| ADULTERATOR | • adulterator n. One who or that which adulterates, or harms the purity of, something. • ADULTERATOR n. one who adulterates a commodity. |
| DEHORTATORY | • dehortatory adj. Fitted or designed to dehort or dissuade. • DEHORTATORY adj. dissuasive, also DEHORTATIVE. |
| DETERIORATE | • deteriorate v. (Transitive) To make worse; to make inferior in quality or value; to impair. • deteriorate v. (Intransitive) To grow worse; to be impaired in quality; to degenerate. • DETERIORATE v. to make inferior in quality or value. |
| DIRECTORATE | • directorate n. An agency headed by a director, usually a subdivision of a major government department. • directorate n. A body of directors. • DIRECTORATE n. the office of director. |
| DISSERTATOR | • dissertator n. One who writers a dissertation; one who discourses. • DISSERTATOR n. one who writes a dissertation. |
| OVERTREATED | • overtreated v. Simple past tense and past participle of overtreat. • OVERTREAT v. to treat excessively. |
| REFORMATTED | • reformatted adj. Having been formatted again. • reformatted v. Simple past tense and past participle of reformat. • REFORMAT v. to change the format. |
| RETARDATION | • retardation n. The act of retarding or delaying; hindrance. • retardation n. The extent to which anything is retarded; the result of any retarding or delay; mental, social, or physical slowness. • retardation n. (Colloquial, derogatory, offensive) Extreme stupidity. |
| RETARDATORY | • retardatory adj. Retardant; delaying. • RETARDATORY adj. tending to retard. |
| STERCORATED | • stercorated v. Simple past tense and past participle of stercorate. • STERCORATE v. to defecate. |
| TEETERBOARD | • teeterboard n. A seesaw; teetertotter. • teeterboard n. A similar board used by acrobats that sends a human into the air when another human jumps onto the opposite end. • TEETERBOARD n. a seesaw; a board which throws one into the air when someone else jumps on the other end of it. |
| TETRACHORDS | • tetrachords n. Plural of tetrachord. • TETRACHORD n. a series of four sounds, forming a scale of two tones and a half. |
| TETRAHEDRON | • tetrahedron n. (Geometry) A polyhedron with four faces; the regular tetrahedron, the faces of which are equal equilateral… • TETRAHEDRON n. a polyhedron that has four faces. |
| TETRANDROUS | • tetrandrous adj. (Botany) Belonging to the class Tetrandria. • tetrandrous adj. (Botany) Having four stamens. • TETRANDROUS adj. having four stamens, also TETRANDRIAN. |
| TRACTORFEED | • TRACTORFEED n. the automatic movement of a continuous roll of edge-perforated paper through the platen of the printer. |
| TRADITIONER | • traditioner n. One who adheres to tradition. • TRADITIONER n. a person who adheres to tradition, also TRADITIONIST. |
| TRANSPORTED | • transported v. Simple past tense and past participle of transport. • transported adj. Subjected to transportation. • TRANSPORT v. to convey. |
| TREPIDATORY | • trepidatory adj. That trepidates, or that causes trepidations. • trepidatory adj. Of an earthquake, having a vertical, up-and-down motion, as opposed to a horizontal, side-to-side motion. • TREPIDATORY adj. causing trepidation, trembling; alarmed agitation. |