| BACKBURNS | • backburns n. Plural of backburn. • back-burns n. Plural of back-burn. • back␣burns n. Plural of back burn. |
| BACKLINER | • backliner n. (Sports) One who plays on the back line. • BACKLINER n. (Canadian) a defenceman, especially in hockey. |
| BACKRONYM | • backronym n. A word that is originally not an acronym but is turned into one by devising a full form for it, sometimes… • backronym v. To create a backronym. • BACKRONYM n. an acronym formed using the initial letters or syllables of an existing word, also BACRONYM. |
| BANKCARDS | • bankcards n. Plural of bankcard. • bank␣cards n. Plural of bank card. • BANKCARD n. a card issued by a bank allowing withdrawal of money etc. |
| BARNBRACK | • BARNBRACK n. (Irish) a currant bun, also BARMBRACK. |
| 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. |
| BLACKENER | • blackener n. One who blackens. • BLACKENER n. something that blackens. |
| BRAINSICK | • brainsick adj. Disordered in the understanding; giddy; thoughtless. • BRAINSICK adj. diseased in the understanding, deranged. |
| BREAKNECK | • breakneck adj. Dangerously fast; hell-for-leather. • breakneck n. A fall that breaks the neck. • breakneck n. A dangerous steep place from which one could fall badly. |
| CANEBRAKE | • canebrake n. (US) A dense thicket of sugarcane, bamboo or similar plants. • cane␣brake n. A dense thicket of sugar-canes or bamboos. • CANEBRAKE n. a thicket of canes. |
| CRANKBAIT | • crankbait n. (Fishing) A kind of fishing lure. • CRANKBAIT n. a fishing lure with a shape that enables it to dive and stay under water. |
| CRYOBANKS | • cryobanks n. Plural of cryobank. • CRYOBANK n. a place for storing human tissue at very low temperatures. |
| GREENBACK | • greenback n. (US) Any bill that is legal tender in the US (originally printed with green and black ink) issued by… • greenback n. The United States dollar. • greenback n. (Historical) A unit of American currency issued during the Civil War by the Treasury Department. |
| REBACKING | • rebacking v. Present participle of reback. • rebacking n. The process by which a book is rebacked. • REBACK v. to replace the back of. |
| 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. |
| TURNBACKS | • turnbacks n. Plural of turnback. • TURNBACK n. a part of a garment etc. that can be turned back. |