| ABSCISSION | • abscission n. The act or process of cutting off. • abscission n. (Obsolete) The state of being cut off. • abscission n. (Rhetoric) A figure of speech employed when a speaker having begun to say a thing stops abruptly. |
| ALBINOISMS | • albinoisms n. Plural of albinoism. • ALBINOISM n. the state or condition of being an albino, also ALBINISM. |
| AMBISONICS | • ambisonics n. A form of surround sound reproduction, using two or more transmission channels and four or more speakers… • AMBISONICS n. the technique of reproducing and transmitting surround sound. |
| ANTIBIOSES | • antibioses n. Plural of antibiosis. • ANTIBIOSIS n. a state of mutual antagonism between associated organisms. |
| ANTIBIOSIS | • antibiosis n. (Ecology) An association between organisms that is detrimental (harmful) to one or more of them; especially… • ANTIBIOSIS n. a state of mutual antagonism between associated organisms. |
| BASILICONS | • basilicons n. Plural of basilicon. • BASILICON n. (Greek) any of several ointments supposed to possess sovereign virtues. |
| BIOCENOSIS | • biocenosis n. (Biology) a group of interacting animals and/or plants that form a particular ecosystem. • BIOCENOSIS n. an association of organisms ecologically interdependent, also BIOCOENOSIS. |
| BIOGENESIS | • biogenesis n. The principle that living organisms are produced only from other living organisms. • biogenesis n. Biosynthesis. • BIOGENESIS n. the theory that all life is derived from living matter alone. |
| BIONOMISTS | • BIONOMIST n. a student of bionomics, the study of organisms interacting in their environments. |
| BISECTIONS | • bisections n. Plural of bisection. • BISECTION n. the act of bisecting. |
| BONAMIASIS | • BONAMIASIS n. a fatal disease of oysters. |
| BROMINISMS | • BROMINISM n. poisoning by an overdose of bromine, also BROMISM. |
| BYSSINOSIS | • byssinosis n. A lung disease, caused by exposure to cotton dust in inadequately ventilated working environments. • BYSSINOSIS n. cotton dust pneumoconiosis. |
| SOBERISING | • soberising v. Present participle of soberise. • SOBERISE v. to make sober, also SOBERIZE. |
| SUBMISSION | • submission n. The act of submitting or yielding; surrender. • submission n. The act of submitting or giving e.g. a completed piece of work. • submission n. The thing which has been submitted. |
| SUBSOILING | • subsoiling n. Ploughing to the depth of the subsoil. • SUBSOILING n. the act of ploughing the subsoil. |
| SYNBIOTICS | • synbiotics n. Plural of synbiotic. • SYNBIOTIC n. a substance that contains a probiotic and a prebiotic that supports it. |