| BRICKYARDS | • brickyards n. Plural of brickyard. • BRICKYARD n. a place where bricks are made. |
| CARDBOARDY | • cardboardy adj. (Informal) Resembling cardboard. • CARDBOARDY adj. like cardboard. |
| CARDPLAYER | • cardplayer n. One who plays card games. • CARDPLAYER n. one who plays cards. |
| CHURCHYARD | • churchyard n. A patch of land adjoining a church, often used as a graveyard. • church-yard n. Alternative form of churchyard. • CHURCHYARD n. a yard that belongs to a church and is often used as a burial ground. |
| COPYREADER | • copyreader n. One who copyreads. • COPYREADER n. a subeditor. |
| CORNBRANDY | • CORNBRANDY n. spirits made from grain; whisky. |
| COURTYARDS | • courtyards n. Plural of courtyard. • COURTYARD n. a court or enclosed ground attached to a building, usually a large house. |
| DETRACTORY | • detractory adj. (Now rare) That detracts from something; disparaging, depreciatory. • DETRACTORY adj. tending to detract, also DETRACTIVE. |
| HYDROCORAL | • hydrocoral n. Any hydrozoan, of the order Anthoathecata, that has a calcareous skeleton and so resembles a coral. • HYDROCORAL n. any hydrozoan coelenterate of an order which includes the millepores. |
| HYDROCRACK | • hydrocrack v. (Organic chemistry) To convert hydrocarbons by hydrocracking. • HYDROCRACK v. to crack hydrocarbons in the presence of hydrogen. |
| IRRADIANCY | • irradiancy n. Synonym of irradiance. • IRRADIANCY n. the act of irradiating, also IRRADIANCE. |
| RETARDANCY | • retardancy n. The degree of being retardant. |
| SANDCHERRY | • sand␣cherry n. Prunus pumila, a North American cherry in the rose family, growing in sandy locations. |
| SCALDBERRY | • SCALDBERRY n. the blackberry (from a belief that it causes scaldhead). |
| SCRAPYARDS | • scrapyards n. Plural of scrapyard. • SCRAPYARD n. a place where old iron or useless material is collected. |