| CONTORTEDNESS | • contortedness n. The quality of being contorted. • CONTORTEDNESS n. the state of being contorted. |
| COTRANSPORTED | • cotransported v. Simple past tense and past participle of cotransport. • COTRANSPORT v. to transport jointly. |
| DECONSTRUCTOR | • deconstructor n. One who, or that which, deconstructs. • DECONSTRUCTOR n. one who deconstructs. |
| DECORTICATION | • decortication n. The removal of the surface layer, membrane, or fibrous cover of anything. • DECORTICATION n. the act of removing the outer coverings (as bark or husks) from something (as fiber or seed). |
| DEFORESTATION | • deforestation n. The process of destroying a forest and replacing it with something else, especially with an agricultural system. • deforestation n. (Computing theory) A transformation to eliminate intermediate data structures within a program. • DEFORESTATION n. the act of clearing forests. |
| DEMONSTRATION | • demonstration n. The act of demonstrating; showing or explaining something. • demonstration n. An event at which something will be demonstrated. • demonstration n. Expression of one’s feelings by outward signs. |
| DEMONSTRATORS | • demonstrators n. Plural of demonstrator. • DEMONSTRATOR n. one that demonstrates. |
| DEMONSTRATORY | • demonstratory adj. Serving to demonstrate something. • DEMONSTRATORY adj. serving to demonstrate. |
| DETERIORATION | • deterioration n. The process of making or growing worse, or the state of having grown worse. • DETERIORATION n. the act of deteriorating. |
| MONOSATURATED | • monosaturated adj. (Organic chemistry, of a glyceride) Having one saturated fatty acid. • MONOSATURATED adj. of or relating to fats that are liquid at room temperature, mostly deriving from nuts, avocados etc. |
| ODONTORNITHES | • ODONTORNITHES n. fossil birds with teeth. |
| PERIODONTISTS | • periodontists n. Plural of periodontist. • PERIODONTIST n. a dentist specialising in periodontics. |
| PERIODONTITIS | • periodontitis n. (Periodontology) A serious form or stage of periodontal disease which may lead to loss of bone and falling… • PERIODONTITIS n. inflammation of the tissues surrounding the teeth. |
| POSTMODERNIST | • postmodernist adj. Postmodern. • postmodernist n. An advocate or follower of postmodernism. • POSTMODERNIST n. a follower of postmodernism. |
| POSTMODERNITY | • postmodernity n. The state or condition of being postmodern. • postmodernity n. Something postmodern. |
| PROGLOTTIDEAN | • PROGLOTTIDEAN adj. of or like a proglottis, a segment of a tapeworm. |
| RETRODICTIONS | • retrodictions n. Plural of retrodiction. • RETRODICTION n. the utilization of present information or ideas to infer or explain (a past event or state of affairs). |
| STERNOMASTOID | • sternomastoid adj. (Anatomy) Of or pertaining to the sternum and the mastoid process. |
| TETRODOTOXINS | • tetrodotoxins n. Plural of tetrodotoxin. • TETRODOTOXIN n. a deadly nerve poison found in a species of Japanese puffer fish, also TETROTOXIN. |