| ADAPTABLENESS | • adaptableness n. The state or quality of being adaptable; adaptability. • ADAPTABLENESS n. the state of being adaptable. |
| ANTIAPARTHEID | • antiapartheid adj. Acting against or opposing apartheid. • ANTIAPARTHEID adj. opposed to apartheid. |
| DISAPPEARANCE | • disappearance n. The action of disappearing or vanishing. • DISAPPEARANCE n. the act of disappearing. |
| DISCAPACITATE | • discapacitate v. (Transitive) To deprive of capacity; to incapacitate. • DISCAPACITATE v. to incapacitate. |
| GRANDPARENTAL | • grandparental adj. Of or relating to a grandparent. • GRANDPARENTAL adj. of or like a grandparent. |
| HAPHAZARDNESS | • haphazardness n. The quality of lacking any predictable order or plan. • HAPHAZARD n. marked by lack of plan, order, or direction. |
| HAPHAZARDRIES | • haphazardries n. Plural of haphazardry. • HAPHAZARDRY n. the quality of being haphazard. |
| INCAPACITATED | • incapacitated v. Simple past tense of incapacitate. • incapacitated adj. Rendered unable to act; restricted from taking action. • INCAPACITATE v. to make legally incapable or ineligible. |
| LAMPADEPHORIA | • LAMPADEPHORIA n. a foot race with lighted torches, esp. a relay race in which torch is passed on, also LAMPADEDROMY. |
| MALADAPTIVELY | • maladaptively adv. In a maladaptive manner. • MALADAPTIVE adv. marked by poor or inadequate adaptation. |
| PAEDIATRICIAN | • paediatrician n. Alternative spelling of pediatrician. • pædiatrician n. Alternative spelling of pediatrician. • PAEDIATRICIAN n. a specialist in children's ailments. |
| PANDEMONIACAL | • pandemoniacal adj. Relating to, resembling, or characteristic of, a pandemonium. • PANDEMONIACAL adj. pertaining to pandemonium, general tumult, also PANDEMONIAC, PANDEMONIAN, PANDEMONIC. |
| PARAQUADRATES | • PARAQUADRATE n. a paired membrane bone of the vertebrate skull. |
| PLASMODESMATA | • plasmodesmata n. Plural of plasmodesma. • PLASMODESMA n. a strand of living cytoplasm connecting two cells, also PLASMODESM. |
| PREADAPTATION | • preadaptation n. (Biology) An adaptation that evolved in an ancestral population, in which it served a different function. • PREADAPTATION n. a character of an organism or taxonomic group that takes on a function when none previously existed or that differs from its existing function which has been derived by evolution. |
| QUADRAPLEGIAS | • QUADRAPLEGIA n. paralysis of both arms and both legs, also QUADRIPLEGIA, TETRAPLEGIA. |
| READAPTATIONS | • readaptations n. Plural of readaptation. • READAPTATION n. the act of readapting. |