Words containing mac

Acritochromacy means: Color blindness; achromatopsy.

Alectoromachy means: Cockfighting.

Alexipharmac means: Alt. of Alexipharmacal

Alexipharmacal means: Alexipharmic.

Almacantar means: Same as Almucantar.

Almacantar means: A recently invented instrument for observing the heavenly bodies as they cross a given almacantar circle. See Almucantar.

Amacratic means: Amasthenic.

Amphimacer means: A foot of three syllables, the middle one short and the others long, as in cast/tas.

Antestomach means: A cavity which leads into the stomach, as in birds.

Antimacassar means: A cover for the back or arms of a chair or sofa, etc., to prevent them from being soiled by macassar or other oil from the hair.

Zythum means: A kind of ancient malt beverage; a liquor made from malt and wheat.

Zythepsary means: A brewery.

Zythem means: See Zythum.

Zymotic means: Designating, or pertaining to, a certain class of diseases. See Zymotic disease, below.

Zymotic means: Of, pertaining to, or caused by, fermentation.

Zymosis means: A zymotic disease.

Zymosis means: A fermentation; hence, an analogous process by which an infectious disease is believed to be developed.

Zymose means: Invertin.

Zymophyte means: A bacteroid ferment.

Zymosimeter means: An instrument for ascertaining the degree of fermentation occasioned by the mixture of different liquids, and the degree of heat which they acquire in fermentation.