Any of several large food and game yellowtail fishes of the genus Seriola, found in warm waters of all oceans.
amberjacks
amberjacks
noun
plural of amberjack
arbuckle
bachelorlike
bachelorlike
adj
Resembling or characteristic of a bachelor.
backare
backare
intj
Alternative form of baccare
backbear
backbearing
backbencher
backbencher
noun
(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
backberand
backberend
backbiter
backbiter
noun
A person who says nasty things about another person behind the second person's back: that is, out of their sight and hearing.
backbiters
backbiters
noun
plural of backbiter
backbreaker
backbreaker
noun
A strenuous and exhausting task, typically involving physical effort.
backbreakers
backbreakers
noun
plural of backbreaker
backbreaking
backbreaking
adj
(figuratively) Of work, very physically tiring.
backcourtmen
backcourtmen
noun
plural of backcourtman
backcrossed
backcrossed
verb
simple past tense and past participle of backcross
backcrosses
backcrosses
noun
plural of backcross
verb
Third-person singular simple present indicative form of backcross
backdropped
backdropped
verb
simple past tense and past participle of backdrop
backer
backer
adj
(phonetics) comparative form of back: more back
noun
One who, or that which, backs; especially one who backs an entrant in a contest, or who supports an enterprise by funding it.
backers
backers
noun
plural of backer
backfatter
backfatter
noun
A pig yielding significant backfat.
backfiller
backfiller
noun
A machine for refilling an excavation.
backfire
backfire
noun
(firefighting) Alternative spelling of back fire
A premature explosion in the cylinder of a gas or oil engine during the exhaust or the compression stroke, tending to drive the piston in the wrong direction.
An explosion in other equipment.
An explosion in the exhaust passages of an internal combustion engine.
verb
(of a gun, cannon, Bunsen burner, etc.) To fire in the opposite direction, for example due to an obstruction in the barrel.
(of an engine) To experience a premature ignition of fuel or an ignition of exhaust gases, making a popping sound.
To fail in a manner that brings down further misfortune.
backfired
backfired
verb
simple past tense and past participle of backfire
backfires
backfires
noun
plural of backfire
verb
Third-person singular simple present indicative form of backfire
backframe
backfriend
backfriend
noun
(UK, dialectal) A friend at one's back; a backer; one who does his best for another; a supporter.
(UK, dialectal) A hangnail.
(UK, dialectal, obsolete) A false friend; a secret enemy.
backgeared
backgrounded
backgrounded
adj
(computing) (of a task) Made non-interactive
Moved to the background
verb
simple past tense and past participle of background
backgrounder
backgrounder
noun
(chiefly US) A briefing or document typically provided prior to a meeting or other event that gives basic details on subjects that are likely to be mentioned.
A cattle farmer or rancher who runs a backgrounding operation.
A person employed to draw backgrounds for a comic or cartoon.
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
backhooker
backiebird
backlasher
backlasher
noun
A participant in a backlash
backlashers
backlashers
noun
plural of backlasher
backler
backlotter
backorder
backorder
noun
An order that cannot be currently filled or shipped, but is requested nonetheless for when the item becomes available again.
verb
To place such an order
backpacker
backpacker
noun
(music, slang) A fan or performer of backpack rap.
A traveler whose luggage consists of a backpack; especially, such a traveler who uses hostels, public transport, and other inexpensive services.
backpackers
backpackers
noun
A hostel catering to backpackers.
plural of backpacker
backpointer
backpointers
backrest
backrest
noun
A guide attached to the slide rest of a lathe, and placed in contact with the work to steady it in turning.
The back piece of a chair, used to support the sitter's back.
backrests
backrests
noun
plural of backrest
backrope
backropes
backrushes
backrushes
noun
plural of backrush
backscatter
backscatter
noun
(computing) The sending of IP packets to essentially random addresses in response to incoming packets that have a spoofed origin.
(military) A portion of the energy of electromagnetic radiation such as a laser or radio waves that is scattered back in the direction of the source of radiation by an obscurant.
