| allocution | (noun) (rhetoric) a formal or authoritative address that advises or exhorts | - |
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| altocumulus | (noun) a cumulus cloud at an intermediate altitude of 2 or 3 miles | Synonyms: altocumulus cloud |
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| autocue | (noun) a device that displays words for people to read | Synonyms: prompter |
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| autofocus | (noun) an optical device for focussing a camera or other instrument automatically | - |
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| bilocular | (adjective) divided into or containing two cells or chambers | Synonyms: biloculate |
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| biloculate | (adjective) divided into or containing two cells or chambers | Synonyms: bilocular |
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| binocular | (adjective) relating to both eyes | - |
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| binoculars | (noun) (plural) an optical instrument designed for simultaneous use by both eyes | Synonyms: field glasses, opera glasses |
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| circumlocution | (noun) a style that involves indirect ways of expressing things | Synonyms: ambage, periphrasis |
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| (noun) an indirect way of expressing something | Synonyms: indirect expression |
| circumlocutious | (adjective) roundabout and unnecessarily wordy | Synonyms: ambagious, circumlocutory, periphrastic |
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| circumlocutory | (adjective) roundabout and unnecessarily wordy | Synonyms: ambagious, circumlocutious, periphrastic |
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| cirrocumulus | (noun) a cloud at a high altitude consisting of a series of regularly arranged small clouds resembling ripples | Synonyms: cirrocumulus cloud |
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| cocuswood | (noun) wood of the granadilla tree used for making musical instruments especially clarinets | Synonyms: cocoswood, granadilla wood |
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| crocus | (noun) any of numerous low-growing plants of the genus Crocus having slender grasslike leaves and white or yellow or purple flowers; native chiefly to the Mediterranean region but widely cultivated | - |
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| cryptocurrency | (noun) a currency based on the usage of cryptography to secure transactions | - |
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| diplodocus | (noun) a huge quadrupedal herbivore with long neck and tail; of late Jurassic in western North America | - |
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| docudrama | (noun) a film or TV program presenting the facts about a person or event | Synonyms: documentary, documentary film, infotainment |
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| document | (noun) anything serving as a representation of a person's thinking by means of symbolic marks | - |
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| (noun) writing that provides information (especially information of an official nature) | Synonyms: papers, written document |
| (noun) (computer science) a computer file that contains text (and possibly formatting instructions) using seven-bit ASCII characters | Synonyms: text file |
| (noun) a written account of ownership or obligation | - |
| (verb) support or supply with references | - |
| (verb) record in detail | - |
| documental | (adjective) relating to or consisting of or derived from documents | Synonyms: documentary |
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| documentary | (adjective) relating to or consisting of or derived from documents | Synonyms: documental |
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| (adjective) (of film, television, radio, or photography) depicting a real-life event using images or interviews with people involved in the event | - |
| (noun) a film or TV program presenting the facts about a person or event | Synonyms: docudrama, documentary film, infotainment |
| documentation | (noun) documentary validation | Synonyms: support |
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| (noun) confirmation that some fact or statement is true through the use of documentary evidence | Synonyms: certification, corroboration |
| (noun) program listings or technical manuals describing the operation and use of programs | Synonyms: software documentation |
| documented | (adjective) furnished with or supported by documents | - |
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| (adjective) established as genuine | Synonyms: attested, authenticated |
| electrocute | (verb) kill by electrocution, as in the electric chair | Synonyms: fry |
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| (verb) kill by electric shock | - |
| electrocution | (noun) killing by electric shock | - |
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| (noun) execution by electricity | Synonyms: burning |
| electrocutioner | (noun) an executioner who uses electricity to kill the condemned person | - |
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| elocute | (verb) declaim in an elocutionary manner | - |
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| elocution | (noun) an expert manner of speaking involving control of voice and gesture | - |
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| elocutionary | (adjective) of or relating to elocution | - |
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| (adjective) (used of style of speaking) overly embellished | - |
