(by extension) a total reversal in policy or opinion; a volte-face, a U-turn.
(gymnastics) An act of rotating one's body 360 degrees in the backward direction.
verb
To completely reverse a policy or opinion; perform a U-turn.
To perform a backflip (rotation of body).
backflipped
backflipped
verb
simple past tense and past participle of backflip
backflipping
backflipping
verb
present participle of backflip
backpedal
backpedal
verb
(intransitive) To pedal backwards on a bicycle.
(intransitive) To step backwards.
(intransitive, idiomatic) To distance oneself from an earlier claim or statement; back off from an idea.
backpedaled
backpedaled
verb
(US) simple past tense and past participle of backpedal
backpedaling
backpedaling
noun
The act of distancing oneself from a previously supported idea, action, behaviour, etc.; a U-turn or flip-flop.
verb
(US) present participle of backpedal
backpedalled
backpedalled
verb
(British spelling) simple past tense and past participle of backpedal
backplane
backplane
noun
(electronics) A circuit board that connects several connectors in parallel to each other, so that each pin of each connector is linked to the same relative pin of all the other connectors, forming a computer bus.
backplanes
backplanes
noun
plural of backplane
backplate
backplate
noun
(UK, automotive) A rigid metal plate inside the brake drum, which supports the wheel cylinder, brake shoes, and other parts of a drum brake.
(underwater diving) A plate harnessed to a diver's back, to which the gas cylinders are attached.
A metal plate on the rear of a computer's casing, used to cover a port or slot.
A plate protecting a fighting person's back.
A wood or metal (or glass, etc) plate that serves as a backing for an object.
Part of a condenser microphone that sits behind the diaphragm and which acts, in conjunction with the diaphragm, as a sort of variable capacitor.
backslap
backslap
verb
To enthusiastically affirm or congratulate a person, especially by patting them on the back.
backslapped
backslapped
verb
simple past tense and past participle of backslap
backslapper
backslapper
noun
One who makes a show of liking another person with profuse or excessive displays of camaraderie, such as vigorous hand clasping, back-slapping, hearty words of greeting, etc.
backslappers
backslappers
noun
plural of backslapper
backslapping
backslapping
noun
action of the verb to backslap
verb
present participle of backslap
backslaps
backslaps
verb
Third-person singular simple present indicative form of backslap
backspacefile
backsplashes
backsplashes
noun
plural of backsplash
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
backsplicing
backsplicing
verb
present participle of backsplice
bakeapple
bakeapple
noun
(Atlantic Canada) The cloudberry, Rubus chamaemorus
balikpapan
ballpark
ballpark
adj
Approximate; close; on the right order of magnitude.
noun
(US) A field, stadium or park where ball, especially baseball, is played.
(US, figuratively) The general vicinity; somewhere close; a broad approximation.
verb
(transitive) To make a rough estimate of.
ballparks
ballparks
noun
plural of ballpark
verb
Third-person singular simple present indicative form of ballpark
bankruptlike
bankruptlike
adj
Resembling or characteristic of a bankrupt.
bankruptly
bankruptly
adv
In a bankrupt manner.
barkpeel
barkpeeler
barkpeeling
bathukolpian
bathukolpian
adj
Alternative spelling of bathykolpian
bathukolpic
bathukolpic
adj
(rare) Deep-bosomed.
bathyplankton
bathyplankton
noun
(biology) plankton living in the bathyal zone
belknap
bespeakable
bespeckle
bespeckle
verb
To add speckles.
bespeckled
bespeckled
verb
simple past tense and past participle of bespeckle
bespecklement
besprinkle
besprinkle
verb
(archaic, transitive) To sprinkle.
besprinkled
besprinkled
adj
Sprinkled.
besprinkler
besprinkler
noun
One who or that which besprinkles.
besprinkles
besprinkles
verb
Third-person singular simple present indicative form of besprinkle
besprinkling
besprinkling
verb
present participle of besprinkle
bibliokelpt
biblioklept
biblioklept
noun
A person who steals books
bibliokleptomania
bibliokleptomania
noun
A mental disorder that produces a compulsion to steal books.
(cooking) An apple roasted until black, to be served in a dish of boiled custard.
