| CLADISTICS | • cladistics n. (Systematics) An approach to biological systematics in which organisms are grouped based upon synapomorphies… • CLADISTICS n. taxonomic theory distinguishing by common ancestor. |
| DENIALISTS | • denialists n. Plural of denialist. • DENIALIST n. a person who refuses to accept something that is regarded as an established fact. |
| DIABOLISTS | • diabolists n. Plural of diabolist. • DIABOLIST n. one who practises diabolism. |
| DIALOGISTS | • dialogists n. Plural of dialogist. • DIALOGIST n. a speaker in a dialogue. |
| DIASTALSIS | • diastalsis n. A form of peristalsis (as in the intestines) in which the wave of contraction is preceded by a period of inhibition. • DIASTALSIS n. a downward wave of contraction occurring in the intestine during digestion. |
| DISABLISTS | • disablists n. Plural of disablist. • DISABLIST n. one who discriminates against the disabled. |
| DISENTAILS | • disentails v. Third-person singular simple present indicative form of disentail. • DISENTAIL v. to free from entailment. |
| FIDELISTAS | • FIDELISTA n. a believer in the principles of Fidel Castro. |
| IDIOBLASTS | • idioblasts n. Plural of idioblast. • IDIOBLAST n. a plant cell that differs from neighbouring cells in the same tissue. |
| SODALITIES | • sodalities n. Plural of sodality. • SODALITY n. an organized group, a fellowship. |
| SOLIDARIST | • solidarist adj. Exhibiting, or pertaining to, solidarism. • solidarist n. A proponent of solidarism. • SOLIDARIST n. one who practises solidarity. |
| STABILISED | • stabilised v. Simple past tense and past participle of stabilise. • STABILISE v. to make stable, also STABILIZE. |
| TAILSLIDES | • tailslides n. Plural of tailslide. • tail␣slides n. Plural of tail slide. • TAILSLIDE n. an aerobatic manoeuvre in which an aircraft that has been put into a steep climb stalls and loses height by slipping backwards. |