ACCEPTABLY | • acceptably adv. In an acceptable manner; in a manner to please or give satisfaction. • acceptably adv. To an acceptable degree. • ACCEPTABLE adv. that can be accepted. |
AMBROTYPES | • ambrotypes n. Plural of ambrotype. • AMBROTYPE n. a picture taken on a plate of prepared glass, in which the lights are represented in silver, and the shades are produced by a dark background visible through the un-silvered portions of the glass. |
BAPTISTERY | • baptistery n. Alternative spelling of baptistry. • BAPTISTERY n. a part of a church reserved for performing baptisms, also BAPTISTRY. |
BATHYSCAPE | • bathyscape n. Alternative form of bathyscaphe. • BATHYSCAPE n. a submersible observation chamber. |
BIPEDALITY | • bipedality n. The condition of being bipedal; bipedalism. • BIPEDALITY n. the state of being bipedal, having two legs. |
BRYOPHYTES | • bryophytes n. Plural of bryophyte. • BRYOPHYTE n. a member of the Bryophyta, one of the main groups of the vegetable kingdom, mosses and liverworts. |
EXPECTABLY | • expectably adv. In an expectable manner. • EXPECTABLE adv. that may be expected. |
HYPERBATIC | • hyperbatic adj. Of or pertaining to a hyperbaton; transposed; inverted. • HYPERBATIC adj. of or pertaining to a hyperbaton. |
HYPERBATON | • hyperbaton n. (Grammar) An inversion of the usual or logical order of words or phrases, for emphasis or poetic effect. • hyperbaton n. (Rhetoric) Adding a word or thought to a sentence that is already semantically complete, thus drawing… • HYPERBATON n. the use, esp. for emphasis, of a word order other than the expected or usual one, as in 'Bird thou never wert'. |
PENETRABLY | • penetrably adv. In a penetrable way. • PENETRABLE adv. that can be penetrated. |
PERMUTABLY | • permutably adv. Such that it can be permuted. • PERMUTABLE adv. that can be permuted. |
PHLEBOTOMY | • phlebotomy n. The opening of a vein, either to withdraw blood or for letting blood; venesection. • PHLEBOTOMY n. the surgical opening of a vein to draw blood. |
POLYBASITE | • polybasite n. (Mineralogy) An iron-black ore of silver, consisting of silver, sulfur, and antimony, with some copper and arsenic. • POLYBASITE n. a grey to black mineral consisting of a sulphide of silver, antimony, and copper in the form of platelike monoclinic crystals. |
PREPUBERTY | • prepuberty adj. Before puberty. • PREPUBERTY n. the time before puberty. |
PRESBYTERS | • presbyters n. Plural of presbyter. • PRESBYTER n. an elder in the early Christian church, also PRESBYTE. |
PRESBYTERY | • presbytery n. The home of a Roman Catholic parish priest. • presbytery n. A body of elders in the early Christian church. • presbytery n. A chancel; a section of the church reserved for the clergy. |
PRESBYTISM | • presbytism n. Presbyopia. • PRESBYTISM n. presbyopia. |
SUBPOTENCY | • subpotency n. The quality of being subpotent. • SUBPOTENCY n. the state (in a drug) of being subpotent, having less than normal potency. |
TALBOTYPES | • talbotypes n. Plural of talbotype. • TALBOTYPE n. (tradename) a method of taking photographic pictures, on paper sensitized with iodide of silver, aka calotype, kalotype. |