| BACKING | • backing n. Support, especially financial. • backing n. A liner or other material added behind or underneath. • backing n. (Television, film) A backdrop. |
| BAKINGS | • bakings n. Plural of baking. • BAKING n. the process by which bread is baked. |
| BALKING | • balking v. Present participle of balk. • balking n. A frustration or disappointment; a check. • BALKING n. the act of balking. |
| BANKING | • banking n. The business of managing a bank. • banking n. The occupation of managing or working in a bank. • banking n. (Finance) Investment banking. |
| BANKITS | • BANKIT n. a raised sidewalk. |
| BANKSIA | • banksia n. A plant belonging to the genus Banksia. • Banksia prop.n. A taxonomic genus within the family Proteaceae – the banksias, with characteristic flower spikes and… • BANKSIA n. an evergreen, flowering shrub, native to Australia. |
| BARKING | • barking v. Present participle of bark. • barking adj. (British slang) Clipping of barking mad. • barking n. The action of the verb to bark. |
| BARMKIN | • barmkin n. (Obsolete) The battlement on the exterior fortification of a castle in northern England and parts of… • BARMKIN n. (archaic) a battlement or turret on the outer wall of a castle. |
| BASKING | • basking v. Present participle of bask. • basking n. The act of one who basks. • BASK v. to relax in pleasant warmth. |
| BAUKING | • BAUK v. to refrain from proceeding, also BALK, BAULK. |
| BAWDKIN | • bawdkin n. Alternative form of baldacchin. • BAWDKIN n. a rich embroidered material, originally woven with woof of silk and warp of gold thread, also BALDACHIN, BALDACHINO, BALDAQUIN, BAUDEKIN. |
| BEATNIK | • beatnik n. A person who dresses in a manner that is not socially acceptable and is supposed to reject conventional… • beatnik n. A person associated with the Beat Generation of the 1950s and 1960s or its style. • BEATNIK n. a member of the beat generation. |
| BIOBANK | • biobank n. (Biology) Any of several types of repository of biological material (e.g. seeds) or information (e.g. DNA). • biobank v. (Biology, transitive) To store (biological material) in a biobank. • BIOBANK n. any large store of human biological samples for research into the genetic and environmental causes of diseases. |
| BLANKIE | • blankie n. (Childish, informal) A blanket, especially one used as a security blanket. • BLANKIE n. a child's blanket, also BLANKY. |
| BOAKING | • boaking v. Present participle of boak. • BOAK v. (dialect) to belch, vomit, also BOKE, BOCK. |
| BRAKING | • braking v. Present participle of brake. • braking n. The act of applying brakes. • BRAKING n. the act of applying a brake. |
| FINBACK | • finback n. A large baleen whale, Balaenoptera physalus, that has a ridge on its back; the fin whale. • FINBACK n. a type of whale characterized by a prominent fin on the back, aka rorqual, also FINFISH, FINNER. |
| IKEBANA | • ikebana n. The Japanese art of flower arrangement. • ikebana n. An arrangement of flowers in this style. • IKEBANA n. (Japanese) the art of formal flower arrangement. |
| INBREAK | • inbreak v. (Transitive) To break in; break into; make an incursion into; insert into; interrupt. • inbreak n. A sudden violent inroad or incursion; an irruption. • INBREAK n. a violent rush in. |
| LAMBKIN | • lambkin n. A young lamb, a very young sheep. • lambkin n. A term of endearment. • LAMBKIN n. a small lamb, also LAMBIE. |