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.
begunk
begunk
noun
(dialectal, chiefly Scotland) An illusion; trick; cheat.
verb
(transitive, dialectal, chiefly Scotland) To befool; deceive; balk; jilt.
blacktongue
blockaderunning
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
bucketing
bucketing
noun
A heavy pouring down of liquid; a deluge.
Synonym of binning (“data pre-processing technique”)
The act of moving material using a bucket.
verb
present participle of bucket
bucketmaking
bucketmaking
noun
The manufacture of buckets.
buckinghamshire
buckinghamshire
Proper noun
An inland county of England bounded by Northamptonshire, Bedfordshire, Hertfordshire, Greater London, Berkshire and Oxfordshire.
bucklering
bucklering
verb
present participle of buckler
bulkheading
bulkheading
noun
bulkheads in general
bulletmaking
bulletmaking
noun
The manufacture of bullets.
bungmaker
bunkerage
bunkerage
noun
(nautical) Oil or coal used for the engine of a vessel
(nautical) The act of bunkering (loading a vessel with oil or coal)
bunkering
bunkering
noun
(chiefly Nigeria) The illicit removal of oil from a pipeline or other distribution system.
(nautical) The taking on board of bunker fuel.
verb
present participle of bunker
buttermaking
debunking
debunking
noun
The act of showing something to be false (or bunkum)
verb
present participle of debunk
doublethinking
dungbeck
ekaterinburg
groundbreaker
groundbreaker
noun
First person to do, make or fight for something. A pioneer; a seminal person.
gulbenkian
housebreaking
housebreaking
noun
The act of breaking into another person's house with unlawful intent.
verb
(animal training) present participle of housebreak
jenkinsburg
keansburg
keenesburg
keensburg
klausenburg
kuebbing
mecklenburg
mecklenburg
Proper noun
An area in Baltic northern Germany.
mecklenburgian
menangkabau
neighbourlike
neighbourlike
adj
(Britain, Canada) Synonym of neighbourly
outbreaking
outbreaking
noun
That which bursts forth.
The act of breaking out.
verb
present participle of outbreak
quarterbacking
quarterbacking
noun
(American football) The act of playing as a quarterback
(US) The action of making criticisms after the event
verb
present participle of quarterback
rebuckling
rebuckling
verb
present participle of rebuckle
rebuking
rebuking
noun
The act of giving a rebuke.
verb
present participle of rebuke
rebukingly
rebukingly
adv
In a rebuking manner.
rubbernecking
rubbernecking
noun
Generally, any act of observation in a manner considered unduly overt or otherwise unseemly.
The act of slowing down whilst driving a vehicle, in order to see the scene of an accident.
verb
present participle of rubberneck
swashbucklering
swashbucklering
adj
Alternative form of swashbuckling
tankerabogus
tankerabogus
noun
(UK, regional) A bogeyman; a fanciful monster used to frighten children.
telukbetung
ticklenburg
ticklenburg
noun
A coarse, mixed linen fabric made to be sold in the West Indies.
ticklenburgs
ticklenburgs
noun
plural of ticklenburg
troublemaking
troublemaking
adj
Causing trouble.
noun
Causing trouble; acting in a disruptive way
trucebreaking
tubemaking
tubemaking
noun
The manufacture of tubes.
unbickering
unbickering
adj
Not bickering.
unbluestockingish
unbreaking
unbreaking
adj
That does not break; unbreakable or unbroken.
verb
present participle of unbreak
unbridegroomlike
unbridegroomlike
adj
Not bridegroomlike.
underbaking
underbaking
verb
present participle of underbake
unknowledgeable
unknowledgeable
adj
Lacking knowledge, ignorant, naive, or foolish.
unneighborlike
wickenburg
yekaterinburg
yekaterinburg
Proper noun
A city in the Sverdlovsk oblast of Russia, the fifth-largest in the country by population.