ABDICATOR | • abdicator n. (Obsolete) A person supporting the abdication of another. • abdicator n. One who abdicates. • ABDICATOR n. one who abdicates. |
ABDUCTORS | • abductors n. Plural of abductor. • ABDUCTOR n. a person who abducts. |
ABREACTED | • abreacted v. Simple past tense and past participle of abreact. • ABREACT v. to resolve a neurosis by reviving forgotten or repressed ideas of the event first causing it. |
ACERBATED | • acerbated v. Simple past tense and past participle of acerbate. • ACERBATE v. to embitter, to irritate. |
BACKDRAFT | • backdraft n. (American spelling, firefighting) Sudden, dangerous recombustion that occurs when there is a rapid reintroduction… • BACKDRAFT n. a reverse movement of air, also BACKDRAUGHT. |
BACKDROPT | • BACKDROP v. to create a background for a stage. |
BACTEROID | • bacteroid n. (Dated) A micro-organism such as a bacterium or yeast. • bacteroid n. A bacterium of the species Bacteroides. • bacteroid n. A symbiotic form of the nitrogen-fixing bacterium Rhizobia, or the root nodule that it produces. |
BECRUSTED | • becrusted adj. Covered with, or as if with, a crust; encrusted. • BECRUST v. to cover with a crust. |
BIRDWATCH | • birdwatch v. (Intransitive) To take part in birdwatching; to observe and identify birds. • birdwatch n. A session of observing and identifying birds. • BIRDWATCH v. to watch birds as a hobby. |
BRACKETED | • bracketed v. Simple past tense and past participle of bracket. • BRACKET v. to group, classify. |
BRATTICED | • bratticed v. Simple past tense and past participle of brattice. • BRATTICE v. to provide with a brattice, also BRATTISH, BRETTICE. |
BRETTICED | • bretticed v. Simple past tense and past participle of brettice. • BRETTICE v. to provide with a brettice. |
BROADCAST | • broadcast adj. Cast or scattered widely in all directions; cast abroad. • broadcast adj. Communicated, signalled, or transmitted through radio waves or electronic means. • broadcast adj. Relating to transmissions of messages or signals through radio waves or electronic means. |
BUTCHERED | • butchered v. Simple past tense and past participle of butcher. • butchered adj. (Of an animal) Taken apart professionally, as a butcher might. • butchered adj. (By extension) Taken apart, destroyed or (figurative) distorted beyond recognition. |
BYPRODUCT | • byproduct n. Alternative form of by-product. • by-product n. A secondary product; something made incidentally during the production of something else. • by-product n. A side effect. |
CODEBTORS | • codebtors n. Plural of codebtor. • CODEBTOR n. one who shares a debt. |
OBCORDATE | • obcordate adj. (Botany, of a leaf) Of a reversed cordate shape; heart-shaped but attached to the stalk by the pointed end. • OBCORDATE adj. of e.g. a leaf, inversely heart-shaped and attached by the point. |
TACKBOARD | • tackboard n. Synonym of pinboard. • TACKBOARD n. a board, as of cork, for tacking up notices and display materials. |
TRACKBEDS | • trackbeds n. Plural of trackbed. • track␣beds n. Plural of track bed. • TRACKBED n. the foundations of a railway track. |
TUBERCLED | • tubercled adj. Having, or affected with, tubercles. • TUBERCLED adj. having tubercles. |