| AMBACHES | • AMBACH n. a pith tree, also AMBATCH. |
| BECHAMEL | • bechamel n. Alternative spelling of béchamel. • béchamel n. Ellipsis of béchamel sauce. • BECHAMEL n. (French) a rich, white sauce, prepared with butter and cream. |
| BECHARMS | • becharms v. Third-person singular simple present indicative form of becharm. • BECHARM v. to enchant. |
| BESMIRCH | • besmirch v. (Transitive, literary) To make dirty. • besmirch v. (Transitive) To tarnish something, especially someone’s reputation. • BESMIRCH v. to soil, make dirty. |
| BESMUTCH | • besmutch v. (Transitive) To besmirch. • BESMUTCH v. (archaic) to soil, besmirch. |
| BICHROME | • bichrome adj. Having two colours. • BICHROME adj. two-colored. |
| BRACHIUM | • brachium n. (Anatomy) The upper arm. • BRACHIUM n. (Latin) the upper arm; the segment of the fore limb between the shoulder and the elbow. |
| BRECHAMS | • BRECHAM n. (Scots) a horse-collar, also BRECHAN. |
| CHAMBERS | • chambers n. (Archaic) A set of rooms in a building used as an office or a residential apartment. • chambers n. (By extension, law). • chambers n. Euphemistic form of chamber pot (“a container used for defecation and urination”); also, synonym of… |
| CHAMBRAY | • chambray n. A soft fabric woven with a white weft and coloured warp. • CHAMBRAY n. a lightweight fabric with coloured warp and white filling. |
| CHERUBIM | • cherubim n. Plural of cherub. • cherubim n. A cherub. • CHERUB n. (Hebrew) an angel. |
| CHIMBLEY | • chimbley n. (UK, dialect) Alternative form of chimney. • CHIMBLEY n. a chimney, also CHIMBLY, CHIMLA, CHIMLEY. |
| CHOLIAMB | • choliamb n. (Poetry) A limping iamb. • CHOLIAMB n. (Greek) a verse having an iambus in the fifth place, and a spondee in the sixth or last, also CHOLIAMBIC. |
| CHORIAMB | • choriamb n. A choriambus. • CHORIAMB n. (Greek) a metrical foot comprising a trochee and an iambus, also CHORIAMBIC, CHORIAMBUS. |
| HECATOMB | • hecatomb n. (Ancient Greece, Ancient Rome) A great feast and public sacrifice to the gods, originally of a hundred oxen. • hecatomb n. (By extension) Any great sacrifice; a great number of people, animals or things, especially as sacrificed… • HECATOMB n. a great public sacrifice. |
| HUMPBACK | • humpback n. A humped back (deformity in humans caused by abnormal curvature of the upper spine). • humpback n. (Derogatory, now offensive) A person with a humpback; a person who suffers from kyphosis. • humpback n. A humpback whale. |
| MACAHUBA | • macahuba n. Archaic form of macauba. • MACAHUBA n. (Spanish) an American palm, whose nuts yield a violet-scented oil, also MACOYA. |
| MATCHBOX | • matchbox n. A small cardboard box in which matches are kept. • matchbox n. Any small die-cast toy car, usually collectible. • MATCHBOX n. a small box. |
| SUMBITCH | • sumbitch n. Pronunciation spelling of son of a bitch, representing Southern US English. • SUMBITCH n. (colloquial) sonofabitch. |