ENGRASPED | • engrasped v. Simple past tense and past participle of engrasp. • ENGRASP v. (Spenser) to grasp. |
ESTREPING | • ESTREPE v. to create waste as a tenant e.g. by cutting down trees. |
EXPUNGERS | • expungers n. Plural of expunger. • EXPUNGER n. one who expunges. |
GRAPHENES | • graphenes n. Plural of graphene. • GRAPHENE n. a film of graphite with a thickness of one atom. |
PASSENGER | • passenger n. One who rides or travels in a vehicle, but who does not operate it and is not a member of the crew. • passenger n. (Informal, chiefly UK) Somebody in a team who does not do their fair share of the work. • passenger n. (Falconry) A young hunting bird that can fly and is taken while it is still in its first year. |
PEREGRINS | • peregrins n. Plural of peregrin. • PEREGRIN n. a swift falcon much used in falconry, also PEREGRINE. |
PERIGONES | • perigones n. Plural of perigone. • PERIGONE n. any organ inclosing the essential organs of a flower, also PERIGONIUM. |
PERSONAGE | • personage n. A person, especially one who is famous or important. • personage n. The creation of corporate persons named after living people. (Can we add an example for this sense?) • personage n. Character represented; external appearance; persona. |
PESTERING | • pestering v. Present participle of pester. • pestering n. An act or instance of annoying somebody. • PESTER v. to bother. |
PREDESIGN | • predesign v. (Transitive) To design beforehand; to predetermine. • PREDESIGN v. to design in advance. |
PROGENIES | • progenies n. Plural of progeny. • PROGENY n. a descendant. |
REPLUNGES | • replunges v. Third-person singular simple present indicative form of replunge. • REPLUNGE v. to plunge again. |
SPEERINGS | • speerings n. Plural of speering. • SPEERINGS n. (Scots) news, also SPEIRINGS. |
SPREEZING | • SPREEZE v. (SW dialect) to chap, roughen, also SPRAY, SPREATHE, SPREAZE, SPREETHE. |
SUPERGENE | • supergene n. (Genetics) A group of neighbouring genes on a chromosome that are inherited together because of close… • supergene adj. (Geology, of a mineral) leached and then deposited by descending waters. • SUPERGENE n. a group of closely linked genes, frequently having related functions. |