(music) Musicians and vocalists who support the main performer.
(television, film) A backdrop.
A liner or other material added behind or underneath.
Support, especially financial.
The action of putting something back; a switching into reverse.
The mounting of a horse or other animal.
verb
present participle of back
bakings
bakings
noun
plural of baking
bakunin
balking
balking
noun
A frustration or disappointment; a check.
verb
present participle of balk
banking
banking
noun
(aviation) A horizontal turn.
(rail transport) The practice of assisting a train up a steep incline (called a bank) with another locomotive at the rear.
A mechanical component to prevent vibration in a timepiece, etc.
The business of managing a bank.
The occupation of managing or working in a bank.
verb
present participle of bank
banksia
banksia
noun
A plant belonging to the genus Banksia.
barking
barking
adj
(British slang) Clipping of barking mad.
noun
The action of the verb to bark.
verb
present participle of bark
barmkin
barmkin
noun
(obsolete) The battlement on the exterior fortification of a castle in northern England and parts of Scotland; a barbican.
basking
basking
noun
The act of one who basks.
verb
present participle of bask
beatnik
beatnik
noun
A person associated with the Beat Generation of the 1950s and 1960s or its style.
A person who dresses in a manner that is not socially acceptable and is supposed to reject conventional norms of thought and behavior; nonconformist in dress and behavior.
becking
becking
verb
present participle of beck
beinked
beinked
adj
Covered in ink.
bendick
bennink
berskin
bestink
beswink
beswink
verb
(obsolete) to labour, toil; belabour
bethink
bethink
verb
(intransitive) To meditate, ponder; to consider.
(obsolete, transitive) To think about, to recollect.
(reflexive) To think of (something or somebody) or that (followed by clause); to remind oneself, to consider, to reflect upon.
To determine, resolve.
bickern
bickern
noun
An anvil with two projecting taper ends.
bikaner
bikinis
bikinis
noun
Brief underpants that reach to the hips rather than the waist.
plural of bikini
bilking
bilking
noun
The act of one who bilks (in any sense).
verb
present participle of bilk
binukau
birkner
blankit
blinked
blinked
adj
(Appalachia) Sour.
Affected with blinking.
verb
simple past tense and past participle of blink
blinker
blinker
noun
(cellular automata) In Conway's Game of Life, an arrangement of three cells in a row that switches between horizontal and vertical orientations in each generation.
(informal, US, automotive) Anything that blinks, such as the turn signal of an automobile.
(rare) The eyelid.
(slang) A black eye.
Eye shields attached to a hood for horses, to prevent them from seeing backwards and partially sideways.
Whatever obstructs sight or discernment.
verb
(transitive) To put blinkers on.
bocking
bocking
noun
A coarse woollen fabric, used for floor cloths, to cover carpets, etc.
bodikin
bodikin
noun
A diminutive of body, forming part of the exclamatory phrase "ods bodikin", a corruption of God's body.
bodkins
bodkins
noun
plural of bodkin
bonking
bonking
verb
present participle of bonk
booking
booking
noun
(law) The process of photographing, fingerprinting and recording the identifying data of a suspect following arrest.
(sports) The issuing of a caution which is usually written down in a book, and results in a yellow card or (after two bookings) a red card, that is to say, the player is sent from the field of play.
A reservation for a service, such as travel or hotel accommodation.
The act or process of writing something down in a book or books, e.g. in accounting.
The engagement of a performer for a particular performance.
verb
present participle of book
boomkin
boomkin
noun
Alternative form of bumkin
bosniak
bosniak
Noun
A person belonging to an autochthonous South Slavic people living mainly in Bosnia and Herzegovina and the Sandžak region of Serbia and Montenegro.
A person typically characterized by their ties to the Bosnian historical region, traditional adherence to Islam, and common culture and language.
botkins
botkins
noun
plural of botkin
botnick
boykins
boykins
noun
plural of boykin
braking
braking
noun
The act of applying brakes.
verb
present participle of brake
brankie
breskin
bricken
bricken
adj
(archaic) Made of brick.
brisken
brisken
verb
(transitive) To become, or make, brisk; to hasten.
broking
broking
noun
(computing) The action of a broker agent; exchange of messages or transactions involving a software agent.
The craft or profession of a broker; mediation in a sale or transaction.
bucking
bucking
noun
(forestry) The process of cutting a felled and delimbed tree into logs.
The act of a quadruped kicking both hind legs upward at once.
The act or process of soaking or boiling cloth in an alkaline liquid in the operation of bleaching.
The liquid used in this process.
The process of breaking up or pulverizing ores.
verb
present participle of buck
bucklin
bulking
bulking
noun
(bodybuilding) A period of intentional weight gain.
verb
present participle of bulk
bumkins
bumkins
noun
plural of bumkin
bumpkin
bumpkin
noun
(nautical) A short boom or spar used to extend a sail or secure a stay.
A clumsy, unsophisticated person; a yokel.
Dance, a series of reels, Scottish.
bunking
bunking
verb
present participle of bunk
burking
burking
verb
present participle of burke
busking
busking
noun
(obsolete) Clothing; dress; ornaments worn.
verb
present participle of busk
buskins
buskins
noun
plural of buskin
finback
finback
noun
A large baleen whale, Balaenoptera physalus, that has a ridge on its back; the fin whale.
firbank
ikebana
ikebana
noun
An arrangement of flowers in this style.
The Japanese art of flower arrangement.
inbreak
inbreak
noun
A sudden violent inroad or incursion; an irruption.
verb
(transitive) To break in; break into; make an incursion into; insert into; interrupt.
inkblot
inkblot
noun
(figuratively) A dark, shapeless object.
(psychology) Any of the pictures used as stimuli in the Rorschach inkblot test.
A blot of ink.
inkbush
inkbush
noun
The plant Cestrum laevigatum.
The plant Forestiera eggersiana.
The plant Suaeda torreyana.
kerbing
kerbing
noun
A strip of kerb.
verb
present participle of kerb
kilnrib
kimbang
kinboot
kinbote
kinbote
noun
(obsolete) A fine paid to the kin of the victim of a crime.
kingcob
kinkhab
kinkhab
noun
Alternative form of kincob
lambkin
lambkin
noun
A term of endearment.
A young lamb, a very young sheep.
linkboy
linkboy
noun
Alternative form of link boy
milbank
niblick
niblick
noun
(golf, dated) A metal-headed golf club with a large highly lofted head. Replaced by a sand iron or wedge in a modern set of clubs.
verb
(golf, transitive, intransitive) To strike, or take a shot, with a niblick.
niblike
niblike
adj
(UK, slang, obsolete) Gentlemanly.
Resembling or characteristic of the nib of a pen.
ribskin
rybinsk
sinkbox
subking
subking
noun
A monarch of a polity that is in turn part of another kingdom.
subwink
unbrick
unbrick
verb
(transitive) To reopen something bricked up.
(transitive, slang, computing) To repair a device that was bricked (rendered inoperative).