| CONSISTORY | • consistory n. A solemn assembly or council. • consistory n. The spiritual court of a diocesan bishop held before his chancellor or commissioner in his cathedral… • consistory n. An assembly of prelates; a session of the college of cardinals at Rome. |
| DISTORTERS | • distorters n. Plural of distorter. • DISTORTER n. one who distorts. |
| DISTORTING | • distorting v. Present participle of distort. • distorting adj. That distorts. • DISTORT v. to twist or bend out of shape. |
| DISTORTION | • distortion n. An act of distorting. • distortion n. A result of distorting. • distortion n. A misrepresentation of the truth. |
| DISTORTIVE | • distortive adj. Causing distortion. • DISTORTIVE adj. causing distortion. |
| FALDISTORY | • faldistory n. (Obsolete) The throne or seat of a bishop within the chancel. • FALDISTORY n. (obsolete) the throne or seat of a bishop within the chancel. |
| HISTORIANS | • historians n. Plural of historian. • HISTORIAN n. a student of history. |
| HISTORICAL | • historical adj. Of, concerning, or in accordance with recorded history, (particularly) as opposed to legends, myths, and fictions. • historical adj. Of, concerning, or in accordance with the past generally. • historical adj. Of, concerning, or in accordance with the scholarly discipline of history. |
| HISTORISMS | • historisms n. Plural of historism. • HISTORISM n. the belief that all phenomena are historically determined, also HISTORICISM. |
| HISTORYING | • historying v. Present participle of history. • HISTORY v. to relate in a history or narrative. |
| HYGRISTORS | • hygristors n. Plural of hygristor. • HYGRISTOR n. an electronic component whose resistance varies with humidity. |
| MULTISTORY | • multistory adj. (US, Canada) Alternative spelling of multi-storey. • multistory n. (US, Canada) Alternative spelling of multi-storey. • multi-story adj. (US, Canada) Alternative spelling of multi-storey. |
| POLYHISTOR | • polyhistor n. Someone gifted or learned to a great extent or in multiple disciplines; a great scholar. • POLYHISTOR n. a person of great and wide learning, also POLYHISTORIAN. |
| PREHISTORY | • prehistory n. The time before written records in any area of the world; the events and conditions of those times. • prehistory n. The study of those times. • prehistory n. (Humorous, hyperbolic) Any past time (even recent) treated as such a distant, unknowable era. |
| THERMISTOR | • thermistor n. (Electronics) A resistor whose resistance varies rapidly and predictably with temperature and as a result… • THERMISTOR n. a semiconductor, a mixture of certain oxides with finely divided copper in which the resistance is very sensitive to changes of temperature. |
| THYRISTORS | • thyristors n. Plural of thyristor. • THYRISTOR n. a thyratron-like solid-state semiconductor device. |
| TRANSISTOR | • transistor n. (Semiconductors) A solid-state semiconductor device, with three terminals, which can be used for amplification… • transistor n. (Dated, informal) A transistor radio. • TRANSISTOR n. a three-electrode semiconductor device, able to perform many functions of multielectrode valves. |
| UNHISTORIC | • unhistoric adj. Not historic or historical. • UNHISTORIC adj. not historic. |