This page gathers the 170 dictionary entries of which at least one sense is labelled “British” by Wiktionary. The definition shown is that sense; each word leads to its full entry. Page 2 of 2: from “major” to “wipe up”.
- major noun An elder brother (especially at a public school).
- mampus noun A large number.
- manji noun A captain or skipper of a boat.
- materialize verb To cause to take physical form, or to cause an object to appear.
- memorialize verb To provide a memorial for someone; to commemorate.
- metastasize verb Of a disease (especially cancer) or a tumour: to form a metastasis (“a secondary focus away from the primary site”) in (a body organ).
- mobilization noun The act of mobilizing.
- mobilize verb To make something mobile.
- monetization noun The conversion of something (especially metal) into money.
- monetize verb To convert something (especially a security) into currency.
- nationalize verb To make into, or to become, a nation.
- nominalization noun A noun derived from an adjective, verb, etc., often (in English) by adding a suffix such as -ity, -tion or -ism.
- nominalize verb To use as or change into a noun, often by affixing a morpheme.
- nominalizer noun Anything, usually an affixed morpheme or a particle, that changes another part of speech into a noun.
- nursery noun An institution for small children who not yet have begun primary school during daytime (when their parents work); a daycare centre.
- octodecillion num 10⁵⁷.
- Old Bill noun The police force.
- ostracize verb To ban a person from a city for five or ten years through the procedure of ostracism.
- pargana noun An administrative unit of British Raj, consisting of a number of villages. Since Indian independence, replaced by the block or tahsil.
- Pathan noun Synonym of Pashtun; a member of the Pashto-speaking people of today’s north-west Pakistan and south-east Afghanistan.
- personalization noun The act of personalizing something, or adapting it for somebody's needs or tastes.
- personalize verb To adapt something to the needs or tastes of an individual.
- plebby adj déclassé, unsophisticated, oikish, chavvy.
- privatization noun The transfer of a company or organization from government to private ownership and control.
- privatize verb To release government control (of a business or industry) to private industry.
- proletarianization noun The act or process of making somebody or something proletarian.
- pug verb To track (an animal) by following pawprints; also (by extension) to track (a person) by following footprints.
- quadrillion num A thousand trillion (logic: 1,000 × 1,000⁴): 1 followed by fifteen zeros, 10¹⁵.
- quiff noun A puff or whiff, especially of tobacco smoke.
- quintillion num A billion billion: 1 followed by eighteen zeros, 10¹⁸; one million million million.
- rag week noun The days of the month when a woman has her period.
- rationalize verb To make something rational or more rational.
- realization noun An act of figuring out or becoming aware.
- recognize verb To match (something or someone which one currently perceives) to a memory of some previous encounter with the same person or thing.
- regularization noun The act of making regular, of regularizing.
- renaturalization noun The act of granting citizenship again to a former citizen.
- rhapsodize verb To speak with exaggerated or rapturous enthusiasm (about, (up)on or over something).
- rownee noun A faussebraye; a subsidiary enceinte surrounding a fortified place on the outside of the proper wall and on the edge of the ditch.
- Sanskritize verb To render a non-Sanskrit text, word, etc., in a form characteristic of Sanskrit morphology or phonology.
- Sanskritized adj Of a non-Sanskrit text, word, etc.: rendered in a form characteristic of Sanskrit morphology or phonology.
- satyrization noun The situation where interspecific (interspecies) mating fails to produce hybrids and thus reduces the fitness of the species involved.
- secularization noun The transformation of a society from close identification with religious values and institutions toward non-religious (or "irreligious")…
- shield noun Parts at the front and back of a vehicle which are meant to absorb the impact of a collision
- shift noun be done; ruined
- signalize verb To distinguish, to make noteworthy.
- sixpence noun The value of six old pence; half of a shilling; or one-fortieth of a pound sterling.
- skittles noun A pub game in which a ball is rolled down a wooden alley in order to knock down as many of the nine skittles as possible.
- slab noun A bird, the wryneck.
- specialization noun The act or process of specializing.
- specialize verb To go into specific details.
- stabilization noun The process of stabilizing.
- stabilizer noun Any substance added to something in order to stabilize it, as for example a fuel additive that prolongs the shelf life of petrol.
- standardization noun The process of complying (or evaluate by comparing) with a standard.
- sterilization noun The process of treating something to kill or inactivate microorganisms.
- sterilize verb To deprive of the ability to procreate.
- sucker noun The penis.
- synchronize verb To occur at the same time or with coordinated timing.
- synchronized skating noun A discipline of figure skating where 8–20 skaters skate in a team, doing synchronous movements and precise formations with precise timing.
- temporize verb To deliberately act evasively or prolong a discussion in order to gain time or postpone a decision, sometimes so that a compromise can be…
- terrorize verb To fill (someone) with terror; to terrify.
- tiff verb Synonym of tiffin (“to eat a (light) midday meal or snack; to have lunch, to lunch”).
- toco noun Corporal punishment; chastisement; beatings.
- topaz noun A black Catholic soldier in the British Army.
- toss noun Concern or consideration.
- unrecognized adj Not matched in memory.
- visualization noun The act of visualizing, or something visualized.
- vulgarization noun The process of making something vulgar, especially by using the language of ordinary people.
- wagger noun Ellipsis of wagger-pagger-bagger.
- weaponize verb To make into a weapon.
- wipe up verb To dry utensils, dishes etc. that have been washed.