The setting or background of an acted performance.
verb
(transitive) To serve as a backdrop for.
backrope
bardolph
barspoon
bebopper
bebopper
noun
A musician or aficionado of the bebop genre.
bellport
beparody
bepowder
bepowder
verb
(transitive, obsolete) To sprinkle or cover with powder; to powder.
bhojpuri
bimorphs
bimorphs
noun
plural of bimorph
biograph
biograph
noun
(rare) A biographical essay.
An early device to show moving pictures on a screen.
verb
(rare, transitive) To write a biography of.
biophore
biophore
noun
Alternative spelling of biophor
biparous
biparous
adj
producing two offspring from one pregnancy; twinning
biporose
biporous
bloopers
bloopers
noun
plural of blooper
boarship
boltrope
boltrope
noun
Alternative spelling of bolt rope
bosporan
bosporus
bosporus
noun
A strait or narrow sea between two seas, or a lake and a sea.
bothrops
bowsprit
bowsprit
noun
(nautical) A spar projecting over the prow of a sailing vessel to provide the means of adding sail surface.
bradypod
bricktop
bridport
bridport
Proper noun
A town in Dorset, England
brontops
browntop
browntop
noun
Brachiaria ramosa (browntop millet)
Common bent (Agrostis capillaris)
Microstegium spp.
browpost
bugproof
bugproof
verb
(transitive) To make resistant to insects.
bushrope
bushrope
noun
Synonym of liana
cupboard
cupboard
noun
(obsolete) A board or table used to openly hold and display silver plate and other dishware; a sideboard; a buffet. [14th–18th c.]
(obsolete) Things displayed on a sideboard; dishware, particularly valuable plate. [16th–19th c.]
(obsolete) Things stored in a cupboard; particularly food.
A cabinet, closet, or other piece of furniture with shelves intended for storing cookware, dishware, or food; similar cabinets or closets used for storing other items.
verb
To collect, as into a cupboard; to hoard.
geoprobe
geoprobe
noun
A probe used for studying the earth.
lapboard
lapboard
noun
A board held on the lap as a simple lap desk.
mobproof
mobproof
adj
Resistant to incursion by a mob.
mopboard
mopboard
noun
A skirting board (to protect a wall from wet mops)
obtemper
obtemper
verb
(Scotland, law, transitive) To obey (a judgement or decree).
operable
operable
adj
Able to be operated or used
Able to be put into operation; practicable
Able to be treated by surgery
operably
operably
adv
(medicine) Such that it allows an operation to take place.
opprobry
opprobry
noun
(obsolete) Opprobrium.
panbroil
panbroil
verb
(cooking, transitive) To broil in a pan.
paperboy
paperboy
noun
A male who delivers newspapers to houses on a paper round
parabola
parabola
noun
(geometry) The conic section formed by the intersection of a cone with a plane parallel to a tangent plane to the cone; the locus of points equidistant from a fixed point (the focus) and line (the directrix).
(rhetoric) The explicit drawing of a parallel between two essentially dissimilar things, especially with a moral or didactic purpose. A parable.
parabole
parabole
noun
(rhetoric) similitude; comparison
parabomb
parabomb
noun
A bomb dropped by parachute.
parboils
parboils
verb
Third-person singular simple present indicative form of parboil
pebworth
pegboard
pegboard
noun
A board that has a pattern of holes into which pegs are fitted; used especially to record the score in some card games.
A perforated form of hardboard.
verb
(transitive) To fit or furnish with pegboard.
pembroke
pembroke
Proper noun
A town in Pembrokeshire, Wales
pembrook
perborax
periboea
periboli
periboli
noun
plural of peribolus
phobetor
phobetor
Proper noun
The god and personification of nightmares; a son of Hypnos and Pasithea, or Nyx and Erebus.
pibrochs
pibrochs
noun
plural of pibroch
pleiobar
plyboard
plyboard
noun
A material made from wooden boards glued together.
poleburn
polybrid
portable
portable
adj
(computing) Of a program: able to be copied directly from one machine to another without the use of an installer.
(computing) Of software: able to be run on multiple hardware or operating systems.
Able to be carried or easily moved.
Able to be transferred from one organization to another.
noun
(computing) Clipping of portable computer.
(video games) A hand-held video gaming device.
A trailer or other movable structure used for classes at a school.
Clipping of portable toilet.
portably
portably
adv
In a portable manner
postburn
postburn
adj
After a burn.
potherbs
potherbs
noun
plural of potherb
pourable
pourable
adj
Able to be poured.
Liquid, with viscosity allowing to be poured, or solid with particles not strongly adhering to each other or the container.
noun
Any substance that can be poured.
preboast
preboils
preboils
verb
Third-person singular simple present indicative form of preboil
prebound
prebound
adj
Of a book: rebound with a library quality hardcover binding. In almost all commercial cases, the book in question began as a paperback.
predoubt
prelabor
prelabor
adj
Prior to the labor of childbirth.
prenoble
probable
probable
adj
(obsolete) Capable of being proved.
Likely or most likely to be true.
Likely to happen.
Supporting, or giving ground for, belief, but not demonstrating.
noun
A person who is likely to appear or do a certain thing.
Something that is likely.
probably
probably
adv
In all likelihood.
probandi
probands
probands
noun
plural of proband
probangs
probangs
noun
plural of probang
probated
probated
verb
simple past tense and past participle of probate
probates
probates
noun
plural of probate
verb
Third-person singular simple present indicative form of probate
probator
probator
noun
(law, UK, obsolete) One who, when indicted for crime, confessed it and accused his accomplices in order to obtain pardon.
An examiner; an approver.
probatum
proberta
probings
probings
noun
plural of probing
problems
problems
noun
plural of problem
probonus
probrick
prohibit
prohibit
verb
(transitive) To forbid, disallow, or proscribe officially; to make illegal or illicit.
prolabor
prorebel
provable
provable
adj
Of a statement or hypothesis that can be proven.
provably
provably
adv
With proof; in a provable manner.
proverbs
proverbs
noun
plural of proverb
verb
Third-person singular simple present indicative form of proverb
pyribole
pyribole
noun
(mineralogy) Any mineral of either the pyroxene or amphibole groups.
reprobed
reprobed
verb
simple past tense and past participle of reprobe
reprobes
reprobes
verb
Third-person singular simple present indicative form of reprobe
ropeable
ropeable
adj
(Australia, New Zealand) Angry to the point of needing to be restrained from violent action.
Able to be roped and so restrained.
ropeband
ropeband
noun
(nautical) A small piece of spun yarn or marline, used to fasten the head of the sail to the spar.
ropebark
saprobes
saprobes
noun
plural of saprobe
saprobic
saprobic
adj
(biology) Of, pertaining to, or of the nature of a saprobe or saprobes; that feeds on dead or decaying organic matter.
(ecology) That contains dead or decaying organic material (and therefore also saprobes).
soapbark
soapbark
noun
The bark of the evergreen tree, Quillaja saponaria, which when pulverised forms a lather with water.
The tree Quillaja saponaria.
sobproof
subgroup
subgroup
noun
(group theory) A subset H of a group G that is itself a group and has the same binary operation as G.
A group within a larger group; a group whose members are some, but not all, of the members of a larger group.
verb
To divide or classify into subgroups
subpolar
subpolar
adj
Situated below the poles
subprior
subprior
noun
The vicegerent of a prior; a claustral officer who assists the prior.
subproof
subproof
noun
(mathematics) A proof that makes up part of a larger proof.
tubipora
tubipore
tubipore
noun
(zoology) Any member of the halcyonoid genus Tubipora.