| ABSTINENCE | • abstinence n. The act or practice of abstaining, refraining from indulging a desire or appetite. • abstinence n. The practice of self-denial; self-restraint; forebearance from anything. • abstinence n. (Obsolete) Self-denial; abstaining; or forebearance of anything. |
| ABSTINENCY | • abstinency n. (Rare) Alternative form of abstinence. • ABSTINENCY n. voluntary forbearance esp. from indulgence of an appetite, also ABSTINENCE. |
| CELESTINES | • celestines n. Plural of celestine. • Celestines n. Plural of Celestine. • CELESTINE n. native strontium sulphate, so named from its occasional delicate blue color, also CELESTITE. |
| CHESTINESS | • chestiness n. The quality of being chesty. • CHESTINESS n. the state of being chesty. |
| CRUSTINESS | • crustiness n. The state of being crusty. • CRUSTINESS n. the state of being crusty. |
| FEISTINESS | • feistiness n. The quality or state of being feisty. • FEISTINESS n. the state of being feisty. |
| FROSTINESS | • frostiness n. The quality of being frosty. • FROSTINESS n. the state of being frosty. |
| HYDRASTINE | • hydrastine n. (Organic chemistry) A natural alkaloid present in goldenseal. • HYDRASTINE n. a white poisonous alkaloid extracted from the roots of the goldenseal, which has been used in medicine to contract the uterus and arrest haemorrhage. |
| INTESTINES | • intestines n. Plural of intestine. • INTESTINE n. a part of the digestive system extending from the stomach to the anus. |
| LAURUSTINE | • laurustine n. Alternative form of laurestine. • LAURUSTINE n. a winter-flowering shrub, also LAURUSTINUS. |
| PHILISTINE | • philistine n. (Derogatory) A person who is ignorant or uneducated; specifically, a person who lacks appreciation of… • philistine adj. (Derogatory) Ignorant or uneducated; specifically, lacking appreciation for or antagonistic towards… • Philistine n. (Historical) A non-Semitic person from ancient Philistia, a region in the southwest Levant in the Middle East. |
| PREDESTINE | • predestine v. (Transitive) To determine the future or the fate of something in advance; to preordain. • predestine v. (Theology, transitive) To foreordain by divine will. • PREDESTINE v. to decree beforehand. |
| PRISTINELY | • pristinely adv. In a way that is pristine. • PRISTINE adv. original, pure, unspoilt. |
| REASTINESS | • reastiness n. Rancidity. • REASTINESS n. the state of being reasty, rancid. |
| TOASTINESS | • toastiness n. The quality or state of being toasty. |
| TRUSTINESS | • trustiness n. The quality or state of being trusty. • TRUSTINESS n. the state of being trusty. |
| YEASTINESS | • yeastiness n. The state or condition of being yeasty. • YEASTINESS n. the state of being yeasty. |