| APPOINTMENT | • appointment n. The act of appointing a person to hold an office or to have a position of trust. • appointment n. The state of being appointed to a service or office; an office to which one is appointed. • appointment n. Stipulation; agreement; the act of fixing by mutual agreement. |
| ATTEMPERING | • attempering v. Present participle of attemper. • ATTEMPER v. (archaic) to alter quality by addition or mixture; to moderate. |
| IMPARTMENTS | • impartments n. Plural of impartment. • IMPARTMENT n. the act of imparting. |
| IMPATIENTLY | • impatiently adv. Without patience. • IMPATIENT adv. not patient. |
| IMPENETRATE | • impenetrate v. (Transitive) To penetrate into. • IMPENETRATE v. to penetrate thoroughly. |
| IMPETRATING | • impetrating v. Present participle of impetrate. • IMPETRATE v. to obtain by entreaty, request or prayer. |
| IMPETRATION | • impetration n. (Obsolete) The act of impetrating, or obtaining by petition or entreaty. • impetration n. (Obsolete, UK, law) The obtaining of benefice from Rome by solicitation, which benefice belonged to… • IMPETRATION n. seeking by entreaty. |
| IMPORTUNATE | • importunate adj. (Of a demand) Persistent or pressing, often annoyingly so. • importunate adj. (Of a person) Given to importunate demands, greedily or thoughtlessly demanding. • importunate v. (Rare) To importune, or to obtain by importunity. |
| 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. |
| OMNIPATIENT | • omnipatient adj. Infinitely patient; capable of enduring all things. • OMNIPATIENT adj. enduring all things. |
| 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. |
| PERMUTATING | • permutating v. Present participle of permutate. • PERMUTATE v. to alter the order, sequence, or arrangement of, also PERMUTE. |
| PERMUTATION | • permutation n. One of the ways something exists, or the ways a set of objects can be ordered. • permutation n. (Mathematics) A one-to-one mapping from a finite set to itself. • permutation n. (Mathematics, combinatorics) An ordering of a finite set of distinct elements. |
| TEMPERATING | • temperating v. Present participle of temperate. • TEMPERATE v. to temper. |
| TEMPTATIONS | • temptations n. Plural of temptation. • TEMPTATION n. the act of tempting or the state of being tempted esp. to evil. |
| TRYPTAMINES | • tryptamines n. Plural of tryptamine. • TRYPTAMINE n. a crystalline amine derived from tryptophan. |