| COMPASSIONATED | • compassionated v. Simple past tense and past participle of compassionate. • COMPASSIONATE v. to show compassion. |
| DECOMPOSITIONS | • decompositions n. Plural of decomposition. • DECOMPOSITION n. the breakdown of dead organic material by detritivores or saprophytes. |
| DECOMPRESSIONS | • decompressions n. Plural of decompression. • DECOMPRESSION n. the act of decompressing. |
| DIAGEOTROPISMS | • DIAGEOTROPISM n. the tendency of roots to orient perpendicular to gravity. |
| DIPLOSTEMONOUS | • diplostemonous adj. (Botany) Having twice as many stamens as petals in two whorls, the inner aligned with the petals. • diplostemonous adj. (Botany, uncommon) Having twice as many stamens as petals. • DIPLOSTEMONOUS adj. having two whorls of stamens, the outer alternating with the petals, the inner with the outer. |
| DISCOMPOSINGLY | • discomposingly adv. So as to discompose. • DISCOMPOSING adv. DISCOMPOSE, to disarrange; to disturb. |
| DODECAPHONISMS | • DODECAPHONISM n. twelve-tone music, also DODECAPHONY. |
| ISODIMORPHISMS | • ISODIMORPHISM n. isomorphism between each of the two forms of a dimorphous substance and the corresponding forms of another dimorphous substance. |
| MODERATORSHIPS | • moderatorships n. Plural of moderatorship. • MODERATORSHIP n. the office of moderator. |
| PAEDOMORPHISMS | • PAEDOMORPHISM n. retention in the adult of infantile or juvenile characters, also PAEDOMORPHOSIS. |
| PAEDOMORPHOSIS | • paedomorphosis n. Alternative form of pedomorphosis. • PAEDOMORPHOSIS n. retention in the adult of infantile or juvenile characters, also PAEDOMORPHISM. |
| POLYDAEMONISMS | • POLYDAEMONISM n. the belief in and worship of numerous supernatural powers, also POLYDEMONISM. |
| POSTMODERNISMS | • postmodernisms n. Plural of postmodernism. • POSTMODERNISM n. a movement succeeding modernism. |
| POSTMODERNISTS | • postmodernists n. Plural of postmodernist. • POSTMODERNIST n. a follower of postmodernism. |
| PSEUDOMORPHISM | • pseudomorphism n. (Crystallography) The state of having, or the property of taking, a crystalline form unlike that of the species. • PSEUDOMORPHISM n. the state of being pseudomorphic. |
| SCOLOPENDRIUMS | • SCOLOPENDRIUM n. any fern with undivided leaves of the genus Scolopendrium, including hart's tongue. |
| SIGMOIDOSCOPES | • sigmoidoscopes n. Plural of sigmoidoscope. • SIGMOIDOSCOPE n. an instrument for examining the interior of the rectum and sigmoid colon. |
| SIGMOIDOSCOPIC | • sigmoidoscopic adj. (Medicine) Relating to the type of examination of the colon. • SIGMOIDOSCOPIC adj. pertaining to a sigmoidoscope, an instrument for examining the interior of the rectum and sigmoid colon. |