| APPRESSORIA | • appressoria n. Plural of appressorium. • APPRESSORIUM n. the flattened thickened tip of a hyphal branch by which some parasitic fungi attach to and penetrate their host. |
| PARAPARESIS | • paraparesis n. Weakness of both legs, resulting from disease of the nervous system. • PARAPARESIS n. paralysis of the lower limbs. |
| PERIPHRASES | • periphrases n. Plural of periphrase. • periphrases n. Plural of periphrasis. • periphrases v. Third-person singular simple present indicative form of periphrase. |
| PERIPHRASIS | • periphrasis n. The use of a longer expression instead of a shorter one with a similar meaning, for example "I am going… • periphrasis n. (Linguistics) Expressing a grammatical meaning (such as a tense) using a syntactic construction rather… • periphrasis n. (Rhetoric) The substitution of a descriptive word or phrase for a proper name (a type of circumlocution). |
| PERSPIRATES | • perspirates v. Third-person singular simple present indicative form of perspirate. • PERSPIRATE v. to sweat. |
| PERSPIRIEST | • PERSPIRY adj. perspiring. |
| PREPOSITORS | • prepositors n. Plural of prepositor. • PREPOSITOR n. (Latin) the name used for a prefect in some English public schools, also PRAEPOSTOR, PREPOSTOR. |
| PRETORSHIPS | • pretorships n. Plural of pretorship. • PRETORSHIP n. the office of pretor, a magistrate of ancient Rome, also PRAETORSHIP. |
| PROPHESIERS | • prophesiers n. Plural of prophesier. • PROPHESIER n. one who prophesies. |
| PURSERSHIPS | • purserships n. Plural of pursership. • PURSERSHIP n. the office of purser. |
| REAPPRAISES | • reappraises v. Third-person singular simple present indicative form of reappraise. • REAPPRAISE v. to appraise again. |
| SPIROGRAPHS | • spirographs n. Plural of spirograph. • Spirographs n. Plural of Spirograph. • SPIROGRAPH n. an instrument recording movements of breathing. |
| SPIROPHORES | • spirophores n. Plural of spirophore. • SPIROPHORE n. an apparatus for inducing artificial respiration by means of an airtight case for the body and an air pump. |
| SUPERPRAISE | • superpraise v. (Obsolete, rare) To overpraise; to praise highly. • SUPERPRAISE v. to give very high praise. |
| SUPERSCRIPT | • superscript n. (Typography) A type of lettering form that appears as a number, figure, or symbol above the normal line… • superscript adj. Placed above the normal line of text. • superscript v. (Mathematics, sciences, typography, transitive, of a variable) To provide with a superscript. |
| WORSHIPPERS | • worshippers n. Plural of worshipper. • WORSHIPPER n. one who worships, also WORSHIPER. |