| Definition/Meaning | Word/Phrase |
|---|
| United States bandleader of a popular big band (1909-1944) |
Alton Glenn Miller
,
Glenn Miller
,
Miller
|
| drab yellowish big-eared bat that lives in caves |
Antrozous pallidus
,
cave bat
,
pallid bat
|
| army unit that uses big guns |
artillery
,
artillery unit
|
| muscular and big-boned |
athletic type
,
mesomorphy
|
| big, clumsy person |
bear
|
| United States clarinetist who in 1934 formed a big band (including Black as well as White musicians) and introduced a kind of jazz known as swing (1909-1986) |
Benjamin David Goodman
,
Benny Goodman
,
Goodman
,
King of Swing
|
| talk big |
boast
,
brag
,
crow
,
gloat
|
| boxing equipment consisting of big and padded coverings for the fists of the fighters; worn for the sport of boxing |
boxing glove
,
glove
|
| sore on first joint of big toe |
bunion
|
| painful swelling of the bursa of the first joint of the big toe |
bunion
|
| toe joints, pain in big |
bunion
,
gout
|
| lofty evergreen of United States coastal foothills from Oregon to Big Sur |
California redwood
,
coast redwood
,
Sequoia sempervirens
|
| (cosmology) the cooled remnant of the hot big bang that fills the entire universe and can be observed today with an average temperature of about 2.725 kelvin |
CBR
,
CMB
,
CMBR
,
cosmic background radiation
,
cosmic microwave background
,
cosmic microwave background radiation
|
| (cosmology) a universe in which there is sufficient matter to halt the expansion that began with the big bang and to cause the universe to collapse again; the visible matter is only 10 percent of the matter required for closure but there may be large amou |
closed universe
|
| battleship that has big guns all of the same caliber |
dreadnaught
,
dreadnought
|
| Belgian cosmologist who proposed the big-bang theory of the origin of the universe (1894-1966) |
Edouard Lemaitre
,
Georges Henri Lemaitre
,
Lemaitre
|
| backless sandal held to the foot by a thong between the big toe and the second toe |
flip-flop
,
thong
|
| United States physicist (born in Russia) who was a proponent of the big-bang theory and who did research in radioactivity and suggested the triplet code for DNA (1904-1968) |
Gamow
,
George Gamow
|
| big-eyed scad |
genus Selar
,
Selar
|
| painful inflammation of the big toe and foot caused by defects in uric acid metabolism resulting in deposits of the acid and its salts in the blood and joints |
gout
,
gouty arthritis
,
urarthritis
|
