| ABDUCTION | • abduction n. Leading away; a carrying away. • abduction n. (Anatomy) The act of abducing or abducting; a drawing apart; the movement which separates a limb or… • abduction n. (Logic) A syllogism or form of argument in which the major premise is evident, but the minor is only probable. |
| ABJECTION | • abjection n. A low or downcast condition; meanness of spirit; abasement; degradation. • abjection n. (Obsolete, chiefly figuratively) Something cast off; garbage. • abjection n. (Obsolete) The act of bringing down or humbling; casting down. |
| AITCHBONE | • aitchbone n. A cut of beef lying above the rump bone. • aitchbone n. The rump bone itself. • aitch-bone n. Alternative form of aitchbone. |
| ALBINOTIC | • albinotic adj. Affected with albinism. • ALBINOTIC adj. affected with albinism. |
| ANABIOTIC | • anabiotic adj. Relating to, or recovering from, anabiosis. • anabiotic adj. (Medicine, archaic) Serving to resuscitate; restorative. • anabiotic n. (Medicine, archaic) A restorative remedy; a powerful stimulant. |
| BALECTION | • balection n. Alternative form of bolection. • BALECTION n. a moulding around a panel, projecting beyond the surface of the framing, also BILECTION, BOLECTION. |
| BANDICOOT | • bandicoot n. A small Australian marsupial with a distinctive long snout, of the family Peramelidae (with the exception… • bandicoot n. Any of several rat-like rodents of the genera Bandicota and Nesokia of southeast Asia. • bandicoot v. (Australia, informal) To steal growing vegetables from a garden. |
| BICORNATE | • bicornate adj. Alternative form of bicornuate. • BICORNATE adj. having two horns or hornlike parts, also BICORNUATE. |
| BOTANICAL | • botanical adj. Of or pertaining to botany; relating to the study of plants. • botanical n. Something derived from a botanical, especially herbal, source. • BOTANICAL adj. related to botany. |
| BOTANICAS | • botanicas n. Plural of botanica. • BOTANICA n. (Greek) a shop that sells herbs and magic charms. |
| BROMANTIC | • bromantic adj. (Informal) Of or relating to bromance. • BROMANTIC adj. characterising a close but not romantic or sexual relationship between two men. |
| CIBATIONS | • cibations n. Plural of cibation. • CIBATION n. a process used by alchemists. |
| COBALTINE | • cobaltine n. Synonym of cobaltite. • COBALTINE n. a mineral of a nearly silver-white color, composed of arsenic, sulphur, and cobalt, also COBALTITE. |
| COMBATING | • combating v. Alternative spelling of combatting: present participle of combat. • COMBAT v. to fight against. |
| COMBINATE | • combinate n. The result of a combining of two or more components. • combinate adj. United; joined; betrothed. • COMBINATE adj. combined; betrothed. |
| INCUBATOR | • incubator n. (Chemistry) Any apparatus used to maintain environmental conditions suitable for a reaction. • incubator n. (Medicine) An apparatus used to maintain environmental conditions suitable for a newborn baby. • incubator n. An apparatus used to maintain environmental conditions suitable for the hatching of eggs. |
| OBSTINACY | • obstinacy n. The state, or an act, of stubbornness or doggedness. • OBSTINACY n. stubbornness. |
| SUBACTION | • subaction n. (Obsolete) The act of reducing to any state, as of mixing two bodies completely. • subaction n. An action that makes up part of a more complex action. • SUBACTION n. the act of reducing to any state, as of mixing two bodies completely. |