(music) Musicians and vocalists who support the main performer.
(television, film) A backdrop.
A liner or other material added behind or underneath.
Support, especially financial.
The action of putting something back; a switching into reverse.
The mounting of a horse or other animal.
verb
present participle of back
backrun
backrun
noun
A reverse flow, either of a fluid or of an anchor chain.
bakatan
bakeman
bakepan
bakings
bakings
noun
plural of baking
bakongo
bakunda
bakunin
balkans
balkans
Proper noun
A geographical region in the southeast of Europe, roughly equivalent to the area covered by Albania, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Bulgaria, Croatia, Greece, Macedonia, Montenegro, Serbia (and Kosovo), sometimes including Romania and Slovenia.
balking
balking
noun
A frustration or disappointment; a check.
verb
present participle of balk
bandaka
bangkok
bangkok
noun
A kind of straw hat.
banjuke
banjuke
noun
Alternative form of banjouke
bankera
bankers
bankers
noun
plural of banker
banking
banking
noun
(aviation) A horizontal turn.
(rail transport) The practice of assisting a train up a steep incline (called a bank) with another locomotive at the rear.
A mechanical component to prevent vibration in a timepiece, etc.
The business of managing a bank.
The occupation of managing or working in a bank.
verb
present participle of bank
bankman
bankmen
banksia
banksia
noun
A plant belonging to the genus Banksia.
bannack
bannock
bannock
noun
(Canada) A biscuit bread made of wheat flour or cornmeal, fat, and sometimes baking powder, typically baked over a fire, wrapped around a stick or in a pan.
(especially Scotland, Northern England) An unleavened bread made with barley, wheat, or oatmeal.
barkhan
barking
barking
adj
(British slang) Clipping of barking mad.
noun
The action of the verb to bark.
verb
present participle of bark
barmkin
barmkin
noun
(obsolete) The battlement on the exterior fortification of a castle in northern England and parts of Scotland; a barbican.
basking
basking
noun
The act of one who basks.
verb
present participle of bask
batakan
beatnik
beatnik
noun
A person associated with the Beat Generation of the 1950s and 1960s or its style.
A person who dresses in a manner that is not socially acceptable and is supposed to reject conventional norms of thought and behavior; nonconformist in dress and behavior.
becking
becking
verb
present participle of beck
beckman
beckons
beckons
noun
plural of beckon
verb
Third-person singular simple present indicative form of beckon
beekman
behnken
beinked
beinked
adj
Covered in ink.
beknave
beknave
verb
(transitive, rare) To call (someone) a knave.
(transitive, rare) To treat as a knave.
beknots
beknown
beknown
adj
(obsolete) known
verb
past participle of beknow
belknap
bendick
benkley
bennink
beprank
berkman
berskin
bestink
beswink
beswink
verb
(obsolete) to labour, toil; belabour
betaken
betaken
verb
past participle of betake
bethank
bethank
verb
(transitive, rare) To bestow thanks upon; to thank.
bethink
bethink
verb
(intransitive) To meditate, ponder; to consider.
(obsolete, transitive) To think about, to recollect.
(reflexive) To think of (something or somebody) or that (followed by clause); to remind oneself, to consider, to reflect upon.
To determine, resolve.
betoken
betoken
verb
(transitive) To foreshow by present signs; indicate something future by that which is seen or known.
(transitive) To signify by some visible object; show by signs or tokens.
betrunk
betrunk
verb
(transitive) To deprive (a river) of its lower course or trunk by submergence or erosion of the land by the sea.
bickern
bickern
noun
An anvil with two projecting taper ends.
bikaner
bikinis
bikinis
noun
Brief underpants that reach to the hips rather than the waist.
plural of bikini
bilking
bilking
noun
The act of one who bilks (in any sense).
verb
present participle of bilk
binukau
birkner
blacken
blacken
verb
(intransitive, ergative) To become black.
(transitive) To cook (meat or fish) by coating with pepper, etc., and quickly searing in a hot pan.
(transitive, causative) To cause to be or become black.
(transitive, causative) To make dirty.
