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… |
COUNTEREFFORT | • countereffort n. An effort made in opposition to another. • COUNTEREFFORT n. an effort opposing another effort. |
COUNTERFORCES | • counterforces n. Plural of counterforce. • COUNTERFORCE n. an opposing force. |
COUNTEROFFERS | • counteroffers n. Plural of counteroffer. • counter-offers n. Plural of counter-offer. • COUNTEROFFER n. a return offer made by one who has rejected an offer. |
COUNTERREFORM | • counterreform n. Opposition to reform. • COUNTERREFORM v. to make a reform designed to counter another reform. |
ELECTROFLUORS | • ELECTROFLUOR n. a transparent material that stores electrical energy and subsequently releases it as light. |
ELECTROFORMED | • electroformed adj. Produced, or modified by electroforming. • ELECTROFORM v. to form (shaped articles) by electrodeposition on a mold. |
FERROCONCRETE | • ferroconcrete n. A building material made from Portland cement concrete with a matrix of steel bars or wires (rebars)… • FERROCONCRETE n. reinforced concrete. |
FLUOROACETATE | • fluoroacetate n. (Chemistry) Any salt of fluoroacetic acid. • FLUOROACETATE n. an organofluorine compound. |
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. |
OLFACTOMETERS | • olfactometers n. Plural of olfactometer. • OLFACTOMETER n. an instrument measuring intensity of odour of a substance. |
OVERCONFIDENT | • overconfident adj. Too confident. • overconfident adj. Presumptuous, cocksure, rude and disrespectful. • OVERCONFIDENT adj. excessively confident. |
RECOMFORTLESS | • recomfortless adj. (Obsolete, rare) Without comfort, unconsoled. • RECOMFORTLESS adj. (Spenser) comfortless. |
RECOMFORTURES | • RECOMFORTURE n. (Shakespeare) consolation. |
RETROFLECTION | • retroflection n. The condition of being bent backwards. • RETROFLECTION n. the state of being bent back, also RETROFLEXION. |
TELESCOPIFORM | • telescopiform adj. Shaped like a telescope, with retractile tubular portions. • TELESCOPIFORM adj. in the form of a telescope. |