| BLACKBIRDINGS | • BLACKBIRDING n. trafficking in slaves. |
| CALENDARISING | • calendarising v. Present participle of calendarise. • CALENDARISE v. in accounting, to divide (something, e.g. a budget) into equal units of time within a year (usually months), also CALENDARIZE. |
| CARDIOLOGISTS | • cardiologists n. Plural of cardiologist. • CARDIOLOGIST n. a practitioner of cardiology. |
| CARDIOPLEGIAS | • cardioplegias n. Plural of cardioplegia. • CARDIOPLEGIA n. deliberate arrest of the action of the heart, as by hypothermia or the injection of chemicals, to enable complex heart surgery to be carried out. |
| CHILDBEARINGS | • childbearings n. Plural of childbearing. • CHILDBEARING n. the process of conceiving, being pregnant with, and giving birth to children. |
| CONSOLIDATING | • consolidating v. Present participle of consolidate. • CONSOLIDATE v. to join together into one whole. |
| DECARTELISING | • DECARTELISE v. to break up (a cartel), also DECARTELIZE. |
| DECASUALISING | • DECASUALISE v. (US) to replace the casual workers in (a business) with permanent employees, also DECASUALIZE. |
| DECASUALIZING | • decasualizing v. Present participle of decasualize. • DECASUALIZE v. (US) to replace the casual workers in (a business) with permanent employees, also DECASUALISE. |
| DECLASSIFYING | • declassifying v. Present participle of declassify. • DECLASSIFY v. to remove or reduce the security classification of. |
| DEGLACIATIONS | • deglaciations n. Plural of deglaciation. • DEGLACIATION n. the melting of ice due to the retreat of a glacier. |
| DERACIALISING | • deracialising v. Present participle of deracialise. • DERACIALISE v. to divest of racial character, also DERACIALIZE. |
| DESACRALISING | • DESACRALISE v. to deprive or remove sacred qualities, also DESACRALIZE. |
| DESACRALIZING | • desacralizing v. Present participle of desacralize. • DESACRALIZE v. to divest of supernatural qualities, also DESACRALISE. |
| DIALOGISTICAL | • dialogistical adj. Alternative form of dialogistic. • DIALOGISTICAL adj. relating to dialog, also DIALOGISTIC. |
| DISTRACTINGLY | • distractingly adv. In a distracting manner. • DISTRACTING adv. DISTRACT, to divert the attention of. |
| QUADRIPLEGICS | • quadriplegics n. Plural of quadriplegic. • QUADRIPLEGIC n. one suffering from quadriplegia, also QUADRAPLEGIC. |
| STICKHANDLING | • stickhandling v. Present participle of stickhandle. • stickhandling n. (Ice hockey, field hockey, lacrosse) Skillful manipulation of the puck or ball with a player’s stick… • STICKHANDLING n. the act of manoeuvring (the puck) deftly in ice hockey. |