| BARDOLATROUS | • bardolatrous adj. Shakespeare-worshipping. • BARDOLATROUS adj. showing bardolatry, excessive devotion to or worship of Shakespeare. |
| BIOTURBATION | • bioturbation n. (Geology) the mixing of soil or sediment by living organisms. • BIOTURBATION n. the restructuring of sedimentary deposits (as in a lake bottom or seabed) by moving organisms (as worms and burrowing clams). |
| BRONTOSAURUS | • brontosaurus n. One of the largest land animals to ever walk the earth; a Brontosaurus. • Brontosaurus prop.n. A taxonomic genus within the family Diplodocidae – certain large long-necked sauropods; formerly merged… • BRONTOSAURUS n. any of a genus of large sauropod dinosaurs of the Jurassic, also BRONTOSAUR. |
| CONFABULATOR | • confabulator n. One who confabulates. • CONFABULATOR n. one who confabulates. |
| CONURBATIONS | • conurbations n. Plural of conurbation. • CONURBATION n. an aggregation or continuous network of urban communities. |
| HOUSEBOATERS | • houseboaters n. Plural of houseboater. • HOUSEBOATER n. one who lives on a houseboat. |
| OBJURGATIONS | • objurgations n. Plural of objurgation. • OBJURGATION n. a rebuke, a scolding. |
| OBSCURATIONS | • obscurations n. Plural of obscuration. • OBSCURATION n. the act of obscuring. |
| OBSTROPALOUS | • obstropalous adj. Alternative form of obstropulous. • OBSTROPALOUS adj. (colloquial) noisy, unruly, also OBSTREPEROUS, OBSTROPULOUS. |
| OBUMBRATIONS | • obumbrations n. Plural of obumbration. • OBUMBRATION n. the act of obumbrating. |
| ROUNDABOUTED | • roundabouted v. Simple past tense and past participle of roundabout. • ROUNDABOUT v. to go round and round. |
| ROUNDABOUTLY | • roundaboutly adv. In a roundabout manner; indirectly. • ROUNDABOUT adv. circuitous. |
| SUBORDINATOR | • subordinator n. (Grammar) Any of a lexical class of words that join clauses at a subordinate syntactic level. • subordinator n. One who subordinates, or reduces the status of, another person. • SUBORDINATOR n. one that subordinates. |
| SUBORNATIONS | • subornations n. Plural of subornation. • SUBORNATION n. the act of suborning. |
| SUBROGATIONS | • subrogations n. Plural of subrogation. • SUBROGATION n. the act of subrogating, also SURROGATION. |
| THARBOROUGHS | • THARBOROUGH n. (Shakespeare) a mispronunciation of thirdborough, also FARBOROUGH. |
| THOROUGHBASS | • thoroughbass n. (Music) Synonym of figured bass. • THOROUGHBASS n. esp. in baroque music, a bass part underlying a piece. |
| URBANOLOGIST | • urbanologist n. A sociologist who studies the problems of living in cities and towns. • URBANOLOGIST n. one who studies towns. |