| ABSORBENT | • absorbent adj. Having the ability or tendency to absorb; able to soak up liquid easily; absorptive. • absorbent n. Anything which absorbs. • absorbent n. (Physiology, pluralized, now rare) The vessels by which the processes of absorption are carried on… |
| BABOONERY | • baboonery n. Baboonish behavior. • BABOONERY n. baboonish behavior. |
| BACKBONED | • backboned adj. Having a spine. • BACKBONED adj. having a backbone, vertebrate. |
| BACKBONES | • backbones n. Plural of backbone. • back-bones n. Plural of back-bone. • BACKBONE n. the spine. |
| BANDBOXES | • bandboxes n. Plural of bandbox. • BANDBOX n. a box for holding bands, caps, millinery etc. |
| BARBITONE | • barbitone n. Barbital. • BARBITONE n. a sleep-inducing drug, aka veronal, also BARBITAL. |
| BARBOTINE | • barbotine n. A soft clay used for moulding or decorating pottery. • BARBOTINE n. (French) a paste of clay used in decorating coarse pottery in relief. |
| BAREBONED | • bareboned adj. Alternative spelling of bare-boned. • bare-boned adj. (Of a person) slim; not fleshy; very lean; emaciated. • bare-boned adj. (Figurative) Very basic; having only the essentials and nothing else. |
| BAREBONES | • barebones adj. Alternative form of bare-bones. • barebones n. Plural of barebone. • bare-bones adj. Minimalist; lacking that which is not essential. |
| BOBBEJAAN | • BOBBEJAAN n. (South African) a baboon; a large black spider. |
| BOMBASINE | • bombasine n. Alternative form of bombazine. • BOMBASINE n. (French) a twilled silk and worsted fabric, also BOMBAZINE. |
| BOMBAZINE | • bombazine n. A twilled or corded fabric made from silk, wool, or cotton dyed black. • BOMBAZINE n. (French) a twilled silk and worsted fabric, also BOMBASINE. |
| BOMBINATE | • bombinate v. To buzz or hum. • BOMBINATE v. to buzz, drone, also BOMBILATE. |
| BONEBLACK | • boneblack n. Alternative form of bone black. • bone␣black n. A preparation containing carbonized bone, used as a pigment and a filtering medium. • BONEBLACK n. black residue from the destructive distillation of bones. |
| BOUNDABLE | • boundable adj. Able to be bounded or circumscribed. • BOUNDABLE adj. that can be bound. |
| BREAKBONE | • breakbone n. (Pathology, uncountable) dengue fever. • breakbone n. (US dialect, countable) A chicken’s wishbone. • breakbone adj. Violent; rough and painful. |
| 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. |
| CONFABBED | • confabbed v. Simple past tense and past participle of confab. • CONFAB v. to converse, gossip. |
| PHENOBARB | • phenobarb n. (Informal, uncountable) The drug phenobarbital or phenobarbitone. • phenobarb n. (Informal, countable) A tablet of the drug. • PHENOBARB n. (short for) phenobarbitol. |
| TREBBIANO | • trebbiano n. A widely cultivated Italian grape variety of high acidity, used in the production of white wine and brandy. • trebbiano n. A variety of dry white wine made from this grape. • Trebbiano n. Alternative letter-case form of trebbiano. |