FOREPOINTING | • forepointing v. Present participle of forepoint. • FOREPOINT v. to foreshadow. |
FORTEPIANIST | • fortepianist n. A player of the fortepiano. • FORTEPIANIST n. a player of the fortepiano. |
FRONTISPIECE | • frontispiece n. (Publishing) An illustration that is on the page before the title page of a book, a section of one, or a magazine. • frontispiece n. (Archaic, publishing) The title page of a book. • frontispiece n. (Architecture) A façade, especially an ornamental one. |
IMPERFECTION | • imperfection n. (Uncountable) Those qualities or features that are imperfect; the characteristic, state, or quality… • imperfection n. (Countable) Something that makes something else less than perfect; a blemish, impurity, error, etc. • IMPERFECTION n. the state of being imperfect. |
MIFEPRISTONE | • mifepristone prop.n. (Biochemistry) A steroid pharmaceutical (codenamed RU-486); the chemical 11β-(4-(dimethylamino)phenyl)-17α-(1-propynyl)… • mifepristone n. (Pharmacology) A drug formulation containing mifepristone (“11β-(4-(dimethylamino)phenyl)-17α-(1-propynyl)estra-4,9-die… • MIFEPRISTONE n. a synthetic compound that inhibits the action of progesterone, used in pill form to induce abortion in early pregnancy. |
PERFOLIATION | • PERFOLIATION n. the state of being perfoliate. |
PERFUSIONIST | • perfusionist n. A trained clinician who operates the heart-lung machine during cardiac and other surgeries. • PERFUSIONIST n. the member of a surgical team administering continuous blood transfusion. |
PETRIFACTION | • petrifaction n. Petrification. • petrifaction n. An object that has become petrified. • petrifaction n. The condition of being petrified. |
PETTIFOGGING | • pettifogging v. Present participle of pettifog. • pettifogging n. Pettifoggery. • PETTIFOGGING n. the act of pettifogging. |
PONTIFICATED | • pontificated v. Simple past tense and past participle of pontificate. • PONTIFICATE v. to speak in a pompous and dogmatic manner. |
PONTIFICATES | • pontificates n. Plural of pontificate. • PONTIFICATE v. to speak in a pompous and dogmatic manner. |
POSTFEMINISM | • postfeminism n. Any of a wide range of theories that respond to feminism, arguing that it is no longer relevant or that… • post-feminism n. Alternative spelling of postfeminism. • POSTFEMINISM n. a movement that regards the main principles of feminism as either achieved or misguided and seeks a new programme. |
POSTFEMINIST | • postfeminist adj. Pertaining to postfeminism. • postfeminist n. One who belongs to the postfeminism movement. • POSTFEMINIST n. a supporter of postfeminism. |
POWERLIFTING | • powerlifting n. (Sports) A strength sport, consisting of three events: the squat, the bench press, and the deadlift… • powerlifting n. (Disability sports) A strength parasport, consisting of a single-rep benchpress. • POWERLIFTING n. the sport of weightlifting. |
PREFOLIATION | • prefoliation n. (Botany) Vernation (arrangement within a bud) of leaves. • PREFOLIATION n. the manner in which the leaf is folded within the leaf bud, vernation. |
PRENOTIFYING | • prenotifying v. Present participle of prenotify. • PRENOTIFY v. to notify beforehand. |
PROFICIENTLY | • proficiently adv. In a proficient manner. • PROFICIENT adv. well advanced in an art, occupation, or branch of knowledge. |
PROFITEERING | • profiteering n. The act of making an unreasonable profit not justified by the corresponding assumption of risk, or by… • profiteering v. Present participle of profiteer. • PROFITEERING n. acting as a profiteer. |
PROFUNDITIES | • profundities n. Plural of profundity. • PROFUNDITY n. intellectual depth. |