| ACROPHOBE | • acrophobe n. A person who suffers from acrophobia, a fear of heights. • ACROPHOBE n. someone with an abnormal fear of heights. |
| BEECHWOOD | • beechwood n. The wood of beech trees (Fagus spp.). • beechwood n. A wood largely populated with beech trees. • Beechwood prop.n. A suburb of Runcorn, Halton borough, Cheshire, England (OS grid ref SJ5380). |
| BLOCKHOLE | • blockhole n. (Cricket) A small depression in the pitch caused by batsmen tapping their bats on the point where they… • blockhole n. (By extension) The approximate place where the toe of the bat touches the pitch when a batsman is taking guard. • BLOCKHOLE n. the place where a batsman rests his bat. |
| CHECKBOOK | • checkbook n. Alternative form of chequebook. • CHECKBOOK n. (US) a chequebook. |
| CHEMOSORB | • chemosorb v. (Transitive) to chemisorb. • CHEMOSORB v. to adsorb by chemical action, also CHEMISORB. |
| CHOKEBORE | • chokebore n. In a shotgun, a bore which is tapered to a slightly smaller diameter at a short distance to the rear… • chokebore n. A shotgun that is made with such a bore. • chokebore v. (Transitive) To provide (a gun) with a chokebore. |
| CHOREBOYS | • choreboys n. Plural of choreboy. • CHOREBOY n. a boy used to do odd jobs. |
| COHOBATED | • cohobated v. Simple past tense and past participle of cohobate. • COHOBATE v. to distill again. |
| COHOBATES | • cohobates v. Third-person singular simple present indicative form of cohobate. • COHOBATE v. to distill again. |
| ECOPHOBIA | • ecophobia n. Fear of one’s home. • ecophobia n. A feeling of powerlessness to prevent cataclysmic environmental change, apocalypse, etc. • ECOPHOBIA n. fear of one's home surroundings. |
| HONEYCOMB | • honeycomb n. A structure of hexagonal cells made by bees primarily of wax, to hold their larvae and for storing the… • honeycomb n. (By extension) Any structure resembling a honeycomb. • honeycomb n. (Construction) Voids left in concrete resulting from failure of the mortar to effectively fill the spaces… |
| NEOPHOBIC | • neophobic n. (Psychology) A person or animal that fears or dislikes new or novel experiences or food. • neophobic adj. Afflicted by neophobia; fearing or disliking what is new. • NEOPHOBIC adj. hating novelty. |
| REBLOCHON | • reblochon n. A soft French cow’s-milk cheese from the Alpine region of Savoie. • Reblochon n. Alternative form of reblochon. • REBLOCHON n. a delicately-flavoured soft cheese, made chiefly in the Savoie region of France. |