| CHAMPERTOUS | • champertous adj. Having the quality of champerty; being an instance of champerty. • CHAMPERTOUS adj. relating to champerty, an illegal contract to finance a lawsuit for a percentage fee. |
| ERIOPHORUMS | • ERIOPHORUM n. a plant of the cotton-grass genus. |
| EUPHORBIUMS | • EUPHORBIUM n. the resinous gum of certain succulent plants of the genus Euphorbia, formerly used as an emetic and purgative. |
| HEMIPTEROUS | • hemipterous adj. Of or pertaining to the Hemiptera order; hemipteran. • HEMIPTEROUS adj. of, pertaining to, or characteristic of the Hemiptera, an order of insects including the bugs. |
| HEMITROPOUS | • hemitropous adj. Turned half round; half inverted. • hemitropous adj. (Botany, of an ovule) Having the raphe terminating about halfway between the chalaza and the orifice; amphitropous. • HEMITROPOUS adj. of a crystal, having a twinned structure, also HEMITROPAL, HEMITROPE, HEMITROPIC. |
| HEPTAMEROUS | • heptamerous adj. (Botany) Comprising seven parts or members, as with seven petals on a flower. • HEPTAMEROUS adj. having seven divisions; having the parts of flower in sevens. |
| HOMOPTEROUS | • homopterous adj. (Zoology) Of or pertaining to the Homoptera, a former suborder of insects. • HOMOPTEROUS adj. relating to the Homoptera, aphids, cicadas, and scale insects. |
| HYPERGAMOUS | • hypergamous adj. Of or pertaining to hypergamy. • HYPERGAMOUS adj. relating to hypergamy, the marriage of a man to a woman of lower status. |
| PNEUMOGRAPH | • pneumograph n. Alternative form of pneumatograph. • PNEUMOGRAPH n. an instrument for measuring and recording respiration. |
| POORMOUTHED | • poormouthed v. Simple past tense and past participle of poormouth. • POORMOUTH v. to complain about being poor. |
| PROMETHEUMS | • PROMETHEUM n. the former name of promethium, a radioactive element, also PROMETHIUM. |
| PROMETHIUMS | • PROMETHIUM n. a radioactive rare-earth element, also PROMETHEUM. |
| PSEUDOMORPH | • pseudomorph n. A deceptive, irregular, or false form; specifically… • pseudomorph v. To be transformed into such a form. • PSEUDOMORPH n. a false or abnormal physical form. |
| SHOWJUMPERS | • showjumpers n. Plural of showjumper. • show␣jumpers n. Plural of show jumper. • SHOWJUMPER n. a horse or rider in a showjumping competition. |
| SKEUOMORPHS | • skeuomorphs n. Plural of skeuomorph. • SKEUOMORPH n. a design feature copied from a similar artifact in another material, even when not functionally necessary e.g. the click sound of a shutter in an analog camera that is now reproduced in a digital camera by playing a sound clip. |
| SUPERSMOOTH | • supersmooth adj. Very smooth. • supersmooth adj. (Mathematics) Of or relating to a distribution that has derivatives of all orders. • SUPERSMOOTH adj. very very smooth. |
| THAUMATROPE | • thaumatrope n. A toy made of a card with an image on each side; when twirled, the images combine. • thaumatrope n. A zoetrope. • THAUMATROPE n. an optical toy in which pictures on both sides of a card are seen to combine when the card is rotated rapidly. |