To defame or sully.
blanked
blanked
adj
(euphemistic, dated) damned; accursed (from the euphemistic printed form d—d)
In a state of blankness.
verb
simple past tense and past participle of blank
blanker
blanker
adj
comparative form of blank: more blank
noun
(computing) An early form of screensaver that blanked out the screen display when it was not in use.
blanket
blanket
adj
General; covering or encompassing everything.
noun
A heavy, loosely woven fabric, usually large and woollen, used for warmth while sleeping or resting.
A layer of anything.
A streak or layer of blubber in whales.
A thick rubber mat used in the offset printing process to transfer ink from the plate to the paper being printed.
verb
(transitive) To cover with, or as if with, a blanket.
(transitive) To nullify the impact of (someone or something).
(transitive) To take the wind out of the sails of (another vessel) by sailing to windward of it.
(transitive) To toss in a blanket by way of punishment.
(transitive) To traverse or complete thoroughly.
Of a radio signal: to override or block out another radio signal.
blankit
blankly
blankly
adv
in a blank manner, especially showing no emotion or expression.
blenker
blinked
blinked
adj
(Appalachia) Sour.
Affected with blinking.
verb
simple past tense and past participle of blink
blinker
blinker
noun
(cellular automata) In Conway's Game of Life, an arrangement of three cells in a row that switches between horizontal and vertical orientations in each generation.
(informal, US, automotive) Anything that blinks, such as the turn signal of an automobile.
(rare) The eyelid.
(slang) A black eye.
Eye shields attached to a hood for horses, to prevent them from seeing backwards and partially sideways.
Whatever obstructs sight or discernment.
verb
(transitive) To put blinkers on.
blunker
blunket
blunket
adj
(obsolete) Gray; grayish or light blue.
noun
(obsolete) A cloth, or kind of cloth (blanket cloth), generally but not always of this color.
(obsolete) A color, generally a light bluish gray or blue or gray, but sometimes seemingly a dark red or violet.
bocking
bocking
noun
A coarse woollen fabric, used for floor cloths, to cover carpets, etc.
bodikin
bodikin
noun
A diminutive of body, forming part of the exclamatory phrase "ods bodikin", a corruption of God's body.
bodkins
bodkins
noun
plural of bodkin
bohunks
bohunks
noun
plural of bohunk
bonkers
bonkers
adj
(informal) Mad; crazy.
noun
plural of bonker
bonking
bonking
verb
present participle of bonk
bonnock
bontoks
bookend
bookend
noun
(figurative) Something that comes before, after, or at both sides of something else.
A heavy object or moveable support placed at one or both ends of a row of books for the purpose of keeping them upright.
verb
(transitive) To come before and after, or at both sides of.
booking
booking
noun
(law) The process of photographing, fingerprinting and recording the identifying data of a suspect following arrest.
(sports) The issuing of a caution which is usually written down in a book, and results in a yellow card or (after two bookings) a red card, that is to say, the player is sent from the field of play.
A reservation for a service, such as travel or hotel accommodation.
The act or process of writing something down in a book or books, e.g. in accounting.
The engagement of a performer for a particular performance.
verb
present participle of book
bookman
bookman
noun
(historical, Old English law) One who held bookland.
A studious or learned man; a scholar; a student of books.
One who sells or publishes books; a bookseller.
bookmen
bookmen
noun
plural of bookman
boomkin
boomkin
noun
Alternative form of bumkin
bosniak
bosniak
Noun
A person belonging to an autochthonous South Slavic people living mainly in Bosnia and Herzegovina and the Sandžak region of Serbia and Montenegro.
A person typically characterized by their ties to the Bosnian historical region, traditional adherence to Islam, and common culture and language.
botkins
botkins
noun
plural of botkin
botnick
bowknot
bowknot
noun
A knot that has two loops and two loose ends, either used decoratively, or to tie shoelaces.
boykins
boykins
noun
plural of boykin
bracken
bracken
noun
(uncountable) An area of countryside heavily populated by this fern.
(uncountable, countable) Any of several coarse ferns, of the genus Pteridium, that form dense thickets; often poisonous to livestock.
braking
braking
noun
The act of applying brakes.
verb
present participle of brake
brakpan
brankie
brecken
breskin
bricken
bricken
adj
(archaic) Made of brick.
brisken
brisken
verb
(transitive) To become, or make, brisk; to hasten.
brocken
broking
broking
noun
(computing) The action of a broker agent; exchange of messages or transactions involving a software agent.
