(countable) A device for capturing or killing mice and other rodents.
(countable, Internet) A website designed to open another copy of itself when the user tries to close the webpage. Frequently used by advertisers and pornographers.
(military, historical) An antisubmarine rocket used mainly during World War II by the US Navy and US Coast Guard.
verb
(Internet, transitive) To prevent (the user) from leaving a website by opening another copy when it is closed.
(figuratively) To trap; to trick or fool (someone) into a bad situation.
mouthpart
mouthpart
noun
(usually in the plural) An appendage-like structure on the outside of an insect's or other arthropod's mouth, serving to manipulate and masticate food.
mouthpipe
multidrop
multidrop
adj
(of a computer bus) Having all components connected to the same set of electrical wires, each component listening for its own data and negotiating with the others in order to send.
noun
A computer bus having all components connected in this manner.
multipole
multipole
noun
(physics) Any of a several forms of static or oscillating distributions of charge or magnetization
mutoscope
mutoscope
noun
A motion-picture device of the late nineteenth century, to be viewed by one person at a time through a peephole.
myctophum
myoseptum
myoseptum
noun
myotome
outjumped
outjumped
verb
simple past tense and past participle of outjump
outtrumps
outtrumps
verb
Third-person singular simple present indicative form of outtrump
overtrump
overtrump
verb
(card games) To play a higher trump card than the previous one in a trick
paramount
paramount
adj
(obsolete) Of a law, right, etc.: having precedence over or superior to another.
(obsolete) A supreme ruler; an overlord; (specifically, historical) in the feudal system, a landowner who did not derive ownership of the land from anyone else, and who was able to grant fees to others; a lord paramount.
A chief or superior; (specifically, chiefly South Africa) an African chief having the highest status in a region; a paramount chief.
pastorium
pastorium
noun
(US, Southern US) A parsonage, in some Baptist churches.
peamouths
penthorum
petrobium
petroleum
petroleum
noun
A flammable liquid ranging in color from clear to very dark brown and black, consisting mainly of hydrocarbons, occurring naturally in deposits under the Earth's surface.
pipemouth
pipemouth
noun
(rare) Any fish of the genus Fistularia; the tobacco pipefish (Fistularia tabacaria).
plumosite
plumosite
noun
(mineralogy) jamesonite.
plumosity
plumosity
noun
The quality or state of being plumose.
plutonism
plutonism
noun
The old geological theory that the rocks forming the Earth were formed in fire by volcanic activity, with a continuing gradual process of weathering and erosion, then deposited on the sea bed, re-formed into layers of sedimentary rock by heat and pressure, and raised again.
plutonium
plutonium
noun
(countable, historical) Alternative form of ploutonion
The transuranic chemical element with atomic number 94 and symbol Pu: a silvery-gray fissile radioactive actinide metal that tarnishes when exposed to air.
plutonomy
plutonomy
noun
(sometimes derogatory) The study of the production and distribution of wealth, or a society seen as dominated by such concerns.
plymouths
pogonatum
pomatomus
portumnus
posthumus
postnotum
postnotum
noun
The sclerite, posterior to a notum, that bears the phragma
postramus
potassium
potassium
noun
(countable) A single atom of this element.
A soft, waxy, silvery reactive metal that is never found unbound in nature; an element (symbol K) with an atomic number of 19 and atomic weight of 39.0983. The symbol is derived from the Latin kalium.
pretorium
pretorium
noun
(by extension) A council of war.
(by extension, dated) A splendid country seat.
(historical) The general's tent in an Ancient Roman camp.
(historical) The official residence of the Ancient Roman praetor, proconsul, or governor in a province.
prompture
prompture
noun
suggestion; incitement; prompting
pubiotomy
pubiotomy
noun
Synonym of symphysiotomy
pulmonata
pulmonate
pulmonate
adj
(anatomy) Having lungs or similar organs.
(biology) Of, relating to, or belonging to the gastropod order Pulmonata (slugs and snails).
noun
A gastropod of the order Pulmonata.
pulmotors
pulmotors
noun
plural of pulmotor
pulpotomy
pulpotomy
noun
(dentistry) The surgical removal of part of the dental pulp
puppetdom
puppetdom
noun
The state or quality of being a puppet.
putriform
recompute
recompute
verb
To compute again.
smutproof
smutproof
adj
Resistant to the smut fungus.
sputumose
sputumous
stumpnose
stumpnose
noun
(South Africa) Any of several sea breams of the genus Rhabdosargus.
stumptown
suboptima
sumptious
sumptuous
sumptuous
adj
Magnificent, luxurious, splendid.
thumbrope
trophaeum
turbopump
turbopump
noun
A device consisting of a pump and a turbine mounted on the same shaft.
uncompact
uncompact
adj
Not compact; incompact.
verb
(transitive) To expand from a compacted state; to uncompress computer data etc.