| BACKGAMMONING | • backgammoning v. Present participle of backgammon. • BACKGAMMON v. to defeat at the game of backgammon. |
| BACKSWORDSMAN | • BACKSWORDSMAN n. one who uses a backsword, a sword with one sharp edge, also BACKSWORDMAN. |
| FRANKALMOIGNS | • FRANKALMOIGN n. land tenure requiring religious obligations on part of tenant. |
| HOLIDAYMAKERS | • holidaymakers n. Plural of holidaymaker. • holiday-makers n. Plural of holiday-maker. • HOLIDAYMAKER n. someone on holiday. |
| KARYOMAPPINGS | • KARYOMAPPING n. a technique for determining whether an embryo has inherited a genetic defect by analysing DNA taken from it and its close relatives. |
| KATHAROMETERS | • katharometers n. Plural of katharometer. • KATHAROMETER n. an instrument measuring changes in composition of gases. |
| KINEMATOGRAPH | • kinematograph n. Alternative form of cinematograph. • KINEMATOGRAPH n. an apparatus for filming, printing and projecting a series of instantaneous photographs so as to give a moving representation of a scene, also CINEMATOGRAPH. |
| KLEPTOMANIACS | • kleptomaniacs n. Plural of kleptomaniac. • KLEPTOMANIAC n. a person having an obsessive urge to steal, also CLEPTOMANIAC, KLEPTO. |
| MACROPINAKOID | • MACROPINAKOID n. a crystalline pinacoid which runs parallel to the longer horizontal axis, also MACROPINACOID. |
| MALLEMAROKING | • mallemaroking n. (Historical, nautical) Carousing on icebound Greenland whaling ships. • MALLEMAROKING n. the carousing of seamen in icebound ships, also MOLLIE. |
| MARKETISATION | • marketisation n. Alternative spelling of marketization. • MARKETISATION n. the process of bringing to market, also MARKETIZATION. |
| MARKETIZATION | • marketization n. The exposure of service industries to market forces. • marketization n. A restructuring process that enables state enterprises to operate as market-oriented firms by changing… • MARKETIZATION n. the process of bringing to market, also MARKETISATION. |
| MEGAKARYOCYTE | • megakaryocyte n. (Anatomy) A large cell, found in bone marrow, responsible for the production of platelets. • MEGAKARYOCYTE n. a large cell with a lobulated nucleus, found esp. in the bone marrow, the source of blood platelets. |
| NOMENKLATURAS | • nomenklaturas n. Plural of nomenklatura. • NOMENKLATURA n. (Russian) officeholders and managers in a communist regime. |
| STAKHANOVISMS | • STAKHANOVISM n. the practice of working like a stakhanovite, a worker who received recognition for his or her part in increasing the rate of production. |