| ATHEROGENIC | • atherogenic adj. (Medicine) that initiates or accelerates atherogenesis. • ATHEROGENIC adj. leading to atheroma. |
| AUTOCHANGER | • autochanger n. A device for playing multiple music media of a certain kind (Gramophone records, compact discs, etc… • autochanger n. (Computing) An automatic tape loader, for switching automatically between several computer backup tapes. • AUTOCHANGER n. a device by means of which records are dropped from a stack one at a time onto the turntable. |
| DREADNOUGHT | • dreadnought n. (Military, nautical, historical) A battleship, especially of the World War I era, in which most of the… • dreadnought n. (Informal) A type of warship heavier in armour or armament than a typical battleship. • dreadnought n. (Music) A type of acoustic guitar with a very large body and a waist that is less pronounced than on… |
| EARTHMOVING | • earthmoving adj. (Construction, not comparable) Designed to move large quantities of earth or rubble for civil engineering… • earthmoving adj. (Figuratively, comparable) Of great significance. • earth-moving n. The removal of large quantities of soil, e.g. from a construction site. |
| ESTRANGHELO | • ESTRANGHELO n. a cursive form of the old Syrian alphabet, also ESTRANGELO. |
| ETHNOGRAPHY | • ethnography n. (Anthropology) The branch of anthropology that scientifically describes specific human cultures and societies. • ethnography n. An ethnographic work. • ETHNOGRAPHY n. the study and systematic recording of human cultures. |
| FEARNOUGHTS | • fearnoughts n. Plural of fearnought. • FEARNOUGHT n. a thick cloth used for overcoats etc., also FEARNAUGHT. |
| GRANDMOTHER | • grandmother n. A mother of someone’s parent. • grandmother n. A female ancestor or progenitor. • grand-mother n. Obsolete form of grandmother. |
| HATEMONGERS | • hatemongers n. Plural of hatemonger. |
| HYDROGENATE | • hydrogenate v. (Chemistry, transitive) to treat something, or react something, with hydrogen; especially to react an… • HYDROGENATE v. to combine or treat with hydrogen. |
| KINETOGRAPH | • kinetograph n. (Dated) A camera for making chronophotographs. • kinetograph n. (Dated) A machine for projecting chronophotographs upon a screen for the purpose of producing the effect… • KINETOGRAPH n. an early form of cinematograph camera. |
| OUTREACHING | • outreaching v. Present participle of outreach. • outreaching n. An act of reaching out. • OUTREACH v. to reach beyond. |
| OVERHEATING | • overheating v. Present participle of overheat. • overheating n. A situation where something is overheated. • OVERHEATING n. heating to excess. |
| SHORTCHANGE | • shortchange v. To defraud someone by giving them less change than they should be given after a transaction. • shortchange v. (By extension) To deprive someone of something for which they paid. • shortchange v. To make disadvantaged by design. |
| STENOGRAPHS | • stenographs v. Third-person singular simple present indicative form of stenograph. • STENOGRAPH v. to write or report in stenographic characters. |
| STENOGRAPHY | • stenography n. The practice of transcribing speech (primarily for later dictation or testimony), usually using shorthand. • STENOGRAPHY n. the skill or occupation of writing in shorthand. |