| ABDICABLE | • abdicable adj. Capable of being abdicated. • ABDICABLE adj. capable of being abdicated. |
| BACKBANDS | • backbands n. Plural of backband. • BACKBAND n. the band which passes over the back of a horse and holds up the shafts of a carriage. |
| BACKBENDS | • backbends n. Plural of backbend. • BACKBEND n. an acrobatic feat. |
| BACKBOARD | • backboard n. (Basketball) The flat vertical surface to which the basket is attached. • backboard n. (Tennis) A flat vertical wall with the image of a tennis net drawn or painted on it, designed to practice… • backboard n. (Medicine) A spine board. |
| BACKBONDS | • backbonds n. Plural of backbond. • BACKBOND n. a deed attaching a qualification or condition to the terms of a conveyance or other instrument. |
| BACKBONED | • backboned adj. Having a spine. • BACKBONED adj. having a backbone, vertebrate. |
| BARBECUED | • barbecued adj. Cooked on a barbecue. • barbecued v. Simple past tense and past participle of barbecue. • bar-be-cued adj. Alternative form of barbecued. |
| BLACKBAND | • blackband n. (Mineralogy) An earthy carbonate of iron containing considerable carbonaceous matter, valuable as an iron ore. • BLACKBAND n. iron ore containing enough coal to calcine it. |
| BLACKBIRD | • blackbird n. A common true thrush, Turdus merula, found in woods and gardens over much of Eurasia, and introduced elsewhere. • blackbird n. A variety of New World birds of the family Icteridae (26 species of icterid bird). • blackbird n. (Slang, derogatory, historical, among slavers and pirates) A native of the South Pacific islands. |
| BLACKBODY | • blackbody n. (Physics) a theoretical body, approximated by a hole in a hollow black sphere, that absorbs all incident… • black␣body n. (Physics) Alternative form of blackbody. • black␣body n. Used other than figuratively or idiomatically: see black, body. |
| BUCKBOARD | • buckboard n. A simple, distinctively American four-wheeled horse-drawn wagon designed for personal transport as well… • BUCKBOARD n. a light horse-drawn vehicle consisting of a flexible board on four wheels, with a two-person seat. |
| CLABBERED | • clabbered v. Simple past tense and past participle of clabber. • clabbered adj. Thickened or curdled. • CLABBER v. to curdle, turn sour. |
| CONFABBED | • confabbed v. Simple past tense and past participle of confab. • CONFAB v. to converse, gossip. |
| CRABBEDLY | • crabbedly adv. In a crabbed manner. • CRABBED adv. CRAB, to obstruct, frustrate. |
| SCABBARDS | • scabbards n. Plural of scabbard. • scabbards v. Third-person singular simple present indicative form of scabbard. • SCABBARD v. to sheathe, as a sword. |
| SCRABBLED | • scrabbled v. Simple past tense and past participle of scrabble. • SCRABBLE v. to claw or grope about frantically. |