| APOTHEGM | • apothegm n. A short, witty, instructive saying; an aphorism or maxim. • APOTHEGM n. (Greek) a short, pithy and instructive saying or formulation, also APOPHTHEGM. |
| APOTHEMS | • apothems n. Plural of apothem. • APOTHEM n. (Greek) the perpendicular from centre to the side of a polygon. |
| HEPATOMA | • hepatoma n. (Pathology) A cancer originating in the liver. • HEPATOMA n. a tumor on the liver. |
| HOMEPORT | • homeport n. The port where a vessel is based (not necessarily the one where it is registered). • homeport v. To assign a vessel a port to act as its home. • home␣port n. (Nautical) Alternative spelling of homeport. |
| HOMOTYPE | • homotype n. (Biology) That which has the same fundamental type of structure with something else. • HOMOTYPE n. something with the same basic structure as another. |
| HOMOTYPY | • homotypy n. (Biology, dated) serial homology. • HOMOTYPY n. the relation of homotypes. |
| JUMPSHOT | • jumpshot n. Alternative form of jump shot. • jump␣shot n. (Basketball) A shot in which the player releases the ball at the highest point of a jump. • JUMPSHOT n. a type of shot in basketball. |
| METAPHOR | • metaphor n. (Uncountable, rhetoric) The use of a word or phrase to refer to something other than its literal meaning… • metaphor n. (Countable, rhetoric) A word or phrase used in such implied comparison. • metaphor n. (Countable, graphical user interface) The use of an everyday object or concept to represent an underlying… |
| MYOPATHY | • myopathy n. (Medicine) Any of several diseases of muscle that are not caused by nerve disorders. • MYOPATHY n. a disorder of muscle tissue. |
| OPSIMATH | • opsimath n. (Rare) A person who learns late in life. • OPSIMATH n. one who learns late in life. |
| PHANTOMS | • phantoms n. Plural of phantom. • PHANTOM n. an immaterial form, a spectre, also PHANTOSME. |
| PHANTOMY | • phantomy adj. Ghostly. • PHANTOMY adj. relating to a phantom. |
| PHILAMOT | • philamot adj. Alternative form of philomot. • PHILAMOT n. (French) a dull brown colour, also FILEMOT, PHILOMOT. |
| PHILOMOT | • philomot adj. Obsolete spelling of filemot. • PHILOMOT n. (French) a dull brown colour, also FILEMOT, PHILAMOT. |
| PHIMOTIC | • phimotic adj. Pertaining to, or afflicted with, phimosis. • PHIMOTIC adj. relating to phimosis, a condition of the penis in which the prepuce can not be drawn back so as to uncover the glans penis. |
| PHOTISMS | • photisms n. Plural of photism. • PHOTISM n. a hallucinatory sensation of light; a visual synaesthesia. |
| PHOTOMAP | • photomap n. (Cartography) a map made by the superimposition of aerial photographs onto grid lines, contours and… • photomap v. (Cartography) to produce such a map (from a photograph or existing map). • PHOTOMAP v. to map by means of aerial photography. |
| POLYMATH | • polymath n. A person with extraordinarily broad and comprehensive knowledge. • POLYMATH n. a person of great and varied learning. |
| THUMBPOT | • thumbpot n. A very small pot used by florists for starting slips or seedlings. • THUMBPOT n. a very small flowerpot. |
| TRIMORPH | • trimorph n. (Crystallography) A substance which crystallizes in three distinct forms, or which has three distinct physical states. • trimorph n. (Crystallography) Any of the three forms of such a substance. • TRIMORPH n. a substance existing in three forms. |