| AGROFORESTRY | • agroforestry n. An agricultural approach of using the interactive benefits from combining trees and shrubs with crops… • AGROFORESTRY n. land management involving the growing of trees in association with food crops or pastures. |
| BARRETROUSLY | • BARRETROUS adv. tainted with, or constituting, barratry, also BARRATROUS. |
| DEXTROROTARY | • dextrorotary adj. Dextrorotatory. • DEXTROROTARY adj. turning to the right, esp. turning plane of polarized light, also DEXTROROTATORY. |
| EXPROBRATORY | • exprobratory adj. Expressing, or relating to, exprobration. • EXPROBRATORY adj. expressing reproach, also EXPROBRATIVE. |
| HYPERCORRECT | • hypercorrect adj. (Grammar) Nonstandard because of a mistaken idea of standard usage. • hypercorrect v. (Transitive) To change (a word or phrase) to a nonstandard form in the mistaken belief that it is standard usage. • hyper-correct adj. Alternative form of hypercorrect. |
| HYPERREACTOR | • hyperreactor n. One who hyperreacts. • HYPERREACTOR n. one who reacts in the extreme. |
| OVERLITERARY | • overliterary adj. Excessively literary. • OVERLITERARY adj. excessively literary. |
| PERFORMATORY | • performatory adj. Synonym of performative. • PERFORMATORY adj. of a statement or verb that itself constitutes the action described, also PERFORMATIVE. |
| PERSPIRATORY | • perspiratory adj. (Dated) Of or pertaining to perspiration. • PERSPIRATORY adj. of, relating to, secreting, or inducing perspiration. |
| PERTURBATORY | • perturbatory adj. Relating to, or causing, perturbation. • perturbatory n. (Obsolete) The supposed power of deflecting the divining rod by magnetic influence. • PERTURBATORY n. something tending to perturb. |
| PRESERVATORY | • preservatory n. (Obsolete) A preservative. • preservatory n. (Obsolete) A room or apparatus in which perishable things can be preserved without decay. • preservatory adj. Preservative. |
| PYROTARTRATE | • pyrotartrate n. (Organic chemistry) Any salt or ester of pyrotartaric acid. • PYROTARTRATE n. a salt of tartaric acid. |
| RECUPERATORY | • recuperatory adj. Of or relating to recuperation; tending to recovery. • RECUPERATORY adj. assisting in recuperation. |
| REFRACTORILY | • refractorily adv. In a refractory manner. • REFRACTORY adv. unruly, stubborn. |
| REGENERATORY | • regeneratory adj. Having power to renew; regenerative. • REGENERATORY adj. serving to regenerate. |
| REMUNERATORY | • remuneratory adj. Remunerative; serving to remunerate. • REMUNERATORY adj. relating to remuneration. |
| RESPIROMETRY | • respirometry n. A form of calorimetry that is used to measure the metabolic rate. • RESPIROMETRY n. measurement by respirometer. |
| RETROGRADELY | • retrogradely adv. (Sciences) With a backward motion. • RETROGRADE adv. going backwards. |
| TETRAPYRROLE | • tetrapyrrole n. (Biochemistry) any of several natural pigments having a structure of four pyrrole rings connected by… • TETRAPYRROLE n. a chemical group consisting of four pyrrole rings joined either in a straight chain or in a ring, as in chlorophyll. |
| WHORTLEBERRY | • whortleberry n. Any of several shrubs belonging to the genus Vaccinium… • whortleberry n. A berry of one of these shrubs. • WHORTLEBERRY n. a widely spread heath plant; its dark blue edible berry, also HURTLEBERRY, WHORT, WHORTLE. |