| ACCOUPLEMENT | • accouplement n. (Rare) The act of coupling, or the state of being coupled; union. • accouplement n. (Rare) That which couples, as a tie or brace. • ACCOUPLEMENT n. a timber joist or beam that serves as a tie or support. |
| AUTOCOMPLETE | • autocomplete v. (Computing) To complete automatically. • autocomplete n. (Computing) A software feature that predicts the rest of a word a user is typing. • AUTOCOMPLETE n. a software feature that predicts which words the user is typing and completes them automatically. |
| COMEUPPANCES | • comeuppances n. Plural of comeuppance. • come-uppances n. Plural of come-uppance. • COMEUPPANCE n. a deserved rebuke or penalty. |
| DEUTEROPLASM | • deuteroplasm n. Synonym of deutoplasm. • DEUTEROPLASM n. the food material, such as yolk or fat, within an egg or cell. |
| MAGNETOPAUSE | • magnetopause n. The boundary between the Earth’s magnetosphere and the sun’s plasma. • MAGNETOPAUSE n. the outer boundary of a magnetosphere. |
| METACOMPUTER | • METACOMPUTER n. a collection of computers that looks and functions like a single computer. |
| MOUSETRAPPED | • mousetrapped v. Simple past tense and past participle of mousetrap. • MOUSETRAP v. to catch in a mousetrap. |
| OUTPLACEMENT | • outplacement n. The process of helping to find new employment for redundant workers, especially executives. • OUTPLACEMENT n. the process of easing unwanted or unneeded executives out of a company by providing company-paid assistance in finding them new jobs. |
| PAMPELMOUSES | • pampelmouses n. Plural of pampelmouse. • PAMPELMOUSE n. (Dutch) the shaddock or grapefruit, also PAMPELMOOSE, POMELO, POMPELMOOSE, POMPELMOUS, POMPELMOUSE, POMPELO, PUMELO, PUMMELO. |
| PERGAMENEOUS | • pergameneous adj. Parchment-like. • PERGAMENEOUS adj. parchment-like, also PERGAMENTACEOUS. |
| PERITONAEUMS | • PERITONAEUM n. a serous membrane enclosing the viscera in the abdominal and pelvic cavities, also PERITONEUM. |
| PHLEGMAGOGUE | • phlegmagogue n. (Obsolete) Any medicine supposed to expel phlegm. • PHLEGMAGOGUE n. a phlegm-expelling drug. |
| PNEUMATHODES | • PNEUMATHODE n. a band or pore or aerating tissue, esp. along the stipes of ferns. |
| PREFORMULATE | • preformulate v. To formulate (a pharmaceutical drug) in advance of general availability. • PREFORMULATE v. to formulate in advance. |
| PREMENOPAUSE | • premenopause adj. Before the menopause. |
| PSEUDIMAGOES | • pseudimagoes n. Plural of pseudimago. • PSEUDIMAGO n. a stage in the development of certain insects, such as the May flies, intermediate between the pupa and imago. |
| SOMATOPLEURE | • somatopleure n. (Embryology) A fold of tissue, in the embryo of a vertebrate, from which the walls of the body and the amnion develop. • SOMATOPLEURE n. a cellular sheet in some vertebrates that develops into the internal body wall. |
| TEMPORANEOUS | • temporaneous adj. (Obsolete) temporary. • TEMPORANEOUS adj. (obsolete) lasting only a short while. |
| UNEMPLOYABLE | • unemployable adj. Not employable. • unemployable n. An individual who is not suited to employment. • UNEMPLOYABLE adj. not acceptable for employment. |