(music, slang) A fan or performer of backpack rap.
A traveler whose luggage consists of a backpack; especially, such a traveler who uses hostels, public transport, and other inexpensive services.
backpackers
backpackers
noun
A hostel catering to backpackers.
plural of backpacker
backpedal
backpedal
verb
(intransitive) To pedal backwards on a bicycle.
(intransitive) To step backwards.
(intransitive, idiomatic) To distance oneself from an earlier claim or statement; back off from an idea.
backpedaled
backpedaled
verb
(US) simple past tense and past participle of backpedal
backpedaling
backpedaling
noun
The act of distancing oneself from a previously supported idea, action, behaviour, etc.; a U-turn or flip-flop.
verb
(US) present participle of backpedal
backpedalled
backpedalled
verb
(British spelling) simple past tense and past participle of backpedal
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.
backplanes
backplanes
noun
plural of backplane
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.
backpointer
backpointers
backrope
backropes
backscraper
backslapped
backslapped
verb
simple past tense and past participle of backslap
backslapper
backslapper
noun
One who makes a show of liking another person with profuse or excessive displays of camaraderie, such as vigorous hand clasping, back-slapping, hearty words of greeting, etc.
backslappers
backslappers
noun
plural of backslapper
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.
backspaced
backspaced
verb
simple past tense and past participle of backspace
backspacefile
backspacer
backspacer
noun
A mechanism in a typewriter that controls backspacing.
backspaces
backspaces
noun
plural of backspace
verb
Third-person singular simple present indicative form of backspace
backspear
backspeer
backspeir
backspier
backspierer
backsplashes
backsplashes
noun
plural of backsplash
backsplice
backsplice
noun
Such a knot
verb
To secure the ends of a twisted rope within the rope itself in order to prevent fraying
backspliced
backspliced
verb
simple past tense and past participle of backsplice
backspread
backstamped
backstopped
backstopped
verb
simple past tense and past participle of backstop
backstrapped
backswept
backswept
adj
Swept back.
bakeapple
bakeapple
noun
(Atlantic Canada) The cloudberry, Rubus chamaemorus
bakepan
bakership
bakership
noun
The role or status of a baker.
bakeshop
bakeshop
noun
A shop where baked goods are made and sold.
bakeshops
bakeshops
noun
plural of bakeshop
bankruptcies
bankruptcies
noun
plural of bankruptcy
bankrupted
bankrupted
verb
simple past tense and past participle of bankrupt
bankruptlike
bankruptlike
adj
Resembling or characteristic of a bankrupt.
bankrupture
bankrupture
noun
(dated) bankruptcy
barkeep
barkeep
noun
(informal) a bartender
barkeeper
barkeeper
noun
A bartender: a person preparing and serving drinks at a bar.
barkeepers
barkeepers
noun
plural of barkeeper
barkeeps
barkeeps
noun
plural of barkeep
barkpeel
barkpeeler
barkpeeling
belknap
beprank
bepranked
bespake
bespake
verb
(archaic) simple past tense of bespeak
bespeak
bespeak
noun
(archaic) A request for a specific performance; a benefit performance, by a patron.
verb
(intransitive) To speak up or out; exclaim; speak.
(transitive) To betoken; show; indicate; foretell; suggest; allude to.
(transitive) To speak about; tell of; relate; discuss.
(transitive) To speak for beforehand; engage in advance; make arrangements for; order or reserve in advance.
(transitive) To stipulate, solicit, ask for, or request, as in a favour.
(transitive, archaic) To forbode; foretell.
(transitive, archaic, poetic) To speak to; address.
bespeakable
bespeaker
bespeaker
noun
One who bespeaks.
bespeaking
bespeaking
verb
present participle of bespeak
bespeaks
bespeaks
verb
Third-person singular simple present indicative form of bespeak
bibliokleptomania
bibliokleptomania
noun
A mental disorder that produces a compulsion to steal books.
bibliokleptomaniac
bibliokleptomaniac
noun
Someone who suffers from bibliokleptomania.
blackplate
blacktopped
blacktopped
verb
simple past tense and past participle of blacktop
blankenship
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
breakup
breakup
noun
(Alaska and northern Canada, seasons, time) The time of year during which winter ice covering bodies of water disintegrates; more generally, spring.
A loss of emotional control; a breakdown.
The act of breaking up; disintegration or division.
The termination of a friendship or a romantic relationship.
breakups
breakups
noun
plural of breakup
buckplate
dikephobia
doublespeak
doublespeak
noun
Any language deliberately constructed to disguise or distort its actual meaning, often by employing euphemism or ambiguity.
doublespeaks
forebespeak
humpbacked
humpbacked
adj
Being a humpback bridge.
