(backgammon) A game in which a player blocks the opponent's progress by forming two or more points in the opponent's home board.
An indirect strategy in which one attempts to achieve one's goals by maneuvering behind the scenes.
backings
backings
noun
plural of backing
backlogs
backlogs
noun
plural of backlog
batching
batching
verb
present participle of batch
beaching
beaching
noun
An event in which a marine animal beaches itself.
verb
present participle of beach
becoming
becoming
adj
decent, respectable
pleasingly suitable; fit; congruous; beautiful
noun
(chiefly philosophy) The act or process by which something becomes.
verb
present participle of become
becudgel
becudgel
verb
(transitive) To cudgel thoroughly or soundly.
begrutch
begrutch
verb
Obsolete form of begrudge.
belching
belching
noun
The act of producing a belch.
verb
present participle of belch
benching
benching
noun
An instance of a person being removed temporarily from an active role in a group or team activity.
verb
present participle of bench
bengalic
bergerac
bigoniac
bigoniac
adj
Synonym of bigonial
biogenic
biogenic
adj
essential for the maintenance of life
produced by living organisms, or by a biological process
biologic
biologic
adj
Biological; pertaining to biology or to a living organism.
noun
An extremely complex drug, vaccine or antitoxin that is made from a living organism, or from products of a living organism.
birching
birching
noun
A beating with a birch.
verb
present participle of birch
birdcage
birdcage
noun
(countable) A cage to keep pet or zoological specimen birds in.
(uncountable) A game of chance played with dice; chuck-a-luck.
bitching
bitching
adj
(slang) Excellent; outstanding.
(slang, less common) Awful, terrible.
noun
(vulgar, colloquial) A spiteful criticism or complaint.
verb
present participle of bitch
blachong
blackgum
blackgum
noun
Alternative form of black gum (“tree”)
blacking
blacking
noun
A boycott, usually as part of an industrial dispute.
A preparation, containing lampblack, used to produce a shiny black coating.
Shoe polish.
verb
present participle of black
blackleg
blackleg
noun
(countable) A person who cheats in a game; a cheater, especially a dishonest bookmaker.
(countable) A person who takes the place of striking workers; a scab.
(uncountable, agriculture, veterinary medicine) A fatal cattle disease caused by the soil-borne bacterium Clostridium chauvoei; symptomatic anthrax.
verb
To continue working whilst fellow workers strike.
blackrag
blockage
blockage
noun
A thing that is blocking; an obstruction.
The state of being blocked.
constipation
blocking
blocking
noun
(computing) A feature that prevents a keyboard from registering multiple simultaneous keypresses that would cause ghosting.
Blocks used to support (a building, etc.) temporarily.
The act by which something is blocked; an obstruction.
The precise movement and positioning of actors in order to facilitate a performance (originally planned using miniature blocks).
verb
present participle of block
boiguacu
bongrace
bongrace
noun
(obsolete) A projecting bonnet or shade to protect the complexion.
(obsolete) A wide-brimmed hat.
boscages
boscages
noun
plural of boscage
botching
botching
verb
present participle of botch
bouncing
bouncing
adj
(obsolete, informal) Excessively big; whopping.
Healthy; vigorous.
noun
The act of something that bounces.
verb
present participle of bounce
bowgrace
bowgrace
noun
(nautical) A frame or fender of rope or junk, laid out at the sides or bows of a vessel to secure it from damage.
bracings
bracings
noun
plural of bracing
bracking
bricking
bricking
noun
The act of pelting with bricks.
verb
present participle of brick
brockage
brockage
noun
(coin collecting) A type of error coin in which one side of the coin has the normal design and the other side has a mirror image of the same design impressed upon it.
buckling
buckling
adj
Wavy; curly, as hair.
noun
(geology) A folding into hills and valleys.
A young male domestic goat of between one and two years.
Smoked herring.
The act of fastening a buckle.
The action of collapsing under pressure or stress.
verb
present participle of buckle
bulgaric
bunching
bunching
noun
(countable) An arrangement of items in a bunch.
