredictable; determined by chance, impulse, or whim. • CAPRICIOUS adj. subject to whim; impulsive and unpredictable. |
CAUSTICITY | • causticity n. The quality of being physically caustic; burning, corrosive. • causticity n. (Figuratively) Being caustic in speech, humour etc. • CAUSTICITY n. the state of being caustic. |
COULIBIACA | • COULIBIACA n. (Russian) a Russian fish pie, also COULIBIAC, KOULIBIACA. |
COULIBIACS | • coulibiacs n. Plural of coulibiac. • COULIBIAC n. (Russian) a Russian fish pie, also COULIBIACA, KOULIBIACA. |
COUMARILIC | • COUMARILIC adj. of or like coumarin. |
DIACAUSTIC | • diacaustic adj. Relating to the caustic curves formed by the refraction of light. • diacaustic n. A refracting lens, which can be used to cauterise. • diacaustic n. The curve or surface formed by the intersection of refracted light rays. |
DIACOUSTIC | • diacoustic adj. Relating to diacoustics. • DIACOUSTIC adj. pertaining to the refraction of sound. |
DIAZEUCTIC | • diazeuctic adj. (Music, obsolete) Disjoining two fourths. • DIAZEUCTIC adj. relating to diazeuxis, the separation of two tetrachords by a whole tone. |
MUSCARINIC | • muscarinic adj. Of or pertaining to muscarinic acetylcholine receptors, usually with regard to agonism or antagonism… • muscarinic adj. (Original (etymonic) sense but not the usual sense) Of or pertaining to muscarine. • muscarinic n. A muscarinic drug: one that modulates (enhances or blocks) the activity of muscarinic acetylcholine receptors. |
UNCRITICAL | • uncritical adj. Lacking critique or critical examination; undiscriminating. • uncritical adj. Having a disregard for critical standards or procedures. • uncritical adj. Slow to criticize. |
UNDIDACTIC | • undidactic adj. Not didactic. • UNDIDACTIC adj. not didactic. |
VACCINIUMS | • vacciniums n. Plural of vaccinium. • VACCINIUM n. (Latin) a genus of ericaceous shrubs including the various kinds of blueberries and the true cranberries. |