| DECEPTION | • deception n. An instance of actions and/or schemes fabricated to mislead someone into believing a lie or inaccuracy. • DECEPTION n. the act of deceiving. |
| DEPLETION | • depletion n. The act of depleting, or the state of being depleted; exhaustion. • depletion n. The consumption of a resource faster than it can be replenished. • depletion n. (Medicine, archaic) The act of relieving congestion or plethora, by purging, blood-letting, or reduction… |
| DIPLOTENE | • diplotene n. (Biology) The fourth stage of prophase of meiosis, during which homologous chromosome pairs begin to… • DIPLOTENE n. the fourth stage of the prophase of meiosis, in which the chromosomes clearly double. |
| DISPONDEE | • dispondee n. A double spondee; a metrical foot consisting of four long syllables. • DISPONDEE n. a double spondee; a foot consisting of four long syllables. |
| DISPONEES | • disponees n. Plural of disponee. • DISPONEE n. the person who receives a legal transfer. |
| DONEPEZIL | • donepezil n. (Pharmacology) A drug taken orally in the form of its hydrochloride C24H29NO3·HCl to treat dementia… • DONEPEZIL n. a drug used in the treatment of Alzheimer's disease. |
| IDEOPHONE | • ideophone n. A word that utilizes sound symbolism to express aspects of events that can be experienced by the senses… • IDEOPHONE n. a word that is spoken but not written. |
| OPENSIDES | • opensides n. Plural of openside. • open-sides n. Plural of open-side. • OPENSIDE n. a rugby player who plays on the open side of a scrum. |
| PEDOGENIC | • pedogenic adj. (Geology) Pertaining to processes that add, transfer, transform, or remove soil constituents. • PEDOGENIC adj. relating to pedogenesis, the process of soil generation. |
| PENSIONED | • pensioned v. Simple past tense and past participle of pension. • PENSION v. to grant a retirement allowance to. |
| PENTOSIDE | • pentoside n. (Organic chemistry) Any glycoside derived from a pentose. • PENTOSIDE n. a compound containing sugar. |
| PENTOXIDE | • pentoxide n. (Inorganic chemistry) any oxide containing five oxygen atoms in each molecule. • PENTOXIDE n. an oxide containing five atoms of oxygen in each molecule; as, phosphorus pentoxide. |
| PHENOXIDE | • phenoxide n. (Chemistry) any metallic salt of a phenol. • PHENOXIDE n. a salt of a phenol, esp. in its capacity as a weak acid. |
| PIONEERED | • pioneered v. Simple past tense and past participle of pioneer. • PIONEER v. to take part in the beginnings of. |
| REPOINTED | • repointed v. Simple past tense and past participle of repoint. • REPOINT v. to repair mortar. |
| TERPENOID | • terpenoid n. (Organic chemistry) A very large class of naturally occurring and synthetic organic compounds formally… • TERPENOID n. any one of a series of isomeric hydrocarbons of pleasant aromatic odor. |