| APPOGGIATURA | • appoggiatura n. (Music) A type of musical ornament, falling on the beat, which often creates a suspension and subtracts… • APPOGGIATURA n. (Italian) a short note placed before a longer one. |
| APPOGGIATURE | • appoggiature n. Plural of appoggiatura. • APPOGGIATURA n. (Italian) a short note placed before a longer one. |
| CARPOPHAGOUS | • carpophagous adj. Living on fruits; fruit-eating. • CARPOPHAGOUS adj. fruit-eating. |
| COPROPHAGOUS | • coprophagous adj. Feeding on excrement. • COPROPHAGOUS adj. eating dung, also COPROPHAGIC. |
| DISPAUPERING | • dispaupering v. Present participle of dispauper. • DISPAUPER v. to deprive of the claim of a pauper to public support. |
| PERPETUATING | • perpetuating v. Present participle of perpetuate. • PERPETUATE v. to make perpetual or cause to last indefinitely. |
| PNEUMOGRAPHS | • pneumographs n. Plural of pneumograph. • PNEUMOGRAPH n. an instrument for measuring and recording respiration. |
| POPULARISING | • popularising v. Present participle of popularise. • POPULARISE v. to cater to popular taste, also POPULARIZE. |
| POPULARIZING | • popularizing v. Present participle of popularize. • POPULARIZE v. to cater to popular taste, also POPULARISE. |
| PROPUGNATION | • propugnation n. (Obsolete) means of defence; defence. • PROPUGNATION n. (Shakespeare) defence. |
| PSEUDOGRAPHS | • pseudographs n. Plural of pseudograph. • PSEUDOGRAPH n. spurious writing; forgery. |
| PSEUDOGRAPHY | • pseudography n. False writing; forgery. • pseudography n. Incorrect spelling. • PSEUDOGRAPHY n. unsatisfactory spelling. |
| REPOPULATING | • repopulating v. Present participle of repopulate. • REPOPULATE v. to populate again. |
| SAPROPHAGOUS | • saprophagous adj. Feeding on dead or decaying organic matter. • SAPROPHAGOUS adj. feeding on decaying material. |
| SPARKPLUGGED | • sparkplugged v. Simple past tense and past participle of sparkplug. • SPARKPLUG v. to spark something off, in the manner of a sparkplug in a car carrying wires between which an electric spark passes to fire the explosive mixture of gases. |
| SUBPARAGRAPH | • subparagraph n. Part of a longer paragraph that can be considered alone, as in a legal document. • subparagraph v. To divide a document into subparagraphs. • sub-paragraph n. Alternative spelling of subparagraph. |
| UNDERLAPPING | • underlapping v. Present participle of underlap. • UNDERLAP v. to extend partly under. |