A board game for two players in which each has 15 stones which move between 24 triangular points according to the roll of a pair of dice; the object is to move all of one's pieces around, and bear them off the board.
{{lb|en|backgammon}} A victory in the game when the loser has not borne off a stone, and still has one or more stones in the winner's inner home row or on the bar.
verb
To win at a backgammon game with the opponent having one or more pieces in the winner’s inner home row or on the bar.
benchmarks
benchmarks
noun
plural of benchmark
verb
Third-person singular simple present indicative form of benchmark
blackamoor
blackamoor
noun
(archaic, often offensive) A person with dark skin, especially one from north Africa.
(heraldry) A stylized Negro.
A blackamoor slave, a blackamoor servant; and hence any slave, servant, inferior, or child.
blackmails
blackmails
verb
Third-person singular simple present indicative form of blackmail
blacksmith
blacksmith
noun
(informal) A person who shoes horses.
A blackish fish of the Pacific coast (Chromis punctipinnis).
A person who forges iron.
verb
(intransitive) To work as a blacksmith.
blockmaker
blockmaker
noun
A manufacturer of blocks for use in printing.
A manufacturer of nautical blocks.
brickmaker
brickmaker
noun
A maker of bricks.
brickmason
buckingham
buckingham
Proper noun
A place name:
A town in Buckinghamshire, England.
A former city in Quebec, Canada, merged into Gatineau in 2002.
An unincorporated community in Colorado, USA, named after a railroad official.
A census-designated place in Florida, USA.
A village in Illinois, USA.
An unincorporated community in Iowa, USA, named after Buckingham County, VA.
A former city in Texas, USA, now part of Richardson, Texas.
A census-designated place and county seat of Buckingham County in Virginia, USA.
A dukedom in the English peerage.
An English habitational surname derived from the place name.
buckraming
buckraming
verb
present participle of buckram
bullockman
cakemaking
cakemaking
noun
The making of cakes.
cambyuskan
camerawork
camerawork
noun
Skill or technique involving the use of a camera, especially a video camera.
candymaker
candymaker
noun
A manufacturer of candy.
cankerworm
cankerworm
noun
(figurative) A corrupting or destructive force.
Either of two caterpillars, the larvae of geometrid moths, that are destructive to fruit, buds and leaves.
cardmaking
cardmaking
noun
The manufacture of greeting cards (usually as a small-scale hobby).
cartmaking
cartmaking
noun
The manufacture of carts.
casemaking
casemaking
noun
The manufacture of cases.
chainmaker
chainmaker
noun
A tool use to add a link to a chain
One who makes chains.
chairmaker
chairmaker
noun
A manufacturer of chairs.
checkmated
checkmated
adj
(chess) Having a king in check with no possible move to escape check, thus losing the game.
(figuratively) Suffering a personal loss with no obvious chance to escape the loss.
verb
simple past tense and past participle of checkmate
checkmates
checkmates
noun
plural of checkmate
verb
Third-person singular simple present indicative form of checkmate
chikamatsu
chimalakwe
chimarikan
cloakmaker
cloakmaker
noun
Someone who makes cloaks.
cloakrooms
cloakrooms
noun
plural of cloakroom
clockmaker
clockmaker
noun
A person who makes clocks.
clogmaking
clogmaking
noun
The manufacture of clogs (type of shoe).
clothmaker
clothmaker
noun
A person who makes cloth.
coachmaker
coachmaker
noun
A coachbuilder.
cockalorum
cockalorum
noun
(countable) A menial yet self-important person; a person who makes empty boasts.
(US, chiefly dated) A decal, a design that can be transferred to a surface.
A foolish or ridiculous person.
cockamaroo
cockamaroo
noun
(obsolete) A Russian variety of the bagatelle game.
cockmaster
cockmaster
noun
(vulgar, slang, derogatory) Term of abuse.
