| anticancer | (adjective) used in the treatment of cancer | Synonyms: antineoplastic, antitumor, antitumour |
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| applicant | (noun) a person who requests or seeks something such as assistance or employment or admission | Synonyms: applier |
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| barbican | (noun) a tower that is part of a defensive structure (such as a castle) | Synonyms: barbacan |
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| basilican | (adjective) of or relating to or resembling a basilica | - |
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| chicane | (noun) the use of tricks to deceive someone (usually to extract money from them) | Synonyms: chicanery, guile, shenanigan, trickery, wile |
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| (noun) a movable barrier used in motor racing; sometimes placed before a dangerous corner to reduce speed as cars pass in single file | - |
| (noun) a bridge hand that is void of trumps | - |
| (verb) raise trivial objections | Synonyms: carp, cavil |
| (verb) defeat someone through trickery or deceit | Synonyms: cheat, chouse, jockey, screw, shaft |
| chicanery | (noun) the use of tricks to deceive someone (usually to extract money from them) | Synonyms: chicane, guile, shenanigan, trickery, wile |
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| communicant | (noun) a person entitled to receive Communion | - |
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| epicanthic | (adjective) relating to the epicanthus | - |
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| epicanthus | (noun) a vertical fold of skin over the nasal canthus; typical for many east Asian peoples; sometimes occurs in Down's syndrome | Synonyms: epicanthic fold |
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| explicandum | (noun) (logic) a statement of something (a fact or thing or expression) to be explained | Synonyms: explanandum |
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| fricandeau | (noun) larded veal braised and glazed in its own juices | - |
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| hurricane | (noun) a severe tropical cyclone usually with heavy rains and winds moving at 63-136 knots (12 on the Beaufort scale) | - |
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| indicant | (noun) a number or ratio (a value on a scale of measurement) derived from a series of observed facts; can reveal relative changes as a function of time | Synonyms: index, index number, indicator |
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| (noun) something that serves to indicate or suggest | Synonyms: indication |
| insignificance | (noun) the quality of having little or no significance | - |
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| insignificant | (adjective) devoid of importance, meaning, or force | Synonyms: unimportant |
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| (adjective) signifying nothing | - |
| (adjective) of little importance or influence or power; of minor status | Synonyms: peanut |
| (adjective) small and unimpressive | Synonyms: dinky |
| insignificantly | (adverb) not to a significant degree or amount | - |
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| (adverb) in an insignificant manner | - |
| intoxicant | (adjective) causing intoxication | Synonyms: intoxicating |
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| (noun) a drug that can produce a state of intoxication | - |
| (noun) a liquor or brew containing alcohol as the active agent | Synonyms: alcohol, alcoholic beverage, alcoholic drink, inebriant |
| lubricant | (noun) a substance capable of reducing friction by making surfaces smooth or slippery | Synonyms: lube, lubricating substance, lubricator |
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| mendicancy | (noun) a solicitation for money or food (especially in the street by an apparently penniless person) | Synonyms: beggary, begging |
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| (noun) the state of being a beggar or mendicant | Synonyms: beggary, mendicity |
| mendicant | (adjective) practicing beggary | - |
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| (noun) a pauper who lives by begging | Synonyms: beggar |
| (noun) a male member of a religious order that originally relied solely on alms | Synonyms: friar |
| multiplicand | (noun) the number that is multiplied by the multiplier | - |
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| nonsignificant | (adjective) attributable to chance | - |
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| pelican | (noun) large long-winged warm-water seabird having a large bill with a distensible pouch for fish | - |
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| pemican | (noun) lean dried meat pounded fine and mixed with melted fat; used especially by North American Indians | Synonyms: pemmican |
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| pemmican | (noun) lean dried meat pounded fine and mixed with melted fat; used especially by North American Indians | Synonyms: pemican |
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| picaninny | (noun) (ethnic slur) offensive term for a Black child | Synonyms: piccaninny, pickaninny |
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| publican | (noun) the keeper of a public house | Synonyms: tavern keeper |
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| republican | (adjective) relating to or belonging to the Republican Party | - |
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| (adjective) having the supreme power lying in the body of citizens entitled to vote for officers and representatives responsible to them or characteristic of such government | - |
| (noun) an advocate of a republic (usually in opposition to a monarchy) | - |
| republicanism | (noun) the political orientation of those who hold that a republic is the best form of government | - |
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| significance | (noun) the quality of being significant | - |
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| (noun) a meaning that is not expressly stated but can be inferred | Synonyms: implication, import |
| (noun) the message that is intended or expressed or signified | Synonyms: import, meaning, signification |
| significant | (adjective) important in effect or meaning | Synonyms: important |
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| (adjective) too closely correlated to be attributed to chance and therefore indicating a systematic relation | - |
| (adjective) of considerable importance, size, or worth | Synonyms: substantial |
| (adjective) rich in significance or implication | Synonyms: meaning, pregnant |
| significantly | (adverb) in an important way or to an important degree | Synonyms: importantly |
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| (adverb) in a significant manner | - |
| (adverb) in a statistically significant way | - |
| supplicant | (adjective) humbly entreating | Synonyms: suppliant, supplicatory |
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| (noun) one praying humbly for something | Synonyms: petitioner, requester, suppliant |
| (noun) someone who prays to God | Synonyms: prayer |
| toxicant | (adjective) having the qualities or effects of a poison | Synonyms: poisonous |
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| (noun) any substance that causes injury or illness or death of a living organism | Synonyms: poison, poisonous substance |
| vesicant | (adjective) causing blisters | Synonyms: vesicatory |
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| (noun) a chemical agent that causes blistering (especially mustard gas) | Synonyms: vesicatory |