| 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. |
| COMPARTMENT | • compartment n. A room, or section, or chamber. • compartment n. One of the parts into which an area is subdivided. • compartment n. (Biochemistry) Part of a protein that serves a specific function. |
| CONTEMPLANT | • contemplant adj. (Archaic) Given to contemplation; meditative. • contemplant n. (Archaic) One who contemplates. • CONTEMPLANT n. one who contemplates. |
| 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. |
| 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. |
| 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. |
| 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. |
| PORTMANTEAU | • portmanteau n. A large travelling case usually made of leather, and opening into two equal sections. • portmanteau n. (Australia, dated) A schoolbag. • portmanteau n. (Archaic) A hook on which to hang clothing. |
| PORTMANTLES | • portmantles n. Plural of portmantle. • PORTMANTLE n. (obsolete) a portmanteau, also PORTMANTEAU, PORTMANTUA. |
| POTAMOGETON | • potamogeton n. (Botany) Any of the plants of the genus Potamogeton. • Potamogeton prop.n. A taxonomic genus within the family Potamogetonaceae – pondweeds. • POTAMOGETON n. a plant of the pondweed genus of water plants, with floating and submerged leaves. |
| PROTONEMATA | • protonemata n. Plural of protonema. • PROTONEMA n. a branched filament produced by germination of a moss spore, giving rise to moss plants from buds. |
| TAPOTEMENTS | • tapotements n. Plural of tapotement. • TAPOTEMENT n. (French) the use of light taps in massage. |
| TEMPTATIONS | • temptations n. Plural of temptation. • TEMPTATION n. the act of tempting or the state of being tempted esp. to evil. |
| TREPONEMATA | • treponemata n. Plural of treponema. • TREPONEMA n. a kind of bacterium, a spirochaete, that causes syphilis, also TREPONEME. |