Supporting, reinforcing; (music) of or related to accompaniment
noun
(computing) A copy of a file or record, stored separately from the original, that can be used to recover the original if it is destroyed or damaged.
(law enforcement) reinforcements
A reserve or substitute.
An accumulation of material caused by a (partial) obstruction or (complete) blockage of the flow or movement of the material, or an accumulation of material that causes an overflow due to the flow being greater than the maximum possible flow.
verb
Misspelling of back up.
backups
backups
noun
plural of backup
bankrupcy
bankrupcy
noun
Misspelling of bankruptcy.
bankruptcies
bankruptcies
noun
plural of bankruptcy
bankruptcy
bankruptcy
noun
(finance, law) A legally declared or recognized condition of insolvency of a person or organization.
bathukolpic
bathukolpic
adj
(rare) Deep-bosomed.
bucketshop
bucketshop
noun
Alternative spelling of bucket shop
buckjump
buckjump
verb
(Australia) Of a horse, to jump upwards with arched back and head down in an attempt to throw its rider.
(Australia) To take part in a buckjumping competition.
buckjumper
buckjumper
noun
A horse that buckjumps.
One who takes part in buckjumping.
buckplate
buckpot
bucksport
humpback
humpback
noun
(by extension) A hump or protuberance on the shoulders or back of an animal.
(derogatory, now offensive) A person with a humpback; a person who suffers from kyphosis.
(figurative) A rounded topographical feature, such as a mountain or hill.
A humpback salmon.
A humpback whale.
A humped back (deformity in humans caused by abnormal curvature of the upper spine).
verb
To hunt humpback whales.
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
humpbacks
humpbacks
noun
plural of humpback
verb
Third-person singular simple present indicative form of humpback
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
parbuckling
parbuckling
verb
present participle of parbuckle
patricksburg
pequabuck
pickelhaube
pickelhaube
noun
(historical) A spiked helmet worn by German troops, especially during the First World War.
prebankruptcy
prebankruptcy
adj
Preceding a bankruptcy.
probankruptcy
prongbuck
prongbuck
noun
(dated) The springbok.
The pronghorn
puckball
puckball
noun
(obsolete) A puffball fungus.
puckerbush
puffback
puffback
noun
Any bird of the genus Dryoscopus.
pullback
pullback
noun
(architecture) The iron hook fixed to a casement to pull it shut, or to hold it partly open at a fixed point.
(category theory) The limit of a cospan: a Cartesian square or “pullback square”.
(category theory) Within a Cartesian square (which has a pair of divergent morphisms and a pair of convergent morphisms) the divergent morphism which is directly opposite to a given one of the convergent morphisms, said to be “along” the convergent morphism which is between that pair of opposite morphisms. (The pullback is said to be “of” the given morphism.)
(differential geometry) The map between cotangent bundles of manifolds corresponding to a smooth map between smooth manifolds, which at each point is the dual map to the corresponding pushforward.
(film) The act of drawing a camera back to broaden the visible scene.
(finance) A reduction in the price of a financial instrument after reaching a peak
(historical) A device for making a woman's gown hang close and straight in front.
(sports) An attacking pass from the wing into a position further from the attacking goal line.
That which holds back, or causes to recede; a drawback; a hindrance.
The act or result of pulling back; a withdrawal.
pullbacks
pullbacks
noun
plural of pullback
purbeck
purbeck
Proper noun
A peninsula in Dorset, England
A local government district in Dorset.
purbeckian
putback
putback
noun
(basketball) A move in which a player scores a basket immediately after securing an offensive rebound
rebankruptcy
springbuck
springbuck
noun
Alternative form of springbok
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.
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.