BARNBURNER | • barnburner n. (Idiomatic) An extremely exciting or successful event or person. • barnburner n. One who burns down a barn. • barnburner n. (Slang, chiefly Pennsylvania, southern New Jersey, Maryland) a strike-anywhere match. |
BASERUNNER | • baserunner n. (Baseball, softball) A player who is on base and is thus trying to advance to the next base. • base␣runner n. (Baseball) Alternative spelling of baserunner. • BASERUNNER n. a baseball player of the team on bat who is on base or trying to reach base. |
INSURANCER | • insurancer n. (Obsolete) An insurer; an underwriter. • INSURANCER n. (obsolete) one who effects insurance. |
INTERLUNAR | • interlunar adj. Of the four-day period between an old moon and a new moon, when the moon is not visible. • INTERLUNAR adj. pertaining to the period between the old and new moon, also INTERLUNARY. |
INTERURBAN | • interurban adj. Of, pertaining to, involving or joining two or more urban centres. • interurban n. (Rail transport, US) An electric railway carrying mainly passengers between two or more urban centres. • INTERURBAN adj. between cities. |
NURSERYMAN | • nurseryman n. A person who rears and sells plants in a nursery. • NURSERYMAN n. one whose occupation is the cultivation of plants (as trees and shrubs) esp. for sale. |
NURTURANCE | • nurturance n. (Psychology) The provision of physical and emotional care. • NURTURANCE n. nurture. |
RACERUNNER | • racerunner n. Any of a group of lizards, of the family Teiidae, native to the Americas. |
RAISONNEUR | • raisonneur n. (Literature) A person in a play or book embodying an author’s viewpoint. • RAISONNEUR n. (French) a person in a play or book embodying the author's viewpoint. |
RENATURING | • renaturing v. Present participle of renature. • RENATURE v. to restore natural qualities. |
ROADRUNNER | • roadrunner n. Either of two species of fast-running bird in the genus Geococcyx of the cuckoo family native to North… • ROADRUNNER n. a bird of the turkey family, aka the chaparral cock. |
UNARRANGED | • unarranged adj. Not arranged. • UNARRANGED adj. not arranged. |
UNDERDRAIN | • underdrain n. An underground drain or trench with openings through which the water may percolate from the soil or ground above. • underdrain v. (Transitive) To drain by forming an underdrain or underdrains in. • UNDERDRAIN v. to drain by deep underground ditches. |
UNDERDRAWN | • underdrawn v. Past participle of underdraw. • UNDERDRAW v. to draw or describe with moderation or reticence. |
UNGARNERED | • ungarnered adj. Not garnered. • UNGARNERED adj. not garnered. |