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abelmosk

abelmosk

noun

  1. (uncommon, usually in the plural) Other members of the genus Abelmoschus, such as okra.
  2. The edible and aromatic seed pods (properly, capsules) of the Abelmoschus moschatus.
  3. The tropical evergreen shrub Abelmoschus moschatus itself.

abelmusk

abelmusk

noun

  1. (obsolete) Alternative form of abelmosk in its various senses.

abeokuta

abeokuta

Proper noun

  1. A city in southwest Nigeria.

abhiseka

abhiseka

noun

  1. Alternative spelling of abhisheka

abkhasia

abkhazia

abourezk

abricock

abricock

noun

  1. (obsolete) apricot

absaraka

absaroka

absaroka

Proper noun

  1. A Siouan people from between the Platte and the Yellowstone Rivers; the Crow.

Noun

  1. A member of this people.

airbrick

airbrick

noun

  1. Alternative spelling of air brick

akalimba

akalimba

noun

  1. An African thumb piano.

akemboll

akenbold

akerboom

alumbank

ambedkar

antibank

antibank

adj

  1. Opposing banks (financial institutions).

arabesks

arabesks

noun

  1. plural of arabesk

arbuckle

awabakal

awabakal

Noun

  1. A people indigenous to New South Wales, Australia.

Proper noun

  1. The language spoken by these people.

awakable

awakable

adj

  1. Able to be awoken.

azoblack

baaskaap

baaskaap

noun

  1. Alternative form of baasskap

babakoto

babakoto

noun

  1. A kind of large lemur, the indri (Indri indri).

babelike

babelike

adj

  1. Resembling or characteristic of a babe or infant.

babushka

babushka

noun

  1. (By association) A stereotypical, Eastern European peasant grandmother-type figure.
  2. A traditional floral headscarf worn by an Eastern European woman, tied under the chin.
  3. An old woman, especially one of Eastern European descent.
  4. Russian doll, matryoshka

babylike

babylike

adj

  1. Resembling or characteristic of a baby.

backache

backache

noun

  1. Any pain or ache in the back.

backachy

backband

backband

noun

  1. A band that passes over the back of a horse and holds up the shafts of a carriage.

backbear

backbeat

backbeat

noun

  1. (music) The sharp accent on the second and fourth beats of rock music in 4/4 time.

backbend

backbend

noun

  1. (gymnastics, dance) A move in which the performer bends backwards until the hands touch the floor or catches him/herself with the hands.

verb

  1. To perform such a move.

backbite

backbite

noun

  1. One who engages in backbiting; a backbiter.

verb

  1. (informal) To attack from behind or when out of earshot with spiteful or defamatory remarks.
  2. To make spiteful slanderous or defamatory statements about someone.
  3. To speak badly of an absent individual.

backblow

backbone

backbone

noun

  1. (figuratively) Any fundamental support, structure, or infrastructure.
  2. (figuratively) Courage, fortitude, or strength.
  3. The series of vertebrae, separated by disks, that encloses and protects the spinal cord, and runs down the middle of the back in vertebrate animals.

backcast

backcast

adj

  1. (UK dialectal) Retrospective.

adv

  1. (UK dialectal, of time) Long ago; in the past.

noun

  1. (UK dialectal) Misfortune; reverse; reversal; a relapse in health or illness; moral backsliding.
  2. (UK dialectal) Retrospect; hindsight.
  3. (UK dialectal) backwater
  4. (figuratively) Any discouragement or cause of relapse or failure.
  5. A backward stroke, or a stroke driving one back.
  6. A cast or throw back.

verb

  1. (UK dialectal) To change retrospectively; reverse.
  2. To identify the actions required in order to reach a proposed future.

backchat

backchat

noun

  1. (Britain) Cheeky or impertinent responses, especially to criticism.

verb

  1. To respond in a disputative, often sarcastic manner.

backcomb

backcomb

noun

  1. (dated) A decorative comb worn as an ornament and to secure a hairstyle.
  2. The hairstyle produced by backcombing.

