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Proper noun

1. A village on the Mediterranean coast of Egypt which contains several ancient Egyptian, Greek, and Roman structures.
2. A bay outside this village, at the mouth of the Nile, where on 1 August 1798 a British fleet led by defeated the French in the

adj

1. Yielding alkalis.

noun

1. (medicine) A rare inherited genetic disorder of phenylalanine and tyrosine metabolism, causing the accumulation and eventual excretion of alkapton.

adj

1. Relating to alkaptonuria

noun

1. Synonym of ankylosaurus

noun

1. plural of ankylosaur

noun

1. A large herbivorous dinosaur, of genus Ankylosaurus, that lived in the Cretaceous period, noted for its heavy armor and club-like tail.

noun

1. The territory or dignity of an archduke or archduchess; an archduchy.

noun

1. plural of archdukedom

adj

1. Alternative form of arrhenotokous

adj

1. (zoology) Relating to arrhenotoky; producing males from unfertilized eggs.

noun

1. One who manufactures automobiles; typically used to refer to a large corporation such as General Motors.

noun

1. plural of autoworker

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. (agriculture) The line of piled soil thrown up beside a furrow when it is created by a plow

verb

1. (agriculture) To throw or turn the soil in alternating directions for every other row that is plowed, so that every pair of furrows has a single backfurrow with clear areas on the outside.

adj

1. Less important or less noticeable in a scene or system.

noun

1. (computing) A type of activity on a computer that is not normally visible to the user.
2. (computing) The image or color over which a computer's desktop items are shown (e.g. icons or application windows).
3. (physics) Clipping of background radiation.
4. A less important feature of scenery (as opposed to foreground).
5. A part of the picture that depicts scenery to the rear or behind the main subject; context.
6. Information relevant to the current situation about past events; history.
7. One's social heritage, or previous life; what one did in the past.

verb

1. (journalism) To gather and provide background information (on).
2. To put in a position that is not prominent.
3. simple past tense and past participle of backgrind

adj

1. (computing) (of a task) Made non-interactive
2. Moved to the background

verb

1. simple past tense and past participle of background

noun

1. (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.
2. A cattle farmer or rancher who runs a backgrounding operation.
3. A person employed to draw backgrounds for a comic or cartoon.

noun

1. plural of background

verb

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

Proper noun

1. A city in Kazakhstan, rented and administered by Russia, constructed to service Baikonur Cosmodrome, since 1995 also called Baikonur.

Proper noun

1. A village near Stirling in Scotland
2. A battle important in Scotland's struggle for independence

adj

1. Prevented from growing, by having the bark too firm or close.

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

noun

1. (by extension) Any parasite.
2. (by extension) One who attempts to take as much from others as possible; a leech.
3. A vampire.
4. An animal that drinks the blood of others, especially by sucking blood through a puncture wound; a hemovore.
5. The changeable lizard (Calotes versicolor).

noun

1. plural of bloodsucker

noun

1. The American woodcock.

noun

1. (woodworking) Obsolete form of buhl work.

adj

1. Of a book, film, or other work: leading its author to mainstream success.

noun

1. (aviation) The point at which visibility returns after passing through cloud.
2. A breakdown of statistics; a detailed view of component parts.
3. A room in a hotel etc. that can be taken by a smaller group at a large conference.
4. An escape from any restrictive or confining situation.
5. An escape from prison.
6. An outbreak (sudden eruption of disease etc.).

noun

1. plural of breakout

adj

1. (immunology) Involving the contraction of a disease by a person with a decreased susceptibility, such as a person who has been vaccinated to help prevent that disease.
2. (medicine) The emergence or one or more symptoms of a condition despite medication or other medical treatment.
3. Characterized by major progress or overcoming some obstacle.

noun

1. (construction) The penetration of a separating wall or the remaining distance to an adjacent hollow (a crosscut in mining) or between two parts of a tunnel build from both ends; knockthrough.
2. (military) An advance through and past enemy lines.
3. (sports) The penetration of the opposition's defence.
4. Any major progress; such as a great innovation or discovery that overcomes a significant obstacle.

noun

1. plural of breakthrough

noun

1. (painting) The technique or practice of applying and manipulating paint (usually oil or gouache) in a painting.

noun

1. (slang) A dollar; a buck.
2. A cowboy; specifically, a working cowboy who generally does not partake in rodeos.
3. A reckless, headstrong person.
4. A style of cowboy boot with a high and uniquely tapered heel.
5. One who sports a distinctive buckaroo style of cowboy clothing, boots, and heritage.

