| 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. |
| HIPPOPHAGOUS | • hippophagous adj. Feeding on horseflesh. • HIPPOPHAGOUS adj. eating horseflesh. |
| OPHIOPHAGOUS | • ophiophagous adj. (Zoology) Feeding on snakes. • OPHIOPHAGOUS adj. eating snakes. |
| OPPUGNANCIES | • oppugnancies n. Plural of oppugnancy. • OPPUGNANCY n. (Shakespeare) antagonism. |
| PANTOPHAGOUS | • pantophagous adj. Eating all kinds of food. • PANTOPHAGOUS adj. eating or requiring a variety of foods. |
| PHYTOPHAGOUS | • phytophagous adj. (Zoology) Feeding on plants, herbivorous. • PHYTOPHAGOUS adj. feeding on plants, also PHYTOPHAGIC. |
| 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. |
| 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. |
| 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. |
| SUPPLICATING | • supplicating v. Present participle of supplicate. • SUPPLICATE v. to entreat for. |
| UNAPPETISING | • unappetising adj. (Chiefly Britain) Alternative spelling of unappetizing. • UNAPPETISING adj. not appetising. |
| UNHAPPENINGS | • unhappenings n. Plural of unhappening. • UNHAPPENING n. something that is not a happening. |
| XIPHOPAGUSES | • XIPHOPAGUS n. a set of Siamese twins joined in the region of the xiphoid cartilage. |