Of or pertaining to Abkhazia, a disputed territory in Georgia.
Noun
A native or inhabitant of Abkhazia, a region in the Caucasus.
Proper noun
The Abkhaz language, spoken in Abkhazia, a region in the Caucasus.
ashkhabad
athabaska
babushkas
babushkas
noun
plural of babushka
backaches
backaches
noun
plural of backache
backchain
backchain
verb
(computing, artificial intelligence) To perform inferences, starting with a list of goals (or a hypothesis) and working backwards from the consequent to the antecedent.
backchats
backchats
noun
plural of backchat
verb
Third-person singular simple present indicative form of backchat
backcloth
backcloth
noun
The painted scenery at the back of a stage; the backdrop.
backflash
backflash
noun
Synonym of flashback (“dramatic device”)
The hazardous situation where the flame propagates backward down the hose of an oxyfuel welding and cutting system.
backhands
backhands
noun
plural of backhand
verb
Third-person singular simple present indicative form of backhand
backhatch
backhauls
backhauls
verb
Third-person singular simple present indicative form of backhaul
backhouse
backhouse
noun
(US, Canada, euphemistic) An outhouse: an outbuilding used as a lavatory.
(now dialect) An outbuilding behind the main building.
backshift
backshift
noun
(grammar) The changing of the tense of a verb from present to past in reported speech.
(statistics) A function on a stochastic process whose value on any random variable is the preceding random variable in the process.
verb
(grammar, transitive) To change the tense of a verb from present to past in reported speech.
backshish
backshish
noun
Alternative spelling of baksheesh
backsight
backsight
noun
(surveying) A measurement of a previously shot point, used to set the angle to zero when occupying a new position.
(surveying) A measurement or reading taken back towards a point of known elevation, used to calculate the height of the surveying instrument (theodolite, transit, total station).
The rear sight of a firearm.
verb
(surveying) To shoot a backsight.
backslash
backslash
noun
(computing, rare, proscribed) Used erroneously in reference to, or in reading out, the ordinary slash, that is, the punctuation mark /.
The punctuation mark \.
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verb
(computing, transitive) To escape (a metacharacter) by prepending a backslash that serves as an escape character, thereby forming an escape sequence.
bakehouse
bakehouse
noun
(UK dialectal) Bakery.
A building or an apartment used for the preparing and baking of bread and other baked goods.
A building principally containing ovens.
bakership
bakership
noun
The role or status of a baker.
bakeshops
bakeshops
noun
plural of bakeshop
bakhtiari
bakshaish
baksheesh
baksheesh
noun
(military slang) A minor wound that is severe enough to get a soldier sent away from the front.
in the Middle East, southwest Asia and Eastern Europe: a bribe or tip.
verb
To bribe with a baksheesh.
ballhawks
ballhawks
noun
plural of ballhawk
ballyhack
bankshall
bankshall
noun
(India, historical) A warehouse.
(India, historical) The office of a harbormaster or other port authority.
barkleigh
bashalick
bashkiria
bashkiria
Proper noun
A republic of Russia in the south of the country, with capital Ufa.
battakhin
bechalked
bechalked
adj
Chalk-covered or chalky.
Having a surface that has been written on in chalk.
verb
simple past tense and past participle of bechalk
beknights
beknights
verb
Third-person singular simple present indicative form of beknight
benchmark
benchmark
noun
(computing) A computer program that is executed to assess the performance of the runtime environment.
A standard by which something is evaluated or measured.
A surveyor's mark made on some stationary object and shown on a map; used as a reference point.
verb
(intransitive, followed by at) To give certain results in a benchmark test.
(transitive, intransitive, followed by against) To use something (e.g., a competitor's product) as a standard to improve one's own thing.
benchwork
benchwork
noun
the structure supporting a model railway layout
work performed at a workbench
beothukan
berkshire
berkshire
Proper noun
A inland county of England, bounded by Oxfordshire, Buckinghamshire, Hampshire, Surrey, Greater London and Wiltshire.
Noun
A breed of pig from Berkshire county.
beshackle
bethanked
bethanked
verb
simple past tense and past participle of bethank
bethankit
bewhisker
bewhisker
verb
(transitive) To give or add whiskers to; to put whiskers on.
bhaktapur
billhooks
billhooks
noun
plural of billhook
birchbark
birchbark
noun
A piece of this bark, formerly used for writing on.
The bark of the birch tree, especially the white bark of the paper birch, Betula papyrifera.
birthmark
birthmark
noun
A mark on the skin formed before birth.
blackbush
blackfish
blackfish
noun
(Australia, New Zealand) Any of various dark-coloured fishes of Australasia, especially the luderick, Girella tricuspidata, and a freshwater fish, Gadopsis marmoratus.
(Canada, US) Either of two dark-coloured fish of the west Atlantic, the tautog of New England (Tautoga onitis) and the black sea bass (Centropristis striata).
