Any of various aquatic insects, of the family Notonectidae, that swim on their backs.
backswordmen
backswordmen
noun
plural of backswordman
backwardness
backwardness
noun
Reluctance.
The state of being backward.
backwardnesses
backwardnesses
noun
plural of backwardness
backwashed
backwashed
verb
simple past tense and past participle of backwash
backwasher
backwasher
noun
(textiles) A machine used for washing wool after carding to remove the impurities.
backwashes
backwashes
noun
plural of backwash
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
backwinded
backwoodser
backwoodsiness
backwoodsiness
noun
The quality of being backwoodsy.
backwoodsmen
backwoodsmen
noun
plural of backwoodsman
baggywrinkle
baggywrinkle
noun
(nautical) A brush-like pad made of rope, attached to a shroud in order to prevent wear on sails.
bakerstown
bakeware
bakeware
noun
Cooking equipment intended for use inside an oven.
bakewell
bakewell
noun
Alternative form of Bakewell
bangwaketsi
bankweed
basketware
basketware
noun
basketwork goods collectively
basketweaving
basketweaving
noun
(figurative) Any useless, unproductive, or lightweight activity.
The act of weaving baskets, as for example from grasses, wicker, or rope.
basketwoman
basketwoman
noun
(historical) A woman who sells goods from a basket.
basketwood
basketwood
noun
Any of various kinds of wood traditionally used for making baskets.
basketwork
basketwork
noun
Material woven in the style of a basket.
The craft of making such material.
basketworks
basketworks
noun
plural of basketwork
basketworm
basketworm
noun
The larva of a psychid moth.
bawke
beadwork
beadwork
noun
Decorative work involving beads.
beadworks
beadworks
noun
plural of beadwork
beamwork
beckwith
beckwith
Proper noun
of origin.
beekmantown
beetewk
begowk
begowk
verb
(archaic, Scotland) To play a trick on, make a fool of.
beknow
beknow
verb
(transitive) To acknowledge; own; confess.
(transitive) To know about; have knowledge of; recognise; understand; be aware (of); be knowledgeable about.
beknown
beknown
adj
(obsolete) known
verb
past participle of beknow
bellowslike
bellowslike
adj
Resembling or characteristic of a bellows (device for delivering pressurized air).
bellowsmaker
bellowsmaking
belowdecks
belowdecks
adv
(nautical) Below the main deck of a ship.
benchwork
benchwork
noun
the structure supporting a model railway layout
work performed at a workbench
berewick
berewick
noun
(now historical) An outlying estate.
berkow
berkowitz
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.
beswink
beswink
verb
(obsolete) to labour, toil; belabour
bethwack
bethwack
verb
(transitive) To pelt, thrash, or cudgel soundly.
bewake
bewake
verb
(intransitive) To keep awake; watch.
(transitive) To awaken thoroughly; keep awake.
(transitive) To spend waking; watch through.
(transitive, obsolete) To watch over (a body); observe funeral rites for.
(transitive, obsolete) To watch; keep watch over; guard.
bewhisker
bewhisker
verb
(transitive) To give or add whiskers to; to put whiskers on.
bewhiskered
bewhiskered
adj
Having whiskers
bewick
bework
bework
verb
(transitive) To work around or about; surround.
(transitive) To work over; rework; edit.
(transitive) To work, as with thread; embroider.
bewreak
bewreak
verb
(transitive) To give vent in action to (incensed feelings).
(transitive, obsolete) To avenge; revenge.
bewreck
bewreck
verb
(transitive, dialectal) To wreck completely; ruin; destroy.
bikeway
bikeway
noun
A bicycle lane or path.
bikeways
bikeways
noun
plural of bikeway
biweeklies
biweeklies
noun
plural of biweekly
biweekly
biweekly
adj
Occurring once every two weeks; fortnightly.
Occurring twice a week.
adv
Every two weeks.
