| ABOLITIONIST | • abolitionist adj. (Historical) In favor of the abolition of slavery. • abolitionist n. A person who favors the abolition of any particular institution or practice. • abolitionist n. (Historical, US) A person who favored or advocated the abolition of slavery. |
| AUTOMOBILIST | • automobilist n. (Archaic) The driver of a motor vehicle. • AUTOMOBILIST n. one with an interest in cars. |
| AUTOMOBILITY | • automobility n. The utilization of automobiles as the major means of transportation and mobility. • AUTOMOBILITY n. the use of automobiles as the major means of transportation. |
| BATTOLOGICAL | • battological adj. Exhibiting or relating to battology. • BATTOLOGICAL adj. pertaining to battology, unnecessarily repetitive writing or speaking. |
| BLOODLETTING | • bloodletting n. (Historical, medicine) The archaic practice of treating illness by removing some blood, believed to… • bloodletting n. (By extension) The diminishment of any resource with the hope that this will lead to a positive effect. • bloodletting n. A circumstance, such as a battle, where a large amount of blood is likely to be spilled through violence. |
| BLOODTHIRSTY | • bloodthirsty adj. Thirsty for blood: inexorably violent or eager for bloodshed; murderous. • bloodthirsty adj. Of a book, film, etc.: depicting much violence; gory, violent. • bloodthirsty adj. (Humorous) Of a mosquito, tenaciously seeking to draw blood. |
| BUTTONHOLING | • buttonholing v. Present participle of buttonhole. • buttonholing n. The act of detaining someone in conversation against his or her will. • BUTTONHOLE v. to detain in talk, also BUTTONHOLD. |
| FOOTBALLISTS | • footballists n. Plural of footballist. • FOOTBALLIST n. one who plays football, also FOOTBALLER. |
| LABANOTATION | • labanotation n. (Choreography) A system for documenting body movement. • LABANOTATION n. a method of writing down the movements, etc., of ballet diagrammatically. |
| NOBILITATION | • nobilitation n. (Obsolete) The act of making noble. • NOBILITATION n. the act of nobilitating, ennobling. |
| OBLITERATION | • obliteration n. The total destruction of something. • obliteration n. The cancellation, erasure or deletion of something. • obliteration n. (Medicine) The cancellation of the function, structure, or both of a vessel or organ; for example, the… |
| OBLITERATORS | • obliterators n. Plural of obliterator. • OBLITERATOR n. one who obliterates. |
| OSTEOBLASTIC | • osteoblastic adj. Of or pertaining to an osteoblast. • OSTEOBLASTIC adj. of or like an osteoblast. |
| PHLEBOTOMIST | • phlebotomist n. A practitioner of phlebotomy. • PHLEBOTOMIST n. one who carries out phlebotomies. |
| STILBOESTROL | • stilboestrol n. (Pharmacology) UK spelling of stilbestrol. • STILBOESTROL n. a synthetic oestrogen, also STILBESTROL. |
| STROBILATION | • strobilation n. (Biology) A form of asexual reproduction by division into body segments, as in tapeworms and jellyfish. • STROBILATION n. production or reproduction by strobilae, as in jellyfish. |
| THROMBOLYTIC | • thrombolytic adj. Of, pertaining to, or causing thrombolysis. • thrombolytic n. Any drug that causes thrombolysis. • THROMBOLYTIC adj. dissolving clots. |
| TIMBROLOGIST | • TIMBROLOGIST n. a collector of stamps. |
| TRIBOLOGISTS | • tribologists n. Plural of tribologist. • TRIBOLOGIST n. a student of tribology. |