| ADULTERATOR | • adulterator n. One who or that which adulterates, or harms the purity of, something. • ADULTERATOR n. one who adulterates a commodity. |
| ASTROTURFER | • astroturfer n. One who engages in astroturfing, the disguising of an orchestrated campaign as a “grass-roots” event. • ASTROTURFER n. one who engages in ASTROTURFING. |
| AUTOCORRECT | • autocorrect v. To make an autocorrection; to correct something automatically. • autocorrect n. (Computing) A software feature that attempts to correct presumed errors as soon as they are generated. • AUTOCORRECT n. a function that attempts to correct errors made by the user when entering text into an electronic device. |
| CARBURETTOR | • carburettor n. (Automotive, Australia, New Zealand, UK) Alternative spelling of carburetor (“device in an internal… • CARBURETTOR n. an apparatus for charging a gas with carbon compounds, also CARBURETER, CARBURETOR, CARBURETTER. |
| CENTURIATOR | • centuriator n. A historian who distinguishes time by centuries, especially one of those who wrote the Magdeburg Centuries. • CENTURIATOR n. one of a group of sixteenth century Reformed divines of Magdeburg who compiled a church history in 13 volumes, each volume covering a century. |
| CONTRACTURE | • contracture n. (Medicine) An abnormal, sometimes permanent, contraction of a muscle; a deformity so caused. • CONTRACTURE n. a permanent shortening (as of muscle, tendon, or scar tissue) producing deformity or distortion. |
| COUNTERPART | • counterpart n. Either of two parts that fit together, or complement one another. • counterpart n. (Law) A duplicate of a legal document. • counterpart n. One who or that which resembles another. (Can we add an example for this sense?) |
| ELUTRIATORS | • elutriators n. Plural of elutriator. • ELUTRIATOR n. an apparatus for elutriating. |
| OUTQUARTERS | • outquarters n. Quarters situated away from headquarters. • OUTQUARTERS n. quarters situated away from headquarters. |
| PERPETUATOR | • perpetuator n. One who perpetuates. • PERPETUATOR n. one who perpetuates. |
| PERTURBATOR | • perturbator n. Something that perturbates. • PERTURBATOR n. one who perturbates. |
| PORTRAITURE | • portraiture n. A portrait; a likeness; a painted resemblance; hence, that which is copied from some example or model. • portraiture n. The art of painting or photographing portraits. • portraiture n. A portrait (or portraits considered as a group). |
| PROTUBERANT | • protuberant adj. Swelling or bulging outward. • PROTUBERANT adj. thrusting out from a surrounding or adjacent surface often as a rounded mass. |
| PROTUBERATE | • protuberate v. (Intransitive) To bulge outward, producing a rounded protuberance. • protuberate v. (Transitive, rare) To cause to bulge outward. • PROTUBERATE v. to bulge out. |
| STERNUTATOR | • sternutator n. Any chemical agent that causes sneezing. • STERNUTATOR n. a substance which causes sneezing, also STERNUTATIVE, STERNUTATORY. |
| TETRAMEROUS | • tetramerous adj. (Botany) in four parts: such that each whorl (of flower parts) has four flower parts. • TETRAMEROUS adj. having four similar parts, e.g. of flowers with petals in sets of four. |
| TETRANDROUS | • tetrandrous adj. (Botany) Belonging to the class Tetrandria. • tetrandrous adj. (Botany) Having four stamens. • TETRANDROUS adj. having four stamens, also TETRANDRIAN. |
| TREACHETOUR | • TREACHETOUR n. (Spenser) a traitor, a deceiver. |
| VITUPERATOR | • vituperator n. One who vituperates, or censures abusively. • VITUPERATOR n. one who vituperates. |