BOUNCIEST | • bounciest adj. Superlative form of bouncy: most bouncy. • BOUNCY adj. tending to bounce. |
BUNCOMBES | • BUNCOMBE n. insincere or foolish talk, nonsense, also BUNKUM. |
BUOYANCES | • buoyances n. Plural of buoyance. • BUOYANCE n. the tendency to float, also BUOYANCY. |
CASEBOUND | • casebound adj. (Of a book) hardcover (attributive). • CASEBOUND adj. of a book, bound in stiff covers. |
CLUBWOMEN | • clubwomen n. Plural of clubwoman. • CLUBWOMAN n. a female member of a club. |
COENOBIUM | • coenobium n. (Biology) An arranged colony of algae that acts as a single organism; coenobe. • coenobium n. Alternative spelling of cenobium (“monastic community”). • cœnobium n. Obsolete spelling of cenobium. |
COLUBRINE | • colubrine adj. Snakelike. • colubrine adj. Relating to snakes. • colubrine n. Any snake of the subfamily Colubrinae. |
COLUMBINE | • columbine n. Any plant of the genus Aquilegia, having distinctive bell-shaped flowers with spurs on each petal. • columbine adj. (Archaic) Pertaining to a dove or pigeon. • Columbine prop.n. A census-designated place in Arapahoe County and Jefferson County, Colorado, United States, infamous… |
CONCUBINE | • concubine n. A sexual partner, especially a woman, to whom one is not or cannot be married. • concubine n. A woman who lives with a man, but who is not a wife. • concubine n. (Chiefly historical) A slave-girl or woman, kept for instance in a harem, who is held for sexual service. |
COUNTABLE | • countable adj. Capable of being counted; having a quantity. • countable adj. (Mathematics, of a set) finite or countably infinite; having a one-to-one correspondence (bijection)… • countable adj. (Mathematics, of a set) Countably infinite; having a bijection with the natural numbers. |
CURBSTONE | • curbstone n. US spelling of kerbstone. • CURBSTONE n. a stone lining a curb, also KERBSTONE. |
RUBICONED | • rubiconed v. Simple past tense and past participle of rubicon. • RUBICON v. to win at piquet in this way. |
SUBDEACON | • subdeacon n. (Catholicism, chiefly historical) A Catholic clerical rank in the major orders below that of a deacon. • subdeacon n. (Catholicism, chiefly historical) A Catholic cleric who assists the deacon at High Mass and normally… • subdeacon n. (Eastern Christianity) The highest of the minor orders below that of a deacon. |
SUBOSCINE | • suboscine adj. Of or pertaining to the passerine birds of the suborder Tyranni. • suboscine n. Any of the passerine birds of suborder Tyranni, which includes broadbills, asities, pittas, antbirds and others. • SUBOSCINE n. a member of a certain subfamily of birds. |
UNBLOCKED | • unblocked adj. Not blocked (in various senses). • unblocked v. Past participle of unblock. • UNBLOCK v. to free from blockage. |
UNCOBBLED | • uncobbled adj. Not cobbled. • UNCOBBLED adj. not cobbled. |
UNCOMBINE | • uncombine v. (Transitive) To separate (things previously combined). • uncombine v. (Intransitive) To cease to be combined; to become separate. • UNCOMBINE v. (Dickens) to separate. |