| BATTALION | • battalion n. (Military) An army unit having two or more companies, etc. and a headquarters. Traditionally forming… • battalion n. (US, military) an army unit having two or more companies, etc. and a headquarters; forming part of a brigade. • battalion n. Any large body of troops. |
| BENTONITE | • bentonite n. (Mineralogy) Any of several impure clay minerals consisting mostly of montmorillonite. • bentonite n. A porous clay formed by the decomposition of volcanic ash that swells 5 to 6 times its original volume… • BENTONITE n. a kind of clay, used in industry as a filler etc. |
| BESOTTING | • besotting v. Present participle of besot. • BESOT v. to infatuate. |
| BLOTTINGS | • blottings n. Plural of blotting. • BLOTTING n. the method for transferring biological molecules usually from a gel to a membrane filter. |
| BOTANISTS | • botanists n. Plural of botanist. • BOTANIST n. one skilled in botany. |
| BOTTLINGS | • bottlings n. Plural of bottling. • BOTTLING n. a bottled beverage. |
| BOTTOMING | • bottoming v. Present participle of bottom. • BOTTOMING n. the act of reaching the lowest point before stabilising or improving. |
| BUTTONIER | • BUTTONY adj. ornamented with a large number of buttons. |
| BUTTONING | • buttoning v. Present participle of button. • buttoning n. A fastening with buttons. • BUTTON v. to fasten with a small disk. |
| BYTOWNITE | • bytownite n. (Mineralogy) A plagioclase feldspar, the fifth member of the Albite-Anorthite solid solution series… • BYTOWNITE n. a plagioclase intermediate between anorthite and labradorite. |
| MISBUTTON | • misbutton v. (Transitive) To button wrongly. • MISBUTTON v. to button wrongly. |
| OBSTINATE | • obstinate adj. Stubbornly adhering to an opinion, purpose, or course, usually with implied unreasonableness; persistent. • obstinate adj. (Of inanimate things) Not easily subdued or removed. • obstinate adj. (Of a facial feature) Typical of an obstinate person; fixed and unmoving. |
| OBTENTION | • obtention n. (Rare, sciences, law) The act of obtaining. • OBTENTION n. the act of obtending. |
| OBTESTING | • obtesting v. Present participle of obtest. • OBTEST v. to beseech, supplicate. |
| OBTUNDITY | • obtundity n. (Rare, often medicine) The state or characteristic of having dulled senses or limited awareness. • OBTUNDITY n. the state of being obtund. |
| TORBANITE | • torbanite n. A variety of coal, derived from colonial algae, that looks like carbonaceous shale. • TORBANITE n. a shale, almost a coal, once mined for oil at Torbane Hill in Scotland. |