| anti-abortion | Opposed to, or legislating against, induced abortion. | 1936 | Go To Quotation |
| bi-metal | A bimetallic material or object. Freq. attrib. or as adj., = bimetallic adj. | 1935 | Go To Quotation |
| biopoesis | = abiogenesis n. Cf. biogenesis n. 1a. | 1953 | Go To Quotation |
| Chelleo- | Combining form of Chellean adj., esp. in Chelleo-Acheulean adj., of or pertaining to the Chellean and Acheulean periods jointly. | 1930 | Go To Quotation |
| couverture | Chocolate suitable for covering sweets, cakes, etc.; a covering layer of such chocolate. Also attrib. | 1935 | Go To Quotation |
| dopiness | A deficiency disease of sheep. | 1932 | Go To Quotation |
| echogram | The record made by an echo-sounder. | 1936 | Go To Quotation |
| eobiont | A hypothetical chemical structure, supposed to arise during biopoesis, that… | 1953 | Go To Quotation |
| face-up | An act of facing up to someone or something. | 1936 | Go To Quotation |
| glacial | A glacial epoch or period. | 1935 | Go To Quotation |
| intervalometer | An attachment for a camera that enables photographs to be taken automatically at set intervals. | 1933 | Go To Quotation |
| involutionary | Characterized by involution; retrograde. | 1920 | Go To Quotation |
| juglet | A small vessel of jug shape. | 1932 | Go To Quotation |
| Leadbeater | Gymnobelideus leadbeateri, a very rare Australian opossum. | 1937 | Go To Quotation |
| Lloyd Morgan's canon | (See quot. 1937.) | 1937 | Go To Quotation |
| locatable | Capable of being located. | 1936 | Go To Quotation |
| Lysenkoism | Belief in or advocacy of the views of the Russian agronomist T. D. Lysenko (1898 –… | 1948 | Go To Quotation |
| Marina green | A greyish-green colour. | 1935 | Go To Quotation |
| mbuga | In East Africa: a seasonal swamp or wetland area. | 1930 | Go To Quotation |
| Morisca | = Morisco n. 2a. | 1935 | Go To Quotation |
| multi-engine | In pl. Multiple engines. rare. | 1933 | Go To Quotation |
| Newton Wonder | A variety of apple with an orange-flushed, yellowish-green skin, used esp. in cooking. | 1932 | Go To Quotation |
| parapsychologist | A person who specializes in parapsychology (parapsychology n. 2). | 1936 | Go To Quotation |
| photomicrographist | = photomicrographer n. | 1937 | Go To Quotation |
| pip-pip-pip | A series of three consecutive pips (pip n.) used as a time signal (in a speaking… | 1936 | Go To Quotation |
| radiesthesist | = radiesthetist n. | 1936 | Go To Quotation |
| radiogoniometrical | = radiogoniometric adj. | 1936 | Go To Quotation |
| rahat | Turkish delight. Cf. rahat lokum n. | 1931 | Go To Quotation |
| Ramapithecus | A fossil anthropoid ape of the genus Ramapithecus (now included in the genus Sivapithecus… | 1934 | Go To Quotation |
| rhodanizing | The process of electroplating metals (esp. silver) with a protective coating of rhodium. | 1936 | Go To Quotation |
| ring-net | trans. To catch or fish for using a ring net. | 1936 | Go To Quotation |
| rinkle | Calcined arsenical ore. | 1923 | Go To Quotation |
| small screen | Of a television set, computer, etc.: having a small screen. | 1937 | Go To Quotation |
| sondage | A deep trench dug to investigate the stratigraphy of a site. | 1930 | Go To Quotation |
| -style | Forming adjs. having the sense ‘resembling or characteristic of something that is——’. | 1934 | Go To Quotation |
| televiewer | One who watches television. | 1935 | Go To Quotation |
| TIM | Repr. pronunc. of TIM (the first three letters of time n. int. conj.), the dialling… | 1936 | Go To Quotation |
| totora | A perennial bulrush, Scirpus totora, native to alpine lakes in Peru and Bolivia. Also attrib. | 1936 | Go To Quotation |
| video- | Of or pertaining to (a) television, or (b) the visual element of television broadcasts or the signals representing it. | 1935 | Go To Quotation |
