| ABSOLUTISTIC | • absolutistic adj. Alternative form of absolutist. • ABSOLUTISTIC adj. relating to absolutism. |
| BUTTERCREAMS | • buttercreams n. Plural of buttercream. • butter␣creams n. Plural of butter cream. • BUTTERCREAM n. a kind of cream. |
| CARBURETTERS | • carburetters n. Plural of carburetter. • CARBURETTER n. an apparatus for charging a gas with carbon compounds, also CARBURETER, CARBURETOR, CARBURETTOR. |
| CARBURETTORS | • carburettors n. Plural of carburettor. • CARBURETTOR n. an apparatus for charging a gas with carbon compounds, also CARBURETER, CARBURETOR, CARBURETTER. |
| CELEBUTANTES | • celebutantes n. Plural of celebutante. • CELEBUTANTE n. a young woman from a wealthy background who becomes a celebrity. |
| CONCUBITANTS | • CONCUBITANT n. someone of a suitable age for marriage. |
| COUNTERBLAST | • counterblast n. A work that strongly refutes or criticises another. • COUNTERBLAST n. a defiant pronouncement or denunciation. |
| CUTABILITIES | • CUTABILITY n. the proportion of lean saleable meat yielded by a carcase. |
| NOCTAMBULIST | • noctambulist n. (Rare) One who sleepwalks at night; a somnambulist. • NOCTAMBULIST n. a sleepwalker, a somnambulist. |
| OBSCURANTIST | • obscurantist n. A practitioner of obscurantism; an obscurant. • obscurantist adj. Of or relating to obscurantism. • OBSCURANTIST n. one who employs deliberate obscurity. |
| SCRATCHBUILT | • scratch-built adj. Of a building: built ad hoc, with whatever materials are to hand, and often just from ground level. • scratch-built adj. Of a structure, e.g. a car, model or toy: built with minimal cost and at short notice, with rudimentary materials. • SCRATCHBUILD v. to build (usually models) from raw materials, as opposed to constructing from kits or buying ready made. |
| SCRUTABILITY | • scrutability n. The property of being scrutable; openness to inspection. • SCRUTABILITY n. the quality of being scrutable. |
| SUBANTARCTIC | • subantarctic adj. Pertaining to a region in the Southern Hemisphere immediately north of Antarctica and covering the many… • SUBANTARCTIC adj. of, relating to, characteristic of, or being a region just outside the antarctic circle. |
| 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. |
| SUBSTRACTING | • substracting v. Present participle of substract. • SUBSTRACT v. to subtract; to withdraw, also SUBTRACT. |
| SUBSTRACTION | • substraction n. (Obsolete or non-native speakers’ English) Subtraction. • SUBSTRACTION n. subtraction, also SUBTRACTION. |
| SUBSTRACTORS | • SUBSTRACTOR n. (Shakespeare) a detractor. |
| SUBTRACTIONS | • subtractions n. Plural of subtraction. • SUBTRACTION n. the act of subtracting, also SUBSTRACTION. |