BOWDLERISERS | • bowdlerisers n. Plural of bowdleriser. • BOWDLERISER n. one who bowdlerises, also BOWDLERIZER. |
BOWDLERISING | • bowdlerising v. Present participle of bowdlerise. • BOWDLERISE v. to expurgate a book or writing, by removing whatever might be considered indelicate, esp. to do so unnecessarily, also BOWDLERIZE. |
BOWDLERIZERS | • bowdlerizers n. Plural of bowdlerizer. • BOWDLERIZER n. one who bowdlerizes, also BOWDLERISER. |
BOWDLERIZING | • bowdlerizing v. Present participle of bowdlerize. • Bowdlerizing v. Present participle of Bowdlerize. • BOWDLERIZE v. to purge literature of all possibly offensive or morally impure material, also BOWDLERISE. |
CHILDCROWING | • child-crowing n. (Medicine, archaic) A nervous affection with spasm of the muscles closing the glottis. • CHILDCROWING n. a nervous affection with spasm of the muscles closing the glottis. |
COWARDLINESS | • cowardliness n. The characteristic of being cowardly. • cowardliness n. A cowardly action. • COWARDLINESS n. the state of being cowardly. |
DOWNLIGHTERS | • downlighters n. Plural of downlighter. • DOWNLIGHTER n. a downward directed light-fitting, attached to or recessed in the ceiling. |
FIELDWORKERS | • fieldworkers n. Plural of fieldworker. • FIELDWORKER n. one who works in the fields. |
MIDDLEBROWED | • MIDDLEBROWED adj. midway between highbrow and lowbrow. |
MULTITOWERED | • multitowered adj. Having more than one tower. • MULTITOWERED adj. having many towers. |
OVERWITHHELD | • overwithheld v. Simple past tense and past participle of overwithhold. • OVERWITHHOLD v. to withhold excessively. |
OVERWITHHOLD | • overwithhold v. (Finance) To withhold an excess amount of tax for an employee etc., the excess being refunded at a later stage. • OVERWITHHOLD v. to withhold excessively. |
SILVERSWORDS | • silverswords n. Plural of silversword. |
TOWARDLINESS | • towardliness n. The state or quality of being towardly. • TOWARDLINESS n. the state of being towardly. |
UNWORLDLIEST | • unworldliest adj. Superlative form of unworldly: most unworldly. • UNWORLDLY adj. not belonging to this world. |