Twice a week (but see the Usage notes).
noun
Something that is published or released once every two weeks.
blackfellow
blackfellow
noun
(Australia, now usually considered offensive) A (male) Australian Aborigine.
blackfellows
blackfellows
noun
plural of blackfellow
blackware
blackware
noun
Any pottery of a black or nearly black colour.
blackwasher
blackwasher
noun
One who blackwashes.
blackwater
blackwater
noun
Blackwater fever; malaria caused by Plasmodium falciparum.
Waste from domestic toilets; water containing fecal matter.
Water containing loam, tannins, etc., giving it a very dark appearance.
blackwaters
blackwaters
noun
plural of blackwater
blackweed
blackweed
noun
Common ragweed (Ambrosia artemisiifolia.)
blackwell
bladderwrack
bladderwrack
noun
Fucus vesiculosus, a seaweed in which iodine was first discovered.
blanketflower
blanketflower
noun
Gaillardia; a plant of the genus Gaillardia.
blanketweed
blanketweed
noun
a filamentous alga often found in ponds
bleachworks
bleachworks
noun
A factory that manufactures bleach.
bodkinwise
boilerworks
bolsterwork
bonework
bonework
noun
The art or process of making objects from bone.
bookwise
bookwise
adv
In the manner of a book.
boulework
boulework
noun
(woodworking) Obsolete form of buhl work.
boullework
bowellike
bowerlike
bowker
bowlike
bowlike
adj
Resembling or characteristic of a bow (bent frame for firing arrows).
bowllike
bowllike
adj
Resembling or characteristic of a bowl.
bowlmaker
bowlmaker
noun
A manufacturer of bowls.
bowmaker
bowmaker
noun
Alternative form of bow maker
bracketwise
bracketwise
adv
In terms of brackets (in various senses).
brainworker
brassworker
brassworker
noun
A person who manufactures or shapes brass.
breakaway
breakaway
adj
(entertainment industry) Enjoying rapid popular success.
(ice hockey) Occurring during or as a result of a breakaway (see Noun)
Capable of breaking off without damaging the larger structure.
Having broken away from a larger unit.
The breakaway republic is slowly establishing order and civil society.
noun
(Australia) A channel of floodwater that has burst from its usual course; or the track or channel eroded by the water.
(Australia) A stampede of animals.
(Australia) An animal that breaks away from a herd.
(Australia, geography) An eroding steep slope on the edge of a plateau; an escarpment.
(boxing) The act of getting away from one's opponent; the separation of the boxers after a spell of infighting.
(cycle racing) A group of riders which has gone ahead of the peloton.
(ice hockey) A situation in the game where one or more players of a team attack towards the goal of the other team without having any defenders in front of them.
(theater) An item of scenery designed to be broken or destroyed during the performance.
A particular yo-yo trick http://yoyo.wikia.com/wiki/Breakaway.
A swing dance in which the leader occasionally swings the follower out into an open position.
The act of breaking away from something.
breakdown
breakdown
noun
(US) Any rapid bluegrass dance tune, especially featuring a five-string banjo.
(US, dated) A noisy, rapid, shuffling dance engaged in competitively by a number of persons or pairs in succession, common in traditional African American music from the Southern United States.
(US, dated) Any noisy dance performed by shuffling the feet, usually by one person at a time.
(chemistry) Breaking of chemical bonds within a compound to produce simpler compounds or elements.
(film, television) A detailed description of a forthcoming project, including the characters and roles required.
(music) The percussion break of songs chosen by a DJ for use in hip-hop music.
(physics) The sudden transition of an electrical insulator to a conductor when subjected to a sufficiently strong voltage, caused by the partial or complete ionization of the insulator.
(sports) A loss of organization (of the parts of a system).
A failure, particularly mechanical in nature.
A musical technique by which the music is stripped down, becoming simpler, varying in heaviness depending on the genre.
A physical collapse or lapse of mental stability.
Listing, division or categorization in great detail.
Something that has experienced a mechanical failure.
breakdowns
breakdowns
noun
plural of breakdown
breakwater
breakwater
noun
(nautical) A low bulkhead across the forecastle deck of a ship which diverts water breaking over the bows into the scuppers.
(on beaches) A wooden or concrete barrier, usually perpendicular to the shore, intended to prevent the movement of sand along a coast.
