| ARTHRODIAE | • ARTHRODIA n. in zoology, a joint. |
| DEHYDRATOR | • dehydrator n. (Chemistry) A drying agent. • dehydrator n. A device that removes water from a material. • DEHYDRATOR n. a dehydrating agent, also DEHYDRATER. |
| DETHRONERS | • dethroners n. Plural of dethroner. • DETHRONER n. one who dethrones. |
| DISHERITOR | • disheritor n. (Law) One who puts another person out of an inheritance. • DISHERITOR n. one who puts another out of his inheritance. |
| DROUGHTIER | • droughtier adj. Comparative form of droughty: more droughty. • DROUGHTY adj. dry, also DROUTHY. |
| HYDROMETER | • hydrometer n. An instrument that floats in a liquid and measures its specific gravity on a scale. • HYDROMETER n. an instrument for measuring the specific gravity of liquids. |
| HYDROMETRY | • hydrometry n. (Physics) The branch of hydrostatics dealing with the measurement of specific gravity using hydrometers. • HYDROMETRY n. the art of determining the specific gravity of liquids, and thence the strength of spirituous liquors, saline solutions, etc. |
| ORTHOGRADE | • orthograde adj. Walking or standing with the body upright. • ORTHOGRADE adj. walking with the body upright. |
| OTHERWORLD | • otherworld n. A world beyond death; an afterlife. • otherworld n. A world other than the everyday world. • Otherworld n. (Paganism) The other realms of existence beyond the world of mankind, especially the realms of the dead… |
| POURTRAHED | • POURTRAY v. (Spenser) to portray, also PORTRAY. |
| PYRETHROID | • pyrethroid n. (Organic chemistry) Any of several synthetic insecticides having a structure based on pyrethrin. • PYRETHROID n. any of various synthetic compounds related to the pyrethrins, and sharing their insecticidal properties. |
| RHETORISED | • rhetorised v. Simple past tense and past participle of rhetorise. • RHETORISE v. (obsolete) to use rhetorical language. |
| RHETORIZED | • rhetorized v. Simple past tense and past participle of rhetorize. • RHETORIZE v. (obsolete) to use rhetorical language, also RHETORISE. |
| RUTHERFORD | • rutherford n. An obsolete unit of radioactivity (symbol: rd), defined as the activity of a quantity of radioactive… • Rutherford prop.n. A Scottish habitational surname from Old English from a place where there was once a settlement in the… • Rutherford prop.n. (Rare) A male given name transferred from the surname. |
| SHORTBREAD | • shortbread n. A type of biscuit (cookie), popular in Britain, traditionally made from one part sugar, two parts butter… • SHORTBREAD n. a brittle crumbling biscuit of flour, butter and sugar, also SHORTCAKE. |
| TETRACHORD | • tetrachord n. (Music) Any set of four different pitch classes. • tetrachord n. (Music) A series of four sounds, forming a scale of two-and-a-half tones. • TETRACHORD n. a series of four sounds, forming a scale of two tones and a half. |
| THERMIDORS | • Thermidors prop.n. Plural of Thermidor. • Thermidors n. Plural of Thermidor. • THERMIDOR n. a method of preparing lobsters, the flesh being mixed with a cream sauce seasoned with mustard, and served in the shell. |
| THREADWORM | • threadworm n. A parasitic roundworm, Strongyloides stercoralis, which causes strongyloidiasis. • threadworm n. (UK, Australia) The pinworm. • THREADWORM n. any long, slender nematode worm, esp. the pinworm and filaria. |
| TRIHEDRONS | • trihedrons n. Plural of trihedron. • TRIHEDRON n. a solid figure with three plane surfaces meeting at a point. |
| UNDERTHROW | • underthrow v. To throw a pass that falls short of the receiver. (May take either the thrown pass or the receiver as… |