| ABIOTROPHIES | • abiotrophies n. Plural of abiotrophy. • ABIOTROPHY n. bodily or mental loss of function or degeneration for reasons unknown. |
| APPROBATIONS | • approbations n. Plural of approbation. • APPROBATION n. approval, consent. |
| ASTROPHOBIAS | • ASTROPHOBIA n. a morbid fear of thunder and lightning, also ASTRAPHOBIA, ASTRAPOPHOBIA. |
| BLASTOSPORES | • blastospores n. Plural of blastospore. • BLASTOSPORE n. the orifice of a gastrula. |
| BOOTSTRAPPED | • bootstrapped v. Simple past tense and past participle of bootstrap. • BOOTSTRAP v. to prepare (a computer) for operation by causing an operating system to be loaded into its memory. |
| BOOTSTRAPPER | • bootstrapper n. Someone engaged in bootstrapping, or self-improvement. • bootstrapper n. (Computing) A process that performs bootstrapping. • bootstrapper n. (Statistics) One who uses bootstrap methods. |
| EROTOPHOBIAS | • EROTOPHOBIA n. fear of sex. |
| IMPROBATIONS | • improbations n. Plural of improbation. • IMPROBATION n. in Scots law, an action for the purpose of declaring some instrument false or forged. |
| OBSTROPALOUS | • obstropalous adj. Alternative form of obstropulous. • OBSTROPALOUS adj. (colloquial) noisy, unruly, also OBSTREPEROUS, OBSTROPULOUS. |
| POLYSORBATES | • polysorbates n. Plural of polysorbate. • POLYSORBATE n. an emulsifier. |
| POSTABORTION | • postabortion adj. After abortion (termination of pregnancy). • POSTABORTION adj. taking place after an abortion. |
| POWERBOATERS | • powerboaters n. Plural of powerboater. |
| PROBATIONERS | • probationers n. Plural of probationer. • PROBATIONER n. a person (as a newly admitted student nurse) whose fitness is being tested during a trial period. |
| REABSORPTION | • reabsorption n. (Physics) The subsequent absorption of emitted radiation. • reabsorption n. (Physiology) The subsequent absorption of a secreted substance. • REABSORPTION n. the act of reabsorbing. |
| REPROBATIONS | • reprobations n. Plural of reprobation. • REPROBATION n. the act of reprobating. |
| TROPHOBLASTS | • trophoblasts n. Plural of trophoblast. • TROPHOBLAST n. the outermost layer of cells in the morula that attaches the fertilized ovum to the uterine wall and acts as a nutritive pathway. |