| APOGEOTROPISM | • apogeotropism n. (Botany) An apogeotropic tendency. • APOGEOTROPISM n. bending up or away from the ground. |
| APPORTIONMENT | • apportionment n. The act of apportioning or the state of being apportioned. • apportionment n. (US) The distribution of members of the House of Representatives according to the population of the various states. • apportionment n. (US) The allocation of direct taxation according to the population of the various states. |
| APPROXIMATION | • approximation n. The act, process or result of approximating. • approximation n. (Mathematics) An imprecise solution or result that is adequate for a defined purpose. • approximation n. (Medicine) The act of bringing together the edges of tissue to be sutured. |
| COMPANIONSHIP | • companionship n. The state of having or being a companion. • companionship n. (Archaic) An association, a fellowship. • companionship n. The state of being a journeyman. |
| HAPTOTROPISMS | • HAPTOTROPISM n. curving in response to touch, as a tendril. |
| HIPPOPOTAMIAN | • hippopotamian adj. Resembling or characteristic of a hippopotamus. • HIPPOPOTAMIAN adj. like a hippopotamus, clumsy, also HIPPOPOTAMIC. |
| IMPROPRIATION | • impropriation n. The act of impropriating; putting an ecclesiastical benefice or tithes in the hands of a layman, or lay corporation. • impropriation n. A benefice, tithe etc. that has been put in lay hands. • IMPROPRIATION n. the act of impropriating. |
| IMPROPRIATORS | • impropriators n. Plural of impropriator. • IMPROPRIATOR n. a layman who is in possession of a benefice or its revenues. |
| PAEDOMORPHISM | • paedomorphism n. Alternative spelling of pedomorphism. • PAEDOMORPHISM n. retention in the adult of infantile or juvenile characters, also PAEDOMORPHOSIS. |
| PAPILLOMATOUS | • papillomatous adj. Having papillomae. • PAPILLOMATOUS adj. of or like a papilloma. |
| PARALIPOMENON | • paralipomenon n. (Biblical) Either of the Books of Chronicles in the Old Testament. • paralipomenon n. (Usually in the plural) An omission, especially one of a book, added later as a supplement. • PARALIPOMENON n. a thing added as a supplement to a main text, also PARALEIPOMENON. |
| PHARMACOPOEIA | • pharmacopoeia n. (Pharmacology) An official book describing medicines or other pharmacological substances, especially… • pharmacopoeia n. (Pharmacology) A collection of drugs. • pharmacopœia n. Obsolete typography of pharmacopoeia. |
| PHARMACOPOEIC | • pharmacopoeic adj. (Pharmacology, pharmacy) Of or pertaining to pharmacopoeia. • pharmacopœic adj. Obsolete form of pharmacopoeic. • PHARMACOPOEIC adj. relating to a pharmacopoeia. |
| PHONOCAMPTICS | • PHONOCAMPTICS n. the branch of acoustics dealing with echoes. |
| PLAGIOTROPISM | • plagiotropism n. (Biology) The growth of a plant at an orientation to the angle of a stimulus. • PLAGIOTROPISM n. the tendency to grow at an oblique or horizontal angle. |
| PSAMMOPHILOUS | • psammophilous adj. (Botany) arenophilous, sand-loving. • psammophilous adj. (Zoology), sand-loving. • PSAMMOPHILOUS adj. sand-loving. |