(physics) The deflection of particles and/or radiation through angles greater than 90 degrees to the original direction of travel.
The particles and/or radiation deflected in this manner.
verb
To scatter particles and/or radiation back to the direction from which they come.
backscattered
backscattered
verb
past participle of backscatter
backscattering
backscattering
noun
(physics) The scattering of waves, particles, or signals back in the direction of their source.
verb
present participle of backscatter
backscatters
backscatters
noun
plural of backscatter
verb
Third-person singular simple present indicative form of backscatter
backscraper
backscratcher
backscratcher
noun
A long slender rod with a rake-like device on one end, sometimes in the form of a human hand, designed to let a person scratch their own back.
backsettler
backsettler
noun
One living in the back or outlying districts of a community.
backslapper
backslapper
noun
One who makes a show of liking another person with profuse or excessive displays of camaraderie, such as vigorous hand clasping, back-slapping, hearty words of greeting, etc.
backslappers
backslappers
noun
plural of backslapper
backslider
backslider
noun
A recidivist; one who backslides, especially in a religious sense; an apostate.
She married him thinking to change his ways, and for a while he got religion, but he was ever a backslider; she soon began finding bottles stashed about the house.
backsliders
backsliders
noun
plural of backslider
backspacer
backspacer
noun
A mechanism in a typewriter that controls backspacing.
backspear
backspeer
backspeir
backspier
backspierer
backspread
backstabber
backstabber
noun
A traitor or hypocrite, such as a co-worker or friend assumed trustworthy but who figuratively attacks when one's back is turned.
backstabbers
backstabbers
noun
plural of backstabber
backster
backster
noun
(obsolete) A baker.
backstories
backstories
noun
plural of backstory
backstrapped
backstreet
backstreet
adj
(figuratively) Done in poor and unsanitary conditions, secretly and illegally; back-alley.
Associated with neighborhoods on back streets, often in older neighborhoods, with poorer residents.
noun
Alternative spelling of back street
backstreets
backstreets
noun
plural of backstreet
backstretch
backstretch
noun
(athletics, horse racing, car racing) Synonym of back straight (“straight part of a racetrack, running track, etc., opposite the finishing line”).
(exercise) An exercise that stretches the muscles of the back.
(figuratively) The middle part of an event.
(horse racing) An area next to a racetrack used to stable the racehorses and house employees.
backstretches
backstretches
noun
plural of backstretch.
backstroke
backstroke
noun
(bellringing) The pull on the tail of the rope that swings the bell through a full circle (compare handstroke)
(swimming) A stroke swum lying on one's back, while rotating both arms through the water as to propel the swimmer backwards.
A backhanded stroke or blow.
verb
To swim the backstroke.
backstroked
backstroked
verb
simple past tense and past participle of backstroke
backstrokes
backstrokes
noun
plural of backstroke
verb
Third-person singular simple present indicative form of backstroke
backstromite
backstromite
noun
(mineralogy) Synonym of hydrohausmannite
backswimmer
backswimmer
noun
Any of various aquatic insects, of the family Notonectidae, that swim on their backs.
backswordmen
backswordmen
noun
plural of backswordman
backtender
backtenter
backtrace
backtrace
noun
(computing) A stack trace.
verb
(by extension) To find the cause of something by examining past events
(computing) To examine a stack trace
backtracked
backtracked
verb
simple past tense and past participle of backtrack
backtracker
backtracker
noun
One who, or that which, backtracks.
backtrackers
backtrackers
noun
plural of backtracker
backvelder
backvelder
noun
A native or inhabitant of the backveld.
backwardness
backwardness
noun
Reluctance.
The state of being backward.
backwardnesses
backwardnesses
noun
plural of backwardness
backwasher
backwasher
noun
(textiles) A machine used for washing wool after carding to remove the impurities.
backwater
backwater
noun
(idiomatic) A remote place; somewhere that remains unaffected by new events, progresses, ideas, etc.
(paper industry) Water used in the papermaking process. Recycled to reduce usage of fresh water, and usually containing residual amounts of chemicals and fibres.
