New words list: March 2012
List of new word entries
In addition to revised versions of Second Edition entries, these ranges contain the following new entries:
New word entries
New sub-entries
New senses
New word entries
- accretor, n.
- acephalus, n.
- adelite, n.
- aestivo-autumnal, adj.
- Altair, n.
- aphagia, n.
- arachnodactyly, n.
- arborio, n.
- arcticized, adj.
- arithmetical ratio, n.
- Astro, n.
- astrochemical, adj.
- astrochemist, n.
- astrochemistry, n.
- astrocytic, adj.
- astrogate, v.
- astrogation, n.
- astrogator, n.
- astrogeology, n.
- astroglia, n.
- astrogliosis, n.
- astrograph, n.
- astrolabic, adj.
- astrometric, adj.
- astronomist, n.
- astroparticle physicist, n.
- astroparticle physics, n.
- astroparticle, n. (and adj.)
- Astropecten, n.
- astrophotographer, n.
- astroturfing, n.
- battleground, n.
- bit bucket, n.
- blood and guts, n. and adj.
- blood feast, n.
- blood house, n.
- blood injury, n.
- blood testing, n.
- blood-giving, adj.
- blood-giving, n.
- bloodhounding, n.
- bloodstaining, adj.
- bloodstaining, n.
- blood-stauncher, n.
- blood-staunching, adj.
- blood-staunching, n.
- blood-stopper, n.
- blood-stopping, adj.
- blood-stopping, n.
- Bloody Caesar, n.
- bloody-mindedly, adv.
- boat person, n.
- boat-billed, adj.
- boatie, n.
- bohrium, n.
- boofhead, n.
- boofy, adj.
- bouffy, adj.
- brachiosaur, n.
- brachiosaurid, adj. and n.
- business case, n.1
- business case, n.2
- business class, n., adj., and adv.
- businessese, n.
- businesspeople, n.
- business-speak, n.
- businessy, adj.
- busk, n.4
- Buster Brown, n.
- buster suit, n.
- busting, adj.
- -busting, comb._form
- busting, n.
- bustled, adj.1
- bust-out, n. and adj.
- busulfan, n.
- busy-busy, adj.
- cabbage, n.4
- cabbaging, adj.
- CABG, n.
- capital commitment, n.
- capital–labour | capital–labor, adj.
- capitalizable, adj.
- capitalizing, adj.
- capital-lettered, adj.
- Capitan China, n.
- capitao mor, n.
- capitellid, adj. and n.
- Capitolium, n.
- capitolo, n.
- capiton, n.
- capituliform, adj.
- CD, n.2
- chlorion, n.
- Clamato, n.
- Cm, n.
- colourfield | colorfield, n.
- cringe-inducing, adj.
- customizable, adj.
- databasing, n.
- datasphere, n.
- datation, n.
- dataveillance, n.
- date rape, n.
- date stone, n.2
- datedness, n.
- datelined, adj.
- datil, n.
- dation en paiement, n.
- dendritic, adj.
- designatively, adv.
- design-build, n.
- designee, n.
- designy, adj.
- dubnium, n.
- East German, n. and adj.
- educating, n.
- educationalism, n.
- educationism, n.
- educationizing, n.
- enantiomerism, n.
- fem, n.
- female-to-male, adj. and n.
- femcee, n.
- femeline, adj.
- femininization, n.
- femininizing, n.
- femmy, adj.
- femtochemistry, n.
- fluconazole, n.
- fluor, n.2
- fluor-adelite, n.
- fluorescin, n.
- fluorindine, n.
- fluoro, adj.
- fluorogenic, adj.
- fluorogram, n.
- fluorograph, n.
- fluorographic, adj.
- fluorography, n.
- fluorol, n.
- fluoroquinolone, n.
- fluorosed, adj.
- fluorotic, adj.
- fluothane, n.
- Ga, n.2
- galanthophile, n.
- gas attendant, n.
- gas cloud, n.
- gas engine, n.2
- gas gauge, n.2
- gas line, n.1
- gas line, n.2
- gas motor, n.2
- gas tank, n.1
- gas-electric, adj. and n.
- gasified, adj.
- gasifying, adj.
- gasifying, n.
- gasketed, adj.
- gasketing, n.
- gasless, adj.2
- gasp, int.
