| ADAPTATIONAL | • adaptational adj. Relating or pertaining to adaptation, or the adjustment of one thing to another; adaptive. • adaptational adj. (Biology) Applied to physiological or functional modifications of parts or organs, as distinguished… • ADAPTATIONAL adj. relating to adaptation. |
| ADOPTABILITY | • adoptability n. The property of being adoptable. • ADOPTABILITY n. the quality of being adoptable. |
| ADOPTIANISTS | • adoptianists n. Plural of adoptianist. • ADOPTIANIST n. a believer in adoptianism, the doctrine that Christ, as man, is the adopted son of God, also ADOPTIONIST. |
| ANTIPREDATOR | • antipredator adj. Alternative spelling of anti-predator. • anti-predator adj. (Ecology) That provides a defence against predation or predators. • ANTIPREDATOR adj. designed to deter predators. |
| CATADIOPTRIC | • catadioptric adj. (Optics) Of or pertaining to optical systems that employ both refractive (dioptric) and reflective (catoptric)… • CATADIOPTRIC adj. relating to or employing both reflection and refraction, as in the construction of some long-focal-length photographic lenses, also CATADIOPTRICAL. |
| COADAPTATION | • coadaptation n. Alternative spelling of co-adaptation. • co-adaptation n. A mutual adaptation of species, organs or genes. • COADAPTATION n. the state of being mutually adapted. |
| DECAPITATION | • decapitation n. Beheading; the act of beheading or decapitating. • decapitation n. The ousting or destruction of the ruling body of a government or other organization. • decapitation n. (Politics) The unseating of a senior politician. |
| DECAPITATORS | • decapitators n. Plural of decapitator. • DECAPITATOR n. one who decapitates. |
| EXTRAPOLATED | • extrapolated v. Simple past tense and past participle of extrapolate. • EXTRAPOLATE v. to infer (values of a variable in an unobserved interval) from values within an already observed interval. |
| INADAPTATION | • inadaptation n. Lack of adaptation; unsuitableness. • INADAPTATION n. lack of adaptation. |
| PAEDOBAPTIST | • paedobaptist n. Alternative form of pedobaptist. • pædobaptist adj. Obsolete form of pedobaptist. • pædobaptist n. Obsolete form of pedobaptist. |
| PEDANTOCRATS | • pedantocrats n. Plural of pedantocrat. • PEDANTOCRAT n. a member of the pedantocracy. |
| POSTGRADUATE | • postgraduate n. A person continuing to study in a field after having successfully completed a degree course. • postgraduate adj. Of studies which take place after having successfully completed a degree course. • post-graduate adj. Alternative form of postgraduate. |
| READAPTATION | • readaptation n. A second or subsequent adaptation. • READAPTATION n. the act of readapting. |