| CARDIOPLEGIA | • cardioplegia n. (Surgery) The deliberate, temporary cessation of cardiac activity before heart surgery. • CARDIOPLEGIA n. deliberate arrest of the action of the heart, as by hypothermia or the injection of chemicals, to enable complex heart surgery to be carried out. |
| DEASPIRATING | • deaspirating v. Present participle of deaspirate. • DEASPIRATE v. to remove the aspirate from. |
| DECAPITATING | • decapitating v. Present participle of decapitate. • DECAPITATE v. to cut off the head of. |
| DIAPHRAGMING | • diaphragming v. Present participle of diaphragm. • DIAPHRAGM v. to fit with a diaphragm. |
| DILAPIDATING | • dilapidating v. Present participle of dilapidate. • DILAPIDATE v. to bring into a condition of decay or partial ruin. |
| DISAPPEARING | • disappearing v. Present participle of disappear. • disappearing n. Disappearance. • DISAPPEAR v. to vanish from sight. |
| EMPARADISING | • emparadising v. Present participle of emparadise. • EMPARADISE v. (Milton) to put in a state like paradise; to make supremely happy. |
| GUARDIANSHIP | • guardianship n. The office or position of one acting as a guardian or conservator, especially in a legal capacity. • GUARDIANSHIP n. the office of guardian. |
| HANDICAPPING | • handicapping v. Present participle of handicap. • handicapping n. The imposition of a handicap. • HANDICAP v. to impose special disadvantages on. |
| IMPARADISING | • imparadising v. Present participle of imparadise. • IMPARADISE v. to put in a state like paradise; to make supremely happy. |
| PARADIDDLING | • paradiddling v. Present participle of paradiddle. • PARADIDDLE v. to make a kind of drum roll using left and right sticks alternately. |
| PARADIGMATIC | • paradigmatic adj. Of or pertaining to a paradigm. • paradigmatic adj. (Philosophy) Related as members of a substitution class. • paradigmatic adj. (Obsolete) Exemplary. |
| PARAGLIDINGS | • PARAGLIDING n. the sport of drifting through the air to the ground while wearing a modified type of parachute, after having been towed into the air by, or jumping from, a plane. |
| PASQUINADING | • pasquinading v. Present participle of pasquinade. • PASQUINADE v. to compose a pasquinade. |
| PRIMIGRAVIDA | • primigravida n. (Obstetrics, veterinary medicine) A woman or female animal who is pregnant for the first time, or who… • PRIMIGRAVIDA n. (Lat.) a woman pregnant for the first time. |
| QUADRIPLEGIA | • quadriplegia n. Paralysis from the neck down. • quadriplegia n. Paralysis of all four limbs. • QUADRIPLEGIA n. paralysis of both arms and both legs, also TETRAPLEGIA. |
| RADIOGRAPHIC | • radiographic adj. Of or pertaining to radiography. • RADIOGRAPHIC adj. relating to radiography. |
| RADIOPAGINGS | • RADIOPAGING n. the use of a radiopager, a radio receiver which functions as a pager. |
| SANDPAINTING | • sandpainting n. (Uncountable) The art of pouring coloured sands and pigments onto a surface to make a temporary or permanent picture. • sandpainting n. (Countable) A picture of this kind. • sand␣painting n. Alternative form of sandpainting. |
| UNPARADISING | • unparadising v. Present participle of unparadise. • UNPARADISE v. to deprive of happiness like that of paradise. |