| ABSONANT | • absonant adj. (Now rare) Discordant; harsh; contrary; unreasonable. • ABSONANT adj. discordant; abhorrent. |
| ANTISNOB | • antisnob adj. Opposing snobbery. • antisnob n. One who opposes snobbery. • ANTISNOB adj. opposed to snobbery. |
| BANKNOTE | • banknote n. A piece of paper currency. • banknote n. (Now historical) A promissory note issued by a bank, payable at a given time to a specific beneficiary. • bank␣note n. Alternative form of banknote. |
| BATONING | • batoning v. Present participle of baton. • BATON v. to strike with a truncheon, also BATOON. |
| BENTHONS | • benthons n. Plural of benthon. • BENTHON n. the flora and fauna of the ocean floor, also BENTHOS. |
| BONNETED | • bonneted adj. Wearing or having a bonnet. • BONNET v. to put on a head covering tied with ribbon. |
| BONNIEST | • bonniest adj. Superlative form of bonny: most bonny. • BONNY adj. pretty or healthy, also BONNIE. |
| BOTONNEE | • BOTONNEE adj. having buds or knobs at the extremities, applied to a cross, also BOTONE, BOTONEE, BOTTONY. |
| BOUTONNE | • BOUTONNE adj. (French) reserved, reticent (of a male). |
| BUNODONT | • bunodont adj. (Of molars) Whose cusps are rounded, not sharp peaks. • bunodont n. A creature with teeth of this kind. • BUNODONT adj. having rounded molar teeth. |
| BUTANONE | • butanone n. (Organic chemistry) A simple aliphatic ketone, CH3CH2COCH3, prepared industrially as a solvent, for… • BUTANONE n. a flammable ketone. |
| DUBONNET | • dubonnet n. The reddish purple colour of the apéritif Dubonnet. • Dubonnet prop.n. A French bittersweet red aperitif. • DUBONNET n. (French) a red colour. |
| KNITBONE | • knitbone n. The plant comfrey. • KNITBONE n. the plant comfrey. |
| NANOBOTS | • nanobots n. Plural of nanobot. • NANOBOT n. a microscopically small robot. |
| NANOTUBE | • nanotube n. (Chemistry) Shortening of carbon nanotube; A carbon molecule, in the shape of a tube, having a fullerene… • nanotube n. Any nanotech tubular structure with a characteristic diameter measured in a few nanometres, such as… • NANOTUBE n. a cylindrical tube of carbon. |
| NUTBROWN | • nutbrown adj. (Rare) Alternative form of nut-brown. • nut-brown adj. Brown as a ripe and dried nut. • NUTBROWN adj. of a dark brown. |
| TWINBORN | • twinborn adj. Born a twin or twins. • twin-born adj. As though born a twin or twins. • TWINBORN adj. born at the same birth. |
| UNBONNET | • unbonnet v. (Transitive) To remove a bonnet from. • unbonnet v. (Intransitive) To take off one’s bonnet. • UNBONNET v. to uncover the head. |
| UNBUTTON | • unbutton v. (Transitive, intransitive) To open (something) by undoing its buttons. • unbutton v. (Intransitive, ergative) To come open by having its buttons unfastened. • UNBUTTON v. to unfasten the buttons of. |