Sport or exercise using a backsword or singlestick.
backwardation
backwardation
noun
(obsolete) In the London Stock Exchange: a fee paid by a seller on settlement day either to the buyer or to a third party who lends stock, when the seller wishes to defer settlement until the next settlement day.
In full normal backwardation: the situation in a futures market where the price for future delivery of a commodity (the forward price) is lower than the price for immediate delivery (the spot price) or nearer delivery, generally arising from a near-term shortage of the commodity.
The situation in a stock market where the offer price for stock is lower than the bid price.
backwoodsiness
backwoodsiness
noun
The quality of being backwoodsy.
bailwood
bartholomewtide
becowarding
becrowding
becrowding
verb
present participle of becrowd
bedfellowship
bedfellowship
noun
The state or role of being bedfellows.
beshadowing
beshadowing
verb
present participle of beshadow
bewidow
beworried
beworried
verb
simple past tense and past participle of beworry
billetwood
billowed
billowed
verb
simple past tense and past participle of billow
bindwood
birchwood
birchwood
noun
(countable) A wood largely populated with birch trees (Betula spp.).
(uncountable) The wood from a birch tree.
birdwoman
birdwoman
noun
(informal) a female aviator.
A mythological creature that is part woman and part bird.
A woman who works with birds.
birdwomen
birdwomen
noun
plural of birdwoman
birnamwood
bishopweed
bishopweed
noun
Alternative form of bishopsweed
bitterwood
bitterwood
noun
Jamaica quassia Picrasma excelsa, native to the Caribbean
paradise tree Simarouba glauca, native to Florida, the Caribbean and Central America
quassia (Quassia amara)
blindworm
blindworm
noun
Anguis fragilis (slowworm), a small species of legless lizard.
bloodwit
bloodwit
noun
Alternative form of bloodwite
bloodwite
bloodwite
noun
A penalty for committing bloodshed, specifically under Anglo-Saxon law a penalty to be paid to the king or aldorman as distinct from the wergeld.
bodhisattwa
bodkinwise
bodyweight
bodyweight
adj
Employing (only) a person's own weight as resistance to movement for the purpose of physical exercise.
noun
The weight or mass of an organism.
bodywise
boildown
boildown
noun
The process of boiling something down; concentration by means of evaporation.
boroughwide
boroughwide
adj
Throughout a borough.
boswellized
bowdichia
bowditch
bowdlerisation
bowdlerisation
noun
The action or instance of bowdlerising; the omission or removal of material considered vulgar or indecent.
bowdlerise
bowdlerise
verb
Alternative form of bowdlerize
bowdlerised
bowdlerised
verb
simple past tense and past participle of bowdlerise
bowdlerises
bowdlerises
verb
Third-person singular simple present indicative form of bowdlerise
bowdlerising
bowdlerising
verb
present participle of bowdlerise
bowdlerism
bowdlerism
noun
A policy of bowdlerization, or censorship by removing what is considered indecent.
bowdlerization
bowdlerization
noun
The action or instance of bowdlerizing; the omission or removal of material considered vulgar or indecent.
bowdlerizations
bowdlerizations
noun
plural of bowdlerization
bowdlerize
bowdlerize
verb
To remove or alter those parts of a text considered offensive, vulgar, or otherwise unseemly.
bowdlerized
bowdlerized
adj
Expurgated, especially in a comprehensive way (such as systematically throughout an entire work).
verb
simple past tense and past participle of bowdlerize
bowdlerizer
bowdlerizer
noun
One who bowdlerizes.
bowdlerizers
bowdlerizers
noun
plural of bowdlerizer
bowdlerizes
bowdlerizes
verb
Third-person singular simple present indicative form of bowdlerize
bowdlerizing
bowdlerizing
verb
present participle of bowdlerize
bowdoin
bowdoinham
bowdrill
bowerbird
bowerbird
noun
Alternative spelling of bower bird
bowermaiden
bowldering
bowstringed
bowstringed
adj
Supplied or fitted with a bowstring.
braidwood
brainwood
brazilwood
brazilwood
noun
A Brazilian timber tree (Paubrasilia echinata, syn. Caesalpinia echinata), used primarily to make bows for string instruments.
brazilwoods
brazilwoods
noun
plural of brazilwood
briarwood
briarwood
noun
A pipe made from briarwood.