verb

  1. To hold hair and comb it towards the head, thus giving it a bushier look.

backdate

backdate

noun

  1. An assigned date that is earlier than the current or true date.

verb

  1. To give or assign a date to a document that is earlier than the current or true date.

backdoor

backdoor

noun

  1. Alternative spelling of back door, which can be used attributively.

verb

  1. Alternative spelling of back door

backdown

backdown

noun

  1. An act of backing down; a retraction or withdrawal.

backdrop

backdrop

noun

  1. (figurative) Any background situation.
  2. A decorated cloth hung at the back of a stage.
  3. An image that serves as a visual background.
  4. The setting or background of an acted performance.

verb

  1. (transitive) To serve as a backdrop for.

backened

backfall

backfall

noun

  1. (music) A lever in the coupler of an organ.
  2. (wrestling) A fall or throw on the back.

backfill

backfill

noun

  1. (US) Reserve support personnel.
  2. (US) That which backfills; a replacement.
  3. (literature) Material in a story set earlier in the past, providing history or context for the current action.
  4. The material that has been used to refill an excavation.

verb

  1. (US) To provide reserve support.
  2. (US) To replenish or restock due to attrition or loss.
  3. (archaeology) To refill an excavation unit to restore the former ground surface and/or to preserve the unit and make it recognizable as having been excavated.
  4. (gaming) To enter an online game that's already in progress, replacing a player who left early.
  5. To refill a hole with the material dug out of it.

backfire

backfire

noun

  1. (firefighting) Alternative spelling of back fire
  2. A premature explosion in the cylinder of a gas or oil engine during the exhaust or the compression stroke, tending to drive the piston in the wrong direction.
  3. An explosion in other equipment.
  4. An explosion in the exhaust passages of an internal combustion engine.

verb

  1. (of a gun, cannon, Bunsen burner, etc.) To fire in the opposite direction, for example due to an obstruction in the barrel.
  2. (of an engine) To experience a premature ignition of fuel or an ignition of exhaust gases, making a popping sound.
  3. To fail in a manner that brings down further misfortune.

backflap

backflip

backflip

noun

  1. (by extension) a total reversal in policy or opinion; a volte-face, a U-turn.
  2. (gymnastics) An act of rotating one's body 360 degrees in the backward direction.

verb

  1. To completely reverse a policy or opinion; perform a U-turn.
  2. To perform a backflip (rotation of body).

backflow

backflow

noun

  1. The flow of a fluid (through a pipe etc.) in a direction opposite to that which is normal or intended.

verb

  1. To flow in the wrong or backward direction.

backfold

backgame

backgame

noun

  1. (backgammon) A game in which a player blocks the opponent's progress by forming two or more points in the opponent's home board.
  2. An indirect strategy in which one attempts to achieve one's goals by maneuvering behind the scenes.

backhand

backhand

adj

  1. (ice hockey) Of a play that uses the back side of the hockey stick
  2. (of handwriting) Slanting to the left.
  3. (of strokes or throws) In the backhand style

noun

  1. (Ultimate Frisbee) the standard throw; a throw during which the disc begins on the off-hand side and travels across the chest to be released from the opposite side.
  2. (surfing) the hand towards the back of the board.
  3. (tennis) a stroke made across the chest from the off-hand side to the racquet hand side; a stroke during which the back of the hand faces the shot.
  4. Handwriting that leans to the left
  5. The reverse side of the human hand.

verb

  1. to execute a backhand stroke or throw
  2. to slap with the back of one's hand

backhaul

backhaul

noun

  1. (broadcasting) Uncut program content that is transmitted point-to-point to an individual television or radio station, network or other receiving entity where it will be integrated into a finished show.
  2. (military) The shipment of material to or through an area from which the material had previously been shipped.
  3. (transport) A return trip after delivery of cargo.
  4. (travel, aviation, fare construction) Travel to a destination via a further point, or a higher fare point, than the destination (higher intermediate point).

verb

  1. To transmit (data or footage) from a remote site to a central site from where it is re-transmitted.

backhaus

backheel

backheel

noun

  1. (soccer) A kick played by the heel which typically travels in the opposite direction from which the player is facing.
  2. (wrestling) A method of tripping or throwing by getting the leg back of the opponent's heel on the outside and pulling forward while pushing his body back.

verb

  1. (soccer) To perform such a kick.
  2. (wrestling) To perform such a trip or throw.

