In the manner of a bachelor; (as though) living alone as a single man.
backwash
backwash
noun
(economics) The situation where economic growth in one area harms other areas by attracting people and business away from those areas.
(nautical) The backward flow of water from oars or propeller or breaking waves.
The result or consequence of an event; an aftermath.
The saliva, spit or food particles that have flowed back into a drink after someone has drunk from it.
The similar flow of air from an aircraft engine.
verb
(transitive) To affect with backwash.
To clean the oil from wool after combing.
To operate a water filter in the reverse direction in order to clean it.
backwashed
backwashed
verb
simple past tense and past participle of backwash
backwasher
backwasher
noun
(textiles) A machine used for washing wool after carding to remove the impurities.
backwashes
backwashes
noun
plural of backwash
backwashing
backwashing
noun
A form of water treatment in which water is pumped backwards through the filter media, sometimes with intermittent use of compressed air.
bagwash
bagwash
noun
(historical) A type of laundry in which the washing was returned to the customer in a bag, undried and unpressed.
bahawalpur
bahawalpur
Proper noun
A city in West Punjab in Pakistan.
The district surrounding this city.
The administrative division of Pakistan which contains this district.
bahawder
bahawder
noun
Obsolete form of bahadur.
ballhawk
ballhawk
noun
(baseball, chiefly in Chicago) A person who specializes in catching home-run and foul balls.
(sports) A player who handles the ball skilfully
ballhawks
ballhawks
noun
plural of ballhawk
balmawhapple
bandwidth
bandwidth
noun
(informal) The capacity, energy or time required.
(networking, informal) The rate of data flow in digital networks typically measured in bits per second; the bitrate.
(of a signal) The width of the smallest frequency band within which the signal can fit.
The width, usually measured in hertz, of a frequency band.
bandwidths
bandwidths
noun
plural of bandwidth
bantamweight
bantamweight
noun
(boxing) A weight class in boxing and other sports, intermediate between flyweight and featherweight. In boxing it ranges from 112 to 118 pounds (51 to 54 kg).
A boxer or other competitor of this weight.
bantamweights
bantamweights
noun
plural of bantamweight
baroswitch
baroswitch
noun
Any form of switch that is activated barometrically (by a change in pressure)
bartholomew
bartholomew
Proper noun
An Apostle, identified with Nathanael.
name of biblical origin.
bartholomewtide
bashaw
bashaw
noun
(archaic, often derogatory, by extension) A grandee.
(now rare, historical) A pasha.
A very large siluroid fish (Leptops olivaris) of the Mississippi valley; the goujon or mudcat.
bashawdom
bashawism
bashawism
noun
The behaviour of a bashaw.
bashaws
bashaws
noun
plural of bashaw
bashawship
bashawship
noun
The role or status of a bashaw.
bassenthwaite
batchtown
bathflower
batholomew
bathwater
bathwater
noun
The water used in a bath (bathtub).
bathwort
bawarchi
bawarchi
noun
(India, historical) A cook.
bawdship
bawdship
noun
The employment or office of a bawd
bawdyhouse
bawdyhouse
noun
Alternative spelling of bawdy-house
bawdyhouses
bawdyhouses
noun
plural of bawdyhouse
bawhorse
bawhorse
noun
Obsolete form of bathorse.
beachward
beachward
Adverb
Towards a beach.
beachwear
beachwear
noun
Clothing suitable for wearing on the beach, though not necessarily for swimming in.
beachwood
behallow
behallow
verb
(transitive) To make holy; consecrate; sanctify; hallow completely.
bellweather
bellweather
noun
Misspelling of bellwether.
benchwarmer
benchwarmer
noun
Alternative spelling of bench-warmer
benchwarmers
benchwarmers
noun
plural of benchwarmer
beshadow
beshadow
verb
(transitive) To cast a shadow around, about, or over; overshadow.
beshadowed
beshadowed
verb
simple past tense and past participle of beshadow
beshadowing
beshadowing
verb
present participle of beshadow
beshadows
beshadows
verb
Third-person singular simple present indicative form of beshadow
beshawled
beshawled
adj
Wearing a shawl.