A rowing stroke in which the oar is pushed forward to stop the boat; see back water
The water held back by a dam or other obstruction
verb
(idiomatic) To vacillate on a long-held position.
To row or paddle a backwater stroke.
backwatered
backwatered
verb
simple past tense and past participle of backwater
backwaters
backwaters
noun
plural of backwater
verb
Third-person singular simple present indicative form of backwater
backwoodser
backyarder
backyarder
noun
One who carries on a project or business in a backyard, especially the raising of poultry.
badderlocks
badderlocks
noun
(Scotland) The edible seaweed Alaria esculenta
baldricked
baldricked
adj
Wearing a baldrick (ornamental belt).
bankruptcies
bankruptcies
noun
plural of bankruptcy
bareback
bareback
adj
(dated) Without a shirt; shirtless.
Without a condom.
Without a saddle.
noun
A bird, raised for meat, that lacks feathers, seen as an undesirable trait.
verb
(intransitive, slang) To have sex without a condom.
(intransitive, slang, particularly sex among men) To have anal sex without a condom.
(transitive, slang, particularly sex among men) To anally penetrate without a condom.
barebacked
barebacked
adj
Of a bird raised for meat: lacking feathers, seen as an undesirable trait.
adv
Synonym of bareback
bareknuckle
bareknuckled
barenecked
barenecked
adj
Having the neck bare.
barkcutter
barkevikitic
barkevikitic
adj
Of or relating to the mineral barkevikite.
barleysick
barracked
barracked
verb
simple past tense and past participle of barrack
barracker
barracker
noun
One who barracks.
barrackville
battercake
battercake
noun
A kind of flat cake similar to a pancake.
batterdock
bauckiebird
beauclerk
beckemeyer
becker
becker
noun
(archaic) A European fish, Pagrus pagrus
beckerman
beckford
beckiron
beckoner
beckoner
noun
One who, or that which, beckons.
beckoners
beckoners
noun
plural of beckoner
becroak
bedrock
bedrock
noun
(figurative) A basis or foundation.
(uncountable, geology, mining, engineering, construction) The solid rock that exists at some depth below the ground surface. Bedrock is rock "in place", as opposed to material that has been transported from another location by weathering and erosion.
verb
(transitive, figurative) To establish on a solid foundation.
bedrocks
bedrocks
noun
plural of bedrock
befreckle
befrocked
befrocked
adj
Wearing a frock.
beiderbecke
bekerchief
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
berck
berewick
berewick
noun
(now historical) An outlying estate.
berrypicker
berrypicking
berwick
berwick
Proper noun
Any of various towns, including:
a town in Maine, USA.
berwickshire
berwickshire
Proper noun
A lieutenancy area and historic county in the Scottish Borders.
betuckered
bewreck
bewreck
verb
(transitive, dialectal) To wreck completely; ruin; destroy.
bicker
bicker
noun
(Scotland) A wooden drinking-cup or other dish.
(Scotland, obsolete) A fight with stones between two parties of boys.
A skirmish; an encounter.
A wrangle; also, a noise, as in angry contention.
The process by which selective eating clubs at Princeton University choose new members.
verb
(of rain) To patter.
To brawl or move tremulously, quiver, shimmer (of a water stream, light, flame, etc.)
To quarrel in a tiresome, insulting manner.
To skirmish; to exchange blows; to fight.
bickered
bickered
verb
simple past tense and past participle of bicker
bickerer
bickerer
noun
One who bickers; one who engages in nagging or trivial arguing.
bickerers
bickerers
noun
plural of bickerer
bickering
bickering
noun
Petty quarreling. Usually considered a childish behaviour, although often applied to adults.
verb
present participle of bicker
bickern
bickern
noun
An anvil with two projecting taper ends.
bickers
bickers
verb
Third-person singular simple present indicative form of bicker
bickmore
billsticker
billsticker
noun
Someone who sticks up advertisements on billboards, walls, and similar surfaces.