A construction in or around a harbour designed to break the force of the sea and to provide shelter for vessels lying inside.
breakwaters
breakwaters
noun
plural of breakwater
breakweather
breakwind
breakwind
noun
(Australia, New Zealand) A windbreak.
breastwork
breastwork
noun
(nautical) A railing on the quarter-deck and forecastle.
(slang) Breast augmentation.
A fortification consisting of a breast-high bulwark; a parapet.
A parapet.
breastworks
breastworks
noun
plural of breastwork
brickwise
brickwise
adj
In the manner of bricks, especially the overlapping way in which they are assembled into a wall.
bridgework
bridgework
noun
(dentistry) A partial denture that is anchored to existing teeth.
The component parts of a bridge.
The construction or repair of bridges.
bridgeworks
bridgeworks
noun
plural of bridgework
brockwell
brokenbow
brookflower
brookview
brookweed
brookweed
noun
A small white-flowered herb (Samolus valerandi) usually found in wet places; the water pimpernel.
buckeystown
buckwasher
buckwheat
buckwheat
noun
(Western US) Any of the wild buckwheats in the genus Eriogonum.
(cooking) The fruit of this plant used as a pseudocereal.
(derogatory, offensive, ethnic slur, US) Curly hair of a black person.
(slang) A slow and painful murder by the Mafia as a warning to others.
(slang) Pubic hair.
An Asian plant, of the species Fagopyrum esculentum. [from 16th c.]
buckwheater
buckwheater
noun
A poor and unskilled farmer.
buckwheatlike
buckwheatlike
adj
Resembling or characteristic of buckwheat.
buckwheats
buckwheats
noun
plural of buckwheat
bullwhacker
bullwhacker
noun
(US) The driver of a bullock team.
bulwarked
bulwarked
verb
simple past tense and past participle of bulwark
bushwhacked
bushwhacked
verb
simple past tense and past participle of bushwhack
bushwhacker
bushwhacker
noun
(Australia) A person who lives in the bush, especially as a fugitive; a person who clears woods and bush country.
(US) One who travels through the woods, off the designated path.
(US, historical) A guerrilla (of either side) during the American Civil War.
(dated) Someone who attacks without warning.
A small, soft-floored inflatable boat (designed for use by one or two people).
bushwhackers
bushwhackers
noun
plural of bushwhacker
butterworker
byeworker
byeworkman
bywalker
cabinetwork
cabinetwork
noun
cabinetmaking
furniture made by a cabinetmaker
cabinetworker
cabinetworker
noun
One who makes cabinets; a practitioner of cabinetwork.
cabinetworking
cabinetworks
chewbark
constablewick
constablewick
noun
(obsolete) The district to which a constable's power is limited.
counterbreastwork
deckswabber
dembowski
fliegerabwehrkanone
forebackwardly
foreknowable
foreknowable
adj
That may be known in advance.
foreknowableness
hawebake
hawebake
Noun
The baked berry of the hawthorn tree, i.e. coarse fare.
hawksbeak
hoodwinkable
hoodwinkable
adj
Able to be hoodwinked.
jabberwock
jabberwock
Proper noun
A fantastical dreaded monster with flaming eyes.
jabberwockian
jabberwockies
jabberwockies
noun
plural of jabberwocky
jabberwocky
jabberwocky
adj
absurd, nonsense, nonsensical
meaningless, worthless
noun
invented or meaningless language; nonsense
jawbreak
jawbreaker
jawbreaker
noun
(boxing, slang) A hard blow to the side of the face.
A large, extremely hard, boiled candy, typically spherical.
A long, hard-to-pronounce word.
jawbreakers
jawbreakers
noun
plural of jawbreaker
jawbreaking
jawbreaking
adj
Very difficult to pronounce.
jawbreakingly
jawbreakingly
adv
In a way that is very difficult to say or pronounce.
kabbeljaws
kabinettwein
knobweed
knobweed
noun
Hyptis capitata, an erect annual lamiaceous shrub.
knowable
knowable
adj
Capable of being known, understood or comprehended.