A board game for two players in which each has 15 stones which move between 24 triangular points according to the roll of a pair of dice; the object is to move all of one's pieces around, and bear them off the board.
{{lb|en|backgammon}} A victory in the game when the loser has not borne off a stone, and still has one or more stones in the winner's inner home row or on the bar.
verb
To win at a backgammon game with the opponent having one or more pieces in the winner’s inner home row or on the bar.
beermaking
beermaking
noun
The making of beer.
bellmaking
bellmaking
noun
The manufacture of bells.
beltmaking
beltmaking
noun
The manufacture of belts.
bodymaking
boltmaking
boltmaking
noun
The manufacture of bolts.
bookmaking
bookmaking
noun
The art or practice of compiling books from the writings of others.
The art or profession of determining odds and receiving and paying off bets, especially bets on the outcome of sporting events.
bookmonger
bookmonger
noun
(archaic) A bookseller.
bootmaking
bootmaking
noun
The making of boots.
buckingham
buckingham
Proper noun
A place name:
A town in Buckinghamshire, England.
A former city in Quebec, Canada, merged into Gatineau in 2002.
An unincorporated community in Colorado, USA, named after a railroad official.
A census-designated place in Florida, USA.
A village in Illinois, USA.
An unincorporated community in Iowa, USA, named after Buckingham County, VA.
A former city in Texas, USA, now part of Richardson, Texas.
A census-designated place and county seat of Buckingham County in Virginia, USA.
A dukedom in the English peerage.
An English habitational surname derived from the place name.
buckraming
buckraming
verb
present participle of buckram
bumsucking
bushmaking
cakemaking
cakemaking
noun
The making of cakes.
cardmaking
cardmaking
noun
The manufacture of greeting cards (usually as a small-scale hobby).
cartmaking
cartmaking
noun
The manufacture of carts.
casemaking
casemaking
noun
The manufacture of cases.
chemicking
chemicking
verb
present participle of chemic
clogmaking
clogmaking
noun
The manufacture of clogs (type of shoe).
coinmaking
coinmaking
noun
The manufacture of coins.
combmaking
combmaking
noun
The manufacture of combs.
conemaking
coremaking
coremaking
noun
(engineering) The manufacture of the cores used to produce the hollow parts of castings.
corkmaking
dekagramme
dishmaking
dishmaking
noun
The manufacture of dishes.
dollmaking
dollmaking
noun
The manufacture of dolls.
doormaking
doormaking
noun
The manufacture of doors.
doughmaker
earmarking
earmarking
noun
An earmark (funding designation).
An earmark (identifying mark on the ear of an animal).
verb
present participle of earmark
edgemaking
edgemaking
noun
The manufacture of the edges of shoes.
eskimology
eskimology
Noun
The study of the Eskimo people.
facemaking
feltmaking
feltmaking
noun
The manufacture of felt.
filemaking
filemaking
noun
The manufacture of files (rasping tools).
filmmaking
filmmaking
noun
The activity of preparing edited video works, formerly principally films, whether for entertainment or other purposes.
The manufacture of physical film.
fingermark
fingermark
noun
A blemish made by a dirty finger.
flagmaking
flagmaking
noun
The manufacture of flags.
gamekeeper
gamekeeper
noun
A person employed to maintain the game for hunting and all associated materials and effects. Often shortened to keeper.
gawkhammer
getmjlkost
gimmickery
gimmickery
noun
Alternative form of gimmickry
gimmicking
gimmicking
verb
present participle of gimmick
gitanemuck
glassmaker
glassmaker
noun
A person or company that makes glass or glass items.
glovemaker
glovemaker
noun
A maker of gloves; a glover.
gluemaking
gluemaking
noun
The manufacture of glue.
gravemaker
graymalkin
graymalkin
noun
Alternative form of grimalkin (“a cat”)
heatmaking
hedgemaker
hedgemaker
noun
One who constructs a hedge.
heelmaking
homemaking
homemaking
noun
The management of a household considered as an occupation.
hookmaking
hookmaking
noun
The manufacture of hooks.
hughmanick
ironmaking
ironmaking
noun
The making of iron (from an ore)
karamojong
karamojong
Proper noun
A Nilo-Saharan language of Uganda.
karyogamic
karyogamic
adj
Relating to karyogamy.
keggmiengg
kentigerma
kerygmatic
kerygmatic
adj
Presumptuous.
Relating to the kerygmata.
khidmatgar
khidmutgar
khidmutgar
noun
Alternative form of khitmatgar
khitmatgar
khitmatgar
noun
(British India, South Asia) A male servant, with responsibility for waiting at table.
khitmutgar
khitmutgar
noun
Alternative spelling of khitmatgar
kilogramme
kilogramme
noun
(UK) Dated spelling of kilogram.
kimmeridge
kinetogram
kinetogram
noun
The image produced by a kinetograph
kingdomful
kingdomful
noun
Enough to fill a kingdom.
kingmaking
kingmaking
noun
In games, a strategy or design where one player (often the losing one) essentially gets to pick who wins.
