| ABLUTOMANE | • ABLUTOMANE n. one obsessed with washing. |
| AMBULATION | • ambulation n. Walking. • AMBULATION n. the act of walking. |
| AMPUTATION | • amputation n. Surgical removal of all or part of a limb, etc. • amputation n. The loss of a limb, etc. through trauma. • AMPUTATION n. the act of amputating. |
| ANTIARMOUR | • antiarmour adj. (Britain) Alternative spelling of antiarmor. • ANTIARMOUR adj. designed or equipped to combat armoured vehicles, also ANTIARMOR. |
| AUTOMATING | • automating v. Present participle of automate. • AUTOMATE v. to convert to automatic control. |
| AUTOMATION | • automation n. The act or process of converting the controlling of a machine or device to a more automatic system… • AUTOMATION n. the technique of making an apparatus, a process, or a system operate automatically. |
| AUTOMATONS | • automatons n. Plural of automaton. • AUTOMATON n. (Greek) a machine that imitates the movement of a living creature, activated by a concealed mechanism such as clockwork. |
| CATAMOUNTS | • catamounts n. Plural of catamount. • CATAMOUNT n. any of various large wild cats, applied esp. to the leopard, panther or ocelot, also CATAMOUNTAIN. |
| LAUNDROMAT | • laundromat n. (US, Canada, Australia) A self-service laundry facility with (traditionally) coin-operated (which now… |
| MACULATION | • maculation n. (Obsolete) The act of spotting; a spot; a blemish. • maculation n. (Zoology, botany, chiefly uncountable) A pattern of spots. • MACULATION n. being covered in spots. |
| MATURATION | • maturation n. The process of becoming mature. • maturation n. (Biology) The process of differentiation that produces the adult form of an organism. • maturation n. (Medicine) The process of maturating, or suppurating fully. |
| MUTATIONAL | • mutational adj. Of, pertaining to, or the result of mutation. • MUTATIONAL adj. relating to a mutation. |
| NATATORIUM | • natatorium n. (US) A swimming pool, especially an indoor one; a building housing one or more swimming pools. • NATATORIUM n. (Latin) an indoor swimming-pool. |
| PARAMOUNTS | • paramounts n. Plural of paramount. • PARAMOUNT n. an overlord; a supreme ruler or proprietor. |
| PORTMANTUA | • portmantua n. Obsolete form of portmanteau (“case”). • PORTMANTUA n. (obsolete) a portmanteau, also PORTMANTEAU, PORTMANTLE. |
| SANATORIUM | • sanatorium n. An institution that treats chronic diseases, and provides supervised recuperation and convalescence. • SANATORIUM n. a hospital, esp. for tuberculosis, also SANITARIUM, SANITORIUM. |
| SQUAMATION | • squamation n. (Zoology, uncountable) The condition or character of being covered with scales. • squamation n. (Zoology, countable) A particular arrangement of scales; a special mode or form of squamation. • squamation n. (Pathology, dermatology, countable) A scaly growth on the skin. |
| TANTAMOUNT | • tantamount adj. Equivalent in meaning or effect; amounting to the same thing in practical terms, even if being technically distinct. • tantamount v. (Obsolete) To amount to as much; to be equivalent. • tantamount n. (Obsolete) Something which has the same value or amount (as something else). (attributive use passing… |