APPROXIMEETING | • APPROXIMEETING n. the practice of a group of people making indefinite plans to meet and then altering those plans regularly via mobile phones according to changing circumstances. |
BIOPROSPECTING | • bioprospecting n. (Biology) The methodical search for novel pharmaceutical (and other) products from plants and microorganisms. • BIOPROSPECTING n. the exploitation of traditional medicines. |
DISPROPERTYING | • dispropertying v. Present participle of disproperty. • DISPROPERTY v. (Shakespeare) to deprive of property. |
HYPERTROPHYING | • hypertrophying v. Present participle of hypertrophy. • HYPERTROPHY v. to grow to abnormal size. |
MOUSETRAPPINGS | • MOUSETRAPPING n. a range of techniques employed to stop users leaving a website. |
OPPIGNERATIONS | • OPPIGNERATION n. the act or an instance of pawning or pledging, also OPPIGNORATION. |
OVERPOPULATING | • overpopulating v. Present participle of overpopulate. • OVERPOPULATE v. to populate too densely. |
PEPTIDOGLYCANS | • peptidoglycans n. Plural of peptidoglycan. • PEPTIDOGLYCAN n. a polymer in the cell walls of procaryotes. |
PHYTOPATHOGENS | • phytopathogens n. Plural of phytopathogen. • PHYTOPATHOGEN n. an organism parasitic on a plant host. |
PORPHYROGENITE | • porphyrogenite n. (Historical) an honorific title given to a son of a reigning emperor in the Byzantine Empire, notably… • PORPHYROGENITE n. a Byzantine emperor's son, born in the purple. |
PRECIPITINOGEN | • precipitinogen n. A substance that produces a precipitin. • PRECIPITINOGEN n. an antigen that induces specific precipitin. |
PREPONDERATING | • preponderating v. Present participle of preponderate. • PREPONDERATE v. to surpass others in numbers, intensity, force, or prowess. |
PROGENITORSHIP | • progenitorship n. The state of being a progenitor. • PROGENITORSHIP n. the state of being a progenitor. |
PSEUDOPREGNANT | • pseudopregnant adj. Of, pertaining to, or undergoing pseudopregnancy. • PSEUDOPREGNANT adj. relating to pseudopregnancy. |
REAPPORTIONING | • reapportioning v. Present participle of reapportion. • REAPPORTION v. to apportion (as a house of representatives) anew. |
SUPERCOMPUTING | • supercomputing n. (Computing) The design and use of supercomputers. • SUPERCOMPUTING n. computing using a supercomputer, a large very fast mainframe used esp. for scientific computations. |