(surveying) A measurement of a previously shot point, used to set the angle to zero when occupying a new position.
(surveying) A measurement or reading taken back towards a point of known elevation, used to calculate the height of the surveying instrument (theodolite, transit, total station).
The rear sight of a firearm.
verb
(surveying) To shoot a backsight.
banishing
banishing
noun
A magical ritual intended to remove negative spiritual influences.
verb
present participle of banish
barkleigh
bedighted
bedighted
verb
simple past tense and past participle of bedight
bednights
befreight
begarnish
beheading
beheading
noun
An instance of a person being beheaded.
verb
present participle of behead
beholding
beholding
adj
Obsolete form of beholden.
noun
The act by which something is beheld; regard; contemplation.
verb
present participle of behold
behooving
behooving
verb
present participle of behoove
behowling
behowling
verb
present participle of behowl
beknights
beknights
verb
Third-person singular simple present indicative form of beknight
(figuratively, obsolete) Difficult to understand; abstruse, obscure.
(obsolete or poetic) Overtaken by night; especially of a traveller, etc.: caught out by oncoming night before reaching one's destination.
(obsolete) Plunged into darkness.
verb
simple past tense and past participle of benight
benighten
benighten
verb
(obsolete, transitive) To benight.
benighter
benighter
noun
One who benights or keeps others in darkness.
bergalith
berhyming
berhyming
verb
present participle of berhyme
beshaming
beshaming
verb
present participle of beshame
bigheaded
bigheaded
adj
Alternative spelling of big-headed
bigmouths
bigmouths
noun
plural of bigmouth
bigothero
bigthatch
biography
biography
noun
A person's life story, especially one published.
The art of writing this kind of story.
verb
(transitive) To write a biography of.
bishoping
bishoping
verb
present participle of bishop
blanching
blanching
noun
The act by which something is blanched.
verb
present participle of blanch
bleaching
bleaching
noun
The loss or removal of part of the (semantic, grammatical, etc) content or a word or morpheme.
The process of removing stains or of whitening fabrics, especially by the use of chemical agents.
verb
present participle of bleach
blenching
blenching
noun
The act of one who blenches.
verb
present participle of blench
blighters
blighters
noun
plural of blighter
blighties
blighties
noun
plural of blighty
blighting
blighting
noun
The act by which something is blighted.
verb
present participle of blight
blotching
blotching
noun
The situation of having blotches; blotchiness.
verb
present participle of blotch
bobsleigh
bobsleigh
noun
(UK) The sled used in the sport of bobsleigh.
(obsolete) A sleigh for saw logs or heavy timber resting on two pairs of two short runners.
(uncountable, UK) A winter sport in which teams make timed runs down narrow, twisting, banked purpose-built iced tracks in a gravity-powered sled.
verb
To ride a bobsleigh.
bombsight
bombsight
noun
A device which allows bombs to be accurately dropped from moving aircraft so as to hit a desired target.
boohooing
boohooing
verb
present participle of boohoo
boresight
boresight
noun
The optical axis of a directional antenna.
bothering
bothering
noun
The action of troubling or disturbing someone
verb
present participle of bother
bradleigh
branching
branching
noun
A process of forming a branch.
verb
present participle of branch
breaching
breaching
noun
The act by which something is breached.
verb
present participle of breach
breathing
breathing
noun
(archaic) Time to recover one's breath; hence, a delay, a spell of time.
A diacritical mark indicating aspiration or lack thereof.
Any gentle influence or operation; inspiration.
Aspiration; secret prayer.
The act of respiration; a single instance of this.
verb
present participle of breathe
breeching
breeching
noun
(equestrianism) A component of horse harness or tack, enabling the horse to hold back a vehicle.
(historical) The ceremony of dressing a boy in trousers for the first time.
(nautical) A rope used to secure a cannon.
(slang) A beating or flogging.
A conduit through which exhaust gases are conducted to a chimney.
brighella
brighouse
brightens
brightens
verb
Third-person singular simple present indicative form of brighten
brightest
brightest
adj
superlative form of bright: most bright
verb
(archaic) second-person singular simple present form of bright
brightish
brightish
adj
Somewhat bright
brightman
broaching
broaching
verb
present participle of broach
bromleigh
brooching
brooching
verb
present participle of brooch
brunching
brunching
verb
present participle of brunch
bullfight
bullfight
noun
A public spectacle, in Spain and some other Latin countries, in which a person baits and often kills a bull.
busheling
busheling
noun
(chiefly in the plural) Scraps of steel left over from manufacturing processes.
verb
present participle of bushel
doughbird
doughbird
noun
The Eskimo curlew (Numenius borealis).
edinburgh
edinburgh
Proper noun
The capital and second largest city of Scotland.
eightball
eyebright
eyebright
noun
Any of the flowering plants of the genus Euphrasia, originally as used to treat eye infections.
fightable
fightable
adj
(military) Capable in combat.
