| CHLOROFORM | • chloroform n. (Organic chemistry) A halogenated hydrocarbon, trichloromethane, CHCl3; it is a volatile, sweet-smelling… • chloroform v. To treat with chloroform, or to render unconscious with chloroform. • CHLOROFORM v. to treat with or as if with the colourless volatile liquid chloroform esp. so as to produce anesthesia. |
| CHOREIFORM | • choreiform adj. (Medicine) Resembling chorea. • CHOREIFORM adj. resembling chorea. |
| CRUSHPROOF | • crushproof adj. Strong enough to resist being deformed or crushed when subjected to more than normal physical stress or pressure. • CRUSHPROOF adj. resistant to crushing. |
| FARBOROUGH | • FARBOROUGH n. (Shakespeare) a mispronunciation of thirdborough, also THARBOROUGH. |
| FLOWERHORN | • flowerhorn n. A brightly-coloured ornamental cichlid with a distinctive nuchal hump. • FLOWERHORN adj. as in flowerhorn fish, a brightly coloured cichlid fish with a large protuberance on the head. |
| FOREMOTHER | • foremother n. A female ancestor. • FOREMOTHER n. a female ancestor. |
| FORESHORES | • foreshores n. Plural of foreshore. • FORESHORE n. that part of the shore that lies between the low and high tide marks. |
| FOURSCORTH | • FOURSCORTH adj. (obsolete) eightieth. |
| FROGHOPPER | • froghopper n. Any of various small insects of the superfamily Cercopoidea that feed on plant sap and whose larvae… • FROGHOPPER n. a froth-fly, aka spittlebug. |
| HERETOFORE | • heretofore adv. (Formal, temporal) Before now, until now, up to the present time; from the beginning to this point. • heretofore adv. (Metatextual) Previously within the present text; earlier herein. • HERETOFORE n. the past. |
| HOARFROSTS | • hoarfrosts n. Plural of hoarfrost. • hoar-frosts n. Plural of hoar-frost. • hoar␣frosts n. Plural of hoar frost. |
| SHOREFRONT | • shorefront n. The area fronting on a coastline. • shorefront adj. Of property or real estate: adjacent to the shore. • SHOREFRONT n. the part of a shore nearest the sea. |
| THERMOFORM | • thermoform v. To use a method of shaping, especially for thermoplastics, while hot. • THERMOFORM v. to give a final shape to plastics by heat and pressure. |
| THORNPROOF | • thornproof adj. Resistant to tearing by thorns. • THORNPROOF adj. proof against thorns. |