(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
bucketshop
bucketshop
noun
Alternative spelling of bucket shop
buckjumper
buckjumper
noun
A horse that buckjumps.
One who takes part in buckjumping.
buckplate
bumpkinet
doublespeak
doublespeak
noun
Any language deliberately constructed to disguise or distort its actual meaning, often by employing euphemism or ambiguity.
doublespeaks
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
kennebunkport
keraunophobia
keraunophobia
Noun
An abnormal fear of thunder and lightning.
packbuilder
palebuck
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
pequabuck
pickelhaube
pickelhaube
noun
(historical) A spiked helmet worn by German troops, especially during the First World War.
porkburger
porkburger
noun
A burger made with pork instead of beef.
prebankruptcy
prebankruptcy
adj
Preceding a bankruptcy.
pseudobankrupt
pseudobrookite
pseudobrookite
noun
(mineralogy) An orthorhombic-dipyramidal mineral containing iron, magnesium, oxygen, and titanium.
puckerbush
purbeck
purbeck
Proper noun
A peninsula in Dorset, England
A local government district in Dorset.
purbeckian
rebankrupt
rebankrupt
verb
(transitive) To bankrupt again.
rebankruptcy
rebukeproof
subbookkeeper
subclerkship
subclerkship
noun
The state or business of a subclerk.
subpackage
subpackage
noun
(object-oriented programming) A package situated hierarchically below another package.
A physical package contained within another package.
verb
(transitive) To place (an object) in a package which is itself inside a package.
superbazooka
superblock
superblock
noun
(architecture, urban planning) A very large block of buildings.
(computing) A segment of metadata describing the file system on a block device.
superblocks
superblocks
noun
plural of superblock
turkophobe
unbespeak
unbespeak
verb
(obsolete, transitive) To unsay; to annul or cancel.
unbespoke
unbespoke
verb
simple past tense of unbespeak
unbespoken
unbespoken
adj
Not having been bespoken; not specifically requested.
verb
past participle of unbespeak
unbesprinkled
unbesprinkled
adj
Not besprinkled.
unoutspeakable
unoutspeakable
adj
(archaic) Unspeakable.
unpickable
unpickable
adj
That cannot be picked.
unprovokable
unprovokable
adj
That cannot be provoked.
unspeakability
unspeakability
noun
unspeakableness
unspeakable
unspeakable
adj
Extremely bad or objectionable.
Impossible to speak about.
Incapable of being spoken or uttered
Unfit or not permitted to be spoken or described.
unspeakableness
unspeakableness
noun
The condition or quality of being unspeakable.
unspeakably
unspeakably
adv
In an unspeakable manner.
upblacken
upbreak
upbreak
noun
A break-up or division.
A breaking upward or bursting forth; an upburst.
verb
(intransitive) To break upwards; to force away or passage to the surface.