| acatalectic | (adjective) (verse) metrically complete; especially having the full number of syllables in the final metrical foot | - |
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| (noun) (prosody) a line of verse that has the full number of syllables | - |
| antenatal | (adjective) occurring or existing before birth | Synonyms: antepartum, prenatal |
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| anticatalyst | (noun) (chemistry) a substance that retards a chemical reaction or diminishes the activity of a catalyst | - |
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| astomatal | (adjective) lacking a stoma or stomata | - |
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| autocatalysis | (noun) catalysis in which the catalyst is one of the products of the reaction | - |
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| autocatalytic | (adjective) relating to or proceeding by autocatalysis | - |
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| biocatalyst | (noun) a biochemical catalyst such as an enzyme | - |
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| biocatalytic | (adjective) of or relating to biocatalysts | - |
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| catalase | (noun) enzyme found in most plant and animal cells that functions as an oxidative catalyst; decomposes hydrogen peroxide into oxygen and water | - |
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| catalatic | (adjective) of or relating to the enzyme catalase | - |
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| catalectic | (adjective) (verse) metrically incomplete; especially lacking one or more syllables in the final metrical foot | - |
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| (noun) (prosody) a line of verse that lacks a syllable in the last metrical foot | - |
| catalepsy | (noun) a trancelike state with loss of voluntary motion and failure to react to stimuli | - |
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| cataleptic | (adjective) of or having characteristics of or affected with catalepsy | - |
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| (noun) a person suffering from catalepsy | - |
| catalexis | (noun) the absence of a syllable in the last foot of a line or verse | - |
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| catalog | (noun) a book or pamphlet containing an enumeration of things | Synonyms: catalogue |
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| (noun) a complete list of things; usually arranged systematically | Synonyms: catalogue |
| (verb) make an itemized list or catalog of; classify | Synonyms: catalogue |
| (verb) make a catalogue, compile a catalogue | Synonyms: catalogue |
| cataloger | (noun) a librarian who classifies publications according to a categorial system | Synonyms: cataloguer |
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| catalogue | (noun) a book or pamphlet containing an enumeration of things | Synonyms: catalog |
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| (noun) a complete list of things; usually arranged systematically | Synonyms: catalog |
| (verb) make an itemized list or catalog of; classify | Synonyms: catalog |
| (verb) make a catalogue, compile a catalogue | Synonyms: catalog |
| cataloguer | (noun) a librarian who classifies publications according to a categorial system | Synonyms: cataloger |
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| catalpa | (noun) tree of the genus Catalpa with large leaves and white flowers followed by long slender pods | Synonyms: Indian bean |
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| catalufa | (noun) brightly colored carnivorous fish of western Atlantic and West Indies waters | Synonyms: Priacanthus arenatus |
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| catalyse | (verb) change by catalysis or cause to catalyze | Synonyms: catalyze |
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| catalysis | (noun) acceleration of a chemical reaction induced by the presence of material that is chemically unchanged at the end of the reaction | Synonyms: contact action |
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| catalyst | (noun) something that causes an important event to happen | - |
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| (noun) (chemistry) a substance that initiates or accelerates a chemical reaction without itself being affected | Synonyms: accelerator |
| catalytic | (adjective) relating to or causing or involving catalysis | - |
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| catalytically | (adverb) by catalytic action; in a catalytic manner | - |
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| catalyze | (verb) change by catalysis or cause to catalyze | Synonyms: catalyse |
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| fatal | (adjective) bringing death | - |
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| (adjective) having momentous consequences; of decisive importance | Synonyms: fateful |
| (adjective) controlled or decreed by fate; predetermined | Synonyms: fateful |
| (adjective) (of events) having extremely unfortunate or dire consequences; bringing ruin | Synonyms: black, calamitous, disastrous, fateful |
| fatalism | (noun) a philosophical doctrine holding that all events are predetermined in advance for all time and human beings are powerless to change them | - |
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| (noun) a submissive mental attitude resulting from acceptance of the doctrine that everything that happens is predetermined and inevitable | - |
| fatalist | (adjective) of or relating to fatalism | Synonyms: fatalistic |
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| (noun) anyone who submits to the belief that they are powerless to change their destiny | Synonyms: determinist, predestinarian, predestinationist |
| fatalistic | (adjective) of or relating to fatalism | Synonyms: fatalist |
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| fatality | (noun) the quality of being able to cause death or fatal disasters | - |
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| (noun) a death resulting from an accident or a disaster | Synonyms: human death |
| fatally | (adverb) with fatal consequences or implications | - |
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| haematal | (adjective) relating to the blood vessels or blood | Synonyms: haemal, hemal, hematal |
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| hematal | (adjective) relating to the blood vessels or blood | Synonyms: haemal, haematal, hemal |
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| hypercatalectic | (adjective) (verse) having an extra syllable or syllables at the end of a metrically complete verse or in a metrical foot | - |
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| (noun) (prosody) a line of poetry having an extra syllable or syllables at the end of the last metrical foot | - |
| hysterocatalepsy | (noun) hysteria with cataleptic symptoms | - |
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| keratalgia | (noun) pain in the cornea | - |
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| natal | (adjective) relating to or accompanying birth | - |
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| (adjective) of or relating to the buttocks | - |
| natality | (noun) the ratio of live births in an area to the population of that area; expressed per 1000 population per year | Synonyms: birth rate, birthrate, fertility, fertility rate |
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| neonatal | (adjective) relating to or affecting the infant during the first month after birth | - |
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| nonfatal | (adjective) not bringing death | - |
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| palatal | (adjective) relating to or lying near the palate | Synonyms: palatine |
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| (adjective) produced with the front of the tongue near or touching the hard palate (as `y') or with the blade of the tongue near the hard palate (as `ch' in `chin' or `j' in `gin') | Synonyms: palatalised, palatalized |
| (noun) a semivowel produced with the tongue near the palate (like the initial sound in the English word `yeast') | - |
| palatalise | (verb) pronounce a consonant with the tongue against the palate | Synonyms: palatalize |
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| palatalised | (adjective) produced with the front of the tongue near or touching the hard palate (as `y') or with the blade of the tongue near the hard palate (as `ch' in `chin' or `j' in `gin') | Synonyms: palatal, palatalized |
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| palatalize | (verb) pronounce a consonant with the tongue against the palate | Synonyms: palatalise |
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| palatalized | (adjective) produced with the front of the tongue near or touching the hard palate (as `y') or with the blade of the tongue near the hard palate (as `ch' in `chin' or `j' in `gin') | Synonyms: palatal, palatalised |
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| perinatal | (adjective) occurring during the period around birth (5 months before and 1 month after) | - |
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| postnatal | (adjective) occurring immediately after birth | Synonyms: postpartum |
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| prenatal | (adjective) occurring or existing before birth | Synonyms: antenatal, antepartum |
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| stomatal | (adjective) relating to or constituting plant stomata | Synonyms: stomatous |
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| (adjective) relating to or of the nature of or having a mouth or mouthlike opening | Synonyms: stomatous |