| BACKCOURTMAN | • backcourtman n. (Basketball) A backcourt player. • BACKCOURTMAN n. a guard on a basketball team. |
| BACKCOURTMEN | • backcourtmen n. Plural of backcourtman. • BACKCOURTMAN n. a guard on a basketball team. |
| BACTERIOCIDE | • bacteriocide n. Alternative form of bactericide. |
| BACTERIOCINS | • bacteriocins n. Plural of bacteriocin. • BACTERIOCIN n. an antibiotic (as colicin) produced by bacteria. |
| BATHOCHROMIC | • bathochromic adj. (Physics) Of a change in the position of a spectral band, to a lower frequency. • BATHOCHROMIC adj. denoting or relating to a shift to a longer wavelength in the absorption spectrum of a compound. |
| BRECCIATIONS | • brecciations n. Plural of brecciation. • BRECCIATION n. the process of forming breccia. |
| CONCELEBRANT | • concelebrant n. One who concelebrates. • CONCELEBRANT n. one that concelebrates a Eucharist or Mass. |
| CONCELEBRATE | • concelebrate v. To celebrate along with others. • concelebrate v. (Of a newly ordained priest) To celebrate a mass along with the bishop who ordained him. • CONCELEBRATE v. to jointly recite the canon of the Eucharist in unison with others. |
| CONTRACTABLE | • contractable adj. Capable of being contracted (in various senses). • CONTRACTABLE adj. that can be contracted, also CONTRACTIBLE. |
| CONTRACTABLY | • CONTRACTABLE adv. that can be contracted, also CONTRACTIBLE. |
| CONTRACTIBLE | • contractible adj. Capable of contraction. • contractible adj. (Mathematics) (of a topological set) Able to be reduced to one of its points by a continuous deformation. • CONTRACTIBLE adj. that can be contracted, also CONTRACTABLE. |
| CONTRACTIBLY | • CONTRACTIBLE adv. that can be contracted, also CONTRACTABLE. |
| COUNTERBRACE | • counterbrace v. (Nautical, transitive) To brace in opposite directions. • counterbrace v. (Engineering, transitive) To brace in such a way that opposite strains are resisted. • COUNTERBRACE v. to brace or fasten (the head-yards and after-yards) in opposite ways. |
| MACROBIOTICS | • macrobiotics n. The art of prolonging life. • MACROBIOTICS n. the art or science of prolonging life; a cult partly concerned with diet, foods regarded as pure being vegetable substances grown and prepared without chemicals or processing. |
| MOBOCRATICAL | • mobocratical adj. Of or pertaining to mobocracy. • MOBOCRATICAL adj. relating to mobocracy, government by mobs or crowds, also MOBOCRATIC. |
| MYCOBACTERIA | • mycobacteria n. Plural of mycobacterium. • MYCOBACTERIUM n. any of a genus of bacteria that includes the pathogens causing tuberculosis and leprosy. |
| SCRATCHBOARD | • scratchboard n. (Art) A technique in which drawings are created using sharp knives and tools for etching into a thin… • SCRATCHBOARD n. a scraperboard. |
| SCROBICULATE | • scrobiculate adj. (Botany) Having numerous small, shallow depressions or hollows; pitted. • SCROBICULATE adj. marked with many shallow depressions, grooves, or pits, also SCROBICULATED. |
| SUBCONTRACTS | • subcontracts v. Third-person singular simple present indicative form of subcontract. • SUBCONTRACT n. a contract between a party to an original contract and a third party. |