| BLINDWORMS | • blindworms n. Plural of blindworm. • BLINDWORM n. a slowworm. |
| 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. |
| BRAZILWOOD | • brazilwood n. A Brazilian timber tree (Paubrasilia echinata, syn. Caesalpinia echinata), used primarily to make bows… • brazilwood n. (Uncountable) The wood of this tree. • BRAZILWOOD n. a red tropical wood. |
| BROWALLIAS | • browallias n. Plural of browallia. • BROWALLIA n. a flowering plant. |
| 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. |
| LOWBROWISM | • lowbrowism n. Lowbrow attitudes and policies generally. • LOWBROWISM n. the state of being a lowbrow. |
| 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. |
| SWORDBILLS | • swordbills n. Plural of swordbill. • SWORDBILL n. a kind of South American hummingbird. |
| WHIRLABOUT | • whirlabout n. A fairground carousel. • WHIRLABOUT n. anything that whirls around; a whirligig. |
| 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. |