| DEPARTING | • departing v. Present participle of depart. • departing adj. That is leaving. • departing adj. While leaving. |
| DEPORTING | • deporting v. Present participle of deport. • DEPORT v. to expel from a country. |
| DRAGSTRIP | • dragstrip n. A paved straight racetrack used for automotive drag racing. • dragstrip n. (Figuratively, by extension) Any place for high-speed competitive activity. • drag␣strip n. Alternative form of dragstrip. |
| DROPLIGHT | • droplight n. Alternative spelling of drop light. • drop␣light n. A lamp that is suspended, for example via a cable. • drop␣light n. (Railways) A window in a train carriage that is opened by pushing it downward into the door. |
| GASTROPOD | • gastropod n. Any member of a class of mollusks (Gastropoda) that includes snails and slugs; univalve mollusk. • GASTROPOD n. a class of asymmetrical molluscs, including limpets, whelks, snails and slugs, also GASTEROPOD. |
| GODPARENT | • godparent n. A person who, at a child’s naming ceremony or baptism, agrees to help raise the child, originally and… • GODPARENT n. a person who, at baptism, guarantees a child's religious education. |
| PARGETTED | • pargetted v. Simple past tense and past participle of parget. • PARGET v. to cover with plaster, also PARGE. |
| PARTRIDGE | • partridge n. (Ornithology) Any bird of a number of genera in the family Phasianidae, notably in the genera Perdix and Alectoris. • partridge n. (Obsolete, military) A type of cannon charge composed of several missiles fired all together, similar… • Partridge prop.n. A surname. |
| POSTGRADS | • postgrads n. Plural of postgrad. • POSTGRAD n. a student continuing formal education after graduation. |
| PREBUDGET | • prebudget adj. Prior to, or in preparation for, the release of a budget. • PREBUDGET n. a preliminary budget. |
| PREDATING | • predating v. Present participle of predate. • pre-dating v. Present participle of pre-date. • PREDATE v. to date before the true date. |
| PREDIGEST | • predigest v. To digest food in advance of eating it. • predigest v. (By extension) To preprocess in order to deliver the most important parts in a simplified form. • PREDIGEST v. to digest in advance. |
| PTERYGOID | • pterygoid adj. (Anatomy) Of, pertaining to or lying in the region of the inferior part of the sphenoid bone of the vertebrate skull. • pterygoid n. (Anatomy) A pterygoid part (such as a bone, muscle, or nerve). • PTERYGOID adj. winglike. |
| RIDGETOPS | • ridgetops n. Plural of ridgetop. • RIDGETOP n. the crest of a ridge. |
| SPRIGHTED | • sprighted v. Simple past tense and past participle of spright. • SPRIGHT v. (Shakespeare) to haunt. |
| UPDARTING | • updarting v. Present participle of updart. • UPDART v. to dart up. |
| UPDRAUGHT | • updraught n. (Britain) Alternative spelling of updraft. • UPDRAUGHT n. an upwards movement of air, also UPDRAFT. |
| UPRIGHTED | • uprighted v. Simple past tense and past participle of upright. • UPRIGHT v. to raise or restore to an upright position. |