| BACKSPLIT | • backsplit n. A split-level home whose split level is visible only from the side elevation. • BACKSPLIT n. (Canadian) a house with floors raised half a storey at the rear, having an upper and lower main floor, and an upper and lower basement. |
| BETATOPIC | • BETATOPIC adj. of atoms, differing in proton number by one. |
| BICIPITAL | • bicipital adj. Of or pertaining to a biceps. • bicipital adj. (Of a muscle) Having two heads or points of origin. • BICIPITAL adj. having two heads or origins, as a muscle. |
| BLACKTIPS | • blacktips n. Plural of blacktip. • BLACKTIP n. a kind of small shark. |
| COMPTIBLE | • comptible adj. (Obsolete) accountable; responsible. • comptible adj. (Obsolete) sensitive. • COMPTIBLE adj. (obsolete) countable, also COMPTABLE. |
| EPIBIOTIC | • epibiotic adj. Living on the surface of another organism. • EPIBIOTIC adj. relating to epibiosis, a relationship between two organisms where one grows on the other but is not parasitic. |
| PHLEBITIC | • phlebitic adj. Of or pertaining to phlebitis. • PHLEBITIC adj. relating to phlebitis, inflammation of a vein. |
| PITCHBEND | • PITCHBEND n. a device that enables a player to bend the pitch of a note on a synthesiser. |
| PREBIOTIC | • prebiotic n. (Chiefly in the plural) A substance in food that is hard to digest and promotes the growth of beneficial… • prebiotic adj. Before the advent of life. • prebiotic adj. (Of a food) Not digestible, but beneficial. |
| PRESBYTIC | • presbytic adj. Presbyopic. • PRESBYTIC adj. relating to an old man. |
| PROBIOTIC | • probiotic n. (Bacteriology) A food or dietary supplement, such as a yogurt, containing live bacteria for therapeutic reasons. • probiotic adj. (Ecology) Of, or relating to probiosis; ecologic facilitation. • probiotic adj. Describing any dietary supplement that contains live bacteria for therapeutic purposes. |
| PUBLICIST | • publicist n. A person whose job is to publicize information or events; a publicity agent; a public relations agent or worker. • publicist n. A journalist, often a commentator, who focusses on politics. • publicist n. (Now rare and archaic) A scholar, of public or international law. |
| PUBLICITY | • publicity n. Advertising or other activity designed to rouse public interest in something. • publicity n. Public interest attracted in this way. • publicity n. The condition of being the object of public attention. |
| SUBSCRIPT | • subscript n. (Typography) A type of lettering form written lower than the things around it. • subscript n. (Programming) An index into an array or hash. • subscript v. (Mathematics, sciences, typography, transitive, of a variable) To provide with a subscript. |
| SUBTOPICS | • subtopics n. Plural of subtopic. • SUBTOPIC n. a secondary topic. |
| SUBTROPIC | • subtropic n. A subtropical region. • SUBTROPIC adj. relating to the area lying between the Tropic of Cancer and 40 degrees N, and the Tropic of Capricorn and 40 degrees south, also SUBTROPICAL. • SUBTROPIC n. a subtropical region. |