| 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. |
| BASSOONIST | • bassoonist n. A person who plays the bassoon, a musical instrument in the woodwind family. • BASSOONIST n. a performer on the bassoon. |
| BIOSENSORS | • biosensors n. Plural of biosensor. • BIOSENSOR n. a living organism used to detect the presence of chemicals. |
| BLOWSINESS | • blowsiness n. The state or quality of being blowsy. • BLOWSINESS n. the state of being blowsy, also BLOWZINESS. |
| BONILASSES | • BONILASSE n. (Spenser) a bonny lass, also BONNILASSE. |
| BONINESSES | • boninesses n. Plural of boniness. • BONINESS n. the state of being bony. |
| BOXINESSES | • BOXINESS n. the state of being boxy, like a box. |
| BOYISHNESS | • boyishness n. The quality of being boyish. • BOYISHNESS n. the state of being boyish. |
| BYSSINOSES | • byssinoses n. Plural of byssinosis. • BYSSINOSIS n. cotton dust pneumoconiosis. |
| BYSSINOSIS | • byssinosis n. A lung disease, caused by exposure to cotton dust in inadequately ventilated working environments. • BYSSINOSIS n. cotton dust pneumoconiosis. |
| CONSUBSIST | • consubsist v. (Intransitive) To subsist together. • CONSUBSIST v. to subsist together. |
| EMBOSSINGS | • embossings n. Plural of embossing. • EMBOSSING n. the act of decorating with raised designs. |
| NOBILESSES | • NOBILESSE n. (Spenser) nobility, nobleness, also NOBLESSE. |
| OBSESSIONS | • obsessions n. Plural of obsession. • OBSESSION n. the morbid persistence of an idea in the mind. |
| OMNIBUSSES | • omnibusses n. (Dated) plural of omnibus. • omnibusses v. Third-person singular simple present indicative form of omnibus. • OMNIBUS n. a large public road vehicle for carrying numerous passengers, running on a fixed route. |
| 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. |
| SUBOSCINES | • suboscines n. Plural of suboscine. • SUBOSCINE n. a member of a certain subfamily of birds. |
| SUBSPINOUS | • subspinous adj. (Anatomy) subvertebral. • subspinous adj. (Pathology) Situated beneath a spinous process, such as that of the scapula. • SUBSPINOUS adj. subvertebral. |