| AVOIRDUPOIS | • avoirdupois n. (Historical) The official system of weights used in the UK between 1856 and 1963. It had been the customary… • avoirdupois n. (Historical) The official system of weights used in the USA between 1866 and 1959. • avoirdupois n. (Chiefly humorous) Weight; heaviness. |
| COMPLUVIUMS | • COMPLUVIUM n. (Latin) a space left unroofed over the court of a Roman dwelling, through which the rain fell into the impluvium or cistern. |
| COMPULSIVES | • compulsives n. Plural of compulsive. • COMPULSIVE n. one driven by an ungovernable impulse. |
| CONSUMPTIVE | • consumptive adj. Having a tendency to consume; dissipating; destructive; wasteful. • consumptive adj. Of, or relating to consumption. • consumptive adj. (Pathology) Relating to pulmonary tuberculosis. |
| COPULATIVES | • copulatives n. Plural of copulative. • COPULATIVE n. a conjunction that indicates combination e.g. 'and'. |
| ISOPLUVIALS | • ISOPLUVIAL n. a line on a map connecting places registering the same amount of precipitation or rainfall. |
| LARVIPAROUS | • larviparous adj. (Zoology) Depositing living larvae, instead of eggs; said of certain insects. • LARVIPAROUS adj. giving birth to larvae. |
| OVERSUPPING | • oversupping v. Present participle of oversup. • OVERSUP v. to sup to excess. |
| OVIPAROUSLY | • oviparously adv. In an oviparous manner. • OVIPAROUS adv. producing offspring through laying eggs which are incubated outside the body. |
| PAPOVAVIRUS | • papovavirus n. (Archaic, virology) Any of the former family Papovaviridae, now split into the Papillomaviridae and… • PAPOVAVIRUS n. any of a group of DNA-containing oncogenic viruses. |
| PISCIVOROUS | • piscivorous adj. (Chiefly of birds) That feeds on fish; fish-eating. • PISCIVOROUS adj. fish-eating. |
| PURPOSIVELY | • purposively adv. In a purposive manner. • PURPOSIVE adv. directed towards an end. |
| SPORULATIVE | • sporulative adj. Relating to sporulation. • SPORULATIVE adj. relating to sporulation. |
| SUPERVISION | • supervision n. (Uncountable) The act or instance of supervising. • supervision n. (Uncountable) Responsible oversight. • supervision n. (Countable, Cambridge University) A tutorial session for an individual student or a small group. |
| SUPERVISORS | • supervisors n. Plural of supervisor. • SUPERVISOR n. one that supervises. |
| SUPERVISORY | • supervisory adj. Of, pertaining to, or in the capacity of a supervisor. • SUPERVISORY adj. relating to or having supervision. |
| SUPPOSITIVE | • suppositive adj. Including or implying supposition, or hypothesis; supposed. • suppositive n. A word denoting or implying supposition. • SUPPOSITIVE adj. suppositional. |
| VAPULATIONS | • vapulations n. Plural of vapulation. • VAPULATION n. the act of beating or whipping. |