| BACKBLOCKERS | • BACKBLOCKER n. one who lives in the backblocks. |
| BACKCOURTMAN | • backcourtman n. (Basketball) A backcourt player. • BACKCOURTMAN n. a guard on a basketball team. |
| BACKCOURTMEN | • backcourtmen n. Plural of backcourtman. • BACKCOURTMAN n. a guard on a basketball team. |
| BACKCROSSING | • backcrossing n. (Genetics) The crossing of a hybrid with one of its parents or an individual genetically similar to its parent. • backcrossing v. Present participle of backcross. • BACKCROSS v. to create a cross between a hybrid and a parent. |
| CHECKERBOARD | • checkerboard n. A pattern of squares of alternating colours. • checkerboard n. A board, usually square, covered with such a pattern; especially such a board with 8×8 squares, used… • checkerboard n. (Film) A style of negative cutting that avoids visible splice marks. |
| CRAMBOCLINKS | • CRAMBOCLINK n. (Scots) rhyming doggerel. |
| HYDROCRACKED | • hydrocracked v. Simple past tense and past participle of hydrocrack. • hydrocracked adj. That has been subjected to hydrocracking. • HYDROCRACK v. to crack hydrocarbons in the presence of hydrogen. |
| HYDROCRACKER | • hydrocracker n. (Organic chemistry) A chemical engineering plant in which hydrocracking takes place. • HYDROCRACKER n. one engaged in hydrocracking. |
| KAKISTOCRACY | • kakistocracy n. Government under the control of a nation’s worst or least-qualified citizens. • KAKISTOCRACY n. government by the worst men of the state. |
| KLEPTOCRATIC | • kleptocratic adj. Pertaining to a kleptocracy; characterised by rulers or leaders who are thieves. • KLEPTOCRATIC adj. of or like a kleptocracy, a government characterized by rampant greed and corruption. |
| MICROCRACKED | • microcracked v. Simple past tense and past participle of microcrack. • MICROCRACK v. to crack microscopically. |
| PEACOCKERIES | • peacockeries n. Plural of peacockery. • PEACOCKERY n. vain ostentation. |
| WEATHERCOCKS | • weathercocks n. Plural of weathercock. • weather␣cocks n. Plural of weather cock. • WEATHERCOCK n. a weather vane often in the figure of a cock mounted so as to turn freely with the wind and show its direction. |