AMBIENT | • ambient adj. Encompassing on all sides; surrounding; encircling; enveloping. • ambient adj. (Music) Evoking or creating an atmosphere: atmospheric. • ambient adj. Relating to, or suitable for, storage at room temperature. |
AMBITTY | • ambitty adj. (Glassmaking) Of glass: covered with stony speckles, symptoms of incipient devitrification. • AMBITTY adj. denoting glass which has become devitrified and brittle. |
BAPTISM | • baptism n. A Christian sacrament, by which one is received into a church and sometimes given a name, generally… • baptism n. A similar ceremony of initiation, purification or naming. • BAPTISM n. immersion in water as a religious ceremony. |
BASMATI | • basmati n. A variety of long-grain rice, notable for its fragrance. • BASMATI n. (Hindi) a type of long grain rice. |
BATHMIC | • bathmic adj. Relating to bathmism. • BATHMIC adj. relating to bathmism, directive evolutionary force. |
BIMETAL | • bimetal adj. (Metallurgy) Consisting of two metals. • bimetal n. (Metallurgy) An object consisting of two metals. • BIMETAL n. something composed of two metals. |
BITMAPS | • bitmaps n. Plural of bitmap. • bit-maps n. Plural of bit-map. • bit␣maps n. Plural of bit map. |
CAMBIST | • cambist n. A banker; a money changer or broker; one who deals in bills of exchange, or who is skilled in the science of exchange. • CAMBIST n. a dealer in bills of exchange. |
GAMBIST | • gambist n. (Music) Someone who plays the viola da gamba. • GAMBIST n. a performer upon the viola di gamba. |
GAMBITS | • gambits n. Plural of gambit. • GAMBIT v. to sacrifice in order to gain. |
IAMBIST | • iambist n. One who writes in iambic meter. • IAMBIST n. a poet who writes iambic verse. |
IMBATHE | • imbathe v. Obsolete form of embathe. • IMBATHE v. (archaic) to bathe, also EMBATHE. |
IMBRAST | • imbrast v. (Obsolete) simple past tense and past participle of imbrace. • IMBRAST v. (Spenser) embraced. |
LIMBATE | • limbate adj. (Biology, paleontology) Having a distinct edge, especially one of a different colour; bordered. • LIMBATE adj. having an edge of a different colour. |
MEGABIT | • megabit n. (Computing) 106 = 1,000,000 bits or 125,000 bytes (125 kilobytes). • megabit n. (Computing) 220 = 1,048,576 bits; a mebibit. • megabit n. (Computing, informal) one megabit per second. |
MITUMBA | • mitumba n. (In parts of Africa) second-hand clothing, especially that provided by aid agencies and subsequently sold. • MITUMBA n. (Swahili) used clothes from wealthy countries imported to Africa. |
TIMBALE | • timbale n. A drum-shaped mould used to cook food. • timbale n. A dish of food cooked in such a mould. • TIMBALE n. (French) a dish of meat, fish etc. cooked in a cup-shaped mould or shell. |
TIMBALS | • timbals n. Plural of timbal. • TIMBAL n. (archaic) a kind of kettledrum, also TYMBAL. |
TIMBRAL | • timbral adj. Of or pertaining to the timbre of a sound. • TIMBRAL adj. relating to timbre. |
TRIMTAB | • trimtab n. Alternative form of trim tab. • trim␣tab n. (Aviation, nautical) A control surface set within or attached to a larger control surface that provides… • TRIMTAB n. a tab on an aircraft or boat. |