ACETANILIDE | • acetanilide n. (Organic chemistry, pharmacology) the amide derived from acetic acid and aniline; once used medicinally… • ACETANILIDE n. a white crystalline compound derived from aniline and acetic acid, also ACETANILID. |
AERIALITIES | • aerialities n. Plural of aeriality. • AERIALITY n. the state of being aerial; insubstantiality. |
ALITERACIES | • ALITERACY n. the state of being nonliterate. |
ALLEVIATIVE | • alleviative adj. That alleviates pain; palliative. • alleviative n. That which alleviates; a drug or remedy. • ALLEVIATIVE adj. tending to alleviate, also ALLEVIATORY. |
ARTERIALISE | • arterialise v. Alternative form of arterialize. • ARTERIALISE v. to make arterial, also ARTERIALIZE. |
ARTERIALIZE | • arterialize v. (Physiology) To convert venous blood into arterial blood (by the absorption of oxygen in the lungs). • ARTERIALIZE v. to make arterial, also ARTERIALISE. |
ERADICATIVE | • eradicative adj. Tending or serving to eradicate; curing or destroying thoroughly, as a disease or any evil. • eradicative n. (Rare) That which eradicates. • ERADICATIVE adj. serving to eradicate or drive thoroughly away. |
EXPATIATIVE | • expatiative adj. Expatiatory; expansive; diffusive. • EXPATIATIVE adj. expansive, also EXPATIATORY. |
FAINEANTISE | • faineantise n. (Archaic) faineance. • FAINEANTISE n. (French) do-nothing-ness; an indisposition to do anything. |
MATERIALISE | • materialise v. Non-Oxford British spelling standard spelling of materialize. • MATERIALISE v. to appear, become material, also MATERIALIZE. |
MATERIALIZE | • materialize v. (Transitive) To cause to take physical form, or to cause an object to appear. • materialize v. (Intransitive) To take physical form, to appear seemingly from nowhere. • materialize v. (Transitive) To regard as matter; to consider or explain by the laws or principles which are appropriate to matter. |
PAEDIATRIES | • paediatries n. Plural of paediatry. • pædiatries n. Plural of pædiatry. • PAEDIATRY n. the care of children. |
PERICHAETIA | • perichaetia n. Plural of perichaetium. • PERICHAETIUM n. a sheath or cluster of leaves around the archegonia in mosses and liverworts. |
RETALIATIVE | • retaliative adj. Retaliatory. • RETALIATIVE adj. relating to retaliation. |
SEPTICAEMIA | • septicaemia n. Alternative spelling of septicemia. • septicæmia n. (Pathology) Obsolete spelling of septicaemia. • SEPTICAEMIA n. blood-poisoning with presence of bacteria and their toxins in blood, also SEPTICEMIA. |
TAENIACIDES | • taeniacides n. Plural of taeniacide. • TAENIACIDE n. the killing of tapeworms. |