(obsolete, UK, US, dialectal) Any of various species of titmouse (of the family Paridae), including the black-capped chickadee (Poecile atricapillus, syn. Parus atricapillus).
A small Old World warbler, Eurasian blackcap (Sylvia atricapilla), which is mainly grey with a black crown.
blackcaps
blackcaps
noun
plural of blackcap
blackdamp
blackdamp
noun
Choke damp.
blackpatch
blackplate
blackpoll
blackpoll
noun
A North American warbler, Dendroica striata, the male of which has a black patch on its head
blackpool
blackpool
Proper noun
A town and resort in Lancashire, England
blackpot
blackprint
blackstrap
blackstrap
noun
(obsolete) A mixture of spirituous liquor (usually rum) and molasses.
(obsolete, nautical, slang) Bad port wine; any common wine of the Mediterranean.
The dark, viscous molasses remaining after maximum extraction of sugar from raw sugar cane, used in manufacturing and cattle feed.
blacktop
blacktop
noun
(US, countable) A paved area on a schoolground reserved for recess activities, often doubling as a parking lot.
(US, countable) A road so paved.
(US, uncountable) Asphalt concrete or similar bituminous black paving material used for the surface of roads (e.g., tarmacadam, tarmac).
verb
(US) To pave with blacktop.
blacktopped
blacktopped
verb
simple past tense and past participle of blacktop
blacktopping
blacktopping
verb
present participle of blacktop
blacktops
blacktops
verb
Third-person singular simple present indicative form of blacktop
blankenship
blockpate
blockship
blockship
noun
(nautical) A vessel that is deliberately sunk in order to block a waterway (to prevent it being used by an enemy)
bloubiskop
bookplate
bookplate
noun
A printed piece of paper pasted on one of the pages of a book, most often on the inside front cover, showing ownership and thus deterring theft.
verb
(transitive) To affix a bookplate to (a book).
bookplates
bookplates
noun
plural of bookplate
buckplate
bumpkinly
bumpkinly
adj
Befitting a bumpkin.
doublespeak
doublespeak
noun
Any language deliberately constructed to disguise or distort its actual meaning, often by employing euphemism or ambiguity.
doublespeaks
hukbalahap
hyperbrachyskelic
hyperkatabolism
hyperkatabolism
noun
Alternative form of hypercatabolism
katagelophobia
katagelophobia
noun
Alternative spelling of catagelophobia
keepable
keepable
adj
That can be kept or is worth keeping.
noun
Something that can or should be kept.
kleptophobia
kleptophobia
noun
Abnormal fear of theft.
klipbok
klipbok
noun
klipspringer
knapbottle
knapbottle
noun
Bladder campion.
lampblack
lampblack
noun
An amorphous form of carbon made from incompletely burned organic matter; used to make pigments and inks.
verb
(transitive) To blacken (something) using this form of carbon.
lampblacked
lampblacked
verb
simple past tense and past participle of lampblack
lampblacking
lampblacking
verb
present participle of lampblack
loopback
loopback
noun
The routing of a signal, data stream, etc. from its origin back to the origin, primarily as a means of testing the transmission or transportation infrastructure.
nonpickable
nonpickable
adj
Not pickable.
packability
packability
noun
The quality or state of being packable
packable
packable
adj
Capable of being packed.
packbuilder
palebuck
parbuckle
parbuckle
noun
A double sling made of a single rope, for slinging a cask, gun, etc.
A kind of purchase for hoisting or lowering a cylindrical burden, as a cask. The middle of a long rope is fastened aloft, and both ends of the rope are looped under, then over the cylinder and looped back towards the attachment point. The object rests in the loops, and rolls upward in them as the rope ends are hauled up, or downward when the ends are payed out.
verb
To hoist or lower by means of a parbuckle
parbuckled
parbuckled
verb
simple past tense and past participle of parbuckle
parbuckling
parbuckling
verb
present participle of parbuckle
partakable
partakable
adj
(rare) Alternative form of partakeable
philbrook
piblockto
piblokto
piblokto
noun
A condition affecting dogs or other animals in the Arctic, characterized by aggressive behavior and seizures.
