| ACROPHOBES | • acrophobes n. Plural of acrophobe. • ACROPHOBE n. someone with an abnormal fear of heights. |
| BACKSPACER | • backspacer n. A mechanism in a typewriter that controls backspacing. • BACKSPACER n. the backspace key on a typewriter. |
| BACKSPEERS | • BACKSPEER v. (Scots) to cross-question, also BACKSPEIR. |
| BACKSPEIRS | • BACKSPEIR v. (Scots) to cross-question, also BACKSPEER. |
| BAROSCOPES | • baroscopes n. Plural of baroscope. • BAROSCOPE n. a weatherglass. |
| CARPETBAGS | • carpetbags n. Plural of carpetbag. • CARPETBAG n. a travelling-bag made of carpeting. |
| CLAPBREADS | • CLAPBREAD n. a kind of hard-baked oatmeal cake. |
| CRABAPPLES | • crabapples n. Plural of crabapple. • crab-apples n. Plural of crab-apple. • crab␣apples n. Plural of crab apple. |
| CRISPBREAD | • crispbread n. A type of flat, dry bread or cracker, usually baked of rye flour, popular in the Nordic countries. • crisp␣bread n. Alternative spelling of crispbread. • CRISPBREAD n. a brittle, unsweetened type of biscuit. |
| CUPBEARERS | • cupbearers n. Plural of cupbearer. • cup-bearers n. Plural of cup-bearer. • CUPBEARER n. a person who attends at a feast to fill and hand out wine cups. |
| CYBERSPACE | • cyberspace n. A world of information accessed through the Internet. • cyberspace n. (By extension, somewhat dated) The Internet as a whole. • cyberspace n. (Science fiction) A three-dimensional representation of virtual space in a computer network. |
| CYBERSPEAK | • cyberspeak n. (Informal) The language used on the Internet or in cyberspace. |
| PAPERBACKS | • paperbacks n. Plural of paperback. • PAPERBACK v. to bring out in paperback. |
| PARBUCKLES | • parbuckles n. Plural of parbuckle. • parbuckles v. Third-person singular simple present indicative form of parbuckle. • PARBUCKLE v. to raise or lower (a cask, gun, etc.) with a parbuckle, a sling made by wrapping both ends of rope around object. |
| SPACEBORNE | • spaceborne adj. Operating or travelling in space. • space-borne adj. Alternative form of spaceborne. • SPACEBORNE adj. carried in space e.g. of spores. |
| SUBCHAPTER | • subchapter n. A subsection of a chapter. • SUBCHAPTER n. a subordinate part of a chapter. |