| acropetal | (adjective) of leaves or flowers; developing or opening in succession from base to apex | - |
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| acrophobia | (noun) a morbid fear of great heights | - |
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| acrophobic | (adjective) suffering from acrophobia; abnormally afraid of high places | - |
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| acrophony | (noun) naming a letter of the alphabet by using a word whose initial sound is the sound represented by that letter | - |
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| acropolis | (noun) the citadel in ancient Greek towns | - |
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| cecropia | (noun) North American silkworm moth; larvae feed on the leaves of forest trees | Synonyms: cecropia moth, Hyalophora cecropia |
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| crop | (noun) a pouch in many birds and some lower animals that resembles a stomach for storage and preliminary maceration of food | Synonyms: craw |
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| (noun) the stock or handle of a whip | - |
| (noun) the output of something in a season | - |
| (noun) a collection of people or things appearing together | - |
| (noun) the yield from plants in a single growing season | Synonyms: harvest |
| (noun) a cultivated plant that is grown commercially on a large scale | - |
| (verb) cultivate, tend, and cut back the growth of | Synonyms: clip, cut back, dress, lop, prune, snip, trim |
| (verb) feed as in a meadow or pasture | Synonyms: browse, graze, pasture, range |
| (verb) cut short | - |
| (verb) let feed in a field or pasture or meadow | Synonyms: graze, pasture |
| (verb) yield crops | - |
| (verb) prepare for crops | Synonyms: cultivate, work |
| cropped | (adjective) (of land or soil) used for growing crops | - |
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| cropper | (noun) small farmers and tenants | Synonyms: sharecrop farmer, sharecropper |
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| macrophage | (noun) a large phagocyte; some are fixed and other circulate in the blood stream | - |
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| micropaleontology | (noun) the paleontology of microfossils | - |
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| micropenis | (noun) an abnormally small penis | Synonyms: microphallus |
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| microphage | (noun) a neutrophil that ingests small things (as bacteria) | - |
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| microphallus | (noun) an abnormally small penis | Synonyms: micropenis |
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| microphone | (noun) device for converting sound waves into electrical energy | Synonyms: mic, mike |
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| microphoning | (noun) the transduction of sound waves into electrical waves (by a microphone) | - |
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| microphotometer | (noun) special kind of densitometer that measures density variations over a very small area | - |
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| microprint | (noun) extremely small print, read by a magnifying device. | - |
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| microprocessor | (noun) integrated circuit semiconductor chip that performs the bulk of the processing and controls the parts of a system | - |
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| micropylar | (adjective) of or relating to a micropyle | - |
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| micropyle | (noun) minute opening in the wall of an ovule through which the pollen tube enters | - |
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| necrophagia | (noun) feeding on corpses or carrion | Synonyms: necrophagy |
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| necrophagy | (noun) feeding on corpses or carrion | Synonyms: necrophagia |
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| necrophilia | (noun) an irresistible sexual attraction to dead bodies | Synonyms: necromania, necrophilism |
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| necrophilism | (noun) an irresistible sexual attraction to dead bodies | Synonyms: necromania, necrophilia |
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| necropolis | (noun) a tract of land used for burials | Synonyms: burial ground, burial site, burying ground, cemetery, graveyard, memorial park |
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| necropsy | (noun) an examination and dissection of a dead body to determine cause of death or the changes produced by disease | Synonyms: autopsy, PM, post-mortem, post-mortem examination, postmortem, postmortem examination |
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| outcrop | (noun) the part of a rock formation that appears above the surface of the surrounding land | Synonyms: outcropping, rock outcrop |
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| (verb) appear on the surface, come to the surface on the ground | - |
| outcropping | (noun) the part of a rock formation that appears above the surface of the surrounding land | Synonyms: outcrop, rock outcrop |
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| overcrop | (verb) to exhaust by excessive cultivation | Synonyms: overcultivate |
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| sharecropper | (noun) small farmers and tenants | Synonyms: cropper, sharecrop farmer |
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| stonecrop | (noun) any of various northern temperate plants of the genus Sedum having fleshy leaves and red or yellow or white flowers | - |
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| uncropped | (adjective) not used for growing crops | - |
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