backhoes

backhoes

noun

  1. plural of backhoe

backings

backings

noun

  1. plural of backing

backland

backland

noun

  1. Land that lies behind or beyond some primary settlement or development.

backlash

backlash

noun

  1. (figurative) A negative reaction, objection or outcry, especially of a violent or abrupt nature.
  2. (mechanics) The looseness through which one part of connected machinery, as a wheel, gear, piston, or screw, can be moved without moving the connected parts, or a measurement of the distance moved thereby; either intentional (as allowance) or unintentional (from error or wear).
  3. A sudden backward motion.
  4. The jarring or reflex motion caused in badly fitting machinery by irregularities in velocity or a reverse of motion.

verb

  1. To cause or set off a backlash.

backless

backless

adj

  1. (of a person) having an uncovered back, having a back that shows skin
  2. having no back, said of things that typically have backs, such as chairs or dresses

backlins

backlist

backlist

noun

  1. (publishing) A list of older books available from a publisher, as opposed to the frontlist of more recent titles.

verb

  1. (transitive) To hold back a student's application (to a college etc.) based on whether a preferred candidate declines their offer.
  2. (transitive, publishing) To place (a book) on a backlist.

backlogs

backlogs

noun

  1. plural of backlog

backmost

backmost

adj

  1. farthest back

backouts

backouts

noun

  1. plural of backout

backpack

backpack

noun

  1. A knapsack, sometimes mounted on a light frame, but always supported by straps, worn on a person’s back for the purpose of carrying things, especially when hiking, or on a student's back when carrying books.
  2. A similarly placed item containing a parachute or other life-support equipment.

verb

  1. (intransitive) To engage in low-cost, generally urban, travel with minimal luggage and frugal accommodation.
  2. (intransitive) To hike and camp overnight in backcountry with one's gear carried in a backpack.
  3. (transitive, rare) To place or carry (an item or items) in a backpack.

backrest

backrest

noun

  1. A guide attached to the slide rest of a lathe, and placed in contact with the work to steady it in turning.
  2. The back piece of a chair, used to support the sitter's back.

backrope

backrush

backrush

noun

  1. A rushing backward; a retreat.

backsaws

backsaws

noun

  1. plural of backsaw

backseat

backseat

noun

  1. Alternative spelling of back seat

backsets

backsets

verb

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

backside

backside

adj

  1. (board sports) Approaching an obstacle backward

noun

  1. (euphemistic) A person's buttocks.
  2. (figuratively) The reverse or opposite of anything.
  3. (obsolete) The back side of a page: a verso.
  4. The back side of an estate: the backyard and outbuildings behind a main house, especially (UK dialect, euphemistic) an outhouse.
  5. Used other than figuratively or idiomatically: see back, side.

backsite

backslap

backslap

verb

  1. To enthusiastically affirm or congratulate a person, especially by patting them on the back.

backslid

backslid

verb

  1. simple past tense and past participle of backslide

backspin

backspin

noun

  1. (music) Synonym of spinback
  2. Spin applied to a ball in order to slow it, change its flight, or stop it when it lands.

verb

  1. (music) To play a section of a record in reverse, as a disc jockey; to apply spinback.
  2. (transitive) To spin (a ball) with this motion.

backstab

backstab

verb

  1. (transitive) to attack someone (especially verbally) unfairly in a deceitful, underhand, or treacherous manner, especially when they're not present in the place or situation that it happens. (as if stabbing them in the back). See backbite.

backstay

backstay

noun

  1. (nautical) A part of the rigging of a sailing ship extending from masthead the top of the mast to the back of the ship; they support the strain on all upper masts and provide additional support to the shrouds when the wind is abaft the beam.
  2. A strengthening or supporting piece that is built into the back of something.

backster

backster

noun

  1. (obsolete) A baker.

backstop

backstop

noun

  1. (baseball) A wall or fence behind home plate.
  2. (baseball, slang) A catcher; the position of catcher.
  3. (cricket, dated) The longstop.
  4. (cricket, dated) The wicket-keeper.
  5. (espionage) Something serving to bolster or support a cover story etc.
  6. (rounders) The player who stands immediately behind the striking base.
  7. A default arrangement that holds if all else fails.
  8. A thing or a person put in the rear or in the back of something to reinforce, hold, support.

verb

  1. (transitive) To bolster, support.
  2. (transitive) To serve as backstop for.

backtack

backtalk

backtalk

noun

  1. (US) Verbal impudence or argumentative discourse, given in response.