The craft or profession of a broker; mediation in a sale or transaction.
bryansk
bryansk
Proper noun
A city in Russia, administrative centre of Bryansk oblast.
buckden
buckeen
buckeen
noun
(Ireland, historical) a poor young man of the lower Anglo-Irish gentry who aspires to the habits and dress of the wealthy.
bucking
bucking
noun
(forestry) The process of cutting a felled and delimbed tree into logs.
The act of a quadruped kicking both hind legs upward at once.
The act or process of soaking or boiling cloth in an alkaline liquid in the operation of bleaching.
The liquid used in this process.
The process of breaking up or pulverizing ores.
verb
present participle of buck
bucklin
buckman
buckner
buckone
bulking
bulking
noun
(bodybuilding) A period of intentional weight gain.
verb
present participle of bulk
bumkins
bumkins
noun
plural of bumkin
bumpkin
bumpkin
noun
(nautical) A short boom or spar used to extend a sail or secure a stay.
A clumsy, unsophisticated person; a yokel.
Dance, a series of reels, Scottish.
bundook
bundook
noun
(slang, UK) A service-issue rifle.
bunkers
bunkers
noun
plural of bunker
bunkery
bunking
bunking
verb
present participle of bunk
bunkoed
bunkoed
verb
simple past tense and past participle of bunko
bunkums
bunkums
noun
plural of bunkum
bunraku
bunraku
noun
A traditional form of Japanese puppet theatre.
burbank
burbank
Proper noun
A city in California
A heavy cotton canvas, used for convertible tops for cars in the early 20th century
burking
burking
verb
present participle of burke
busking
busking
noun
(obsolete) Clothing; dress; ornaments worn.
verb
present participle of busk
buskins
buskins
noun
plural of buskin
codbank
codbank
noun
A region of relatively shallow seawater where cod are fished for
cutbank
cutbank
noun
(Canada, US) The outer edge of the bend in a stream or river, where the water cuts into the bank leaving the opposite side flat.
debunks
debunks
verb
Third-person singular simple present indicative form of debunk
dubenko
embanks
embanks
verb
Third-person singular simple present indicative form of embank
fanback
fanback
noun
(often attributive) A kind of chair whose back has a number of vertical elements that spread out like a fan.
fenbank
finback
finback
noun
A large baleen whale, Balaenoptera physalus, that has a ridge on its back; the fin whale.
firbank
fogbank
fogbank
noun
A bank of fog.
hoboken
ikebana
ikebana
noun
An arrangement of flowers in this style.
The Japanese art of flower arrangement.
inbreak
inbreak
noun
A sudden violent inroad or incursion; an irruption.
verb
(transitive) To break in; break into; make an incursion into; insert into; interrupt.
inkblot
inkblot
noun
(figuratively) A dark, shapeless object.
(psychology) Any of the pictures used as stimuli in the Rorschach inkblot test.
A blot of ink.
inkbush
inkbush
noun
The plant Cestrum laevigatum.
The plant Forestiera eggersiana.
The plant Suaeda torreyana.
kabonga
kerbing
kerbing
noun
A strip of kerb.
verb
present participle of kerb
kilnrib
kimbang
kinboot
kinbote
kinbote
noun
(obsolete) A fine paid to the kin of the victim of a crime.
kingcob
kinkhab
kinkhab
noun
Alternative form of kincob
klabund
knabble
knobbed
knobbed
adj
Having a knob or knobs.
verb
simple past tense and past participle of knob
knobber
knobber
noun
(UK, slang, derogatory) A knobhead; a stupid or obnoxious person.
(hunting, animal husbandry) The hart in its second year; a young deer.
knobble
knobble
noun
A small knob.
verb
(transitive) To give a knobbly surface to.
(transitive, metallurgy) To produce wrought iron by treating (semirefined puddled iron) on a hearth before shingling.
knobbly
knobbly
adj
Having a covering of small knobs.
knubbly
knubbly
adj
knobbly
knublet
koblenz
koblenz
Proper noun
An independent city in Rhineland-Palatinate, Germany
kubango
kubanka
kubanka
noun
A hat similar to the papakha, but shorter and with no ear flaps.