| ACERBITY | • acerbity n. Sourness of taste, with bitterness and astringency, like that of unripe fruit. • acerbity n. Harshness, bitterness, or severity. • acerbity n. (Countable) Something harsh (e.g. a remark, act or experience). |
| ARBITERS | • arbiters n. Plural of arbiter. • ARBITER n. (Latin) a person with power to decide a dispute, a judge. |
| ARBITRAL | • arbitral adj. Relating to arbitration. • ARBITRAL adj. in Scots law, of or relating to an arbiter or an arbitration. |
| BARBITAL | • barbital n. The first commercially marketed barbiturate, used as a hypnotic drug until the mid-1950s. • BARBITAL n. (US) a derivative of barbituric acid used as a sedative, also BARBITONE. |
| CUCURBIT | • cucurbit n. Any member of the family Cucurbitaceae of gourds. • cucurbit n. (Obsolete) A receptacle, originally gourd-shaped and used for liquids or chemicals; a bottle or other container. • CUCURBIT n. a chemical vessel used in a still or alembic. |
| DEORBITS | • deorbits v. Third-person singular simple present indicative form of deorbit. • DEORBIT v. to come out of orbit. |
| ORBITALS | • orbitals n. Plural of orbital. • ORBITAL n. an orbit. |
| ORBITERS | • orbiters n. Plural of orbiter. • ORBITER n. a spacecraft that orbits. |
| ORBITIES | • orbities n. Plural of orbity. • ORBITY n. (obsolete) bereavement, esp. of children. |
| ORBITING | • orbiting v. Present participle of orbit. • ORBIT v. to revolve around. |
| OVERBITE | • overbite n. (Dentistry) A malocclusion in which the upper teeth extend over the lower ones. • overbite v. To use excessive acid in an etching process, so that the result is too deep. • OVERBITE n. the overlapping of the lower by the upper teeth; esp. vertical overlapping of the incisors. |
| SORBITAN | • sorbitan n. (Chemistry) a dehydration product of sorbitol having a tetrahydrofuran ring and four hydroxy groups;… • SORBITAN n. a mixture of isomeric organic compounds derived from the dehydration of sorbitol. |
| SORBITES | • sorbites n. Plural of sorbite. • SORBITE n. a fine-grained constituent of steel formed of ferrite and cementite. |
| SORBITIC | • sorbitic adj. Of, pertaining to, or made of sorbite. • SORBITIC adj. of or like sorbite, a constituent of steel. |
| SORBITOL | • sorbitol n. (Biochemistry) A faintly sweet alcohol C6H14O6 that occurs in some fruits, is made synthetically, and… • SORBITOL n. a white crystalline substance derived from (and used as a substitute for) sugar. |
| TURBITHS | • TURBITH n. a medicinal plant root, also TURPETH, TURBETH. |
| UNDERBIT | • underbit v. Simple past tense of underbite. • UNDERBITE v. to bite insufficiently with acid, as in etching. |