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Nouns only, MOST OF THESE ARE FALSE POSITIVES (obvs, but just saying)
- antechoir:
# Where a choir is divided, as in some Spanish churches, the division that is further away from the [[sanctuary]].
- blop:
# {{lb|en|Internet slang}} When an animal, especially a dog, forgetfully sticks out its tongue.
- blown save:
# {{lb|en|baseball}} When a pitcher fails to convert a [[save]] opportunity
- coalface:
# {{lb|en|figurative|UK}} Where practical work is done, as opposed to theoretical or managerial work.
- cunnilingus:
# {{lb|en|obsolete}} Who performs [[oral sex]] on a [[woman]]’s [[clitoris]] and/or [[vulva]].
- dead dial:
# {{lb|en|figurative}} When there is nothing interesting on the [[radio]] or [[television]] at a particular time or place.
- 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.
- 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.
- 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.
- 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]].
- emiction:
# What is voided by the urinary passages; [[urine]].
- entrance:
# {{lb|en|music}} When a musician starts playing or singing, [[entry]].
- equipment:
# Whatever is used in equipping something or someone, for example things needed for an expedition or voyage.
- explicature:
# {{lb|en|linguistics}} What is explicitly [[express]]ed in an utterance, as opposed to what is implicit. {{defdate|from 20th c.}}
- fame:
# {{lb|en|now|rare}} What is said or reported; [[gossip]], [[rumour]].
- 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.
- foremath:
# What [[precedes]] or [[produces]] a particular [[outcome]]; [[events]] that have yet to [[occur]], or are in the [[process]] of occurring.
- front:
# {{lb|en|military}} When a [[combat]] situation does not exist or is not assumed, the direction toward which the [[command]] is faced.
- function:
# What something does or is used for.
- gain:
# What is gained.
- image:
# {{lb|en|mathematics}} What a [[function]] [[map]]s to.
- industrial output:
# {{lb|en|economics|accounting}} What an [[industry]] [[produce]]s, as a national total.
- infield hit:
# {{lb|en|baseball}} When a [[batter]] reaches base with a [[ground ball]] that does not leave the [[infield]] or shallow [[outfield]].
- internode:
# {{lb|en|technical}} Whatever lies between two [[node]]s.
- lady:
# {{lb|en|attributive|with a professional title}} Who is a woman.
- maturity:
# When [[bodily]] [[growth]] has completed and/or [[reproduction]] can begin.
- memory:
# {{lb|en|attributive|of a material}} Which returns to its original {{l|en|shape}} when {{l|en|heat|heated}}
- meum et tuum:
# What is [[mine]] and what is [[yours]]; [[owned]] [[property]].
- net pay:
# What remains from [[gross pay]] after [[tax]]es and other [[deduction]]s have been taken away
- nuclear fratricide:
# When [[nuclear weapon]]s damage or destroy [[each other]].
- order of symmetry:
# When being turned through a full revolution, the number of times a shape looks the same as in the initial [[orientation]].
- overshoot:
# {{lb|en|countable|ecology}} When the population of a species exceeds its environment's [[carrying capacity]].
- ownage:
# {{lb|en|baseball}} When one player has a history of domination over another player.
- 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.
- 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.
- predetonation:
# When a [[nuclear bomb]] fails to produce full yield, due to the [[chain reaction]] starting prematurely, before the system is at optimum [[criticality]].
- predicand:
# {{lb|en|semantics}} What a [[predicative complement]] or [[adjunct]] relates to (usually the subject of a clause).
- 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.
- remains:
# What is left after a person (or any organism) dies; a [[corpse]].
- reputation:
# What somebody is [[known]] for.
- 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.
- 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.
- 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.
- scraping:
# What has been removed when something has been [[scraped]].
- 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.
- substrate:
# {{lb|en|biochemistry}} What an [[enzyme]] acts upon.
- suppage:
# {{lb|en|obsolete}} What may be [[sup]]ped; [[pottage]].
- 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.
- trammel:
# Whatever [[impede]]s activity, progress, or freedom, such as a net or [[shackle]].
- tropism:
# {{lb|en|virology}} Which type of [[tissue]] supports a certain [[virus]].
- urbanity:
# What is [[characteristically]] [[urban]] in an area; [[urbanness]].
- virtuous couch:
# Where one [[go to bed|goes to bed]].
- water to one's mill:
# {{lb|en|idiomatic}} Whatever [[energize]]s or [[stimulate]]s one.
- 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.