Having a hump on the back, either naturally or due to a medical condition.
verb
simple past tense and past participle of humpback
hyperbrachyskelic
hyperkatabolism
hyperkatabolism
noun
Alternative form of hypercatabolism
kapfenberg
katagelophobia
katagelophobia
noun
Alternative spelling of catagelophobia
keepable
keepable
adj
That can be kept or is worth keeping.
noun
Something that can or should be kept.
kenophobia
kenophobia
noun
An abnormal fear of empty spaces.
keraunophobia
keraunophobia
Noun
An abnormal fear of thunder and lightning.
kinetophobia
kleptophobia
kleptophobia
noun
Abnormal fear of theft.
knapbottle
knapbottle
noun
Bladder campion.
lampblacked
lampblacked
verb
simple past tense and past participle of lampblack
nobackspace
nonpickable
nonpickable
adj
Not pickable.
openbeak
packable
packable
adj
Capable of being packed.
packbuilder
palebuck
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.
paperbacked
paperbacked
adj
Having the sort of flexible binding characteristic of a paperback book.
paperbacks
paperbacks
noun
plural of paperback
paperbark
paperbark
noun
Any of several Australian plants, of the genus Melaleuca, that have flaky bark
parabrake
parabrake
noun
Synonym of drag parachute
parbake
parbake
verb
(transitive, cooking) To bake (bread or dough) partially so it can be rapidly frozen for storage.
parbreak
parbreak
noun
(archaic) Vomit; vomiting.
verb
(obsolete) To vomit, spew out.
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
parkersburg
parkersburg
Proper noun
A city in West Virginia, United States
parkesburg
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
pawnbroker
pawnbroker
noun
A person who makes monetary loans at interest, taking personal property as security – which may be sold if not redeemed.
pawnbrokerage
pawnbrokerage
noun
(countable) A pawnbroker's shop.
(uncountable) The business of pawnbroking.
pawnbrokeress
pawnbrokeress
noun
A female pawnbroker.
pawnbrokering
pawnbrokering
noun
Synonym of pawnbroking
pawnbrokers
pawnbrokers
noun
plural of pawnbroker
pawnbrokery
pawnbrokery
noun
A pawnbroker's shop.
The trade of pawnbroking.
peacebreaker
peacebreaker
noun
One who disturbs the public peace.
peacebreaking
peacebreaking
noun
Disturbing or destroying a state of peace.
peekaboo
peekaboo
adj
(boxing) Being or using a style of boxing with the hands kept close to the face to defend it.
(of clothing) with holes, slits or transparent fabric to reveal what is normally hidden.
intj
Boo (when showing oneself unexpectedly).
noun
(games) A game for a small child in which one covers one's face, then suddenly reveals it, saying "Boo!" or "Peekaboo!".
verb
(intransitive) To peep out.
peekaboos
peekaboos
verb
Third-person singular simple present indicative form of peekaboo
pennebaker
pequabuck
pickabacked
pickabacked
verb
simple past tense and past participle of pickaback
pickable
pickable
adj
Able to be picked.
pickableness
pickelhaube
pickelhaube
noun
(historical) A spiked helmet worn by German troops, especially during the First World War.
picketboat
picketboat
noun
Alternative form of picket boat
picketboats
picketboats
noun
plural of picketboat
piggybacked
piggybacked
verb
simple past tense and past participle of piggyback
pimpleback
pimpleback
noun
Quadrula pustulosa, an American freshwater mussel.
pinebank
playbroker
playbroker
noun
An agent involved in procuring and selling theatrical plays.
pocketable
pocketable
adj
Able to be put in one's pocket
pocketableness
pokable
pokable
adj
(slang, vulgar) Sexually desirable.
Capable of being poked.
postbreakfast
postbreakfast
adj
After breakfast.
prebake
prebake
noun
A technology for producing aluminium in which the anodes are baked in large gas-fired ovens before being lowered into the electrolytic solution.
verb
(transitive) To bake (a crust, an industrial compound, etc.) in advance.
prebankruptcy
prebankruptcy
adj
Preceding a bankruptcy.
preblockade
preblockade
adj
Before a blockade.
preblockaded
preblockading
prebreakfast
prebreakfast
adj
Before breakfast.
prickleback
prickleback
noun
Any of the fish in the family Stichaeidae.
The stickleback
prisonbreak
probasketball
problockade
provokable
provokable
adj
That may be provoked.
pseudobankrupt
purbeckian
raspberrylike
raspberrylike
adj
Resembling or characteristic of a raspberry (plant or fruit).