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noun

1. Alternative form of bycoket

noun

1. (most common British spelling, also sometimes used in the US) Alternative spelling of acknowledgment

noun

1. plural of acknowledgement

noun

1. (law) A formal statement or document recognizing the fulfillment or execution of a legal requirement or procedure.
2. (law) The act of a person admitting a child as their own.
3. (telecommunications, computing, networking) A response (ACK) sent by a receiver to indicate successful receipt of a transmission (See Wikipedia article on transmission).
4. A message from the addressee informing the originator that the originator's communication has been received and understood.
5. A recognition as genuine or valid; an avowing or admission in legal form.
6. A reward or other expression or token of gratitude.
7. An expression of gratitude for a benefit or an obligation.
8. The act of acknowledging
9. The act of recognizing in a particular character or relationship; recognition of existence, authority, truth, or genuineness.

noun

1. plural of acknowledgment

noun

1. (figuratively) By extension, any result or consequence following a major event.
2. An earthquake that follows in the same vicinity as another, usually larger, earthquake (the "mainshock").
3. Emotional and physical distress following a traumatic event.

noun

1. plural of aftershock

adj

1. (rare) Composed of both good and evil.

noun

1. (mineralogy) A monoclinic-prismatic reddish brown mineral containing arsenic, hydrogen, magnesium, manganese, and oxygen.

adj

1. Relating to alkaptonuria

noun

1. a stout adjustable walking stick with a metal point, used by mountain climbers and walkers in hilly or uneven terrain

noun

1. A mountain-climber, especially one that uses an alpenstock.

noun

1. plural of alpenstock

adj

1. Relating to angiokinesis or to an angiokine

adj

1. Of or pertaining to ankylosis.

adj

1. (South Africa, Australia, New Zealand, British, Ireland, of movement) in a circular fashion so as to be moving to the left at the top of the circle and to the right at the bottom (when viewed from the front), in the opposite direction to the way the hands of an analogue clock move.

adv

1. (Australia, New Zealand, Britian, Ireland) In an anticlockwise fashion.

adj

1. (biochemistry) That inhibits the formation of ketones during the metabolism of fats and carbohydrates in the liver

adj

1. Of an additive added to petroleum/gasoline to reduce the occurrence of engine knock.

noun

1. Such a substance, usually tetraethyl lead (also MMT, MTBE and ethanol)

noun

1. plural of antiknock

adj

1. (rare) Opposing the farming of livestock.

adj

1. Alternative form of apocatastatic

noun

1. A dull green colour, like that of an artichoke.
2. A plant related to the thistle with enlarged flower heads eaten as a vegetable while immature, Cynara cardunculus var. scolymus.

noun

1. plural of artichoke

adj

1. (historical) Of a fire-alarm telegraphy system, arranged so that when one alarm is being transmitted, no other alarm, sent in from another point, will be transmitted until after the first alarm has been disposed of.
2. Moving by itself or automatically.

noun

1. The painted scenery at the back of a stage; the backdrop.

noun

1. A remote region; countryside that is relatively inaccessible; the boondocks.

noun

1. (basketball) A team's defensive half of the court; the part of the court where the other team's basket is located, or the guards playing in that area.
2. (chiefly Scotland) A courtyard behind a housing block or tenement building.

noun

1. (basketball) A backcourt player.

noun

1. plural of backcourtman

noun

1. (architecture) A rebate or chase in masonry left to receive a permanent slab or other filling.

adj

1. farthest back

noun

1. (aerospace) A reversed countdown (i.e. ascending numbers) in response to problems leading up to a launch.
2. A reversal or undoing of tasks previously done (often in reverse order).

noun

1. plural of backout

noun

1. (baseball) A wall or fence behind home plate.
2. (baseball, slang) A catcher; the position of catcher.
3. (cricket, dated) The longstop.
4. (cricket, dated) The wicket-keeper.
5. (espionage) Something serving to bolster or support a cover story etc.
6. (rounders) The player who stands immediately behind the striking base.
7. A default arrangement that holds if all else fails.
8. A thing or a person put in the rear or in the back of something to reinforce, hold, support.

