| 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. |
| BUTTONHOOKED | • buttonhooked v. Simple past tense and past participle of buttonhook. • BUTTONHOOK v. to make a kind of offensive play in American football. |
| COUNTERWORKS | • counterworks v. Third-person singular simple present indicative form of counterwork. • COUNTERWORK v. to work in opposition to. |
| JOURNEYWORKS | • JOURNEYWORK n. work done by a journeyman. |
| KERATOGENOUS | • keratogenous adj. That produces horny tissue. • KERATOGENOUS adj. producing horn or keratin. |
| LUCKENBOOTHS | • LUCKENBOOTH n. (Scots) a shop or booth esp. in 18th century Edinburgh. |
| OUTJOCKEYING | • outjockeying v. Present participle of outjockey. • OUTJOCKEY v. to surpass in jockeying. |
| OUTRECKONING | • outreckoning v. Present participle of outreckon. • OUTRECKON v. to surpass in reckoning. |
| ROCKHOUNDING | • rockhounding n. The activities of a rock hound; amateur geology. • ROCKHOUNDING n. of a rock-collector, looking for rocks. |
| SUBNOTEBOOKS | • subnotebooks n. Plural of subnotebook. |
| UNDERCOOKING | • undercooking v. Present participle of undercook. • UNDERCOOK v. to cook insufficiently or to a lesser extent than usual. |
| UNDERLOOKERS | • underlookers n. Plural of underlooker. • UNDERLOOKER n. a mine manager's assistant, also UNDERVIEWER. |
| UNLIKELIHOOD | • unlikelihood n. Absence of likelihood; the state of being unlikely or improbable; improbability. • UNLIKELIHOOD n. the state of being unlikely. |
| UNPROVOKEDLY | • unprovokedly adv. Without provocation. • UNPROVOKED adv. UNPROVOKE, (Shakespeare) to counteract the provocation of. |