The setting or background of an acted performance.
verb
(transitive) To serve as a backdrop for.
backdropped
backdropped
verb
simple past tense and past participle of backdrop
backdropping
backdropping
verb
present participle of backdrop
backdrops
backdrops
noun
plural of backdrop
backpointer
backpointers
backrope
backropes
backstop
backstop
noun
(baseball) A wall or fence behind home plate.
(baseball, slang) A catcher; the position of catcher.
(cricket, dated) The longstop.
(cricket, dated) The wicket-keeper.
(espionage) Something serving to bolster or support a cover story etc.
(rounders) The player who stands immediately behind the striking base.
A default arrangement that holds if all else fails.
A thing or a person put in the rear or in the back of something to reinforce, hold, support.
verb
(transitive) To bolster, support.
(transitive) To serve as backstop for.
backstopped
backstopped
verb
simple past tense and past participle of backstop
backstopping
backstopping
verb
present participle of backstop
backstops
backstops
noun
plural of backstop
verb
Third-person singular simple present indicative form of backstop
bathukolpic
bathukolpic
adj
(rare) Deep-bosomed.
bibliokleptomaniac
bibliokleptomaniac
noun
Someone who suffers from bibliokleptomania.
blackpoll
blackpoll
noun
A North American warbler, Dendroica striata, the male of which has a black patch on its head
blackpool
blackpool
Proper noun
A town and resort in Lancashire, England
blackpot
blacktop
blacktop
noun
(US, countable) A paved area on a schoolground reserved for recess activities, often doubling as a parking lot.
(US, countable) A road so paved.
(US, uncountable) Asphalt concrete or similar bituminous black paving material used for the surface of roads (e.g., tarmacadam, tarmac).
verb
(US) To pave with blacktop.
blacktopped
blacktopped
verb
simple past tense and past participle of blacktop
blacktopping
blacktopping
verb
present participle of blacktop
blacktops
blacktops
verb
Third-person singular simple present indicative form of blacktop
blockpate
blockship
blockship
noun
(nautical) A vessel that is deliberately sunk in order to block a waterway (to prevent it being used by an enemy)
bricktop
brockport
bucketshop
bucketshop
noun
Alternative spelling of bucket shop
buckpot
bucksport
chapbook
chapbook
noun
A small book, usually made from a single sheet, folded several times, containing poems, ballads or religious tracts
chapbooks
chapbooks
noun
plural of chapbook
copybook
copybook
noun
(Quebec, UK) A notebook containing blank, often lined, pages for writing answers.
(programming, COBOL) A series of instructions or data definitions copied into multiple programs from a shared library; boilerplate.
A student's exercise book containing samples of good handwriting to be copied.
copybooks
copybooks
noun
plural of copybook
loopback
loopback
noun
The routing of a signal, data stream, etc. from its origin back to the origin, primarily as a means of testing the transmission or transportation infrastructure.
nobackspace
nonpickable
nonpickable
adj
Not pickable.
packboard
packboard
noun
A board worn on the back like a backpack for carrying goods while travelling.
piblockto
picketboat
picketboat
noun
Alternative form of picket boat
picketboats
picketboats
noun
plural of picketboat
plowback
plowbacks
pocketable
pocketable
adj
Able to be put in one's pocket
pocketableness
pocketbook
pocketbook
noun
(US) a purse or handbag.
(dated) A wallet for paper money.
(figuratively) One's personal budget or economic capacity - the amount one can afford.
(uncommon) A small book, particularly (US) a paperback or (UK) notebook able to fit into a pocket.
pocketbooks
pocketbooks
noun
plural of pocketbook
poikiloblastic
poikiloblastic
adj
(geology) Describing the texture of a metamorphic rock that has small idioblasts of one constituent lying within larger xenoblasts
preblockade
preblockade
adj
Before a blockade.
preblockaded
preblockading
probankruptcy
problockade
proboscislike
proboscislike
adj
Resembling or characteristic of a proboscis.
probrick
prongbuck
prongbuck
noun
(dated) The springbok.
The pronghorn
scrapbook
scrapbook
noun
a book, similar to a notebook or journal, in which personal or family memorabilia and photos are collected and arranged
verb
to create scrapbooks.
scrapbooks
scrapbooks
noun
plural of scrapbook
verb
Third-person singular simple present indicative form of scrapbook
spoonback
stopback
stopblock
stopblock
noun
(rail transport, especially US) An obstruction placed at the end of a railway track to prevent rail vehicles from going any further.
superblock
superblock
noun
(architecture, urban planning) A very large block of buildings.
(computing) A segment of metadata describing the file system on a block device.