| ANGLOMANIAS | • Anglomanias n. Plural of Anglomania. • ANGLOMANIA n. a craze or obsession with England and the English. |
| ANIMALISING | • animalising v. Present participle of animalise. • ANIMALISE v. to endow with the properties of an animal; to represent in animal form, also ANIMALIZE. |
| ANTIMONIALS | • antimonials n. Plural of antimonial. • ANTIMONIAL n. a drug containing antimony. |
| BLANCMANGES | • blancmanges n. Plural of blancmange. • BLANCMANGE n. (French) an opaque jelly made with isinglass or gelatin and milk or (now usually) cornflour and milk, often flavoured and sweetened. |
| CALAMONDINS | • calamondins n. Plural of calamondin. • CALAMONDIN n. (Tagalog) a small citrus tree, native to the Philippines; its acid-tasting orange-like fruit. |
| CANNIBALISM | • cannibalism n. The act of eating another of one’s own species. • cannibalism n. (Figurative) An act in which one thing consumes or takes over another of the same kind. • cannibalism n. In speech, the occurrence of one word eliding part or all of the next word, because the syllables are… |
| LAMINARIANS | • laminarians n. Plural of laminarian. • LAMINARIAN n. a brown seaweed. |
| LAMINATIONS | • laminations n. Plural of lamination. • LAMINATION n. the act of laminating. |
| LANDAMMANNS | • Landammanns n. Plural of Landammann. • LANDAMMANN n. (German) a chief magistrate in some of the Swiss cantons, also LANDAMMAN. |
| LAYMANISING | • LAYMANISE v. to simplify (technical information) into a form that can be understood by ordinary people, also LAYMANIZE. |
| MAINLANDERS | • mainlanders n. Plural of mainlander. • Mainlanders n. Plural of Mainlander. • MAINLANDER n. one who lives on the mainland. |
| MALIGNANCES | • malignances n. Plural of malignance. • MALIGNANCE n. the state of being malignant, also MALIGNANCY. |
| MANSPLAINED | • mansplained v. Simple past tense and past participle of mansplain. • MANSPLAIN v. (of a man) to explain (something) to a woman in a patronizing or condescending way. |
| MANSPLAINER | • mansplainer n. (Informal) One (especially a man) who mansplains. |
| MANZANILLAS | • manzanillas n. Plural of manzanilla. • MANZANILLA n. (Spanish) a very dry, light sherry. |
| NATIONALISM | • nationalism n. Patriotism; the idea of supporting one’s country, people or culture. • nationalism n. Support for the creation of a sovereign nation (which does not currently exist). • nationalism n. (UK, Ireland) Support for the union of Northern Ireland and the Republic of Ireland. |
| NONAGESIMAL | • nonagesimal n. (Astronomy) The middle to highest point of a part of an ecliptic that is above the horizon at any period of time. • nonagesimal adj. Of or relating to the ninetieth degree or to a nonagesimal. • NONAGESIMAL adj. ninetieth. |
| ORNAMENTALS | • ornamentals n. Plural of ornamental. • ORNAMENTAL n. a plant grown for ornament. |
| PLANTSWOMAN | • plantswoman n. A female plantsman. • PLANTSWOMAN n. a female person who has great knowledge of and experience in gardening. |
| SLAMDANCING | • slamdancing n. Alternative form of slam dancing. • slam-dancing v. Present participle of slam-dance. • slam␣dancing n. A form of dancing, to punk rock music, in which the dancers deliberately collide with each other. |