| ABDUCTION | • abduction n. Leading away; a carrying away. • abduction n. (Anatomy) The act of abducing or abducting; a drawing apart; the movement which separates a limb or… • abduction n. (Logic) A syllogism or form of argument in which the major premise is evident, but the minor is only probable. |
| ABONDANCE | • abondance n. (Card games) Alternative form of abundance. • ABONDANCE n. a call in whist to make nine tricks, also ABUNDANCE. |
| ABSCONDED | • absconded v. Simple past tense and past participle of abscond. • ABSCOND v. to depart suddenly and secretly. |
| ABSCONDER | • absconder n. A person who absconds. • ABSCONDER n. one who absconds. |
| BACKBONDS | • backbonds n. Plural of backbond. • BACKBOND n. a deed attaching a qualification or condition to the terms of a conveyance or other instrument. |
| BACKBONED | • backboned adj. Having a spine. • BACKBONED adj. having a backbone, vertebrate. |
| BACKDOWNS | • backdowns n. Plural of backdown. • BACKDOWN n. the abandonment of one's position. |
| BALCONIED | • balconied adj. That has a balcony attached. • BALCONIED adj. having a balcony. |
| BANDICOOT | • bandicoot n. A small Australian marsupial with a distinctive long snout, of the family Peramelidae (with the exception… • bandicoot n. Any of several rat-like rodents of the genera Bandicota and Nesokia of southeast Asia. • bandicoot v. (Australia, informal) To steal growing vegetables from a garden. |
| BRACONIDS | • braconids n. Plural of braconid. • BRACONID n. any of a family of parasitic wasps. |
| BROCADING | • brocading n. The pattern or decoration made by brocading. • brocading v. Present participle of brocade. • BROCADE v. (French) to weave a silky fabric with a raised design. |
| 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. |
| CASEBOUND | • casebound adj. (Of a book) hardcover (attributive). • CASEBOUND adj. of a book, bound in stiff covers. |
| CONFABBED | • confabbed v. Simple past tense and past participle of confab. • CONFAB v. to converse, gossip. |
| CORNBRAID | • CORNBRAID v. to braid hair in cornrows, also CORNROW. |
| CORNBREAD | • cornbread n. (US) Bread made from cornmeal. • corn␣bread n. Alternative form of cornbread. • CORNBREAD n. bread made of the meal of maize. |
| CROSSBAND | • crossband n. A band going across something, especially… • crossband v. (Transitive) To arrange the layers of plywood so as to make their grains cross at right angles. • crossband adj. (Telecommunications) Receiving on one frequency band and transmitting on another. |
| ENCODABLE | • encodable adj. That can be encoded. • ENCODABLE adj. that can be encoded. |
| SUBDEACON | • subdeacon n. (Catholicism, chiefly historical) A Catholic clerical rank in the major orders below that of a deacon. • subdeacon n. (Catholicism, chiefly historical) A Catholic cleric who assists the deacon at High Mass and normally… • subdeacon n. (Eastern Christianity) The highest of the minor orders below that of a deacon. |