(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
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.
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
backspacefile
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
bakeapple
bakeapple
noun
(Atlantic Canada) The cloudberry, Rubus chamaemorus
bankruptlike
bankruptlike
adj
Resembling or characteristic of a bankrupt.
barkpeel
barkpeeler
barkpeeling
belknap
bespeakable
bespeckle
bespeckle
verb
To add speckles.
bespeckled
bespeckled
verb
simple past tense and past participle of bespeckle
bespecklement
besprinkle
besprinkle
verb
(archaic, transitive) To sprinkle.
besprinkled
besprinkled
adj
Sprinkled.
besprinkler
besprinkler
noun
One who or that which besprinkles.
besprinkles
besprinkles
verb
Third-person singular simple present indicative form of besprinkle
besprinkling
besprinkling
verb
present participle of besprinkle
bibliokelpt
biblioklept
biblioklept
noun
A person who steals books
bibliokleptomania
bibliokleptomania
noun
A mental disorder that produces a compulsion to steal books.
bibliokleptomaniac
bibliokleptomaniac
noun
Someone who suffers from bibliokleptomania.
bishoplike
bishoplike
adj
Resembling, or pertaining to a bishop.
blackplate
blacktopped
blacktopped
verb
simple past tense and past participle of blacktop
blankenship
blockpate
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
buckplate
doublespeak
doublespeak
noun
Any language deliberately constructed to disguise or distort its actual meaning, often by employing euphemism or ambiguity.
doublespeaks
hyperbrachyskelic
hyperkatabolism
hyperkatabolism
noun
Alternative form of hypercatabolism
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.
kleptophobia
kleptophobia
noun
Abnormal fear of theft.
knapbottle
knapbottle
noun
Bladder campion.
lampblacked
lampblacked
verb
simple past tense and past participle of lampblack
nonpickable
nonpickable
adj
Not pickable.
packable
packable
adj
Capable of being packed.
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
partakable
partakable
adj
(rare) Alternative form of partakeable
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.
pikeblennies
pikeblenny
pimpleback
pimpleback
noun
Quadrula pustulosa, an American freshwater mussel.
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.
preblockade
preblockade
adj
Before a blockade.
preblockaded
preblockading
prickleback
prickleback
noun
Any of the fish in the family Stichaeidae.
The stickleback
probasketball
problockade
proboscislike
proboscislike
adj
Resembling or characteristic of a proboscis.
proverblike
proverblike
adj
Resembling or characteristic of a proverb.
provokable
provokable
adj
That may be provoked.
raspberrylike
raspberrylike
adj
Resembling or characteristic of a raspberry (plant or fruit).
skippable
skippable
adj
Capable of being skipped.
Not worth watching or doing; missable.
slipperyback
sparkleberry
sparkleberry
noun
The farkleberry.
speakable
speakable
adj
(obsolete) Capable of speech.
Acceptable as a topic of discussion; not subject to taboo.
That can be spoken; utterable, verbalizable.
speakableness
speakablies
speakably
specklebelly
specklebreast
specklebreast
noun
A thrush.
speckledbill
speiskobalt
speiskobalt
noun
smaltite
spikebill
spikebill
noun
A hooded merganser (Lophodytes cucullatus).
A marbled godwit (Limosa fedoa).
splitbeak
stablekeeper
stablekeeper
noun
The person who maintains a stable where animals are kept.
subclerkship
subclerkship
noun
The state or business of a subclerk.
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.