| ABDICATION | • abdication n. (Obsolete) The act of disowning or disinheriting a child. • abdication n. The act of abdicating; the renunciation of a high office, dignity, or trust, by its holder. • abdication n. The voluntary renunciation of sovereign power. |
| ABDICATORS | • abdicators n. Plural of abdicator. • ABDICATOR n. one who abdicates. |
| ABDUCTIONS | • abductions n. Plural of abduction. • ABDUCTION n. the act of abducing or abducting. |
| ABORTICIDE | • aborticide n. The act of destroying a fetus in the womb; feticide. • aborticide n. An agent responsible for an abortion (the destruction of a fetus); abortifacient. • ABORTICIDE n. the killing of a fetus; abortion. |
| BACTERIOID | • bacterioid adj. (Rare) Resembling a bacterium. • BACTERIOID n. a swollen bacterium living symbiotically in the root-nodules of beans and other plants, also BACTEROID. |
| BACTEROIDS | • bacteroids n. Plural of bacteroid. • BACTEROID n. a swollen bacterium living symbiotically in the root-nodules of beans and other plants, also BACTERIOID. |
| BALDICOOTS | • baldicoots n. Plural of baldicoot. • BALDICOOT n. the coot, from its white frontal shield. |
| BANDICOOTS | • bandicoots n. Plural of bandicoot. • BANDICOOT v. to remove potatoes from the ground leaving the tops undisturbed. |
| BLASTODISC | • blastodisc n. Alternative form of blastodisk. • BLASTODISC n. the embryo-forming portion of an egg with discoid cleavage. |
| BOOTLICKED | • bootlicked v. Simple past tense and past participle of bootlick. • BOOTLICK v. to toady. |
| CNIDOBLAST | • cnidoblast n. (Biology) A cell in the epidermis of cnidarians in which the nematocyst develops. • CNIDOBLAST n. a stinging thread cell containing a nematocyst. |
| COUNTERBID | • counterbid n. (Business) A bid made in response to a previous bid by another party. • counterbid v. To make a counterbid. • COUNTERBID n. a bid made in opposition to another bid. |
| DECOCTIBLE | • decoctible adj. Able to be decocted, or boiled down. • DECOCTIBLE adj. capable of being boiled or digested. |
| DOCIBILITY | • DOCIBILITY n. docility, also DOCIBLENESS. |
| ENDOBIOTIC | • endobiotic adj. (Of a parasite or symbiont) living within the tissues of a host. • endobiotic adj. (Medicine) Originating within an organ or biological system. • endobiotic n. (Medicine) An endogenous substance that influences the functioning of an organ or biological process. |
| OUTBITCHED | • outbitched v. Simple past tense and past participle of outbitch. • OUTBITCH v. to surpass in bitching, complaining. |
| OUTCLIMBED | • outclimbed v. Simple past tense and past participle of outclimb. • OUTCLIMB v. to surpass in climbing. |
| SUBDUCTION | • subduction n. The action of being pushed or drawn beneath another object. • subduction n. (Geology) The process of one tectonic plate moving beneath another and sinking into the mantle at a… • subduction n. The act of subducting or taking away. |
| TROPICBIRD | • tropicbird n. Any of the various seabirds of the family Phaethontidae, typically found in the open ocean in the tropics. • TROPICBIRD n. any aquatic bird of the tropical family Phaethontidae, having long slender tail feathers and a white plumage with black markings. |