| COMPRISAL | • comprisal n. The act of comprising or comprehending; a compendium or epitome. • COMPRISAL n. the act, condition or fact of comprising. |
| IMPERIALS | • imperials n. Plural of imperial. • Imperials n. Plural of Imperial. • IMPERIAL n. an emperor or member of an imperial family. |
| LAMPYRIDS | • lampyrids n. Plural of lampyrid. • LAMPYRID n. a glowworm or firefly. |
| LIPOGRAMS | • lipograms n. Plural of lipogram. • LIPOGRAM n. a piece of writing that avoids one or more letters of the alphabet. |
| MARSUPIAL | • marsupial n. A mammal of which the female has a pouch in which it rears its young, which are born immature, through… • marsupial adj. Of or pertaining to a marsupial. • marsupial adj. (Anatomy) Of or relating to a marsupium. |
| PALMISTER | • palmister n. One who practices palmistry. • PALMISTER n. a person who tells fortunes by reading palms, also PALMIST. |
| PALMISTRY | • palmistry n. Telling fortunes from the lines on the palms of the hand. • palmistry n. (Countable) A book on palmistry; a system of palmistry. • palmistry n. (Obsolete, rare) A dexterous use or trick of the hand. |
| PERIPLASM | • periplasm n. (Cytology) The region between the plasma membrane and the outer membrane or cell wall. • PERIPLASM n. the region inside the wall of a biological cell. |
| PICLORAMS | • PICLORAM n. a herbicide. |
| PIROPLASM | • piroplasm n. Alternative form of piroplasma. • PIROPLASM n. a parasite causing cattle fever, aka babesia, also PIROPLASMA. |
| PLUMERIAS | • plumerias n. Plural of plumeria. • PLUMERIA n. a flowering shrub, aka frangipani. |
| PLURALISM | • pluralism n. The quality or state of being plural, or in the plural number. • pluralism n. (Ecclesiastical) The state of a pluralist; the holding of more than one ecclesiastical living at a time. • pluralism n. (Sociology) A social system that permits smaller groups within a society to maintain their individual… |
| PRELATISM | • prelatism n. Prelacy; episcopacy. • PRELATISM n. domination by prelates. |
| PRIMATALS | • primatals n. Plural of primatal. • PRIMATAL n. any of an advanced order of mammals, also PRIMATE. |
| PROCLAIMS | • proclaims v. Third-person singular simple present indicative form of proclaim. • PROCLAIM v. to make known. |
| PROLAMINS | • prolamins n. Plural of prolamin. • PROLAMIN n. one of a group of proteins found in wheat and rye, also PROLAMINE. |
| RHOPALISM | • rhopalism n. (Poetry, rhetoric) rhopalic structure. • RHOPALISM n. a sentence or poem in which each word is one syllable longer than its predecessor. |
| SALPIFORM | • salpiform adj. Resembling a salp. • SALPIFORM adj. shaped like a barrel. |
| SEMIPOLAR | • semipolar adj. (Physics) Partially polar. • semipolar adj. (Chemistry) dative. • SEMIPOLAR adj. as in semipolar bond, a type of chemical bond. |
| SPIRALISM | • spiralism n. The tendency of employees to move and live in different places in line with their successive promotions. • spiralism n. A Haitian literary movement. • SPIRALISM n. advancement through a spirally structured career. |