New words list March 2015
List of new word entries
In addition to revised versions of Second Edition entries, these ranges contain the following new entries:
New words
New sub-entries
New senses
New word entries
- avelling, n.
- ear opening, n.
- ear tag, n.
- ear-grass, n.
- ear-opening, adj.
- ear-piercing, n.
- ear-popping, n. and adj.
- ear-tag, v.
- ear-tickler, n.
- ear-to-ear, adj. and adv.
- earwigger, n.
- earwigging, n.
- earworm, n.2
- hadda, v.1
- hav, n.
- haveli, n.
- havers, int.
- havey-cavey, adj.
- large-cap, n.
- largity, n.
- laterize, v.
- laters, int.
- lookbook, n.
- lookie-likie, n.
- look-see, v.
- pollutable, adj.
- Whit, n.3
- White Mountain, n.
- white-chinned, adj.
- white-clawed, adj.
- White’s tree frog, n.
- Whitsuntide, v.
- Whitsuntiding, n.
New sub-entries
- area denial
- area manager
- area navigation
- area of operations
- Area of Outstanding Natural Beauty
- area rug
- area rule
- area study
- area-ruled
- area-wide
- arrish-hen
- arrish-mow
- arrish-rake
- as black (also filthy) as the Earl of Hell’s waistcoat
- as black as the Earl of Hell’s waistcoat
- as filthy as the Earl of Hell’s waistcoat
- coffee whitener
- ear canal
- ear cap
- ear cuff
- ear fungus
- ear wire
- earcup
- eared grebe
- Earl Grey mixture
- Earl Grey tea
- Earl of Hell
- ear-length
- earless seal
- ear-like
- early blooming
- early Church
- early Church Father
- early day motion
- early flowering
- early fruiting
- early grave
- early modern
- Early Modern English
- early purple orchid
- early purple orchis
- early-onset
- earned income
- earningland
- earnings drift
- earnings-related
- earphone jack
- ear-shaped
- external ear
- external ear canal
- extra-large
- frost burn
- frost piece
- frost resistance
- frost riving
- frost tolerance
- frost tolerant
- frost-hardy
- frost-resistant
- frost-sensitive
- frost-tender
- gentrifier
- great white whale
- haverman
- haversine formula
- here’s looking toward you
- Honduran white bat
- I look toward you
- important-sounding
- inner ear
- laitless
- large blue
- large blue butterfly
- large bowel
- large gut
- large hadron collider
- large leaf
- large white helleborine
- large-amplitude
- large-area
- large-bosomed
- large-breasted
- large-capacity
- large-diameter
- large-format
- large-mindedly
- large-mindedness
- largened
- large-screen
- large-volume
- late capitalism
- late heavy bombardment
- late inning
- late inning home run
- late inning rally
- Late Latin
- late night
- late shift
- late-blooming
- late-bottled
- late-bottled vintage
- late-breaking
- late-evening
- late-gathered
- late-harvest
- late-life
- late-morning
- latent heat of evaporation
- latent heat of fusion
- latent homosexuality
- late-onset
- late-picked
- lateral control
- lateral malleolus
- lateral meristem
- lateral pass
- lateral raise
- lateral root
- lateral thinker
- laterosubcollateral
- late-stage
- late-term
- latter fair
- lattermowth
- looked-after
- looking forward
- look-through
- lookup table
- never (also not) to look back
- never to look back
- not to look back
- to earn out
- to have it off
- to have off
- to have out
- to look ahead
- to look away
- to look back
- to look back to
- to look backward
- to look backwards
- to look downwards
- to look forward
- to look forwards
- to look inside——
- to look toward——
- to look toward (a person)
- to look under
- to white out
- to white up
- to white-knuckle it
- to whiten up
- well-looked-after
- white African
- white alder
- white alyssum
- white amur
- white archangel
- white asparagus
- white balance
- white band disease
- white bass
- white bat
- white bean
- white beer
- white belt
- white cabbage
- white canon
- white chocolate
- white coat hypertension
- white coat syndrome
- white cockatoo
- white darnel
- white devil
- white flour
- white goosefoot
- white helleborine
- white lettuce
- white minority
- white money
- white muscle disease
- white pages
- white park
- white park cattle
- white rat
- white rice
- white rod
- white salmon
- white sheep
- white shoe brigade
- white souring
- white space
- white spirit
- white squire
- white strawberry
- white sturgeon
- white truffle
- white tuna
- white varnish
- white whale
- white-beaked dolphin
- white-bearded manakin
- white-bellied sea eagle
- white-blonde
- whiteboarding
- white-cheeked gibbon
- white-chinned thrush
- white-clawed crayfish
- white-crowned pigeon
- white-ear scalyfin
- white-eared monarch
- white-eared monarch flycatcher
- white-edged
- white-eyed vireo
- white-fleshed
- white-fringed
- white-handed gibbon
- white-headed duck
- white-headed eagle
- white-knuckle
- white-knuckler
- white-lipped peccary
- white-list
- white-locked
- white-naped crane
- white-painter
- white-rumped sandpiper
- white-sick
- white-sided dolphin
- whitespace character
- white-toothed shrew
- white-water rafter
- white-water rafting
- white-winged scoter
- whiteywood
- whitten pear tree
- XL
- XXL
New senses
- line, n.2
- loathless, adj.
- stay, v.1
- youth, n.
- youthful, adj.
- intertextual, adj.