(nautical) The part of a ship's deck from amidships toward the stern
airchecks
airchecks
noun
plural of aircheck
alkoranic
amberjack
amberjack
noun
Any of several large food and game yellowtail fishes of the genus Seriola, found in warm waters of all oceans.
archdukes
archdukes
noun
plural of archduke
archknave
arsnicker
artichoke
artichoke
noun
A dull green colour, like that of an artichoke.
A plant related to the thistle with enlarged flower heads eaten as a vegetable while immature, Cynara cardunculus var. scolymus.
artukovic
attackers
attackers
noun
plural of attacker
autotruck
awestruck
awestruck
adj
Filled or overcome with awe or wonder.
bacbakiri
bacbakiri
noun
Archaic form of bokmakierie.
backarrow
backbiter
backbiter
noun
A person who says nasty things about another person behind the second person's back: that is, out of their sight and hearing.
backboard
backboard
noun
(basketball) The flat vertical surface to which the basket is attached.
(medicine) A spine board.
(nautical) The port or larboard side of a ship
(tennis) A flat vertical wall with the image of a tennis net drawn or painted on it, designed to practice hitting against such that the ball rebounds.
A board placed at the back of a cart, boat, etc.
verb
(medicine, transitive) To place (a patient) on a spine board.
backbrand
backcourt
backcourt
noun
(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.
(chiefly Scotland) A courtyard behind a housing block or tenement building.
backcross
backcross
noun
(genetics) An organism produced by such a crossing.
(genetics) The act of crossing a hybrid with one of its parents.
(juggling) Alternative form of back cross
verb
(genetics) To cross a hybrid with one of its parents.
backdrops
backdrops
noun
plural of backdrop
backfired
backfired
verb
simple past tense and past participle of backfire
backfires
backfires
noun
plural of backfire
verb
Third-person singular simple present indicative form of backfire
backframe
backorder
backorder
noun
An order that cannot be currently filled or shipped, but is requested nonetheless for when the item becomes available again.
verb
To place such an order
backrests
backrests
noun
plural of backrest
backropes
backspear
backspeer
backspeir
backspier
backstair
backstair
adj
clandestine, secret or furtive
noun
The backstairs (stairs at the rear of a building).
backstrap
backstrap
noun
(drugs) The rolling a marijuana cigarette in a certain fashion
(firearms) The rearmost surface applied to the grip especially of a pistol below a possible beavertail.
A loin of meat consisting of the muscle on each side of the spine.
A pull strap extending the backstay of a boot or shoe.
An anchoring strap, passed around the waist or hips, for a small loom.
The backbone of a book.
verb
To apply or make into a backstrap.
backstrip
backsword
backsword
noun
(UK, dated) A stick with a basket handle, used in rustic amusements.
(UK, dated) The game in which the stick is used.
A sword with one sharp edge.
backtrace
backtrace
noun
(computing) A stack trace.
verb
(by extension) To find the cause of something by examining past events
(computing) To examine a stack trace
backtrack
backtrack
noun
the act of backtracking
verb
(aviation) To taxi down an active runway in the opposite direction to that being used for takeoff.
To exercise a racehorse around the racetrack in the opposite direction to that in which races are run.
To repeat or review work already done.
To retrace one's steps.
backtrail
backtrail
noun
A small path or trail that is not used regularly.
The path over which one has already traveled.
verb
To backtrack along a trail.
backtrick
backwards
backwards
adj
Synonym of backward; see usage notes there.
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.
backwraps
backwraps
noun
plural of backwrap
verb
Third-person singular simple present indicative form of backwrap
backyards
backyards
noun
plural of backyard
baldricks
baldricks
noun
plural of baldrick
bankcards
bankcards
noun
plural of bankcard
bankrupcy
bankrupcy
noun
Misspelling of bankruptcy.
barmbrack
barmbrack
noun
An Irish yeasted bread with sultanas and raisins.
barnbrack
barnstock
barracked
barracked
verb
simple past tense and past participle of barrack
barracker
barracker
noun
One who barracks.
beauclerk
beckerman
beckoners
beckoners
noun
plural of beckoner
befreckle
befrocked
befrocked
adj
Wearing a frock.
benchmark
benchmark
noun
(computing) A computer program that is executed to assess the performance of the runtime environment.
