DUMMELHEADS | • DUMMELHEAD n. (dialect) a stupid person. |
MULTIMEDIAS | • MULTIMEDIA n. a technique (as the combining of sound, video, and text) for expressing ideas (as in communication, entertainment, or art) in which several media are employed. |
PLUMDAMASES | • PLUMDAMAS n. (Scots) a damson. |
COMMUNALISED | • communalised v. Simple past tense and past participle of communalise. • COMMUNALISE v. to make communal, also COMMUNALIZE. |
MALADJUSTMENT | • maladjustment n. A poor or faulty adjustment, especially of a mechanism. • maladjustment n. (Psychology) The inability to adapt oneself to the needs of others, or to the stresses of normal life. • MALADJUSTMENT n. poor, faulty, or inadequate adjustment. |
PALUDAMENTUMS | • PALUDAMENTUM n. a Roman general's or high military officer's cloak, also PALUDAMENT. |
SOMNAMBULATED | • somnambulated v. Simple past tense and past participle of somnambulate. • SOMNAMBULATE v. to walk when asleep. |
SUMMERSAULTED | • summersaulted v. Simple past tense and past participle of summersault. • SUMMERSAULT v. to perform a leap in which a person turns his heels over his head and lights upon his feet; a turning end over end, also SOMERSAULT, SOMERSET, SUMMERSET. |
FUNDAMENTALISM | • fundamentalism n. (Religion) The tendency to reduce a religion to its most fundamental tenets, based on strict interpretation… • fundamentalism n. (By extension) A rigid conformity to any set of basic tenets. • fundamentalism n. (Finance) The belief that fundamental financial quantities are the best predictor of the price of a… |
MALADJUSTMENTS | • maladjustments n. Plural of maladjustment. • MALADJUSTMENT n. poor, faulty, or inadequate adjustment. |
MONUMENTALISED | • monumentalised v. Simple past tense and past participle of monumentalise. • MONUMENTALISE v. to record or memorialize lastingly by a monument, also MONUMENTALIZE. |
ULTRAMODERNISM | • ultramodernism n. An ultramodern style. • ULTRAMODERNISM n. an artistic movement beyond modernism. |
FUNDAMENTALISMS | • fundamentalisms n. Plural of fundamentalism. • FUNDAMENTALISM n. a movement in 20th century Protestantism emphasizing the literally interpreted Bible as fundamental to Christian life and teaching. |
HAMAMELIDACEOUS | • hamamelidaceous adj. (Botany) Belonging to the Hamamelidaceae. • HAMAMELIDACEOUS adj. belonging to the witch-hazel family. |
HOMOCHLAMYDEOUS | • homochlamydeous adj. (Botany) Having the perianth not divided into calyx and corolla. • HOMOCHLAMYDEOUS adj. with calyx and corolla similar. |
MEDULLOBLASTOMA | • medulloblastoma n. (Oncology) A malignant type of brain tumour that originates in the cerebellum. • MEDULLOBLASTOMA n. a malignant tumor of the central nervous system arising in the cerebellum esp. in children. |
MONOCHLAMYDEOUS | • monochlamydeous adj. (Botany) Having a single floral envelope, that is, a calyx without a corolla, or, possibly, in rare… • MONOCHLAMYDEOUS adj. having a one-whorled perianth. |
ULTRAMODERNISMS | • ultramodernisms n. Plural of ultramodernism. • ULTRAMODERNISM n. an artistic movement beyond modernism. |