| ATHLETICS | • athletics n. (Sports, especially Britain) A group of sporting activities including track and field, road running… • athletics n. (Sports, especially US) Physical activities such as sports and games requiring stamina, fitness and skill. • athletics n. Plural of athletic. |
| BITTACLES | • bittacles n. Plural of bittacle. • BITTACLE n. a casing for a ship's compass, also BINNACLE. |
| BRACTLETS | • bractlets n. Plural of bractlet. • BRACTLET n. a small leaf on the axis of a flower. |
| CARTELIST | • cartelist n. One who belongs to a cartel, or supports cartelism. • CARTELIST n. a member of a cartel, a supporter of cartels. |
| CATOLYTES | • CATOLYTE n. the electrolyte near the cathode, also CATHOLYTE. |
| CATTALOES | • cattaloes n. Plural of cattalo. • CATTALO n. a cross between a buffalo and a domestic cow, also CATALO. |
| CATTLEYAS | • cattleyas n. Plural of cattleya. • CATTLEYA n. a tropical orchid. |
| CLARTIEST | • clartiest adj. Superlative form of clarty: most clarty. • CLARTY adj. sticky and dirty. |
| COELOSTAT | • coelostat n. (Astronomy) A device that rotates a telescope so as to keep its orientation constant with relation to the stars. • COELOSTAT n. an astronomical instrument used to reflect light on to a telescope. |
| ECTOBLAST | • ectoblast n. (Dated, biology) The outer layer of the blastoderm; the ectoderm or epiblast. • ECTOBLAST n. the outer layer of the blastoderm, also EPIBLAST. |
| LATESCENT | • latescent adj. (Rare) latent, hidden, obscure. • LATESCENT adj. becoming latent or hidden. |
| OCTASTYLE | • octastyle adj. (Architecture) Having eight columns in the front row (Of a portico etc.). • octastyle n. A portico with eight columns. • OCTASTYLE adj. having eight columns at the end. |
| RACLETTES | • raclettes n. Plural of raclette. • RACLETTE n. (French) a dish made from melted cheese and potatoes. |
| SCRATTLED | • scrattled v. Simple past tense and past participle of scrattle. • SCRATTLE v. to keep scratching, also SCRAB, SCRAT, SCRATCH, SCRAWM. |
| SCRATTLES | • scrattles v. Third-person singular simple present indicative form of scrattle. • SCRATTLE v. to keep scratching, also SCRAB, SCRAT, SCRATCH, SCRAWM. |
| SHTETLACH | • shtetlach n. Plural of shtetl. • SHTETL n. (Yiddish) formerly, a Jewish community in an Eastern European town or village, also SHTETEL. |
| TALCKIEST | • TALCKY adj. pertaining to talc. |
| TELECASTS | • telecasts n. Plural of telecast. • TELECAST v. to broadcast by television. |
| TENTACLES | • tentacles n. Plural of tentacle. • TENTACLE n. a slender flexible organ in invertebrates. |