(of a river, etc) Risen to a height just sufficient to spill over its banks into the floodplain.
bankruptlike
bankruptlike
adj
Resembling or characteristic of a bankrupt.
bankruptly
bankruptly
adv
In a bankrupt manner.
bareknuckle
bareknuckled
bathukolpian
bathukolpian
adj
Alternative spelling of bathykolpian
baulking
baulking
noun
Alternative form of balking
verb
present participle of baulk
benkulen
blackburn
blackburn
Proper noun
A town in Lancashire, England
blackcurrant
blackcurrant
noun
A shrub, Ribes nigrum, that produces small, very dark purple, edible berries.
The berry borne by this shrub.
blackmun
blacktongue
blockaderunning
blockbusting
blockbusting
adj
Having the characteristics of a blockbuster; hugely successful.
noun
(US) A technique used to encourage people to sell their property by giving the impression that a neighborhood is changing for the worse, especially by implying a change in its racial makeup.
bloodsucking
bloodsucking
adj
(by extension, of a person) parasitic, leechlike or freeloading
(of an insect or animal) That draws off the blood of another animal, or a person.
bloodsuckings
bluestocking
bluestocking
noun
(historical) A member of an 18th-century Blue Stockings Society.
(historical) The English parliament of 1653, more commonly called the Barebones Parliament
(usually derogatory) A scholarly, literary, or cultured woman.
bluestockingish
bluestockingish
adj
Like a bluestocking, or scholarly woman.
bluestockingism
bluestockingism
noun
(colloquial) The character or manner of a bluestocking; female pedantry.
bluestockings
bluestockings
noun
plural of bluestocking
blunk
blunk
verb
(dialect, colloquial, informal) simple past tense of blink
(intransitive) To blench, blink; turn aside.
(transitive, Scotland) To spoil, mismanage.
blunker
blunket
blunket
adj
(obsolete) Gray; grayish or light blue.
noun
(obsolete) A cloth, or kind of cloth (blanket cloth), generally but not always of this color.
(obsolete) A color, generally a light bluish gray or blue or gray, but sometimes seemingly a dark red or violet.
blunks
blunks
verb
Third-person singular simple present indicative form of blunk
bruckleness
buckland
bucklandite
bucklering
bucklering
verb
present participle of buckler
bucklin
buckling
buckling
adj
Wavy; curly, as hair.
noun
(geology) A folding into hills and valleys.
A young male domestic goat of between one and two years.
Smoked herring.
The act of fastening a buckle.
The action of collapsing under pressure or stress.
verb
present participle of buckle
bucknell
bulkheading
bulkheading
noun
bulkheads in general
bulkin
bulkiness
bulkiness
noun
The characteristic of being bulky, or of having bulk.
bulkinesses
bulkinesses
noun
plural of bulkiness
bulking
bulking
noun
(bodybuilding) A period of intentional weight gain.
verb
present participle of bulk
bulletmaking
bulletmaking
noun
The manufacture of bullets.
bullneck
bullneck
noun
A bull-necked person.
A short and thick neck, like that of a bull.
bullnecked
bullnecked
adj
Having a thick, muscular neck
bullnecks
bullnecks
noun
plural of bullneck
bullockman
bullskin
bullsnake
bullsnake
noun
Pituophis catenifer sayi, a large non-venomous colubrid snake endemic to the central United States, northern Mexico, and southwestern Canada.
bulwarking
bulwarking
verb
present participle of bulwark
bumpkinly
bumpkinly
adj
Befitting a bumpkin.
bundelkhand
bunkerville
bunkload
bushwalking
bushwalking
noun
(Australia, New Zealand) The activity of hiking or backpacking.
verb
present participle of bushwalk
businesslike
businesslike
adj
Earnest and practical without being distracted or enthusiastic.
Methodical and efficient, in a way that would be advantageous to a business or businessperson.
businesslikeness
businesslikeness
noun
The state or condition of being businesslike.
buttonlike
buttonlike
adj
Resembling a button.
counterblockade
counterblockade
noun
A blockade set up in opposition to another blockade.
counterblockades
counterblockades
noun
plural of counterblockade
doublethink
doublethink
noun
The holding of two contradictory beliefs in one's mind simultaneously and accepting both of them as true or correct, without realizing the contradiction.
doublethinking
doublethinks
doublethinks
noun
plural of doublethink
duckblind
gulbenkian
hucklebone
hucklebone
noun
Alternative form of huckle bone
husbandlike
husbandlike
adj
Resembling a husband.
kilbourne
kinabalu
kinabulu
klabund
klausenburg
knobular
knobular
adj
knobby; knob-shaped
knubbly
knubbly
adj
knobbly
knublet
knuckleball
knuckleball
noun
(baseball) A pitch thrown with the ball gripped on the fingertips and released with no rotation, which travels over an unpredictable path to the plate due to micro-turbulence in the air.
(figurative) An event that is hard to predict.
verb
(intransitive, baseball) To pitch knuckleballs.
knuckleballer
knuckleballer
noun
(baseball) A baseball pitcher known for throwing knuckleballs.
knuckleballs
knuckleballs
noun
plural of knuckleball
knucklebone
knucklebone
noun
(slang) A die.
