| BACKCOURT | • backcourt n. (Chiefly Scotland) A courtyard behind a housing block or tenement building. • backcourt n. (Basketball) A team’s defensive half of the court; the part of the court where the other team’s basket… • BACKCOURT n. in lawn tennis, that part of the court lying behind the service line. |
| BUCOLICAL | • bucolical adj. Alternative form of bucolic. • BUCOLICAL adj. relating to the tending of cattle, also BUCOLIC. |
| CHUBASCOS | • chubascos n. Plural of chubasco. • CHUBASCO n. a violent thunderstorm. |
| COCKLEBUR | • cocklebur n. Any of the coarse composite weeds of the genus Xanthium, with a prickly fruit. • COCKLEBUR n. the burdock, also CLOTBUR. |
| 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. |
| CORBICULA | • corbicula n. (Entomology) A bee’s pollen basket; in honeybees and close relatives, the corbiculae are located on… • corbicula n. Plural of corbiculum. • Corbicula prop.n. A taxonomic genus within the family Cyrenidae – certain basket clams. |
| COULIBIAC | • coulibiac n. A loaf of fish, meat, or vegetables baked in a pastry shell. • COULIBIAC n. (Russian) a Russian fish pie, also COULIBIACA, KOULIBIACA. |
| COULOMBIC | • coulombic adj. (Dated) electric. • coulombic adj. (Physics) relating to Coulomb’s law and the force it involves. • COULOMBIC adj. of or like a coulomb, the SI unit of electric charge. |
| COUNTBACK | • countback n. (Sports) A procedure used to determine which of two equal finishers is the winner, based on past performance. • COUNTBACK n. a system of deciding the winner of a tied competition by comparing earlier points or scores. |
| CROSSBUCK | • crossbuck n. A sign consisting of two slats on a pole forming a diagonal cross, usually indicating a level crossing. • CROSSBUCK n. (US) a cross-shaped sign placed at a level crossing to warn motorists. |
| CURRYCOMB | • currycomb n. A comb or brush, having rubber or plastic teeth, used to groom horses. • currycomb v. (Transitive) To groom using such a comb. • curry-comb v. Alternative form of currycomb. |
| CUTBLOCKS | • CUTBLOCK n. a limited area authorised for logging. |
| SCORBUTIC | • scorbutic adj. Of, pertaining to, or suffering from scurvy. • SCORBUTIC adj. pertaining to or afflicted with scurvy. |
| SUCCUBOUS | • succubous adj. (Botany) Describing an arrangement of leaves such that proximal (posterior) parts of older leaves overlap… • SUCCUBOUS adj. having the lower leaf-margin overlapping the leaf below, as in some mosses. |
| TOUCHBACK | • touchback n. (American football) The result of a play (usually a kickoff or punt) in which the ball passes out the… • TOUCHBACK n. a play in which the ball is dead on or behind a team's own goal line, having been put across the line by an opponent but actually put down by a member of that team. |