| 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. |
| 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. |
| CUCKOLDISING | • CUCKOLDISE v. to make a cuckold of, also CUCKOLDIZE. |
| CUCKOLDIZING | • cuckoldizing v. Present participle of cuckoldize. • CUCKOLDIZE v. to make a cuckold of, also CUCKOLDISE. |
| CUPRONICKELS | • cupronickels n. Plural of cupronickel. • CUPRONICKEL n. an alloy of copper and nickel. |
| DOUBLETHINKS | • doublethinks n. Plural of doublethink. • DOUBLETHINK n. thought marked by the acceptance of gross contradictions and falsehoods, esp. when used as a technique of self-indoctrination. |
| DOUGHNUTLIKE | • doughnutlike adj. Resembling a doughnut. • DOUGHNUTLIKE adj. like a doughnut. |
| GLUCOKINASES | • glucokinases n. Plural of glucokinase. • GLUCOKINASE n. a hexokinase found esp. in the liver that catalyzes the phosphorylation of glucose. |
| KAMELAUKIONS | • kamelaukions n. Plural of kamelaukion. • KAMELAUKION n. (Modern Greek) a tall cylindrical hat worn by Orthodox priests. |
| KINETONUCLEI | • KINETONUCLEUS n. a DNA body located near the base of the flagellum in flagellate protozoa, also KINETOPLAST. |
| LEUKEMOGENIC | • leukemogenic adj. That tends to cause leukemia. • LEUKEMOGENIC adj. relating to leukemogenesis. |
| LEUKOTRIENES | • leukotrienes n. Plural of leukotriene. • LEUKOTRIENE n. any of a group of eicosanoids that participate in allergic responses, such as bronchial constriction. |
| OUTSPARKLING | • outsparkling v. Present participle of outsparkle. • OUTSPARKLE v. to exceed in sparkling. |
| UNLIKELIHOOD | • unlikelihood n. Absence of likelihood; the state of being unlikely or improbable; improbability. • UNLIKELIHOOD n. the state of being unlikely. |
| UNSAILORLIKE | • unsailorlike adj. Not sailorlike. • UNSAILORLIKE adj. not like or befitting a sailor. |