| ASSYTHMENT | • assythment n. (Scotland, law, historical) Compensation or reparation for a criminal offence. • ASSYTHMENT n. in Scots law, indemnification for injury; satisfaction. |
| CHEMOSTATS | • chemostats n. Plural of chemostat. • CHEMOSTAT n. an apparatus for growing cultures of bacteria etc. |
| EMPATHISTS | • empathists n. Plural of empathist. • Empathists n. Plural of Empathist. • EMPATHIST n. one who empathises. |
| HAEMOSTATS | • haemostats n. Plural of haemostat. • HAEMOSTAT n. an instrument for stopping bleeding, also HEMOSTAT. |
| HERMETISTS | • hermetists n. Plural of hermetist. • HERMETIST n. an adherent of hermetism, a system of ideas based on hermetic teachings. |
| METATHESES | • metatheses n. Plural of metathesis. • METATHESIS n. the transposition within a word of letters, sounds, or syllables, as in the change from Old English brid to modern English bird or in the confusion of modren for modern. |
| METATHESIS | • metathesis n. (Phonetics, prosody) The transposition of letters, syllables or sounds within a word, such as in ask as /æks/. • metathesis n. (Inorganic chemistry) The double decomposition of inorganic salts. • metathesis n. (Organic chemistry) The breaking and reforming of double bonds in olefins in which substituent groups are swapped. |
| METHODISTS | • methodists n. Plural of methodist. • Methodists n. Plural of Methodist. • METHODIST n. a follower of Methodism. |
| SCHEMATIST | • schematist n. One given to forming schemes. • SCHEMATIST n. one given to forming schemes. |
| SCHMUTTERS | • schmutters n. Plural of schmutter. • SCHMUTTER n. (Yiddish) clothing, rags, also SCHMATTE, SHMATTE. |
| SMUTCHIEST | • SMUTCHY adj. smutched. |
| SYNTHETISM | • synthetism n. (Art) A style of postimpressionism that aims to synthesize varioous elements: the outward appearance… • synthetism n. (Medicine, obsolete) The complete treatment of a fracture, restoring the parts to their proper place… • SYNTHETISM n. the symbolism of Gauguin and the Nabis, who reacted against the impressionists and realists by seeking to produce brightly coloured abstractions of their inner experience. |
| THEMATISES | • thematises v. Third-person singular simple present indicative form of thematise. • THEMATISE v. to place (a word or phrase) at the start of a sentence in order to focus attention on it, also THEMATIZE. |
| THERMOSETS | • thermosets n. Plural of thermoset. • THERMOSET v. of resin or plastic, to set permanently after melting and moulding. |
| TIMESHIFTS | • timeshifts n. Plural of timeshift. • TIMESHIFT v. to enable (a television programme) to be viewed at a time later than that of its original broadcast. |
| TRITHEISMS | • tritheisms n. Plural of tritheism. • TRITHEISM n. the belief that the members of the Trinity are separate gods. |
| TUNESMITHS | • tunesmiths n. Plural of tunesmith. • TUNESMITH n. a songwriter or composer of light music. |