| ANTEROOM | • anteroom n. A room before, or forming an entrance to, another; a waiting room. • ANTEROOM n. a room before, or forming an entrance to, another; a waiting room. |
| APTEROUS | • apterous adj. (Zoology) Destitute of wings; wingless. • apterous adj. (Biology) Destitute of winglike membranous expansions, as a stem or petiole. • APTEROUS adj. wingless, also APTERAL. |
| ASTEROID | • asteroid n. (Zoology) Any member of the taxonomic class Asteroidea; a starfish. • asteroid n. (Astronomy) A naturally occurring solid object, which is smaller than a planet, larger than a meteoroid… • asteroid n. (Astronomy) In the Solar system, such a body that orbits within the orbit of Jupiter. |
| BATTEROS | • BATTERO n. (Shakespeare) a cudgel. |
| DEUTERON | • deuteron n. (Physics) the atomic nucleus of a deuterium atom, consisting of a proton and a neutron. • DEUTERON n. the nucleus of heavy hydrogen, also DEUTON. |
| DIPTEROI | • dipteroi n. Plural of dipteros. • DIPTEROS n. (Greek) a building with two colonnades. |
| DIPTERON | • DIPTERON n. a two-winged insect, also DIPTERAN, DIPTERA. |
| DIPTEROS | • dipteros n. (Architecture) A building with double peristyle or colonnade. • DIPTEROS n. (Greek) a building with two colonnades. |
| ENTERONS | • enterons n. Plural of enteron. • ENTERON n. (Greek) a body cavity in coelenterates. |
| HAPTERON | • hapteron n. A branched swelling at the base of an aquatic plant (such as an alga) that it uses to fix itself in place. • HAPTERON n. a holdfast or attachment organ of a plant thallus. |
| LITEROSE | • literose adj. Distinctively literary, usually in a studied or affected form. • LITEROSE adj. affectedly literary. |
| MONTEROS | • monteros n. Plural of montero. • Monteros prop.n. Plural of Montero. • MONTERO n. (Spanish) a huntsman's cap with side flaps. |
| PTEROPOD | • pteropod n. Any of free-swimming pelagic sea snails and sea slugs, of the suborder Thecosomata, that have winglike… • PTEROPOD n. a small swimming mollusc, often shell-less. |
| SANTEROS | • santeros n. Plural of santero. • SANTERO n. (Spanish) a priest of santeria, a Caribbean religion. |
| STEROIDS | • steroids n. Plural of steroid. • STEROID n. any of a class of compounds including the sterols, bile acids, adrenal hormones, sex hormones. |