| encephalo- or (before a vowel) encephal- | |
| —combining form | |
| indicating the brain: encephalogram; encephalitis | |
| [from New Latin, from Greek enkephalos, from en- in + kephalē head] | |
| encephal- or (before a vowel) encephal- | |
| —combining form | |
| [from New Latin, from Greek enkephalos, from en- in + kephalē head] | |
| a gadget; dingus; thingumbob. |
| a printed punctuation mark (‽), available only in some typefaces, designed to combine the question mark (?) and the exclamation point (!), indicating a mixture of query and interjection, as after a rhetorical question. |