| ACCOUCHEUSES | • accoucheuses n. Plural of accoucheuse. • ACCOUCHEUSE n. (French) a female midwife. |
| AUTOEXPOSURE | • autoexposure n. (Photography) automatic selection of exposure settings. • AUTOEXPOSURE n. a system for automatically adjusting the aperture and/or shutter speed of a camera according to the lighting conditions. |
| BEAUMONTAGUE | • beaumontague n. A cement used in making joints, filling cracks, etc. For iron, the principal constituents are iron borings… • BEAUMONTAGUE n. a composition for hiding cracks and holes in wood or iron, also BEAUMONTAGE. |
| BURSERACEOUS | • burseraceous adj. (Botany) Of or relating to the family Burseraceae. • BURSERACEOUS adj. belonging to a genus of tropical plants related to the rue family. |
| COUNTERARGUE | • counterargue v. (Transitive, intransitive) Argue against, especially by opposition to and negation of opposing arguments… • COUNTERARGUE v. to argue against. |
| COUNTERVALUE | • countervalue v. (Military) To target an opponent’s assets which are of value but not actually a military threat, such… • countervalue v. To make a counter estimate of something’s value. • countervalue adj. (Military) Targeting an opponent’s assets which are of value but not actually a military threat, such… |
| MOUNTENAUNCE | • MOUNTENAUNCE n. (Spenser) amount; distance, also MOUNTENANCE. |
| MOUSQUETAIRE | • mousquetaire n. (Historical) A musketeer, especially one of the French royal musketeers of the 17th and 18th centuries… • mousquetaire n. (Historical) A woman’s cloak trimmed with ribbons, with large buttons, fashionable in the mid-19th century. • mousquetaire n. (Historical) A broad turnover linen collar worn in the mid-19th century. |
| NAUSEOUSNESS | • nauseousness n. The state of being nauseous; nausea. • NAUSEOUSNESS n. the state of being nauseous. |
| OUTMANEUVERS | • outmaneuvers v. Third-person singular simple present indicative form of outmaneuver. • OUTMANEUVER v. to surpass in maneuvering, also OUTMANOEUVRE. |
| OUTMANOEUVRE | • outmanoeuvre v. (British spelling, transitive) To perform manoeuvres or movements more successfully or better than;… • outmanœuvre v. Alternative form of outmanoeuvre. • OUTMANOEUVRE v. to surpass in manoeuvring, also OUTMANEUVER. |
| PERCUTANEOUS | • percutaneous adj. Taking place through the skin and involving a puncture thereof. • PERCUTANEOUS adj. done or applied through the skin. |
| SUCCEDANEOUS | • succedaneous adj. Pertaining to, or acting as, a succedaneum; supplying the place of something else; being, or employed… • SUCCEDANEOUS adj. subrogated, substituted. |
| SUPEROVULATE | • superovulate v. (Biology) To produce large quantities of mature ova. • SUPEROVULATE v. to produce a larger number of ova than usual, e.g. under stimulus of injected hormones. |