| ANTENUPTIAL | • antenuptial adj. Occurring before marriage; prenuptial. • ANTENUPTIAL adj. taking place before marriage. • ANTENUPTIAL n. a contract made before marriage. |
| ANTEPENULTS | • antepenults n. Plural of antepenult. • ANTEPENULT n. the antepenultimate (third from last) syllable or word. |
| COUNTERPLOT | • counterplot n. A plot made in opposition to another; a counterploy. • counterplot v. (Intransitive, transitive) To form a plot or plan in opposition to the actions of another. • COUNTERPLOT v. to intrigue against. |
| LUTEOTROPIN | • luteotropin n. (Biochemistry) Prolactin; a peptide gonadotrophic hormone secreted by the pituitary gland that stimulates… • LUTEOTROPIN n. another name for the hormone prolactin, also LUTEOTROPHIN. |
| MULTIPOTENT | • multipotent adj. Having the power to do many different things. • multipotent adj. (Biology) Describing a cell that can give rise to a limited number of several different types of cell. • MULTIPOTENT adj. (Shakespeare) having the power to do many things. |
| PENTATHLUMS | • PENTATHLUM n. a pentathlon. |
| PENULTIMATE | • penultimate adj. (UK, in US usually formal, literary or scholarly) Next to last, second to last; immediately preceding… • penultimate adj. (Linguistics) Of or pertaining to a penult. • penultimate adj. (Mathematics, rare) Relating to or denoting an element of a related collection of curves that is arbitrarily… |
| PLENTITUDES | • plentitudes n. Plural of plentitude. • PLENTITUDE n. plenitude. |
| PLURIPOTENT | • pluripotent adj. (Biology) Able to develop into more than one mature cell or tissue type, but not all. • PLURIPOTENT adj. not fixed as to development potentialities e.g. 'pluripotent stem cells'. |
| PUNCTULATED | • punctulated v. Simple past tense and past participle of punctulate. • PUNCTULATE v. to mark with small dots. |
| PUNCTULATES | • punctulates v. Third-person singular simple present indicative form of punctulate. • PUNCTULATE v. to mark with small dots. |
| QUINTUPLETS | • quintuplets n. Plural of quintuplet. • QUINTUPLET n. one of five children born in one birth. |
| SPLUTTERING | • spluttering n. Gerund of splutter: the act of one who splutter. • spluttering v. Present participle of splutter. • SPLUTTERING adj. speaking rapidly and confusedly. |
| STUNTPEOPLE | • stuntpeople n. Plural of stuntperson. |
| UPSETTINGLY | • upsettingly adv. In an upsetting manner. • UPSETTING adv. causing upset. |