| aftercare | (noun) care and treatment of a convalescent patient | - |
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| altercate | (verb) have a disagreement over something | Synonyms: argufy, dispute, quarrel, scrap |
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| altercation | (noun) noisy quarrel | Synonyms: affray, fracas |
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| anasarca | (noun) generalized edema with accumulation of serum in subcutaneous connective tissue | - |
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| arcade | (noun) a structure composed of a series of arches supported by columns | Synonyms: colonnade |
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| (noun) a covered passageway with shops and stalls on either side | - |
| arcadian | (adjective) (used with regard to idealized country life) idyllically rustic | Synonyms: bucolic, pastoral |
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| arcane | (adjective) requiring secret or mysterious knowledge | - |
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| arcanum | (noun) information known only to a special group | Synonyms: secret |
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| barcarole | (noun) a boating song sung by Venetian gondoliers | Synonyms: barcarolle |
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| barcarolle | (noun) a boating song sung by Venetian gondoliers | Synonyms: barcarole |
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| battercake | (noun) a flat cake of thin batter fried on both sides on a griddle | Synonyms: flannel-cake, flannel cake, flapcake, flapjack, griddlecake, hot cake, hotcake, pancake |
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| bearcat | (noun) arboreal civet of Asia having a long prehensile tail and shaggy black hair | Synonyms: Arctictis bintourong, binturong |
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| bifurcate | (adjective) resembling a fork; divided or separated into two branches | Synonyms: biramous, branched, forficate, fork-like, forked, pronged, prongy |
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| (verb) divide into two branches | - |
| (verb) split or divide into two | - |
| bifurcated | (adjective) divided into or made up of two parts | - |
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| bifurcation | (noun) the act of splitting into two branches | - |
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| (noun) the place where something divides into two branches | - |
| (noun) a bifurcating branch (one or both of them) | - |
| capercaillie | (noun) large black Old World grouse | Synonyms: capercailzie, horse of the wood, Tetrao urogallus |
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| capercailzie | (noun) large black Old World grouse | Synonyms: capercaillie, horse of the wood, Tetrao urogallus |
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| carcajou | (noun) stocky shaggy-coated North American carnivorous mammal | Synonyms: Gulo luscus, skunk bear, wolverine |
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| carcase | (noun) the dead body of an animal especially one slaughtered and dressed for food | Synonyms: carcass |
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| carcass | (noun) the dead body of an animal especially one slaughtered and dressed for food | Synonyms: carcase |
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| cercaria | (noun) tadpole-shaped parasitic larva of a trematode worm; tail disappears in adult stage | - |
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| cercarial | (adjective) of or relating to cercaria | - |
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| circadian | (adjective) of or relating to biological processes occurring at 24-hour intervals | - |
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| colorcast | (noun) a television program that is broadcast in color | Synonyms: colourcast |
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| (verb) broadcast in color | - |
| colourcast | (noun) a television program that is broadcast in color | Synonyms: colorcast |
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| cybercafe | (noun) a cafe whose customers sit at computer terminals and log on to the internet while they eat and drink | - |
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| demarcate | (verb) set, mark, or draw the boundaries of something | Synonyms: delimit, delimitate |
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| (verb) separate clearly, as if by boundaries | - |
| demarcation | (noun) a conceptual separation or distinction | Synonyms: contrast, dividing line, line |
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| (noun) the boundary of a specific area | Synonyms: demarcation line, limit |
| doorcase | (noun) the frame that supports a door | Synonyms: doorframe |
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| furcate | (verb) divide into two or more branches so as to form a fork | Synonyms: branch, fork, ramify, separate |
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| furcation | (noun) the place where something divides into branches | Synonyms: forking |
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| haircare | (noun) care for the hair: the activity of washing or cutting or curling or arranging the hair | Synonyms: hair care, hairdressing |
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| heterocercal | (adjective) possessing a tail with the upper lobe larger than the lower and with the vertebral column prolonged into the upper lobe | - |
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| homocercal | (adjective) possessing a symmetrical tail that extends beyond the end of the vertebral column (as in most bony fishes) | - |
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| hypercalcaemia | (noun) the presence of abnormally high levels of calcium in the blood; usually the result of excessive bone resorption in hyperparathyroidism or Paget's disease | Synonyms: hypercalcemia |
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| hypercalcemia | (noun) the presence of abnormally high levels of calcium in the blood; usually the result of excessive bone resorption in hyperparathyroidism or Paget's disease | Synonyms: hypercalcaemia |
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| hypercalcinuria | (noun) the presence of abnormally high levels of calcium in the urine; usually the result of excessive bone resorption in hyperparathyroidism or osteoporosis | Synonyms: hypercalciuria |
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| hypercalciuria | (noun) the presence of abnormally high levels of calcium in the urine; usually the result of excessive bone resorption in hyperparathyroidism or osteoporosis | Synonyms: hypercalcinuria |
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| hypercapnia | (noun) the physical condition of having the presence of an abnormally high level of carbon dioxide in the circulating blood | Synonyms: hypercarbia |
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| hypercarbia | (noun) the physical condition of having the presence of an abnormally high level of carbon dioxide in the circulating blood | Synonyms: hypercapnia |
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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 | - |
| intercalary | (adjective) having a day or month inserted to make the calendar year correspond to the solar year: | - |
