| ABATTOIR | • abattoir n. A public slaughterhouse for cattle, sheep, etc. • abattoir n. A place or event likened to a slaughterhouse, because of great carnage or bloodshed. • ABATTOIR n. (French) a public slaughterhouse. |
| AIRBOATS | • airboats n. Plural of airboat. • AIRBOAT n. a kind of boat driven by an aircraft propeller. |
| ARBALIST | • arbalist n. Alternative form of arbalest. • ARBALIST n. a type of crossbow, also ARBALEST, ARBELEST, ARBLAST. |
| ARBITRAL | • arbitral adj. Relating to arbitration. • ARBITRAL adj. in Scots law, of or relating to an arbiter or an arbitration. |
| ATABRINE | • atabrine n. Synonym of quinacrine. • ATABRINE n. (tradename) a bitter yellow powder, formerly used against malaria, also ATABRIN, ATEBRIN. |
| ATABRINS | • ATABRIN n. (tradename) a bitter yellow powder, formerly used against malaria, also ATABRINE, ATEBRIN. |
| AUBRETIA | • aubretia n. Any plant of the genus Aubrieta. • AUBRETIA n. any of several dwarf trailing cruciferous plants of the genus Aubrieta, usually bearing violet or purple flowers, also AUBRIETA, AUBRIETIA. |
| AUBRIETA | • aubrieta n. Alternative spelling of aubrietia. • AUBRIETA n. any of several dwarf trailing cruciferous plants of the genus Aubrieta, usually bearing violet or purple flowers, also AUBRETIA, AUBRIETIA. |
| BACTERIA | • bacteria n. Plural of bacterium. • bacteria n. (US) A type, species, or strain of bacterium. • bacteria n. (US, proscribed) Alternative form of bacterium. |
| BARBITAL | • barbital n. The first commercially marketed barbiturate, used as a hypnotic drug until the mid-1950s. • BARBITAL n. (US) a derivative of barbituric acid used as a sedative, also BARBITONE. |
| BARISTAS | • baristas n. Plural of barista. • BARISTA n. one who makes and serves coffee to the public. |
| BARTISAN | • bartisan n. (Architecture) A parapet with battlements projecting from the top of a tower in a castle or church. • BARTISAN n. a small overhanging turret projecting from an angle on the top of a tower, also BARTIZAN. |
| BARTIZAN | • bartizan n. Alternative form of bartisan. • BARTIZAN n. a corner turret, also BARTISAN. |
| BARTSIAS | • BARTSIA n. a wild flower of the family Scrophulariaceae. |
| BRANTAIL | • brantail n. (UK, dialect, Yorkshire) The European redstart. • BRANTAIL n. the redstart, so called from the red color of its tail. |
| CATBRIAR | • CATBRIAR n. a thorny shrub, also CATBRIER. |
| RABATINE | • rabatine n. Alternative form of rabato (“type of collar”). • RABATINE n. (Scott) a low collar. |
| RUBAIYAT | • rubaiyat n. Plural of rubai. • ruba'iyat n. Plural of ruba’i. • RUBAI n. (Arabic) a Persian verse-form, a four-line stanza. |
| TABASHIR | • tabashir n. Alternative form of tabasheer. • TABASHIR n. (Portuguese) a siliceous substance sometimes found in crude form in hollows of bamboos, used in Eastern medicine, also TABASHEER. |
| TARABISH | • tarabish n. A trick-taking card game spread throughout the British Empire by Scottish soldiers; still played in… • TARABISH n. a trick-taking card game popular in Nova Scotia. |