A standard by which something is evaluated or measured.
A surveyor's mark made on some stationary object and shown on a map; used as a reference point.
verb
(intransitive, followed by at) To give certain results in a benchmark test.
(transitive, intransitive, followed by against) To use something (e.g., a competitor's product) as a standard to improve one's own thing.
benchwork
benchwork
noun
the structure supporting a model railway layout
work performed at a workbench
bickerers
bickerers
noun
plural of bickerer
bickering
bickering
noun
Petty quarreling. Usually considered a childish behaviour, although often applied to adults.
verb
present participle of bicker
birchbark
birchbark
noun
A piece of this bark, formerly used for writing on.
The bark of the birch tree, especially the white bark of the paper birch, Betula papyrifera.
birdyback
blackacre
blackacre
Proper noun
A placeholder name of a fictitious or hypothetical estate in land commonly used to discuss the rights of various parties to a piece of real property.
blackbird
blackbird
noun
(slang, derogatory, historical, among slavers and pirates) A native of the South Pacific islands.
A common true thrush, Turdus merula, found in woods and gardens over much of Eurasia, and introduced elsewhere.
A variety of New World birds of the family Icteridae (26 species of icterid bird).
verb
To enslave someone, especially through chicanery or force
blackburn
blackburn
Proper noun
A town in Lancashire, England
blackener
blackener
noun
One who blackens.
blackfire
blackford
blackmore
blackroot
blackroot
noun
Colicroot, Aletris farinosa
Culver's root, Veronicastrum virginicum
Either of two species in the genus Pterocaulon: Pterocaulon pycnostachyum and Pterocaulon virgatum
Several plant diseases caused by fungi in the genus Aphanomyces causing that cause roots to rot and turn black.
blacktree
blackware
blackware
noun
Any pottery of a black or nearly black colour.
blackwork
blackwork
noun
(obsolete) Work connected with funerals, as an undertaker's assistant or a maker of mourning clothes, etc.
(sewing) A form of counted-thread embroidery that is usually stitched on even-weave fabric with a twisted thread.
blackwort
blockader
blockader
noun
A person who blockades
A ship used in blockading
bogsucker
bogsucker
noun
The American woodcock.
bookcraft
bookcraft
noun
(archaic) Authorship; literary skill.
bookracks
bookracks
noun
plural of bookrack
borickite
borickite
noun
(mineralogy) Alternate name for delvauxite.
boschvark
botchwork
botchwork
noun
Inferior and shoddy work.
brackened
bracketed
bracketed
verb
simple past tense and past participle of bracket
brackmard
brackmard
noun
Alternative form of braquemard (“type of sword”)
bracknell
bracknell
Proper noun
a town in Berkshire, England.
brainsick
brainsick
adj
Disordered in the understanding; giddy; thoughtless.
brambrack
branstock
breakback
breakback
adj
Synonym of backbreaking (“of work, very physically tiring”)
breakneck
breakneck
adj
Dangerously fast; hell-for-leather.
noun
A dangerous steep place from which one could fall badly.
A fall that breaks the neck.
brickbats
brickbats
noun
plural of brickbat
verb
Third-person singular simple present indicative form of brickbat
brickhood
brickiest
brickiest
adj
superlative form of bricky: most bricky
brickkiln
brickkiln
noun
A kiln in which bricks are baked.
bricklike
bricklike
adj
Resembling a brick
brickwall
brickwall
noun
(nonstandard) Alternative form of brick wall
brickwise
brickwise
adj
In the manner of bricks, especially the overlapping way in which they are assembled into a wall.
brickwork
brickwork
noun
The quality of the construction of brick built items.
Those parts of items that are made of brick.
brickyard
brickyard
noun
A factory where bricks are produced or distributed
bridecake
bridecake
noun
(archaic) Rich or highly ornamented cake, to be distributed to the guests at a wedding, or sent to friends after the wedding.
brockages
brockages
noun
plural of brockage
brockport
brockwell
broderick
broderick
noun
(slang, early 20th century) A thorough beating
verb
(transitive) To administer a beating to
brownback
brownback
noun
A bird, the dowitcher or red-breasted snipe.
