| APPULSIVE | • appulsive adj. Striking against; impinging. • APPULSIVE adj. relating to an appulse, the close approach of a planet or asteroid to a star without the occurrence of an eclipse. |
| PARVENUES | • parvenues n. Plural of parvenue. • PARVENUE n. (French) a female parvenu. |
| PREVALUED | • PREVALUE v. to value beforehand. |
| PREVALUES | • PREVALUE v. to value beforehand. |
| PULSATIVE | • pulsative adj. Characterised by pulsing or beating; throbbing. • PULSATIVE adj. of musical instruments, played by percussion, also PULSATILE. |
| PULVINATE | • pulvinate adj. (Architecture) Curved convexly or swelled. • pulvinate adj. (Zoology) Having the form of a cushion. • PULVINATE adj. cushion-like; bulging; pillowy, also PULVINATED. |
| PURGATIVE | • purgative adj. (Capable of) purging. • purgative n. Something, such as a substance or medicine, that purges; laxative. • PURGATIVE adj. serving to purge. |
| PYRUVATES | • pyruvates n. Plural of pyruvate. • PYRUVATE n. a salt or ester of pyruvic acid. |
| SUPERNOVA | • supernova n. (Astronomy) The explosion of a star, which increases its absolute magnitude to typically a billion times… • supernova n. (Figurative) Something brilliant. • SUPERNOVA n. (Latin) a very brilliant nova resulting from an explosion which blows the star's material into space, leaving an expanding cloud of gas. |
| SUPERWAVE | • superwave n. (Physics) A particularly large or intense wave. • SUPERWAVE n. an exceptionally large wave. |
| UPHEAVALS | • upheavals n. Plural of upheaval. • UPHEAVAL n. the act of upheaving. |
| UPHEAVERS | • upheavers n. Plural of upheaver. • UPHEAVER n. one who upheaves. |
| UPHEAVING | • upheaving v. Present participle of upheave. • upheaving n. Upheaval. • UPHEAVE v. to heave up. |
| VAPOURERS | • vapourers n. Plural of vapourer. • VAPOURER n. one that vapours, also VAPORER. |
| VAPOURIER | • VAPOURY adj. full of vapour; affected with the vapours, also VAPORY. |
| VAPULATED | • vapulated v. Simple past tense and past participle of vapulate. • VAPULATE v. to flog; to be flogged. |
| VAPULATES | • vapulates v. Third-person singular simple present indicative form of vapulate. • VAPULATE v. to flog; to be flogged. |