| APPELLATION | • appellation n. (Formal or dated) A name or title by which someone is addressed or identified; a designation. • appellation n. A geographical indication for wine that describes its geographic origin. • APPELLATION n. a name or title. |
| APPRECIATOR | • appreciator n. Someone who appreciates a given thing, especially… • APPRECIATOR n. one who appreciates. |
| APPROBATIVE | • approbative adj. Expressing approval. • approbative adj. Sanctioning officially, giving authorization or approval to something. • approbative n. (Linguistics) A word or grammatical form which denotes a positive affect expressing the appreciation… |
| APPROPRIATE | • appropriate adj. Suitable or fit; proper. • appropriate adj. Suitable to the social situation or to social respect or social discreetness; socially correct; socially… • appropriate adj. (Obsolete) Set apart for a particular use or person; reserved. |
| APPROXIMATE | • approximate adj. Approaching; proximate; nearly resembling. • approximate adj. Nearing correctness; nearly exact; not perfectly accurate. • approximate v. (Transitive, intransitive) To estimate. |
| PALAEOTYPES | • palaeotypes n. Plural of palaeotype. • PALAEOTYPE n. a nineteenth century phonetic adaptation of ordinary alphabetical type. |
| PALAEOTYPIC | • palaeotypic adj. Relating to the palaeotype phonetic alphabet. • PALAEOTYPIC adj. of or like a palaeotype, a nineteenth century phonetic adaptation of ordinary alphabetical type. |
| PARATROOPER | • paratrooper n. A type of soldier who is trained to enter combat zones by parachuting from aircraft. • PARATROOPER n. a member of the paratroops. |
| PHOSPHATASE | • phosphatase n. (Biochemistry) Any of several enzymes that hydrolyze phosphate esters, and are important in the metabolism… • PHOSPHATASE n. an enzyme that catalyses the hydrolysis of phosphate esters. |
| PREPARATION | • preparation n. (Uncountable) The act of preparing or getting ready. • preparation n. (Uncountable) The state of being prepared; readiness. • preparation n. (Countable) That which is prepared. |
| PREPARATORS | • preparators n. Plural of preparator. • PREPARATOR n. one who prepares beforehand, as subjects for dissection, specimens for preservation in collections, etc. |
| PREPARATORY | • preparatory adj. Of or pertaining to preparation, having the purpose of making something or someone ready, preparative. • PREPARATORY adj. by way of preparation. |
| PROPAGATIVE | • propagative adj. Of, pertaining to, or produced by propagation. • PROPAGATIVE adj. serving to propagate. |
| RAPPORTAGES | • RAPPORTAGE n. (French) the description of real events in writing. |
| STRAPPADOED | • strappadoed v. Simple past tense and past participle of strappado. • STRAPPADO v. to torture by this. |
| STRAPPADOES | • strappadoes n. Plural of strappado. • STRAPPADO v. to torture by this. |
| TAPHEPHOBIA | • taphephobia n. Alternative spelling of taphophobia. • TAPHEPHOBIA n. the morbid fear of being buried alive, also TAPHOPHOBIA. |