| BLOODLETTING | • bloodletting n. (Historical, medicine) The archaic practice of treating illness by removing some blood, believed to… • bloodletting n. (By extension) The diminishment of any resource with the hope that this will lead to a positive effect. • bloodletting n. A circumstance, such as a battle, where a large amount of blood is likely to be spilled through violence. |
| CONDITIONATE | • conditionate adj. (Obsolete) Subject to conditions. • conditionate n. A contingency. • conditionate v. To make, or to regulate by means of conditions. |
| CONTORTIONED | • CONTORTIONED adj. in a contorted state. |
| DEHORTATIONS | • dehortations n. Plural of dehortation. • DEHORTATION n. advice against something, dissuasion. |
| DEMOTIVATION | • demotivation n. A feeling or state of being demotivated. • DEMOTIVATION n. the act of demotivating. |
| DEONTOLOGIST | • deontologist n. (Ethics) A philosopher or other thinker who advocates or employs a deontological approach to ethics. • DEONTOLOGIST n. a student of deontology. |
| DEPORTATIONS | • deportations n. Plural of deportation. • DEPORTATION n. an act or instance of deporting. |
| DEPOSITATION | • depositation n. The act of depositing, or material that is deposited. • DEPOSITATION n. in Scots law, a bailment where one entrusts goods to another to be kept without recompense. |
| DETOXICATION | • detoxication n. (Biochemistry) Any metabolic process by which the toxicity of a material is reduced. • detoxication n. (Medicine) Any treatment of a patient suffering from poisoning that promotes physiological process to… • DETOXICATION n. the act of detoxicating. |
| DEVOTIONISTS | • devotionists n. Plural of devotionist. • DEVOTIONIST n. one who practises devotion. |
| ENDODONTISTS | • endodontists n. Plural of endodontist. • ENDODONTIST n. a practitioner of endodontics. |
| NONCOMMITTED | • noncommitted adj. Not committed. • NONCOMMITTED adj. not committed. |
| OROTUNDITIES | • orotundities n. Plural of orotundity. • OROTUNDITY n. the orotund mode of intonation, also OROROTUNDITY. |
| PERIODONTIST | • periodontist n. A dentist whose speciality is periodontics. • PERIODONTIST n. a dentist specialising in periodontics. |
| RETRODICTION | • retrodiction n. A form of "prediction" that deals with the past rather than the future, sometimes useful in testing… • RETRODICTION n. the utilization of present information or ideas to infer or explain (a past event or state of affairs). |
| TETRODOTOXIN | • tetrodotoxin n. (Neurotoxicology) A neurotoxin, originally discovered in Tetraodontiformes, and found in pufferfish… • TETRODOTOXIN n. a deadly nerve poison found in a species of Japanese puffer fish, also TETROTOXIN. |