| AMBIGUOUS | • ambiguous adj. Open to multiple interpretations. • ambiguous adj. (Obsolete, of persons) Hesitant; uncertain; not taking sides. • AMBIGUOUS adj. open to more than one interpretation. |
| BOTULINUM | • botulinum n. An anaerobic soil bacterium, Clostridium botulinum, that secretes the toxin botulin. • BOTULINUM n. a powerful bacterial toxin, also BOTULIN, BOTULINUS. |
| BULIMUSES | • BULIMUS n. (Greek) an eating disorder in which binge eating is followed by depression and guilt, self-induced vomiting and purging, etc., also BULIMIA, BULIMY. |
| BUMPTIOUS | • bumptious adj. Obtrusively pushy; self-assertive to a pretentious extreme. • BUMPTIOUS adj. offensively conceited or self-assertive. |
| COLUMBIUM | • columbium n. (Obsolete) A former name of niobium. • COLUMBIUM n. a rare element of the vanadium group, now more commonly called niobium. |
| CUBICULUM | • cubiculum n. A small room, especially a bedroom, typically those small rooms found on the upper floor of a Roman house. • cubiculum n. A small room carved out of the wall of a catacomb, used as mortuary chapels, and in Roman times, for… • CUBICULUM n. (Latin) a burial chamber. |
| CUMBUNGIS | • CUMBUNGI n. (Native Australian) a tall Australian marsh plant. |
| LUMBRICUS | • Lumbricus prop.n. A taxonomic genus within the family Lumbricidae – includes most well-known European earthworms. • LUMBRICUS n. (Latin) a genus of annelids including the common earthworm. |
| MANUBRIUM | • manubrium n. (Anatomy) The broad, upper part of the sternum. • manubrium n. (Zoology) The tube extending from the central underside of a jellyfish and ending in a mouth. • manubrium n. A knob or handle that controls the stops of an organ. |
| MUIRBURNS | • MUIRBURN n. the seasonal burning of heather on moorland to promote new growth, also MOORBURN. |
| NEBULIUMS | • NEBULIUM n. an element formerly assumed to explain certain lines in the spectra of gaseous nebulae, now known to be due to states of oxygen and nitrogen not possible under earthly conditions. |
| NELUMBIUM | • nelumbium n. (Botany) Any member of the former plant genus Nelumbium. • NELUMBIUM n. (Tamil) a plant of the Nelumbium genus of waterlilies that includes the sacred lotus, also NELUMBO. |
| RUBIDIUMS | • rubidiums n. Plural of rubidium. • RUBIDIUM n. a metallic element. |
| SUBSUMING | • subsuming v. Present participle of subsume. • SUBSUME v. to classify within a larger category. |
| UMBILICUS | • umbilicus n. (Anatomy) navel. • umbilicus n. (Botany) hilum. • umbilicus n. (Zoology) A depression or opening in the center of the base of many spiral shells. |
| UNUNBIUMS | • UNUNBIUM n. a synthetic chemical element. |
| VIBURNUMS | • viburnums n. Plural of viburnum. • VIBURNUM n. (Latin) a kind of shrub or tree including the guelder-rose. |