| DEPOSITATIONS | • depositations n. Plural of depositation. • DEPOSITATION n. in Scots law, a bailment where one entrusts goods to another to be kept without recompense. |
| DEPUTISATIONS | • DEPUTISATION n. the act of deputising, also DEPUTIZATION. |
| DESCRIPTIVIST | • descriptivist adj. Subscribing to, or related to, descriptivism. • descriptivist n. (Linguistics) Someone who records and describes actual rules regarding language usage, or who believes… • DESCRIPTIVIST adj. relating to descriptivism, a theory of ethics by which only empirical statements are acceptable. |
| DISCEPTATIONS | • disceptations n. Plural of disceptation. • DISCEPTATION n. (archaic) the act of discepting. |
| DISCEPTATIOUS | • DISCEPTATIOUS adj. (obsolete) relating to being discepted. |
| DISPIRITMENTS | • dispiritments n. Plural of dispiritment. • DISPIRITMENT n. a state of being dispirited. |
| ORTHOPAEDISTS | • orthopaedists n. Plural of orthopaedist. • ORTHOPAEDIST n. a specialist in orthopaedy, also ORTHOPEDIST. |
| PAEDOBAPTISTS | • paedobaptists n. Plural of paedobaptist. • pædobaptists n. Plural of pædobaptist. • PAEDOBAPTIST n. a believer in paedobaptism. |
| PAROTIDITISES | • PAROTIDITIS n. inflammation of the parotid gland, as in mumps, also PAROTITIS. |
| PERIODONTISTS | • periodontists n. Plural of periodontist. • PERIODONTIST n. a dentist specialising in periodontics. |
| PERIOSTITIDES | • periostitides n. Plural of periostitis. • PERIOSTITIS n. inflammation of the periosteum. |
| POSTMODERNIST | • postmodernist adj. Postmodern. • postmodernist n. An advocate or follower of postmodernism. • POSTMODERNIST n. a follower of postmodernism. |
| POSTTENSIONED | • posttensioned v. Simple past tense and past participle of posttension. • post-tensioned v. Simple past tense and past participle of post-tension. • POSTTENSION v. to apply tension to (reinforcing steel) after concrete has set. |
| PREDESTINATES | • predestinates v. Third-person singular simple present indicative form of predestinate. • PREDESTINATE v. to determine beforehand. |
| SERENDIPITIST | • serendipitist n. A person who benefits from serendipity. • SERENDIPITIST n. a person who believes in serendipity; a person who has this faculty. |
| SIDESPLITTING | • sidesplitting adj. Exceptionally funny; hilarious. • sidesplitting adj. (Of laughter) Intensely uncontrollable and genuine. • side-splitting adj. Alternative form of sidesplitting. |
| SOPHISTICATED | • sophisticated adj. Of a person: having obtained worldly experience, and lacking naiveté; cosmopolitan, worldly-wise. • sophisticated adj. Of art or other things: appealing to the tastes of an intellectual or sophisticated (sense 1) person;… • sophisticated adj. Complicated, especially of complex technology. |
| SYMPTOMATISED | • SYMPTOMATISE v. to be a symptom of, also SYMPTOMATIZE. |