| APPETITIONS | • appetitions n. Plural of appetition. • APPETITION n. (archaic) direction of desire. |
| APPOINTMENT | • appointment n. The act of appointing a person to hold an office or to have a position of trust. • appointment n. The state of being appointed to a service or office; an office to which one is appointed. • appointment n. Stipulation; agreement; the act of fixing by mutual agreement. |
| HAPTOTROPIC | • haptotropic adj. Of or pertaining to haptotropism; moving when touched. • haptotropic adj. (Chemistry) Describing the movement of clusters of atoms between two ligands or other groups. • HAPTOTROPIC adj. curving in response to touch. |
| OCTAPEPTIDE | • octapeptide n. An oligopeptide having eight amino acids. • OCTAPEPTIDE n. a protein fragment or molecule that consists of eight amino acids linked in a polypeptide chain. |
| PALPITATION | • palpitation n. An abnormal beating of the heart that may be perceived by the patient, a result of excitement, exertion, or illness. • PALPITATION n. a nervous throbbing. |
| PEPTISATION | • PEPTISATION n. the act of peptising, also PEPTIZATION. |
| PEPTIZATION | • peptization n. The stabilization of a hydrophobic colloidal sol by the addition of an electrolyte that is adsorbed… • PEPTIZATION n. the act of peptizing, also PEPTISATION. |
| PLATINOTYPE | • platinotype n. (Uncountable) A method of making photographic prints using platinum salts. • platinotype n. (Countable) A print made by this method. • PLATINOTYPE n. an obsolete method of photography by reducing a compound of platinum. |
| POSTNUPTIAL | • postnuptial adj. Subsequent to marriage. • POSTNUPTIAL adj. made or occurring after marriage or mating. |
| PROPITIATED | • propitiated v. Simple past tense and past participle of propitiate. • PROPITIATE v. to render favourable, to appease. |
| PROPITIATES | • propitiates v. Third-person singular simple present indicative form of propitiate. • PROPITIATE v. to render favourable, to appease. |
| PROPITIATOR | • propitiator n. One who propitiates or appeases. • PROPITIATOR n. one who propitiates. |
| PROTOPATHIC | • protopathic adj. Relating to a sensory nerve that detects the presence of a stimulus without determining its location. • protopathic adj. Relating to first symptoms of a disease, as in the sense of protopathic bias. • PROTOPATHIC adj. pertaining to reception by nerves, etc. of only coarse stimuli such as heat, pain, etc.; pertaining to such nerves. |