verb

  1. (transitive) To respond to in an aggressively disputatious, often sarcastic or insolent manner.

backveld

backveld

noun

  1. (southern Africa) Backward and unsophisticated rural areas.

backwall

backwall

noun

  1. (sports) Alternative form of back wall

backward

backward

adj

  1. (chess) Of a pawn, further behind than pawns of the same colour on adjacent files and unable to be moved forward safely.
  2. (cricket) Further behind the batsman's popping crease than something else.
  3. (cricket) On that part of the field behind the batsman's popping crease.
  4. (figuratively) Acting or moving oppositely to the desired direction of progress.
  5. (figuratively) Of a culture, country, practice etc., undeveloped or unsophisticated.
  6. (figuratively) Slow to apprehend; having difficulties in learning.
  7. (obsolete) Already past or gone; bygone.
  8. (obsolete) Unwilling; averse; reluctant.
  9. Acting or moving in the direction opposite to that in which someone or something is facing.
  10. Acting or moving in the direction opposite to the usual direction of movement.
  11. Lacking progressive or enlightened thought; outdated.
  12. Late or behindhand.
  13. Reluctant or unable to advance or act.
  14. Reversed in order or sequence.
  15. Situated toward or at the rear of something.

adv

  1. (figuratively) Oppositely to the desired direction of progress, or from a better to a worse state.
  2. (obsolete) In the past.
  3. At, near or towards the rear of something.
  4. By way of reflection; reflexively.
  5. In a direction opposite to the usual direction of movement.
  6. In a reversed order or sequence.
  7. In a reversed orientation; back to front.
  8. Toward or into the past;

noun

  1. The state behind or past.

backwash

backwash

noun

  1. (economics) The situation where economic growth in one area harms other areas by attracting people and business away from those areas.
  2. (nautical) The backward flow of water from oars or propeller or breaking waves.
  3. The result or consequence of an event; an aftermath.
  4. The saliva, spit or food particles that have flowed back into a drink after someone has drunk from it.
  5. The similar flow of air from an aircraft engine.

verb

  1. (transitive) To affect with backwash.
  2. To clean the oil from wool after combing.
  3. To operate a water filter in the reverse direction in order to clean it.

backwind

backwind

noun

  1. (nautical) The flow of air so deflected

verb

  1. (nautical) To deflect air into the back of a sail or of a vessel
  2. (transitive) To wind backwards.

backwood

backwood

adj

  1. Native to or located in a remote rural location.
  2. Rustic, unsophisticated, countrified.

backword

backword

noun

  1. A contention, retort, or reply.
  2. A contradiction or answer to put off an engagement; a countermand.
  3. A section of commentary at the end of a book.

backworm

backworm

noun

  1. (obsolete) The thread-like worm found in filanders, the disease of hawks.

backwort

backwrap

backwrap

noun

  1. (computing, dated) A word wrap feature that restores a word to the preceding line when space is made for it by deletion.
  2. A portion of something that is wrapped backward.

verb

  1. (computing, dated) To restore a word to the preceding line when space is made for it by deletion.
  2. To wrap around the back of something.

backyard

backyard

noun

  1. (Australia, Canada, New Zealand, US) A yard to the rear of a house or similar residence.
  2. (Australia, Canada, New Zealand, US, colloquial) A person's neighborhood, or an area nearby to a person's usual residence or place of work and where the person is likely to go.
  3. (Australia, Canada, New Zealand, US, colloquial) An area nearby to a country or other jurisdiction's legal boundaries, particularly an area in which the country feels it has an interest.

baedeker

baedeker

Proper noun

  1. A long-established series of travel guidebooks.

Noun

  1. Any travel guide, advice for travelers, or guide pertaining to other subjects.

bagmaker

bagmaker

noun

  1. A manufacturer of bags.

bagtikan

baidarka

baidarka

noun

  1. Alternative form of bidarka

baikonur

baikonur

Proper noun

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

bakehead

bakehead

noun

  1. (rail transport, informal) A fireman (person who keeps the fire going underneath a steam boiler on a railroad locomotive).

bakelite

bakelite

noun

  1. Alternative form of Bakelite

bakelize

bakelize

verb

  1. (transitive) To coat with Bakelite.

