The setting or background of an acted performance.
verb
(transitive) To serve as a backdrop for.
backdropped
backdropped
verb
simple past tense and past participle of backdrop
backdropping
backdropping
verb
present participle of backdrop
backdrops
backdrops
noun
plural of backdrop
backpointer
backpointers
backrope
backropes
backstop
backstop
noun
(baseball) A wall or fence behind home plate.
(baseball, slang) A catcher; the position of catcher.
(cricket, dated) The longstop.
(cricket, dated) The wicket-keeper.
(espionage) Something serving to bolster or support a cover story etc.
(rounders) The player who stands immediately behind the striking base.
A default arrangement that holds if all else fails.
A thing or a person put in the rear or in the back of something to reinforce, hold, support.
verb
(transitive) To bolster, support.
(transitive) To serve as backstop for.
backstopped
backstopped
verb
simple past tense and past participle of backstop
backstopping
backstopping
verb
present participle of backstop
backstops
backstops
noun
plural of backstop
verb
Third-person singular simple present indicative form of backstop
bakeshop
bakeshop
noun
A shop where baked goods are made and sold.
bakeshops
bakeshops
noun
plural of bakeshop
bathukolpian
bathukolpian
adj
Alternative spelling of bathykolpian
bathukolpic
bathukolpic
adj
(rare) Deep-bosomed.
bathyplankton
bathyplankton
noun
(biology) plankton living in the bathyal zone
bibliokleptomania
bibliokleptomania
noun
A mental disorder that produces a compulsion to steal books.
bibliokleptomaniac
bibliokleptomaniac
noun
Someone who suffers from bibliokleptomania.
blackpoll
blackpoll
noun
A North American warbler, Dendroica striata, the male of which has a black patch on its head
blackpool
blackpool
Proper noun
A town and resort in Lancashire, England
blackpot
blacktop
blacktop
noun
(US, countable) A paved area on a schoolground reserved for recess activities, often doubling as a parking lot.
(US, countable) A road so paved.
(US, uncountable) Asphalt concrete or similar bituminous black paving material used for the surface of roads (e.g., tarmacadam, tarmac).
verb
(US) To pave with blacktop.
blacktopped
blacktopped
verb
simple past tense and past participle of blacktop
blacktopping
blacktopping
verb
present participle of blacktop
blacktops
blacktops
verb
Third-person singular simple present indicative form of blacktop
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
chapbook
chapbook
noun
A small book, usually made from a single sheet, folded several times, containing poems, ballads or religious tracts
chapbooks
chapbooks
noun
plural of chapbook
dikephobia
doublespeak
doublespeak
noun
Any language deliberately constructed to disguise or distort its actual meaning, often by employing euphemism or ambiguity.
doublespeaks
forebespeak
hyperkatabolism
hyperkatabolism
noun
Alternative form of hypercatabolism
kakorraphiaphobia
katagelophobia
katagelophobia
noun
Alternative spelling of catagelophobia
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.
koniophobia
kopophobia
loopback
loopback
noun
The routing of a signal, data stream, etc. from its origin back to the origin, primarily as a means of testing the transmission or transportation infrastructure.
nobackspace
nonpickable
nonpickable
adj
Not pickable.
oikophobia
oikophobia
noun
Dislike of one's own culture or compatriots.
Ecophobia; fear of a home environment.
openbeak
packboard
packboard
noun
A board worn on the back like a backpack for carrying goods while travelling.
parrotbeak
passbook
passbook
noun
(South Africa, historical) A kind of internal passport used during apartheid to limit the movements of citizens outside of their homelands or designated areas.
(banking) A customer's record of deposits and withdrawals from a savings account at a bank, typically recorded in a small booklet. The bank keeps its own record, which is final in any dispute.
(dated) A book that passes between a trader and a customer, used to record credit purchases.
passbooks
passbooks
noun
plural of passbook
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.
pawnbroking
pawnbroking
noun
The business of a pawnbroker; advancing loans against pledges of household goods or personal possessions, and selling those pledges that are not redeemed.
pawnbrokings
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
picketboat
picketboat
noun
Alternative form of picket boat
picketboats
picketboats
noun
plural of picketboat
playbook
playbook
noun
(US, American football) A book of strategies (plays) for use in American football (and by extension other sports or disciplines).
(US, figurative) A set of commonly employed tactics and strategies.
A book containing the text of a play or plays.
A book of games and amusements for children.
playbooks
playbooks
noun
plural of playbook
playbroker
playbroker
noun
An agent involved in procuring and selling theatrical plays.
plowback
plowbacks
pocketable
pocketable
adj
Able to be put in one's pocket
pocketableness
poikiloblast
poikiloblast
noun
A porphyroblast mineral containing small inclusions of the previous rock.
poikiloblastic
poikiloblastic
adj
(geology) Describing the texture of a metamorphic rock that has small idioblasts of one constituent lying within larger xenoblasts
pointblank
pointblank
adv
(obsolete or rare) point blank
pokable
pokable
adj
(slang, vulgar) Sexually desirable.
Capable of being poked.
postbreakfast
postbreakfast
adj
After breakfast.
potbank
potbank
noun
(historical) A bottle-shaped oven used in parts of England for firing pottery.
preblockade
preblockade
adj
Before a blockade.
preblockaded
preblockading
prisonbreak
probankruptcy
probasketball
problockade
provokable
provokable
adj
That may be provoked.
psalmbook
psalmbook
noun
A book of psalms.
pseudobankrupt
ropebark
scrapbook
scrapbook
noun
a book, similar to a notebook or journal, in which personal or family memorabilia and photos are collected and arranged
verb
to create scrapbooks.
scrapbooks
scrapbooks
noun
plural of scrapbook
verb
Third-person singular simple present indicative form of scrapbook
shopbreaker
shopbreaker
noun
One who breaks into a shop with unlawful intent.
shopbreaking
shopbreaking
noun
The act of breaking into a shop with unlawful intent.
snakephobia
snakephobia
noun
Fear of snakes.
soapbark
soapbark
noun
The bark of the evergreen tree, Quillaja saponaria, which when pulverised forms a lather with water.
The tree Quillaja saponaria.
soapbarks
soapbarks
noun
plural of soapbark
spaebook
speiskobalt
speiskobalt
noun
smaltite
spoilbank
spoonback
stopback
stopbank
stopbank
noun
levee, dyke
superbazooka
triskaidekaphobe
triskaidekaphobe
noun
(rare) Someone who suffers from triskaidekaphobia.