| HAPTOTROPIC | • haptotropic adj. Of or pertaining to haptotropism; moving when touched. • haptotropic adj. (Chemistry) Describing the movement of clusters of atoms between two ligands or other groups. • HAPTOTROPIC adj. curving in response to touch. |
| OPPORTUNIST | • opportunist n. Someone who takes advantage of any opportunity to advance their own situation, placing expediency above principle. • OPPORTUNIST n. one that is opportunistic or that practices opportunism. |
| OPPORTUNITY | • opportunity n. A chance for advancement, progress or profit. • opportunity n. A favorable circumstance or occasion. • opportunity n. (Nonstandard, Euro-English) opportuneness. |
| OUTSTRIPPED | • outstripped v. Simple past tense and past participle of outstrip. • OUTSTRIP v. to go faster or further than. |
| PHOTOTROPIC | • phototropic adj. Having a tendency to move in response to light. An animal or microbe that is positively phototropic… • PHOTOTROPIC adj. relating to phototropism, movement directed by light. |
| PINSPOTTERS | • pinspotters n. Plural of pinspotter. • PINSPOTTER n. an employee on a mechanical device that spots pins in a bowling alley, also PINSETTER. |
| PITTOSPORUM | • pittosporum n. Any plant of the genus Pittosporum, various Old World shrubs and trees. • Pittosporum prop.n. A taxonomic genus within the family Pittosporaceae – certain of trees called cheesewoods. • PITTOSPORUM n. any of numerous chiefly subtropical evergreen shrubs or small trees. |
| PLURIPOTENT | • pluripotent adj. (Biology) Able to develop into more than one mature cell or tissue type, but not all. • PLURIPOTENT adj. not fixed as to development potentialities e.g. 'pluripotent stem cells'. |
| POSTSCRIPTS | • postscripts n. Plural of postscript. • post␣scripts n. Plural of post script. • POSTSCRIPT n. a note or series of notes appended to a completed letter, article, or book. |
| PROMPTITUDE | • promptitude n. The quality of being prompt; alacrity. • PROMPTITUDE n. the quality or habit of being prompt. |
| PROPITIATED | • propitiated v. Simple past tense and past participle of propitiate. • PROPITIATE v. to render favourable, to appease. |
| PROPITIATES | • propitiates v. Third-person singular simple present indicative form of propitiate. • PROPITIATE v. to render favourable, to appease. |
| PROPITIATOR | • propitiator n. One who propitiates or appeases. • PROPITIATOR n. one who propitiates. |
| PROTOPATHIC | • protopathic adj. Relating to a sensory nerve that detects the presence of a stimulus without determining its location. • protopathic adj. Relating to first symptoms of a disease, as in the sense of protopathic bias. • PROTOPATHIC adj. pertaining to reception by nerves, etc. of only coarse stimuli such as heat, pain, etc.; pertaining to such nerves. |
| PROTOPHYTIC | • protophytic adj. Of or relating to the protophytes. • PROTOPHYTIC adj. relating to a protophyte. |
| PROTOTYPING | • prototyping n. The rapid creation of prototypes of a new product for demonstration and research purposes. • PROTOTYPE v. to make a prototype. |
| PROTREPTICS | • protreptics n. Plural of protreptic. • PROTREPTIC n. an exhortation. |
| TROPOPHYTIC | • TROPOPHYTIC adj. of or like a tropophyte, a plant adapted to alterations of moisture and drought. |