| ABBREVIATORS | • abbreviators n. Plural of abbreviator. • ABBREVIATOR n. one who abbreviates. |
| ABBREVIATORY | • abbreviatory adj. Serving or tending to abbreviate; shortening; abridging. • ABBREVIATORY adj. serving to abbreviate. |
| ABBREVIATURE | • abbreviature n. An abridgment; a compendium; an abstract. • abbreviature n. (Obsolete) An abbreviated state or form. • abbreviature n. A shortened form of a word or phrase, used in place of the whole; an abbreviation. |
| ABRACADABRAS | • abracadabras n. Plural of abracadabra. • ABRACADABRA n. a magic word, used as a charm. |
| ANTIBARBARUS | • antibarbarus n. A dictionary of linguistic barbarisms; a book describing how not to write in a given language. • ANTIBARBARUS n. a list of words and sayings to be avoided in the classical usage of a language. |
| BACKBREAKERS | • backbreakers n. Plural of backbreaker. • BACKBREAKER n. a strenuous task. |
| BALLBREAKERS | • ballbreakers n. Plural of ballbreaker. • ball-breakers n. Plural of ball-breaker. • BALLBREAKER n. (offensive) an aggressively feminist woman. |
| BARBARIANISM | • barbarianism n. A primitive or simplistic ethos or societal condition; barbarism. • barbarianism n. Behaviour appropriate to a barbarian, that is uncivilized, brutal, or crude. • BARBARIANISM n. the state of being a barbarian. |
| BARBARICALLY | • barbarically adv. In a barbaric manner. • BARBARIC adv. uncivilized. |
| BARBITURATES | • barbiturates n. Plural of barbiturate. • BARBITURATE n. a sleeping drug. |
| BEAVERBOARDS | • beaverboards n. Plural of beaverboard. • BEAVERBOARD n. a building-board of wood fibre. |
| BREADBOARDED | • breadboarded v. Simple past tense and past participle of breadboard. • BREADBOARD v. to make an experimental version of (an electronic circuit). |
| HARDSCRABBLE | • hardscrabble adj. (Of land) Requiring much work to farm, and ultimately not very productive. • hardscrabble adj. (By extension) Involving hard work and struggle. • hard-scrabble adj. Alternative form of hardscrabble. |
| MIXOBARBARIC | • mixo-barbaric adj. (Archaic) Mixed with barbarous elements. • MIXOBARBARIC adj. part barbaric, part Greek. |
| SUBLIBRARIAN | • sublibrarian n. An under or assistant librarian. • SUBLIBRARIAN n. a subordinate librarian. |