| BACKGAMMON | • backgammon n. A board game for two players in which each has 15 stones which move between 24 triangular points according… • backgammon n. (Backgammon) A victory in the game when the loser has not borne off a stone, and still has one or more… • backgammon v. To win at a backgammon game with the opponent having one or more pieces in the winner’s inner home row… |
| BIOMIMETIC | • biomimetic adj. Of, related to, or produced by biomimetics. • BIOMIMETIC adj. relating to biomimetics, the science of deriving useful structures and processes from the study of natural parallels. |
| BIOMIMICRY | • biomimicry n. Biomimetics. • BIOMIMICRY n. the mimicry of one living organism by another. |
| COLUMBIUMS | • columbiums n. Plural of columbium. • COLUMBIUM n. a rare element of the vanadium group, now more commonly called niobium. |
| COMBRETUMS | • combretums n. Plural of combretum. • COMBRETUM n. (Latin) a member of a genus of tropical trees known for the beauty of their flowers. |
| COMMONABLE | • commonable adj. (Of land) Owned, managed or used in common. • commonable adj. Of an animal: that may be pastured on common land. • COMMONABLE adj. held in common, mutual. |
| COMMUTABLE | • commutable adj. Capable of being commuted. • COMMUTABLE adj. able to be commuted. |
| CUMBERSOME | • cumbersome adj. Burdensome or hindering, as if a weight or drag; vexatious. • cumbersome adj. Not easily managed or handled; awkward; clumsy. • cumbersome adj. Hard, difficult, demanding to handle or get around with. |
| EMBOLISMIC | • embolismic adj. Relating to embolism or intercalation. • EMBOLISMIC adj. pertaining to an embolism, the presence of one or more obstructing blood-clots in a blood vessel, also EMBOLIC. |
| MICROBEAMS | • microbeams n. Plural of microbeam. • MICROBEAM n. a beam of radiation of small cross-section. |
| MICROBIOME | • microbiome n. (Genetics) The genetic information (genomes) of a microbiota. • microbiome n. (Biology) A microbial biome, such as the community of microbes within the human gut. • MICROBIOME n. the microscopic organisms, such as bacteria, which inhabit the human body in a symbiotic relationship. |
| MISBECOMES | • misbecomes v. Third-person singular simple present indicative form of misbecome. • MISBECOME v. (archaic) to be unbecoming to. |
| MUMBLECORE | • mumblecore n. (Film) An American independent film movement of the early twenty-first century, characterised by low-budget… |
| PROCAMBIUM | • procambium n. (Botany) A meristem that lies just inside the protoderm and develops into primary xylem and primary phloem. • PROCAMBIUM n. the young tissue of a fibrovascular bundle before its component cells have begun to be differentiated. |