| BLOODSPRENT | • BLOODSPRENT adj. (archaic) sprinkled with blood. |
| COMPTROLLED | • comptrolled v. Simple past tense and past participle of comptrol. • COMPTROLL v. (obsolete) to control, esp. in a financial sense, also CONTROL, CONTROUL, COUNTROL. |
| DEPLORATION | • deploration n. The act of deploring or lamenting; lamentation. • DEPLORATION n. the act of deploring. |
| DEPOPULATOR | • depopulator n. A person who depopulates an area, especially one who forcibly removes people from an estate. • DEPOPULATOR n. one who depopulates. |
| HETEROPLOID | • heteroploid adj. (Biology) Having a chromosome number that is neither the haploid nor the diploid number normal in the species. • heteroploid n. (Biology) An organism having a chromosome number that is neither the haploid nor the diploid number… • HETEROPLOID n. an organism having a chromosome number that is not an integral multiple of the haploid. |
| INTERLOOPED | • INTERLOOP v. to loop together. |
| OVERPLOTTED | • overplotted adj. (Drama) Having an excessively elaborate plot. • OVERPLOT v. to devise an overly complex plot for. |
| PERIODONTAL | • periodontal adj. Surrounding a tooth. • periodontal adj. Relating to the periodontium. • periodontal adj. Relating to periodontics. |
| PETRODOLLAR | • petrodollar n. (Oil industry, chiefly in the plural, also attributively) Money (either notionally or specifically in… • PETRODOLLAR n. a dollar's worth of foreign exchange obtained by a petroleum exporting country through sales abroad. |
| PLEURODONTS | • pleurodonts n. Plural of pleurodont. • PLEURODONT n. a pleurodont animal, such as a reptile. |
| POSTHOLDERS | • postholders n. Plural of postholder. • POSTHOLDER n. one who holds a post. |
| PREDOCTORAL | • predoctoral adj. (Education) Prior to receiving a doctorate. • PREDOCTORAL adj. of, relating to, or engaged in academic study leading to the doctoral degree. |
| PROCTODAEAL | • proctodaeal adj. Alternative form of proctodeal. • PROCTODAEAL adj. relating to the proctodaeum, the posterior portion of the alimentary canal, esp. in insects and embryos, also PROCTODEAL. |
| PROLONGATED | • prolongated adj. Prolonged. • PROLONGATE v. to prolong. |
| PROTEOLYSED | • proteolysed adj. Subject to, or obtained via proteolysis. • proteolysed v. Simple past tense and past participle of proteolyse. • PROTEOLYSE v. to split proteins by proteolysis. |
| PROTOCOLLED | • protocolled v. Simple past tense and past participle of protocol. • PROTOCOL v. to draw up a protocol. |
| PTERIDOLOGY | • pteridology n. (Botany) The scientific study of ferns and other pteridophytes. • PTERIDOLOGY n. the study of ferns. |