| CHIAROSCURISMS | • CHIAROSCURISM n. the practice of chiaroscuro. |
| CIRCUMGYRATION | • circumgyration n. Rotation, revolution. • circumgyration n. Circling, wheeling (around). • CIRCUMGYRATION n. a whirling around. |
| CIRCUMLITTORAL | • circumlittoral adj. Around, or bordering the shore. • circumlittoral adj. Describing the part of the sea bottom immediately beyond the littoral. • CIRCUMLITTORAL adj. around or near the shore. |
| CIRCUMROTATING | • circumrotating v. Present participle of circumrotate. • CIRCUMROTATE v. to rotate as a wheel. |
| FORAMINIFEROUS | • foraminiferous adj. Having small openings, or foramina. • foraminiferous adj. Pertaining to, or composed of, Foraminifera. • FORAMINIFEROUS adj. bearing foramina. |
| IMPERTURBATION | • imperturbation n. Freedom from agitation of mind; calmness. • IMPERTURBATION n. the state of being unperturbed. |
| MERETRICIOUSLY | • meretriciously adv. In a meretricious manner. • MERETRICIOUS adv. superficially attractive but of no real merit. |
| MICROCIRCUITRY | • microcircuitry n. (Electronics) Any system constructed of microcircuits. • MICROCIRCUITRY n. circuitry composed of microcircuits. |
| MICROMINIATURE | • microminiature n. A particularly small miniature. • MICROMINIATURE adj. made on a very small scale. |
| MICRONUTRIENTS | • micronutrients n. Plural of micronutrient. • MICRONUTRIENT n. a nutritive substance required in minute quantities by a living organism. |
| MICROPUBLISHER | • micropublisher n. A publisher of microform publications. • micropublisher n. A publisher operating on a small scale, or for a niche audience. • MICROPUBLISHER n. one who publishes in microform, a process for reproducing printed matter in much reduced size. |
| MICROSURGERIES | • microsurgeries n. Plural of microsurgery. • MICROSURGERY n. minute dissection or manipulation (as by a micromanipulator or laser beam) of living structures or tissue. |
| MULTIVIBRATORS | • multivibrators n. Plural of multivibrator. • MULTIVIBRATOR n. an electronic oscillating device using two transistors, the output of one providing the input of the other. |
| NITROBACTERIUM | • nitrobacterium n. Any of the several genera of bacteria in soil that take part in the nitrogen cycle, oxidizing ammonium… • NITROBACTERIUM n. a bacterium that convert ammonium compounds into nitrites, and esp. those that convert nitrites into nitrates. |
| OVERMATURITIES | • OVERMATURITY n. excessive maturity. |
| PRIMOGENITURES | • primogenitures n. Plural of primogeniture. • PRIMOGENITURE n. an exclusive right of inheritance belonging to the eldest son, also PRIMOGENITIVE. |
| RADIOSTRONTIUM | • radiostrontium n. Any radioactive isotope of strontium, especially 9038Sr. • RADIOSTRONTIUM n. a radioactive isotope of strontium, esp. strontium-90. |
| UNIFORMITARIAN | • uniformitarian adj. Of, pertaining to, or designating, the view or doctrine that existing causes, acting in the same manner… • uniformitarian n. One who accepts uniformitarianism, or the uniformitarian doctrine. • UNIFORMITARIAN n. one who believes that geological changes etc. can be explained by gradual processes rather than catastrophic events. |