AUDITORSHIP | • auditorship n. The office or function of auditor. • AUDITORSHIP n. the office of auditor. |
AVOIRDUPOIS | • avoirdupois n. (Historical) The official system of weights used in the UK between 1856 and 1963. It had been the customary… • avoirdupois n. (Historical) The official system of weights used in the USA between 1866 and 1959. • avoirdupois n. (Chiefly humorous) Weight; heaviness. |
EPICARDIUMS | • epicardiums n. Plural of epicardium. • EPICARDIUM n. (Latin) that part of the pericardium which forms the outer surface of the heart. |
OPHIDIARIUM | • ophidiarium n. A place for keeping snakes. • OPHIDIARIUM n. a snake-house. |
PARASUICIDE | • parasuicide n. A supposed suicide attempt that was not intended to succeed. • PARASUICIDE n. a harmful act appearing to be an attempt at suicide. |
PERICARDIUM | • pericardium n. (Anatomy, cardiology) A serous membrane that surrounds the heart allowing it to contract. • PERICARDIUM n. a membranous sac containing the heart. |
PRAESIDIUMS | • praesidiums n. Plural of praesidium. • PRAESIDIUM n. (Latin) a standing committee in the former Soviet Union. |
PREJUDICIAL | • prejudicial adj. Exhibiting prejudice or bias. • prejudicial adj. Causing harm or injury; detrimental, harmful or injurious. • prejudicial adj. (Law) Tending to convince based on past history rather than on evidence about the case at hand. |
PURITANISED | • puritanised v. Simple past tense and past participle of puritanise. • PURITANISE v. to make a Puritan of, also PURITANIZE. |
PURITANIZED | • puritanized v. Simple past tense and past participle of puritanize. • PURITANIZE v. to make a Puritan of, also PURITANISE. |
REPUDIATING | • repudiating v. Present participle of repudiate. • REPUDIATE v. to cast off, disown. |
REPUDIATION | • repudiation n. The act of refusing to accept; the act of repudiating. • REPUDIATION n. the act of repudiating. |
REPUDIATIVE | • REPUDIATIVE adj. serving to repudiate. |
SPHAERIDIUM | • sphaeridium n. (Zoology) A sense organ found on the exterior of most sea urchins, consisting of an oval or spherical… • SPHAERIDIUM n. a minute spheroidal body on the surface of a sea urchin, perhaps a sense organ. |
TRICUSPIDAL | • tricuspidal adj. Alternative form of tricuspid. • TRICUSPIDAL adj. having three cusps, or points; as, a tricuspidal molar, also TRICUSPID, TRICUSPIDATE. |
TRIPUDIATED | • tripudiated v. Simple past tense and past participle of tripudiate. • TRIPUDIATE v. to dance for joy; to exult; to stamp. |
TRIPUDIATES | • tripudiates v. Third-person singular simple present indicative form of tripudiate. • TRIPUDIATE v. to dance for joy; to exult; to stamp. |
UPBRAIDINGS | • upbraidings n. Plural of upbraiding. • UPBRAIDING n. the act of upbraiding. |