| CAPRIFICATION | • caprification n. A process for ripening, or pollinating, figs by means of their being punctured artificially, in a manner… • CAPRIFICATION n. a method of promoting the pollination of figs by hanging branches of caprifig flowers so that parasitic gall-wasps living on the female flowers can carry pollen to the wild fig. |
| FRONTISPIECED | • frontispieced v. Simple past tense and past participle of frontispiece. • FRONTISPIECE v. to provide with a frontispiece. |
| FRONTISPIECES | • frontispieces n. Plural of frontispiece. • FRONTISPIECE n. an illustration at the front of a book facing the title-page. |
| HYPERFUNCTION | • hyperfunction n. (Mathematics) A generalization of a function. • hyperfunction n. (Medicine) Abnormally elevated function. • HYPERFUNCTION n. the overactivity of a gland or other bodily organ. |
| IMPERFECTIONS | • imperfections n. Plural of imperfection. • IMPERFECTION n. the state of being imperfect. |
| PERFECTATIONS | • PERFECTATION n. making perfect. |
| PERFECTIONATE | • perfectionate v. (Transitive, now rare) To make perfect or complete; to perfect. • PERFECTIONATE v. to bring to perfection. |
| PERFECTIONISM | • perfectionism n. An unwillingness to settle for anything less than perfection. • perfectionism n. (Philosophy) A belief that spiritual perfection may be achieved during life, or that it should be striven for. • PERFECTIONISM n. the doctrine that moral perfection constitutes the highest value. |
| PERFECTIONIST | • perfectionist n. Someone who is unwilling to settle for anything that is not perfect or does not meet extremely high standards. • perfectionist n. (Philosophy, now rare) Someone who thinks that religious or moral perfection can be attained in this life. • perfectionist n. (US, historical) One of the Bible Communists or Free-lovers, a small American sect founded by J. H… |
| PERFUNCTORILY | • perfunctorily adv. In a perfunctory manner, without interest or concern for quality. • PERFUNCTORY adv. characterized by routine or superficiality, mechanical. |
| PETRIFACTIONS | • petrifactions n. Plural of petrifaction. • PETRIFACTION n. the process of petrifying. |
| PETRIFICATION | • petrification n. The process of replacing the organic residues of plants (and animals) with insoluble salts, the original… • petrification n. (Figurative) obduracy; callousness. • petrification n. Sheer terror; great fright. |
| PONTIFICATORS | • pontificators n. Plural of pontificator. • PONTIFICATOR n. one who pontificates, speaks in a pompous and dogmatic manner. |
| PORNIFICATION | • pornification n. Conversion to the style or level of pornography. • PORNIFICATION n. the introduction of pornographic elements into a film etc. |
| PROLIFICATION | • prolification n. (Dated) The generation of young. • prolification n. (Dated, botany) Reproduction by the growth of a plant, or part of a plant, directly from an older one, or by gemmae. • PROLIFICATION n. the production of young; development of a shoot by continued growth of a flower. |
| PURIFICATIONS | • purifications n. Plural of purification. • PURIFICATION n. the act or an instance of purifying or of being purified. |
| PUTREFACTIONS | • putrefactions n. Plural of putrefaction. • PUTREFACTION n. rotting. |
| PUTRIFICATION | • putrification n. Putrefaction. • PUTRIFICATION n. the act or state of putrefying. |
| UNPERFECTIONS | • unperfections n. Plural of unperfection. • UNPERFECTION n. (obsolete) imperfection. |