| BANTAMWEIGHT | • bantamweight n. (Boxing) A weight class in boxing and other sports, intermediate between flyweight and featherweight… • bantamweight n. A boxer or other competitor of this weight. • BANTAMWEIGHT n. a weight category in boxing. |
| DOOMWATCHING | • DOOMWATCHING n. the act of keeping an eye on the environment. |
| HEARTWARMING | • heartwarming adj. Alternative form of heart-warming. • heart-warming adj. Eliciting cosy feelings of tenderness and sympathy. • HEARTWARMING adj. inspiring sympathetic feeling. |
| HIGHBROWISMS | • highbrowisms n. Plural of highbrowism. • HIGHBROWISM n. the state of being a highbrow. |
| HOMEWORKINGS | • HOMEWORKING n. working from home. |
| HOUSEWARMING | • housewarming n. (Idiomatic) A party to celebrate moving into a new home. • housewarming n. The act of welcoming a person/family to their newly purchased or newly rented home. • house-warming n. Alternative spelling of housewarming. |
| MIDDLEWEIGHT | • middleweight n. (Uncountable) A weight class in professional boxing between light middleweight or welterweight and super… • middleweight n. (Countable) A boxer who fights in this division; a similar wrestler etc. • middleweight n. (Countable, business, by extension) An employee ranking anywhere between junior and senior. |
| OVERWHELMING | • overwhelming v. Present participle of overwhelm. • overwhelming adj. Overpowering, staggering, or irresistibly strong. • overwhelming adj. Very great or intense. |
| SCRIMSHAWING | • scrimshawing v. Present participle of scrimshaw. • SCRIMSHAW v. to ornament, as shells, ivory, etc., by engraving, and (usually) rubbing pigments into the incised lines, also SCRIMSHANDER, SCRIMSHANDY. |
| SHOWJUMPINGS | • SHOWJUMPING n. a competition in which a succession of riders on horseback have to jump a series of obstacles of different kinds. |
| SHOWROOMINGS | • SHOWROOMING n. the practice of looking at an item of merchandise in a shop, often using a smartphone app to compare its price elsewhere, before buying it from an online distributor. |
| SUMMERWEIGHT | • summerweight adj. (Of clothing) Of relatively light weight, intended for use in warm summers. • SUMMERWEIGHT adj. of clothes, suitable in weight for wear in the summer; relatively light. |
| WATCHMAKINGS | • WATCHMAKING n. the profession of making watches. |
| WHIGMALEERIE | • WHIGMALEERIE n. (Scots) a trinket or knickknack; a fantastic ornamentation; a whim, also WHIGMALEERY. |
| WHIMPERINGLY | • whimperingly adv. With a whimpering sound. • WHIMPERINGLY adv. WHIMPERING. |
| WHOREMONGERS | • whoremongers n. Plural of whoremonger. • WHOREMONGER n. a man consorting with whores or given to lechery. |
| WHOREMONGERY | • whoremongery n. Sexual relations by or with a prostitute. • whoremongery n. (More generally) The act of engaging in illicit sexual relations. • WHOREMONGERY n. the business of a whoremonger. |