| ADENECTOMIES | • adenectomies n. Plural of adenectomy. • ADENECTOMY n. the surgical removal of the adenoids, also ADENOIDECTOMY. |
| ADOLESCENCES | • adolescences n. Plural of adolescence. • ADOLESCENCE n. the state or process of growing up. |
| AEROMEDICINE | • aeromedicine n. Aviation or aerospace medicine. • AEROMEDICINE n. a branch of medicine that deals with the diseases arising from flying. |
| AUCTIONEERED | • auctioneered v. Simple past tense and past participle of auctioneer. • AUCTIONEER v. to sell by auction. |
| CLADOGENESES | • cladogeneses n. Plural of cladogenesis. • CLADOGENESIS n. the evolutionary change and diversification resulting from the branching off of new species from common ancestral lineages. |
| COMMANDEERED | • commandeered v. Simple past tense and past participle of commandeer. • COMMANDEER v. to compel to perform military service. |
| CONFEDERATED | • confederated v. Simple past tense and past participle of confederate. • CONFEDERATE v. to unite in a confederacy. |
| CONFEDERATES | • confederates n. Plural of confederate. • Confederates n. Plural of Confederate. • CONFEDERATE v. to unite in a confederacy. |
| DECELERATION | • deceleration n. (Uncountable) The act or process of decelerating. • deceleration n. (Countable) The amount by which a speed or velocity decreases (and so a scalar quantity or a vector quantity). • DECELERATION n. the act of decelerating. |
| DECOMPENSATE | • decompensate v. (Medicine, psychology, of a bodily organ or mental state) To deteriorate in function due to an inability… • DECOMPENSATE v. to fail to compensate. |
| DECONSECRATE | • deconsecrate v. To remove the consecration from a church or similar building. • DECONSECRATE v. to remove the sacred character of. |
| EDUCATIONESE | • educationese n. The jargon used by educators. • EDUCATIONESE n. the jargon used esp. by educational theorists. |
| ENDONUCLEASE | • endonuclease n. (Biochemistry) Any enzyme which catalyzes the cleavage of nucleic acids so as to produce variously sized fragments. • ENDONUCLEASE n. an enzyme that cuts a polynucleotide chain internally. |
| HOUSECLEANED | • housecleaned v. Simple past tense and past participle of houseclean. • HOUSECLEAN v. to clean a house and its furniture. |
| PAEDOGENETIC | • paedogenetic adj. Alternative form of pedogenetic. • PAEDOGENETIC adj. relating to paedogenesis, reproduction by an infant or larval organism. |
| VELOCIPEDEAN | • velocipedean n. Alternative form of velocipedian. • VELOCIPEDEAN n. one who rides a velocipede, an early form of bicycle, also VELOCIPEDER, VELOCIPEDIAN, VELOCIPEDIST. |