| ANTICOMPETITIVE | • anticompetitive adj. (Economics, business) Acting to hinder or obstruct competition. • anti-competitive adj. Alternative form of anticompetitive. • ANTICOMPETITIVE adj. tending to reduce or discourage competition. |
| ANTITHROMBOTICS | • antithrombotics n. Plural of antithrombotic. • ANTITHROMBOTIC n. a drug effective against thrombosis. |
| CASTRAMETATIONS | • castrametations n. Plural of castrametation. • CASTRAMETATION n. the art of laying out a camp. |
| CHEMOATTRACTANT | • chemoattractant n. A substance inducing positive chemotaxis in motile cells. • CHEMOATTRACTANT n. a chemical which provokes a chemotactic movement of e.g. cells or bacteria towards its area of highest concentration. |
| CIRCUMSTANTIATE | • circumstantiate v. To describe, verify or prove by setting out circumstantial evidence. • circumstantiate v. To place in particular circumstances; to invest with particular accidents or adjuncts. • CIRCUMSTANTIATE v. to supply with circumstantial evidence or support. |
| COMMUTATIVITIES | • commutativities n. Plural of commutativity. • COMMUTATIVITY n. the property of being commutative. |
| CYTOTAXONOMISTS | • cytotaxonomists n. Plural of cytotaxonomist. • CYTOTAXONOMIST n. a practitioner of cytotaxonomy. |
| METAFICTIONISTS | • metafictionists n. Plural of metafictionist. • METAFICTIONIST n. a writer of metafiction. |
| METAMATHEMATICS | • metamathematics n. A branch of mathematics dealing with mathematical systems and their nature. • METAMATHEMATICS n. a field of study concerned with the formal structure and properties (as the consistency and completeness of axioms) of mathematical systems. |
| METAMICTISATION | • METAMICTISATION n. the process of becoming metamict, also METAMICTIZATION. |
| METAMICTIZATION | • metamictization n. A natural process in which the radiation emitted by a mineral gradually destroys the mineral’s crystal… • METAMICTIZATION n. the process of becoming metamict, also METAMICTISATION. |
| METATHEORETICAL | • metatheoretical adj. Of or pertaining to metatheory, the theory of theories. • METATHEORETICAL adj. relating to metatheory. |
| MULTIARTICULATE | • multiarticulate adj. Able to bend or hinge at more than one point. • MULTIARTICULATE adj. many-jointed, also MULTARTICULATE. |
| PROSTATECTOMIES | • prostatectomies n. Plural of prostatectomy. • PROSTATECTOMY n. the surgical removal of the prostate gland. |
| QUATTROCENTISMS | • QUATTROCENTISM n. the spirit of the fifteenth century in reference to Italian art and literature. |
| TRANSMITTANCIES | • TRANSMITTANCY n. a measure of the extent to which a solution transmits radiation. |