| AEROPLANKTON | • aeroplankton n. The tiny lifeforms that float and drift in the air, carried by the current of the wind. • AEROPLANKTON n. minute organisms carried in the air. |
| ANCHORPERSON | • anchorperson n. The primary reporter on a television news broadcast. • ANCHORPERSON n. an anchorman or anchorwoman. |
| ANTHROPOGENY | • anthropogeny n. The study of human origins, human generation, or the origin and development of man. • ANTHROPOGENY n. the study of human generation or evolution. |
| CTENOPHORANS | • ctenophorans n. Plural of ctenophoran. • CTENOPHORAN n. a member of the Ctenophora, transparent, free-swimming marine organisms resembling jellyfishes, also CTENOPHORE. |
| ENANTIOMORPH | • enantiomorph n. A mirror image, a form related to another as an object is to its image in a mirror. • enantiomorph n. Either of a pair of crystals that are mirror images of each other, and are optically active. • enantiomorph n. (Chemistry) A similar molecule or compound; an enantiomer. |
| ENANTIOTROPY | • ENANTIOTROPY n. the existence in a substance of two crystal forms, one stable above, the other below, a transition temperature. |
| ENTOPLASTRON | • entoplastron n. (Anatomy) The median plate of the plastron of turtles. • ENTOPLASTRON n. the unpaired plate behind the epiplastra in a turtle's plastron. |
| FRANCOPHONES | • francophones n. Plural of francophone. • Francophones n. Plural of Francophone. • FRANCOPHONE n. a French speaker. |
| HARMONIPHONE | • harmoniphone n. A free-reed musical instrument played with a keyboard, in which the sounds are produced by reeds set… • HARMONIPHONE n. a keyboard wind instrument with reeds, also HARMONIPHON. |
| MELANOTROPIN | • melanotropin n. (Endocrinology, biochemistry) Synonym of melanocyte-stimulating hormone. • MELANOTROPIN n. a hormone secreted by the pituitary gland which stimulates the production of melanin by melanocytes. |
| MEROPLANKTON | • meroplankton n. (Biology) Any organism that spends part of its life-cycle (especially the larval stage) as plankton. • MEROPLANKTON n. plankton consisting of certain larvae that do not spend all their life as plankton. |
| NEOANTHROPIC | • NEOANTHROPIC adj. of, relating to, or resembling modern man. |
| NONCORPORATE | • noncorporate adj. Not corporate. • NONCORPORATE adj. not corporate. |
| NONOPERATING | • nonoperating adj. Not operating. • nonoperating adj. Not of or pertaining to operation. • non-operating adj. Alternative form of nonoperating. |
| NONOPERATIVE | • nonoperative adj. Not requiring or involving a medical operation or surgery. • nonoperative adj. Not operative, not operational; inoperative. • nonoperative n. (Uncommon) One who is not an operative (“employee or worker”). |
| PANTALOONERY | • pantaloonery n. (Dated) The character or performances of a pantaloon; buffoonery. • pantaloonery n. (Dated) Materials used to make pantaloons. • PANTALOONERY n. buffoonery. |
| PERNOCTATION | • pernoctation n. (Uncountable) The action of abiding through the night at a location; (countable) an instance of this;… • pernoctation n. (Uncountable) The action of walking about at night, especially as a vigil or watch; (countable) an instance of this. • pernoctation n. (Countable, religion, chiefly Christianity, obsolete) A religious watch kept during normal sleeping… |
| PERSONATIONS | • personations n. Plural of personation. • PERSONATION n. the act of personating. |
| PONDERATIONS | • ponderations n. Plural of ponderation. • PONDERATION n. weighing or weighing up. |