| APHORISED | • aphorised v. Simple past tense and past participle of aphorise. • APHORISE v. to make a concise statement, also APHORIZE. |
| CRISPHEAD | • crisphead n. A lettuce (such as iceberg lettuce) with crisp tightly packed light-green leaves in a firm head. • CRISPHEAD n. a variety of lettuce. |
| DROPHEADS | • dropheads n. Plural of drophead. • DROPHEAD n. a convertible car. |
| HANDPRESS | • handpress n. (Printing, historical) An early printing press operated by means of a handle that applied pressure on the form. • hand␣press n. A press operated by hand, especially a printing press. • HANDPRESS n. a press operated by hand. |
| HARDSCAPE | • hardscape n. The permanent, artificial features of a landscape made from stone etc, rather than plants. • hardscape v. (Transitive) To provide (a landscape) with man-made elements. • HARDSCAPE n. in the practice of landscaping, the built environment including paved areas like streets and sidewalks, structures, walls etc. |
| HEADROPES | • headropes n. Plural of headrope. • HEADROPE n. that part of a boltrope which is sewed to the upper edge or head of a sail. |
| PIERHEADS | • pierheads n. Plural of pierhead. • PIERHEAD n. the seaward end of a pier. |
| PREDEATHS | • PREDEATH n. the period preceding a person's death. |
| PRESHAPED | • preshaped v. Simple past tense and past participle of preshape. • PRESHAPE v. to shape beforehand. |
| PREWASHED | • prewashed v. Simple past tense and past participle of prewash. • PREWASH v. to wash beforehand. |
| PURCHASED | • purchased v. Simple past tense and past participle of purchase. • PURCHASE v. to buy. |
| REPHRASED | • rephrased v. Simple past tense and past participle of rephrase. • REPHRASE v. to say or repeat in a different way. |
| RHAPHIDES | • rhaphides n. Plural of rhaphide. • rhaphides n. Plural of rhaphis. • RHAPHIS n. (Greek) a needlelike crystal, usually of calcium oxalate, occurring in plant cells, also RAPHIDE, RAPHIS, RHAPHIDE. |
| RHAPSODES | • rhapsodes n. Plural of rhapsode. • RHAPSODE n. anciently, one who recited or composed a rhapsody; esp. one whose profession was to recite the verses of Homer and other epic poets, also RHAPSODIST. |
| SAPPHIRED | • sapphired adj. Decorated with sapphires. • sapphired adj. (Poetic) Of a bright blue colour, like sapphires. • SAPPHIRED adj. coloured with sapphire blue. |
| SHARPENED | • sharpened adj. Having a sharp point or edge. • sharpened v. Simple past tense and past participle of sharpen. • SHARPEN v. to make sharp. |
| SPEARHEAD | • spearhead n. The pointed head, or end, of a spear. • spearhead n. One who leads or initiates an activity (such as an attack or a campaign). • spearhead n. The leading military unit in an attack. |
| SPREATHED | • spreathed v. Simple past tense and past participle of spreathe. • SPREATHE v. (SW dialect) to chap, roughen, also SPRAY, SPREAZE, SPREETHE, SPREEZE. |
| SUPERHARD | • superhard adj. Having a very high hardness. • superhard adj. (Not comparable, mineralogy) Having a hardness between that of boron nitride and diamond. • superhard n. (Motorsports) Ellipsis of superhard tyre. (A tyre whose compound is harder than hards, and therefore… |
| THERAPSID | • therapsid n. Any extinct reptile of the order Therapsida; thought to be direct ancestors of the mammals. • THERAPSID n. one of a group of Permian and Jurassic reptiles considered to be direct ancestors of mammals. |