| AFTERBURNINGS | • AFTERBURNING n. reheat, the use of a device to inject fuel into the hot exhaust gases of a turbojet in order to obtain increased thrust. |
| ARGENTIFEROUS | • argentiferous adj. (Geology) Containing or producing silver. • ARGENTIFEROUS adj. bearing silver e.g. galena. |
| BUTTERFINGERS | • butterfingers n. Someone who tends to drop things; (more generally) someone who is clumsy or uncoordinated; a klutz. • butterfingers n. One’s fingers which tend to drop things, or are clumsy or uncoordinated. • butterfingers n. A tendency to drop things, or to be clumsy or uncoordinated. |
| DESULFURATING | • desulfurating v. Present participle of desulfurate. • DESULFURATE v. to remove the sulphur from. |
| DISFIGUREMENT | • disfigurement n. The result of disfiguring; the state of being disfigured. • DISFIGUREMENT n. the state of being disfigured. |
| EFFIGURATIONS | • EFFIGURATION n. an elaborate, detailed description of an object or an event. |
| FILIBUSTERING | • filibustering v. Present participle of filibuster. • filibustering n. The act of one who filibusters. • FILIBUSTERING n. obstructing legislation by making long speeches. |
| FLUGELHORNIST | • flugelhornist n. One who plays the flugelhorn. • FLUGELHORNIST n. one who plays the flugelhorn. |
| FRIGHTFULNESS | • frightfulness n. The quality of being frightful. • FRIGHTFULNESS n. the state of being frightful. |
| FUSSBUDGETIER | • FUSSBUDGETY adj. like a fussbudget, a person who fusses about unimportant things. |
| GARNETIFEROUS | • garnetiferous adj. (Mineralogy) Containing garnets. • GARNETIFEROUS adj. bearing garnets. |
| RECENTRIFUGES | • recentrifuges v. Third-person singular simple present indicative form of recentrifuge. • RECENTRIFUGE v. to put through a centrifuge again. |
| RETRANSFUSING | • retransfusing v. Present participle of retransfuse. • RETRANSFUSE v. to transfuse again. |
| SUFFRAGETTISM | • suffragettism n. The suffragette movement for women’s voting rights. • SUFFRAGETTISM n. belief in the aims of the suffragette. |
| SUPERFETATING | • superfetating v. Present participle of superfetate. • SUPERFETATE v. to conceive when a fetus is already in the uterus. |
| UNDERSTAFFING | • understaffing v. Present participle of understaff. • understaffing n. The situation of having insufficient members of staff. • UNDERSTAFFING n. inadequate staffing. |