| BACKBENCH | • backbench adj. Relating to the back benches in parliament. • backbench adj. Pertaining to the preparation of a donor organ prior to transplantation. • backbench adj. Secondary or inactive. |
| BACKHANDS | • backhands n. Plural of backhand. • backhands v. Third-person singular simple present indicative form of backhand. • back-hands n. Plural of back-hand. |
| BENCHMARK | • benchmark n. A standard by which something is evaluated or measured. • benchmark n. A surveyor’s mark made on some stationary object and shown on a map; used as a reference point. • benchmark n. (Computing) A computer program that is executed to assess the performance of the runtime environment. |
| BETHANKED | • bethanked v. Simple past tense and past participle of bethank. • BETHANK v. to ply with thanks. |
| BETHANKIT | • BETHANKIT n. (Scots) a grace, elliptical for God be thanked. |
| HANDBOOKS | • handbooks n. Plural of handbook. • HANDBOOK n. a manual. |
| HANDBRAKE | • handbrake n. (Mechanical engineering, automotive, rail transport) A brake in a vehicle, set by hand, and usually… • handbrake n. (Mechanical engineering, automotive, rail transport) The mechanism, particularly the locking hand-operated… • handbrake v. To apply the handbrake in a vehicle. |
| HORNBEAKS | • hornbeaks n. Plural of hornbeak. • HORNBEAK n. a dialect name for the garfish. |
| HUNCHBACK | • hunchback n. One who is stooped or hunched over. • hunchback n. A deformed upper spinal column in the shape of a hump in the back. • hunchback n. (Derogatory) A person with kyphosis, a spinal deformity that causes a hunched over appearance. |
| KNOBHEADS | • knobheads n. Plural of knobhead. • knob␣heads n. Plural of knob head. • KNOBHEAD n. (vulgar slang) a stupid person. |
| NOTCHBACK | • notchback n. A motor car whose rear window makes an angle with its back segment. • NOTCHBACK n. a car whose roof does not slope continuously from the roof to the bumper, but juts out from the bottom of the rear window. |
| SHANKBONE | • shankbone n. Synonym of canon bone. • shank-bone n. Alternative form of shankbone. • SHANKBONE n. the bone of the shank. |
| THINKABLE | • thinkable adj. Able to be thought or imagined; conceivable. • thinkable adj. (Rare) Morally acceptable or legal. • THINKABLE adj. capable of being thought. |
| THINKABLY | • thinkably adv. (Philosophy) Such that it can be thought. • THINKABLE adv. capable of being thought. |
| THORNBACK | • thornback n. Any animal with a thorny back, especially marine animals, such as… • thornback n. (Archaic) A woman over a certain age (variously 26 or 30) who has never married, older than a spinster. • THORNBACK n. a kind of skate having thornlike spines on its back, aka roker. |