ANTILITTER | • antilitter adj. Opposing or proscribing littering. • ANTILITTER adj. designed to prevent litter. |
ATTOLLENTS | • attollents n. Plural of attollent. • ATTOLLENT n. a muscle that raises, also ATTOLLENS. |
BATTEILANT | • BATTEILANT adj. (Spenser) combatant. |
BATTLEMENT | • battlement n. In fortification: an indented parapet, formed by a series of rising members called cops or merlons… • battlement n. Any high wall for defense. • battlement n. (Poetic) The towering roof of heaven. |
DILETTANTE | • dilettante n. An amateur, someone who dabbles in a field out of casual interest rather than as a profession or serious interest. • dilettante n. (Sometimes offensive) A person with a general but superficial interest in any art or a branch of knowledge. • dilettante adj. Pertaining to or like a dilettante. |
DILETTANTI | • dilettanti n. Plural of dilettante. • DILETTANTE n. (Italian) a dabbler or lover of fine arts. |
SETTLEMENT | • settlement n. The act of settling. • settlement n. The state of being settled. • settlement n. A colony that is newly established; a place or region newly settled (even in past times). |
TABLANETTE | • TABLANETTE n. (French) a variant of the card game cassino. |
TABLETTING | • tabletting n. Alternative form of tableting. • TABLET v. to write on a small flat surface. |
TANTALATES | • tantalates n. Plural of tantalate. • TANTALATE n. a salt of tantalic acid. |
TANTALITES | • tantalites n. Plural of tantalite. • TANTALITE n. a black mineral, the main ore from which tantalum is derived. |
TELNETTING | • telnetting v. Present participle of telnet. • TELNET v. to access a computer system remotely. |
TETRATHLON | • tetrathlon n. (Sports) A contest with four successive events, usually showjumping, swimming, running and pistol shooting. • TETRATHLON n. a four-event sporting contest. |
TOILINETTE | • toilinette n. A cloth formerly used for waistcoats, having a weft of woollen yarn and a warp of cotton and silk. • TOILINETTE n. a kind of woollen cloth, silk and cotton warp, also TOILINET. |