shortening
Concise Oxford English Dictionary © 2008 Oxford University Press:
shortening/ˈʃɔːtnɪŋ/
▶noun fat used for making pastry.
'shortening' also found in these Oxford entries:
adventitia
- bet
- body-con
- bop
- bot
- brack
- bus
- cello
- cembalo
- chat
- cheat
- cloy
- contraction
- contracture
- cute
- dick
- diminution
- dinger
- drat
- droid
- dropsy
- extra
- farad
- fence
- fencible
- fend
- fib
- FitzGerald contraction
- fluence
- gig
- Gullah
- huge
- intima
- kart
- Kraut
- laddu
- live
- lone
- magpie
- mall
- marl
- martin
- mean
- media
- meet
- mend
- mid
- Motown
- muckamuck
- muffle
