| COPROLITES | • coprolites n. Plural of coprolite. • COPROLITE n. fossilized excrement, also COPROLITH. |
| HELIOTROPE | • heliotrope n. (Botany) A plant that turns so that it faces the sun. • heliotrope n. A light purple or violet colour. • heliotrope n. The fragrance of heliotrope flowers. |
| HELIOTROPY | • heliotropy n. Heliotropism. • HELIOTROPY n. the tendency of stems and leaves to bend towards the sun. |
| INTERLOOPS | • INTERLOOP v. to loop together. |
| LAEOTROPIC | • laeotropic adj. Turning to the left (typically in a left-handed spiral). • LAEOTROPIC adj. coiled in a leftward direction, as of a left-spiralling snail shell. |
| METROPOLIS | • metropolis n. (History, especially Ancient Greece) The mother (founding) polis (city state) of a colony. • metropolis n. A large, busy city, especially as the main city in an area or country or as distinguished from surrounding… • metropolis n. (Orthodox Christianity) The see of a metropolitan bishop, ranking above its suffragan diocesan bishops. |
| OPHIOLATER | • ophiolater n. A snake-worshipper. • OPHIOLATER n. a snake-worshipper. |
| OWERLOUPIT | • OWERLOUP v. (Scots) to leap over, also OVERLEAP. |
| PETROLOGIC | • petrologic adj. Of or pertaining to petrology. • PETROLOGIC adj. relating to petrology, also PETROLOGICAL. |
| PISTOLEROS | • PISTOLERO n. one who uses a pistol, also PISTOLEER, PISTOLIER. |
| PLEIOTROPY | • pleiotropy n. (Genetics) The influence of a single gene on multiple phenotypic traits; pleiotropism. • pleiotropy n. (Pharmacology) The existence of drug effects other than the one for which the drug was designed; usually… • PLEIOTROPY n. the property of having an effect simultaneously on more than one characteristic of the offspring. |
| POTBOILERS | • potboilers n. Plural of potboiler. • pot-boilers n. Plural of pot-boiler. • pot␣boilers n. Plural of pot boiler. |
| STROPHIOLE | • strophiole n. (Botany) An excrescence or tubercle around the hilum of certain seeds. • STROPHIOLE n. a caruncle. |
| TELIOSPORE | • teliospore n. A teleutospore. • TELIOSPORE n. the thick-walled resting spore of rusts and smuts from which the basidium arises. |
| TOPLOFTIER | • toploftier adj. Comparative form of toplofty: more toplofty. • TOPLOFTY adj. high and mighty, haughty, also TOPLOFTICAL. |
| TROLLOPIER | • TROLLOPY adj. like a trollop. |
| TROPAEOLIN | • tropaeolin n. Any of several orange dyes of very complex composition: tropaeolin O (acid orange 6, chrysoine resorcinol)… • tropæolin n. Obsolete spelling of tropaeolin. • TROPAEOLIN n. any of a group of dyes of complex structure, also TROPEOLIN. |
| TROPEOLINS | • TROPEOLIN n. any of a group of dyes of complex structure, also TROPAEOLIN. |