(oncology, pharmacology) Preventing or countering leukemia.
noun
Any drug that prevents or counters leukemia.
backcourtman
backcourtman
noun
(basketball) A backcourt player.
backcourtmen
backcourtmen
noun
plural of backcourtman
backgrounded
backgrounded
adj
(computing) (of a task) Made non-interactive
Moved to the background
verb
simple past tense and past participle of background
backgrounder
backgrounder
noun
(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.
A cattle farmer or rancher who runs a backgrounding operation.
A person employed to draw backgrounds for a comic or cartoon.
bankruptcies
bankruptcies
noun
plural of bankruptcy
bareknuckled
blackcurrant
blackcurrant
noun
A shrub, Ribes nigrum, that produces small, very dark purple, edible berries.
The berry borne by this shrub.
blockbusting
blockbusting
adj
Having the characteristics of a blockbuster; hugely successful.
noun
(US) A technique used to encourage people to sell their property by giving the impression that a neighborhood is changing for the worse, especially by implying a change in its racial makeup.
bloodsucking
bloodsucking
adj
(by extension, of a person) parasitic, leechlike or freeloading
(of an insect or animal) That draws off the blood of another animal, or a person.
bluestocking
bluestocking
noun
(historical) A member of an 18th-century Blue Stockings Society.
(historical) The English parliament of 1653, more commonly called the Barebones Parliament
(usually derogatory) A scholarly, literary, or cultured woman.
bucketmaking
bucketmaking
noun
The manufacture of buckets.
bushwhacking
bushwhacking
noun
criticizing, by someone or a person(s), on policies and stances by George W. Bush, in forums and discussions
fighting, as a guerilla, especially in wooded country
travelling through thick wooded country, cutting away scrub to make progress
verb
present participle of bushwhack
cantankerous
cantankerous
adj
Given to or marked by an ill-tempered, quarrelsome nature; ill-tempered, cranky, crabby.
chaunoprockt
checksumming
checksumming
verb
present participle of checksum
cocksureness
cocksureness
noun
the state or condition of being cocksure
computerniks
computerniks
noun
plural of computernik
concertstuck
cornhuskings
cornhuskings
noun
plural of cornhusking
countercheck
countercheck
noun
A restriction or limit.
A second check (in order to confirm or deny a previous one).
verb
To recheck.
To restrict or limit by counteracting.
counterprick
countershock
countershock
noun
A shock that travels in the opposite direction to an applied impulse
countersinks
countersinks
noun
plural of countersink
verb
Third-person singular simple present indicative form of countersink
counterstock
counterstock
noun
(dated) counterfoil
cuckoomaiden
cuckoopintle
cupronickels
cupronickels
noun
plural of cupronickel
ducklingship
dumbstricken
flunkeyistic
flunkeyistic
adj
Alternative form of flunkyistic
fructokinase
fructokinase
noun
(biochemistry) A transferase enzyme of the liver, intestine, and kidney cortex.
ginkgoaceous
ginkgoaceous
adj
(botany) Belonging to the Ginkgoaceae.
glucokinases
glucokinases
noun
plural of glucokinase
honeystucker
honeysuckled
honeysuckled
adj
Covered with honeysuckle.
honeysuckles
honeysuckles
noun
plural of honeysuckle
kanchenjunga
keraunoscopy
ketosuccinic
ketosuccinic
adj
(organic chemistry) Of or pertaining to ketosuccinic acid or its derivatives
khachaturian
kinchinjunga
knuckleballs
knuckleballs
noun
plural of knuckleball
knucklebones
knucklebones
noun
A children's game, originally played with the knucklebones of sheep, in which small objects are picked up, moved, thrown, and caught according to various rules.
plural of knucklebone
knuckleheads
knuckleheads
noun
plural of knucklehead
kupfernickel
kupfernickel
noun
(archaic) cupronickel
leukemogenic
leukemogenic
adj
That tends to cause leukemia
lucklessness
lucklessness
noun
The state or condition of being luckless.
marlinsucker
neugkroschen
outjockeying
outjockeying
verb
present participle of outjockey
outpocketing
outpocketing
noun
The growth of a surface so as to form a cavity (sac or pocket); the cavity so formed
outreckoning
outreckoning
verb
present participle of outreckon
packinghouse
packinghouse
noun
A facility where harvested food is processed into a salable condition.
A slaughterhouse wherein animals are slaughtered, and the meat is then processed into smaller cuts.
pluckinesses
pumpernickel
pumpernickel
noun
A German sourdough bread made from rye.
quackishness
quackishness
noun
The state or condition of being quackish.
rebankruptcy
rockhounding
rockhounding
noun
The activities of a rock hound; amateur geology.
roughnecking
roughnecking
verb
present participle of roughneck
rubbernecked
rubbernecked
verb
simple past tense and past participle of rubberneck
rubbernecker
rubbernecker
noun
(originally US) A person who rubbernecks; someone who cranes their neck as though it were made of rubber to see something (such as a tourist attraction) or to watch an event (such as an accident); a rubberneck.
stackencloud
stackencloud
noun
A cumulus cloud.
stockjudging
stumpknocker
thumbtacking
thumbtacking
verb
present participle of thumbtack
thundercrack
thundercrack
noun
A peal of thunder; thunderclap.
thunderstick
thunderstick
noun
A gun or cannon, especially a rifle.
A narrow plastic balloon that is used as a promotional noise maker by hitting one against another.
ticklenburgs
ticklenburgs
noun
plural of ticklenburg
tuckermanity
tuckermanity
noun
(rare) Poetry or literature, especially that which is excessively proper or moralist; literature by or in the style of Henry T. Tuckerman.
turtlenecked
turtlenecked
adj
(slang) Not circumcised; uncircumcised.
Wearing a turtleneck.
unattackable
unattackable
adj
which may not be attacked
unattackably
unattackably
adv
Such that it may not be attacked.
uncheckmated
unchurchlike
unchurchlike
adj
Not churchlike.
undeadlocked
undercooking
undercooking
verb
present participle of undercook
underpacking
underpacking
noun
Insufficient, or less than the usual amount of packing
unflickering
unflickering
adj
Not flickering.
unkerchiefed
unkerchiefed
adj
Not wearing a kerchief.
unprincelike
unprincelike
adj
Not princelike.
unreckonable
unreckonable
adj
That cannot be reckoned; uncountable, innumerable.
unsickerness
unsketchable
unsketchable
adj
Not sketchable.
unslackening
unslackening
adj
Not slackening; without loss of speed.
unstockinged
unstockinged
adj
not wearing stockings
untrafficked
untrafficked
adj
Not trafficked.
unwickedness
unwickedness
noun
The state, quality, or condition of being unwicked