| CLOSEMOUTHED | • closemouthed adj. Reticent, secretive or uncommunicative. • CLOSEMOUTHED adj. cautious in speaking. |
| CONTUMELIOUS | • contumelious adj. (Archaic, literary) Rudely contemptuous; showing contumely; exhibiting an insolent or disdainful attitude. • CONTUMELIOUS adj. haughtily insolent. |
| COULOMETRIES | • coulometries n. Plural of coulometry. • COULOMETRY n. (chemical analysis by) measurement of the number of coulombs used in electrolysis. |
| DEMODULATORS | • demodulators n. Plural of demodulator. • DEMODULATOR n. something that demodulates. |
| EVOLUTIONISM | • evolutionism n. (Countable) Any of several theories that explain the evolution of systems or organisms. • evolutionism n. (Uncountable) The belief in the universal presence of evolution. • evolutionism n. (Uncountable) The advocacy of Darwinian evolution by natural selection (Darwinism). |
| FLUOROMETERS | • fluorometers n. Plural of fluorometer. • FLUOROMETER n. an instrument for measuring fluorescence, also FLUORIMETER. |
| GAMOPETALOUS | • gamopetalous adj. (Botany) Having petals wholly or partially fused in such a way that the corolla takes the form of a… • GAMOPETALOUS adj. petals partially fused. |
| LOMENTACEOUS | • lomentaceous adj. (Botany) Of the nature of a loment; having fruits like loments. • LOMENTACEOUS adj. bearing lomenta. |
| MONOCULTURES | • monocultures n. Plural of monoculture. • MONOCULTURE n. growing of one agricultural crop only. |
| MONOPETALOUS | • monopetalous adj. (Botany) Having only one petal, or the corolla in one piece, or composed of petals cohering so as to… • MONOPETALOUS adj. having petals united. |
| MUSEOLOGISTS | • museologists n. Plural of museologist. • MUSEOLOGIST n. a student of museology, the study of museums. |
| NUMEROLOGIST | • numerologist n. A practitioner of numerology. • NUMEROLOGIST n. a student of numerology. |
| PLEUROTOMIES | • pleurotomies n. Plural of pleurotomy. • PLEUROTOMY n. incision into the pleura. |
| SOMATOPLEURE | • somatopleure n. (Embryology) A fold of tissue, in the embryo of a vertebrate, from which the walls of the body and the amnion develop. • SOMATOPLEURE n. a cellular sheet in some vertebrates that develops into the internal body wall. |
| TELEOSTOMOUS | • TELEOSTOMOUS adj. belonging to the Teleostomi, fishes with membrane bones in the skull. |
| VOLUMOMETERS | • volumometers n. Plural of volumometer. • VOLUMOMETER n. an instrument for measuring the volume of a solid body by the quantity of fluid it displaces. |