| BOOJUMS | • boojums n. Plural of boojum. • BOOJUM n. a spiny desert tree. |
| BRUMOUS | • brumous adj. (Literary) Foggy or misty; wintry. • BRUMOUS adj. relating to fog. |
| BUCKSOM | • bucksom adj. Obsolete form of buxom. • BUCKSOM adj. (Milton) buxom. |
| BUMBOYS | • bumboys n. Plural of bumboy. |
| COMBUST | • combust v. To burn; to catch fire. • combust v. (Intransitive, figuratively) To erupt with enthusiasm or boisterousness. • combust adj. (Obsolete) Burnt. |
| EMBOLUS | • embolus n. (Pathology) An obstruction causing an embolism: a blood clot, air bubble or other matter carried by… • embolus n. (Zoology) The structure on the end of the palp of male arachnids which contains the opening to the ejaculatory duct. • EMBOLUS n. (Latin) a clot or air bubble obstructing a blood-vessel. |
| LIMBOUS | • limbous adj. (Anatomy) With slightly overlapping borders; said of a suture. • LIMBOUS adj. overlapping. |
| OMNIBUS | • omnibus n. (Dated) A vehicle set up to carry many people (now usually called a bus). • omnibus n. An anthology of previously released material linked together by theme or author, especially in book form. • omnibus n. A broadcast programme consisting of all of the episodes of a serial that have been shown in the previous week. |
| RHOMBUS | • rhombus n. (Geometry) A parallelogram having all sides of equal length. • rhombus n. In early Greek religion, an instrument whirled on the end of a string similar to a bullroarer. • rhombus n. (Zoology, now rare) Any of several flatfishes, including the brill and turbot, once considered part… |
| SUBATOM | • subatom n. Any particle that is smaller than an atom. • SUBATOM n. a component of an atom. |
| UMBONES | • umbones n. Plural of umbo. • UMBO n. (Latin) the rounded elevation at the centre of a shield. |
| UMBROSE | • umbrose adj. (Obsolete) Shady; umbrageous. • UMBROSE adj. shade-giving; dusky, also UMBROUS. |
| UMBROUS | • umbrous adj. Of an umber colour. • UMBROUS adj. shade-giving; dusky, also UMBROSE. |
| UNBOSOM | • unbosom v. (Transitive, intransitive, archaic) To tell someone about (one’s troubles), and thus obtain relief. • unbosom v. (Reflexive, archaic) To free (oneself) of the burden of one’s troubles by telling of them. • unbosom v. (Archaic) To confess a misdeed. |
| UNTOMBS | • untombs v. Third-person singular simple present indicative form of untomb. • UNTOMB v. to remove from a tomb. |