| ABANDONED | • abandoned adj. Having given oneself up to vice; immoral; extremely wicked, or sinning without restraint; irreclaimably wicked. • abandoned adj. No longer maintained by its former owners, residents, or caretakers; forsaken, deserted. • abandoned adj. Free from constraint; uninhibited. |
| ABANDONEE | • abandonee n. (Law) One to whom something is abandoned. • ABANDONEE n. one to whom anything is legally abandoned. |
| ABANDONER | • abandoner n. One who abandons. • ABANDONER n. one who abandons. |
| ABDOMINAL | • abdominal adj. Of or pertaining to the abdomen; ventral. • abdominal adj. (Ichthyology) Having the ventral fins under the abdomen and behind the pectoral fins. • abdominal adj. (Ichthyology) Ventral, in describing a fin. |
| ABONDANCE | • abondance n. (Card games) Alternative form of abundance. • ABONDANCE n. a call in whist to make nine tricks, also ABUNDANCE. |
| BANDALORE | • bandalore n. (Historical) A yo-yo. • BANDALORE n. (obsolete) an eighteenth century toy resembling a yo-yo. |
| BANDOBAST | • bandobast n. Alternative form of bundobust. • BANDOBAST n. (Urdu) an organisation, also BANDOBUST, BUNDOBUST. |
| BANDWAGON | • bandwagon n. A large wagon used to carry a band of musicians in a parade. • bandwagon n. (Figuratively) A current movement that attracts wide support. • BANDWAGON n. a large wagon used by a band in a parade etc. |
| BARNBOARD | • barnboard n. Antique board recovered from old barns, used in construction and the making of furniture. • BARNBOARD n. wide softwood boards that have not been planed, used especially for building barns. |
| BASTINADO | • bastinado n. A blow with a cudgel or stick. • bastinado n. Beating the bare soles of the feet with a stick as a form of corporal punishment used primarily within… • bastinado v. (Transitive) To punish a person by beating the bare soles of the feet, using a stick or truncheon. |
| BROADBAND | • broadband adj. (Telecommunications) Of, pertaining to, or carrying a wide band of electromagnetic frequencies. • broadband n. (Telecommunications) A wide band of electromagnetic frequencies. • broadband n. (Internet) An internet connection provisioned over an existing service using alternate signal frequencies… |
| BROADBEAN | • broadbean n. Alternative form of broad bean. • broad␣bean n. An edible bean that has broad seeds, Vicia faba. • BROADBEAN n. a leguminous vegetable. |
| CARBONADE | • carbonade n. A stew of meat cooked in beer. • carbonade n. Broiled meat or fish; carbonado. • CARBONADE n. (Spanish) flesh, fowl, etc., cut across, seasoned, and broiled on coals, also CARBONADO, CARBONNADE. |
| CARBONADO | • carbonado n. (Cooking, dated) Meat or fish that has been scored and broiled. • carbonado v. (Transitive, dated, also figuratively) To make a carbonado of; to score and broil. • carbonado v. (Transitive, obsolete) To cut or hack, as in combat. |
| ENDAMOEBA | • endamoeba n. Alternative form of endameba. • ENDAMOEBA n. (Greek) a parasitic amoeba, also ENDAMEBA. |
| GABIONADE | • gabionade n. A construction of gabions. • GABIONADE n. (French) a traverse made with gabions between guns or on their flanks, protecting them from enfilading fire, also GABIONNADE. |
| GANGBOARD | • gangboard n. (Nautical) A board or plank used as a temporary footbridge between a ship and a dockside or any gap… • gangboard n. (Nautical) A board or plank placed within or without the bulwarks of a vessel’s waist for lookouts to… • gangboard n. The boards ending the hammock-nettings at either side of the entrance from the accommodation-ladder to the deck. |
| JABORANDI | • jaborandi n. Any of several species of the genus Pilocarpus of plants, some of which are important medicinally. • JABORANDI n. (Tupi) the native name of a South American rutaceous shrub, whose leaves are used in medicine as a diaphoretic and sialogogue. |
| LANDBOARD | • LANDBOARD n. a kind of large skateboard. |
| VAGABONDS | • vagabonds n. Plural of vagabond. • VAGABOND v. to live like a vagrant. |