| COMPOSER | • composer n. One who composes; an author. • composer n. One who, or that which, quiets or calms. • COMPOSER n. one who writes music. |
| HOMEPORT | • homeport n. The port where a vessel is based (not necessarily the one where it is registered). • homeport v. To assign a vessel a port to act as its home. • home␣port n. (Nautical) Alternative spelling of homeport. |
| MOREPORK | • morepork n. (Chiefly New Zealand) The Tasmanian spotted owl (Ninox novaeseelandiae), a small brown owl indigenous… • morepork n. (Australia, New Zealand, colloquial, derogatory) Used as a mild term of abuse. • morepork interj. The call of a morepork. |
| NEOMORPH | • neomorph n. (Genetics) A gain of function mutation that causes novel gene function. • NEOMORPH n. a structure, part, or organ developed independently, that is, not derived from a similar structure, part, or organ, in a preexisting form. |
| OOSPERMS | • oosperms n. Plural of oosperm. • OOSPERM n. a fertilized egg. |
| PODOMERE | • podomere n. A segment of a limb of an arthropod. • PODOMERE n. a limb segment of an arthropod, also PODITE. |
| POGROMED | • pogromed v. Simple past tense and past participle of pogrom. • POGROM v. (Russian) to massacre systematically. |
| POMEROYS | • Pomeroys prop.n. Plural of Pomeroy. • POMEROY n. an old variety of apple, also POMROY. |
| PREDOOMS | • predooms v. Third-person singular simple present indicative form of predoom. • PREDOOM v. to sentence in advance. |
| PREMOTOR | • premotor adj. (Anatomy) Near the front of the motor cortex; see premotor cortex. • premotor adj. (Physiology) Describing the interval between the arrival of a stimulus and the first changes in a muscle. • PREMOTOR adj. pertaining to a part of the frontal lobe of the brain. |
| PRODROME | • prodrome n. (Rare) A precursor or harbinger; also a warning event. • prodrome n. An introductory or preliminary book or treatise. • prodrome n. (Medicine) An early sign or symptom (or set of signs and symptoms) warning of the onset of a disease. |
| PROMOTED | • promoted v. Simple past tense and past participle of promote. • PROMOTE v. to help forward. |
| PROMOTER | • promoter n. One who promotes. • promoter n. (Genetics) The section of DNA that controls the initiation of RNA transcription as a product of a gene. • promoter n. An accelerator of catalysis that is not itself a catalyst. |
| PROMOTES | • promotes v. Third-person singular simple present indicative form of promote. • PROMOTE v. to help forward. |
| PROTEOME | • proteome n. (Biochemistry, genetics) The complete set of proteins encoded by a particular genome. • PROTEOME n. the complement of proteins expressed by a genome. |
| PYROSOME | • pyrosome n. Any of several pelagic colonial tunicates, of the genus Pyrosoma, found in tropical waters. • PYROSOME n. a type of thermostat. |
| ZOOSPERM | • zoosperm n. (Biology) One of the spermatic particles; spermatozoid, spermatozoon. • zoösperm n. Alternative spelling of zoosperm. • ZOOSPERM n. one of the spermatic particles; a spermatozoid, also ZOOSPERMIUM. |