(by extension) Someone who does not play an active role in a process.
(education) A student who does not perform well, especially one who sits at the back of the classroom.
(politics) A Member of Parliament who does not have cabinet rank, and who therefore sits on one of the backbenches or in one of the back rows of the legislature.
(sports) A member of a team who does not usually play, but who is held in reserve.
backbenchers
backbenchers
noun
plural of backbencher
backbenches
backbenches
noun
plural of backbench
backchecking
backchecking
verb
present participle of backcheck
backhanded
backhanded
adj
(of writing) inclining to the left
Backwards, turned around.
Indirect.
Insincere, sarcastic, ironic, or self-contradictory.
Involving a backward flip of the hand.
Retrospective, occurring after the fact rather than in advance.
Self-serving, corrupt, slipshod, or neglectful.
With the back of the hand.
adv
In a backhanded manner.
verb
simple past tense and past participle of backhand
backhandedly
backhandedness
backhandedness
noun
(of writing) Leftward slant.
Backwardness of direction.
Deceit or neglect.
Indirection.
Insincerity, irony, or sarcasm.
The use of a backward flip of the hand.
backhander
backhander
noun
(informal) A bribe, a secret payment.
(racquet sports) A player who plays a backhand shot.
(racquet sports) A shot played backhand, a backhand stroke.
(surfing) A surfer who approaches a swell with the wave behind them ("on their backhand") rather than facing the wave ("on their forehand").
A blow with the back of the hand.
A glass of wine given out of turn, the bottle having been handed backwards.
backhanders
backhanders
noun
plural of backhander
bechalking
bechalking
verb
present participle of bechalk
benchmark
benchmark
noun
(computing) A computer program that is executed to assess the performance of the runtime environment.
A standard by which something is evaluated or measured.
A surveyor's mark made on some stationary object and shown on a map; used as a reference point.
verb
(intransitive, followed by at) To give certain results in a benchmark test.
(transitive, intransitive, followed by against) To use something (e.g., a competitor's product) as a standard to improve one's own thing.
benchmarked
benchmarked
verb
simple past tense and past participle of benchmark
benchmarking
benchmarking
noun
A performance measurement according to a benchmark.
verb
present participle of benchmark
benchmarks
benchmarks
noun
plural of benchmark
verb
Third-person singular simple present indicative form of benchmark
benchwork
benchwork
noun
the structure supporting a model railway layout
work performed at a workbench
bikhaconitine
bikhaconitine
noun
(organic chemistry) An alkaloid found in bikh (Aconitum spicatum).
blackhander
blackhanders
blackhanders
noun
plural of blackhander
blackheartedness
blackheartedness
noun
The state or quality of being blackhearted; villainy.
blackishness
blackishness
noun
The quality of being blackish, somewhat black.
blagoveshchensk
blockheadedness
blockheadedness
noun
The state or condition of being blockheaded.
blockheadishness
blockishness
blockishness
noun
The state or quality of being blockish.
bluestockingish
bluestockingish
adj
Like a bluestocking, or scholarly woman.
bodychecking
bodychecking
verb
present participle of bodycheck
brackishness
brackishness
noun
distastefulness; unpleasantness
branchlike
branchlike
adj
resembling a branch of a tree
brecknockshire
brecknockshire
Proper noun
An inland traditional county of Wales, bordered by Monmouthshire, Herefordshire, Radnorshire, Cardiganshire, Carmarthenshire and Glamorganshire.
buckinghamshire
buckinghamshire
Proper noun
An inland county of England bounded by Northamptonshire, Bedfordshire, Hertfordshire, Greater London, Berkshire and Oxfordshire.
buckishness
buckishness
noun
The quality of being buckish.
bunchbacked
chainbreak
checkerboarding
checkerboarding
noun
(computer graphics) Synonym of checkerboard rendering
verb
present participle of checkerboard
cheekbone
cheekbone
noun
The small prominent bone of the cheek.
cheekbones
cheekbones
noun
plural of cheekbone
chelyabinsk
cherubikon
chickenberry
chickenbill
chickenbreasted
chinbeak
finchbacked
hobucken
hollenbeck
hornbeck
hucklebone
hucklebone
noun
Alternative form of huckle bone
hunchbacked
hunchbacked
adj
Having an abnormally curved or hunched back
lebkuchen
lebkuchen
noun
A traditional German Christmas biscuit form of gingerbread.
liebknecht
lobachevskian
lobachevskian
Adjective
Of or pertaining to Nikolai Ivanovich Lobachevsky (1792–1856), Russian mathematician.
Of or related to hyperbolic geometry, which was developed by Nikolai Lobachevsky.
muehlenbeckia
muehlenbeckia
noun
(botany) Any of the genus Muehlenbeckia of maidenhairs.
nonchokable
nonchokable
adj
On which a person cannot choke.
That cannot become choked or blocked up.
nonchokebore
pinchbeck
pinchbeck
adj
(not comparable) Made of pinchbeck.
Sham; spurious, artificial; being a cheap substitution; only superficially attractive.
noun
An alloy of copper and zinc once used as imitation gold for cheap jewelry.
quackenbush
reichsbank
rhinebeck
schnabelkanne
shacklebone
shacklebones
swashbucklering
swashbucklering
adj
Alternative form of swashbuckling
thickbrained
unbluestockingish
unbutcherlike
unbutcherlike
adj
Not butcherlike.
uncheckable
uncheckable
adj
Incapable of being checked or restrained.
Incapable of being checked or verified.
unchokable
unchokable
adj
Not chokable.
unshockable
unshockable
adj
Incapable of being shocked (scandalised or appalled).
unsketchable
unsketchable
adj
Not sketchable.
workbench
workbench
noun
A sturdy bench or table at which manual work is done by a carpenter, machinist, etc.