(intransitive, idiomatic) To distance oneself from an earlier claim or statement; back off from an idea.
backpiece
backpiece
noun
A decorated comb that attaches a veil to the back of a bride's head.
A large tattoo on a person's back.
A piece or plate of armour protecting a person's back.
backplane
backplane
noun
(electronics) A circuit board that connects several connectors in parallel to each other, so that each pin of each connector is linked to the same relative pin of all the other connectors, forming a computer bus.
backplate
backplate
noun
(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.
backropes
backspace
backspace
noun
(computing) A keyboard key used for removing a character behind the cursor, and moving the cursor one position backwards.
(computing) The non-printable text character representing a backspace.
The key on a typewriter that moves the head one position backwards.
verb
(computing) To move a magnetic tape to a previous block.
(computing) To remove a character behind a cursor.
backspear
backspeer
backspeir
backspier
backswept
backswept
adj
Swept back.
bailpiece
bailpiece
noun
(law) A piece of paper containing a recognizance or bail bond.
baroscope
baroscope
noun
barometer
beauchamp
beauchamp
Proper noun
The name of several places in Northern France
of Norman origin
becapping
becarpets
becarpets
verb
Third-person singular simple present indicative form of becarpet
beclasped
beclasped
verb
simple past tense and past participle of beclasp
becompass
becrampon
becripple
becripple
verb
(transitive) To make cripple; make lame.
bepatched
bepatched
adj
Covered in patches.
bepicture
bespecked
bespeckle
bespeckle
verb
To add speckles.
bioscopes
bioscopes
noun
plural of bioscope
biplicate
biplicate
adj
Twice folded together.
blockpate
browpiece
bucephala
buckplate
buttercup
buttercup
noun
Affectionate or ironic term of address.
Any flower of the genus Narcissus; a daffodil.
Any of many herbs, of the genus Ranunculus, having yellow flowers; the crowfoot.
capablest
capablest
adj
(nonstandard) superlative form of capable: most capable
caperbush
caperbush
noun
Alternative form of caper bush
carpetbag
carpetbag
adj
(chiefly US) Having the characteristics of carpetbaggers.
noun
A traveling bag made from scraps of carpet and widely used in the United States (and elsewhere) in the 19ᵗʰ century.
verb
(chiefly US) To come to a place or organisation with which one has no previous connection with the sole or primary aim of personal gain, especially political or financial gain.
carpetweb
chippable
chippable
adj
Capable of being removed by chipping.
clapbread
clapbread
noun
clapcake
clippable
clippable
Adjective
Capable of being clipped.
comptible
comptible
adj
(obsolete) accountable; responsible
(obsolete) sensitive
copulable
copulable
adj
Able to be sexually penetrated.
crabapple
crabapple
noun
An unpleasant person; a person who is crabby.
Any of the wild species of apple tree, genus Malus, which generally yield small, bitter fruit (in comparison to domestic apples, Malus domestica).
cryoprobe
cryoprobe
noun
(surgery) An instrument used to apply extreme cold to a tissue as part of cryosurgery.
cupbearer
cupbearer
noun
(chiefly historical) One who ceremonially fills and hands out the cups in which a drink is served.
cynophobe
cynophobe
noun
A person with cynophobia.
ecophobia
ecophobia
noun
A feeling of powerlessness to prevent cataclysmic environmental change, apocalypse, etc.
Fear of one’s home.
epibiotic
epibiotic
adj
Living on the surface of another organism.
escapable
escapable
adj
Able to be escaped or run from
Not needed or necessary
excepable
hypercube
hypercube
noun
(computing) A computer architecture in which each processor is connected to n others, by analogy with a hypercube of n dimensions.
(computing) A data cube with more than three dimensions.
(geometry) A geometric figure in four or more dimensions, which is analogous to a cube in three dimensions. Specifically, the n-dimensional equivalent of a cube for any non-negative integer n.
(geometry) Such a figure in four dimensions; a tesseract.
impacable
impacable
adj
(obsolete) Not to be appeased or quieted.
incapable
incapable
adj
Not capable (of doing something); unable.
Not in a state to receive; not receptive; not susceptible; not able to admit.
noun
(dated) One who is morally or mentally weak or inefficient; an imbecile; a simpleton.
neophobic
neophobic
adj
Afflicted by neophobia; fearing or disliking what is new
noun
(psychology) A person or animal that fears or dislikes new or novel experiences or food.
occupable
occupable
adj
Alternative form of occupiable
paceboard
paceboard
noun
(medicine) A board marked with symbols, used to help a person with multiple sclerosis to time their speaking so as to be clearly intelligible.
