| BACKHAULS | • backhauls v. Third-person singular simple present indicative form of backhaul. • BACKHAUL v. to return after delivering a cargo. |
| BACKSLASH | • backslash n. The punctuation mark \. • backslash n. (Computing, rare, proscribed) Used erroneously in reference to, or in reading out, the ordinary slash… • backslash v. (Computing, transitive) To escape (a metacharacter) by prepending a backslash that serves as an escape… |
| BLACKHEAD | • blackhead n. (Countable, medicine) A comedo, a skin blemish, a type of acne vulgaris, where a pore becomes clogged… • blackhead n. (Uncountable) A form of histomoniasis in poultry, characterized by cyanotic discoloration on the bird’s head. • blackhead n. (Countable) A scaup: any of various ducks of the genus Aythya. |
| BLACKWASH | • blackwash n. (Slang, New Zealand) A whitewash victory for any New Zealand national sporting team. • blackwash n. (Slang, cricket) A whitewash victory for the West Indies cricket team. Started in the 1984–86 "Blackwash"… • blackwash n. (Medicine) A lotion made by mixing calomel and limewater. |
| CHAKALAKA | • chakalaka n. A spicy African vegetable relish traditionally served with bread, pap, samp, stews, and curries. • CHAKALAKA n. (South African) a relish of tomatoes, onions and spices. |
| CHALKFACE | • chalkface n. (Geology) A cliff or quarry exposing chalk, e.g. the White Cliffs of Dover. • chalkface n. (Education) The environment where teaching is carried out, specifically a school. • CHALKFACE n. as in the phrase at the chalkface, i.e. in the classroom, as the centre of a teacher's activities. |
| CHALKLAND | • chalkland n. Land in which the underlying geology is chalk. • CHALKLAND n. land composed of chalk. |
| CHALKMARK | • CHALKMARK n. a mark made with chalk (in phrase walk the chalkmark). |
| FLASHBACK | • flashback n. (Authorship) A dramatic device in which an earlier event is inserted into the normal chronological flow… • flashback n. (Psychology) A vivid mental image of a past trauma or other sensation that the trauma is happening in… • flashback n. A similar recurrence of the effects of a hallucinogenic drug. |
| HALFBACKS | • halfbacks n. Plural of halfback. • half-backs n. Plural of half-back. • HALFBACK n. a position in football. |
| HALFTRACK | • halftrack n. Alternative form of half-track. • halftrack adj. Alternative form of half-track. • half-track n. A vehicle combining both wheels and treads (caterpillar tracks). |
| HAULBACKS | • HAULBACK n. a line for drawing a cable back. |
| KALANCHOE | • kalanchoe n. Any of the genus Kalanchoe of tropical, succulent flowering plants. • Kalanchoe prop.n. A taxonomic genus within the family Crassulaceae – tropical succulent flowering plants native principally… • KALANCHOE n. a succulent plant which bears red, yellow or pink clusters on long stems. |
| KNAIDLACH | • knaidlach n. Plural of knaidel. • KNAIDEL n. (Yiddish) in Jewish cooking, a dumpling, also KNEIDEL. |
| WHALEBACK | • whaleback n. (Historical) A kind of cargo steamship with a hull that continuously curves above the waterline from… • whaleback n. (Geology) A landform (typically a sand dune) having the form of the back of a whale. • WHALEBACK n. a kind of steamboat used on the Great Lakes to carry grain, etc. having a rounded upper deck. |