New words list December 2014

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

  • best ball, n.
  • best off, adv., adj., and n.
  • Best, n.2
  • best, v.2
  • better-heeled, adj.
  • better-paid, adj. and n.
  • bitchingly, adv.
  • efference, n.
  • g’day, int.
  • good King Henry, n.
  • good news, n. and adj.
  • good-enough Morgan, n.
  • Goodpasture, n.
  • remediated, adj.
  • resented, adj.
  • resounded, adj.
  • rested, adj.2
  • righted, adj.
  • seler, adj.
  • selest, adj.
  • unmacho, adj.
  • unmagnified, adj.
  • unmandated, adj.
  • unmanicured, adj.
  • unmappable, adj.
  • unmarketed, adj.
  • unmarriage, n.
  • unmasculine, v.
  • unmasked, adj.2
  • unmasterly, adj.1
  • unmasterly, adj.2
  • unmaterialistic, adj.
  • unmatronly, adj.
  • unmature, adj.
  • unmeaningful, adj.
  • unmedicated, adj.
  • unmelodramatic, adj.
  • unmenacing, adj.
  • unmeshed, adj.
  • unminced, adj.
  • unmocking, adj.
  • unmonopolize, v.
  • unmortgageable, adj.
  • unmotorable, adj.
  • unmuffled, adj.
  • unmufflered, adj.
  • unmute, v.
  • unmuted, adj.
  • unnaturalistic, adj.
  • unnecessar, adj.
  • unnecessarly, adv.
  • unnerving, n.
  • unnested, adj.2
  • unnocked, adj.
  • unnuanced, adj.
  • unoaked, adj.
  • unobtainium, n.
  • unornly, adj.
  • unpadlock, v.
  • unpaginated, adj.
  • unparental, adj.
  • unparsable, adj.
  • unpartisan, adj.
  • unpaternal, adj.
  • unpatrolled, adj.
  • unpatronizing, adj.
  • unpatronizingly, adv.
  • unpause, v.
  • un-PC, adj.
  • unpeated, adj.
  • unpenalized, adj.
  • unpenetrative, adj.
  • unpianistic, adj.
  • unpieced, adj.2
  • unpiled, adj.
  • unpitched, adj.2
  • unpopped, adj.
  • unposted, adj.2
  • unpragmatic, adj.
  • unprecious, adj.
  • unpredicted, adj.
  • unprefixed, adj.
  • unpresidential, adj.
  • unpressured, adj.
  • unpriestlike, adj.
  • unproblematically, adv.
  • unprofessorial, adj.
  • unprofitability, n.
  • unproletarian, adj.
  • unprotectable, adj.
  • unprotested, adj.
  • unpublish, v.
  • unpunched, adj.
  • unpushy, adj.
  • unqualification, n.1
  • unqualifying, adj.2
  • unquibble, v.
  • unquilted, adj.
  • unraked, adj.2
  • unrationable, adj.2
  • unreconstituted, adj.
  • unrecyclable, adj.
  • unredacted, adj.
  • unrefereed, adj.
  • unrefuelled | unrefueled, adj.
  • unrefundable, adj.
  • unrefunded, adj.
  • unregarding, n.
  • unregistrable, adj.
  • unrehabilitated, adj.
  • unreigning, adj.
  • unreimbursed, adj.
  • unreleasable, adj.
  • unrelinquishable, adj.
  • unremarkably, adv.
  • unremarried, adj.
  • unremittable, adj.
  • unrented, adj.
  • unresearched, adj.
  • unresemble, v.
  • unresourceful, adj.
  • unrested, adj.1
  • unrestorable, adj.
  • unrestorative, adj.
  • unretire, v.
  • unretirement, n.
  • unretorted, adj.2
  • unretrieved, adj.
  • unrevisable, adj.
  • unrigorous, adj.
  • unrinded, adj.3
  • unring, v.
  • unripped, adj.2
  • unriveted, adj.
  • unriveting, adj.
  • unroadworthiness, n.
  • unrushed, adj.
  • walled, adj.3
  • well said, int.
  • well-administered, adj.
  • well-advanced, adj.
  • well-engineered, adj.
  • well-ground, adj.
  • well-iqueme, adj.
  • well-justified, adj.
  • well-observed, adj.
  • well-occupied, adj.
  • well-operated, adj.
  • well-paced, adj.
  • well-paying, adj.
  • well-populated, adj.
  • well-positioned, adj.
  • well-pressed, adj.
  • well-produced, adj.
  • well-provided-for, adj.
  • well-rewarded, adj.
  • well-sorted, adj.
  • well-supported, adj.
  • well-treated, adj.

New sub-entries

  • all best wishes
  • best guess
  • best looker
  • best wishes
  • best-case
  • better the devil you know than the devil you don’t
  • Bitcoin
  • BYOD
  • good cause
  • good cholesterol
  • good day
  • good fences make good neighbours
  • good folk
  • good hair
  • good life
  • good soldier
  • good taste
  • good-eating
  • good-enough mother
  • good-fitting
  • good-flavoured
  • good-handling
  • good-hitting
  • goodness of fit
  • goods entrance
  • goods lorry
  • goods traffic
  • goods van
  • goods vehicle
  • good-shaped
  • good-smelling
  • good-sounding
  • good-spirited
  • good-tasting
  • good-thinking
  • good-value
  • goodwill ambassador
  • Goodwill Games
  • Goodwill Games event
  • Goodwill Games team
  • may the best man win
  • single-serving site
  • the best things in life are free
  • the good, the bad, and the ugly
  • unmasculined
  • unmethodizedness
  • unnesting
  • unornship
  • unpaired electron
  • unprovenness
  • unquantifiably
  • unreachability
  • unreceptiveness
  • unregenerately
  • unrelatedly
  • unremarkableness
  • well driller
  • well drilling
  • well-iquemeness
  • welly throwing
  • welly wang
  • welly wanging

New senses

  • fight, v.
  • hope, v.