(American football) The area behind the line of scrimmage occupied before the snap by the team on offense.
(baseball, rare) Synonym of outfield.
(soccer, US) The area behind either the offensive or defensive line.
The players occupying this area.
backfields
backfields
noun
plural of backfield
backfilled
backfilled
verb
simple past tense and past participle of backfill
backflipped
backflipped
verb
simple past tense and past participle of backflip
backliding
backlighted
backloading
backloading
noun
(transport) The transportation of cargo or shipment on a return trip, using the space already paid for and used for the outward leg.
verb
present participle of backload
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
backslid
backslid
verb
simple past tense and past participle of backslide
backslidden
backslidden
verb
past participle of backslide
backslide
backslide
noun
(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
backsliding
backsliding
adj
sliding back
noun
An occasion on which one backslides, especially in a moral sense.
verb
present participle of backslide
backslidingness
backspliced
backspliced
verb
simple past tense and past participle of backsplice
badgerlike
badgerlike
adj
Similar to a badger.
Similar to that of a badger.
bakersfield
bakersfield
Proper noun
A major city in California, USA
baldakin
baldrick
baldrick
noun
Alternative form of baldric
baldricked
baldricked
adj
Wearing a baldrick (ornamental belt).
baldricks
baldricks
noun
plural of baldrick
balkanised
balkanised
verb
simple past tense and past participle of balkanise
balkanized
balkanized
verb
simple past tense and past participle of balkanize
balladlike
balladlike
adj
Resembling or characteristic of a ballad.
bardlike
bardlike
adj
Resembling or characteristic of a bard.
beadlike
beadlike
adj
Resembling or characteristic of a bead.
beardlike
beardlike
adj
Resembling or characteristic of a beard.
bedlike
bedlike
adj
Resembling a bed.
bekilted
bekilted
adj
Wearing a kilt.
beliked
beliked
adj
Beloved; liked.
verb
simple past tense and past participle of belike
besprinkled
besprinkled
adj
Sprinkled.
bilked
bilked
verb
simple past tense and past participle of bilk
birdlike
birdlike
adj
Similar to a bird or an aspect of a bird; reminiscent of birds; avian.
adv
(postpositive) In the manner of a bird; as, to fly.
blackbird
blackbird
noun
(slang, derogatory, historical, among slavers and pirates) A native of the South Pacific islands.
A common true thrush, Turdus merula, found in woods and gardens over much of Eurasia, and introduced elsewhere.
A variety of New World birds of the family Icteridae (26 species of icterid bird).
verb
To enslave someone, especially through chicanery or force
blackbirded
blackbirded
verb
simple past tense and past participle of blackbird
blackbirder
blackbirder
noun
A person involved in blackbirding (kidnapping Pacific islanders as cheap labour).
A ship used for blackbirding.
blackbirders
blackbirders
noun
plural of blackbirder
blackbirding
blackbirding
noun
(UK, Australia) The practice of kidnapping Pacific Islanders, or kanakas, for sale as cheap labour.
verb
present participle of blackbird
blackbirds
blackbirds
noun
plural of blackbird
verb
Third-person singular simple present indicative form of blackbird
blackbodies
blackbodies
noun
plural of blackbody
blackfigured
blackguardism
blackguardism
noun
Blackguardly behaviour or language.
blackguardize
blackguardize
verb
To make blackguardly.
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
blackmailed
blackmailed
verb
simple past tense and past participle of blackmail
blackshirted
bladderlike
bladderlike
adj
Resembling or characteristic of a bladder.
bladelike
bladelike
adj
Resembling a blade
blankminded
blankmindedness
blastodisk
blastodisk
noun
(biology) A round, flattened region of cells from which the embryo of many vertebrates begins to develop in the fertilized ovum; a germinal disk
blinkard
blinkard
noun
(obsolete) One with bad eyes.
A dim-witted or stupid person; an idiot.
blinkards
blinkards
noun
plural of blinkard
blinked
blinked
adj
(Appalachia) Sour.
Affected with blinking.
verb
simple past tense and past participle of blink
blinkered
blinkered
adj
(figuratively) Having tunnel vision; unable to see what is happening around one.
