| BILDUNGSROMANS | • bildungsromans n. Plural of bildungsroman. • Bildungsromans n. Plural of Bildungsroman. • BILDUNGSROMAN n. (German) a psychological novel dealing with the early moral development of the protagonist. |
| BOARDINGHOUSES | • boardinghouses n. Plural of boardinghouse. • boarding␣houses n. Plural of boarding house. • BOARDINGHOUSE n. a private house in which accommodation and meals are provided for paying guests. |
| BRASSFOUNDINGS | • BRASSFOUNDING n. the craft of casting objects in brass. |
| BUTTERFINGERED | • butterfingered adj. Prone to dropping things; clumsy. • butter-fingered adj. Alternative form of butterfingered. • BUTTERFINGERED adj. apt to let things fall or slip through the fingers. |
| COLOURBREEDING | • colourbreeding v. Present participle of colourbreed. • COLOURBREED v. to breed (animals or plants) to be a particular colour, also COLORBREED. |
| COUNTERBIDDING | • counterbidding v. Present participle of counterbid. |
| DISEMBURDENING | • disemburdening v. Present participle of disemburden. • DISEMBURDEN v. to disburden. |
| DISENCUMBERING | • disencumbering v. Present participle of disencumber. • DISENCUMBER v. to free from encumbrance, also DISCUMBER. |
| DUMBFOUNDERING | • dumbfoundering v. Present participle of dumbfounder. • DUMBFOUNDER v. to strike dumb; to confuse with astonishment, also DUMBFOUND, DUMFOUND, DUMFOUNDER. |
| GROUNDBREAKING | • groundbreaking adj. Innovative; new, different; doing something that has never been done before. • groundbreaking n. The point at which construction begins, by digging into the ground. • groundbreaking n. A ceremony to mark the beginning of construction. |
| NEIGHBOURHOODS | • neighbourhoods n. Plural of neighbourhood. • NEIGHBOURHOOD n. a district, locality, esp. with reference to its inhabitants as a community, also NEIGHBORHOOD. |
| REDISTRIBUTING | • redistributing v. Present participle and gerund of redistribute. • REDISTRIBUTE v. to alter the distribution of. |
| SUBINTRODUCING | • SUBINTRODUCE v. to bring in surreptitiously or subtly. |
| SUPERABOUNDING | • superabounding v. Present participle of superabound. • superabounding n. Superabundance. • SUPERABOUND v. to be superabundant. |
| UNDERBREEDINGS | • UNDERBREEDING n. lack of breeding. |
| UNDERBUDGETING | • underbudgeting v. Present participle of underbudget. • UNDERBUDGET v. to allow too low a budget. |