| PARTITIONIST | • partitionist n. A political partisan who favours geopolitical partitioning. • partitionist n. (Canada, politics) A political partisan who favours the partition of the province of Quebec with the… • PARTITIONIST n. an advocate of political partition. |
| PORTRAITISTS | • portraitists n. Plural of portraitist. • PORTRAITIST n. a maker of portraits. |
| POSTLITERATE | • postliterate adj. After the decline of literacy. • POSTLITERATE adj. relating to or occurring after the introduction of the electronic media. |
| POTENTIATORS | • potentiators n. Plural of potentiator. • POTENTIATOR n. one who potentiates. |
| PROTECTORATE | • protectorate n. Government by a protector; especially, the government of England, Scotland, and Ireland by Oliver Cromwell. • protectorate n. The authority assumed by a superior power over an inferior or a dependent one, whereby the former protects… • protectorate n. An autonomous territory that is protected diplomatically or militarily against third parties by a stronger… |
| PROTESTATION | • protestation n. A formal solemn objection or other declaration. • protestation n. (Law, historical) A declaration in common-law pleading, by which the party interposes an oblique allegation… • PROTESTATION n. an avowal or solemn declaration. |
| PYROTARTRATE | • pyrotartrate n. (Organic chemistry) Any salt or ester of pyrotartaric acid. • PYROTARTRATE n. a salt of tartaric acid. |
| STREPITATION | • STREPITATION n. a clamour. |
| TETRAPOLITAN | • tetrapolitan adj. Relating to a tetrapolis, or group of four towns; applied to the Tetrapolitan Confession. • TETRAPOLITAN adj. relating to a tetrapolis, a group of four towns. |
| TETRAPTEROUS | • tetrapterous adj. (Entomology) Having four (two pairs of) wings. • TETRAPTEROUS adj. having four wings, also TETRAPTERAN. |
| TRAINSPOTTER | • trainspotter n. A person whose hobby is train spotting. • trainspotter n. (By extension) An obsessive follower of any minority interest or hobby. • train␣spotter n. (Rail transport) a person whose hobby is train spotting. |
| TRIPARTITION | • tripartition n. A division by threes, or into three parts; the taking of a third part of any number or quantity. • tripartition v. (Transitive) To partition into three. • TRIPARTITION n. division into three parts. |
| TROPHOTACTIC | • TROPHOTACTIC adj. relating to trophotaxis, chemotaxis and chemotropism where the stimulating substance is food. |
| TROPOSCATTER | • troposcatter n. Tropospheric scatter. • TROPOSCATTER n. the propagation of radio waves by using irregularities in the troposphere to scatter the signals beamed up by means of high-powered UHF transmitters and parabolic antennas. |