(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.
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
biogenic
biogenic
adj
essential for the maintenance of life
produced by living organisms, or by a biological process
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.
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.
blockage
blockage
noun
A thing that is blocking; an obstruction.
The state of being blocked.
constipation
bongrace
bongrace
noun
(obsolete) A projecting bonnet or shade to protect the complexion.
(obsolete) A wide-brimmed hat.
boscages
boscages
noun
plural of boscage
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.
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.
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
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.
clayberg
coberger
cokeburg
conglobe
conglobe
verb
(transitive, intransitive, poetic, archaic) To collect (something) into a round mass; to conglobate.
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.
cubangle
cungeboi
dungbeck
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
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.
icebergs
icebergs
noun
plural of iceberg
megabuck
megabuck
noun
(informal) A million dollars.
scarebug
scarebug
noun
(obsolete) A bugbear; an imaginary monster to frighten children.