| ALEURON | • aleuron n. Alternative form of aleurone. • ALEURON n. a protein found in some seeds, also ALEURONE. |
| FLANEUR | • flaneur n. One who wanders aimlessly, who roams, who travels at a lounging pace. • flaneur n. An idler, a loafer. • flaneur v. To wander aimlessly or at a lounging pace. |
| FRENULA | • frenula n. Plural of frenulum. • FRENULUM n. (Latin) a connecting fold of membrane, also FRENUM, FRAENUM. |
| FUNERAL | • funeral n. A ceremony to honour and remember a deceased person. Often distinguished from a memorial service by… • funeral n. (Dated, chiefly in the plural) A funeral sermon. • funeral adj. (Uncommon) Alternative form of funereal. |
| GRANULE | • granule n. A tiny grain, a small particle. • granule n. (Biology) A small structure in a cell. • granule n. (Geology) A particle from 2 to 4 mm in diameter, following the Wentworth scale. |
| LAUNDER | • launder n. (Obsolete) A washerwoman or washerman. • launder n. (Mining) A trough used by miners to receive powdered ore from the box where it is beaten, or for carrying… • launder n. A trough or channel carrying water to the wheel of a watermill. |
| LUCARNE | • lucarne n. (Architecture) A dormer-window. • LUCARNE n. (French) a dormer window. |
| LURDANE | • lurdane n. (Obsolete) A lazy, stupid person; a sluggard. • LURDANE n. (archaic) a dull or sluggish person, also LURDAN, LURDEN. |
| NEBULAR | • nebular adj. (Astronomy) Of or pertaining to a nebula. • nebular adj. Cloudy; diffuse. • NEBULAR adj. of or like a nebula, a hazy or indistinct luminous area in the night sky representing a distant cluster of stars. |
| NEURULA | • neurula n. (Zoology) An embryo of vertebrates in the stage when the primitive band is first developed. • NEURULA n. (Greek) an embryo at the stage succeeding the gastrula, when the neural tube develops from the neural plate. |
| NEUTRAL | • neutral adj. Not taking sides in a conflict such as war; nonaligned. • neutral adj. Favouring neither the supporting nor opposing viewpoint of a topic of debate; unbiased. • neutral adj. Neither positive nor negative. |
| NUCLEAR | • nuclear adj. Pertaining to the nucleus of an atom. • nuclear adj. Involving energy released by nuclear reactions (fission, fusion, radioactive decay). • nuclear adj. Relating to a weapon that derives its force from rapid release of energy through nuclear reactions. |
| NUMERAL | • numeral n. A symbol that is not a word and represents a number, such as the Arabic numerals 1, 2, 3 and the Roman… • numeral n. A representation of a number composed of such symbols. • numeral n. (Linguistics) A number word, a simple or compound word for a number often having particular grammatical… |
| RUNDALE | • rundale n. (Historical) A system of land tenure in which farmland was divided into irregular strips and allocated… • RUNDALE n. (Scots) a system of holding land in single detached pieces, also RUNRIG. |
| UNCLEAR | • unclear adj. Ambiguous; liable to more than one interpretation. • unclear adj. Not clearly or explicitly defined. • unclear adj. Not easy to see or read; indecipherable or unreadable. |
| UNLEARN | • unlearn v. (Transitive) To discard the knowledge of. • unlearn v. (Transitive) To break a habit. • UNLEARN v. to put out of one's memory. |
| UNRAVEL | • unravel v. (Transitive) To separate the threads (of); disentangle. • unravel v. (Intransitive, of threads etc.) To become separated; (Of something woven, knitted, etc.) to come apart. • unravel v. (Transitive, figurative) To clear from complication or difficulty; to unfold; to solve. |
| VENULAR | • venular adj. (Anatomy) Of or pertaining to venules. • VENULAR adj. like a venule, a small vein. |