| BUTTERCREAM | • buttercream n. (Cooking) A type of thick, sweet icing or cake-filling made by creaming butter (or sometimes another… • butter␣cream n. Alternative form of buttercream. • BUTTERCREAM n. a kind of cream. |
| CLUBMASTERS | • clubmasters n. Plural of clubmaster. • CLUBMASTER n. the manager of a club. |
| CRUMBCLOTHS | • crumbcloths n. Plural of crumbcloth. • CRUMBCLOTH n. a cloth laid under a table to keep crumbs from the carpet. |
| CUMBERMENTS | • CUMBERMENT n. the act of encumbering. |
| DECUMBITURE | • decumbiture n. (Obsolete) The fact of lying down, specifically of a person due to illness. • decumbiture n. (Astrology, now historical) The time one takes to one’s bed during an illness, as used for astrological… • DECUMBITURE n. the time spent by an invalid in bed. |
| EUBACTERIUM | • eubacterium n. (Microbiology) Any bacterium considered to be within the obsolete taxonomic subkingdom Eubacteria. • Eubacterium prop.n. A taxonomic genus within the family Eubacteriaceae. • EUBACTERIUM n. a member of the Eubacteriales; any typical bacterium. |
| MICROBURSTS | • microbursts n. Plural of microburst. • MICROBURST n. a sudden violent downward rush of air usually associated with thunderstorms, also DOWNBURST. |
| MICROTUBULE | • microtubule n. A small tube made of protein and found in cells; part of the cytoskeleton. • MICROTUBULE n. any of the relatively rigid structures in the cytoplasm of many plant and animal cells. |
| MULTIBRANCH | • multibranch adj. Of or pertaining to more than one branch (in various senses). |
| MULTICARBON | • multicarbon adj. Alternative spelling of multi-carbon. • multi-carbon adj. (Organic chemistry) Describing any compound (or ring within a compound) containing more than one carbon atom. • MULTICARBON adj. containing more than one kind of carbon. |
| OBSCUREMENT | • obscurement n. The act of obscuring, or the state of being obscured. • OBSCUREMENT n. the act of obscuring. |
| RECUMBENTLY | • recumbently adv. In a recumbent manner; while lying down. • RECUMBENT adv. reclining; lying comfortably. |
| RUMBUSTICAL | • rumbustical adj. (Slang, archaic) Synonym of rumbustious. • RUMBUSTICAL adj. (archaic) boisterous, also RUMBUSTIOUS. |
| SUBMATRICES | • submatrices n. Plural of submatrix. • SUBMATRIX n. part of a matrix. |
| THUMBSCREWS | • thumbscrews n. Plural of thumbscrew. • THUMBSCREW n. an instrument of torture for compressing the thumb by a screw. |
| TROMBICULID | • trombiculid n. (Zoology) Any mite of the family Trombiculidae. • TROMBICULID n. any member of the mite family. |
| TUBERCULOMA | • tuberculoma n. (Medicine) A lesion associated with tuberculosis. • TUBERCULOMA n. a slow-growing, circumscribed tuberculous lesion. |
| UMBRACULATE | • umbraculate adj. (Zoology) Nearly covered by a projecting process. • UMBRACULATE adj. overshadowed by an umbraculum. |