| ABRIDGMENTS | • abridgments n. Plural of abridgment. • ABRIDGMENT n. the act of abridging, also ABRIDGEMENT. |
| AMBIGUITIES | • ambiguities n. Plural of ambiguity. • AMBIGUITY n. the state of being ambiguous. |
| BARGEMASTER | • bargemaster n. The person in charge of transport on a barge or barges. • barge␣master n. Alternative spelling of bargemaster. • BARGEMASTER n. one in charge of a barge. |
| BESIEGEMENT | • besiegement n. The act of besieging, or the state of being besieged. • BESIEGEMENT n. the state of being besieged. |
| BESMOOTHING | • besmoothing v. Present participle of besmooth. • BESMOOTH v. to make smooth. |
| BESMUTCHING | • besmutching v. Present participle of besmutch. • BESMUTCH v. (archaic) to soil, besmirch. |
| BLOGSTREAMS | • BLOGSTREAM n. the alternative news and information network growing up around weblogs. |
| BURGOMASTER | • burgomaster n. The mayor, or head magistrate, of a town in the Netherlands, Belgium, Germany and certain other countries. • BURGOMASTER n. (Dutch) the mayor of a Dutch or Flemish town. |
| GABBLEMENTS | • gabblements n. Plural of gabblement. • GABBLEMENT n. gabbling. |
| IGNIMBRITES | • ignimbrites n. Plural of ignimbrite. • IGNIMBRITE n. a hard rock formed by fusion of the volcanic fragments and dust of a nuee ardente. |
| LIMBURGITES | • limburgites n. Plural of limburgite. • LIMBURGITE n. a volcanic rock composed of olivine and augite in a fine-grained or glassy groundmass. |
| MEGALOBLAST | • megaloblast n. An abnormally large red blood cell associated with pernicious anemia and with folic acid deficiency. • MEGALOBLAST n. a large erythroblast that appears in the blood esp. in pernicious anemia. |
| MINIBUDGETS | • minibudgets n. Plural of minibudget. • mini-budgets n. Plural of mini-budget. • MINIBUDGET n. a small budget. |
| MISBEGOTTEN | • misbegotten adj. (Of a person) Born out of wedlock; illegitimate. • misbegotten adj. (By extension, figuratively) Ill-conceived. • misbegotten adj. (By extension) Bad; worthless. |
| OBLIGEMENTS | • obligements n. Plural of obligement. • OBLIGEMENT n. (Scots) a helpful action, a favour. |
| SUBFRAGMENT | • subfragment n. (Biochemistry, genetics) A subsection of a fragment (of nucleic acid etc). • subfragment v. To split into such fragments. |
| SUBSEGMENTS | • subsegments n. Plural of subsegment. • SUBSEGMENT n. a subdivision of a segment. |
| THIMBLERIGS | • thimblerigs n. Plural of thimblerig. • thimblerigs v. Third-person singular simple present indicative form of thimblerig. • THIMBLERIG v. to cheat by trickery. |
| THROMBOGENS | • THROMBOGEN n. a protein present in blood that is essential for the formation of thrombin. |