(US, Canada, euphemistic) An outhouse: an outbuilding used as a lavatory.
(now dialect) An outbuilding behind the main building.
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
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.
barkleigh
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.
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.
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.
bodycheck
bodycheck
noun
Alternative spelling of body check
bolshevik
bolshevik
noun
Alternative form of Bolshevik
bookshelf
bookshelf
noun
A shelf or shelves for storing books for easy visual reference.
brakehand
brakehead
brushlike
brushlike
adj
Having the form of a brush.
buckshees
buckshees
noun
plural of buckshee
buckteeth
buckteeth
noun
plural of bucktooth
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.]
bulkheads
bulkheads
noun
plural of bulkhead
bunkhouse
bunkhouse
noun
A building providing sleeping quarters for workers or guests, especially in a rural setting.
bushmaker
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.
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.
halfbeaks
halfbeaks
noun
plural of halfbeak
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.
hawksbeak
heavyback
holbrooke
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.
kneebrush
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
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.
rhinebeck
shakeable
shakeable
adj
Alternative spelling of shakable
sheepback
sheepback
noun
(geography, glaciology) A rock formation created by glacial erosion.
shelfback
shellback
shellback
noun
A sailor who has crossed the equator.
A worldly sailor.
shellbark
shellbark
noun
A species of hickory (Carya laciniosa) whose outer bark is loose and peeling.
The nut of this tree.
shockable
shockable
adj
(medicine) Capable of being treated by defibrillator.
Able to be shocked.
Easily shocked.
shoeblack
shoeblack
noun
One who cleans and polishes shoes (and boots) as an occupation.
shrublike
shrublike
adj
Resembling a shrub.
smokebush
smokebush
noun
Any of several Australian shrubs and trees, of the genus Conospermum, that have flowers in dense spikes.
subhooked
subhooked
adj
Almost or imperfectly hooked.
thinkable
thinkable
adj
(rare) Morally acceptable or legal.
Able to be thought or imagined; conceivable.
thumblike
thumblike
adj
Resembling a thumb.
tithebook
umbethink
umbethink
verb
(dialectal, chiefly Northern England, Scotland) To recall to mind; remember; recollect.