One who breeds gamecocks.
coinmaking
coinmaking
noun
The manufacture of coins.
colormaker
colormaker
noun
(American spelling) A maker of paints or dyes; a colorman.
combmaking
combmaking
noun
The manufacture of combs.
comebacker
comebacker
noun
(baseball) A batted ball that travels toward the pitcher.
conemaking
coremaking
coremaking
noun
(engineering) The manufacture of the cores used to produce the hollow parts of castings.
corkmaking
couchmaker
couchmaker
noun
A manufacturer of couches.
cratemaker
cratemaker
noun
A manufacturer of crates.
creammaker
crownmaker
crownmaker
noun
A manufacturer of crowns.
cuckoomaid
cuckoomate
cymballike
cymballike
adj
Resembling or characteristic of a cymbal.
dekadrachm
derrickman
derrickman
noun
A member of an oil drilling rig who works on a derrick suspended above the rig floor, manhandling the drillpipe.
dockmackie
dockmackie
noun
A species of viburnum native to North America, Viburnum acerifolium.
dockmaster
dockmaster
noun
Someone in charge of a dock, or of docking.
dokimastic
dokimastic
adj
Alternative form of docimastic
ekacaesium
ekacaesium
noun
Alternative form of eka-caesium
ektachrome
facemaking
fernambuck
frockmaker
gitanemuck
hackamatak
hackmatack
hackmatack
noun
A balsam poplar, a tree of the species Populus balsamifera.
A larch, a tree of the species Larix laricina.
hackneyism
hackneyman
hackneyman
noun
(dated) A man who hires out horses and carriages.
haeckelism
haimsucken
hamesucken
hamesucken
noun
(Scotland) An assault on a person in his own home, having broken in for that purpose.
hammerlock
hammerlock
noun
A hold, in wrestling, in which an opponent's arm is twisted up behind his back; an armlock
hamshackle
hamshackle
verb
(transitive) To tie (an animal) by a rope binding the head to one of the forelegs.
(transitive, figurative) To bind or restrain; to impose restrictions upon.
hughmanick
humpbacked
humpbacked
adj
Being a humpback bridge.
Having a hump on the back, either naturally or due to a medical condition.
verb
simple past tense and past participle of humpback
impackment
jackassism
jackassism
noun
Foolish behaviour; stupidity.
jackhammer
jackhammer
noun
A portable percussive power tool that combines a hammer and chisel used to drill or break hard matter, for instance rock or concrete.
verb
(intransitive) To use a jackhammer.
(intransitive, figurative) To move like a jackhammer.
(of the heart or pulse) To beat hard, to pound.
(transitive) To break (something) using a jackhammer.
(transitive) To form (something) using a jackhammer.
(transitive, figurative) To move (something) like a jackhammer.
(transitive, figurative) To strike (something) repeatedly with force, to pound.
jacksmelts
jacksmelts
noun
plural of jacksmelt
jacksonism
kamchatkan
kamchatkan
Adjective
Of or pertaining to Kamchatka.
Noun
A native or inhabitant of Kamchatka.
kammerchor
karyogamic
karyogamic
adj
Relating to karyogamy.
kechumaran
kerygmatic
kerygmatic
adj
Presumptuous.
Relating to the kerygmata.
kilmarnock
kilmarnock
Proper noun
A town in East Ayrshire council area, Scotland
kilmichael
kinematics
kinematics
noun
(physics) The branch of mechanics concerned with objects in motion, but not with the forces involved.
kitchenman
kitchenman
noun
A man employed in a kitchen.
klootchman
klootchman
noun
(US, Canada, western dialects) Woman, wife (especially if Native American).
kodachrome
kodachrome
Proper noun
A certain brand of photographic film.
lacemaking
lacemaking
noun
The manufacture of lace.
lamarckian
lamarckian
Noun
A supporter or an advocate of Lamarckism.
Adjective
Of or pertaining to Lamarckism.
lamarckism
lamarckism
Noun
The theory that structural variations, characteristic of species and genera, are produced in animals and plants by the direct influence of physical environments, and especially, in the case of animals, by effort, or by use or disuse of certain organs.
lockeanism
lockianism
lockmaking
lockmaking
noun
The manufacture of locks.
lumberjack
lumberjack
noun
A lumberjacket.