noun

1. plural of buckaroo

noun

1. Obsolete form of buckaroo.

noun

1. plural of buckayro

noun

1. A simple, distinctively American four-wheeled horse-drawn wagon designed for personal transport as well as for transporting animal fodder and domestic goods, often with a spring-mounted seat for the driver.

noun

1. plural of buckboard

noun

1. Alternative spelling of buckaroo

noun

1. plural of buckeroo

noun

1. A horn of a buck.
2. The royal fern, Osmunda regalis.

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.

noun

1. (woodworking) Alternative form of buhl work

noun

1. Any of the species of biennial thistles in the genus Arctium.

noun

1. plural of burdock

noun

1. A small weir or dam in a river to direct the stream to gaps where fish traps are placed.

noun

1. Alternative spelling of busy work

noun

1. (mining, historical) A worker who gets coal off at a longwall face.
2. (wrestling) One who uses the cross-buttock throw.

adj

1. Causing canker; ulcerating.
2. Infected with canker; ulcerous.

adj

1. Given to or marked by an ill-tempered, quarrelsome nature; ill-tempered, cranky, crabby.

adv

1. In a cantankerous manner.

noun

1. The state of being cantankerous.

noun

1. Alternative form of checkerwork

adj

1. Resembling or characteristic of a chorus.

noun

1. Alternative form of chukar

noun

1. (countable) A menial yet self-important person; a person who makes empty boasts.
2. (uncountable) A game similar to leapfrog.
3. (uncountable) Boastful speech, crowing.

noun

1. plural of cockalorum

noun

1. (historical) A sachem or leader in certain Native American groups.

noun

1. Any of the coarse composite weeds of the genus Xanthium, with a prickly fruit.

noun

1. A blade for tying to the foot of a gamecock.
2. A kind of grass (Echinochloa crus-galli).
3. A kind of hawthorn (Crataegus crus-galli).

noun

1. plural of cockspur

noun

1. (vulgar) plural of cocksucker

adj

1. (informal) Too confident; overconfident.

adv

1. In a cocksure manner.

noun

1. the state or condition of being cocksure

noun

1. The condition of being cocksure

noun

1. Archaic form of coconut.

noun

1. Alternative form of cucoloris

adj

1. Having some similarity to a computer.

noun

1. (informal, dated) A computer enthusiast.

noun

1. plural of computernik

noun

1. The husk of an ear of corn (maize).

noun

1. (usually capitalized) A person who is a native or resident of the U.S. state of Nebraska.
2. A person or device that removes husks from corn.

noun

1. The removal of the husk from corn.

noun

1. plural of cornhusking

noun

1. plural of cornhusk

noun

1. A manufacturer of couches.

noun

1. Alternative form of counter-attack

verb

1. simple past tense and past participle of counterattack

noun

1. One who carries out a counterattack.

verb

1. present participle of counterattack

noun

1. plural of counterattack; alternative spelling of counter-attacks

verb

1. Third-person singular simple present indicative form of counterattack; alternative spelling of counter-attacks

noun

1. A blockade set up in opposition to another blockade.

noun

1. plural of counterblockade

noun

1. A restriction or limit.
2. A second check (in order to confirm or deny a previous one).

verb

1. To recheck.
2. To restrict or limit by counteracting.

adj

1. (US, Canada) Moving or located in the direction of rotation opposite from clockwise.

adv

1. (US, Canada) In the direction of rotation opposite from clockwise.

noun

1. (farriery) An artificial cavity made in the teeth of horses that have outgrown their natural mark, to disguise their age.
2. A mark or token added to those already existing, as a security or proof.

verb

1. (transitive) To apply a countermark to.

verb

1. simple past tense of countersink

noun

1. A shock that travels in the opposite direction to an applied impulse

noun

1. a cylindrical recess, typically machined around a hole to admit a screw so that it sits flush with a surface.

verb

1. (transitive) To cause to sink even with or below the surface.
2. (transitive) To create such a conical recess.

verb

1. present participle of countersink

noun

1. plural of countersink

verb

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

noun

1. (dated) counterfoil

noun

1. (military, sports) The tactic of counterattacking

verb

1. (intransitive) To perform a counterstrike.

noun

1. A blow given in return.
2. A retaliation.

adj

1. (of a bolt or screw) That has a flat conical top allowing it to be inserted flush with a surface

verb

1. past participle of countersink

verb

1. (transitive) To work in opposition to; to counteract.

noun

1. (rare) One who works against something; a saboteur.
2. (rare) One who works at a counter.