| AEROPLANKTON | • aeroplankton n. The tiny lifeforms that float and drift in the air, carried by the current of the wind. • AEROPLANKTON n. minute organisms carried in the air. |
| CANTANKEROUS | • cantankerous adj. Given to or marked by an ill-tempered, quarrelsome nature; ill-tempered, cranky, crabby. • CANTANKEROUS adj. difficult or irritating to deal with. |
| CRYOPLANKTON | • CRYOPLANKTON n. minute organisms, esp. algae, living in ice, snow, or icy water. |
| ENTEROKINASE | • enterokinase n. (Biochemistry) An enzyme, secreted by the upper intestinal mucosa, that catalyzes the activation of… • ENTEROKINASE n. an enzyme esp. of the duodenal mucosa that activates trypsinogen by converting it to trypsin. |
| HALIPLANKTON | • haliplankton n. (Biology) oceanic plankton. • HALIPLANKTON n. plankton living in sea water. |
| HETEROKONTAN | • heterokontan adj. Belonging to the heterokonts. • HETEROKONTAN adj. of or like a heterokont, a kind of yellow-green alga. |
| HOLOPLANKTON | • holoplankton n. (Biology) Any organism that spends all of its life-cycle as plankton. • HOLOPLANKTON n. organisms which remain as plankton throughout their whole life cycle. |
| KAINOGENETIC | • KAINOGENETIC adj. relating to kainogenesis, the state where adaptations to the needs of the young stages develop early, and disappear in the adult stage. |
| KYANISATIONS | • KYANISATION n. the process of kyanising, proofing against decay by saturating with a solution of corrosive sublimate, also KYANIZATION. |
| KYANIZATIONS | • KYANIZATION n. the process of kyanizing, proofing against decay by saturating with a solution of corrosive sublimate, also KYANISATION. |
| MEROPLANKTON | • meroplankton n. (Biology) Any organism that spends part of its life-cycle (especially the larval stage) as plankton. • MEROPLANKTON n. plankton consisting of certain larvae that do not spend all their life as plankton. |
| MONOTASKINGS | • MONOTASKING n. the act of performing one task at a time. |
| MOUNTEBANKED | • mountebanked v. Simple past tense and past participle of mountebank. • MOUNTEBANK v. to act as a mountebank. |
| NANOPLANKTON | • nanoplankton n. Plankton between 2 and 20 microns in size. • NANOPLANKTON n. very small plankton, also NANNOPLANKTON. |
| NOMENKLATURA | • nomenklatura n. (Now historical) A list of bureaucratic posts in government and industry in the former Soviet Union… • nomenklatura n. The people on such lists; (by extension), any privileged class, a social or political elite. • NOMENKLATURA n. (Russian) officeholders and managers in a communist regime. |
| ZOOPLANKTONS | • zooplanktons n. Plural of zooplankton. • ZOOPLANKTON n. tiny, free-floating organisms in aquatic systems. |