| ACCOUPLEMENT | • accouplement n. (Rare) The act of coupling, or the state of being coupled; union. • accouplement n. (Rare) That which couples, as a tie or brace. • ACCOUPLEMENT n. a timber joist or beam that serves as a tie or support. |
| COMEUPPANCES | • comeuppances n. Plural of comeuppance. • come-uppances n. Plural of come-uppance. • COMEUPPANCE n. a deserved rebuke or penalty. |
| DECOMPOUNDED | • decompounded v. Simple past tense and past participle of decompound. • DECOMPOUND v. to decompose, decay. |
| MAGNETOPAUSE | • magnetopause n. The boundary between the Earth’s magnetosphere and the sun’s plasma. • MAGNETOPAUSE n. the outer boundary of a magnetosphere. |
| NONPETROLEUM | • nonpetroleum adj. (Of fuel) Not petroleum-based, not containing petroleum. • NONPETROLEUM adj. not derived from petroleum. |
| OUTPLACEMENT | • outplacement n. The process of helping to find new employment for redundant workers, especially executives. • OUTPLACEMENT n. the process of easing unwanted or unneeded executives out of a company by providing company-paid assistance in finding them new jobs. |
| PERGAMENEOUS | • pergameneous adj. Parchment-like. • PERGAMENEOUS adj. parchment-like, also PERGAMENTACEOUS. |
| PERITONAEUMS | • PERITONAEUM n. a serous membrane enclosing the viscera in the abdominal and pelvic cavities, also PERITONEUM. |
| PNEUMATHODES | • PNEUMATHODE n. a band or pore or aerating tissue, esp. along the stipes of ferns. |
| PREMENOPAUSE | • premenopause adj. Before the menopause. |
| PROCUREMENTS | • procurements n. Plural of procurement. • PROCUREMENT n. the act of procuring. |
| PRODUCEMENTS | • PRODUCEMENT n. (Milton) product. |
| TEMPORANEOUS | • temporaneous adj. (Obsolete) temporary. • TEMPORANEOUS adj. (obsolete) lasting only a short while. |
| UNCOMPRESSED | • uncompressed v. Simple past tense and past participle of uncompress. • uncompressed adj. (Computing) Not having been compressed. |
| UNCOMPRESSES | • uncompresses v. Third-person singular simple present indicative form of uncompress. |
| UNDECOMPOSED | • undecomposed adj. Not decomposed. • UNDECOMPOSED adj. not decomposed. |
| UNDERPERFORM | • underperform v. To underachieve; to fail to reach standards or expectations, especially with respect to a financial investment. • UNDERPERFORM v. to perform insufficiently. |
| UNEMPLOYABLE | • unemployable adj. Not employable. • unemployable n. An individual who is not suited to employment. • UNEMPLOYABLE adj. not acceptable for employment. |
| UNEMPLOYMENT | • unemployment n. The state of having no job; joblessness. • unemployment n. The phenomenon of joblessness in an economy. • unemployment n. The level of joblessness in an economy, often measured as a percentage of the workforce. |