COMEUPPANCE | • comeuppance n. Retribution or outcome that is justly deserved. • come-uppance n. Alternative form of comeuppance. • COMEUPPANCE n. a deserved rebuke or penalty. |
CONCEPTUSES | • conceptuses n. Plural of conceptus. • CONCEPTUS n. (Latin) the products of conception. |
CORPULENCES | • corpulences n. Plural of corpulence. • CORPULENCE n. the state of being corpulent, also CORPULENCY. |
COUNTERPACE | • COUNTERPACE n. a step in opposition to another; a contrary measure. |
CRAPULENCES | • crapulences n. Plural of crapulence. • CRAPULENCE n. the sickness occasioned by intemperance; surfeit. |
CREPUSCULES | • crepuscules n. Plural of crepuscule. • CREPUSCULE n. twilight, the fading light at the end of the day, also CREPUSCLE. |
CYPERACEOUS | • cyperaceous adj. (Botany) Of or pertaining to the Cyperaceae, or sedges. • CYPERACEOUS adj. belonging to the Cyperaceae, a family of grasslike plants including the sedges, certain rushes and papyrus. |
EPICUTICLES | • epicuticles n. Plural of epicuticle. • EPICUTICLE n. the outermost layer of cuticle of an insect exoskeleton. |
PREOCCUPATE | • preoccupate v. (Obsolete) To influence, to occupy (the mind) in advance; to be preoccupied with. • preoccupate v. (Obsolete) To meet in advance; to forestall, pre-empt. • PREOCCUPATE v. (obsolete) to preoccupy. |
PREOCCUPIED | • preoccupied adj. Concerned with something else; distracted; giving one’s attention elsewhere. • preoccupied adj. (Taxonomy, not comparable) Describing a scientific name that was previously used, a junior homonym. • preoccupied v. Simple past tense and past participle of preoccupy. |
PREOCCUPIES | • preoccupies v. Third-person singular simple present indicative form of preoccupy. • PREOCCUPY v. to engross or fill the mind of. |
PUBESCENCES | • pubescences n. Plural of pubescence. • PUBESCENCE n. the state of being pubescent. |
PUTRESCENCE | • putrescence n. The condition of being putrid; decay. • putrescence n. Putrid matter. • PUTRESCENCE n. the state of being putrescent. |
RECEPTACULA | • receptacula n. Plural of receptaculum. • RECEPTACULUM n. (Latin) a receptacle. |
SPUMESCENCE | • spumescence n. (Obsolete) The state or characteristic of being foamy or frothy. • SPUMESCENCE n. foaminess, frothiness. |
SUSCEPTANCE | • susceptance n. (Physics) the imaginary component of the admittance of an alternating current circuit. • SUSCEPTANCE n. the imaginary part of the admittance. |