| APOSIOPESES | • aposiopeses n. Plural of aposiopesis. • APOSIOPESIS n. a conscious breaking off in the middle of a sentence. |
| APOSIOPESIS | • aposiopesis n. (Rhetoric) An abrupt breaking-off in speech, often indicated in print using an ellipsis (…) or an em dash (—). • APOSIOPESIS n. a conscious breaking off in the middle of a sentence. |
| APOSTROPHES | • apostrophes n. Plural of apostrophe. • APOSTROPHE n. the addressing of a personified thing rhetorically. |
| APOSTROPHUS | • APOSTROPHUS n. (Greek) a symbol resembling a reversed letter C used in Roman numerals to denote large numbers. |
| APPOSITIONS | • appositions n. Plural of apposition. • APPOSITION n. the position of a word parallel to another in syntactic relation. |
| CARPOSPORES | • carpospores n. Plural of carpospore. • CARPOSPORE n. a kind of spore formed in the conceptacles of red algae. |
| PANTOSCOPES | • pantoscopes n. Plural of pantoscope. • PANTOSCOPE n. a panoramic camera. |
| PHOTOPHASES | • photophases n. Plural of photophase. • PHOTOPHASE n. the light period of a photoperiodic cycle of light and dark. |
| PRAEPOSTORS | • praepostors n. Plural of praepostor. • PRAEPOSTOR n. (Latin) the name used for a prefect in some English public schools, also PREPOSITOR, PREPOSTOR. |
| PROTOPLASMS | • protoplasms n. Plural of protoplasm. • PROTOPLASM n. the complex translucent colourless colloidal material comprising the living part of a cell. |
| PROTOPLASTS | • protoplasts n. Plural of protoplast. • PROTOPLAST n. living material within a cell divided into discrete structures; the protein of which cells are composed. |
| SAPPANWOODS | • SAPPANWOOD n. (Malay) the wood of a leguminous tree, formerly used to provide a red dye, also SAPAN, SAPANWOOD, SAPPAN. |
| 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. |
| SPLASHPROOF | • splashproof adj. Alternative spelling of splash-proof. • splash-proof adj. Constructed to withstand splashing. • SPLASHPROOF adj. resistant to being splashed. |
| TROPOPAUSES | • tropopauses n. Plural of tropopause. • TROPOPAUSE n. the level of the atmosphere where the troposphere ends and stratosphere begins. |