| HAMMERING | • hammering n. A period of being beaten or hammered. • hammering n. A dented appearance on silverware, produced by successive blows of a hammer. • hammering n. (Slang) A heavy defeat. |
| HAMPERING | • hampering v. Present participle of hamper. • hampering n. That which hampers; an impediment. • HAMPER v. to hinder, obstruct. |
| HAMSTRING | • hamstring n. (Anatomy) One of the great tendons situated in each side of the ham, or space back of the knee, and… • hamstring n. (Informal) The biceps femoris, semimembranosus, and semitendinosus muscles. • hamstring v. (Transitive) To lame or disable by cutting the tendons of the ham or knee; to hough. |
| HAMSTRUNG | • hamstrung adj. (Figurative) Restricted as if by being crippled with a hamstring. • hamstrung v. Simple past tense and past participle of hamstring. • HAMSTRING v. to disable by severing the hamstrings. |
| HARMDOING | • harmdoing n. (Chiefly psychology) The committing of acts that cause harm. • HARMDOING n. the doing of harm. |
| MONOGRAPH | • monograph n. A scholarly book or a treatise on a single subject or a group of related subjects, usually written by one person. • monograph v. (Transitive) To write a monograph on (a subject). • monograph v. (Transitive, US) Of the FDA: to publish a standard that authorizes the use of (a substance). |
| NEPHOGRAM | • nephogram n. A picture of a cloud. • nephogram n. (Physics) A graphical depiction of a physical quantity that resembles a cloud. • NEPHOGRAM n. a photograph of clouds. |
| NIGHTMARE | • nightmare n. (Now rare) A demon or monster, thought to plague people while they slept and cause a feeling of suffocation… • nightmare n. (Now chiefly historical) A feeling of extreme anxiety or suffocation experienced during sleep; Sleep paralysis. • nightmare n. A very bad or frightening dream. |
| NIGHTMARY | • nightmary adj. Characterized by, beset by, or resembling, nightmares. • NIGHTMARY adj. like a nightmare, also NIGHTMARISH. |
| NOMOGRAPH | • nomograph n. A nomogram. • NOMOGRAPH n. a chart or diagram of scaled lines or curves used to assist in mathematical calculations, also NOMOGRAM. |
| PHARMINGS | • PHARMING n. the production of pharmaceuticals from genetically altered plants or animals. |
| PHONOGRAM | • phonogram n. (Linguistics) A character or symbol (grapheme) that represents a sound, as opposed to logograms and determinatives. • phonogram n. (Law) An audio recording, regardless of physical format. • PHONOGRAM n. a letter, character, or mark used to represent a particular sound. |
| RHUMBAING | • rhumbaing v. Present participle of rhumba. • RHUMBA v. (Spanish) to dance a lively Spanish dance, also RUMBA. |
| SHMEARING | • shmearing v. Present participle of shmear. • SHMEAR v. (Yiddish) to bribe. |
| UNHARMING | • unharming adj. Doing no harm. • UNHARMING adj. harmless. |