| APPARTEMENT | • appartement n. (Non-native speakers’ English) Misspelling of apartment. • APPARTEMENT n. (French) a set of rooms in a house for an individual or a family. |
| ATTEMPERING | • attempering v. Present participle of attemper. • ATTEMPER v. (archaic) to alter quality by addition or mixture; to moderate. |
| CONTEMPLATE | • contemplate v. To look at on all sides or in all its aspects; to view or consider with continued attention; to regard… • contemplate v. To consider as a possibility. • CONTEMPLATE v. to view or consider with continued attention. |
| DEPARTEMENT | • département n. An administrative unit in various French-speaking countries, smaller than a région, similar to an English county. • DEPARTEMENT n. (French) an administrative department. |
| DEPARTMENTS | • departments n. Plural of department. • DEPARTMENT n. a major administrative division of a government. |
| ENTRAPMENTS | • entrapments n. Plural of entrapment. • ENTRAPMENT n. the act of entrapping. |
| IMPENETRATE | • impenetrate v. (Transitive) To penetrate into. • IMPENETRATE v. to penetrate thoroughly. |
| INTEMPERANT | • intemperant adj. (Obsolete) intemperate. • INTEMPERANT n. a person who is intemperate. |
| INTEMPERATE | • intemperate adj. Lacking moderation, temper or control. • intemperate adj. Indulging any appetite or passion to excess, especially the drinking of alcohol. • intemperate v. (Obsolete, transitive) To disorder. |
| METAPROTEIN | • metaprotein n. (Biochemistry) Any protein derived from another by the use of acids or bases. • METAPROTEIN n. a protein denatured by acid or alkaline hydrolysis that is soluble in acids or alkalis but insoluble in water. |
| PENTAMETERS | • pentameters n. Plural of pentameter. • PENTAMETER n. a line of verse consisting of five metrical feet. |
| PENULTIMATE | • penultimate adj. (UK, in US usually formal, literary or scholarly) Next to last, second to last; immediately preceding… • penultimate adj. (Linguistics) Of or pertaining to a penult. • penultimate adj. (Mathematics, rare) Relating to or denoting an element of a related collection of curves that is arbitrarily… |
| PERMITTANCE | • permittance n. The act of permitting; allowance; permission; leave. • permittance n. (Electricity) The power of a dielectric to permit or enhance induction. • PERMITTANCE n. permission. |
| PRATTLEMENT | • prattlement n. Prattle; childish chatter. • PRATTLEMENT n. prattle. |
| TAPOTEMENTS | • tapotements n. Plural of tapotement. • TAPOTEMENT n. (French) the use of light taps in massage. |
| TEMPERAMENT | • temperament n. A person’s usual manner of thinking, behaving or reacting. • temperament n. A tendency to become irritable or angry. • temperament n. (Music) The altering of certain intervals from their correct values in order to improve the moving from key to key. |
| TEMPERATING | • temperating v. Present participle of temperate. • TEMPERATE v. to temper. |
| TREPONEMATA | • treponemata n. Plural of treponema. • TREPONEMA n. a kind of bacterium, a spirochaete, that causes syphilis, also TREPONEME. |
| UNATTEMPTED | • unattempted adj. Not attempted. • UNATTEMPTED adj. not attempted. |