| BICORNES | • bicornes n. Plural of bicorne. • BICORNE n. a hat with two corners, e.g. as worn by Napoleon, also BICORN. |
| BINOCLES | • binocles n. Plural of binocle. • BINOCLE n. (French) a telescope for use with both eyes at once. |
| BITCOINS | • bitcoins n. Plural of bitcoin. • Bitcoins n. Plural of Bitcoin. • BitCoins n. Alternative form of bitcoins, plural of BitCoin. |
| BOTANICS | • botanics n. Plural of botanic. • botanics n. The science of botany. • BOTANIC n. a drug made from plants. |
| BURSICON | • bursicon n. (Biochemistry) A heterodimeric protein that is an insect hormone which mediates tanning in the cuticle of adult flies. • BURSICON n. a hormone produced by the insect brain that regulates processes associated with ecdysis. |
| COALBINS | • coalbins n. Plural of coalbin. • COALBIN n. a bin for storing coal. |
| COMBINES | • combines n. Plural of combine. • combines v. Third-person singular simple present indicative form of combine. • COMBINE v. to join, mix. |
| COMBINGS | • combings n. Fragments of hair etc. removed with a comb. • COMBING n. a hair or wool fibre combed off. |
| CORBINAS | • corbinas n. Plural of corbina. • CORBINA n. (Spanish) a bluish-grey whiting of the California coast, also CORVINA. |
| COWBINDS | • COWBIND n. a species of bryony. |
| INCUBOUS | • incubous adj. (Botany) Describing an arrangement of leaves such that distal (anterior) parts of older leaves overlap… • INCUBOUS adj. having overlapping leaves, as in liverworts. |
| JACOBINS | • Jacobins n. Plural of Jacobin. • JACOBIN n. a variety of fancy pigeon with a hood of feathers. |
| NONBASIC | • nonbasic adj. Not basic (in any sense). • NONBASIC adj. not basic. |
| RUBICONS | • rubicons n. Plural of rubicon. • Rubicons n. Plural of Rubicon. • RUBICON v. to win at piquet in this way. |
| SUBSONIC | • subsonic adj. (Of a sound, scientific) having a frequency too low to be audible. • subsonic adj. (Of a sound, literary) very quiet, almost inaudible. • subsonic adj. (Of a speed) (aviation) less than the speed of sound (in the same medium, and at the same temperature and pressure). |
| SUBTONIC | • subtonic adj. (Phonetics, dated) Of or pertaining to imperfectly articulated sounds or utterances that are inaudible… • subtonic n. (Music) The note immediately below the upper note of a musical scale. • subtonic n. (Phonetics, dated) An imperfectly articulated sound or utterance, as characterized by Dr. James Rush… |