| DAGUERREOTYPE | • daguerreotype n. An early type of photograph created by exposing a silver surface which has previously been exposed to… • daguerreotype v. (Transitive, intransitive) To make a photograph using this process, to make a daguerreotype (of). • DAGUERREOTYPE v. to develop by daguerreotype, a method of photography by mercury vapour development of silver iodide. |
| DAGUERREOTYPY | • daguerreotypy n. The art or technique of producing daguerreotypes. • DAGUERREOTYPY n. the art of daguerreotyping. |
| DRAUGHTPROOFS | • draughtproofs v. Third-person singular simple present indicative form of draughtproof. • DRAUGHTPROOF v. to make proof against draughts. |
| EXPURGATORIAL | • expurgatorial adj. Tending or serving to expurgate; expurgatory. • EXPURGATORIAL adj. tending to expurgate or purify, also EXPURGATORY. |
| OUTPERFORMING | • outperforming v. Present participle of outperform. • OUTPERFORM v. to exceed in performance. |
| OVERPICTURING | • overpicturing v. Present participle of overpicture. • OVERPICTURE v. to picture to excess. |
| PHOTOGRAVURES | • photogravures n. Plural of photogravure. • PHOTOGRAVURE n. printing from engraved plates photographically prepared. |
| PREFIGURATION | • prefiguration n. A vague representation or suggestion of something before it has happened or been accomplished. • prefiguration n. Something that prefigures. • PREFIGURATION n. the act of prefiguring. |
| PRIMOGENITURE | • primogeniture n. The state of being the firstborn of the children of the same parents. • primogeniture n. The principle that the eldest child, traditionally the eldest male, has an exclusive right of inheritance. • primogeniture n. (Countable) An instance of such a right of inheritance, established by custom or law. |
| PROTEROGYNOUS | • proterogynous adj. (Botany) Having the pistil come to maturity before the stamens; protogynous. • PROTEROGYNOUS adj. exhibiting proterogyny. |
| PROTUBERATING | • protuberating v. Present participle of protuberate. • PROTUBERATE v. to bulge out. |
| PURGATORIALLY | • PURGATORIAL adv. relating to purgatory, also PURGATORIAN. |
| ROUNDTRIPPING | • roundtripping v. Present participle of roundtrip. • round-tripping v. Present participle of round-trip. • ROUNDTRIPPING n. a form of trading in which a company borrows a sum of money from one source and takes advantage of a short-term rise in interest rates to make a profit by lending it to another. |
| RUSTPROOFINGS | • RUSTPROOFING n. the act of making resistant to rust, such as by applying a coating. |
| SUPEREROGATED | • supererogated v. Simple past tense and past participle of supererogate. • SUPEREROGATE v. (obsolete) to do more than is required, ordered or expected. |
| SUPEREROGATES | • supererogates v. Third-person singular simple present indicative form of supererogate. • SUPEREROGATE v. (obsolete) to do more than is required, ordered or expected. |
| SUPEREROGATOR | • SUPEREROGATOR n. one who does or performs more than is required. |
| SURROGATESHIP | • surrogateship n. The position or office of a surrogate. • SURROGATESHIP n. the office of surrogate. |
| URANOGRAPHIST | • URANOGRAPHIST n. one who practises uranography, descriptive astronomy and mapping. |