Wearing blinkers or blinders.
verb
simple past tense and past participle of blinker
blitzkrieged
blockaderunning
blockading
blockading
verb
present participle of blockade
blockheadish
blockheadish
adj
stupid
blockheadishness
blockheadism
blockheadism
noun
The character or behaviour of a blockhead; stupidity.
bloodlike
bloodlike
adj
Resembling blood.
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.
bloodsuckings
boardlike
boardlike
adj
Resembling or characteristic of a board.
bootlicked
bootlicked
verb
simple past tense and past participle of bootlick
bradyteleokinesis
brickfield
brickfield
noun
A place where bricks are made; a brickyard.
brickfielder
brickfielder
noun
(Australia) A hot, dry, dusty wind of southern or central Australia.
brickfields
brickfields
noun
plural of brickfield
bridelike
bridelike
adj
Resembling or characteristic of a bride.
bridgelike
bridgelike
adj
Resembling or characteristic of a bridge.
Similar to the card game of bridge.
brookfield
brooklandville
buckfield
bucklandite
budlike
budlike
adj
Resembling a bud (newly formed leaf or flower, not yet unfolded).
bulkheading
bulkheading
noun
bulkheads in general
buzzardlike
buzzardlike
adj
Resembling or characteristic of a buzzard.
clockbird
clockbird
noun
Synonym of laughing kookaburra
cockbilled
cockbilled
verb
simple past tense and past participle of cockbill
crookbilled
cuddebackville
deblocking
deblocking
verb
present participle of deblock
dislikable
dislikable
adj
Not capable or worthy of being liked; not liked; regarded with displeasure or aversion.
dislikeable
dislikeable
adj
Alternative spelling of dislikable
doublethink
doublethink
noun
The holding of two contradictory beliefs in one's mind simultaneously and accepting both of them as true or correct, without realizing the contradiction.
doublethinking
doublethinks
doublethinks
noun
plural of doublethink
drinkability
drinkability
noun
The extent to which something is drinkable.
The state or property of being drinkable.
drinkable
drinkable
adj
(of an alcoholic beverage, especially wine) Of good or satisfactory quality.
(of water) Safe to drink.
Able to be drunk (as liquid).
noun
(chiefly in the plural) That which can be drunk.
drinkableness
drinkableness
noun
The quality of being drinkable.
drinkables
drinkables
noun
plural of drinkable
drinkably
duckbill
duckbill
noun
(informal) A hadrosaur.
(informal) The duck-billed platypus.
A fish of the family Percophidae
Bull ray (Aetomylaeus bovinus, now Pteromylaeus bovinus).
Percophis brasiliensis (Brazilian flathead).
duckbills
duckbills
noun
plural of duckbill
duckblind
fiddleback
fiddleback
noun
A feature of maple wood where the fibers are distorted in an undulating chatoyant pattern.
A kind of chasuble with the front cut away.
The brown recluse spider.
fiddlebacks
fiddlebacks
noun
plural of fiddleback
goldbrick
goldbrick
noun
(US, slang, dated) A shirker or malingerer.
(US, slang, dated) A swindler.
Something fraudulent or nonexistent offered for sale; a swindle or con.
verb
(US, slang, dated) To shirk or malinger.
(US, slang, dated) To swindle.
goldbricked
goldbricked
verb
simple past tense and past participle of goldbrick
goldbricker
goldbricker
noun
(US, informal) A lazy person; an idler.
goldbrickers
goldbrickers
noun
plural of goldbricker
goldbricking
goldbricking
verb
present participle of goldbrick
goldbricks
goldbricks
noun
plural of goldbrick
verb
Third-person singular simple present indicative form of goldbrick
hoodwinkable
hoodwinkable
adj
Able to be hoodwinked.
husbandlike
husbandlike
adj
Resembling a husband.
keelbird
kibbled
kibbled
verb
simple past tense and past participle of kibble
kilbride
kilobaud
kilobaud
noun
(computing) one thousand baud; symbol kBd
kneadability
kneadability
noun
Ability to be kneaded, or worked into a mass.
knowledgeability
knowledgeability
noun
The condition of being knowledgeable.
lackbrained
lackbrainedness
landblink
landblink
noun
An atmospheric brightness seen from sea over distant snow-covered land in arctic regions.