| BACKCOURTS | • backcourts n. Plural of backcourt. • BACKCOURT n. in lawn tennis, that part of the court lying behind the service line. |
| BACKGROUND | • background adj. Less important or less noticeable in a scene or system. • background n. One’s social heritage, or previous life; what one did in the past. • background n. A part of the picture that depicts scenery to the rear or behind the main subject; context. |
| BACKHOUSES | • backhouses n. Plural of backhouse. • Backhouses prop.n. Plural of Backhouse. • back-houses n. Plural of back-house. |
| BIVOUACKED | • bivouacked v. Simple past tense and past participle of bivouac. • BIVOUAC v. (French) to spend the night in a makeshift camp without tents etc. |
| BUCKBOARDS | • buckboards n. Plural of buckboard. • BUCKBOARD n. a light horse-drawn vehicle consisting of a flexible board on four wheels, with a two-person seat. |
| BUCKETLOAD | • bucketload n. As much as a bucket can hold. • bucketload n. (Informal) A large amount. |
| COCKABULLY | • cockabully n. A common small, blunt-nosed, stocky endemic freshwater fish, Forsterygion nigripenne, that lives in… • COCKABULLY n. (Maori) any of various small freshwater fishes of New Zealand. |
| COUNTBACKS | • countbacks n. Plural of countback. • COUNTBACK n. a system of deciding the winner of a tied competition by comparing earlier points or scores. |
| DUCKBOARDS | • duckboards n. Plural of duckboard. • DUCKBOARD n. a board with slats nailed across it to help passage across wet ground. |
| KICKABOUTS | • kickabouts n. Plural of kickabout. • KICKABOUT n. an informal game of football, also KICKAROUND. |
| KNOCKABOUT | • knockabout adj. Boisterous. • knockabout adj. Suitable for rough use. • knockabout n. Clothing suitable for rough use. |
| KOULIBIACA | • koulibiaca n. A Russian dish of salmon, rice etc. cooked in puff pastry. • KOULIBIACA n. (Russian) a Russian fish pie, also COULIBIAC, COULIBIACA. |
| OUTBACKERS | • outbackers n. Plural of outbacker. • OUTBACKER n. one who lives in the outback. |
| PLOUGHBACK | • plough␣back v. To reinvest profits into a business. • PLOUGHBACK n. the reinvestment of profits, also PLOWBACK. |
| ROUGHBACKS | • ROUGHBACK n. a rough-skinned flatfish. |
| TCHOUKBALL | • tchoukball n. An indoor ball game for two teams of twelve players (seven on the court at any time), in which points… • TCHOUKBALL n. a ball game involving a ball thrown against a highly sprung net. |
| TOUCHBACKS | • touchbacks n. Plural of touchback. • TOUCHBACK n. a play in which the ball is dead on or behind a team's own goal line, having been put across the line by an opponent but actually put down by a member of that team. |
| UNLOCKABLE | • unlockable adj. Not capable of being locked. • unlockable adj. Capable of being unlocked. • unlockable n. (Video games) An initially hidden feature that is made available to reward the player for some achievement. |