| BLOCKBUSTING | • blockbusting n. (US) A technique used to encourage people to sell their property by giving the impression that a neighborhood… • blockbusting adj. Having the characteristics of a blockbuster; hugely successful. • BLOCKBUSTING n. the act of bringing about the sale of property in an area by stirring up fears of racial change. |
| BLOODSUCKING | • bloodsucking adj. (Of an insect or animal) That draws off the blood of another animal, or a person. • bloodsucking adj. (By extension, of a person) parasitic, leechlike or freeloading. • blood-sucking adj. Alternative form of bloodsucking. |
| BLUEJACKINGS | • bluejackings n. Plural of bluejacking. • BLUEJACKING n. the sending of unsolicited messages over Bluetooth to Bluetooth-enabled devices such as mobile phones. |
| BLUESTOCKING | • bluestocking n. (Usually derogatory) A scholarly, literary, or cultured woman. • bluestocking n. (Historical) A member of an 18th-century Blue Stockings Society. • bluestocking n. (Historical) The English parliament of 1653, more commonly called the Barebones Parliament. |
| BUSHWALKINGS | • BUSHWALKING n. hiking through the bush as a leisure activity. |
| CUCKOLDISING | • CUCKOLDISE v. to make a cuckold of, also CUCKOLDIZE. |
| DRUNKALOGUES | • drunkalogues n. Plural of drunkalogue. • DRUNKALOGUE n. an account of a person's problems with alcohol. |
| GLUCOKINASES | • glucokinases n. Plural of glucokinase. • GLUCOKINASE n. a hexokinase found esp. in the liver that catalyzes the phosphorylation of glucose. |
| KEELHAULINGS | • keelhaulings n. Plural of keelhauling. • KEELHAULING n. punishment by dragging under keel of ship. |
| LEUKAEMOGENS | • LEUKAEMOGEN n. a substance or agent which promotes the development of leukaemia, also LEUCAEMOGEN, LEUKEMOGEN. |
| LUCKENGOWANS | • LUCKENGOWAN n. (Scots) the globeflower. |
| MULTITASKING | • multitasking v. Present participle of multitask. • multitasking n. (Computing) The simultaneous execution of multiple tasks (programs) under the control of an interrupt-driven… • multitasking n. (Buzzword, figuratively) The practice or capability of handling more than one task at the same time. |
| MUSKELLUNGES | • muskellunges n. Plural of muskellunge. • MUSKELLUNGE n. a North American freshwater fish of the pike family, also MASKALLONGE, MASKALONGE, MASKANONGE, MASKINONGE, MUSKIE. |
| OUTSPARKLING | • outsparkling v. Present participle of outsparkle. • OUTSPARKLE v. to exceed in sparkling. |
| QUACKSALVING | • quacksalving adj. Falsely claiming to possess medical or other skills, like a quacksalver. • QUACKSALVING adj. (obsolete) like a quacksalver, a charlatan. |
| SKULLDUGGERY | • skullduggery n. Alternative spelling of skulduggery (US) in. • SKULLDUGGERY n. underhand dealing, trickery, also SCULDUGGERY, SKULDUGGERY. |
| SPARKPLUGGED | • sparkplugged v. Simple past tense and past participle of sparkplug. • SPARKPLUG v. to spark something off, in the manner of a sparkplug in a car carrying wires between which an electric spark passes to fire the explosive mixture of gases. |