| ACCUMBENT | • accumbent adj. Leaning or reclining, as the ancients did at their meals. • accumbent adj. (Botany) Lying against anything, as one part of a leaf against another leaf. • accumbent n. One who rests in an accumbent position, especially at table. |
| BACCHANTE | • bacchante n. A priestess of Bacchus. • bacchante n. A female bacchanal. • BACCHANTE n. a priestess of Bacchus. |
| BACKBENCH | • backbench adj. Relating to the back benches in parliament. • backbench adj. Pertaining to the preparation of a donor organ prior to transplantation. • backbench adj. Secondary or inactive. |
| BECHANCED | • bechanced v. Simple past tense and past participle of bechance. • BECHANCE v. to happen by chance. |
| BECHANCES | • bechances v. Third-person singular simple present indicative form of bechance. • BECHANCE v. to happen by chance. |
| BICENTRIC | • bicentric adj. (Not comparable) Having two centres. • bicentric adj. (Comparable, LGBT) Having a bisexual bias or basis. • BICENTRIC adj. having two centres. |
| BICONCAVE | • biconcave adj. (Optics, anatomy) Having both sides concave. • BICONCAVE adj. concave on both sides. |
| BUCCANEER | • buccaneer n. (Nautical) Any of a group of seamen who cruised on their own account on the Spanish Main and in the… • buccaneer n. A pirate. • buccaneer v. To engage in piracy against any but one’s own nation’s ships. |
| BUCCANIER | • buccanier n. Archaic form of buccaneer. • buccanier v. Archaic form of buccaneer. • BUCCANIER v. to act as a buccaneer, a pirate, originally of the Spanish-American coasts; an unscrupulous adventurer, also BUCCANEER. |
| CANCELBOT | • cancelbot n. (Internet) A bot that sends messages to Usenet newsgroups to remove certain postings, especially spam. • CANCELBOT n. a computer program that identifies and deletes unwanted articles sent to an Internet newsgroup. |
| CARBUNCLE | • carbuncle n. (Archaic) A deep-red or fiery colored garnet or other dark red precious stone, especially when cut cabochon. • carbuncle n. (Pathology) An abscess larger than a boil, usually with one or more openings draining pus onto the skin… • carbuncle n. An unpopular or ugly building; an eyesore. |
| CENOBITIC | • cenobitic adj. Of or pertaining to a cenobite. • CENOBITIC adj. of or like a cenobite, also CENOBITICAL, COENOBITIC. |
| CONCUBINE | • concubine n. A sexual partner, especially a woman, to whom one is not or cannot be married. • concubine n. A woman who lives with a man, but who is not a wife. • concubine n. (Chiefly historical) A slave-girl or woman, kept for instance in a harem, who is held for sexual service. |
| CONSCRIBE | • conscribe v. (Obsolete) To enroll; to enlist. • CONSCRIBE v. to enroll; to enlist. |
| CUMBRANCE | • cumbrance n. (Obsolete) encumbrance. • CUMBRANCE n. an encumbrance. |
| PINCHBECK | • pinchbeck n. An alloy of copper and zinc once used as imitation gold for cheap jewelry. • pinchbeck adj. (Not comparable) Made of pinchbeck. • pinchbeck adj. Sham; spurious, artificial; being a cheap substitution; only superficially attractive. |
| SUCCUBINE | • succubine adj. Having the traits of a succubus. • SUCCUBINE adj. of or pertaining to succubi. |
| UNACERBIC | • unacerbic adj. Not acerbic. • UNACERBIC adj. not acerbic. |