| DECOMPRESSION | • decompression n. The process of decompressing. • decompression n. The restoration to atmospheric pressure of a person who has spent time under higher pressure (such as a diver). • decompression n. A mode of operation of some internal combustion engines which reduces the engine’s compression ratio… |
| DECOMPRESSORS | • decompressors n. Plural of decompressor. • DECOMPRESSOR n. a device for decompressing. |
| DEPRESSOMOTOR | • depressomotor adj. (Medicine) Depressing or diminishing the capacity for movement. • depressomotor n. (Medicine) Any agent that depresses the activity of the motor centres. • DEPRESSOMOTOR n. a drug with the effect of retarding motor activity. |
| DISCOMPOSEDLY | • discomposedly adv. In a discomposed manner. • DISCOMPOSED adv. DISCOMPOSE, to disarrange; to disturb. |
| DISCOMPOSURES | • discomposures n. Plural of discomposure. • DISCOMPOSURE n. lack of composure. |
| ENDOMORPHISMS | • endomorphisms n. Plural of endomorphism. • ENDOMORPHISM n. metamorphism of cooling igneous rock; mapping a set into itself. |
| MISPOSITIONED | • mispositioned adj. Wrongly positioned. • MISPOSITION v. to position wrongly. |
| OMBUDSPERSONS | • ombudspersons n. Plural of ombudsperson. |
| POLYDEMONISMS | • POLYDEMONISM n. the belief in and worship of numerous supernatural powers, also POLYDAEMONISM. |
| POSTMODERNISM | • postmodernism n. Any style in art, architecture, literature, philosophy, etc., that reacts against an earlier modernist movement. • postmodernism n. An attitude of skepticism or irony toward modernist ideologies, often questioning the assumptions of… • POSTMODERNISM n. a movement succeeding modernism. |
| POSTMODERNIST | • postmodernist adj. Postmodern. • postmodernist n. An advocate or follower of postmodernism. • POSTMODERNIST n. a follower of postmodernism. |
| PSEUDOCOELOMS | • pseudocoeloms n. Plural of pseudocoelom. |
| PSEUDOMONADES | • pseudomonades n. Plural of pseudomonas. • PSEUDOMONAD n. a virgate plant and animal pathogen. |
| SIGMOIDOSCOPE | • sigmoidoscope n. (Medicine) An instrument used for examining the sigmoid colon. • SIGMOIDOSCOPE n. an instrument for examining the interior of the rectum and sigmoid colon. |
| SPERMATOZOIDS | • spermatozoids n. Plural of spermatozoid. • SPERMATOZOID n. a motile male gamete of a plant usually produced in an antheridium. |