| BATTLEDOORS | • battledoors n. Plural of battledoor. • BATTLEDOOR n. (obsolete) a light bat for striking a shuttlecock, also BATTLEDORE. |
| BLOODLETTER | • bloodletter n. One who performs bloodletting (the removal of blood in the hope of curing illness). • BLOODLETTER n. one who lets blood. |
| BUTTONHOLED | • buttonholed v. Simple past tense and past participle of buttonhole. • BUTTONHOLE v. to detain in talk, also BUTTONHOLD. |
| CONTORTEDLY | • contortedly adv. In a contorted manner. • CONTORTEDLY adv. CONTORTED. |
| DITTOLOGIES | • dittologies n. Plural of dittology. • DITTOLOGY n. a twofold reading or interpretation. |
| FOOTFAULTED | • footfaulted v. Simple past tense and past participle of footfault. • FOOTFAULT v. to commit a serving fault at tennis. |
| FOOTSTOOLED | • footstooled adj. Supplied with a footstool. • FOOTSTOOLED adv. with one's feet on a footstool. |
| GUTTERBLOOD | • gutterblood n. (Derogatory, archaic) A person of low pedigree; one of the common rabble. • GUTTERBLOOD n. (Scots) a lowborn person. |
| ODONTOLITES | • odontolites n. Plural of odontolite. • ODONTOLITE n. a fossil bone or tooth coloured blue with phosphate of iron, aka bone-turquoise. |
| OVERPLOTTED | • overplotted adj. (Drama) Having an excessively elaborate plot. • OVERPLOT v. to devise an overly complex plot for. |
| RONDOLETTOS | • rondolettos n. Plural of rondoletto. • RONDOLETTO n. a short rondo. |
| THEODOLITES | • theodolites n. Plural of theodolite. • THEODOLITE n. a surveying instrument for measuring angles. |
| THEODOLITIC | • theodolitic adj. Of or pertaining to a theodolite. • THEODOLITIC adj. relating to a theodolite. |
| TROGLODYTES | • troglodytes n. Plural of troglodyte. • Troglodytes prop.n. A taxonomic genus within the family Troglodytidae – a number of songbirds, including the Eurasian wren. • Troglodytes prop.n. (Archaic) A taxonomic genus within the family Hominidae – a former genus, now synonymized with Pan. |