| ABDUCTING | • abducting v. Present participle of abduct. • ABDUCT v. to carry someone away with force; to kidnap. |
| ABJECTING | • abjecting v. Present participle of abject. • ABJECT v. to throw out, cast away. |
| BACKLIGHT | • backlight n. (Uncountable) Light shining from a source behind the object of interest or attention. • backlight n. (Countable) The rear window of a motor car. • backlight v. (Transitive) To illuminate something from behind. |
| BACKSIGHT | • backsight n. The rear sight of a firearm. • backsight n. (Surveying) A measurement or reading taken back towards a point of known elevation, used to calculate… • backsight n. (Surveying) A measurement of a previously shot point, used to set the angle to zero when occupying a new position. |
| BACKSTAGE | • backstage adj. Relating to, or situated in the area behind a stage. • backstage adj. Secret, concealed from the public. • backstage adv. Towards the area behind the stage. |
| BATCHINGS | • BATCHING n. the act of sorting into batches. |
| BREGMATIC | • bregmatic adj. (Anatomy) Pertaining to the bregma. • BREGMATIC adj. relating to the bregma, the point of junction of the coronal and sagittal sutures of the skull, also BREGMATE. |
| CABOTAGES | • cabotages n. Plural of cabotage. • CABOTAGE n. (French) shipping and sailing between points in the same country. |
| CARPETBAG | • carpetbag n. A traveling bag made from scraps of carpet and widely used in the United States (and elsewhere) in the… • carpetbag v. (Chiefly US) To come to a place or organisation with which one has no previous connection with the sole… • carpetbag adj. (Chiefly US) Having the characteristics of carpetbaggers. |
| COGITABLE | • cogitable adj. Thinkable, conceivable, able to be imagined. • COGITABLE adj. capable of being thought, conceivable. |
| COMBATING | • combating v. Alternative spelling of combatting: present participle of combat. • COMBAT v. to fight against. |
| FIGHTBACK | • fightback n. A campaign of resistance; a counterattack. • fight␣back v. (Intransitive) to defend oneself by fighting. • fight␣back v. (Intransitive) to counterattack; to resist an attack. |
| SUBACTING | • subacting v. Present participle of subact. • SUBACT v. to subdue. |
| TUCKERBAG | • tuckerbag n. (Australia) A bag for carrying food (tucker). • TUCKERBAG n. a bag used to carry food in the bush or by jolly swagmen. |