| ALLOTHEISM | • allotheism n. Worship of a god or gods that are foreign to one’s own land. • ALLOTHEISM n. belief in or worship of strange gods. |
| BOMBSHELLS | • bombshells n. Plural of bombshell. • BOMBSHELL n. a bomb; a sudden and surprising piece of news. |
| HOMESTALLS | • homestalls n. Plural of homestall. • HOMESTALL n. a homestead. |
| HYALOMELAN | • HYALOMELAN n. a vitreous form of basalt, aka tachylite, also HYALOMELANE. |
| LAMPHOLDER | • lampholder n. A fitting into which an electric lamp can be inserted. • LAMPHOLDER n. a socket for an electric bulb. |
| MELANCHOLY | • melancholy n. (Historical) Black bile, formerly thought to be one of the four "cardinal humours" of animal bodies. • melancholy n. Great sadness or depression, especially of a thoughtful or introspective nature. • melancholy adj. (Literary) Affected with great sadness or depression. |
| MELLOPHONE | • mellophone n. A brass instrument frequently used in place of the French horn in marching bands and similar performance groups. • MELLOPHONE n. a brass wind instrument resembling the French horn. |
| MESOPHYLLS | • mesophylls n. Plural of mesophyll. • MESOPHYLL n. the photosynthetic tissue of a green plant borne beneath the epidermis, also MESOPHYL. |
| MILLHOUSES | • millhouses n. Plural of millhouse. • Millhouses prop.n. A suburban area in the Metropolitan Borough of Sheffield, South Yorkshire, England (OS grid ref SK3383). • Millhouses prop.n. Plural of Millhouse. |
| MONOHULLED | • monohulled adj. (Nautical) Having a single hull. |
| MOTHBALLED | • mothballed v. Simple past tense and past participle of mothball. • mothballed adj. (Of something out of use) Kept in good condition for possible future use. • MOTHBALL v. to put into mothballs. |
| PHELLODERM | • phelloderm n. (Botany) The innermost parenchymatous tissue of the periderm of some plants. • PHELLODERM n. a layer of green parenchymatous cells formed on the inner side of the phellogen, the tissue of young cells which produces cork cells. |
| PHILOMELAS | • PHILOMELA n. (Greek) a songbird, also PHILOMEL. |
| SHLEMOZZLE | • shlemozzle n. Alternative form of shemozzle. • shlemozzle n. Alternative form of schlimazel. • SHLEMOZZLE v. (Yiddish) to make off, also SCHEMOZZLE, SHEMOZZLE, SHIMOZZLE. |
| WHOLEMEALS | • wholemeals n. Plural of wholemeal. • WHOLEMEAL n. flour made from the whole grain. |