| BACTEROIDS | • bacteroids n. Plural of bacteroid. • BACTEROID n. a swollen bacterium living symbiotically in the root-nodules of beans and other plants, also BACTERIOID. |
| BANDOLIERS | • bandoliers n. Plural of bandolier. • BANDOLIER n. (French) a shoulder belt for carrying ammunition, also BANDELIER, BANDOLEER. |
| BOUNDARIES | • boundaries n. Plural of boundary. • BOUNDARY n. a final limit. |
| BROADLINES | • BROADLINE n. a company dealing in large volumes of cheap products. |
| BROADSIDED | • broadsided v. Simple past tense and past participle of broadside. • BROADSIDE v. to deliver a broadside. |
| BROADSIDES | • broadsides n. Plural of broadside. • broadsides v. Third-person singular simple present indicative form of broadside. • BROADSIDE n. all the guns on one side of a ship of war; their simultaneous discharge. |
| BROMELIADS | • bromeliads n. Plural of bromeliad. • BROMELIAD n. any plant of the genus Bromelia, that includes pineapples, also BROMELIA. |
| CARBOLISED | • carbolised v. Simple past tense and past participle of carbolise. • CARBOLISE v. to treat or disinfect with phenol, also CARBOLIZE. |
| CARBONISED | • carbonised adj. Alternative spelling of carbonized. • CARBONISE v. to turn into carbon, also CARBONIZE. |
| FIREBOARDS | • fireboards n. Plural of fireboard. • FIREBOARD n. a mantelpiece. |
| HARBORSIDE | • harborside n. An area (especially a residential area) near a harbor (often in the form of converted warehouses etc). • harborside adj. Located on or near a harbor. • HARBORSIDE adj. (US) located next to a harbor, also HARBOURSIDE. |
| HARDBODIES | • hardbodies n. Plural of hardbody. • HARDBODY n. an attractive person with a muscular body. |
| INDORSABLE | • indorsable adj. Alternative form of endorsable. • INDORSABLE adj. capable of being indorsed. |
| KITEBOARDS | • kiteboards n. Plural of kiteboard. • KITEBOARD n. a board similar to a windsurfing board, towed by a kite. |
| MICROBEADS | • microbeads n. Plural of microbead. • MICROBEAD n. a very small plastic particle, numbers of which are used as exfoliating agents in cosmetics. |
| MISLABORED | • MISLABOR v. to labor badly, also MISLABOUR. |
| OBDURACIES | • obduracies n. Plural of obduracy. • OBDURACY n. the quality of hardness of heart. |
| SIDEBOARDS | • sideboards n. Plural of sideboard. • sideboards n. (Chiefly Britain) Sideburns. • sideboards v. Third-person singular simple present indicative form of sideboard. |