| BACKCOURTMAN | • backcourtman n. (Basketball) A backcourt player. • BACKCOURTMAN n. a guard on a basketball team. |
| BACKCOURTMEN | • backcourtmen n. Plural of backcourtman. • BACKCOURTMAN n. a guard on a basketball team. |
| BIOACOUSTICS | • bioacoustics n. A cross-disciplinary science that combines biology and acoustics, investigating for instance the mechanisms… • BIOACOUSTICS n. a branch of science concerned with the production of sound by and its effects on living organisms. |
| BOMBACACEOUS | • bombacaceous adj. (Botany) Belonging to the now disused family Bombacaceae (now the much-reduced subfamily Bombacoideae in Malvaceae). • BOMBACACEOUS adj. relating to the family Bombacaceae, silk-cotton trees. |
| BRACHYCEROUS | • BRACHYCEROUS adj. of insects, having short antennae. |
| CARBONACEOUS | • carbonaceous adj. Of, relating to, rich in, or yielding carbon, or a compound of carbon. • CARBONACEOUS adj. coaly; containing much carbon. |
| CHLORAMBUCIL | • chlorambucil n. A particular drug used in chemotherapy. • CHLORAMBUCIL n. an oral drug used to treat some cancers, e.g. cancer of the ovary and leukaemia. |
| COACHBUILDER | • coachbuilder n. (Historical) A builder of horse-drawn coaches. • coachbuilder n. A person or company who makes and fits the bodywork of vehicles such as cars, buses and railway carriages. • COACHBUILDER n. a craftsman who builds the bodies of cars, lorries, railway carriages, etc. |
| COCKABULLIES | • cockabullies n. Plural of cockabully. • COCKABULLY n. (Maori) any of various small freshwater fishes of New Zealand. |
| COMMUNICABLE | • communicable adj. (Epidemiology, of a disease) Able to be transmitted between people or animals. • communicable adj. Readily communicated. • communicable adj. Talkative or expansive. |
| COMMUNICABLY | • communicably adv. In a communicable manner. • COMMUNICABLE adv. capable of being communicated. |
| CONCUBINAGES | • concubinages n. Plural of concubinage. • CONCUBINAGE n. the cohabitation of persons not legally married. |
| CONCUBITANCY | • CONCUBITANCY n. a custom by which marriage between certain persons is obligatory. |
| CONCUBITANTS | • CONCUBITANT n. someone of a suitable age for marriage. |
| COUNTERBRACE | • counterbrace v. (Nautical, transitive) To brace in opposite directions. • counterbrace v. (Engineering, transitive) To brace in such a way that opposite strains are resisted. • COUNTERBRACE v. to brace or fasten (the head-yards and after-yards) in opposite ways. |
| SCROBICULATE | • scrobiculate adj. (Botany) Having numerous small, shallow depressions or hollows; pitted. • SCROBICULATE adj. marked with many shallow depressions, grooves, or pits, also SCROBICULATED. |
| SUBCONTRACTS | • subcontracts v. Third-person singular simple present indicative form of subcontract. • SUBCONTRACT n. a contract between a party to an original contract and a third party. |
| SUBOCCIPITAL | • suboccipital adj. (Anatomy) Situated under, or posterior to, the occiput. • suboccipital n. (Anatomy, colloquial) Any of the group of suboccipital muscles. • SUBOCCIPITAL adj. below the occiput. |