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| intercalate | (verb) insert (days) in a calendar | - |
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| intercalation | (noun) an insertion into a calendar | Synonyms: embolism |
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| lettercard | (noun) a postcard that folds so the message is inside | - |
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| lowercase | (adjective) relating to small (not capitalized) letters that were kept in the lower half of a compositor's type case | - |
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| (noun) the characters that were once kept in bottom half of a compositor's type case | Synonyms: lower-case letter, minuscule, small letter |
| mercantile | (adjective) of or relating to the economic system of mercantilism | - |
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| (adjective) relating to or characteristic of trade or traders | - |
| (adjective) profit oriented | Synonyms: commercial, mercenary, moneymaking |
| mercantilism | (noun) transactions (sales and purchases) having the objective of supplying commodities (goods and services) | Synonyms: commerce, commercialism |
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| (noun) an economic system (Europe in 18th century) to increase a nation's wealth by government regulation of all of the nation's commercial interests | Synonyms: mercantile system |
| mercaptopurine | (noun) a drug (trade name Purinethol) that interferes with the metabolism of purine and is used to treat acute lymphocytic leukemia | Synonyms: Purinethol |
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| motorcade | (noun) a procession of people traveling in motor cars | - |
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| motorcar | (noun) a motor vehicle with four wheels; usually propelled by an internal combustion engine | Synonyms: auto, automobile, car, machine |
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| orca | (noun) predatory black-and-white toothed whale with large dorsal fin; common in cold seas | Synonyms: grampus, killer, killer whale, Orcinus orca, sea wolf |
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| overcall | (noun) (bridge) a bid that is higher than your opponent's bid (especially when your partner has not bid at all and your bid exceeds the value of your hand) | Synonyms: overbid |
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| overcapitalisation | (noun) (business) too much capitalization (the sale of more stock than the business warrants) | Synonyms: overcapitalization |
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| overcapitalise | (verb) capitalize beyond what the business or the profit-making prospects warrant | Synonyms: overcapitalize |
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| (verb) overestimate the market value of | Synonyms: overcapitalize |
| (verb) estimate the capital value of (a company) at an unreasonably or unlawfully high level | Synonyms: overcapitalize |
| overcapitalization | (noun) (business) too much capitalization (the sale of more stock than the business warrants) | Synonyms: overcapitalisation |
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| overcapitalize | (verb) capitalize beyond what the business or the profit-making prospects warrant | Synonyms: overcapitalise |
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| (verb) overestimate the market value of | Synonyms: overcapitalise |
| (verb) estimate the capital value of (a company) at an unreasonably or unlawfully high level | Synonyms: overcapitalise |
| overcareful | (adjective) excessively or unduly careful | Synonyms: too-careful |
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| overcast | (adjective) filled or abounding with clouds | Synonyms: cloud-covered, clouded, sunless |
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| (noun) a cast that falls beyond the intended spot | - |
| (noun) a long whipstitch or overhand stitch overlying an edge to prevent raveling | Synonyms: overcasting |
| (noun) the state of the sky when it is covered by clouds | Synonyms: cloud cover, cloudiness |
| (noun) gloomy semidarkness caused by cloud cover | Synonyms: cloudiness |
| (verb) sew with an overcast stitch from one section to the next | - |
| (verb) sew over the edge of with long slanting wide stitches | - |
| (verb) make overcast or cloudy | Synonyms: cloud |
| overcasting | (noun) a long whipstitch or overhand stitch overlying an edge to prevent raveling | Synonyms: overcast |
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| overcautious | (adjective) unnecessarily cautious | - |
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| oystercatcher | (noun) black-and-white shorebird with stout legs and bill; feed on oysters etc. | Synonyms: oyster catcher |
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| percale | (noun) a fine closely woven cotton fabric | - |
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| sarcasm | (noun) witty language used to convey insults or scorn | Synonyms: caustic remark, irony, satire |
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| sarcastic | (adjective) expressing or expressive of ridicule that wounds | - |
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| sarcastically | (adverb) in a sarcastic manner | Synonyms: sardonically |
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| staircase | (noun) a way of access (upward and downward) consisting of a set of steps | Synonyms: stairway |
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| sugarcane | (noun) tall tropical southeast Asian grass having stout fibrous jointed stalks; sap is a chief source of sugar | Synonyms: Saccharum officinarum, sugar cane |
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| (noun) juicy canes whose sap is a source of molasses and commercial sugar; fresh canes are sometimes chewed for the juice | Synonyms: sugar cane |
| summercater | (noun) (Maine colloquial) a temporary summer resident of Maine | Synonyms: sport |
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| summercaters | (noun) (Maine colloquial) temporary summer residents of coastal Maine | - |
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| supercargo | (noun) an officer on a merchant ship in charge of the cargo and its sale and purchase | - |
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| trifurcate | (verb) divide into three | - |
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| trifurcation | (noun) the act of splitting into three branches | - |
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| undercarriage | (noun) framework that serves as a support for the body of a vehicle | - |
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| unsarcastic | (adjective) not sarcastic | - |
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| uppercase | (adjective) relating to capital letters which were kept in the top half of a compositor's type case | - |
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| (noun) one of the large alphabetic characters used as the first letter in writing or printing proper names and sometimes for emphasis | Synonyms: capital, capital letter, majuscule, upper-case letter |
| watercannon | (noun) a hose (carried on a truck) that fires water under high pressure to disperse crowds (especially crowds of rioters) | Synonyms: water cannon |
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