- gasser, n.2
- Gd, n.
- Ge, n.
- geobarometer, n.
- geobarometry, n.
- geobiology, n.
- geocacher, n.
- geocentricity, n.
- geocentrism, n.
- geochemic, adj.
- geochronometer, n.
- geochronometric, adj.
- geodemographic, adj.
- geodemographics, n.
- geodimeter, n.
- geodynamo, n.
- geohistorical, adj.
- geohistory, n.
- geohydrologic, adj.
- geohydrological, adj.
- geohydrology, n.
- geomatical, adj.
- geomembrane, n.
- geometric distribution, n.
- geometricity, n.
- geometricize, v.
- geometricized, adj.
- geometricizing, adj.
- geometricizing, n.
- geometrodynamics, n.
- geophagia, n.
- geophilic, adj.
- George Sandism, n.
- Georgia, n.
- Georgiana, n.
- geoscience, n.
- geoscientist, n.
- geosophy, n.
- geospatial, adj.
- geosynchronous, adj.
- geotag, n.
- geotag, v.
- geotagged, adj.
- geotagging, n.
- geotechnical, adj.
- geotectonics, n.
- geotextile, n.
- geotherm, n.
- geothermometry, n.
- Germanness, n.
- germinability, n.
- germing, adj.
- germing, n.
- germling, n.
- germophobe, n.
- Germophobia, n.1
- germophobia, n.2
- hassium, n.
- histaminergic, adj.
- histograph, n.
- histographer, n.
- histographic, adj.2
- histographical, adj.2
- histographical, adj.3
- histography, n.2
- historical cost, n.
- historicization, n.
- Historikerstreit, n.
- historiometry, n.
- historiosophy, n.
- historism, n.
- historist, n.
- historization, n.
- historyless, adj.
- historywise, adv.
- histosol, n.
- histotropic, adj.
- in date, adj. (and adv.)
- influenza virus, n.
- inotropy, n.
- ionene, n.2
- ion-exchange, v.
- ion-exchanged, adj.
- ion-exchanging, adj.
- ionical, adj.2
- ionist, n.2
- ionopause, n.
- ionotropic, adj.2
- ionotropy, n.2
- Islamdom, n.
- Islamically, adv.
- Islamicism, n.
- Islamicist, n. and adj.
- Islamicized, adj.
- Islamics, n.
- Islamification, n.
- LARP, n.
- LARP, v.
- LARPer, n.
- LARPing, n.
- light-like, adj.
- locomoving, n.
- ludology, n.
- male-to-female, adj. and n.
- metamaterial, n.
- pan-Islamist, adj. and n.
- pole antarctic, n.
- pussyclaat, n., (int.), and adj.
- scaphismus, n.
- schoolmistress, n.2
- scratchiti, n.
- seaborgium, n.
- SOCO, n.
- sodion, n.
- soul-saving, n.
- Southern Ocean, n.
- soz, adj.
- surf rock, n.2
- surface mount, n.
- surface-mount, v.
- surface-mounted, adj.
- surfacing, adj.
- surf-beat, adj.
- surfing, adj.
- swipeable, adj.
- time code, n.
- time domain, n.
- time stratigraphy, n.
- time-code, v.
- time-coded, adj.
- Timeform, n.
- times, v.
- time-stamping, n.
- time-stratigraphic, adj.
- time-warped, adj.
- train soldier, n.2
- training post, n.2
- training wheel, n.
- undercapitalization, n.
- uraniid, adj. and n.
- uranoscopid, n. and adj.
- veg, v.
- vegetable dish, n.1
- vegetablization, n.
- vegetably, adj.
- vitelligene, n.
- West German, adj. and n.
- Xe, n.
- XOR, n.
- y’, adj.
- yakisoba, n.
- yerba loco, n.
- youing, n.
