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Nouns only, MOST OF THESE ARE FALSE POSITIVES (obvs, but just saying)

  1. antechoir: # Where a choir is divided, as in some Spanish churches, the division that is further away from the [[sanctuary]].
  2. blop: # {{lb|en|Internet slang}} When an animal, especially a dog, forgetfully sticks out its tongue.
  3. blown save: # {{lb|en|baseball}} When a pitcher fails to convert a [[save]] opportunity
  4. coalface: # {{lb|en|figurative|UK}} Where practical work is done, as opposed to theoretical or managerial work.
  5. cunnilingus: # {{lb|en|obsolete}} Who performs [[oral sex]] on a [[woman]]’s [[clitoris]] and/or [[vulva]].
  6. dead dial: # {{lb|en|figurative}} When there is nothing interesting on the [[radio]] or [[television]] at a particular time or place.
  7. deadstick landing: # {{lb|en|aviation|idiomatic}} When a [[pilot]] [[land]]s a [[plane]] after the engine has [[die]]d; a landing [[lack]]ing any [[propulsion]] control.
  8. display tearing: # When the image on a [[display]] appears to horizontally "tear" in two due to lack of synchronization between the video feed and the display's refresh rate.
  9. divorce rape: # When one partner in a relationship, usually female, is awarded by [[family court]] exorbitant [[alimony]] and/or [[child support]], complete or almost complete [[custody]] over the [[child|children]] produced from the union, and so on.
  10. double switch: # {{lb|en|baseball}} When two players are [[replaced]] [[simultaneously]], typically so that a [[fielder]] can hit in the [[pitcher|pitcher's]] spot in the [[batting order]].
  11. emiction: # What is voided by the urinary passages; [[urine]].
  12. entrance: # {{lb|en|music}} When a musician starts playing or singing, [[entry]].
  13. equipment: # Whatever is used in equipping something or someone, for example things needed for an expedition or voyage.
  14. explicature: # {{lb|en|linguistics}} What is explicitly [[express]]ed in an utterance, as opposed to what is implicit. {{defdate|from 20th c.}}
  15. fame: # {{lb|en|now|rare}} What is said or reported; [[gossip]], [[rumour]].
  16. field goal: # {{lb|en|American football|Canadian football}} When the ball is kicked through the uprights and over the crossbar (not after a [[touchdown]]) for 3 points.
  17. foremath: # What [[precedes]] or [[produces]] a particular [[outcome]]; [[events]] that have yet to [[occur]], or are in the [[process]] of occurring.
  18. front: # {{lb|en|military}} When a [[combat]] situation does not exist or is not assumed, the direction toward which the [[command]] is faced.
  19. function: # What something does or is used for.
  20. gain: # What is gained.
  21. image: # {{lb|en|mathematics}} What a [[function]] [[map]]s to.
  22. industrial output: # {{lb|en|economics|accounting}} What an [[industry]] [[produce]]s, as a national total.
  23. infield hit: # {{lb|en|baseball}} When a [[batter]] reaches base with a [[ground ball]] that does not leave the [[infield]] or shallow [[outfield]].
  24. internode: # {{lb|en|technical}} Whatever lies between two [[node]]s.
  25. lady: # {{lb|en|attributive|with a professional title}} Who is a woman.
  26. maturity: # When [[bodily]] [[growth]] has completed and/or [[reproduction]] can begin.
  27. memory: # {{lb|en|attributive|of a material}} Which returns to its original {{l|en|shape}} when {{l|en|heat|heated}}
  28. meum et tuum: # What is [[mine]] and what is [[yours]]; [[owned]] [[property]].
  29. net pay: # What remains from [[gross pay]] after [[tax]]es and other [[deduction]]s have been taken away
  30. nuclear fratricide: # When [[nuclear weapon]]s damage or destroy [[each other]].
  31. order of symmetry: # When being turned through a full revolution, the number of times a shape looks the same as in the initial [[orientation]].
  32. overshoot: # {{lb|en|countable|ecology}} When the population of a species exceeds its environment's [[carrying capacity]].
  33. ownage: # {{lb|en|baseball}} When one player has a history of domination over another player.
  34. possibility of reverter: # {{lb|en|legal}} Where a [[grantor]] of an [[estate in land]] has created a [[fee simple determinable]] (a condition on the grant which would give the grantor the right to reclaim ownership of the property), the grantor's remaining interest in the property.
  35. power of termination: # {{lb|en|legal}} Where a [[grantor]] has created a [[fee simple subject to condition subsequent]], and the condition of the grant has come to pass, the right of the grantor to physically reclaim ownership of the land.
  36. predetonation: # When a [[nuclear bomb]] fails to produce full yield, due to the [[chain reaction]] starting prematurely, before the system is at optimum [[criticality]].
  37. predicand: # {{lb|en|semantics}} What a [[predicative complement]] or [[adjunct]] relates to (usually the subject of a clause).
  38. public image: # What the general impression of a famous person or organization is; what most people think of a person or organization, which may differ from what they are like in private.
  39. remains: # What is left after a person (or any organism) dies; a [[corpse]].
  40. reputation: # What somebody is [[known]] for.
  41. right of entry: # {{lb|en|legal}} Where a [[grantor]] has created a [[fee simple subject to condition subsequent]], and the condition of the grant has come to pass, the right of the grantor to physically reclaim ownership of the land.
  42. right of reentry: # {{lb|en|legal}} Where a [[grantor]] has created a [[fee simple subject to condition subsequent]], and the condition of the grant has come to pass, the right of the grantor to physically reclaim ownership of the land.
  43. save: # {{lb|en|baseball}} When a relief pitcher comes into a game leading by 3 points (runs) or less, and his team wins while continually being ahead.
  44. scraping: # What has been removed when something has been [[scraped]].
  45. screen tearing: # When the image on a [[screen]] appears to horizontally "tear" in two due to lack of synchronization between the video feed and the display's refresh rate.
  46. substrate: # {{lb|en|biochemistry}} What an [[enzyme]] acts upon.
  47. suppage: # {{lb|en|obsolete}} What may be [[sup]]ped; [[pottage]].
  48. tailswing: # When [[turn]]ing a [[heavy]] [[vehicle]], the [[movement]] of the [[rear]] portion of the vehicle in the opposite direction from the direction the front end turns.
  49. trammel: # Whatever [[impede]]s activity, progress, or freedom, such as a net or [[shackle]].
  50. tropism: # {{lb|en|virology}} Which type of [[tissue]] supports a certain [[virus]].
  51. urbanity: # What is [[characteristically]] [[urban]] in an area; [[urbanness]].
  52. virtuous couch: # Where one [[go to bed|goes to bed]].
  53. water to one's mill: # {{lb|en|idiomatic}} Whatever [[energize]]s or [[stimulate]]s one.
  54. winning hazard: # {{lb|en|English billiards}} When one's [[cue ball]] strikes some other ball and causes that other ball to sink into a pocket. If the sunken ball is the red ball then one scores three points, but if the sunken ball is the other player's cue ball then one scores two points.