bethwack
bethwack
verb
(transitive) To pelt, thrash, or cudgel soundly.
bewash
bewash
verb
(transitive, rare) To wash all over; drench with water.
bewrathed
bewreath
bewreath
verb
(transitive) To wreath.
bhowani
bhubaneswar
bhubaneswar
Proper noun
State capital of Odisha, India.
birdwatch
birdwatch
noun
A session of observing and identifying birds.
verb
(intransitive) To take part in birdwatching; to observe and identify birds.
birdwatched
birdwatched
verb
simple past tense and past participle of birdwatch
birdwatches
birdwatches
verb
Third-person singular simple present indicative form of birdwatch
birdwatching
birdwatching
noun
(slang) The hobby of watching rocket launches.
Observing or identifying wild birds in their natural environment.
blackhawk
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.
blackwasher
blackwasher
noun
One who blackwashes.
blackwashing
blackwashing
noun
(derogatory) The revisionist portrayal of something as belonging to a black race of people.
(derogatory) The revisionist portrayal of something as evil.
The application of a coating of blackwash.
verb
present participle of blackwash
blameworthiness
blameworthiness
noun
The characteristic of being blameworthy.
blameworthinesses
blameworthy
blameworthy
adj
Deserving blame or censure; reprehensible.
bleachworks
bleachworks
noun
A factory that manufactures bleach.
blowhard
blowhard
noun
(Canada, US, derogatory) A person who talks too much or too loudly, especially in a boastful or self-important manner.
blowhards
blowhards
noun
plural of blowhard
boatwright
boatwright
noun
A maker of boats, especially of traditional wooden construction.
bodewash
bodhisattwa
bohawn
bohmerwald
boneshaw
bophuthatswana
bophuthatswana
Proper noun
A former bantustan in the northwestern region of South Africa.
bothway
bowdichia
bowdoinham
bowhead
bowhead
noun
A large whale, Balaena mysticetus, having a large, rounded head, that inhabits Arctic waters.
bowheads
bowheads
noun
plural of bowhead
bowlderhead
bowrah
boxwallah
boxwallah
noun
(India, historical) An Indian pedlar who sold goods from a box or trunk.
bradshaw
bradshaw
Proper noun
The name of several places in Northern England.
derived from these places.
Noun
A former railway guide and timetable published by George Bradshaw
brainwash
brainwash
noun
A distorting effect upon one's memory, belief, or ideas, as by propaganda.
verb
(figuratively, dated) To take from an electronically controlled machine its stored-up information; to erase a computer's programming. (1960)
(psychology) To affect one's mind by using extreme mental pressure or any other mind-affecting process. (e.g. hypnosis)
To persuade completely and forcibly.
brainwashed
brainwashed
verb
simple past tense and past participle of brainwash
brainwasher
brainwasher
noun
Agent noun of brainwash; one who brainwashes.
brainwashers
brainwashers
noun
plural of brainwasher
brainwashes
brainwashes
noun
plural of brainwash
verb
Third-person singular simple present indicative form of brainwash
brainwashing
brainwashing
noun
Alternative spelling of brain-washing
verb
present participle of brainwash
brainwashjng
braithwaite
branchway
branchway
noun
(poetic) A path or route formed by the branches of trees.
brathwaite
braunschweig
braunschweig
Proper noun
a city in Lower Saxony, Germany; Brunswick
braunschweiger
braunschweiger
noun
Alternative letter-case form of Braunschweiger (a sausage).
breadthways
breadthways
adv
breadthwise
breadthwise
breadthwise
adj
directed across the breadth of an object or place.
adv
Across the breadth of an object or place.
breakweather
bretwaldaship
brightwaters
browache
buchenwald
buchwald
buckwash
buckwasher
buckwashing
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.]
buckwheater
buckwheater
noun
A poor and unskilled farmer.
buckwheatlike
buckwheatlike
adj
Resembling or characteristic of buckwheat.
