| AMBROTYPE | • ambrotype n. (Photography, historical) An early type of photograph in which a glass negative appears positive when… • AMBROTYPE n. a picture taken on a plate of prepared glass, in which the lights are represented in silver, and the shades are produced by a dark background visible through the un-silvered portions of the glass. |
| BELLYFLOP | • bellyflop n. Alternative form of belly flop. • bellyflop v. Alternative spelling of belly flop. • belly-flop n. Alternative spelling of belly flop. |
| BRYOPHYTE | • bryophyte n. (Botany) Any plant of the division Bryophyta, defined sensu lato to comprise the mosses, liverworts… • BRYOPHYTE n. a member of the Bryophyta, one of the main groups of the vegetable kingdom, mosses and liverworts. |
| CRYOPROBE | • cryoprobe n. (Surgery) An instrument used to apply extreme cold to a tissue as part of cryosurgery. • CRYOPROBE n. a blunt chilled probe used to freeze tissue in cryosurgery. |
| CYBERPORN | • cyberporn n. Pornography distributed on the Internet. • CYBERPORN n. pornography on the Internet. |
| GYNOPHOBE | • gynophobe n. One who fears or hates women. • GYNOPHOBE n. a person who hates or fears women. |
| HYPERBOLA | • hyperbola n. (Geometry) A conic section formed by the intersection of a cone with a plane that intersects the base… • HYPERBOLA n. a type of mathematical curve. |
| HYPERBOLE | • hyperbole n. (Uncountable, rhetoric, literature) Deliberate or unintentional overstatement, particularly extreme overstatement. • hyperbole n. (Countable) An instance or example of such overstatement. • hyperbole n. (Countable, obsolete) A hyperbola. |
| HYPOBOLES | • hypoboles n. Plural of hypobole. • HYPOBOLE n. the anticipation and refutal of objections to an argument. |
| PAPERBOYS | • paperboys n. Plural of paperboy. • PAPERBOY n. a newsboy. |
| PENNYBOYS | • PENNYBOY n. an employee whose duties include menial tasks such as running errands. |
| POKEBERRY | • pokeberry n. Synonym of pokeweed (the plant Phytolacca americana or its dark red or purple fruit). • POKEBERRY n. an American plant, a species of Phytolacca. |
| PRESBYOPE | • presbyope n. (Medicine) One who has presbyopia: a farsighted person. • PRESBYOPE n. one who has presbyopia; a farsighted person. |
| PRESBYOPY | • presbyopy n. Dated form of presbyopia. • PRESBYOPY n. long-sightedness in old age, also PRESBYOPIA. |
| PROEMBRYO | • proembryo n. (Botany) A cluster of cells in the ovule of a fertilized flowering plant that has not yet formed into an embryo. • proembryo n. (Botany) The protonema of mosses. • PROEMBRYO n. a group of cells formed in the dividing zygote, from which part the embryo arises. |
| PROVEABLY | • proveably adv. Alternative spelling of provably. • PROVEABLE adv. that can be proved, also PROVABLE. |
| REPROBACY | • reprobacy n. Reprobation. • REPROBACY n. the state of being a reprobate. |
| SOAPBERRY | • soapberry n. Any woody plant of the genus Sapindus, which is eponymous of the Sapindaceae family. • soapberry n. The fruit of such a plant, especially of the tree Sapindus saponaria. • SOAPBERRY n. any tree of the genus Sapindus, the fleshy part of whose fruit is used instead of soap in washing linen. |
| TALBOTYPE | • talbotype n. An early photograph produced on paper coated with silver iodide. • TALBOTYPE n. (tradename) a method of taking photographic pictures, on paper sensitized with iodide of silver, aka calotype, kalotype. |
| XENOPHOBY | • xenophoby n. Dated form of xenophobia. • XENOPHOBY n. fear of foreigners, also XENOPHOBIA. |