| BACKBITING | • backbiting n. The action of slandering a person without that person’s knowledge. • backbiting adj. Slanderous or speaking badly, especially of a person without that person’s knowledge. • backbiting v. Present participle of backbite. |
| BACKBITTEN | • backbitten v. Past participle of backbite. • back-bitten v. Past participle of back-bite. • BACKBITE v. to speak ill of. |
| BACKBURNED | • backburned v. Simple past tense and past participle of backburn. • BACKBURN v. to set a fire in order to halt the spread of another fire. |
| BANDBRAKES | • BANDBRAKE n. a brake or clutch in the form of a flexible band. |
| BARNBRACKS | • BARNBRACK n. (Irish) a currant bun, also BARMBRACK. |
| BIOBANKING | • biobanking n. (Biology) The storage of biological specimens in a biobank. • BIOBANKING n. the practice of creating large-scale repositories of human biological material (e.g. blood, urine, tissue samples, DNA, etc.) designed to further medical research. |
| BLACKBANDS | • blackbands n. Plural of blackband. • BLACKBAND n. iron ore containing enough coal to calcine it. |
| BONEBLACKS | • boneblacks n. Plural of boneblack. • BONEBLACK n. black residue from the destructive distillation of bones. |
| BONKBUSTER | • bonkbuster n. (Slang) a popular novel involving frequent explicit sexual encounters, normally in a contemporary setting. • BONKBUSTER n. a work of popular fiction centering on erotic encounters. |
| BOOKBINDER | • bookbinder n. A person whose profession is binding pages together to form books. • book␣binder n. Alternative form of bookbinder. • BOOKBINDER n. one who binds books. |
| KIBBITZING | • kibbitzing v. Present participle of kibbitz. • KIBBITZ v. (Yiddish) to give unwelcome advice, also KIBITZ. |
| KIBBUTZNIK | • kibbutznik n. A member of a kibbutz. • KIBBUTZNIK n. (Hebrew) a person who lives or works on a kibbutz. |
| KNOBBINESS | • knobbiness n. The state or condition of being knobby. • KNOBBINESS n. the state of being knobby. |
| KNOBBLIEST | • knobbliest adj. Superlative form of knobbly: most knobbly. • KNOBBLY adj. having very small knobs. |
| KNUBBLIEST | • KNUBBLY adj. having little lumps, also NUBBY, KNUBBY. |
| RIBBONLIKE | • ribbonlike adj. Having the characteristics of ribbons. • RIBBONLIKE adj. like a ribbon. |
| RUBBERNECK | • rubberneck n. Someone who engages in rubbernecking, or turning and staring. • rubberneck n. (US, obsolete) A tourist. • rubberneck n. Someone or something with a flexible neck. |
| SKIBOBBING | • skibobbing n. A winter sport involving a bicycle-type frame attached to skis instead of wheels. • SKIBOBBING n. the sport of riding a skibob. |