The ceremony of crowning a king, or any similar ceremony of endowing a person with high office.
verb
present participle of kingmake
kiplingism
kiplingism
Noun
An attitude or turn of phrase characteristic of Rudyard Kipling.
kokumingun
kolmogorov
kolmogorov
Adjective
Such that any two distinct points are topologically distinguishable, i.e., there is an open set containing one of the points which does not contain the other point.
kremenchug
kuomintang
kuomintang
Proper noun
A nationalist political party in pre-Communist China that ruled China from 1928 until the Communists overthrew it in 1949, and was subsequently the major administrative party of Taiwan.
kymatology
kymatology
noun
The study of wave motion.
kymography
kymography
noun
The use of a kymograph.
lacemaking
lacemaking
noun
The manufacture of lace.
lampmaking
lampmaking
noun
The manufacture of lamps.
lockmaking
lockmaking
noun
The manufacture of locks.
lovemaking
lovemaking
noun
(dated) Courtship; amorous advances.
Sexual intercourse.
lutemaking
lutemaking
noun
The manufacture of lutes.
mafficking
mafficking
noun
(dated) Extravagant rejoicings of a multitude.
maiongkong
makeweight
makeweight
noun
Something included to add to the apparent weight or force of an argument.
Something of inferior quality which is included in a shipment to make up the weight.
mammocking
mammocking
verb
present participle of mammock
mankilling
marketings
marketings
noun
plural of marketing
maskalonge
maskanonge
maskinonge
maskinonge
noun
The muskellunge
mimmocking
mintmaking
miscooking
miscooking
verb
present participle of miscook
miskeeping
miskeeping
verb
present participle of miskeep
miskenning
miskenning
noun
(law) A wrong citation.
verb
present participle of misken
misknowing
misknowing
verb
present participle of misknow
mismarking
mismarking
noun
An incorrect marking.
verb
present participle of mismark
mockground
monkmonger
moonraking
mosaicking
mosaicking
noun
A process in which a mosaic (of images) is constructed.
muckraking
muckraking
verb
present participle of muckrake
muskhogean
muskhogean
Noun
Muskogee
Proper noun
Muskogee
mussorgski
mussorgsky
mythmaking
mythmaking
noun
The production or composing of myths.
naumkeager
naumkeager
noun
(historical) The operator of a naumkeag machine.
nicknaming
nicknaming
verb
present participle of nickname
nonsmoking
nonsmoking
adj
Alternative form of non-smoking
outsmoking
outsmoking
verb
present participle of outsmoke
pacemaking
pacemaking
noun
The action of a pacemaker (in any sense)
packmaking
pikemonger
pillmaking
playmaking
playmaking
noun
(sports) The initiation of offensive play with the intent of scoring a goal (or the equivalent)
plowmaking
rainmaking
rainmaking
noun
(US, informal) Hiring someone who creates business opportunities or revenue.
The attempted artificial production of rain, either by use of magic or by seeding clouds.
reedmaking
ringmaking
ringmaking
noun
The manufacture of rings (type of jewellery).
rockingham
rockingham
Proper noun
A village and civil parish in Northamptonshire, England.
A city in North Carolina, USA, and county seat of Richmond County.
A town in Vermont.
A city in Western Australia.
Noun
A 19th-century style of finely decorated porcelain.
ropemaking
ropemaking
noun
The manufacture of rope.
sackmaking
sackmaking
noun
The manufacture of sacks.
safemaking
safemaking
noun
The manufacture of safes.
sailmaking
sailmaking
noun
The occupation of making sails.
saltmaking
saltmaking
noun
The manufacture of salt.
semiwaking
shoemaking
shoemaking
noun
The making of shoes.
skimmingly
skimmingly
adv
in a skimming manner
skimpingly
skimpingly
adv
So as to skimp; stingily; insufficiently.
slopmaking
smackingly
smackingly
adv
With a smacking sound or motion.
smicksburg
smirkingly
smirkingly
adv
In a smirking manner.
smoketight
smoketight
adj
impervious to smoke
snowmaking
snowmaking
noun
The artificial production of snow
soapmaking
soapmaking
noun
The business or process of producing soap
sockmaking
staymaking
subkingdom
subkingdom
noun
(taxonomy) A taxonomic category below kingdom and above superphylum.
(uncommon) A kingdom that is part of another kingdom, ruled by a subking.
tankmaking
tapamaking
tapemaking
tentmaking
tentmaking
noun
The manufacture of tents.
tidemaking
tilemaking
tilemaking
noun
The manufacture of tiles.
tiltmaking
timetaking
tiremaking
toolmaking
toolmaking
noun
The art or craft of a toolmaker; the manufacture of tools.