| BADINERIE | • badinerie n. A brief and lively dance. • badinerie n. The music to accompany this dance, or in this style. • BADINERIE n. (French) a name given in the 18th century to a type of quick, light movement in a suite. |
| BANDELIER | • bandelier n. Alternative form of bandoleer. • Bandelier prop.n. A surname from French. • BANDELIER n. (French) a shoulder belt for carrying ammunition, also BANDOLEER, BANDOLIER. |
| BEADINESS | • beadiness n. The state or quality of being beady. • BEADINESS n. the state of being beady. |
| BEHEADING | • beheading v. Present participle of behead. • beheading n. An instance of a person being beheaded. • BEHEADING n. an execution by decapitation. |
| BEPAINTED | • bepainted v. Simple past tense and past participle of bepaint. • BEPAINT v. (archaic) to paint over, to colour. |
| BESAINTED | • besainted v. Simple past tense and past participle of besaint. • BESAINT v. to make a saint of. |
| BESTAINED | • bestained adj. Stained all over, completely stained or discoloured. • bestained v. Simple past tense and past participle of bestain. • BESTAIN v. to stain all over. |
| BIDENTATE | • bidentate adj. (Zoology) Having only two teeth. • bidentate adj. (Botany) Having tooth-like projections that are themselves dentate. • bidentate adj. (Chemistry) Of a ligand, forming two separate chemical bonds to a coordinating metal ion. |
| BREADLINE | • breadline n. A line of people waiting to receive food from a charity. • breadline n. (Figurative) Subsistence level. • bread␣line n. Alternative spelling of breadline. |
| BUTADIENE | • butadiene n. (Organic chemistry) An unsaturated hydrocarbon, CH2=CH-CH=CH2; it is obtained from petroleum and is… • BUTADIENE n. a hydrocarbon used in making synthetic rubber. |
| DEBEAKING | • debeaking v. Present participle of debeak. • DEBEAK v. to remove the tip of the upper beak. |
| DEBONAIRE | • debonaire adj. Alternative spelling of debonair. • DEBONAIRE adj. of good appearance, elegant, also DEBONAIR, DEBONNAIRE. |
| DEFINABLE | • definable adj. Able to be defined. • DEFINABLE adj. that can be defined. |
| DISENABLE | • disenable v. (Obsolete, transitive) To disable; to disqualify. • DISENABLE v. to disable; to disqualify. |
| ENDAMEBIC | • ENDAMEBIC adj. like an endameba, a parasitic amoeba, also ENDAMOEBIC. |
| GABERDINE | • gaberdine n. Alternative form of gabardine (“long cloak”). • gaberdine n. Alternative form of gabardine (“textile”). • GABERDINE n. a closely woven twill fabric, also GABARDINE. |
| HABERDINE | • haberdine n. Cod salted and dried. • HABERDINE n. a cod salted and dried. |
| INDEXABLE | • indexable adj. That can be indexed. • INDEXABLE adj. that can be indexed. |
| NAEBODIES | • NAEBODY n. (Scots) nobody. |