New sub-entries
- 5-fluorouracil
- ant farm
- ant nest
- ant orchid
- Antarctic cod
- Antarctic Convergence
- Antarctic krill
- Antarctic Ocean
- Antarctic petrel
- Antarctic Sea
- Antarctic toothfish
- Antarctic Treaty
- Antarctic wolf
- ants’ nest
- Arctic bramble
- Arctic cod
- Arctic grayling
- Arctic haze
- Arctic loon
- Arctic Ocean
- Arctic Oscillation
- Arctic owl
- Arctic poppy
- Arctic roll
- Arctic Sea
- Arctic skua
- Arctic tern
- Arctic wolf
- arctic-alpine
- arrow key
- arrow of time
- astrobiologist
- astrobleme
- astrochronology
- astroengineering
- astrogational
- astrogeodesy
- astrogeodetic
- astrogeological
- astroglial
- astrophysical observatory
- astrophysically
- blood accusation
- blood alcohol
- blood banker
- blood banking
- blood blister
- blood boosting
- blood bottle
- blood cholesterol
- blood clotting
- blood colour
- blood coral
- blood diamond
- blood donation
- blood doping
- blood drive
- blood gill
- blood glucose
- blood libel
- blood lily
- blood loss
- blood lye
- blood meal
- blood oath
- blood of Christ
- blood packing
- blood plate
- blood product
- blood result
- blood selling
- blood serum
- blood sinus
- blood thinner
- blood urea nitrogen
- blood vial
- blood volume
- blood vow
- blood weed
- blood work
- blood-borne
- blood-covered
- blood-curdling
- bloodfest
- bloodfin
- bloodfin tetra
- blood-forming
- blood-smeared
- blood-spattered
- blood-spitting
- blood-splattered
- blood-thinning
- blood-tingling
- blood-type
- blood-wrake
- bloody chasm
- bloody flag
- Bloody Indian
- bloody-lipped
- bloody-mouthed
- bloody-nosed
- boat basin
- boat bed
- boat club
- boat dive
- boat fisher
- boat fishing
- boat handling
- boat horn
- boat launch
- boat maker
- boat nail
- boat ride
- boat rocker
- boat shoe
- boat-billed flycatcher
- boat-billed heron
- boating hat
- boat-tailed grackle
- Border collie
- bosun bird
- breathing apparatus
- business acumen
- business administration
- business associate
- business correspondent
- business day
- business district
- business empire
- business English
- business ethic
- business executive
- business getter
- business graphic
- business guru
- business head
- business incubator
- business interest
- business interruption
- business jet
- business leader
- business magnate
- business management
- business meeting
- business model
- business mogul
- business morality
- business opportunity
- business owner
- business park
- business partner
- business plan
- business practice
- business rate
- business reason
- business reply
- business sector
- business start-up
- business tourism
- business tourist
- business travel
- business traveller
- business trip
- business tycoon
- business union
- business unionism
- business unionist
- business unit
- business venture
- business wear
- business world
- business-critical
- business-friendly
- business-minded
- business-suited
- business-wise
- bustard quail
- bustle pipe
- busy-looking
- C++
- cabbage aphid
- cabbage aphis
- cabbage caterpillar
- cabbage diet
- cabbage family
- cabbage flea beetle
- cabbage gum
- cabbage land
- cabbage looper
- Cabbage Patch doll
- cabbage white
- cabbage-eating
- cabbage-like
- CAD-CAM
- CAE
- CAM
- CAM
- capital accumulation
- capital adequacy
- capital adequacy ratio
- capital allowance
- capital appreciation
- capital asset
- capital budget
- capital budgeting
- capital consumption
- capital consumption allowance
- capital control
- capital cost
- capital deepening
- capital depreciation
- capital duty
- capital equipment
- capital flight
- capital flow
- capital formation
- capital funding
- capital gearing
- capital growth
- capital improvement
- capital inflow
- capital injection
- capital intensity
- capital investment
- capital leverage
- capital liability
- capital loss
- capital market
- capital movement
- capital outflow
- capital outlay
- capital profit
- capital project
- capital raising
- capital ratio
- capital redemption reserve
- capital requirement
- capital reserve
- capital reserve fund
- capital spending
- capital surplus
- capital tax
- capital territory
- capital value
- capital vice
- capital widening
- capital-intensive
- capitalization issue
- capital–output ratio
- capital-to-labour ratio
- capital-to-output ratio
- capitate bone
- capitation allowance
- capitation fee
- capitation payment
- Capitol Hill
- Capitoline Triad
- Capitoline Trinity
- CCS