A bone that forms a knuckle in the human hand, in an animal's paw or any bone that forms a similar bump.
Such a bone once used in knucklebones and other children's games of chance.
knucklebones
knucklebones
noun
A children's game, originally played with the knucklebones of sheep, in which small objects are picked up, moved, thrown, and caught according to various rules.
plural of knucklebone
koeberliniaceous
kubuklion
lebkuchen
lebkuchen
noun
A traditional German Christmas biscuit form of gingerbread.
lieberkuhn
lockbourne
lubiniezky
mecklenburg
mecklenburg
Proper noun
An area in Baltic northern Germany.
mecklenburgian
mountebankly
muehlenbeckia
muehlenbeckia
noun
(botany) Any of the genus Muehlenbeckia of maidenhairs.
neighbourlike
neighbourlike
adj
(Britain, Canada) Synonym of neighbourly
nonbulkhead
nonbulkhead
adj
Not of or relating to a bulkhead.
numbskull
numbskull
noun
(derogatory) Alternative spelling of numskull
outblacken
overbulkiness
parbuckling
parbuckling
verb
present participle of parbuckle
plankbuilt
rebuckling
rebuckling
verb
present participle of rebuckle
rebukefulness
rebukefulness
noun
The quality of being rebukeful.
rebukingly
rebukingly
adv
In a rebuking manner.
skullbanker
skunkbill
subalkaline
subalkaline
adj
Somewhat alkaline.
sunblink
sunblink
noun
A glimpse or flash of the sun.
swashbucklering
swashbucklering
adj
Alternative form of swashbuckling
swashbuckling
swashbuckling
adj
Adventurous, exciting.
swashbucklings
telukbetung
ticklenburg
ticklenburg
noun
A coarse, mixed linen fabric made to be sold in the West Indies.
ticklenburgs
ticklenburgs
noun
plural of ticklenburg
troublemaking
troublemaking
adj
Causing trouble.
noun
Causing trouble; acting in a disruptive way
turbanlike
turbanlike
adj
Resembling or characteristic of a turban.
turbinelike
turbinelike
adj
Resembling or characteristic of a turbine.
turnbuckle
turnbuckle
noun
(nautical) A link threaded on both ends of a short bar which is used to pull objects together. (FM 55-501)
A coupling device consisting of two eyelets or other connection points connected in screw threads. The joint in between can be turned to shorten or lengthen the device with mechanical advantage provided by the screw threads.
turnbuckles
turnbuckles
noun
plural of turnbuckle
unaskable
unaskable
adj
That cannot be asked.
noun
Something that cannot be asked.
unattackable
unattackable
adj
which may not be attacked
unattackableness
unattackably
unattackably
adv
Such that it may not be attacked.
unawakable
unawakable
adj
Unable to be awoken.
unawakableness
unbalked
unbalked
adj
Not balked.
unbalking
unbalkingly
unbankable
unbankable
Adjective
Not bankable.
unbankableness
unbankably
unbasketlike
unbesprinkled
unbesprinkled
adj
Not besprinkled.
unbirdlike
unbirdlike
adj
Not birdlike.
unblacked
unblacked
adj
Not blacked.
unblackened
unblackened
adj
Not blackened.
unblanketed
unblanketed
adj
Not blanketed; not covered by a blanket.
unblinking
unblinking
adj
Not blinking.
unblinkingly
unblinkingly
adv
Without blinking.
unblock
unblock
noun
The removal of a block or blockage.
verb
(intransitive, card games) In whist, to throw away a high card so as not to interrupt one's partner's long suit.
(transitive) To enable communication again, via telephone, instant messaging, etc., with (somebody previously blocked).
(transitive) To free or make available.
(transitive) To remove or clear a block or obstruction from.
unblockaded
unblockaded
adj
Not blockaded.
unblocked
unblocked
adj
Not blocked (in various senses).
verb
past participle of unblock
unblocking
unblocking
noun
The process by which something is unblocked.
verb
present participle of unblock
unblocks
unblocks
noun
plural of unblock
verb
Third-person singular simple present indicative form of unblock
unbluestockingish
unbodylike
unbodylike
adj
Not bodylike.
unbokel
unbookishly
unbookishly
adv
In an unbookish manner.
unbooklearned
unboylike
unboylike
adj
Not boylike.
unbreakability
unbreakability
noun
The quality of being impossible to break.
unbreakable
unbreakable
adj
(figurative) Resilient.
(of a horse) Not able to be broken in.
Difficult or impossible to break and therefore able to withstand rough usage.
noun
Something that cannot be broken.
unbreakableness
unbreakableness
noun
The quality or state of not being breakable.
unbreakably
unbreakably
adv
In an unbreakable manner.
unbridegroomlike
unbridegroomlike
adj
Not bridegroomlike.
unbrokenly
unbrokenly
adv
In an unbroken way; continuously.
unbrookable
unbrookable
adj
Not to be brooked or borne; intolerable.
unbrookably
unbrookably
adv
In an unbrookable manner.
unbrotherlike
unbrotherlike
adj
Not brotherlike.
unbrutelike
unbuckle
unbuckle
verb
(transitive) to unfasten (the buckle of (a belt, shoe, etc))