| APOCOPATIONS | • apocopations n. Plural of apocopation. • APOCOPATION n. the cutting off of the last sound or syllable of a word. |
| APOGEOTROPIC | • apogeotropic adj. Opposite to geotropic; thus… • APOGEOTROPIC adj. bending up or away from the ground. |
| CONTRAPPOSTO | • contrapposto n. (Art) The position of a figure whose hips and legs are twisted away from the direction of the head and shoulders. • CONTRAPPOSTO n. a pose of the human body with hips, shoulders and head in different planes. |
| COPROPHAGOUS | • coprophagous adj. Feeding on excrement. • COPROPHAGOUS adj. eating dung, also COPROPHAGIC. |
| LOPHOPHORATE | • lophophorate adj. (Zoology) Having a lophophore. • lophophorate n. (Zoology) A member of the Lophophorata, a clade of invertebrate animals. • LOPHOPHORATE adj. of or like a lophophore, a ring of ciliated tentacles round the mouth of some sedentary marine animals. |
| OPHIOPHAGOUS | • ophiophagous adj. (Zoology) Feeding on snakes. • OPHIOPHAGOUS adj. eating snakes. |
| OPPOSITIONAL | • oppositional adj. Of, pertaining to, or exhibiting opposition. • OPPOSITIONAL adj. relating to opposition. |
| PHONOPHOBIAS | • phonophobias n. Plural of phonophobia. • PHONOPHOBIA n. fear of noise or of speaking aloud. |
| PHOTOPHOBIAS | • photophobias n. Plural of photophobia. • PHOTOPHOBIA n. the morbid fear of light. |
| POGONOPHORAN | • pogonophoran n. (Biology) Any marine, wormlike invertebrate of the phylum Pogonophora. • pogonophoran adj. Characteristic of these creatures. • POGONOPHORAN n. any of a phylum Pogonophora of marine wormlike animals. |
| PROPORTIONAL | • proportional adj. (Mathematics) At a constant ratio (to). Two magnitudes (numbers) are said to be proportional if the… • proportional adj. (Chiefly US) In proportion (to), proportionate. • proportional adj. Of a typeface, having characters with natural (non-uniform) width (in contrast to monospace typefaces). |
| PROPRANOLOLS | • propranolols n. Plural of propranolol. • PROPRANOLOL n. a beta-blocker drug used mainly in the treatment of cardiac arrhythmia. |
| PROSAUROPODS | • prosauropods n. Plural of prosauropod. • PROSAUROPOD n. a reptile-like dinosaur of the division Prosauropoda which lived in the Triassic period. |
| PROSOPOPEIAL | • PROSOPOPEIAL adj. relating to prosopopeia, personification. |
| PROSOPOPEIAS | • PROSOPOPEIA n. a figure of speech in which an imaginary or absent person is represented as speaking or acting, also PROSOPOPOEIA. |
| PROSOPOPOEIA | • prosopopoeia n. (Rhetoric) An act of personifying a person or object when communicating to an audience; a figure of… • prosopopoeia n. Personification of an abstraction. • prosopopœia n. Obsolete typography of prosopopoeia. |
| SCOPOPHOBIAS | • SCOPOPHOBIA n. fear of being looked at, also SCOPTOPHOBIA. |
| SCOPTOPHOBIA | • SCOPTOPHOBIA n. fear of being looked at, also SCOPOPHOBIA. |