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Circumflex
- noun - a diacritical mark (^) placed above a vowel in some languages to indicate a special phonetic quality
Circumfuse
- verb - spread something around something
Circummure
- - To encompass with a wall.
Circumvent
- verb - avoid or try to avoid fulfilling, answering, or performing (duties, questions, or issues); "He dodged the issue"; "she skirted the problem"; "They tend to evade their responsibilities"; "he evaded the questions skillfully"
- beat through cleverness and wit; "I beat the traffic"; "She outfoxed her competitors"
- surround so as to force to give up; "The Turks besieged Vienna"
Circumvest
- - To cover round, as with a garment; to invest.
Diacaustic
- - Pertaining to, or possessing the properties of, a species of caustic curves formed by refraction. See Caustic surface, under Caustic.
Diachronic
- adjective - used of the study of a phenomenon (especially language) as it changes through time; "diachronic linguistics"
Diacoustic
- - Pertaining to the science or doctrine of refracted sounds.
Diacritics
- noun - a mark added to a letter to indicate a special pronunciation