| elocutionist | (noun) a public speaker trained in voice production and gesture and delivery | - |
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| focus | (noun) maximum clarity or distinctness of an image rendered by an optical system | - |
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| (noun) maximum clarity or distinctness of an idea | - |
| (noun) the concentration of attention or energy on something | Synonyms: centering, centring, direction, focal point, focusing, focussing |
| (noun) a fixed reference point on the concave side of a conic section | - |
| (noun) a point of convergence of light (or other radiation) or a point from which it diverges | Synonyms: focal point |
| (noun) a central point or locus of an infection in an organism | Synonyms: focal point, nidus |
| (noun) special emphasis attached to something | Synonyms: stress |
| (verb) become focussed or come into focus | Synonyms: focalise, focalize |
| (verb) put (an image) into focus | Synonyms: focalise, focalize, sharpen |
| (verb) direct one's attention on something | Synonyms: center, centre, concentrate, pore, rivet |
| (verb) bring into focus or alignment; to converge or cause to converge; of ideas or emotions | Synonyms: concenter, concentre, focalise, focalize |
| (verb) cause to converge on or toward a central point | - |
| focused | (adjective) being in focus or brought into focus | Synonyms: focussed |
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| (adjective) of an optical system (e.g. eye or opera glasses) adjusted to produce a clear image | - |
| (adjective) (of light rays) converging on a point | Synonyms: focussed |
| focusing | (noun) the act of bringing into focus | Synonyms: focalisation, focalization |
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| (noun) the concentration of attention or energy on something | Synonyms: centering, centring, direction, focal point, focus, focussing |
| focussed | (adjective) being in focus or brought into focus | Synonyms: focused |
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| (adjective) (of light rays) converging on a point | Synonyms: focused |
| focussing | (noun) the concentration of attention or energy on something | Synonyms: centering, centring, direction, focal point, focus, focusing |
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| innocuous | (adjective) not injurious to physical or mental health | - |
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| (adjective) lacking intent or capacity to injure | Synonyms: innocent |
| (adjective) not causing disapproval | Synonyms: unobjectionable |
| inoculant | (noun) a substance (a virus or toxin or immune serum) that is introduced into the body to produce or increase immunity to a particular disease | Synonyms: inoculum |
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| inoculate | (verb) perform vaccinations or produce immunity in by inoculation | Synonyms: immunise, immunize, vaccinate |
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| (verb) insert a bud for propagation | - |
| (verb) impregnate with the virus or germ of a disease in order to render immune | - |
| (verb) introduce a microorganism into | - |
| (verb) introduce an idea or attitude into the mind of | - |
| inoculating | (noun) the act of protecting against disease by introducing a vaccine into the body to induce immunity | Synonyms: vaccinating |
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| inoculation | (noun) taking a vaccine as a precaution against contracting a disease | Synonyms: vaccination |
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| inoculator | (noun) a medical practitioner who inoculates people against diseases | Synonyms: vaccinator |
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| inoculum | (noun) a substance (a virus or toxin or immune serum) that is introduced into the body to produce or increase immunity to a particular disease | Synonyms: inoculant |
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| interlocutor | (noun) a person who takes part in a conversation | Synonyms: conversational partner |
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| (noun) the performer in the middle of a minstrel line who engages the others in talk | Synonyms: middleman |
| interlocutory | (adjective) consisting of dialogue | - |
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| jocular | (adjective) characterized by jokes and good humor | Synonyms: jesting, jocose, joking |
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| (adverb) with humor | Synonyms: jocosely |
| jocularity | (noun) activity characterized by good humor | Synonyms: jest, joke |
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| (noun) fun characterized by humor | Synonyms: jocosity |
| (noun) a feeling of facetious merriment | Synonyms: jocundity |
| jocund | (adjective) full of or showing high-spirited merriment | Synonyms: gay, jolly, jovial, merry, mirthful |
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| jocundity | (noun) a feeling of facetious merriment | Synonyms: jocularity |
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| linocut | (noun) a design carved in relief into a block of linoleum | - |
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| (noun) a print that is made from a design carved in relief into a block of linoleum | - |
| locule | (noun) a small cavity or space within an organ or in a plant or animal | Synonyms: loculus |
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| loculus | (noun) a small cavity or space within an organ or in a plant or animal | Synonyms: locule |