(chiefly Scotland) The Atlantic salmon, Salmo salar, especially a female after spawning.
A pilot whale, genus Globicephalus (occasionally also used for various other whales).
Any of various dark-coloured fish of the Old World, especially the rudderfish (Centrolophus niger).
verb
(Internet slang, derogatory, of a white person) To adopt signifiers of black identity (for example, by darkening the skin, or wearing traditionally black hairstyles).
(fishing) To go fishing for blackfish.
blackhawk
blackhead
blackhead
noun
(countable) A scaup: any of various ducks of the genus Aythya.
(countable, medicine) A comedo, a skin blemish, a type of acne vulgaris, where a pore becomes clogged with a dark, hard, cheesy keratin-filled substance forming a hard black "head" on the skin's surface.
(uncountable) A form of histomoniasis in poultry, characterized by cyanotic discoloration on the bird's head.
blackwash
blackwash
noun
(chiefly politics) A villainization campaign.
(medicine) A lotion made by mixing calomel and limewater.
(slang, New Zealand) A whitewash victory for any New Zealand national sporting team.
(slang, cricket) A whitewash victory for the West Indies cricket team. Started in the 1984–86 "Blackwash" series of the West Indian cricket team in England in 1984.
(slang, mining) Public campaigns and advertising funded by the coal industry to draw attention away from environmentally unsustainable practices or to justify exclusion from carbon taxes.
verb
(transitive) To blacken, to cover with a black color.
(transitive) To portray in a revisionist fashion as belonging to a black race of people.
(transitive) To villainize, to present in a damaging light.
blockhead
blockhead
noun
(colloquial) A stupid person.
A sideshow performer who hammers nails or similar items through his or her nostril into the nasal cavity; human blockhead.
verb
(rare) To behave in a stupid manner.
To perform as a human blockhead.
blockhole
blockhole
noun
(by extension) The approximate place where the toe of the bat touches the pitch when a batsman is taking guard.
(cricket) A small depression in the pitch caused by batsmen tapping their bats on the point where they have taken block.
blockship
blockship
noun
(nautical) A vessel that is deliberately sunk in order to block a waterway (to prevent it being used by an enemy)
bodycheck
bodycheck
noun
Alternative spelling of body check
boghazkoy
bolshevik
bolshevik
noun
Alternative form of Bolshevik
bookishly
bookishly
adv
In a bookish manner.
bookshelf
bookshelf
noun
A shelf or shelves for storing books for easy visual reference.
bookshops
bookshops
noun
plural of bookshop
boschboks
boschboks
noun
plural of boschbok
boschvark
boshvarks
botchwork
botchwork
noun
Inferior and shoddy work.
boychicks
boychicks
noun
plural of boychick
brakehand
brakehead
brickhood
brushback
brushback
noun
(baseball) Synonym of brushback pitch
brushlike
brushlike
adj
Having the form of a brush.
brushwork
brushwork
noun
(painting) The technique or practice of applying and manipulating paint (usually oil or gouache) in a painting.
buckbrush
buckbrush
noun
Ceanothus spp.
Phyllanthopsis phyllanthoides, maidenbrush
Purshia spp.
Symphoricarpos orbiculatus
buckholts
buckhound
buckhound
noun
(UK) A hound for deer hunting.
buckishly
buckishly
adv
In a buckish manner.
buckshees
buckshees
noun
plural of buckshee
buckshots
buckshots
noun
plural of buckshot
buckteeth
buckteeth
noun
plural of bucktooth
buckthorn
buckthorn
noun
Hippophae (family Elaeagnaceae), the sea buckthorn.
also genus Frangula, especially Frangula alnus, the alder buckthorn.
especially genus Rhamnus,
especially the common buckthorn or purging buckthorn; Rhamnus cathartica.
bucktooth
bucktooth
noun
An upper tooth that protrudes further than the bottom teeth.
buckwheat
buckwheat
noun
(Western US) Any of the wild buckwheats in the genus Eriogonum.
(cooking) The fruit of this plant used as a pseudocereal.
(derogatory, offensive, ethnic slur, US) Curly hair of a black person.
(slang) A slow and painful murder by the Mafia as a warning to others.
(slang) Pubic hair.
An Asian plant, of the species Fagopyrum esculentum. [from 16th c.]
buhlworks
bulkheads
bulkheads
noun
plural of bulkhead
bullwhack
bullwhack
verb
(US) To work as a bullwhacker, driving a bullock team.
bunkhouse
bunkhouse
noun
A building providing sleeping quarters for workers or guests, especially in a rural setting.
burkhardt
bushbucks
bushbucks
noun
plural of bushbuck
bushmaker
bushwhack
bushwhack
verb
to ambush
to fight, as a guerilla, especially in wooded country
to travel through thick wooded country, cutting away scrub to make progress
cashbooks
cashbooks
noun
plural of cashbook
chapbooks
chapbooks
noun
plural of chapbook
checkable
checkable
adj
(finance, not comparable) Alternative form of chequable
Able to be checked or verified.
