A transuranic chemical element (symbol Bk) with an atomic number of 97.
blackbrush
blackbrush
noun
A shrub of the genus Coleogyne
blackburn
blackburn
Proper noun
A town in Lancashire, England
blackcurrant
blackcurrant
noun
A shrub, Ribes nigrum, that produces small, very dark purple, edible berries.
The berry borne by this shrub.
blackfigured
blackguard
blackguard
noun
(archaic) A man who uses foul language in front of a woman, typically a woman of high standing in society.
(old-fashioned, usually used only of men) A scoundrel; an unprincipled contemptible person; an untrustworthy person.
The lowest servant in a household charged with pots, pans, and other kitchen equipment.
verb
(intransitive) To act like a blackguard; to be a scoundrel.
(transitive) To revile or abuse in scurrilous language.
blackguarded
blackguarded
verb
simple past tense and past participle of blackguard
blackguardism
blackguardism
noun
Blackguardly behaviour or language.
blackguardize
blackguardize
verb
To make blackguardly.
blackguardly
blackguardly
adj
Characteristic of a blackguard.
blackguardry
blackguards
blackguards
noun
plural of blackguard
blackmur
blacksburg
blakesburg
blockaderunning
blockbuster
blockbuster
noun
(US) One who engages in blockbusting (technique encouraging people to sell property).
(informal) Something, especially an event or a film, book or other creative work, that is intended to achieve high sales (perhaps indicated by large budgets or high advertising spending) or that is conceived on a large or epic scale
(informal) Something, such as a film or book, that sustains exceptional and widespread popularity and achieves enormous sales, as opposed to a box office bomb.
(slang) Anything very large or powerful; a whopper.
A high-explosive bomb used for the purposes of demolishing extensive areas, such as a city block.
A large firework of the firecracker type; an M-80.
blockbusters
blockbusters
noun
plural of blockbuster
blocksburg
bloodsucker
bloodsucker
noun
(by extension) Any parasite.
(by extension) One who attempts to take as much from others as possible; a leech.
A vampire.
An animal that drinks the blood of others, especially by sucking blood through a puncture wound; a hemovore.
The changeable lizard (Calotes versicolor).
bloodsuckers
bloodsuckers
noun
plural of bloodsucker
blunker
boulework
boulework
noun
(woodworking) Obsolete form of buhl work.
boullework
bruckle
bruckle
adj
(dialectal) Frail, weak, fragile.
bruckled
bruckleness
brushlike
brushlike
adj
Having the form of a brush.
bruskly
bruskly
adv
Alternative spelling of brusquely
brutelike
brutelike
adj
Resembling or characteristic of a brute.
buckler
buckler
noun
(nautical) A block of wood or plate of iron made to fit a hawse hole, or the circular opening in a half-port, to prevent water from entering when the vessel pitches.
(obsolete) A shield resembling the Roman scutum. In modern usage, a smaller variety of shield is usually implied by this term.
(zoology) One of the large, bony, external plates found on many ganoid fishes.
(zoology) The anterior segment of the shell of a trilobite.
A kind of shield, of various shapes and sizes, held in the hand or worn on the arm (usually the left), for protecting the front of the body. In the sword and buckler play of the Middle Ages in England, the buckler was a small shield, used not to cover the body but to stop or parry blows.
One who buckles something.
verb
(transitive, obsolete) To shield; to defend.
bucklered
bucklered
verb
simple past tense and past participle of buckler
bucklering
bucklering
verb
present participle of buckler
bucklers
bucklers
noun
plural of buckler
buhlwork
buhlwork
noun
(woodworking) Alternative form of buhl work
buhlworks
bulker
bulker
noun
(nautical) A bulk dry goods cargo ship.
(nautical) A person employed to ascertain the bulk or size of goods, in order to fix the amount of freight or dues payable on them.
A person who bulks (gains body mass).
Anything, such as a dietary supplement or an exercise, that helps a person to gain body mass.
bulkier
bulkier
adj
comparative form of bulky: more bulky
bulletmaker
bulletmaker
noun
A manufacturer of bullets.
bullocker
bullsticker
bullsucker
bullwhacker
bullwhacker
noun
(US) The driver of a bullock team.
bullwork
bullyrock
bullyrook
bulrushlike
bulrushlike
adj
Resembling or characteristic of a bulrush.
bulwark
bulwark
noun
(figurative) Any means of defence or security.
(nautical) The planking or plating along the sides of a nautical vessel above her gunwale that reduces the likelihood of seas washing over the gunwales and people being washed overboard.
A breakwater.
A defense or safeguard.
A defensive wall or rampart.
verb
(transitive) To fortify something with a wall or rampart.
(transitive) To provide protection of defense for something.
bulwarked
bulwarked
verb
simple past tense and past participle of bulwark
bulwarking
bulwarking
verb
present participle of bulwark
bulwarks
bulwarks
noun
plural of bulwark
verb
Third-person singular simple present indicative form of bulwark
bunkerville
burkesville
burkettsville
burkeville
burkittsville
burkle
burkley
burkville
burlesk
burlesk
noun
Obsolete form of burlesque.
burlesks
burlesks
noun
plural of burlesk
butlerlike
butlerlike
adj
Resembling or characteristic of a butler.
butterflylike
butterflylike
adj
Resembling or characteristic of a butterfly.
butterlike
butterlike
adj
Resembling butter or some aspect of it.
buttermilk
buttermilk
noun
Cultured buttermilk, a fermented dairy product produced from cow's milk, with a characteristically sour taste.
