| AKOLUTHOSES | • AKOLUTHOS n. (historical) the head of the Varangian guard of the Byzantine emperors, also ACOLOUTHOS, AKOLOUTHOS. |
| BLOCKBUSTED | • BLOCKBUST v. to bring about the sale of property in an area by stirring up fears of racial change. |
| BLOCKBUSTER | • blockbuster n. A high-explosive bomb used for the purposes of demolishing extensive areas, such as a city block. • blockbuster n. (Informal) Something, such as a film or book, that sustains exceptional and widespread popularity and… • blockbuster n. (Informal) Something, especially an event or a film, book or other creative work, that is intended to… |
| BUCKETLOADS | • bucketloads n. Plural of bucketload. |
| BULLOCKIEST | • BULLOCKY adj. like a bullock. |
| DOUBLETHINK | • doublethink n. The holding of two contradictory beliefs in one’s mind simultaneously and accepting both of them as… • DOUBLETHINK n. thought marked by the acceptance of gross contradictions and falsehoods, esp. when used as a technique of self-indoctrination. |
| LEPTOKURTIC | • leptokurtic adj. (Statistics) Of a distribution: having kurtosis greater than that of a normal distribution; equivalently… • LEPTOKURTIC adj. in statistics, referring to a distribution showing a particular type of kurtosis. |
| LEUKOBLASTS | • leukoblasts n. Plural of leukoblast. • LEUKOBLAST n. an immature leukocyte, also LEUCOBLAST. |
| LEUKOTOMIES | • leukotomies n. Plural of leukotomy. • LEUKOTOMY n. a surgical scission of the fibres between the frontal lobes of the brain and the thalamus to relieve cases of severe schizophrenia, also LEUCOTOMY. |
| LEUKOTRIENE | • leukotriene n. (Biochemistry) Any of several physiologically active lipids, related to the prostaglandins, that participate… • LEUKOTRIENE n. any of a group of eicosanoids that participate in allergic responses, such as bronchial constriction. |
| LUCKENBOOTH | • LUCKENBOOTH n. (Scots) a shop or booth esp. in 18th century Edinburgh. |
| MULLOCKIEST | • MULLOCKY adj. (Australian slang) like mullock, waste earth or rock from a mine. |
| OUTSPARKLED | • outsparkled v. Simple past tense and past participle of outsparkle. • OUTSPARKLE v. to exceed in sparkling. |
| OUTSPARKLES | • outsparkles v. Third-person singular simple present indicative form of outsparkle. • OUTSPARKLE v. to exceed in sparkling. |
| OUTSPECKLES | • OUTSPECKLE n. (Scots) a laughing stock, a spectacle. |
| OUTSPOKENLY | • outspokenly adv. In an outspoken manner. • OUTSPOKEN adv. frank, speaking one's mind. |
| SHUTTLECOCK | • shuttlecock n. (Countable) A lightweight object that is conical in shape with a cork or rubber-covered nose, used in… • shuttlecock n. (Uncountable, dated) The game of badminton. • shuttlecock v. To move rapidly back and forth. |
| THELYTOKOUS | • thelytokous adj. That produces female offspring (only). • THELYTOKOUS adj. producing only female offspring. |