CONFECTIONERS | • confectioners n. Plural of confectioner. • confectioner's n. (UK) A shop that principally sells confectionery. • CONFECTIONER n. a manufacturer of or dealer in confections. |
CONFECTIONERY | • confectionery n. (Uncountable) Foodstuffs that taste very sweet, taken as a group; candies, sweetmeats and confections collectively. • confectionery n. (Uncountable) The business or occupation of manufacturing confectionery; the skill or work of a confectioner. • confectionery n. A store where confectionery is sold; a confectioner’s shop. |
CONFEDERATION | • confederation n. A union or alliance of states or political organizations. • confederation n. The act of forming an alliance. • Confederation prop.n. In Canada, the federal union of provinces and territories which formed Canada, beginning with New Brunswick… |
DEFORESTATION | • deforestation n. The process of destroying a forest and replacing it with something else, especially with an agricultural system. • deforestation n. (Computing theory) A transformation to eliminate intermediate data structures within a program. • DEFORESTATION n. the act of clearing forests. |
FELONIOUSNESS | • feloniousness n. The quality of being felonious. • FELONIOUS n. like a felon, wicked. |
FEROCIOUSNESS | • ferociousness n. The quality of being ferocious; ferocity. • FEROCIOUS n. fierce. |
FOOLISHNESSES | • foolishnesses n. Plural of foolishness. • FOOLISHNESS n. the state of being foolish. |
FOREMENTIONED | • forementioned adj. Alternative form of aforementioned. • FOREMENTIONED adj. mentioned before in writing or speech, also AFOREMENTIONED. |
FORETOKENINGS | • foretokenings n. Plural of foretokening. • FORETOKENING n. the act of foretokening. |
FRONTOGENESIS | • frontogenesis n. (Meteorology, oceanography) The formation or strengthening of an atmospheric weather front or of an oceanic front. • FRONTOGENESIS n. the creation of a weather front by the meeting of air currents. |
FRONTOGENETIC | • frontogenetic adj. (Meteorology) Tending to maintain or intensify horizontal temperature gradients, which are associated… • FRONTOGENETIC adj. relating to the creation of a weather front by the meeting of air currents. |
NONCONFIDENCE | • nonconfidence n. Absence of confidence (especially politically, as in a vote of no confidence). • NONCONFIDENCE n. lack of confidence. |
NONFORFEITURE | • nonforfeiture n. Lack of forfeiture; failure to forfeit, or exemption from forfeiting. • NONFORFEITURE n. something that is not forfeiture. |
OVERCONFIDENT | • overconfident adj. Too confident. • overconfident adj. Presumptuous, cocksure, rude and disrespectful. • OVERCONFIDENT adj. excessively confident. |
POLLENIFEROUS | • polleniferous adj. (Botany) Producing pollen; polliniferous. • POLLENIFEROUS adj. bearing pollen. |
REFORESTATION | • reforestation n. The act or process of replanting a forest, especially after clear-cutting. • REFORESTATION n. the action of renewing forest cover, as by natural seeding or by the artificial planting of seeds or young trees. |
RETROFLECTION | • retroflection n. The condition of being bent backwards. • RETROFLECTION n. the state of being bent back, also RETROFLEXION. |
RETROFLEXIONS | • retroflexions n. Plural of retroflexion. • RETROFLEXION n. the state of being bent back, also RETROFLECTION. |