The liquid left over after producing butter from full cream milk by the churning process, also called traditional buttermilk.
buttermilks
buttermilks
noun
plural of buttermilk
buttresslike
buttresslike
adj
Resembling or characteristic of a buttress.
buzzardlike
buzzardlike
adj
Resembling or characteristic of a buzzard.
cherublike
cherublike
adj
Resembling or characteristic of a cherub.
clarksburg
clarksburg
Proper noun
A city in West Virginia, United States
cocklebur
cocklebur
noun
Any of the coarse composite weeds of the genus Xanthium, with a prickly fruit.
counterblockade
counterblockade
noun
A blockade set up in opposition to another blockade.
counterblockades
counterblockades
noun
plural of counterblockade
curblike
curblike
adj
Alternative form of kerblike
hackleburg
huckleberries
huckleberries
noun
plural of huckleberry
huckleberry
huckleberry
noun
(US, slang) The person one is looking for; the right person for the job.
(slang) A person of little consequence.
A shrub growing this fruit.
A small amount, a short distance, as in the phrase huckleberry above a persimmon.
A small round fruit of a dark blue or red color of several plants in the related genera Vaccinium and Gaylussacia.
verb
(intransitive) To pick huckleberries.
keratoglobus
keratoglobus
noun
(pathology) A disorder of the eye in which the cornea is enlarged and globular in shape.
kilbourne
klausenburg
knobular
knobular
adj
knobby; knob-shaped
knuckleballer
knuckleballer
noun
(baseball) A baseball pitcher known for throwing knuckleballs.
koeberliniaceous
lehmbruck
lieberkuhn
lockbourne
lockesburg
lubbercock
lubberlike
lubberlike
adj
Like a lubber; lubberly.
lumberjack
lumberjack
noun
A lumberjacket.
A person whose work is to fell trees.
verb
(transitive) To work as a lumberjack, cutting down trees.
lumberjacket
lumberjacket
noun
A lumberjack shirt.
lumberjacks
lumberjacks
noun
plural of lumberjack
malbrouck
malbrouck
noun
An arboreal monkey from Africa, Chlorocebus cynosuros.
markleysburg
mecklenburg
mecklenburg
Proper noun
An area in Baltic northern Germany.
mecklenburgian
microleukoblast
multibreak
multibreak
adj
Involving more than one break.
neighbourlike
neighbourlike
adj
(Britain, Canada) Synonym of neighbourly
overbulk
overbulk
verb
To oppress by bulk; to tower over.
overbulkily
overbulkiness
overbulky
overbulky
adj
Excessively bulky.
packbuilder
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
rebuckle
rebuckle
verb
(transitive) To fasten again by means of a buckle.
rebuckled
rebuckled
verb
simple past tense and past participle of rebuckle
rebuckling
rebuckling
verb
present participle of rebuckle
rebukable
rebukable
adj
Deserving a rebuke; shameful.
rebukeable
rebukeable
adj
Alternative form of rebukable
rebukeful
rebukeful
adj
(obsolete) Containing rebuke; of the nature of rebuke.
rebukefully
rebukefully
adv
In a rebukeful manner.
rebukefulness
rebukefulness
noun
The quality of being rebukeful.
rebukingly
rebukingly
adv
In a rebuking manner.
rebulk
rubberlike
rubberlike
adj
Having the characteristics of rubber
rubblework
rubblework
noun
A form of masonry made of large stones loosely thrown together and then optionally grouted.
rubylike
rubylike
adj
Resembling or characteristic of a ruby.
scrublike
shrublike
shrublike
adj
Resembling a shrub.
skullbanker
subbrachyskelic
subclerk
subclerk
noun
A subordinate clerk; an underclerk.
subclerks
subclerks
noun
plural of subclerk
subclerkship
subclerkship
noun
The state or business of a subclerk.
submakroskelic
superblock
superblock
noun
(architecture, urban planning) A very large block of buildings.
(computing) A segment of metadata describing the file system on a block device.
superblocks
superblocks
noun
plural of superblock
swashbuckler
swashbuckler
noun
A daring adventurer.
A kind of period adventure story with flashy action and lighthearted tone.
A swordsman or fencer who engages in showy or extravagant sword play.
swashbucklerdom
swashbucklering
swashbucklering
adj
Alternative form of swashbuckling
swashbucklers
swashbucklers
noun
plural of swashbuckler
swashbucklery
swashbucklery
noun
adventure and excitement; that which is swashbuckling
ticklenburg
ticklenburg
noun
A coarse, mixed linen fabric made to be sold in the West Indies.
ticklenburgs
ticklenburgs
noun
plural of ticklenburg
troublemaker
troublemaker
noun
A complainer.
One who causes trouble, especially one who does so deliberately.
troublemakers
troublemakers
noun
plural of troublemaker
troublemaking
troublemaking
adj
Causing trouble.
noun
Causing trouble; acting in a disruptive way
tuberclelike
tuberclelike
adj
Resembling or characteristic of a tubercle.
tumblerlike
tumblerlike
adj
Resembling or characteristic of a tumbler (in various senses).
turbanlike
turbanlike
adj
Resembling or characteristic of a turban.
turbinelike
turbinelike
adj
Resembling or characteristic of a turbine.
turbotlike
turbotlike
adj
Resembling or characteristic of a turbot.
turnbuckle
turnbuckle
noun
(nautical) A link threaded on both ends of a short bar which is used to pull objects together. (FM 55-501)
A coupling device consisting of two eyelets or other connection points connected in screw threads. The joint in between can be turned to shorten or lengthen the device with mechanical advantage provided by the screw threads.