| APPERTAINMENT | • appertainment n. (Obsolete) That which appertains or belongs to a person; an appurtenance; trappings. • APPERTAINMENT n. (Shakespeare) an appurtenance. |
| APPORTIONMENT | • apportionment n. The act of apportioning or the state of being apportioned. • apportionment n. (US) The distribution of members of the House of Representatives according to the population of the various states. • apportionment n. (US) The allocation of direct taxation according to the population of the various states. |
| APPRAISEMENTS | • appraisements n. Plural of appraisement. • APPRAISEMENT n. the act of appraising. |
| IMPARIPINNATE | • imparipinnate adj. (Botany) pinnate with a single leaflet at the apex. • IMPARIPINNATE adj. pinnate with the rachis terminated by a single leaflet or tendril. |
| MISAPPREHENDS | • misapprehends v. Third-person singular simple present indicative form of misapprehend. • MISAPPREHEND v. to apprehend wrongly. |
| MOUSETRAPPING | • mousetrapping v. Present participle of mousetrap. • MOUSETRAPPING n. a range of techniques employed to stop users leaving a website. |
| NEWSPAPERISMS | • NEWSPAPERISM n. the system of having newspapers. |
| PANSPERMATISM | • panspermatism n. (Historical) The obsolete theory that germs are omnipresent. • PANSPERMATISM n. the theory that life could be diffused through the universe by means of germs carried by meteorites, also PANSPERMIA, PANSPERMISM, PANSPERMY. |
| PANSPERMATIST | • panspermatist n. Alternative form of panspermist. • PANSPERMATIST n. a believer in panspermia. |
| PARALEIPOMENA | • PARALEIPOMENON n. a thing added as a supplement to a main text, also PARALIPOMENON. |
| PARALIPOMENON | • paralipomenon n. (Biblical) Either of the Books of Chronicles in the Old Testament. • paralipomenon n. (Usually in the plural) An omission, especially one of a book, added later as a supplement. • PARALIPOMENON n. a thing added as a supplement to a main text, also PARALEIPOMENON. |
| PARAMORPHINES | • PARAMORPHINE n. a poisonous white crystalline alkaloid, extracted from opium and used in medicine, aka thebaine. |
| PERIMENOPAUSE | • perimenopause n. The physiological stage that women approaching menopause go through when, due to hormonal changes, they… • PERIMENOPAUSE n. the period around the onset of menopause that is often marked by various physical signs (as hot flashes and menstrual irregularity). |
| PREPROGRAMING | • preprograming v. Present participle of preprogram. • PREPROGRAM v. to program beforehand. |
| REAPPOINTMENT | • reappointment n. An act of reappointing. • reäppointment n. Obsolete spelling of reappointment. • REAPPOINTMENT n. the act of reappointing. |