| BUTEONINE | • buteonine n. (Ornithology) Any bird in the accipitrid subfamily Buteoninae. • BUTEONINE adj. like a buzzard. • BUTEONINE n. a bird of the buzzard family. |
| CENTURION | • centurion n. (Historical) An officer of the ancient Roman army, in command of a century of soldiers. • centurion n. (Cricket) A player who scores a century. • centurion n. (US) A pilot in the United States Navy who has performed 100 night landings on an aircraft carrier. |
| CONTINUED | • continued adj. (Dated) Prolonged; unstopped. • continued adj. Uninterrupted. • continued v. Simple past tense and past participle of continue. |
| CONTINUER | • continuer n. One who, or that which, continues. • continuer n. (Linguistics) A word or phrase interjected by the listener to indicate that he/she is listening to the speaker. • CONTINUER n. one who continues. |
| CONTINUES | • continues v. Third-person singular simple present indicative form of continue. • continues n. Plural of continue. • CONTINUE v. to go on with. |
| COUNTLINE | • countline n. A consumer product (especially confectionery) that is supplied to retailers in packages of multiple… • COUNTLINE n. a confectionery bar made as an individual item, e.g. a filled chocolate bar, rather than as moulded chocolate. |
| EMUNCTION | • emunction n. (Formal) The act of wiping or blowing one’s nose. • EMUNCTION n. the act of removing obstructions from or cleaning bodily passages. |
| INFORTUNE | • infortune n. (Obsolete) misfortune. • infortune v. To afflict. • infortune v. (Astrology, of a planet) To have a malign influence. |
| NEURATION | • neuration n. (Biology) The arrangement or distribution of veins (nerves), as in the leaves of a plant or the wings of an insect. • NEURATION n. the arrangement of nerves and veins, esp. those of leaves, also NERVATION, NERVATURE. |
| NEUSTONIC | • neustonic adj. Relating to neuston. • NEUSTONIC adj. of or like neuston, minute organisms floating or swimming on water's surface, also NEUSTIC. |
| NEUTRINOS | • neutrinos n. Plural of neutrino. • NEUTRINO n. an uncharged subatomic particle with zero mass when at rest. |
| NEUTRONIC | • neutronic adj. (Physics) Relating to neutrons or to neutronics. • NEUTRONIC adj. of or like a neutron. |
| NONSUITED | • nonsuited v. Simple past tense and past participle of nonsuit. • NONSUIT v. to dismiss the lawsuit of. |
| NOUGATINE | • nougatine n. Brown nougat, made from caramelized sugar. • nougatine n. Dutch dessert, made from two chocolate covered meringue cookies with cream in the middle and cream on… • NOUGATINE n. nougat covered with chocolate. |
| OUTSINNED | • outsinned v. Simple past tense and past participle of outsin. • OUTSIN v. to surpass in sinning. |
| TENDINOUS | • tendinous adj. (Anatomy) Of, pertaining to, or resembling a tendon or sinew. • TENDINOUS adj. of or like a tendon. |
| UNIPOTENT | • unipotent adj. (Biology) Having the capacity to develop into only one type of cell or tissue. • unipotent adj. (Mathematics) Having a single idempotent element. • UNIPOTENT adj. able to form only one part of a cell. |
| UNJOINTED | • unjointed adj. Not jointed. • UNJOINT v. to separate at a juncture. |
| UNNOTICED | • unnoticed adj. Not noticed. • un-noticed adj. Alternative form of unnoticed. • un-noticed v. Simple past tense and past participle of un-notice. |
| UNPOINTED | • unpointed adj. Not pointed (formed into a point). • unpointed adj. Not pointed (finished by filling with cement or mortar). • unpointed adj. (Typography) Not marked with a point. |