| AFFRIGHTMENT | • affrightment n. (Obsolete) The action of frightening or terrifying; intimidation. • affrightment n. (Obsolete) A cause of fear. • affrightment n. (Archaic) Fright; fear; alarm; the fact or state of being frightened. |
| EARTHMOVINGS | • EARTHMOVING n. the act of moving large quantities of earth, as with a bulldozer. |
| GARNISHMENTS | • garnishments n. Plural of garnishment. • GARNISHMENT n. garnish, ornament. |
| GRANDMOTHERS | • grandmothers n. Plural of grandmother. • grand-mothers n. Plural of grand-mother. • GRANDMOTHER n. the mother of one's mother or father. |
| HAMFATTERING | • HAMFATTER v. to perform as a third-rate minstrel. |
| HEARTWARMING | • heartwarming adj. Alternative form of heart-warming. • heart-warming adj. Eliciting cosy feelings of tenderness and sympathy. • HEARTWARMING adj. inspiring sympathetic feeling. |
| MAGNETOGRAPH | • magnetograph n. An instrument for measuring changes in the direction and intensity of magnetic fields. • MAGNETOGRAPH n. an instrument for recording measurements of magnetic fields. |
| MANSLAUGHTER | • manslaughter n. (Obsolete) The slaying of a human being. • manslaughter n. (Law) The unlawful killing of a human, either in negligence or incidentally to the commission of some… • MANSLAUGHTER n. the unlawful killing of a human being without express or implied malice. |
| MERCHANTINGS | • MERCHANTING n. the act of trading as a merchant. |
| METAPHRASING | • metaphrasing v. Present participle of metaphrase. • METAPHRASE v. to turn prose into verse or vice versa. |
| NIGHTMARIEST | • NIGHTMARY adj. like a nightmare, also NIGHTMARISH. |
| OVERMATCHING | • overmatching v. Present participle of overmatch. • OVERMATCH v. to be more than a match for. |
| SLAUGHTERMAN | • slaughterman n. A man employed to slaughter animals in a slaughterhouse. • SLAUGHTERMAN n. one whose occupation it is to kill for food. |
| SLAUGHTERMEN | • slaughtermen n. Plural of slaughterman. • SLAUGHTERMAN n. one whose occupation it is to kill for food. |
| THERMALISING | • thermalising v. Present participle of thermalise. • THERMALISE v. to reduce the kinetic energy and speed of fast neutrons in a reactor, also THERMALIZE. |
| THERMALIZING | • thermalizing v. Present participle of thermalize. • THERMALIZE v. to reduce the kinetic energy and speed of fast neutrons in a reactor, also THERMALISE. |