| APPORTIONER | • apportioner n. One who apportions. • APPORTIONER n. one who apportions. |
| APPROBATORY | • approbatory adj. Tending to approve or confirm. • APPROBATORY adj. expressing approbation. |
| CARPOPHORES | • carpophores n. Plural of carpophore. • CARPOPHORE n. a slender prolongation of the receptacle as an axis between the carpels, as in Geranium and many umbelliferous plants. |
| CARPOSPORES | • carpospores n. Plural of carpospore. • CARPOSPORE n. a kind of spore formed in the conceptacles of red algae. |
| CONTRAPROPS | • CONTRAPROP n. a contra-rotating propeller. |
| 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. |
| PLEROPHORIA | • plerophoria n. Alternative form of plerophory. • PLEROPHORIA n. full conviction, also PLEROPHORY. |
| POLAROGRAPH | • polarograph n. (Chemistry) Any of several instruments used in polarography. • POLAROGRAPH n. an apparatus for automatic chemical analysis in which a sample solution is electrolysed at successively higher voltages and the resulting current plotted against voltage. |
| PORNOGRAPHY | • pornography n. The explicit literary or visual depiction of sexual subject matter; any display of material of an erotic nature. • pornography n. (By extension) The depiction of (non-sexual) subject matter so that it elicits feelings analogous to… • pornography n. (Usually humorous) The graphic, detailed, often gratuitous depiction of something. |
| PRAEPOSTORS | • praepostors n. Plural of praepostor. • PRAEPOSTOR n. (Latin) the name used for a prefect in some English public schools, also PREPOSITOR, PREPOSTOR. |
| PROPAGATORS | • propagators n. Plural of propagator. • PROPAGATOR n. one who propagates. |
| PROPITIATOR | • propitiator n. One who propitiates or appeases. • PROPITIATOR n. one who propitiates. |
| PROPRAETORS | • propraetors n. Plural of propraetor. • PROPRAETOR n. a magistrate of ancient Rome who, after acting as praetor, was appointed to the governor of a province, also PROPRETOR. |
| PROPRANOLOL | • propranolol n. (Pharmacology) A synthetic compound which acts as a beta blocker and is used mainly in the treatment… • PROPRANOLOL n. a beta-blocker drug used mainly in the treatment of cardiac arrhythmia. |
| PROSAUROPOD | • prosauropod n. Any member of the Prosauropoda, a group of early herbivorous dinosaurs with a long neck and small head… • PROSAUROPOD n. a reptile-like dinosaur of the division Prosauropoda which lived in the Triassic period. |
| REAPPORTION | • reapportion v. To apportion again; to redistribute or reallocate. • REAPPORTION v. to apportion (as a house of representatives) anew. |
| SAPROTROPHS | • saprotrophs n. Plural of saprotroph. • SAPROTROPH n. any organism, esp. a fungus or bacterium, that lives and feeds on dead organic matter, also SAPROBIONT. |
| TAMPERPROOF | • tamperproof adj. Resistant to tampering. • tamperproof v. (Transitive) To make resistant to tampering. • TAMPERPROOF adj. proof against tampering. |
| TOPOGRAPHER | • topographer n. A person who studies or records topography. • TOPOGRAPHER n. a specialist in topography. |