A person whose work is to fell trees.
verb
(transitive) To work as a lumberjack, cutting down trees.
mackaybean
mackereler
mackereler
noun
A boat used for fishing mackerel
A fisherman who catches mackerel.
mackinawed
mackinawed
adj
Clad in garments made of mackinaw.
mackintosh
mackintosh
noun
A waterproof long coat made of rubberized cloth.
By extension, any waterproof coat or raincoat.
Waterproof rubberized cloth.
macksville
mafficking
mafficking
noun
(dated) Extravagant rejoicings of a multitude.
mamaroneck
mamaroneck
Proper noun
A town located on the Long Island Sound in Westchester County, New York, on land purchased from Native Americans in 1661.
mammocking
mammocking
verb
present participle of mammock
mankiewicz
mantlerock
marcushook
marshlocks
matchbooks
matchbooks
noun
plural of matchbook
matchlocks
matchlocks
noun
plural of matchlock
matchmaker
matchmaker
noun
(by extension) Someone who arranges professional boxing matches.
Someone who finds suitable dates or marriage partners for other people.
Someone who makes matchsticks.
matchstalk
matchstalk
noun
Misspelling of matchstick.
matchstick
matchstick
noun
(chiefly in the plural) Any similarly small and thin piece.
A small, slender piece of wood or cardboard serving as a component of a match.
matlockite
matlockite
noun
(mineralogy) A tetragonal-ditetragonal dipyramidal mineral containing chlorine, fluorine, and lead.
medrinacks
meekoceras
menckenian
menckenian
Adjective
Of or pertaining to Henry Louis "H. L." Mencken (1880–1956), influential American writer and critic.
monkeyface
monkeyface
noun
(childish, derogatory) A term of abuse for an ugly person.
The mussel Theliderma metanevra.
mosaicking
mosaicking
noun
A process in which a mosaic (of images) is constructed.
mossbacked
mossbacked
adj
(informal) Having old-fashioned views; very conservative or reactionary.
muckrakers
muckrakers
noun
plural of muckraker
muckraking
muckraking
verb
present participle of muckrake
multitrack
multitrack
adj
(music) Recorded on multiple tracks.
(railways) Of a railway line: having multiple, parallel tracks.
Having or involving more than one track.
verb
To record on multiple tracks simultaneously (typically with each performer or instrument having its own track)
nachtmusik
nicknaming
nicknaming
verb
present participle of nickname
pacemakers
pacemakers
noun
plural of pacemaker
pacemaking
pacemaking
noun
The action of a pacemaker (in any sense)
packmaking
peacemaker
peacemaker
noun
(non-native speakers' English, medicine) Misconstruction of pacemaker.
A person who restores peace, especially by settling disputes.
peacockism
peckhamite
piecemaker
pimpleback
pimpleback
noun
Quadrula pustulosa, an American freshwater mussel.
placemaker
placemaker
noun
A person involved in placemaking.
pockmantie
pockmarked
pockmarked
adj
having pockmarks
incomplete, lacking, having holes
pitted, or scarred with holes
verb
simple past tense and past participle of pockmark
pricemaker
pricemaker
noun
(gambling) A person who determines the odds to be offered to bettors.
prickmadam
prickmadam
noun
(dated) Any of several species of stonecrop, formerly used as ingredients of vermifuge medicines.
rackmaster
rackmaster
noun
(historical) The person who operates a rack (instrument of torture).
racknumber
ramshackle
ramshackle
adj
Badly or carelessly organized.
In disrepair or disorder; poorly maintained; lacking upkeep, usually of buildings or vehicles.
verb
(obsolete, transitive) To ransack.
ramshackly
ramshackly
adj
(literally, figurative) Carelessly or loosely constructed.
Characteristic of something ramshackle; in disrepair; appearing ready to collapse; rickety.
reichsmark
reichsmark
noun
(historical, numismatics) The monetary unit in Germany between 1924 and 1948.
rockingham
rockingham
Proper noun
A village and civil parish in Northamptonshire, England.
A city in North Carolina, USA, and county seat of Richmond County.
A town in Vermont.
A city in Western Australia.
Noun
A 19th-century style of finely decorated porcelain.
sachamaker
sackamaker
sackamaker
noun
Obsolete form of sagamore (“Native American chief”).