| CARPETMONGER | • carpetmonger n. One who deals in carpets; a buyer and seller of carpets. • carpetmonger n. (Obsolete) One fond of pleasure; a gallant. • CARPETMONGER n. (Shakespeare) an effeminate person. |
| CONTEMPORARY | • contemporary adj. From the same time period, coexistent in time; contemporaneous. • contemporary adj. Modern, of the present age (shorthand for ‘contemporary with the present’). • contemporary n. Someone or something living at the same time, or of roughly the same age as another. |
| DERMAPTERANS | • dermapterans n. Plural of dermapteran. • DERMAPTERAN n. any insect of the order Dermaptera, the earwigs. |
| IMPERSONATOR | • impersonator n. One who fraudulently impersonates another person. • impersonator n. An entertainer whose act is based upon performing impressions of others. • IMPERSONATOR n. one who impersonates. |
| IMPREGNATORS | • impregnators n. Plural of impregnator. • IMPREGNATOR n. one who impregnates. |
| INTERCOMPARE | • intercompare v. To compare multiple characteristics of multiple things. • INTERCOMPARE v. to make a comparison between. |
| MARPRELATING | • MARPRELATE v. to inveigh after the manner of Martin Marprelate, the name assumed by the author of certain anti-episcopal tracts, 1588-9. |
| PARAMENSTRUA | • PARAMENSTRUUM n. the four days before and the four days after the onset of menstruation. |
| PARATHORMONE | • parathormone n. Parathyroid hormone. • PARATHORMONE n. a parathyroid hormone. |
| PARCHMENTIER | • PARCHMENTY adj. like parchment. |
| PREDOMINATOR | • predominator n. One who predominates. • PREDOMINATOR n. one who predominates. |
| PREFORMATION | • preformation n. Prior formation. • preformation n. (Biology, historical) The theory that organisms are fully developed in the form of an egg or seed, and… • PREFORMATION n. previous formation. |
| PREMARKETING | • premarketing adj. Before the marketing of a product or service. • PREMARKET v. to market in advance. |
| PREMENSTRUAL | • premenstrual adj. Occurring in the time period during the menstrual cycle leading up to the beginning of menstruation. • premenstrual adj. Relating to the time period in a girl’s life prior to her first experience of menstruation; prepubescent. • PREMENSTRUAL adj. taking place before menstruation. |
| PREMIGRATION | • premigration adj. Before migration. • PREMIGRATION adj. preceding migration. |
| PREROMANTICS | • PREROMANTIC n. a poet, composer, etc. from the period before Romanticism. |
| PRETREATMENT | • pretreatment adj. Prior to treatment. • pretreatment n. Any treatment received before some other process. • PRETREATMENT n. treatment in advance. |
| PYRANOMETERS | • pyranometers n. Plural of pyranometer. • PYRANOMETER n. another name for a solarimeter. |
| TRAMPOLINERS | • trampoliners n. Plural of trampoliner. • TRAMPOLINER n. one who uses a trampoline, also TRAMPOLINIST. |