| ADULTERATORS | • adulterators n. Plural of adulterator. • ADULTERATOR n. one who adulterates a commodity. |
| AUDIOMETRIST | • audiometrist n. A technician who carries out audiometry. • AUDIOMETRIST n. one who measures differences in hearing, also AUDIOMETRICIAN. |
| AUTODESTRUCT | • autodestruct v. (Intransitive, chiefly science fiction) To destroy itself by design (as of a mechanical system). • autodestruct n. (Chiefly science fiction) A feature of a system whereby it destroys itself. • AUTODESTRUCT v. to self-destruct. |
| CONSTUPRATED | • constuprated v. Simple past tense and past participle of constuprate. • CONSTUPRATE v. (obsolete) to ravish. |
| DECRUSTATION | • decrustation n. The removal of a crust. • DECRUSTATION n. removal of a crust. |
| DESATURATION | • desaturation n. (Chemistry) the conversion of a saturated compound to an unsaturated one by removing hydrogen or other… • desaturation n. (Medicine) a decrease in the level of oxygen saturation in a patient’s haemoglobin. • DESATURATION n. the inverse of saturation, the degree to which a colour departs from white and approaches a pure spectral wavelength. |
| DEUTERATIONS | • deuterations n. Plural of deuteration. • DEUTERATION n. the act of deuterating. |
| POSTGRADUATE | • postgraduate n. A person continuing to study in a field after having successfully completed a degree course. • postgraduate adj. Of studies which take place after having successfully completed a degree course. • post-graduate adj. Alternative form of postgraduate. |
| STOUTHEARTED | • stouthearted adj. Brave, courageous and plucky. • stouthearted adj. Stubborn, resolute. • stout-hearted adj. Alternative form of stouthearted. |
| STRIDULATION | • stridulation n. A high-pitched chirping, grating, hissing, or squeaking sound, as male crickets and grasshoppers make… • STRIDULATION n. the shrill sound produced by crickets and other insects. |
| STRIDULATORS | • stridulators n. Plural of stridulator. • STRIDULATOR n. an insect that makes a sound by scraping. |
| STRIDULATORY | • stridulatory adj. (Usually entomology) Able to stridulate, used in stridulating, or adapted for stridulation. • STRIDULATORY adj. of or like stridulation. |
| TRANSDUCTION | • transduction n. (Biology) The transfer of genetic material from one cell to another typically between bacterial cells… • transduction n. The process whereby a transducer converts energy from one form to another. • transduction n. (Physiology) The conversion of a stimulus from one form to another. |
| TRANSDUCTORS | • transductors n. Plural of transductor. • TRANSDUCTOR n. an arrangement of windings on a laminated core or cores, part of a device for amplifying current. |
| TRANSUDATION | • transudation n. The process of passing through a membrane, pore or interstice. • TRANSUDATION n. the act of transuding. |
| TRANSUDATORY | • transudatory adj. Of or pertaining to transudation. • TRANSUDATORY adj. relating to transudation. |
| TREPIDATIOUS | • trepidatious adj. In a state of trepidation; fearful. |
| TRIDACTYLOUS | • tridactylous adj. (Biology) tridactyl. • TRIDACTYLOUS adj. having three fingers or toes, also TRIDACTYL. |