| AMELIORATORY | • amelioratory adj. Serving to ameliorate or improve. • AMELIORATORY adj. serving to ameliorate. |
| COMPURGATORY | • compurgatory adj. Compurgatorial. • COMPURGATORY adj. relating to compurgation, the clearing of an accused person by means of oaths. |
| CONFIRMATORY | • confirmatory adj. Serving to confirm something. • CONFIRMATORY adj. serving to confirm. |
| CONTEMPORARY | • contemporary adj. From the same time period, coexistent in time; contemporaneous. • contemporary adj. Modern, of the present age (shorthand for ‘contemporary with the present’). • contemporary n. Someone or something living at the same time, or of roughly the same age as another. |
| HETEROMORPHY | • heteromorphy n. (Biology) The state or quality of being heteromorphic; heteromorphism. • HETEROMORPHY n. dissimilarity in shape, structure, or magnitude. |
| HYDROMETEORS | • hydrometeors n. Plural of hydrometeor. • HYDROMETEOR n. a general term for the aqueous phenomena of the atmosphere, as rain, snow, sleet, hail. |
| HYDROTROPISM | • hydrotropism n. (Biology) The movement of a plant (or other organism) in response to water, either towards or away from water. • HYDROTROPISM n. growth in the direction of water. |
| MARTYROLOGIC | • martyrologic adj. Of, or pertaining to, a martyrology. • MARTYROLOGIC adj. relating to martyrology, also MARTYROLOGICAL. |
| NONMIGRATORY | • nonmigratory adj. Not migratory; that does not migrate. • non-migratory adj. Alternative form of nonmigratory. • NONMIGRATORY adj. not migratory. |
| PERFORMATORY | • performatory adj. Synonym of performative. • PERFORMATORY adj. of a statement or verb that itself constitutes the action described, also PERFORMATIVE. |
| PITYROSPORUM | • Pityrosporum prop.n. Former name of Malassezia (“fungus genus”). • PITYROSPORUM n. a yeastlike fungus which can cause pityriasis. |
| PROCLAMATORY | • proclamatory adj. In the manner of a proclamation. • PROCLAMATORY adj. of the nature of a proclamation. |
| PROTOMARTYRS | • protomartyrs n. Plural of protomartyr. • PROTOMARTYR n. the first martyr in any cause, esp. St Stephen. |
| PYROMORPHITE | • pyromorphite n. (Mineralogy) A yellowish-green mineral, a mixed phosphate and chloride of lead with the chemical formula… • PYROMORPHITE n. a green, brown, or yellow lead ore. |
| STEREOCHROMY | • stereochromy n. The painting of murals using pigments mixed with water glass. • STEREOCHROMY n. colourful wall painting. |
| THERMOCHROMY | • thermochromy n. The property possessed by heat of being composed, like light, of rays of different degrees of refrangibility… • THERMOCHROMY n. a phenomenon in which certain dyes made from liquid crystals change colour reversibly when their temperature is change, also THERMOCHROMISM. |
| TRIGONOMETRY | • trigonometry n. (Geometry, mathematical analysis) The branch of mathematics that deals with the relationships between… • TRIGONOMETRY n. the study of the properties of triangles and trigonometric functions and of their applications. |