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.
backhouse
backhouse
noun
(US, Canada, euphemistic) An outhouse: an outbuilding used as a lavatory.
(now dialect) An outbuilding behind the main building.
backhouses
backhouses
noun
plural of backhouse
bivouacked
bivouacked
verb
simple past tense and past participle of bivouac
blacktongue
blockaderunning
blockbusted
blockbuster
blockbuster
noun
(US) One who engages in blockbusting (technique encouraging people to sell property).
(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
(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.
(slang) Anything very large or powerful; a whopper.
A high-explosive bomb used for the purposes of demolishing extensive areas, such as a city block.
A large firework of the firecracker type; an M-80.
blockbusters
blockbusters
noun
plural of blockbuster
blockhouse
blockhouse
noun
(dated) A temporary wooden fortification with a projecting upper story.
A reinforced building from which to control hazardous operations, such as an explosion or a rocket launch.
A sturdy military fortification, often of concrete, with gunports.
blockhouses
blockhouses
noun
plural of blockhouse
bloodsucker
bloodsucker
noun
(by extension) Any parasite.
(by extension) One who attempts to take as much from others as possible; a leech.
A vampire.
An animal that drinks the blood of others, especially by sucking blood through a puncture wound; a hemovore.
The changeable lizard (Calotes versicolor).
bloodsuckers
bloodsuckers
noun
plural of bloodsucker
bluestocking
bluestocking
noun
(historical) A member of an 18th-century Blue Stockings Society.
(historical) The English parliament of 1653, more commonly called the Barebones Parliament
(usually derogatory) A scholarly, literary, or cultured woman.
bluestockingish
bluestockingish
adj
Like a bluestocking, or scholarly woman.
bluestockingism
bluestockingism
noun
(colloquial) The character or manner of a bluestocking; female pedantry.
bluestockings
bluestockings
noun
plural of bluestocking
bogsucker
bogsucker
noun
The American woodcock.
bontebuck
bontebuck
noun
Alternative form of bontebok (“South African antelope”)
bontebucks
bontebucks
noun
plural of bontebuck
bouckville
bounceback
bounceback
noun
(Internet) An automated response to an email, indicating that it could not be delivered.
(marketing) A customized order form sent out with previously ordered goods, encouraging the customer to make a further order, perhaps motivated by a discount or free gift.
A rebound.
An economic recovery.
broucek
buckeroo
buckeroo
noun
Alternative spelling of buckaroo
buckeroos
buckeroos
noun
plural of buckeroo
bucketshop
bucketshop
noun
Alternative spelling of bucket shop
buckeystown
buckoes
buckone
buckstone
bucktoothed
bucktoothed
adj
Having buckteeth
bullocker
bullockite
buttocked
buttocked
adj
(in combination) Having some specific type of buttocks
buttocker
buttocker
noun
(mining, historical) A worker who gets coal off at a longwall face.
(wrestling) One who uses the cross-buttock throw.
chequebook
chequebook
noun
A folder or booklet containing preprinted cheques for use by the holder of a bank account
cherubikon
cocklebur
cocklebur
noun
Any of the coarse composite weeds of the genus Xanthium, with a prickly fruit.
cokeburg
counterblockade
counterblockade
noun
A blockade set up in opposition to another blockade.
counterblockades
counterblockades
noun
plural of counterblockade
counterbreastwork
hobucken
hucklebone
hucklebone
noun
Alternative form of huckle bone
knucklebone
knucklebone
noun
(slang) A die.
A bone that forms a knuckle in the human hand, in an animal's paw or any bone that forms a similar bump.
Such a bone once used in knucklebones and other children's games of chance.
knucklebones
knucklebones
noun
A children's game, originally played with the knucklebones of sheep, in which small objects are picked up, moved, thrown, and caught according to various rules.
plural of knucklebone
koeberliniaceous
kotschubeite
kotschubeite
noun
(mineralogy) A chromium chlorite mineral.
leukoblastic
leukoblastic
adj
Relating to leukoblasts.
leukocytoblast
lockbourne
lockesburg
lubbercock
microleukoblast
outbacker
outbacker
noun
One who lives in the outback.
outblacken
roebuck
roebuck
noun
A male roe deer.
roebucks
roebucks
noun
plural of roebuck
sourcebooks
sourcebooks
noun
plural of sourcebook
submakroskelic
suikerbosch
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.
superblocks
superblocks
noun
plural of superblock
swashbucklerdom
unbackboarded
unbeckoned
unbeckoned
adj
Without having been beckoned.
unblockaded
unblockaded
adj
Not blockaded.
unblocked
unblocked
adj
Not blocked (in various senses).
verb
past participle of unblock
unbluestockingish
unchokable
unchokable
adj
Not chokable.
uncloakable
uncloakable
adj
Not cloakable.
uncookable
uncookable
adj
Not cookable.
unlockable
unlockable
adj
Capable of being unlocked.
Not capable of being locked.
noun
(video games) An initially hidden feature that is made available to reward the player for some achievement.
unreckonable
unreckonable
adj
That cannot be reckoned; uncountable, innumerable.
unshockable
unshockable
adj
Incapable of being shocked (scandalised or appalled).