A note of scrip printed on brown paper, such as that issued by the city of St. Louis during a financial crisis.
A postage stamp printed in brown ink, used in the 1890s.
brunswick
brunswick
Proper noun
A city in Germany; Braunschweig.
Any of several towns in the United States and elsewhere.
A suburb of Melbourne, Australia.
brushback
brushback
noun
(baseball) Synonym of brushback pitch
buckaroos
buckaroos
noun
plural of buckaroo
buckayros
buckayros
noun
plural of buckayro
buckberry
buckberry
noun
The deerberry, Vaccinium stamineum.
The huckleberry, Gaylussacia ursina, found in the Southern United States.
The silver buffaloberry, Shepherdia argentea.
buckboard
buckboard
noun
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.
buckbrush
buckbrush
noun
Ceanothus spp.
Phyllanthopsis phyllanthoides, maidenbrush
Purshia spp.
Symphoricarpos orbiculatus
buckeroos
buckeroos
noun
plural of buckeroo
bucketeer
bucketeer
noun
The operator of a bucket shop; a fraudulent or deceptive trader.
bucklered
bucklered
verb
simple past tense and past participle of buckler
buckramed
buckramed
verb
simple past tense and past participle of buckram
bucksport
buckthorn
buckthorn
noun
Hippophae (family Elaeagnaceae), the sea buckthorn.
also genus Frangula, especially Frangula alnus, the alder buckthorn.
especially genus Rhamnus,
especially the common buckthorn or purging buckthorn; Rhamnus cathartica.
bullocker
bullyrock
buttocker
buttocker
noun
(mining, historical) A worker who gets coal off at a longwall face.
(wrestling) One who uses the cross-buttock throw.
cakebread
cakemaker
cakemaker
noun
Someone who makes cakes.
canebrake
canebrake
noun
(US) A dense thicket of sugarcane, bamboo or similar plants.
cankereat
cankering
cankering
verb
present participle of canker
cankerous
cankerous
adj
Causing canker; ulcerating.
Infected with canker; ulcerous.
capeworks
capmakers
capmakers
noun
plural of capmaker
cardmaker
cardmaker
noun
A manufacturer of cards.
cardshark
cardshark
noun
(chiefly US) A cardsharp.
cardstock
cardstock
noun
Alternative spelling of card stock
caretaken
caretaken
verb
past participle of caretake
caretaker
caretaker
adj
(chiefly UK) Temporary, on a short term basis.
noun
Someone who takes care of a person; a parent, carer or other guardian.
Someone who takes care of a place or thing; someone looking after a place, or responsible for keeping it in good repair.
caretakes
caretakes
verb
Third-person singular simple present indicative form of caretake
carkingly
carkingly
adv
(archaic) In a carking manner; so as to weary or distress.
carmakers
carmakers
noun
plural of carmaker
carnovsky
cartmaker
cartmaker
noun
A manufacturer of carts.
casemaker
casemaker
noun
One who manufactures cases.
caseworks
catasarka
catchwork
catchwork
noun
A simple irrigation system, used on sloping land, in which water from a stream or spring is fed in at the top and allowed to trickle down over a number of artificial terraces.
chainwork
chainwork
noun
Work looped or linked after the manner of a chain.
chalkrail
charkhana
charlocks
charlocks
noun
plural of charlock
checkbird
checkered
checkered
adj
(figurative) Changeable; inconsistent; having variations or uncertainty; marked by many problems or failures.
Divided into squares, or into light and dark patches.
verb
simple past tense and past participle of checker
checkmark
checkmark
noun
Alternative form of check mark
verb
(transitive) To mark with a ✓ symbol; to tick.
checkrack
checkrail
checkrail
noun
Alternative spelling of check rail
checkrein
checkrein
noun
A strap used to keep horses' heads high, fashionable in Victorian England but painful and damaging to a horse's neck.
checkroll
checkroll
noun
A list of servants in a household, or slaves on a plantation.
checkroom
checkroom
noun
(US) A room where outdoor clothing or luggage may be temporarily stored.
checkrope
checkrows
checkrows
verb
Third-person singular simple present indicative form of checkrow