| AMPHETAMINES | • amphetamines n. Plural of amphetamine. • AMPHETAMINE n. a synthetic, potentially habit-forming drug used as an appetite suppressant and in the treatment of narcolepsy. |
| ANAMORPHISMS | • anamorphisms n. Plural of anamorphism. • ANAMORPHISM n. metamorphism of a rock in which complex minerals are formed from simpler ones. |
| GAMESMANSHIP | • gamesmanship n. The use of legal but unsporting tactics to gain an advantage over one’s opponent. • GAMESMANSHIP n. the art or practice of winning games by questionable expedients without actually violating the rules. |
| LAMPADOMANCY | • lampadomancy n. Divination by the interpretation of the flame of a lamp. A type of pyromancy. • LAMPADOMANCY n. divination using the flame of a torch. |
| LYMPHANGIOMA | • lymphangioma n. (Medicine) A benign tumour of the lymph vessel. • LYMPHANGIOMA n. an angioma of the lymph nodes. |
| MAINTOPMASTS | • maintopmasts n. Plural of maintopmast. • MAINTOPMAST n. the mast next above the lower mainmast. |
| MARIMBAPHONE | • marimbaphone n. (Obsolete, music) A kind of percussion idiophone, like the marimba, but with either wooden or steel… • MARIMBAPHONE n. a marimba. |
| MARKSMANSHIP | • marksmanship n. The ability to shoot accurately at a target. • MARKSMANSHIP n. the skill of a marksman. |
| NYMPHOMANIAC | • nymphomaniac n. A woman with an excessive libido. • nymphomaniac adj. (Of a woman) Having an excessive libido. • NYMPHOMANIAC n. one afflicted with nymphomania. |
| NYMPHOMANIAS | • nymphomanias n. Plural of nymphomania. • NYMPHOMANIA n. sexual mania in females. |
| OMPHALOMANCY | • omphalomancy n. Divination by means of a child’s navel, to learn how many children the mother may have. • OMPHALOMANCY n. predicting the number of children a mother will bear by counting the knots in her firstborn's umbilical cord. |
| PALUDAMENTUM | • paludamentum n. (Historical, Ancient Rome) A military cloak worn by a general and his principal officers. • PALUDAMENTUM n. a Roman general's or high military officer's cloak, also PALUDAMENT. |
| PANDAEMONIUM | • pandaemonium n. Alternative spelling of pandemonium. • pandæmonium n. (Archaic) Alternative form of pandemonium. • Pandæmonium prop.n. The high capital of Hell in John Milton’s Paradise Lost. |
| PANTOMIMICAL | • pantomimical adj. (Now rare) Expressed or carried out using mime or mimicry. • pantomimical adj. (Now rare) Like or pertaining to a pantomime. • PANTOMIMICAL adj. like a pantomime, also PANTOMIMIC. |