A condition affecting the Inuit peoples in winter, characterised by a period of frenzied activity or irrational behaviour, followed by unconsciousness or stupor.
pibloktos
pickable
pickable
adj
Able to be picked.
pickableness
pickelhaube
pickelhaube
noun
(historical) A spiked helmet worn by German troops, especially during the First World War.
pikeblennies
pikeblenny
pimpleback
pimpleback
noun
Quadrula pustulosa, an American freshwater mussel.
plainback
plainbacks
plankbuilt
playback
playback
noun
The replaying of something previously recorded, especially sound or moving images.
playbacks
playbacks
noun
plural of playback
playbook
playbook
noun
(US, American football) A book of strategies (plays) for use in American football (and by extension other sports or disciplines).
(US, figurative) A set of commonly employed tactics and strategies.
A book containing the text of a play or plays.
A book of games and amusements for children.
playbooks
playbooks
noun
plural of playbook
playbroker
playbroker
noun
An agent involved in procuring and selling theatrical plays.
plowback
plowbacks
pocketable
pocketable
adj
Able to be put in one's pocket
pocketableness
poikiloblast
poikiloblast
noun
A porphyroblast mineral containing small inclusions of the previous rock.
poikiloblastic
poikiloblastic
adj
(geology) Describing the texture of a metamorphic rock that has small idioblasts of one constituent lying within larger xenoblasts
pointblank
pointblank
adv
(obsolete or rare) point blank
pokable
pokable
adj
(slang, vulgar) Sexually desirable.
Capable of being poked.
pollbook
preblockade
preblockade
adj
Before a blockade.
preblockaded
preblockading
prickleback
prickleback
noun
Any of the fish in the family Stichaeidae.
The stickleback
pricklyback
probasketball
problockade
proboscislike
proboscislike
adj
Resembling or characteristic of a proboscis.
proverblike
proverblike
adj
Resembling or characteristic of a proverb.
provokable
provokable
adj
That may be provoked.
psalmbook
psalmbook
noun
A book of psalms.
puckball
puckball
noun
(obsolete) A puffball fungus.
pullback
pullback
noun
(architecture) The iron hook fixed to a casement to pull it shut, or to hold it partly open at a fixed point.
(category theory) The limit of a cospan: a Cartesian square or “pullback square”.
(category theory) Within a Cartesian square (which has a pair of divergent morphisms and a pair of convergent morphisms) the divergent morphism which is directly opposite to a given one of the convergent morphisms, said to be “along” the convergent morphism which is between that pair of opposite morphisms. (The pullback is said to be “of” the given morphism.)
(differential geometry) The map between cotangent bundles of manifolds corresponding to a smooth map between smooth manifolds, which at each point is the dual map to the corresponding pushforward.
(film) The act of drawing a camera back to broaden the visible scene.
(finance) A reduction in the price of a financial instrument after reaching a peak
(historical) A device for making a woman's gown hang close and straight in front.
(sports) An attacking pass from the wing into a position further from the attacking goal line.
That which holds back, or causes to recede; a drawback; a hindrance.
The act or result of pulling back; a withdrawal.
pullbacks
pullbacks
noun
plural of pullback
raspberrylike
raspberrylike
adj
Resembling or characteristic of a raspberry (plant or fruit).
skippable
skippable
adj
Capable of being skipped.
Not worth watching or doing; missable.
slipback
slipperyback
sparkleberry
sparkleberry
noun
The farkleberry.
speakable
speakable
adj
(obsolete) Capable of speech.
Acceptable as a topic of discussion; not subject to taboo.
That can be spoken; utterable, verbalizable.
speakableness
speakablies
speakably
specklebelly
specklebreast
specklebreast
noun
A thrush.
speckledbill
speiskobalt
speiskobalt
noun
smaltite
spikebill
spikebill
noun
A hooded merganser (Lophodytes cucullatus).
A marbled godwit (Limosa fedoa).
splashback
splashback
noun
(countable) A shield of an easily-cleaned material, such as those placed behind an oven top or kitchen sink and at industrial facilities, construction sites, etc, in order to catch splashes of liquid.
(uncountable, countable) Splashes of liquid, especially noxious liquid, rebounding from a surface.
splitbeak
spoilbank
stablekeeper
stablekeeper
noun
The person who maintains a stable where animals are kept.
stopblock
stopblock
noun
(rail transport, especially US) An obstruction placed at the end of a railway track to prevent rail vehicles from going any further.