| 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. |
| OUTSTRIPPED | • outstripped v. Simple past tense and past participle of outstrip. • OUTSTRIP v. to go faster or further than. |
| PHOTOTROPES | • PHOTOTROPE n. a substance exhibiting phototropism, movement directed by light. |
| PHOTOTROPHS | • phototrophs n. Plural of phototroph. • PHOTOTROPH n. a plant which uses light to generate energy needed to absorb nutrients. |
| 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. |
| POSTPUBERTY | • postpuberty adj. After puberty. • POSTPUBERTY n. the period after puberty. |
| 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. |
| PROPITIATES | • propitiates v. Third-person singular simple present indicative form of propitiate. • PROPITIATE v. to render favourable, to appease. |
| PROTOPHYTES | • protophytes n. Plural of protophyte. • PROTOPHYTE n. any unicellular plant, or plant forming only a plasmodium, having reproduction only by fission, gemmation, or cell division. |
| PROTOPLASTS | • protoplasts n. Plural of protoplast. • PROTOPLAST n. living material within a cell divided into discrete structures; the protein of which cells are composed. |
| PROTOTROPHS | • prototrophs n. Plural of prototroph. • PROTOTROPH n. a bacterium feeding only on inorganic matter. |
| PROTREPTICS | • protreptics n. Plural of protreptic. • PROTREPTIC n. an exhortation. |
| SUPPORTMENT | • supportment n. (Obsolete) support. • SUPPORTMENT n. support. |
| TROPOPHYTES | • tropophytes n. Plural of tropophyte. • TROPOPHYTE n. a plant adapted to alterations of moisture and drought. |
| TRYPTOPHANS | • tryptophans n. Plural of tryptophan. • TRYPTOPHAN n. an essential amino acid, also TRYPTOPHANE. |