| BROMELIACEOUS | • bromeliaceous adj. (Botany) Of or relating to the family Bromeliaceae of flowering plants. • BROMELIACEOUS adj. belonging to the Bromeliaceae, the pineapple family. |
| BUREAUCRATISM | • bureaucratism n. Bureaucratic policies or behaviour. • BUREAUCRATISM n. bureaucracy. |
| CIRCUMAMBAGES | • circumambages n. Instances of indirectness or deviousness in speaking or writing: circumlocutions. • CIRCUMAMBAGES n. roundabout methods of speech. |
| CIRCUMSCRIBED | • circumscribed v. Simple past tense and past participle of circumscribe. • circumscribed adj. Limited narrowly; restricted. • CIRCUMSCRIBE v. to draw a line around, to surround by or as if by a boundary. |
| CIRCUMSCRIBER | • circumscriber n. One who, or that which, circumscribes. • CIRCUMSCRIBER n. one who circumscribes. |
| CIRCUMSCRIBES | • circumscribes v. Third-person singular simple present indicative form of circumscribe. • CIRCUMSCRIBE v. to draw a line around, to surround by or as if by a boundary. |
| CRUMBLINESSES | • CRUMBLINESS n. the state of being crumbly. |
| DISENCUMBERED | • disencumbered v. Simple past tense and past participle of disencumber. • DISENCUMBER v. to free from encumbrance, also DISCUMBER. |
| INCOMBUSTIBLE | • incombustible adj. Not capable of catching fire and burning; not flammable. • incombustible n. Any substance that is not flammable. • INCOMBUSTIBLE adj. not combustible. |
| INCUMBRANCERS | • incumbrancers n. Plural of incumbrancer. • INCUMBRANCER n. a person who holds an encumbrance on property belonging to another, also ENCUMBRANCER. |
| LUMBRICALISES | • LUMBRICALIS n. one of certain muscles of the hand and foot used in flexing the digits, also LUMBRICAL. |
| NONINCUMBENTS | • nonincumbents n. Plural of nonincumbent. • NONINCUMBENT n. one who is not an incumbent. |
| PRECOMBUSTION | • precombustion adj. Alternative spelling of pre-combustion. • pre-combustion adj. Occurring prior to combustion. • pre-combustion adj. Concerned with a phase prior to combustion. |
| REPUBLICANISM | • republicanism n. The political ideology of being a citizen in a state as a republic under which the people hold popular sovereignty. • Republicanism n. (US politics) The policy or philosophy of the Republican Party of the United States. • REPUBLICANISM n. adherence to or sympathy for a republican form of government. |
| SIMARUBACEOUS | • simarubaceous adj. (Botany) Belonging to the family Simaroubaceae of tropical and subtropical trees. • SIMARUBACEOUS adj. belonging to the Simarubaceae, a family of tropical trees related to the Rutaceae, also SIMAROUBACEOUS. |
| SUBCOMMITTEES | • subcommittees n. Plural of subcommittee. • SUBCOMMITTEE n. a subdivision of a committee usually organized for a specific purpose. |
| SUBJECTIVISMS | • subjectivisms n. Plural of subjectivism. • SUBJECTIVISM n. the doctrine that all knowledge is subjective. |