(zoology, of a coloration or marking) That serves as a warning to predators, as of toxicity, especially falsely.
asepticism
asepticism
noun
(dated) freedom from sepsis; asepsis
aspermatic
aspermatic
adj
That does not produce sperm
compositae
composited
composited
verb
simple past tense and past participle of composite
composites
composites
noun
plural of composite
verb
Third-person singular simple present indicative form of composite
compotiers
compotiers
noun
plural of compotier
conceptism
conceptism
noun
Alternative form of conceptismo
emancipist
emancipist
noun
(Australia, historical) In penal colonies of early Australia, a convict who had been pardoned for good conduct; sometimes inclusively a convict whose sentence had completed, though one such was more usually called an expiree.
empiricist
empiricist
noun
an advocate or supporter of empiricism
empiristic
empiristic
adj
(physics) Relating to, or resulting from, experience or experiment; following from empirical methods or data.
episematic
episematic
adj
(zoology, of a coloration or marking) That serves to assist individuals of the same species to identify each other.
heptasemic
heptasemic
adj
(ancient prosody) containing seven morae or units of time.
imperfects
imperfects
noun
plural of imperfect
verb
Third-person singular simple present indicative form of imperfect
implicates
implicates
verb
Third-person singular simple present indicative form of implicate
impotences
impotences
noun
plural of impotence
imprecates
imprecates
verb
Third-person singular simple present indicative form of imprecate
leptosomic
mercaptids
mesophytic
mesophytic
adj
Relating to a mesophyte.
mesotropic
metaphysic
metaphysic
adj
(philosophy, archaic) Metaphysical.
noun
(philosophy, countable) A fundamental principle or key concept.
(philosophy, countable) The metaphysical system of a particular philosopher or of a particular school of thought.
(philosophy, uncountable, archaic) The field of study of metaphysics.
miscompute
miscompute
noun
An erroneous computation.
verb
To compute erroneously.
mispatched
mispatched
verb
simple past tense and past participle of mispatch
mispatches
mispatches
verb
Third-person singular simple present indicative form of mispatch
peacetimes
peacetimes
noun
plural of peacetime
perfectism
pleomastic
pneumatics
pneumatics
noun
(theology, obsolete) The scientific study or knowledge of spiritual beings and their relations to God, angels, and human beings.
The branch of mechanics that deals with the mechanical properties of gases
polemicist
polemicist
noun
A person who puts forward controversial views
A person who writes polemics
scepticism
scepticism
noun
(British spelling) alternative form of skepticism
scrimpiest
scrimpiest
adj
superlative form of scrimpy: most scrimpy
semitropic
semitropic
adj
Alternative form of semitropical
septicemia
septicemia
noun
(pathology) A disease caused by the presence of pathogenic organisms, especially bacteria, or their toxins, in the bloodstream, characterised by chills and fever.
septicemic
septicemic
adj
Typical of or pertaining to septicemia.
simplectic
simplectic
adj
Misspelling of symplectic.
skepticism
skepticism
noun
A methodology that starts from a neutral standpoint and aims to acquire certainty though scientific or logical observation.
A studied attitude of questioning and doubt
Doubt or disbelief of religious doctrines
The doctrine that absolute knowledge is not possible
The practice or philosophy of being a skeptic.
spermaceti
spermaceti
noun
A wax obtained from the head of sperm whales and used to make cosmetics etc.
spermiduct
spermiduct
noun
Synonym of vas deferens
symplectic
symplectic
adj
(group theory, of a group) Whose characteristic abelian subgroups are cyclic.
(mathematics) Of or pertaining to (the geometry of) a differentiable manifold equipped with a closed nondegenerate bilinear form.
(mathematics, multilinear algebra, of a bilinear form) That is alternating and nondegenerate.
(mathematics, multilinear algebra, of a vector space) That is equipped with an alternating nondegenerate bilinear form.
(petrology, mineralogy) Of or pertaining to a symplectite; symplectitic.
Placed in or among, as if woven together.
That moves in the same direction as a system of synchronized waves.
noun
(ichthyology) A bone in the teleostean fishes that forms the lower ossification of the suspensorium, and which articulates below with the quadrate bone by which it is firmly held.
(mathematics) A symplectic bilinear form, manifold, geometry, etc.