bakemeat

bakemeat

noun

  1. (obsolete) Any baked product (such as a pie)

bakeoven

bakerdom

bakerdom

noun

  1. The realm or sphere of bakers; the world of baking.

bakeress

bakeress

noun

  1. (dated) A female baker.

bakeries

bakeries

noun

  1. plural of bakery

bakerite

bakerite

noun

  1. (mineralogy) A monoclinic-prismatic mineral containing boron, calcium, hydrogen, oxygen, and silicon.

bakerman

bakerton

bakeshop

bakeshop

noun

  1. A shop where baked goods are made and sold.

bakeware

bakeware

noun

  1. Cooking equipment intended for use inside an oven.

bakewell

bakewell

noun

  1. Alternative form of Bakewell

bakingly

bakingly

adv

  1. So as to bake.

baklavas

baklavas

noun

  1. plural of baklava

baklawas

baklawas

noun

  1. plural of baklawa

bakshish

bakupari

bakupari

noun

  1. Alternative form of bacupari

baldakin

baldrick

baldrick

noun

  1. Alternative form of baldric

balkanic

balkanic

Adjective

  1. Of or relating to the Balkan peninsula.

balkhash

balkiest

balkiest

adj

  1. superlative form of balky: most balky

balkline

balkline

noun

  1. baulk line

ballhawk

ballhawk

noun

  1. (baseball, chiefly in Chicago) A person who specializes in catching home-run and foul balls.
  2. (sports) A player who handles the ball skilfully

ballocks

ballocks

noun

  1. Alternative form of bollocks

ballpark

ballpark

adj

  1. Approximate; close; on the right order of magnitude.

noun

  1. (US) A field, stadium or park where ball, especially baseball, is played.
  2. (US, figuratively) The general vicinity; somewhere close; a broad approximation.

verb

  1. (transitive) To make a rough estimate of.

balmlike

balmlike

adj

  1. Resembling or characteristic of a balm; soothing, healing.

bamileke

banakite

banakite

noun

  1. (geology) A form of trachyandesite

bandhook

bandikai

bandwork

bandwork

noun

  1. (art) Decorative work resembling interlaced bands.

bangkoks

bangkoks

noun

  1. plural of bangkok

bankable

bankable

adj

  1. Acceptable to a bank.
  2. Certain to bring profit and success, especially in the entertainment industry.
  3. Reliable.

bankbook

bankbook

noun

  1. (transferred sense) wealth
  2. passbook, chequebook

bankcard

bankcard

noun

  1. A card that a bank issues used by the cardholder in the course of authorization to receive bank services.

bankfull

bankfull

adj

  1. (of a river, etc) Risen to a height just sufficient to spill over its banks into the floodplain.

bankhead

bankings

bankings

noun

  1. plural of banking

banknote

banknote

noun

  1. (now historical) A promissory note issued by a bank, payable at a given time to a specific beneficiary.
  2. A piece of paper currency.

bankroll

bankroll

noun

  1. A roll of banknotes or other paper currency, carried in lieu of a wallet.
  2. The monetary assets of a person or organization.

verb

  1. (transitive) To fund a project; to underwrite something.

bankrupt

bankrupt

adj

  1. (finance) In a condition of bankruptcy; unable to pay one's debts.
  2. Destitute of, or wholly lacking (something once possessed, or something one should possess).
  3. Having been legally declared insolvent.

noun

  1. (UK, law, obsolete) A trader who secretes himself, or does certain other acts tending to defraud his creditors.
  2. One who becomes unable to pay his or her debts; an insolvent person.

verb

  1. (transitive) To force into bankruptcy.

banksian

banksian

Adjective

  1. Of or pertaining to Joseph Banks, English botanist and naturalist.
  2. Of or pertaining to Iain Banks (born 1954) or his writings, most notably a utopian style of science fiction.

banksias

banksias

noun

  1. plural of banksia

bankside

bankside

noun

  1. The land by a riverbank.

banksman

banksman

noun

  1. (UK, civil engineering) The person who directs the operation of a crane or larger vehicle from the point near where loads are attached and detached.

banksmen

banksmen

noun

  1. plural of banksman

bankston

bankweed

bannocks

bannocks

noun

  1. plural of bannock

baramika

bardlike

bardlike

adj

  1. Resembling or characteristic of a bard.