| COMPENSATORY | • compensatory adj. (Of a payment) Intended to recompense someone who has experienced loss, suffering, or injury. • compensatory adj. Reducing or offsetting the unpleasant or unwelcome effects of something. • compensatory adj. (Genetics) That compensates for a deleterious mutation. |
| 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. |
| CRYPTOMNESIA | • cryptomnesia n. (Psychology) The phenomenon of the reappearance of a long-forgotten memory as if it were a new experience. • CRYPTOMNESIA n. latent or subconscious memory. |
| EMANCIPATORY | • emancipatory adj. Of or pertaining to emancipation or to an emancipator. • EMANCIPATORY adj. serving to emancipate. |
| FOREPAYMENTS | • forepayments n. Plural of forepayment. • FOREPAYMENT n. payment in advance. |
| HYMENOPTERAN | • hymenopteran n. (Entomology) Any insect of the order Hymenoptera: the bees, wasps and ants etc. • hymenopteran adj. (Entomology) Relating to or denoting hymenopterans. • HYMENOPTERAN n. an order of insect having four membranous wings, e.g. ants, bees, wasps, also HYMENOPTERON. |
| HYPONATREMIA | • hyponatremia n. (Medicine) An abnormally low concentration of sodium in blood plasma. |
| HYPONATREMIC | • hyponatremic adj. (Biology, medicine) Exhibiting or relating to hyponatremia. |
| IMPENETRABLY | • impenetrably adv. In an impenetrable manner or state; imperviously. • IMPENETRABLE adv. incapable of being penetrated or pierced. |
| INTERCOMPANY | • intercompany adj. Between, or involving, different companies. • INTERCOMPANY adj. between companies. |
| MICROPAYMENT | • micropayment n. (Economics) A financial transaction for a very small amount of money. • MICROPAYMENT n. payment of a small or prorated sum for each access to a service, esp. on the Internet (as opposed to payment by subscription, etc.). |
| OVERPAYMENTS | • overpayments n. Plural of overpayment. • OVERPAYMENT n. an excessive payment. |
| PARENCHYMATA | • parenchymata n. Plural of parenchyma. • PARENCHYMA n. the ordinary soft thin-walled tissue of plants, not differentiated into conducting or mechanical tissue. |
| PYRANOMETERS | • pyranometers n. Plural of pyranometer. • PYRANOMETER n. another name for a solarimeter. |
| PYRITHIAMINE | • pyrithiamine n. A particular antibiotic that is an analogue of thiamine. • PYRITHIAMINE n. an antivitamin causing thiamine (vitamin B1) deficiency. |
| PYROMAGNETIC | • pyromagnetic adj. (Obsolete) that functions as a result of heat and magnetism. • PYROMAGNETIC adj. of or concerned with the relationship between heat and magnetism. |
| SPERMATOGENY | • spermatogeny n. The generation of spermatozoa. • SPERMATOGENY n. the formation of spermatozoa. |
| TRYPANOSOMES | • trypanosomes n. Plural of trypanosome. • TRYPANOSOME n. a parasite causing sleeping sickness. |
| UNDERPAYMENT | • underpayment n. An insufficient payment. • underpayment n. The act of making such a payment. • underpayment n. The amount by which a payment is insufficient. |