| BLOCKBUSTING | • blockbusting n. (US) A technique used to encourage people to sell their property by giving the impression that a neighborhood… • blockbusting adj. Having the characteristics of a blockbuster; hugely successful. • BLOCKBUSTING n. the act of bringing about the sale of property in an area by stirring up fears of racial change. |
| BLOCKBUSTINGS | • BLOCKBUSTING n. the act of bringing about the sale of property in an area by stirring up fears of racial change. |
| BLOODSUCKING | • bloodsucking adj. (Of an insect or animal) That draws off the blood of another animal, or a person. • bloodsucking adj. (By extension, of a person) parasitic, leechlike or freeloading. • blood-sucking adj. Alternative form of bloodsucking. |
| BLUESTOCKING | • bluestocking n. (Usually derogatory) A scholarly, literary, or cultured woman. • bluestocking n. (Historical) A member of an 18th-century Blue Stockings Society. • bluestocking n. (Historical) The English parliament of 1653, more commonly called the Barebones Parliament. |
| BLUESTOCKINGS | • bluestockings n. Plural of bluestocking. • blue-stockings n. Plural of blue-stocking. • BLUESTOCKING n. an early feminist; an educated or literary woman. |
| CUCKOLDISING | • CUCKOLDISE v. to make a cuckold of, also CUCKOLDIZE. |
| FLOUTINGSTOCK | • FLOUTINGSTOCK n. (Shakespeare) a person or thing that is flouted. |
| FLOUTINGSTOCKS | • FLOUTINGSTOCK n. (Shakespeare) a person or thing that is flouted. |
| GLUCOKINASE | • glucokinase n. A hexokinase isozyme that facilitates phosphorylation of glucose to glucose-6-phosphate, occurring in… • GLUCOKINASE n. a hexokinase found esp. in the liver that catalyzes the phosphorylation of glucose. |
| GLUCOKINASES | • glucokinases n. Plural of glucokinase. • GLUCOKINASE n. a hexokinase found esp. in the liver that catalyzes the phosphorylation of glucose. |
| GUNLOCKS | • gunlocks n. Plural of gunlock. • GUNLOCK n. the mechanism which ignites the charge of a gun. |
| LAUGHINGSTOCK | • laughingstock n. Alternative spelling of laughing stock. • laughing-stock n. Alternative spelling of laughing stock. • laughing␣stock n. (Idiomatic) An object of ridicule, someone who is publicly ridiculed; the butt of a joke. |
| LAUGHINGSTOCKS | • laughingstocks n. Plural of laughingstock. • laughing-stocks n. Plural of laughing-stock. • laughing␣stocks n. Plural of laughing stock. |
| LIPOSUCKING | • liposucking v. Present participle of liposuck. • LIPOSUCK v. to subject to liposuction. |
| LUCKENGOWANS | • LUCKENGOWAN n. (Scots) the globeflower. |
| OUTSLICKING | • outslicking v. Present participle of outslick. • OUTSLICK v. to get the better of by cunning. |
| PLOUGHBACKS | • PLOUGHBACK n. the reinvestment of profits, also PLOWBACK. |
| SHUTTLECOCKING | • shuttlecocking v. Present participle of shuttlecock. • SHUTTLECOCK v. to send or toss to and fro. |
| SLUMMOCKING | • slummocking v. Present participle of slummock. • SLUMMOCK v. to move slowly and awkwardly, also SLOMMOCK. |
| SUCKHOLING | • suckholing v. Present participle of suckhole. • SUCKHOLE v. (Australian slang) to act sycophantically. |