| COUNTERFORT | • counterfort n. A buttress built against a wall. • counterfort n. A spur of a mountain range. • COUNTERFORT n. a buttress or arch supporting a retaining wall. |
| UNTHRIFTIER | • unthriftier adj. Comparative form of unthrifty: more unthrifty. • UNTHRIFTY adj. not thrifty. |
| COUNTERFORTS | • counterforts n. Plural of counterfort. • COUNTERFORT n. a buttress or arch supporting a retaining wall. |
| BUTTERFINGERS | • butterfingers n. Someone who tends to drop things; (more generally) someone who is clumsy or uncoordinated; a klutz. • butterfingers n. One’s fingers which tend to drop things, or are clumsy or uncoordinated. • butterfingers n. A tendency to drop things, or to be clumsy or uncoordinated. |
| COUNTEREFFORT | • countereffort n. An effort made in opposition to another. • COUNTEREFFORT n. an effort opposing another effort. |
| COUNTERFEITER | • counterfeiter n. A person who counterfeits. • COUNTERFEITER n. one who counterfeits. |
| BUTTERFINGERED | • butterfingered adj. Prone to dropping things; clumsy. • butter-fingered adj. Alternative form of butterfingered. • BUTTERFINGERED adj. apt to let things fall or slip through the fingers. |
| COUNTEREFFORTS | • counterefforts n. Plural of countereffort. • COUNTEREFFORT n. an effort opposing another effort. |
| COUNTERFEITERS | • counterfeiters n. Plural of counterfeiter. • COUNTERFEITER n. one who counterfeits. |
| INFRASTRUCTURE | • infrastructure n. (Systems theory) An underlying base or foundation especially for an organization or system. • infrastructure n. The basic facilities, services and installations needed for the functioning of a community or society. • INFRASTRUCTURE n. the underlying foundation or basic framework (as of a system or organization). |
| PARTURIFACIENT | • parturifacient n. (Medicine) A medicine tending to cause parturition, or to give relief in childbirth. • PARTURIFACIENT n. an oxytocic drug or agent, used to accelerate childbirth by stimulating uterine contractions. |
| ULTRAFILTERING | • ultrafiltering v. Present participle of ultrafilter. • ULTRAFILTER v. to pass through an ultrafilter. |
| AUTOTRANSFORMER | • autotransformer n. (Electrical engineering) A transformer with a single winding, its output being taken from taps. • AUTOTRANSFORMER n. a transformer in which the primary and secondary coils have part or all of their turns in common. |
| INFRASTRUCTURES | • infrastructures n. Plural of infrastructure. • INFRASTRUCTURE n. the underlying foundation or basic framework (as of a system or organization). |
| PARTURIFACIENTS | • parturifacients n. Plural of parturifacient. • PARTURIFACIENT n. an oxytocic drug or agent, used to accelerate childbirth by stimulating uterine contractions. |
| QUARTERFINALIST | • quarterfinalist n. A person or team that takes part in a quarterfinal. • quarter-finalist n. Somebody or something that appears in a quarter-final of a competition. • QUARTERFINALIST n. one who reaches a quarterfinal. |
| TETRAHYDROFURAN | • tetrahydrofuran n. (Organic chemistry) A heterocyclic ether having a five-membered ring with four carbon atoms and one… • TETRAHYDROFURAN n. a flammable liquid ether derived from furan and used as a solvent and as an intermediate in organic synthesis. |
| TRANSFIGUREMENT | • transfigurement n. Transfiguration. • TRANSFIGUREMENT n. the act of transfiguring. |
| ULTRACENTRIFUGE | • ultracentrifuge n. A high-speed centrifuge, especially one free from convection that is used to separate colloidal particles. • ultracentrifuge v. To submit a material to ultracentrifugation. • ULTRACENTRIFUGE v. to subject to the action of an ultracentrifuge, a very high-speed type of centrifuge. |