| ANTEPENDIUM | • antependium n. (Ecclesiastical) The hangings or screen in front of the altar; an altar cloth; the frontal. • ANTEPENDIUM n. a cloth that hangs over the front of an altar, aka forecloth. |
| DEPLUMATION | • deplumation n. The stripping or falling off of plumes or feathers. • deplumation n. (Medicine) Loss of the eyelashes due to disease of the eyelids. • deplumation n. (Metaphoric) The stripping of someone’s symbol(s) of status and prestige; humiliation. |
| DESPUMATING | • despumating v. Present participle of despumate. • DESPUMATE v. to throw off impurities in foam or scum. |
| DESPUMATION | • despumation n. The act of throwing up froth or scum. • despumation n. Separation of scum or impurities from liquid; clarification. • DESPUMATION n. the throwing off of impurities. |
| 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. |
| INTERCAMPUS | • intercampus adj. Between universities or colleges. • INTERCAMPUS adj. between campuses. |
| MANIPULATED | • manipulated v. Simple past tense and past participle of manipulate. • MANIPULATE v. to work with the hands. |
| MANIPULATES | • manipulates v. Third-person singular simple present indicative form of manipulate. • MANIPULATE v. to work with the hands. |
| MULTIPLANES | • multiplanes n. Plural of multiplane. • MULTIPLANE n. an aeroplane with more than two sets of supporting planes. |
| 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… |
| PERITONAEUM | • peritonaeum n. Alternative form of peritoneum. • peritonæum n. Obsolete typography of peritonaeum. • PERITONAEUM n. a serous membrane enclosing the viscera in the abdominal and pelvic cavities, also PERITONEUM. |
| 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. |
| PLANETARIUM | • planetarium n. A display museum in which images of stars and other astronomical phenomena are projected onto a domed ceiling. • planetarium n. An orrery. • PLANETARIUM n. a model or representation of the solar system. |
| PNEUMATICAL | • pneumatical adj. Pneumatic. • PNEUMATICAL adj. relating to air or gases; containing or inflated with air, also PNEUMATIC. |
| UPMARKETING | • upmarketing v. Present participle of upmarket. • UPMARKET v. to make more upmarket, higher in price or quality. |
| UPSTREAMING | • upstreaming n. (Business) A partnership between an independent record label and a major record label, by which successful… • upstreaming v. Present participle of upstream. • UPSTREAM v. to stream up. |