| BECRAWLING | • becrawling v. Present participle of becrawl. • BECRAWL v. to creep over. |
| BEWILDERED | • bewildered adj. Baffled, confused, mystified, at a loss, not thinking clearly, or uncertain. • bewildered v. Simple past tense and past participle of bewilder. • BEWILDER v. to confuse. |
| BILGEWATER | • bilgewater n. (Nautical) Water which collects in the bilges of a ship. • bilgewater n. (Slang) Stupid talk or writing; nonsense. • BILGEWATER n. the water that collects in a ship's bilge. |
| BOWDLERISE | • bowdlerise v. Alternative form of bowdlerize. • Bowdlerise v. Alternative form of bowdlerize. • BOWDLERISE v. to expurgate a book or writing, by removing whatever might be considered indelicate, esp. to do so unnecessarily, also BOWDLERIZE. |
| BOWDLERISM | • bowdlerism n. A policy of bowdlerization, or censorship by removing what is considered indecent. • BOWDLERISM n. the censoring of a literary text. |
| BOWDLERIZE | • bowdlerize v. To remove or alter those parts of a text considered offensive, vulgar, or otherwise unseemly. • Bowdlerize v. Alternative form of bowdlerize. • BOWDLERIZE v. to purge literature of all possibly offensive or morally impure material, also BOWDLERISE. |
| BRIDEWELLS | • bridewells n. Plural of bridewell. • BRIDEWELL n. a house of correction, a jail. |
| BRIDLEWAYS | • bridleways n. Plural of bridleway. • BRIDLEWAY n. a path on which horses may be ridden. |
| BRIDLEWISE | • bridlewise adj. (Of a horse) Responsive to the bridle. • BRIDLEWISE adj. of a horse, obedient to the pressure of the reins on the neck rather than to the bit. |
| BROWNFIELD | • brownfield n. (Often attributive) A site, to be used for housing or commerce, that has been previously used for industry… • brownfield adj. (Software engineering) Being a development that has to integrate with legacy systems. • Brownfield prop.n. A surname. |
| FINGERBOWL | • fingerbowl n. Alternative spelling of finger bowl. • finger␣bowl n. A small bowl of warm water placed at each seat at a formal dinner for the guests to rinse their fingers… • FINGERBOWL n. a bowl of water for washing the fingers in at table. |
| MIDDLEBROW | • middlebrow adj. (Derogatory) Neither highbrow or lowbrow, but somewhere in between. • middlebrow n. A person or thing that is neither highbrow nor lowbrow, but in between. • MIDDLEBROW n. a person who is moderately but not highly cultivated. |
| MINDBLOWER | • mindblower n. (Slang) Anything mind-blowing. • MINDBLOWER n. something that blows the mind. |
| REVIEWABLE | • reviewable adj. Eligible for review or reconsideration. • reviewable adj. Able to be evaluated in a review, as by critics. • REVIEWABLE adj. that can be reviewed. |
| REWRITABLE | • rewritable adj. Able to be rewritten, or written again. • REWRITABLE adj. (of a CD, flash drive, etc.) able to record information over the top of existing information, also REWRITEABLE. |
| UNWRITABLE | • unwritable adj. Not writable. |
| WATTLEBIRD | • wattlebird n. Any of a group of Australian birds in the genus Anthochaera of the honeyeater family Meliphagidae. • wattlebird n. Any of three birds in the family Callaeidae, endemic to New Zealand. • WATTLEBIRD n. any one of several species of the honey eater bird. |
| WILLOWHERB | • willowherb n. Any of several flowering plants in the genus Epilobium of the family Onagraceae. • WILLOWHERB n. a perennial herb of the evening primrose family with willowlike leaves and seeds. |
| YELLOWBIRD | • yellowbird n. The yellow warbler. • yellowbird n. The American goldfinch. • yellow-bird n. Alternative spelling of yellowbird. |