| BOMBACACEOUS | • bombacaceous adj. (Botany) Belonging to the now disused family Bombacaceae (now the much-reduced subfamily Bombacoideae in Malvaceae). • BOMBACACEOUS adj. relating to the family Bombacaceae, silk-cotton trees. |
| BROMOURACILS | • bromouracils n. Plural of bromouracil. • BROMOURACIL n. a uracil derivative that is an analog of thymine and pairs readily with adenine and sometimes with guanine. |
| CHORIAMBUSES | • choriambuses n. Plural of choriambus. • CHORIAMBUS n. a metrical foot comprising a trochee and an iambus, also CHORIAMB, CHORIAMBIC. |
| COLUMBARIUMS | • columbariums n. Plural of columbarium. |
| CONNUBIALISM | • connubialism n. (Formal) Marriage; married life. • CONNUBIALISM n. the state of being connubial. |
| CUSTOMISABLE | • customisable adj. Alternative spelling of customizable. |
| CUSTOMIZABLE | • customizable adj. Able to be customized. |
| INCONSUMABLE | • inconsumable adj. Not consumable; incapable of being consumed, wasted, or spent. • INCONSUMABLE adj. not capable of being consumed. |
| INCONSUMABLY | • inconsumably adv. Such that it cannot be consumed or used up; inexhaustibly. • INCONSUMABLE adv. not capable of being consumed. |
| MOUCHARABIES | • moucharabies n. Plural of moucharaby. • MOUCHARABY n. (Arabic) in North Africa, an external balcony enclosed with latticework. |
| NOCTAMBULISM | • noctambulism n. (Rare) sleepwalking. • NOCTAMBULISM n. somnambulism. |
| NOCTAMBULIST | • noctambulist n. (Rare) One who sleepwalks at night; a somnambulist. • NOCTAMBULIST n. a sleepwalker, a somnambulist. |
| OBSCURANTISM | • obscurantism n. A state of opposition to human progress or enlightenment. • obscurantism n. Deliberate obscurity or vagueness. • OBSCURANTISM n. opposition to the spread of knowledge; deliberate vagueness or abstruseness. |
| PULMOBRANCHS | • PULMOBRANCH n. a lung-book. |
| RAMBUNCTIOUS | • rambunctious adj. (Chiefly US, informal) Boisterous, energetic, noisy, and difficult to control. • RAMBUNCTIOUS adj. marked by uncontrollable exuberance, unruly, also RUMBUNCTIOUS. |
| SUBHARMONICS | • subharmonics n. Plural of subharmonic. • SUBHARMONIC n. a tone below a harmonic. |
| SUBMICROGRAM | • submicrogram adj. Being or relating to a quantity of less than a microgram. • submicrogram n. An amount that is less than a microgram. • SUBMICROGRAM adj. relating to or having a mass of less than one microgram. |
| TUBERCULOMAS | • tuberculomas n. Plural of tuberculoma. • TUBERCULOMA n. a slow-growing, circumscribed tuberculous lesion. |
| UNCOMPOSABLE | • uncomposable adj. Impossible to compose, or put together. • uncomposable adj. Incapable of being composed or reconciled. • UNCOMPOSABLE adj. that cannot be composed. |