- CD burning
- CD changer
- CD drive
- CD player
- CD single
- CD4
- CD-quality
- CD-video
- cholera toxin
- cholerization
- compile time
- coronary artery bypass
- coronary artery bypass graft
- CTS
- current asset
- current liability
- Cys
- dance move
- data density
- data dictionary
- data element
- data field
- data highway
- data integrity
- data loss
- data mart
- data mining
- data packet
- data path
- data point
- data port
- data reduction
- data trail
- date box
- date mussel
- date-rape drug
- date-stamped
- dating site
- dating website
- depleted uranium
- design automation
- design consultancy
- design feature
- design flaw
- design life
- design phase
- design process
- design stage
- designer food
- design-led
- dust tail
- educated class
- education act
- education authority
- education bill
- education officer
- education secretary
- educationally disadvantaged
- electronic design automation
- executrix dative
- Falkland Island wolf
- female bonding
- female complaints
- female ending
- female eunuch
- female genital cutting
- female genital mutilation
- female pattern baldness
- female troubles
- female weakness
- female-centred
- female-dominated
- female–female
- female-focused
- female-friendly
- female-fronted
- female-headed
- female-like
- female–male
- female-only
- female-orientated
- female-oriented
- female-owned
- female-specific
- feminine cadence
- feminine hygiene
- feminine hygiene product
- feminine wile
- femininized
- femoral hernia
- femoral pulse
- femoral vein
- FGC
- FGM
- firecracker flower
- flu virus
- fluobenzene
- fluorescence microscope
- fluorescence microscopy
- fluorescence spectroscopy
- fluorescent-lit
- fluorescently
- fluorobenzene
- fluorochrome
- fluoro-coloured
- fluoro-lit
- fluoropolymer
- fluorosilicate
- fluorouracil
- FTM
- gas bar
- gas barrel
- gas bladder
- gas blower
- gas board
- gas buggy
- gas cap
- gas deposit
- gas discharge tube
- gas equation
- gas exchange
- gas field
- gas filler
- gas focusing
- gas hob
- gas hydrate
- gas injection
- gas jockey
- gas laser
- gas leak
- gas log
- gas pipeline
- gas plasma
- gas plate
- gas register
- gas reserve
- gas shell
- gas storage
- gas tail
- gas tank cap
- gas van
- gaseous exchange
- gaseousness
- gas-fed
- gasless Sunday
- Gaslight District
- gasoline buggy
- gasoline direct injection
- gas-operated
- gas-pipe bomb
- gas-propelled
- gas-rich
- GDI
- geobiological
- geocarpic
- geodesically
- Geoffroy’s bat
- geographic information system
- geographic pole
- geographical information system
- geographical latitude
- geographized
- geography lesson
- geography professor
- geography teacher
- geohydrologist
- geological hammer
- geological map
- geological record
- geological survey
- geomagnetic field
- geomagnetic pole
- geomagnetic storm
- geometric isomer
- geometric ratio
- geometrical isomer
- geometrical isomerism
- geometrical series
- geomicrobiology
- geophysically
- geophysiological
- geophysiology
- George’s guinea
- Georgia buggy
- Georgia pine
- Georgia skin
- geostatistics
- geostrophically
- geotechnically
- geothermal gradient
- geothermally
- German cockroach
- German Confederation
- German Empire
- German expressionism
- German expressionist
- German knot stitch
- German lilac
- German marmot
- German reunification
- German sock
- German wagon
- German-based
- German-born
- German-bred
- German-derived
- German-educated
- germaneness
- German-grown
- German-hating
- German-influenced
- German-inspired
- German-looking
- German-loving
- German-produced
- German-sounding
- German-speaker
- German-trained
- germinal centre
- germinal epithelium
- GIS
- glass ionomer
- GLC
- Gln
- Glu
- Glx
- Gly
- golden rice
- grade schooler
- half-gasser
- high schooler
- histaminic
- histiocytoid
- histocompatibility antigen
- histolysed
- histopathologically
- historical cost accounting
- historical cost convention
- historical determinism
- historical geology
- historical linguist
- historical materialism
- historical materialist
- historiometric
- historiosophical
- history lesson
- history pageant
- history taking
- history teacher
- history writing
- histotoxic
- hobo bag
- hoof fungus
- ion accelerator
- ion channel
- ion chromatography
- ion gauge
- ion pump
- ion tail
- ion transport
- ion-bombard
- ion-exchange chromatography
- ion-exchange polymer
- ionic radius
- ionic strength
- ionophoretically