verb

1. (transitive) To bolster, support.
2. (transitive) To serve as backstop for.

verb

1. simple past tense and past participle of backstop

verb

1. present participle of backstop

noun

1. plural of backstop

verb

1. Third-person singular simple present indicative form of backstop

noun

1. plural of backstory

noun

1. (bellringing) The pull on the tail of the rope that swings the bell through a full circle (compare handstroke)
2. (swimming) A stroke swum lying on one's back, while rotating both arms through the water as to propel the swimmer backwards.
3. A backhanded stroke or blow.

verb

1. To swim the backstroke.

verb

1. simple past tense and past participle of backstroke

noun

1. plural of backstroke

verb

1. Third-person singular simple present indicative form of backstroke

verb

1. present participle of backstroke

noun

1. (mineralogy) Synonym of hydrohausmannite

noun

1. (obsolete) In the London Stock Exchange: a fee paid by a seller on settlement day either to the buyer or to a third party who lends stock, when the seller wishes to defer settlement until the next settlement day.
2. In full normal backwardation: the situation in a futures market where the price for future delivery of a commodity (the forward price) is lower than the price for immediate delivery (the spot price) or nearer delivery, generally arising from a near-term shortage of the commodity.
3. The situation in a stock market where the offer price for stock is lower than the bid price.

noun

1. (printing, historical) The handle of a printer's ball.

adj

1. (rare) Deep-bosomed.

noun

1. (obsolete) The front or back part of the frame of a bedstead.

verb

1. (transitive) to stock; furnish

noun

1. Someone who suffers from bibliokleptomania.

noun

1. (organic chemistry) An alkaloid found in bikh (Aconitum spicatum).

noun

1. (medical biology) The study of movements of or within organisms

noun

1. A hand tool consisting of a crank which holds a fitted rotating drill bit tip, designed to bore holes in rigid materials, by cutting a disc in a spiral fashion.

noun

1. plural of bitstock

noun

1. A little bit; a small piece.
2. A short distance.

noun

1. plural of bittock

Noun

1. A member of the clergy.

noun

1. A tropical American bush of the genus Melampodium

noun

1. (attributive) The blocking out of as much light as possible.
2. (historical) The mandatory blocking of all light emanating from buildings, as well as outdoor and street lighting as a measure against aerial bombing or naval attack, as imposed during, e.g., World War II.
3. A large-scale power failure, and resulting loss of electricity to consumers.
4. A temporary loss of consciousness.
5. A temporary loss of memory.
6. An instance of censorship, especially a temporary one.

verb

1. (nonstandard) Alternative form of black out

noun

1. plural of blackout

noun

1. Colicroot, Aletris farinosa
2. Culver's root, Veronicastrum virginicum
3. Either of two species in the genus Pterocaulon: Pterocaulon pycnostachyum and Pterocaulon virgatum
4. Several plant diseases caused by fungi in the genus Aphanomyces causing that cause roots to rot and turn black.

noun

1. A large shrub or small tree, Prunus spinosa, that is native to Europe, western Asia, and north Africa. It has a dark bark and bears thorns.
2. A stick or staff taken from this tree.

noun

1. plural of blackthorn

noun

1. (US, countable) A paved area on a schoolground reserved for recess activities, often doubling as a parking lot.
2. (US, countable) A road so paved.
3. (US, uncountable) Asphalt concrete or similar bituminous black paving material used for the surface of roads (e.g., tarmacadam, tarmac).

verb

1. (US) To pave with blacktop.

verb

1. simple past tense and past participle of blacktop

verb

1. present participle of blacktop

verb

1. Third-person singular simple present indicative form of blacktop

noun

1. (US) One who engages in blockbusting (technique encouraging people to sell property).
2. (informal) Something, especially an event or a film, book or other creative work, that is intended to achieve high sales (perhaps indicated by large budgets or high advertising spending) or that is conceived on a large or epic scale
3. (informal) Something, such as a film or book, that sustains exceptional and widespread popularity and achieves enormous sales, as opposed to a box office bomb.
4. (slang) Anything very large or powerful; a whopper.
5. A high-explosive bomb used for the purposes of demolishing extensive areas, such as a city block.
6. A large firework of the firecracker type; an M-80.

