| BALKANISING | • balkanising v. Present participle of balkanise. • Balkanising v. Present participle of Balkanise. • BALKANISE v. to divide (a region or territory) into small, often hostile units, also BALKANIZE. |
| BARKANTINES | • barkantines n. Plural of barkantine. • BARKANTINE n. a three-masted vessel, with the foremast square-rigged, and the mainmast and mizzenmast fore-and-aft-rigged, also BARKENTINE, BARQUANTINE, BARQUENTINE. |
| BARKENTINES | • barkentines n. Plural of barkentine. • BARKENTINE n. a three-masted vessel, with the foremast square-rigged, and the mainmast and mizzenmast fore-and-aft-rigged, also BARKANTINE, BARQUANTINE, BARQUENTINE. |
| BIOBANKINGS | • BIOBANKING n. the practice of creating large-scale repositories of human biological material (e.g. blood, urine, tissue samples, DNA, etc.) designed to further medical research. |
| BLACKENINGS | • blackenings n. Plural of blackening. • BLACKENING n. the act of making black. |
| BLANKETINGS | • blanketings n. Plural of blanketing. • BLANKETING n. cloth for blankets. |
| BLANKNESSES | • blanknesses n. Plural of blankness. • BLANKNESS n. emptiness. |
| BOUSINGKENS | • bousing-kens n. Plural of bousing-ken. • bousing␣kens n. Plural of bousing ken. • BOUSINGKEN n. (obsolete) in thieves' slang, a low drinking shop. |
| BRADYKININS | • bradykinins n. Plural of bradykinin. • BRADYKININ n. a blood hormone causing dilation of blood vessels. |
| BRANKURSINE | • brankursine n. A plant, the acanthus. • BRANKURSINE n. acanthus, or bear's-breech. |
| BUCKSKINNED | • buckskinned adj. Wearing clothes made from buckskin. • BUCKSKINNED adj. wearing buckskin. |
| DONNYBROOKS | • donnybrooks n. Plural of donnybrook. • DONNYBROOK n. (Irish) a brawl or heated public dispute. |
| EMBANKMENTS | • embankments n. Plural of embankment. • EMBANKMENT n. a raised structure (as of earth or gravel) used esp. to hold back water or to carry a roadway. |
| MOUNTEBANKS | • mountebanks n. Plural of mountebank. • mountebanks v. Third-person singular simple present indicative form of mountebank. • MOUNTEBANK n. a person who sells quack medicines from a platform; a charlatan. |
| NONSINKABLE | • nonsinkable adj. Not sinkable. • NONSINKABLE adj. that cannot be sunk. |
| SNAKEBITTEN | • snakebitten adj. (US) Alternative form of snakebit. • SNAKEBITTEN adj. suffering from snakebite. |
| TANKBUSTING | • tankbusting n. (Colloquial) The destruction of tanks by military aircraft. • tankbusting adj. (Colloquial) Of a military aircraft: designed for the destruction of tanks. • TANKBUSTING n. the use of a tankbuster, a plane that specialises in attacking tanks. |
| UNBEKNOWNST | • unbeknownst adv. (Followed by to) without the knowledge of. • UNBEKNOWNST adj. unknown. • UNBEKNOWNST adv. without the knowledge of, unobserved by, also UNBEKNOWN. |
| UNKNOWABLES | • unknowables n. Plural of unknowable. • UNKNOWABLE n. something that cannot be known. |