| BUTTONHOLING | • buttonholing v. Present participle of buttonhole. • buttonholing n. The act of detaining someone in conversation against his or her will. • BUTTONHOLE v. to detain in talk, also BUTTONHOLD. |
| CONSULTATION | • consultation n. The act of consulting. • consultation n. A conference for the exchange of information and advice. • consultation n. An appointment or meeting with a professional person, such as a doctor. |
| CONTORTIONAL | • CONTORTIONAL adj. relating to contortion, also CONTORTIONATE. |
| CONTROLMENTS | • controlments n. Plural of controlment. • CONTROLMENT n. the act or power of controlling. |
| ENTOPLASTRON | • entoplastron n. (Anatomy) The median plate of the plastron of turtles. • ENTOPLASTRON n. the unpaired plate behind the epiplastra in a turtle's plastron. |
| INTOLERATION | • intoleration n. (Dated) Intolerance. • INTOLERATION n. lack of toleration. |
| INTONATIONAL | • intonational adj. Pertaining to intonation. • INTONATIONAL adj. relating to intonation. |
| LABANOTATION | • labanotation n. (Choreography) A system for documenting body movement. • LABANOTATION n. a method of writing down the movements, etc., of ballet diagrammatically. |
| NITROTOLUENE | • nitrotoluene n. (Organic chemistry) Any of several nitro derivatives of toluene; they have a number of industrial uses… • NITROTOLUENE n. a nitro-derivative of toluene. |
| NOBILITATION | • nobilitation n. (Obsolete) The act of making noble. • NOBILITATION n. the act of nobilitating, ennobling. |
| NONCOMMITTAL | • noncommittal adj. Tending to avoid commitment; lacking certainty or decisiveness; reluctant to give out information or… • noncommittal n. Failure to commit to a decision or course of action. • noncommittal n. A voter etc. who has not yet committed to a decision. |
| NOTIONALISTS | • notionalists n. Plural of notionalist. • NOTIONALIST n. a theorist. |
| NOTOUNGULATE | • notoungulate n. (Paleontology) Any of several extinct, hoofed, herbivorous mammals of the order Notoungulata, from Cenozoic… • notoungulate adj. Characteristic of these animals. • NOTOUNGULATE n. any one of an extinct group of herbivorous, hoofed mammals common in South America between the Palaeocene and Pleistocene eras, also NOTUNGULATE. |
| OMNIPOTENTLY | • omnipotently adv. In an omnipotent manner. • OMNIPOTENT adv. all-powerful. |
| POSTNEONATAL | • postneonatal adj. Describing the period following the neonatal period; typically between a month and a year after birth. • POSTNEONATAL adj. following a new birth. |