Able to be fought.
firebaugh
fitchburg
fulbright
gainbirth
gainbirth
noun
(rare, nonstandard) Regeneration; rebirth.
galbraith
gibberish
gibberish
adj
unintelligible, incoherent or meaningless
noun
(uncountable) A language game, comparable to pig Latin, in which one inserts a nonsense syllable before the first vowel in each syllable of a word.
Needlessly obscure or overly technical language.
Speech or writing that is unintelligible, incoherent or meaningless.
globefish
globefish
noun
Any of many marine fish in the family Tetraodontidae, especially the puffer or sunfish, that can inflate itself to form a globe.
goblinish
guaharibo
gunbright
hangbirds
hangbirds
noun
plural of hangbird
harbinger
harbinger
noun
(obsolete) One who provides lodgings; especially, the officer of the English royal household who formerly preceded the court when travelling, to provide and prepare lodgings.
A person or thing that foreshadows or foretells the coming of someone or something.
verb
(transitive) To announce or precede; to be a harbinger of.
harboring
harboring
verb
present participle of harbor
highballs
highballs
noun
plural of highball
highbelia
highbelia
noun
(US, regional) Lobelia spicata, the pale spiked lobelia.
highboard
highbrows
highbrows
noun
plural of highbrow
hinesburg
hobgoblin
hobgoblin
noun
(by extension) A source of dread, fear or apprehension; a bugbear.
A small, ugly goblin that makes trouble for humans.
hsingborg
hubmaking
inbrought
inbrought
verb
simple past tense and past participle of inbring
kiboshing
kiboshing
verb
present participle of kibosh
lightable
lightable
adj
Capable of being illuminated or made light or bright; able to affix with a light.
Capable of catching fire or being ignited.
lightboat
lightboat
Noun
A lightship.
lightbulb
lightbulb
noun
(Singapore, colloquial) An uninvited third person joining a couple's date who prevents or hinders romantic interactions.
Alternative spelling of light bulb
lindbergh
lindbergh
Proper noun
Any of several place, school, rail station names.
A hamlet in the County of St. Paul No. 19, Alberta, Canada (
A neighborhood of Atlanta, Georgia (
A section of Missouri state highway running through St. Louis.
A passenger rail station in Atlanta, Georgia (
Another name of the San Diego International Airport (
A high school named after the aviator (
A high school named after the aviator Charles Lindbergh (
in Greenland.
neighbors
neighbors
noun
plural of neighbor
verb
Third-person singular simple present indicative form of neighbor
neighbour
neighbour
noun
(biblical) A fellow human being.
A person living on adjacent or nearby land; a person situated adjacently or nearby; anything (of the same type of thing as the subject) in an adjacent or nearby position.
One who is near in sympathy or confidence.
verb
(intransitive, followed by "on"; figurative) To be similar to, to be almost the same as.
(transitive) To be adjacent to
To associate intimately with; to be close to.
nengahiba
nightclub
nightclub
noun
A public or private establishment that is open late at night to provide entertainment, food, drink, music and/or dancing.
verb
To visit a nightclub (or nightclubs) for entertainment.
oblongish
oblongish
adj
Somewhat oblong in shape.
philabegs
philabegs
noun
plural of philabeg
philibegs
philibegs
noun
plural of philibeg
pinchbugs
rebathing
rebathing
verb
present participle of rebathe
rhumbaing
rhumbaing
verb
present participle of rhumba
rightable
rightable
adj
That can be righted
shambling
shambling
adj
Who walks while dragging or shuffling the feet.
noun
An awkward, irregular gait.
verb
present participle of shamble
sightable
sightable
adj
Capable of being sighted; visible from a vantage point
smithburg
subweight
sunbright
sunbright
adj
(poetic) Full of sunshine; bright like the sun or shining with reflected sunlight.
thighbone
thighbone
noun
(anatomy) The bone that extends from the pelvis to the knee in humans; the femur.
throbbing
throbbing
adj
Beating or pounding strongly.
noun
That which throbs.
verb
present participle of throb
thumbling
thumbling
noun
A tiny, thumb-sized person; manikin
Anything small, comparable to the size of a human thumb
tulbaghia
unbenight
weighable
weighable
adj
able to be weighed
weighbauk
weighbeam
weighbeam
noun
A kind of large steelyard for weighing merchandise.