Understanding cannot be forced on someone who chooses to be ignorant.

plural of nature strip

(historical) A constitutional and legislative assembly holding executive power during the French Revolution.

The ivory nut, from species Phytelephas macrocarpa, native to Central America.

(derogatory, offensive) Only heterosexual relations are normal.

That does not need ironing.

plural of accessory nerve

(idiomatic) To find harmony or strike a balance between conflicting forces, interests, etc. Normally used to indicate the difficulty of doing so; also, sarcastically, for a failed attempt.

A game in which children stand in a row, joining hands, and in which the outer one, still holding his neighbour, runs between the others.

In combinatorial mathematics, any of a sequence of natural numbers that occur in various counting problems, often involving recursively defined objects; the nᵗʰ Catalan number is equal to (2n choose n) over (n+1).