A small forest of briars.
Erica arborea, tree heath, an ericaceous flowering plant.
The wood of the briar-root, commonly used to make tobacco pipes.
bridebowl
bridewort
bridewort
noun
Filipendula ulmaria
Spiraea alba, the pale bridewort
Spiraea salicifolia
bridgetown
bridgetown
Proper noun
The capital of Barbados.
A town in Devon, UK.
A town in Western Australia.
A town in Nova Scotia, Canada.
A town in Ohio, US.
bridgework
bridgework
noun
(dentistry) A partial denture that is anchored to existing teeth.
The component parts of a bridge.
The construction or repair of bridges.
bridgeworks
bridgeworks
noun
plural of bridgework
brierwood
brightwood
bringdown
bringdown
noun
comedown
disappointment, letdown
brittlewood
broadview
broadwayite
broadwife
broadwise
broadwise
adv
(obsolete) Breadthwise.
broadwives
brownfield
brownfield
adj
(software engineering) Being a development that has to integrate with legacy systems.
noun
(often attributive) A site, to be used for housing or commerce, that has been previously used for industry and may be contaminated or need extensive clearing
brownfields
brownfields
noun
plural of brownfield
cowbind
cowbind
noun
The white bryony, Bryonia alba.
cowbinds
cowbird
cowbird
noun
Any bird of the genus Molothrus. The cowbirds are brood parasites.
cowbirds
cowbirds
noun
plural of cowbird
dembowski
disallowable
disallowable
adj
Able to be disallowed.
Not allowable; not to be suffered or permitted; which should not be allowed.
disallowableness
disavowable
disavowable
adj
Capable of being disavowed.
disbowel
disbowel
verb
(rare) To disembowel.
disboweled
disboweling
disbowelled
disbowelled
verb
simple past tense and past participle of disbowel
disbowelling
disbowelling
verb
present participle of disbowel
disbowels
disbowels
verb
Third-person singular simple present indicative form of disbowel
disembowel
disembowel
verb
(transitive) To take or draw from the body, as the web of a spider.
(transitive) To take or let out the bowels or interior parts of; to eviscerate.
disemboweled
disemboweled
verb
simple past tense and past participle of disembowel
disemboweling
disemboweling
noun
The act by which somebody is disemboweled.
verb
present participle of disembowel
disembowelled
disembowelled
verb
(chiefly Britain) simple past tense and past participle of disembowel
disembowelling
disembowelling
noun
The act by which somebody is disembowelled.
verb
(chiefly Britain, Canada, Australia, New Zealand, Ireland, South Africa) present participle of disembowel
disembowelment
disembowelment
noun
The act of disemboweling.
disembowelments
disembowelments
noun
plural of disembowelment
disembowels
disembowels
verb
Third-person singular simple present indicative form of disembowel
disembower
disownable
disownable
adj
Able to be disowned.
For which there is a penalty of being disowned.
dombrowski
doublewidth
drawboring
drawboring
verb
present participle of drawbore
fiddlebow
gablewindowed
glowbird
highbrowed
highbrowed
adj
(of a person) highbrow; intellectual and cultured
hoodwinkable
hoodwinkable
adj
Able to be hoodwinked.
imbowered
imbowered
verb
simple past tense and past participle of imbower
imbrowned
imbrowned
verb
simple past tense and past participle of imbrown
inbowed
knowledgeability
knowledgeability
noun
The condition of being knowledgeable.
