A rampart or other defensive entrenchment that entirely encircles the position being defended.
circumvolant
circumvolant
adj
flying around
circumvolution
circumvolution
noun
Anything winding or sinuous.
The act of revolution, rotation or gyration around an axis.
confirmatively
confirmatively
adv
With confirmation from other sources
conglomerative
conglomerative
adj
Causing, or relating to, conglomeration.
controversialism
controversialism
noun
The tendency to engage in controversy.
controversionalism
conversationalism
conversationalism
noun
Synonym of conversationism
costermansville
counterdevelopment
counterdevelopment
noun
A development that counteracts another development.
cryptovolcanism
galvanometric
galvanometric
adj
Measured using a galvanometer.
Of or pertaining to galvanometry.
galvanometrical
galvanometrical
adj
Synonym of galvanometric
galvanometrically
galvanometrically
adv
By means of, or in terms of, galvanometry.
macroevolution
macroevolution
noun
Large-scale patterns or processes in the history of life, including the origins of novel organism designs, evolutionary trends, adaptive radiations and extinctions.
macroevolutionary
macroevolutionary
adj
Pertaining to, or as a result of macroevolution
magnetostrictively
magnetostrictively
adv
By means of or in terms of magnetostriction.
microenvironmental
microenvironmental
adj
Pertaining to a microenvironment.
microevolution
microevolution
noun
Small-scale changes in the history of life, such as changes in allele frequencies in a population (over a few generations); also known as change at or below the species level.
microevolutionary
microevolutionary
adj
Of or pertaining to microevolution
microgalvanometer
monoverticillate
monoverticillate
adj
Having a single whorl
noncircumvallated
noncommemoratively
noncommiseratively
nondiscriminatively
novemarticulate
ovariosalpingectomy
ovariosalpingectomy
noun
Surgical removal of the ovaries and Fallopian tubes.
overaccumulating
overaccumulating
verb
present participle of overaccumulate
overaccumulation
overaccumulation
noun
accumulation of too much
action and effect of accumulating capital without productive purposes.
Assignment to a placement requiring greater talent than the person has.
Extreme overconfidence.
Placement over or above others.
oversimplification
oversimplification
noun
An explanation that excludes important information for the sake of brevity, or of making the explanation or presentation easy to understand.
The process of making such an explanation.
oversimplifications
oversimplifications
noun
plural of oversimplification
oversystematicalness
pneumonoultramicroscopicsilicovolcanoconiosis
pneumonoultramicroscopicsilicovolcanoconiosis
noun
(nonce word) A disease of the lungs, allegedly caused by inhaling microscopic silicate particles originating from the eruption of a volcano.
pneumoventriculography
pneumoventriculography
noun
ventriculography of the ventricles of the larynx
psychogalvanometer
psychogalvanometer
noun
A device that makes psychogalvanic measurements (typically of the skin)
semicircumvolution
semiconservatively
semiconservatively
adv
(genetics) In a semiconservative fashion.
tympanocervical
ultraconservatism
ultraconservatism
noun
ultraconservative beliefs
uncommemoratively
uncommiseratively
ventricolumna
ventricolumnar
ventriculogram
ventriculogram
noun
A diagnostic image produced by ventriculography.
vermiculation
vermiculation
noun
(obsolete, rare) The process of being turned into a worm.
(physiology, dated) Peristalsis (“wave-like contraction of the digestive tract, resembling the movement of a worm”).
A pattern of irregular wavy lines resembling worms or their casts or tracks, found on the plumage of birds, used to decorate artworks and buildings, etc.