noun

1. plural of blockbuster

adj

1. Having the characteristics of a blockbuster; hugely successful.

noun

1. (US) A technique used to encourage people to sell their property by giving the impression that a neighborhood is changing for the worse, especially by implying a change in its racial makeup.

adj

1. superlative form of blocky: most blocky

noun

1. (construction) A void that is deliberately not filled with concrete, so that it can be used to insert something else such as pipework.

noun

1. (countable) The breeding line of a thoroughbred horse or other animal.
2. (uncountable) Thoroughbred animals in general, but especially horses.

noun

1. plural of bloodstock

noun

1. (historical) A member of an 18th-century Blue Stockings Society.
2. (historical) The English parliament of 1653, more commonly called the Barebones Parliament
3. (usually derogatory) A scholarly, literary, or cultured woman.

adj

1. Like a bluestocking, or scholarly woman.

noun

1. (colloquial) The character or manner of a bluestocking; female pedantry.

noun

1. plural of bluestocking

noun

1. Alternative form of bontebok (“South African antelope”)

noun

1. plural of bontebuck

noun

1. (archaic) Authorship; literary skill.

noun

1. One of a set of bookshelves in a library.

noun

1. (dated) A shoeshine boy; a person who shines shoes as an occupation.

verb

1. (transitive) To shine shoes.

noun

1. plural of bootblack

noun

1. a V-shaped, or forked, device for pulling off boots.

noun

1. plural of bootjack

verb

1. Third-person singular simple present indicative form of bootjack

noun

1. (US) A toady or sycophant.

verb

1. (intransitive) To engage in fawning, servile behavior.
2. (transitive) To seek favor from by fawning, servile behavior.

verb

1. simple past tense and past participle of bootlick

noun

1. (by extension, derogatory) Anyone who is seen as supporting authoritarianism.
2. (derogatory) A person who behaves in a servile or obsequious manner; a toady

noun

1. plural of bootlicker

noun

1. servile behaviour

verb

1. present participle of bootlick

verb

1. Third-person singular simple present indicative form of bootlick

noun

1. (mineralogy) Alternate name for delvauxite.

noun

1. Inferior and shoddy work.

noun

1. (by extension) The part of a process that is too slow or cumbersome.
2. (figurative) In traffic, any narrowing of the road, especially resulting in a delay.
3. The narrow portion that forms the pouring spout of a bottle; the neck of a bottle.

verb

1. (intransitive) To form a bottleneck.
2. (transitive) To slow by causing a bottleneck.

verb

1. simple past tense and past participle of bottleneck

noun

1. plural of bottleneck

verb

1. Third-person singular simple present indicative form of bottleneck

noun

1. A genus, Mazama, of short-horned deer from Brazil.
2. A stag in its second year, before its horns have started branching.

noun

1. plural of brocket

Proper noun

1. a city in Massachusetts, USA, which is one of the two county seats of
2. a small town in Montana, USA.
3. an unincorporated community in Pennsylvania, USA.
4. a town in Ontario, Canada. The name is formed from Brant, Greenock and Walkerton, places that merged into Brockton.
5. a township in parish, Shropshire, England

noun

1. (slang, rare) A gun.
2. A broom imbued with magic, enabling one to fly astride the handle.
3. The handle of a broom (sweeping tool).

verb

1. (intransitive) To fly on a broomstick, as witches are said to.

noun

1. plural of broomstick

verb

1. Third-person singular simple present indicative form of broomstick

noun

1. Alternative spelling of bucket shop

noun

1. (chiefly US) Lead shot used in shotgun cartridges, made of larger pellets than birdshot and suitable for hunting larger game. [from 18th c.]

noun

1. plural of buckshot

noun

1. Hippophae (family Elaeagnaceae), the sea buckthorn.
2. also genus Frangula, especially Frangula alnus, the alder buckthorn.
3. especially genus Rhamnus,
4. especially the common buckthorn or purging buckthorn; Rhamnus cathartica.