(uncountable) The illegitimate supplying of laboratory animals that are actually kidnapped pets or illegally trapped strays.
verb
present participle of bunch
buncoing
buncoing
verb
present participle of bunco
busching
cabbaged
cabbaged
verb
simple past tense and past participle of cabbage
cabbages
cabbages
noun
plural of cabbage
verb
Third-person singular simple present indicative form of cabbage
cabbling
cabbling
noun
The process of breaking up the flat masses into which wrought iron is first hammered, so that the pieces can be reheated and wrought into bar iron.
cabining
cabining
verb
present participle of cabin
cabotage
cabotage
noun
(law) The right to engage in such transport.
The exclusive right of a country to control such transport.
The transport of goods or passengers between two points in the same country.
cambogia
carbungi
carbungi
noun
An Australian cattail (Typha angustifolia)
caribing
clayberg
climbing
climbing
adj
(botany, of a plant) That climbs; that grows upwards by gripping onto a surface.
noun
(countable) Climb; ascent.
(uncountable) The sport of climbing, ascending a wall or a rock or another object using available holds, generally with the safety of a rope and belayer.
verb
present participle of climb
clubbing
clubbing
noun
(countable) An instance of using a club.
(countable, medicine) A thickening of the ends of fingers and toes.
(uncountable) The practice of frequenting nightclubs.
The development of clubroot in a plant.
verb
present participle of club
cobbling
cobbling
noun
The process of cobbling something together; improvised assembly.
The work of a cobbler; shoemaking.
verb
present participle of cobble
coberger
cokeburg
combings
combings
noun
Fragments of hair etc. removed with a comb.
conglobe
conglobe
verb
(transitive, intransitive, poetic, archaic) To collect (something) into a round mass; to conglobate.
crabbing
crabbing
noun
(falconry) The fighting of hawks with each other.
(wool manufacture) A process of scouring cloth between rolls in a machine.
The act or art of catching crabs.
verb
present participle of crab
cribbage
cribbage
noun
(card games) A point-counting card game for two players, with variants for three or four players; the cribbage board used for scoring to 61 or 121 points in numerous small increments is characteristic.
A point scored in this variety of pocket billiards.
A variety of pocket billiards that, like the card game, awards points for pairs that total 15. A player who pockets a ball of a particular number must then immediately pocket the companion ball that brings the number to 15.
cribbing
cribbing
noun
(ethology, equestrianism) A self-injurious tendency of certain horses to swallow air while slobbering and biting onto objects in and about their enclosure; cribbing and windsucking are regarded as equine forms of obsessive-compulsive disorder.
An act of plagiarism.
As a whole, the heavy structure built to support an existing structure from underneath, as with a mineshaft or when raising a building off its foundation, as for moving to another location,
The cribbing used to support anything from below or on a side, as with a retaining wall, or to prop up a piece of heavy machinery.
The members used to build a (structural) crib, usually of timbers or logs, but also of concrete, steel or even plastic; cribwork.
verb
present participle of crib
crumbing
crumbing
verb
present participle of crumb
cubangle
cungeboi
curbings
curbings
noun
plural of curbing
cymbling
cymbling
noun
Alternative form of cymling
dungbeck
gabbroic
gabbroic
adj
Of, pertaining to, or containing gabbro
gambodic
gambogic
gambogic
adj
Of or pertaining to gamboge.
Of or pertaining to gambogic acid or its derivatives.
geelbeck
gehlbach
gemsbuck
gemsbuck
noun
Alternative form of gemsbok
giveback
giveback
noun
A rebate.
A reduction in pay or conditions as a result of unfavourable economic conditions.
gladbeck
globical
gobstick
gorboduc
grayback
grayback
noun
Alternative spelling of greyback
greyback
greyback
noun
(dated) A louse.
(historical, US, colloquial) A Confederate soldier during the US Civil War (because of the grey uniforms).
(regional) Any of various grey birds.
hogbacks
hogbacks
noun
plural of hogback
icebergs
icebergs
noun
plural of iceberg
megabuck
megabuck
noun
(informal) A million dollars.
pinchbug
richburg
scabbing
scabbing
verb
present participle of scab
scarebug
scarebug
noun
(obsolete) A bugbear; an imaginary monster to frighten children.
scribing
scribing
noun
(dated) Something scribed; an inscription.
verb
present participle of scribe
tocobaga
wingback
wingback
noun
(American football) A running back who is in formation near the line of scrimmage and outside the tackles, a slotback.
(soccer) A player who doubles on either side of the center as a defender when their team is defending, and a winger when they are attacking.
A wingback chair.
One of the projecting side pieces on a wingback chair.