| BACKGAMMONING | • backgammoning v. Present participle of backgammon. • BACKGAMMON v. to defeat at the game of backgammon. |
| BACKWARDATION | • backwardation n. In full normal backwardation: the situation in a futures market where the price for future delivery… • backwardation n. The situation in a stock market where the offer price for stock is lower than the bid price. • backwardation n. (Obsolete) In the London Stock Exchange: a fee paid by a seller on settlement day either to the buyer… |
| BALKANISATION | • Balkanisation prop.n. (Chiefly Britain) Alternative form of Balkanization. • BALKANISATION n. the act of balkanising, also BALKANIZATION. |
| BALKANIZATION | • balkanization n. Alternative letter-case form of Balkanization. • Balkanization n. (Historical, chiefly political science) The fragmentation of a geopolitical region into several small… • Balkanization n. (By extension, informal) Any disintegration or fragmentation process. |
| FRANKALMOIGNS | • FRANKALMOIGN n. land tenure requiring religious obligations on part of tenant. |
| HALIPLANKTONS | • HALIPLANKTON n. plankton living in sea water. |
| 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. |
| 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. |
| OVERPACKAGING | • overpackaging v. Present participle of overpackage. • OVERPACKAGE v. to package excessively. |
| PANLEUKOPENIA | • panleukopenia n. A distemper of cats caused by a strain of Parvovirus. • PANLEUKOPENIA n. a viral disease of cats marked by a deficiency of white blood cells, also PANLEUCOPENIA. |
| PARKINSONIANS | • parkinsonians n. Plural of parkinsonian. • Parkinsonians n. Plural of Parkinsonian. • PARKINSONIAN n. one suffering from Parkinson's disease. |
| SKATEBOARDING | • skateboarding v. Present participle of skateboard. • skateboarding n. The act of riding on a skateboard. • SKATEBOARDING n. the sport of riding or performing stunts on a skateboard. |
| 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. |
| STAKHANOVITES | • Stakhanovites n. Plural of Stakhanovite. • STAKHANOVITE n. a superlative worker. |
| WAKEBOARDINGS | • WAKEBOARDING n. a sport similar to waterskiing in which the participant is towed behind a motorboat while riding on a board like a short surfboard. |