(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.
backpointer
backpointers
backstamp
backstamped
backstamping
backstop
backstop
noun
(baseball) A wall or fence behind home plate.
(baseball, slang) A catcher; the position of catcher.
(cricket, dated) The longstop.
(cricket, dated) The wicket-keeper.
(espionage) Something serving to bolster or support a cover story etc.
(rounders) The player who stands immediately behind the striking base.
A default arrangement that holds if all else fails.
A thing or a person put in the rear or in the back of something to reinforce, hold, support.
verb
(transitive) To bolster, support.
(transitive) To serve as backstop for.
backstopped
backstopped
verb
simple past tense and past participle of backstop
backstopping
backstopping
verb
present participle of backstop
backstops
backstops
noun
plural of backstop
verb
Third-person singular simple present indicative form of backstop
backstrap
backstrap
noun
(drugs) The rolling a marijuana cigarette in a certain fashion
(firearms) The rearmost surface applied to the grip especially of a pistol below a possible beavertail.
A loin of meat consisting of the muscle on each side of the spine.
A pull strap extending the backstay of a boot or shoe.
An anchoring strap, passed around the waist or hips, for a small loom.
The backbone of a book.
verb
To apply or make into a backstrap.
backstrapped
backstrip
backswept
backswept
adj
Swept back.
bankrupt
bankrupt
adj
(finance) In a condition of bankruptcy; unable to pay one's debts.
Destitute of, or wholly lacking (something once possessed, or something one should possess).
Having been legally declared insolvent.
noun
(UK, law, obsolete) A trader who secretes himself, or does certain other acts tending to defraud his creditors.
One who becomes unable to pay his or her debts; an insolvent person.
verb
(transitive) To force into bankruptcy.
bankruptcies
bankruptcies
noun
plural of bankruptcy
bankruptcy
bankruptcy
noun
(finance, law) A legally declared or recognized condition of insolvency of a person or organization.
bankrupted
bankrupted
verb
simple past tense and past participle of bankrupt
bankrupting
bankrupting
verb
present participle of bankrupt
bankruptism
bankruptism
noun
(obsolete) bankruptcy
bankruptlike
bankruptlike
adj
Resembling or characteristic of a bankrupt.
bankruptly
bankruptly
adv
In a bankrupt manner.
bankrupts
bankrupts
noun
plural of bankrupt
verb
Third-person singular simple present indicative form of bankrupt
bankruptship
bankrupture
bankrupture
noun
(dated) bankruptcy
bathukolpian
bathukolpian
adj
Alternative spelling of bathykolpian
bathukolpic
bathukolpic
adj
(rare) Deep-bosomed.
bathyplankton
bathyplankton
noun
(biology) plankton living in the bathyal zone
bespecklement
bhaktapur
bibliokelpt
biblioklept
biblioklept
noun
A person who steals books
bibliokleptomania
bibliokleptomania
noun
A mental disorder that produces a compulsion to steal books.
bibliokleptomaniac
bibliokleptomaniac
noun
Someone who suffers from bibliokleptomania.
bkpt
blackpatch
blackplate
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
blockpate
boatkeeper
boatkeeper
noun
(historical) A person who operated small-crew open fishing boats and fishing rooms on the shores around Newfoundland in the early 19th century.
A person in charge of a boat.
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
breakpoint
breakpoint
noun
(meteorology) A location referred to when issuing watches, warnings, or advisories for specific areas.
(physics) The point where surface water waves are breaking in, e.g., oceans or lakes.
(programming) A point in a program at which operation may be interrupted during debugging so that the state of the program at that point can be investigated.
(web development) A particular size at which a web page is designed to switch to a different layout.
verb
(programming, transitive) To flag with a breakpoint.
breakpoints
breakpoints
noun
plural of breakpoint
bricktop
brockport
brookport
bucketshop
bucketshop
noun
Alternative spelling of bucket shop
buckplate
buckpot
bucksport
bumpkinet
hyperkatabolism
hyperkatabolism
noun
Alternative form of hypercatabolism
kabirpanthi
katagelophobia
katagelophobia
noun
Alternative spelling of catagelophobia
kennebunkport
kinetophobia
kleptophobia
kleptophobia
noun
Abnormal fear of theft.
knapbottle
knapbottle
noun
Bladder campion.
packability
packability
noun
The quality or state of being packable
paintbank
parrotbeak
partakable
partakable
adj
(rare) Alternative form of partakeable
pathbreaker
pathbreaker
noun
A person who carries out pathbreaking work.
pathbreaking
pathbreaking
adj
Opening a new path or approach
patricksburg
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
picketboat
picketboat
noun
Alternative form of picket boat
picketboats
picketboats
noun
plural of picketboat
plankbuilt
pocketable
pocketable
adj
Able to be put in one's pocket
pocketableness
pocketbook
pocketbook
noun
(US) a purse or handbag.
(dated) A wallet for paper money.
(figuratively) One's personal budget or economic capacity - the amount one can afford.
(uncommon) A small book, particularly (US) a paperback or (UK) notebook able to fit into a pocket.
pocketbooks
pocketbooks
noun
plural of pocketbook
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
postbook
postbreakfast
postbreakfast
adj
After breakfast.
potbank
potbank
noun
(historical) A bottle-shaped oven used in parts of England for firing pottery.
prebankruptcy
prebankruptcy
adj
Preceding a bankruptcy.
prebreakfast
prebreakfast
adj
Before breakfast.
pricktimber
probankruptcy
probasketball
promptbook
promptbook
noun
An annotated copy of a script used by a prompter
promptbooks
promptbooks
noun
plural of promptbook
pseudobankrupt
pseudobrookite
pseudobrookite
noun
(mineralogy) An orthorhombic-dipyramidal mineral containing iron, magnesium, oxygen, and titanium.
putback
putback
noun
(basketball) A move in which a player scores a basket immediately after securing an offensive rebound
rebankrupt
rebankrupt
verb
(transitive) To bankrupt again.
rebankruptcy
sabbathkeeper
sabbathkeeping
specklebreast
specklebreast
noun
A thrush.
speiskobalt
speiskobalt
noun
smaltite
splitbeak
stablekeeper
stablekeeper
noun
The person who maintains a stable where animals are kept.
stopback
stopbank
stopbank
noun
levee, dyke
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.
sweptback
sweptback
adj
(of a hairstyle) Backswept.
(of an aircraft wing) Angled backwards from its attachment to the fuselage.
tripleback
triskaidekaphobe
triskaidekaphobe
noun
(rare) Someone who suffers from triskaidekaphobia.