(dance) A dance move in which the feet are alternately slid back and the heels lifted, giving the illusion of walking forwards while actually moving backwards.
A backward regression; a reverting back to a worse state.
verb
(Christianity) To revert back into a life of sin after being saved.
To regress; to slip backwards or revert to a previous, worse state.
To shirk responsibility; to renege on one's obligations or commitments.
backslided
backslider
backslider
noun
A recidivist; one who backslides, especially in a religious sense; an apostate.
She married him thinking to change his ways, and for a while he got religion, but he was ever a backslider; she soon began finding bottles stashed about the house.
backsliders
backsliders
noun
plural of backslider
backslides
backslides
noun
plural of backslide
verb
Third-person singular simple present indicative form of backslide
backslidingness
backspacefile
backsplice
backsplice
noun
Such a knot
verb
To secure the ends of a twisted rope within the rope itself in order to prevent fraying
backspliced
backspliced
verb
simple past tense and past participle of backsplice
Someone who sticks up advertisements on billboards, walls, and similar surfaces.
biscuitlike
biscuitlike
Adjective
Resembling a biscuit or some aspect of one.
blackberries
blackberries
noun
plural of blackberry
verb
Third-person singular simple present indicative form of blackberry
blackbirders
blackbirders
noun
plural of blackbirder
blackbodies
blackbodies
noun
plural of blackbody
blackenings
blackenings
noun
plural of blackening
blackfisher
blackfishes
blackfishes
noun
plural of blackfish
blackflies
blackflies
noun
plural of blackfly
blackies
blackies
noun
plural of blackie
plural of blacky
blackishness
blackishness
noun
The quality of being blackish, somewhat black.
blacklegism
blacklegism
noun
The character or actions of a blackleg.
blacklisted
blacklisted
adj
Being on a blacklist, or having been shunned and rejected due to information (true or false) being spread about scandalous activities or ideas, especially controversial political opinions.
verb
simple past tense and past participle of blacklist
blacklister
blacklister
noun
One who blacklists.
blacklisters
blacklisters
noun
plural of blacklister
blackmailers
blackmailers
noun
plural of blackmailer
blackshirted
blacksville
blickeys
blickies
blickies
noun
plural of blickey
blockheadish
blockheadish
adj
stupid
blockheadishness
blockheadism
blockheadism
noun
The character or behaviour of a blockhead; stupidity.
blockiest
blockiest
adj
superlative form of blocky: most blocky
blockiness
blockiness
noun
The state or condition of being blocky.
blockishness
blockishness
noun
The state or quality of being blockish.
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.
bluestockingish
bluestockingish
adj
Like a bluestocking, or scholarly woman.
bluestockingism
bluestockingism
noun
(colloquial) The character or manner of a bluestocking; female pedantry.
bluestockings
bluestockings
noun
plural of bluestocking
bootlickers
bootlickers
noun
plural of bootlicker
brachyskelic
brachyskelic
adj
Having unusually short legs
brecksville
brickfields
brickfields
noun
plural of brickfield
bricklayers
bricklayers
noun
plural of bricklayer
brickleness
brickleness
noun
(obsolete) brittleness
brickles
brickles
verb
Third-person singular simple present indicative form of brickle
bullsticker
checkerbellies
chelyabinsk
cobleskill
constablewick
constablewick
noun
(obsolete) The district to which a constable's power is limited.
fiddlebacks
fiddlebacks
noun
plural of fiddleback
goldbrickers
goldbrickers
noun
plural of goldbricker
hacksilber
hacksilber
noun
Alternative form of hacksilver
huckleberries
huckleberries
noun
plural of huckleberry
hyperbrachyskelic
iceblinks
iceblinks
noun
plural of iceblink
koeberliniaceous
lackbrainedness
leukoblastic
leukoblastic
adj
Relating to leukoblasts.
limbecks
limbecks
noun
plural of limbeck
linebackers
linebackers
noun
plural of linebacker
linebackings
lobachevskian
lobachevskian
Adjective
Of or pertaining to Nikolai Ivanovich Lobachevsky (1792–1856), Russian mathematician.
Of or related to hyperbolic geometry, which was developed by Nikolai Lobachevsky.
microleukoblast
pickableness
proboscislike
proboscislike
adj
Resembling or characteristic of a proboscis.
rockabillies
rockabillies
noun
plural of rockabilly
scablike
scablike
adj
Resembling or characteristic of a scab (incrustation).
scrublike
sicklebill
sicklebill
noun
Any of several birds of paradise (Drepanornis spp., Epimachus spp.) and hummingbirds (Eutoxeres spp.) with a sickle-shaped bill.
silverback
silverback
noun
(informal, by extension) A dominant older human male.
(mammalogy) A mature male gorilla, so named from the silver streaking on its back.
Any of various ferns of the genus Pityrogramma.
silverbacks
silverbacks
noun
plural of silverback
sketchability
sketchability
noun
The quality of being sketchable.
slipperyback
speckledbill
stickable
stickable
adj
Capable of being stuck; adhesive.
stickleback
stickleback
noun
Any one of numerous species of small fish of the family Gasterosteidae. The back is armed with two or more sharp spines. They inhabit both salt and brackish water, and construct nests from weeds.