kowbird
middlebrow
middlebrow
adj
(derogatory) Neither highbrow or lowbrow, but somewhere in between.
noun
A person or thing that is neither highbrow nor lowbrow, but in between.
middlebrowism
middlebrowism
noun
middlebrow attitudes generally
middlebrows
middlebrows
noun
plural of middlebrow
mindblower
mindblower
noun
(slang) Anything mind-blowing.
mindblowers
mindblowers
noun
plural of mindblower
misbestowed
misbestowed
verb
simple past tense and past participle of misbestow
noibwood
noibwood
noun
The hardwood of Handroanthus serratifolius.
rabbitwood
rabbitwood
noun
Pyrularia pubera, a shrub in the sandalwood family.
rainbowweed
ribbonweed
ribbonweed
noun
Ribbonleaf pondweed, Potamogeton epihydrus
Species of Posidonia
Species of Vallisneria
Stuckenia pectinata (Potamogeton pectinatus)
Zostera capricorni
ribbonwood
ribbonwood
noun
Adenostoma sparsifolium of southern California in the US and northern Baja California in Mexico. Also called redshanks
Any of various plants from Australia and New Zealand in the genera Hoheria, Idiospermum and Plagianthus.
shadowboxing
shadowboxing
noun
A form of solo exercise, involving throwing punches at the air, and not at an opponent.
verb
present participle of shadowbox
shallowbrained
showbird
slowbellied
snowbird
snowbird
noun
(slang) A cocaine user.
A bird seen primarily in the winter time.
A bird, Junco hyemalis, the dark-eyed junco.
A person, usually one who is retired, who travels from a cold climate to a warmer one in the winter; one who overwinters elsewhere.
The snow bunting (Plectrophenax nivalis).
snowbirds
snowbirds
noun
plural of snowbird
snowboarding
snowboarding
noun
The sport of sliding downhill on a snowboard.
verb
present participle of snowboard
snowbridge
swedenborgian
swedenborgian
Adjective
Of or pertaining to (born Emanuel Swedberg in 1688), Swedish scientist, philosopher, Christian mystic and theologian.
Noun
A religious follower of
swedenborgianism
swedenborgianism
Noun
Any of several related Christian denominations that developed as a new religious movement, informed by the writings of
swedenborgism
switchboard
switchboard
noun
(electrical engineering) A large piece of power-distribution equipment that directs electricity to multiple loads.
(telecommunications) The electronic panel that is used to direct telephone calls to the desired recipient.
switchboards
switchboards
noun
plural of switchboard
swordbill
swordbill
noun
A hummingbird, Docimastes ensiferus, with a very long, slender bill, exceeding the length of the body of the bird.
timberwood
trowbridge
trowbridge
Proper noun
the county town of Wiltshire, England.
twitterboned
unbowdlerized
unbowdlerized
adj
Not bowdlerized.
underbillow
unimbowed
unimbowered
unimbrowned
wakeboarding
wakeboarding
noun
(sports) A water sport where a rider on a small board is towed by a motor boat, attached by a cable.
weatherboarding
weatherboarding
noun
(architecture) A type of wooden siding in which a house is sided with long, thin, overlapping boards.
weisbrodt
wiesenboden
wiesenboden
noun
(soil science) A black meadow soil.
wildbore
wildbore
noun
(historical) A kind of woolen fabric used for clothing.
wimbledon
wimbledon
Proper noun
The principal business area and suburb in the London Borough of Merton.
The Wimbledon Championships, a prestigious tennis tournament.
windblown
windblown
adj
(of a person) having disheveled hair blown about by the wind.
(of a tree) growing in a distorted shape produced by the prevailing winds.
(of seeds, leaves etc) dispersed by the wind.
windboat
windbore
windbore
noun
The lower, or bottom, pipe in a lift of pumps in a mine.
windbound
windbound
adj
(nautical) Unable to sail because of high winds, or of onshore winds.