| APPARITORS | • apparitors n. Plural of apparitor. • APPARITOR n. an officer in court who attends to execute orders, also PARITOR. |
| CARTOPPERS | • cartoppers n. Plural of cartopper. • CARTOPPER n. something suitable for carrying on the top of a car e.g. a fishing craft. |
| CONTRAPROP | • CONTRAPROP n. a contra-rotating propeller. |
| ENTRAPPERS | • entrappers n. Plural of entrapper. • ENTRAPPER n. one who entraps. |
| PARAPHRAST | • paraphrast n. (Rare) someone who paraphrases. • PARAPHRAST n. a paraphraser. |
| PARATROOPS | • paratroops n. Infantry soldiers deployed by parachute. • PARATROOPS n. troops carried by air. |
| PERIPTERAL | • peripteral adj. (Architecture) peripterous. • peripteral adj. (Zoology) peripterous. • PERIPTERAL adj. having a row of columns on every side. |
| PERPETRATE | • perpetrate v. (Transitive) To be guilty of, or responsible for a crime etc; to commit. • PERPETRATE v. to bring about or carry out, as a crime or deception. |
| PERSPIRATE | • perspirate adj. (Rare) Sweaty; moist with perspiration. • perspirate v. (Dated) To perspire; to sweat. • PERSPIRATE v. to sweat. |
| PRAEPOSTOR | • praepostor n. (Britain) a prefect in some public schools. • PRAEPOSTOR n. (Latin) the name used for a prefect in some English public schools, also PREPOSITOR, PREPOSTOR. |
| PREPARATOR | • preparator n. A person who prepares specimens or exhibits. • PREPARATOR n. one who prepares beforehand, as subjects for dissection, specimens for preservation in collections, etc. |
| PROMPTUARY | • promptuary n. (Obsolete) A magazine, repository, or handbook. • promptuary n. (Arithmetic) A device described in Napier’s treatise Rabdologiæ, consisting of a large set of strips… • promptuary adj. (Obsolete) Of or relating to preparation. |
| PROPAGATOR | • propagator n. A person who disseminates news or rumour. • propagator n. A person who propagates plants. • propagator n. A covered, sometimes heated container for germinating seeds or raising seedlings. |
| PROPRAETOR | • propraetor n. A magistrate of ancient Rome who governed a province after serving as a praetor in Rome. • proprætor n. Alternative spelling of propraetor. • PROPRAETOR n. a magistrate of ancient Rome who, after acting as praetor, was appointed to the governor of a province, also PROPRETOR. |
| RAPPORTAGE | • rapportage n. The reporting of social news, especially by an eyewitness. • rapportage n. Information of a social nature that has been reported. • RAPPORTAGE n. (French) the description of real events in writing. |
| RAPPORTEUR | • rapporteur n. (Law, politics) A person appointed by a deliberative body to investigate an issue or a situation, and… • RAPPORTEUR n. (French) a person who gives reports (as at a meeting of a learned society). |
| SAPROTROPH | • saprotroph n. An organism that lives off dead or decaying organic material by secreting enzymes into it and then absorbing… • SAPROTROPH n. any organism, esp. a fungus or bacterium, that lives and feeds on dead organic matter, also SAPROBIONT. |
| TARPAPERED | Sorry, definition not available. |
| UPPERPARTS | • upperparts n. Plural of upperpart. • UPPERPART n. the upper part of something. |
| WIRETAPPER | • wiretapper n. A person who installs or monitors wiretaps. • WIRETAPPER n. one that taps telephone or telegraph wires. |