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.