- ion-selective
- Islamic fundamentalism
- Islamic fundamentalist
- Islamic law
- Islamized
- Islamizing
- King George’s guinea
- locomotive boiler
- locomotive cab
- locomotive depot
- locomotive engineering
- locomotive factory
- locomotive fireman
- locomotive rhythm
- locomotive superintendent
- locomotive whistle
- locomotive workshop
- locomotive-type
- SBU
- school auditorium
- school badge
- school band
- school blackboard
- school break
- school breakfast
- school bulletin
- school bulletin board
- school cafeteria
- school calendar
- school canteen
- school caretaker
- school classroom
- school cleaner
- school concert
- school cook
- school council
- school councillor
- school counsellor
- school dance
- school dining hall
- school dinner lady
- school disco
- school dunce
- school enrolment
- school exam
- school examination
- school examiner
- school fete
- school field
- school field trip
- school food
- school game
- school gym
- school gymnasium
- school inspection
- school janitor
- school kitchen
- school lesson
- school locker
- school lunchbox
- school meeting
- school motto
- school musical
- school newsletter
- school newspaper
- School of the Air
- school orchestra
- school outing
- school photo
- school photograph
- school playground
- school policy
- school prom
- school prospectus
- school pupil
- school reunion
- school run
- school student
- school trip
- school voucher
- school wall
- school-aged
- schoolboy crush
- schoolboy error
- schoolboy mistake
- schoolboy-like
- school-goer
- schoolies week
- schoolmistress fish
- sostenuto pedal
- soul death
- soul diva
- soul man
- soul meed
- soul murder
- soul-baring
- soul-crushing
- soul-sucking
- St George’s feast
- strategic business unit
- surf club
- surf culture
- surf punk
- surf report
- surf shop
- surf shorts
- surf wax
- surf zone
- surface area
- surface brightness
- surface drive
- surface physics
- surface pressure
- surface run-off
- surface science
- surface scientist
- surface texture
- surfing safari
- sustain pedal
- sustainable architecture
- sustainable energy
- sustainable transport
- sustentacular cell
- time constraint
- time division multiplexing
- time draft
- time management
- time money
- time paradox
- time pressure
- time programme
- time reversal symmetry
- time rush
- time sink
- time trialist
- time trialling
- time triangle
- time-critical
- time-filler
- timefulness
- time-fused
- time-invariant
- time-life
- time-pressured
- times sign
- time-sensitive
- time-signalling
- time-starved
- time-stretch
- time-stretching
- timing circuit
- to time it out
- to time out
- train car
- train compartment
- train conductor
- train depot
- train derailment
- train driver
- train ferry-boat
- train jumper
- train jumping
- train line
- train number
- train operator
- train passenger
- train platform
- train porter
- train set
- train signal
- train smash
- train timetable
- train trip
- train window
- trainer bra
- trainer shoe
- training aid
- training area
- training bra
- training class
- training course
- training credit
- training exercise
- training facility
- training field
- training film
- training flight
- training hall
- training institute
- training institution
- training instructor
- training level
- training manual
- training method
- training mission
- training module
- training opportunity
- training pants
- training partner
- training period
- training place
- training plan
- training provider
- training regime
- training regimen
- training room
- training routine
- training run
- training schedule
- training scheme
- training seminar
- training system
- training table
- training video
- training wing
- training workshop
- train-side
- trainspotterish
- uranium dioxide
- uranium enrichment
- uranium glass
- uranium-235
- uranium-238
- uranyl acetate
- uranyl nitrate
- vegan-friendly
- vegetable box
- vegetable box scheme
- vegetable drawer
- vegetable dye
- vegetable shortening
- vegetable sponge
- vegetable-based
- vegetally
- vegged
- white blood cell
- white gas
- white gasoline
- X-ray binary
- X-ray burst
- X-ray diffractometer
- X-ray fish
- X-ray fluorescence
- X-ray structure
- XRF
New senses
- bay, v.1
- C, n.
- chair, n.1
- chill, v.
- dash-board, n.
- entrée, n.
- fluence, n.1
- full time, n.
- G, n.
- hybrid, n. and adj.
- idle, adj. and n.
- lithography, n.
- secondary, adj. and n.
- unbowed, adj.1
- watch-dog, n.