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| locum | (noun) someone (physician or clergyman) who substitutes temporarily for another member of the same profession | Synonyms: locum tenens |
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| locus | (noun) the set of all points or lines that satisfy or are determined by specific conditions | - |
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| (noun) the scene of any event or action (especially the place of a meeting) | Synonyms: locale, venue |
| (noun) the specific site of a particular gene on its chromosome | - |
| locust | (noun) migratory grasshoppers of warm regions having short antennae | - |
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| (noun) any of various hardwood trees of the family Leguminosae | Synonyms: locust tree |
| (noun) hardwood from any of various locust trees | - |
| locution | (noun) a word or phrase that particular people use in particular situations | Synonyms: expression, saying |
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| monoculture | (noun) the cultivation of a single crop (on a farm or area or country) | - |
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| mucocutaneous | (adjective) of or relating to the mucous membranes and skin | - |
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| ocular | (adjective) of or relating to or resembling the eye | Synonyms: ophthalmic, optic, optical |
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| (adjective) relating to or using sight | Synonyms: optic, optical, visual |
| (adjective) visible | Synonyms: visual |
| (noun) combination of lenses at the viewing end of optical instruments | Synonyms: eyepiece |
| oculism | (noun) the craft of an oculist | - |
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| oculist | (noun) a medical doctor specializing in the diagnosis and treatment of diseases of the eye | Synonyms: eye doctor, ophthalmologist |
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| (noun) a person skilled in testing for defects of vision in order to prescribe corrective glasses | Synonyms: optometrist |
| oculomotor | (noun) supplies extrinsic muscles of the eye | Synonyms: nervus oculomotorius, oculomotor nerve, third cranial nerve |
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| oculus | (noun) the organ of sight | Synonyms: eye, optic |
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| procumbent | (adjective) having stems that trail along the ground without putting down roots | - |
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| procurable | (adjective) capable of being obtained | Synonyms: getable, gettable, obtainable |
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| procural | (noun) the act of getting possession of something | Synonyms: procurance, procurement |
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| procurance | (noun) the act of getting possession of something | Synonyms: procural, procurement |
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| procurator | (noun) (ancient Rome) someone employed by the Roman Emperor to manage finance and taxes | - |
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| (noun) a person authorized to act for another | Synonyms: placeholder, proxy |
| procure | (verb) arrange for sexual partners for others | Synonyms: pander, pimp |
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| (verb) get by special effort | Synonyms: secure |
| procurement | (noun) the act of getting possession of something | Synonyms: procural, procurance |
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| procurer | (noun) someone who procures customers for whores (in England they call a pimp a ponce) | Synonyms: fancy man, pandar, pander, panderer, pimp, ponce |
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| (noun) someone who obtains or acquires | Synonyms: securer |
| procuress | (noun) a woman pimp | - |
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| refocus | (verb) put again into focus or focus more sharply | - |
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| (verb) focus anew | - |
| (verb) focus once again | - |
| refocusing | (noun) focusing again | - |
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| sociocultural | (adjective) relating to both social and cultural matters | - |
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| subocular | (adjective) situated on or below the floor of the eye socket | Synonyms: suborbital |
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| supraocular | (adjective) located or occurring above the eye socket | Synonyms: supraorbital |
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| tubocurarine | (noun) a toxic alkaloid found in certain tropical South American trees that is a powerful relaxant for striated muscles | Synonyms: curare |
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| undocumented | (adjective) lacking necessary documents (as for e.g. permission to live or work in a country) | - |
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| unfocused | (adjective) (of an image) not being in or brought into focus | Synonyms: unfocussed |
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| (adjective) not concentrated at one point or upon one objective | Synonyms: unfocussed |
| unfocussed | (adjective) (of an image) not being in or brought into focus | Synonyms: unfocused |
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| (adjective) not concentrated at one point or upon one objective | Synonyms: unfocused |
| unprocurable | (adjective) not capable of being obtained | Synonyms: inaccessible, unobtainable, untouchable |
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