buckwheats
buckwheats
noun
plural of buckwheat
bullwhack
bullwhack
verb
(US) To work as a bullwhacker, driving a bullock team.
bullwhacker
bullwhacker
noun
(US) The driver of a bullock team.
bushelwoman
bushelwoman
noun
(US, dialect) A tailor's female assistant for repairing garments.
bushwa
bushwa
noun
Alternative form of bushwah
bushwack
bushwack
verb
Alternative spelling of bushwhack
bushwah
bushwah
Noun
Nonsense.
bushwahs
bushwalking
bushwalking
noun
(Australia, New Zealand) The activity of hiking or backpacking.
verb
present participle of bushwalk
bushwas
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
bushwhacked
bushwhacked
verb
simple past tense and past participle of bushwhack
bushwhacker
bushwhacker
noun
(Australia) A person who lives in the bush, especially as a fugitive; a person who clears woods and bush country.
(US) One who travels through the woods, off the designated path.
(US, historical) A guerrilla (of either side) during the American Civil War.
(dated) Someone who attacks without warning.
A small, soft-floored inflatable boat (designed for use by one or two people).
bushwhackers
bushwhackers
noun
plural of bushwhacker
bushwhacking
bushwhacking
noun
criticizing, by someone or a person(s), on policies and stances by George W. Bush, in forums and discussions
fighting, as a guerilla, especially in wooded country
travelling through thick wooded country, cutting away scrub to make progress
verb
present participle of bushwhack
bushwhacks
bushwhacks
verb
Third-person singular simple present indicative form of bushwhack
bushwoman
bushwoman
noun
(Australia) A woman who lives or has lived in the Australian outback.
chamberfellow
chamberwoman
chamberwoman
noun
Synonym of chambermaid
chawbacon
chawbacon
noun
(archaic) An uncultured rustic person.
chawbone
chawbuck
chawbuck
verb
(obsolete, transitive) To beat with a chabuk.
chewable
chewable
adj
(finance, of a poison pill) Allowing for a particular type of bid that does not trigger the flip-in.
Capable of being chewed.
Chewy.
noun
A medicine supplied in a form that can be chewed.
Anything that is chewable; anything that is able to be chewed.
chewbark
deathblow
deathblow
noun
A strike or blow that leads to death, especially a coup de grace.
Something that prevents the completion, or ends the existence, of a project etc.; a fatal setback.
deathblows
deathblows
noun
plural of deathblow
drawbench
drawbench
noun
A machine in which long pieces of metal are drawn through a drawplate, die, or series of dies, to change the shape, size, cross-sectional area, physical properties, or surface finish of the metal.
elbowchair
elbowchair
noun
Alternative form of elbow chair
elizabethtown
elizabethtown
Proper noun
The name of various places in the United States of America:
a former settlement and gold rush town in California.
a village in Illinois, USA
a town in Indiana.
an extinct town in Indiana.
a home rule-class city in Kentucky
a town and a hamlet in New York, the hamlet is the county seat of
an unincorporated community in New Mexico.
a town in North Carolina
a CDP in Ohio.
an unincorporated community in Ohio.
a borough in Pennsylvania.
a ghost town in Texas.
fliegerabwehrkanone
gabrilowitsch
habrowne
hackbarrow
hackbarrow
noun
(historical) A kind of wheelbarrow used to carry new-made bricks to the hacks or racks where they are dried.
handbarrow
handbarrow
noun
A frame, supported by poles, used for carrying things
handbarrows
handbarrows
noun
plural of handbarrow
handblow
handblow
noun
A blow struck with the hand.
handbow
handyblow
harborward
harborward
adj
Toward a harbor.
harbourward
harbourward
adj
Alternative form of harborward
hawbuck
hawbuck
noun
(obsolete) A vulgar, ignorant country fellow.
hawcubite
hawcubite
Noun
A member of a street gang in London, England, circa 1700.
A ruffian or bully.
hawebake
hawebake
Noun
The baked berry of the hawthorn tree, i.e. coarse fare.