Obsolete form of pasteboard.
pachelbel
paperback
paperback
adj
(of a book) Having flexible binding.
noun
A book with flexible binding.
verb
(transitive, publishing) To issue or publish (a book) in a paperback edition.
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
parchable
pardubice
patchable
patchable
adj
Able to be patched into an electrical circuit or system.
Able to be repaired; mendable.
peaceable
peaceable
adj
Characterized by peace; peaceful, tranquil.
Favouring peace rather than conflict; not aggressive, tending to avoid violence (of people, actions etc.).
peaceably
peaceably
adv
In a peaceable manner.
peachblow
peachblow
adj
(ceramics) Of a delicate purplish-pink colour suggesting peach blooms; applied especially to a style of Chinese porcelain.
penobscot
penobscot
Proper noun
A Native American nation or tribe.
An extinct Abenaki (Algonquian) language, spoken in parts of the northeastern United States and in Quebec, related to Western Abenaki.
A town in Hancock County, Maine, USA.
Noun
One of a sovereign people indigenous to what is now Maritime Canada and the northeastern United States, particularly Maine.
pequabuck
perchable
perchable
adj
Suitable for perching upon.
perscribe
phlebitic
phlebitic
adj
Of or pertaining to phlebitis.
pibroches
pieceable
pinchable
pinchable
adj
Suitable for being pinched.
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.
pitchable
pitchable
adj
(aviation) Able to be pitched.
(of a tent or similar structure) Possible to pitch (to set up).
Easy to pitch (to promote, advertise, or sell).
placeable
placeable
adj
Capable of being placed.
noun
(business) A jobseeker who is considered by an employment agency to be suitable for placement, but not employment, with a client company.
(linguistic morphology) Something which is conventionally associated with a specific place; for example, blinds go on windows, carpets go on floors.
(translation studies) In computer-aided translation, an element, such as a symbol or numeral, that is the same in both source and target segments and can therefore be copied directly from one into the other.
placeboes
placeboes
noun
plural of placebo
poachable
poachable
adj
Capable of being poached, or stolen.
Suitable for being cooked by poaching.
prebiotic
prebiotic
adj
(of a food) Not digestible, but beneficial.
Before the advent of life.
noun
(chiefly in the plural) A substance in food that is hard to digest and promotes the growth of beneficial intestinal microorganisms.
prebuccal
prebuccal
adj
(anatomy, zoology) Situated in front of the mouth
precombat
precombat
adj
Before combat.
preobject
presbytic
presbytic
adj
presbyopic
prescribe
prescribe
verb
(law) To develop or assert a right; to make a claim (by prescription).
(medicine) To order (a drug or medical device) for use by a particular patient (under licensed authority).
To specify by writing as a required procedure or ritual; to lay down authoritatively as a guide, direction, or rule of action.
priceable
priceable
adj
Capable of being priced.
priceably
proscribe
proscribe
verb
(transitive) To banish or exclude.
(transitive) To denounce.
(transitive) To forbid or prohibit.
proverbic
proverbic
adj
Of or relating to proverbs; proverbial.
pubescent
pubescent
adj
(botany, zoology) Covered with down or fine hairs.
At or just after the age of puberty.
noun
An individual who is going through puberty.
Synonym: See Thesaurus:pubescent
publicate
publicate
verb
(rare, transitive) To publish or make publicly known.
publicize
publicize
verb
(American spelling) Alternative spelling of publicise
publicute
punchable
punchable
adj
(colloquial) Deserving to be punched or struck, or evoking the desire to do so.
Suitable for being punched or perforated.
reprobacy
reprobacy
noun
reprobation
republica
republics
republics
noun
plural of republic
sceptibly
scrapable
scrapable
adj
Alternative form of scrapeable
sheepback
sheepback
noun
(geography, glaciology) A rock formation created by glacial erosion.
spaceband
spaceband
noun
In a linotype machine, a kind of extensible wedge used to produce spaces of variable width in the text.
spiceable
spicebush
spicebush
noun
(US) The common spicebush, Lindera benzoin, whose leaves have a distinctive strong citrusy aroma.
Any plant in the genus Calycanthus
subepochs
subepochs
noun
plural of subepoch
subspaces
subspaces
noun
plural of subspace
supercube
supercube
noun
(mathematics, rare) An analogue of the square or cube in arbitrary dimension: 0,1ⁿ along with the (n-1)-dimensional balls joining every 2ⁿ⁻¹ such points that share a coordinate, or any space equivalent.
sweepback
sweepback
noun
The rearward angle of the leading edge of a wing, or airfoil.
sweptback
sweptback
adj
(of a hairstyle) Backswept.
(of an aircraft wing) Angled backwards from its attachment to the fuselage.