| AHISTORICISMS | • ahistoricisms n. Plural of ahistoricism. |
| CIRCUMCISIONS | • circumcisions n. Plural of circumcision. • CIRCUMCISION n. the act of circumcising. |
| DESCRIPTIVISM | • descriptivism n. (Linguistics) The practice of describing realistic forms, as opposed to prescribing idealistic norms… • DESCRIPTIVISM n. a theory of ethics by which only empirical statements are acceptable. |
| DISCRIMINANTS | • discriminants n. Plural of discriminant. • DISCRIMINANT n. a mathematical expression providing a criterion for the behavior of another more complicated expression. |
| DISCRIMINATES | • discriminates v. Third-person singular simple present indicative form of discriminate. • DISCRIMINATE v. to mark or perceive the distinguishing or peculiar features of. |
| HISTRIONICISM | • histrionicism n. The histrionic art; stageplaying. • HISTRIONICISM n. acting, theatricality, also HISTRIONISM. |
| INCENDIARISMS | • incendiarisms n. Plural of incendiarism. • INCENDIARISM n. the malicious burning of property. |
| MISDESCRIBING | • misdescribing v. Present participle of misdescribe. • MISDESCRIBE v. to describe wrongly. |
| MISDIRECTIONS | • misdirections n. Plural of misdirection. • MISDIRECTION n. a wrong direction. |
| PATRISTICISMS | • PATRISTICISM n. the mode of thought, etc., of the fathers of the Christian church. |
| PICTORIALISMS | • pictorialisms n. Plural of pictorialism. • PICTORIALISM n. the use or creation of pictures or visual images. |
| PRECISIANISMS | • precisianisms n. Plural of precisianism. • PRECISIANISM n. over-preciseness, formalism, also PRECISIONISM. |
| PRECISIONISMS | • PRECISIONISM n. over-preciseness, formalism, also PRECISIANISM. |
| PROMISCUITIES | • promiscuities n. Plural of promiscuity. • PROMISCUITY n. miscellaneous mingling or selection of persons or things. |
| SEMIPARASITIC | • semiparasitic adj. (Botany) Describing a plant that, although it uses photosynthesis, obtains some nutrition from other plants. • semiparasitic adj. (Biology) Having moderate infectiousness for living tissue. • SEMIPARASITIC adj. of, relating to, or being a parasitic plant that contains some chlorophyll and is capable of photosynthesis. |
| VISCOSIMETRIC | • viscosimetric adj. Alternative form of viscometric. • VISCOSIMETRIC adj. relating to measurement by viscosimeter, an instrument for measuring viscosity, also VISCOSIMETRICAL. |