| BACKGROUNDER | • backgrounder n. (Chiefly US) A briefing or document typically provided prior to a meeting or other event that gives… • backgrounder n. A person employed to draw backgrounds for a comic or cartoon. • backgrounder n. A cattle farmer or rancher who runs a backgrounding operation. |
| BERGSCHRUNDS | • bergschrunds n. Plural of bergschrund. • BERGSCHRUND n. (German) a crevasse formed where a glacier or snowfield moves away from a mountain wall. |
| DEBARRASSING | • debarrassing v. Present participle of debarrass. • DEBARRASS v. (archaic) to disembarrass, disentangle. |
| EMBROIDERING | • embroidering v. Present participle of embroider. • embroidering n. An embroidered decoration. • EMBROIDER v. to ornament with designs in needlework, also BROIDER. |
| FINGERBOARDS | • fingerboards n. Plural of fingerboard. • FINGERBOARD n. the part of a violin, etc. against which the strings are stopped by the fingers. |
| GINGERBREADS | • gingerbreads n. Plural of gingerbread. • GINGERBREAD n. a cake flavoured with treacle and usually ginger. |
| GINGERBREADY | • gingerbready adj. Resembling or characteristic of gingerbread. • GINGERBREADY adj. like gingerbread. |
| HERRINGBONED | • herringboned adj. Having a herringbone (zigzag) pattern. • herringboned v. Simple past tense and past participle of herringbone. • HERRINGBONE v. to make or mark with a herringbone pattern. |
| OVERBREEDING | • overbreeding v. Present participle of overbreed. • OVERBREED v. to breed too much. |
| OVERBRIDGING | • overbridging adj. Forming a bridge over something else; overarching. • overbridging n. Material or structure that forms a bridge over something else. • OVERBRIDGE v. to span with a bridge. |
| REDESCRIBING | • redescribing v. Present participle of redescribe. • REDESCRIBE v. to describe again. |
| REDISBURSING | • redisbursing v. Present participle of redisburse. • REDISBURSE v. (Spenser) to refund. |
| UNDERBEARING | • underbearing v. Present participle of underbear. • UNDERBEARING n. the act of underbearing. |
| UNDERBRIDGES | • underbridges n. Plural of underbridge. • UNDERBRIDGE n. a bridge carrying a road or railway. |