| ADOPTIONISM | • adoptionism n. (Christianity) A form of Christianity which maintains that Jesus is divine only in the sense that God… • ADOPTIONISM n. the doctrine that Christ, as man, is the adopted son of God, also ADOPTIANISM. |
| ADOPTIONIST | • adoptionist n. (Christianity) One who believes in or supports adoptionism. • adoptionist n. (Uncommon) One who supports adoption. • adoptionist adj. Of or pertaining to adoptionism. |
| CHIROPODIST | • chiropodist n. A practitioner of chiropody. • CHIROPODIST n. one who treats ailments of the feet. |
| DEPOSITIONS | • depositions n. Plural of deposition. • DEPOSITION n. the act of depositing. |
| DEXIOTROPIC | • dexiotropic adj. Having the form of a right-handed spiral. • DEXIOTROPIC adj. coiled in a rightward direction, as of a right-spiralling snail shell. |
| DIPLOBIONTS | • diplobionts n. Plural of diplobiont. • DIPLOBIONT n. an organism that has both haploid and diploid individuals in its life cycle. |
| DISPOSITION | • disposition n. The way in which something or someone is disposed or disposed of (in any sense of those terms); thus… • disposition v. To remove or place in a different position. • DISPOSITION n. a person's usual temperament or frame of mind. |
| DISPOSITORS | • dispositors n. Plural of dispositor. • DISPOSITOR n. in astrology, a planet that disposes or controls another. |
| DUOPOLISTIC | • duopolistic adj. Characteristic of a duopoly. • DUOPOLISTIC adj. relating to duopoly. |
| EPITROCHOID | • epitrochoid n. A geometric curve traced by a fixed point on one circle which rotates around the perimeter of another… • EPITROCHOID n. a curve like an epicycloid but generated by any point on a radius. |
| EPOXIDATION | • epoxidation n. (Organic chemistry) Any reaction that converts a compound (especially an alkene) into an epoxide. • EPOXIDATION n. a conversion of a usually unsaturated compound into an epoxide. |
| OPINIONATED | • opinionated v. Simple past tense and past participle of opinionate. • opinionated adj. Having very strong opinions. • opinionated adj. Holding to one’s own opinion obstinately and unreasonably. |
| PERIODONTIA | • PERIODONTIA n. the branch of dentistry concerned with periodontal diseases. |
| PERIODONTIC | • periodontic adj. Synonym of periodontal. • PERIODONTIC adj. relating to periodontia, the branch of dentistry concerned with periodontal diseases. |
| PROTEINOIDS | • proteinoids n. Plural of proteinoid. |