Able to be marked with a check mark, or tick.
checkback
checkback
noun
(bridge) A play of a designated card as a prompt to one's partner to respond with a play indicating the kinds of card he/she holds.
checkbird
checkbite
checkbite
noun
(dentistry) An interocclusal record made by placing a plastic material (that subsequently hardens) between the upper and lower teeth
checkbits
checkbook
checkbook
noun
Alternative form of chequebook
cheekbone
cheekbone
noun
The small prominent bone of the cheek.
chokeable
chokebore
chokebore
noun
A shotgun that is made with such a bore.
In a shotgun, a bore which is tapered to a slightly smaller diameter at a short distance to the rear of the muzzle, in order to prevent the rapid dispersion of the shot.
verb
(transitive) To provide (a gun) with a chokebore.
dabchicks
dabchicks
noun
plural of dabchick
ditchbank
doukhobor
doukhobor
Noun
A member of a religious group of Russian origin who rejected the Czarist government of the late 1800s and the Russian Orthodox priests, icons, and rituals, aiming to internalize the living spirit of God in each individual.
dukhobors
fishyback
flashback
flashback
noun
(authorship) A dramatic device in which an earlier event is inserted into the normal chronological flow of a narrative.
(databases) A query that operates against data from an earlier time, before it was changed.
(psychology) A vivid mental image of a past trauma or other sensation that the trauma is happening in the present, especially one that recurs.
A similar recurrence of the effects of a hallucinogenic drug.
The condition of the flame propagating down the hose of an oxy-fuel welding system.
verb
(intransitive) To undergo a flashback; to experience a vivid mental image from the past.
hackberry
hackberry
noun
(uncountable) The wood of these plants.
Any of several deciduous trees of the genus Celtis, widespread over the Northern Hemisphere, having small fruit.
Prunus padus, a species of cherry tree, of Eurasia, or its berry.
halfbacks
halfbacks
noun
plural of halfback
halfbeaks
halfbeaks
noun
plural of halfbeak
handbooks
handbooks
noun
plural of handbook
handbrake
handbrake
noun
(mechanical engineering, automotive, rail transport) A brake in a vehicle, set by hand, and usually locking on until released by hand, enabling its use when parked.
(mechanical engineering, automotive, rail transport) The mechanism, particularly the locking hand-operated lever or foot-operated toggle lever in a motorcar or the hand-operated crank on a railcar, which is used to set and release such a brake.
verb
To apply the handbrake in a vehicle.
handybook
hardbacks
hardbacks
noun
plural of hardback
hatchback
hatchback
noun
A car with a sloping, hinged rear door that opens upwards.
The door itself.
hawkbills
hawkbills
noun
plural of hawkbill
hawksbeak
hawksbill
hawksbill
noun
A tropical marine turtle, Eretmochelys imbricata, that is a source of tortoiseshell.
heavyback
holbrooke
holdbacks
holdbacks
noun
plural of holdback
hornbooks
hornbooks
noun
plural of hornbook
hornbrook
horseback
horseback
adv
On the back of a horse.
noun
(countable) A ridge of sand, gravel, and boulders.
(usually with on, upon, etc.) The back of a horse.
hubmaking
huckaback
huckaback
noun
A type of coarse, absorbent cotton or linen fabric used for making towels.
humpbacks
humpbacks
noun
plural of humpback
verb
Third-person singular simple present indicative form of humpback
hunchback
hunchback
noun
(derogatory) A person with kyphosis, a spinal deformity that causes a hunched over appearance.
A deformed upper spinal column in the shape of a hump in the back.
One who is stooped or hunched over.
hymnbooks
hymnbooks
noun
plural of hymnbook
kabbalahs
kabuzuchi
kaibartha
kashubian
khabarovo
khichabia
kiboshing
kiboshing
verb
present participle of kibosh
kinksbush
kirshbaum
kizilbash
kizilbash
Proper noun
a nomadic people of Turkey
kneebrush
kobayashi
kobenhavn
kuibyshev
kurbashed
kurbashed
verb
simple past tense and past participle of kurbash
kurbashes
kurbashes
noun
plural of kurbash
lebkuchen
lebkuchen
noun
A traditional German Christmas biscuit form of gingerbread.
lehmbruck
marshbuck
marshbuck
noun
Alternative form of marsh buck
matchbook
matchbook
noun
A small folded sheet of cardboard containing rows of cardboard matches, generally with a striker on the outside.
notchback
notchback
noun
A motor car whose rear window makes an angle with its back segment
philbrook
pinchback
pinchbeck
pinchbeck
adj
(not comparable) Made of pinchbeck.
Sham; spurious, artificial; being a cheap substitution; only superficially attractive.
noun
An alloy of copper and zinc once used as imitation gold for cheap jewelry.