| ANTIGROWTH | • antigrowth adj. Opposing or countering growth. • ANTIGROWTH adj. designed to prevent growth. |
| CARTWRIGHT | • cartwright n. A person who makes carts; a wainwright. • Cartwright prop.n. (Countable) An English surname originating as an occupation for someone who made carts. • Cartwright prop.n. (Uncountable) A placename, from the surname… |
| CHATTERING | • chattering v. Present participle of chatter. • chattering adj. That chatters. • chattering n. A noise that chatters. |
| DISTRAUGHT | • distraught adj. Deeply hurt, saddened, or worried; incapacitated by distress. • distraught adj. Mad; insane. • DISTRAUGHT adj. agitated with doubt or mental conflict or pain. |
| EARTHLIGHT | • earthlight n. Sunlight reflected from the Earth’s surface. • EARTHLIGHT n. the faint light visible on parts of the moon not illuminated by the sun. |
| GASTROLITH | • gastrolith n. (Zoology) rocks which are or have been held inside the digestive tract of an animal to aid in buoyancy… • GASTROLITH n. a stone ingested by an animal to aid in digestion. |
| KHITMUTGAR | • khitmutgar n. Alternative spelling of khitmatgar. • KHITMUTGAR n. (Urdu) a table-servant, also KHIDMUTGAR. |
| RATCHETING | • ratcheting v. Present participle of ratchet. • ratcheting n. The act by which something is ratcheted. • ratcheting n. A conjurers’ trick of bending an object back and forth to induce metal fatigue, so that it can be broken… |
| SHATTERING | • shattering v. Present participle of shatter. • shattering n. The act of something that shatters; the shattered material. • SHATTERING adj. of e.g. news, devastating. |
| STARLIGHTS | • starlights n. Plural of starlight. • STARLIGHT n. the light of stars. |
| STRAIGHTED | • straighted v. Simple past tense and past participle of straight. • STRAIGHT v. to lay out a corpse. |
| STRAIGHTEN | • straighten v. (Transitive) To cause to become straight. • straighten v. (Intransitive) To become straight. • straighten v. (Transitive) To put in order; to sort; to tidy up. |
| STRAIGHTER | • straighter adj. Comparative form of straight: more straight. • straighter n. (Slang) Synonym of straight (“a cigarette, particularly one containing tobacco instead of marijuana”). • STRAIGHT adj. uncurved, also STRAICHT, STRAUCHT, STRAUGHT. |
| STRAIGHTLY | • straightly adv. In a straight manner; without curve or bend. • straightly adv. Without deviation; directly. • straightly adv. Immediately; straightaway. |
| STRINGHALT | • stringhalt n. A kind of lameness in horses, causing the animal to twitch its leg up suddenly. • STRINGHALT n. a jerking lameness in which a horse suddenly twitches up its leg or legs, also SPRINGHALT. |
| THWARTINGS | • thwartings n. Plural of thwarting. • THWARTING n. the act of thwarting. |
| ULTRALIGHT | • ultralight adj. Extremely light; weighing very little, of utmost lightness. • ultralight n. An aircraft that weighs very little. • ULTRALIGHT n. a very light aircraft. |
| ULTRARIGHT | • ultraright adj. (Politics) Extremely right-wing. • ultraright n. A person of extremely right-wing political beliefs. • ULTRARIGHT n. in politics, the far right. |
| WATERTIGHT | • watertight adj. So tightly made that water cannot enter or escape. • watertight adj. (Figurative) So devised or planned as to be impossible to defeat, evade or nullify. • WATERTIGHT adj. so well-sealed as not to admit water or let it escape. |