| ACROPHOBE | • acrophobe n. A person who suffers from acrophobia, a fear of heights. • ACROPHOBE n. someone with an abnormal fear of heights. |
| BACKSPEER | • BACKSPEER v. (Scots) to cross-question, also BACKSPEIR. |
| BACKSPEIR | • BACKSPEIR v. (Scots) to cross-question, also BACKSPEER. |
| BAROSCOPE | • baroscope n. Barometer. • BAROSCOPE n. a weatherglass. |
| BECARPETS | • becarpets v. Third-person singular simple present indicative form of becarpet. • BECARPET v. to cover with a carpet. |
| 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. |
| CLAPBREAD | • clapbread n. Clapcake. • clap-bread n. Alternative form of clapbread. • CLAPBREAD n. a kind of hard-baked oatmeal cake. |
| CRABAPPLE | • crabapple n. Any of the wild species of apple tree, genus Malus, which generally yield small, bitter fruit (in comparison… • crabapple n. The fruit of this tree. • crabapple n. An unpleasant person; a person who is crabby. |
| CUPBEARER | • cupbearer n. (Chiefly historical) One who ceremonially fills and hands out the cups in which a drink is served. • cup-bearer n. Alternative form of cupbearer. • cup␣bearer n. Alternative form of cupbearer. |
| PAPERBACK | • paperback n. A book with flexible binding. • paperback adj. (Of a book) Having flexible binding. • paperback v. (Transitive, publishing) To issue or publish (a book) in a paperback edition. |
| PARBUCKLE | • parbuckle n. A kind of purchase for hoisting or lowering a cylindrical burden, as a cask. The middle of a long rope… • parbuckle n. A double sling made of a single rope, for slinging a cask, gun, etc. • parbuckle v. To hoist or lower by means of a parbuckle. |
| PERCEABLE | • PERCEABLE adj. (Spenser) able to be pierced, also PIERCEABLE. |
| PRESSBACK | • pressback n. A wooden chair of the Victorian period, having a pattern pressed into the crest rail and/or splat by… • PRESSBACK adj. relating to wooden chairs of the Victorian period, having a pattern pressed into the crest rail and/or splat by means of a steam press. |
| PRICEABLE | • priceable adj. Capable of being priced. • PRICEABLE adj. that can be priced. |
| REPROBACY | • reprobacy n. Reprobation. • REPROBACY n. the state of being a reprobate. |
| SCRAPABLE | • scrapable adj. Alternative form of scrapeable. • SCRAPABLE adj. that can be scraped. |