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  • neoplatonism — a philosophical system, originated in the 3rd century a.d. by Plotinus, founded chiefly on Platonic doctrine and Eastern mysticism, with later influences from Christianity. It holds that all existence consists of emanations from the One with whom the soul may be reunited.
  • nephrotomies — Plural form of nephrotomy.
  • neurotropism — the quality of being neurotropic.
  • operationism — the doctrine that the meaning of a scientific term, concept, or proposition consists of the operation or operations performed in defining or demonstrating it.
  • optometrists — Plural form of optometrist.
  • overoptimism — a disposition or tendency to look on the more favorable side of events or conditions and to expect the most favorable outcome.
  • overoptimist — someone who is too optimistic
  • overshipment — an act or instance of shipping freight or cargo.
  • paedobaptism — the baptism of infants
  • palimpsestic — a parchment or the like from which writing has been partially or completely erased to make room for another text.
  • panspermatic — relating to panspermia
  • parameterise — to describe (a phenomenon, problem, curve, surface, etc.) by the use of parameters.
  • parasitaemia — the condition of having parasites in the blood
  • periostracum — the external, chitinlike covering of the shell of certain mollusks that protects the limy portion from acids.
  • peristomatic — surrounding a leaf's stoma or stomata
  • permissivist — lenience toward or indulgence of a wide variety of social behavior.
  • perpetualism — a belief in the permanence of a given thing; the belief that a given thing (e.g. the world, a political system) will last forever
  • petrochemist — someone who studies petrochemistry or works in the petrochemical industry
  • phillumenist — a collector of matchbooks and matchboxes.
  • phlebotomist — a specialist in phlebotomy.
  • phonesthemic — (of a speech sound) shared by a set of echoic or symbolic words, as the sn- of sneer, snarl, snatch, snide, snitch, snoop, etc.
  • photorealism — a style of painting flourishing in the 1970s, especially in the U.S., England, and France, and depicting commonplace scenes or ordinary people, with a meticulously detailed realism, flat images, and barely discernible brushwork that suggests and often is based on or incorporates an actual photograph.
  • planetesimal — one of the small celestial bodies that, according to one theory (planetesimal hypothesis) were fused together to form the planets of the solar system.
  • pleiotropism — the condition of a gene affecting more than one characteristic of the phenotype
  • pneumocystis — any protozoan of the genus Pneumocystis, esp P. carinii, which is a cause of pneumonia in people whose immune defences have been lowered by drugs or a disease
  • point system — Printing. a system for grading the sizes of type bodies, leads, etc., that employs the point as a unit of measurement. Compare point (def 48a).
  • polycentrism — the doctrine that a plurality of independent centers of leadership, power, or ideology may exist within a single political system, especially Communism.
  • postfeminist — relating to or occurring in the period after the feminist movement of the 1970s.
  • postimperial — of, relating to, or designating the period after an empire
  • postischemic — occurring after or due to ischaemia
  • postmedieval — occurring or existing after the Middle Ages, of or related to the period after the Middle Ages
  • postmeridian — of or relating to the afternoon.
  • postmistress — a woman in charge of a post office.
  • pre-estimate — to form an approximate judgment or opinion regarding the worth, amount, size, weight, etc., of; calculate approximately: to estimate the cost of a college education.
  • presenteeism — the practice of coming to work despite illness, injury, anxiety, etc., often resulting in reduced productivity.
  • presentiment — a feeling or impression that something is about to happen, especially something evil; foreboding.
  • problematics — problems or difficulties in a particular situation or subject
  • promuscidate — shaped like a proboscis
  • propheticism — the actions or characteristics of a prophet
  • protosemitic — the hypothetical parent language of the Semitic group of languages
  • proximities' — nearness in place, time, order, occurrence, or relation.
  • pseudonymity — pseudonymous character.
  • psychometric — Psychology. psychometrics.
  • pteridosperm — seed fern.
  • pumice stone — abrasive stone used for exfoliating
  • pumice-stone — Also called pumice stone. a porous or spongy form of volcanic glass, used as an abrasive.
  • ramapithecus — a genus of extinct Miocene ape known from fossils found in India and Pakistan and formerly thought to be a possible human ancestor.
  • reassumption — the act or process of reassuming something
  • receptionism — the doctrine that in the communion service the communicant receives the body and blood of Christ but that the bread and wine are not transubstantiated.
  • redemptorist — a member of the “Congregation of the Most Holy Redeemer,” founded by St. Alphonsus Liguori in 1732.
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