| PRONGBUCK | • prongbuck n. (Dated) The springbok. • prongbuck n. The pronghorn. • PRONGBUCK n. the springbuck. |
| BACKGROUND | • background adj. Less important or less noticeable in a scene or system. • background n. One’s social heritage, or previous life; what one did in the past. • background n. A part of the picture that depicts scenery to the rear or behind the main subject; context. |
| BULLOCKING | • bullocking v. Present participle of bullock. • bullocking adj. (Colloquial) powerful. • BULLOCK v. to force one's way. |
| BUTTOCKING | • buttocking n. The cross-buttock throw in wrestling. • BUTTOCK v. in wrestling, to throw by the buttocks. |
| PRONGBUCKS | • prongbucks n. Plural of prongbuck. • PRONGBUCK n. the springbuck. |
| UNBLOCKING | • unblocking v. Present participle of unblock. • unblocking n. The process by which something is unblocked. • UNBLOCK v. to free from blockage. |
| BACKGROUNDS | • backgrounds n. Plural of background. • backgrounds v. Third-person singular simple present indicative form of background. • BACKGROUND v. to provide with background. |
| BIVOUACKING | • bivouacking v. Present participle of bivouac. • BIVOUAC v. (French) to spend the night in a makeshift camp without tents etc. |
| BACKGROUNDED | • backgrounded v. Simple past tense and past participle of background. • backgrounded adj. Moved to the background. • backgrounded adj. (Computing) (of a task) Made non-interactive. |
| 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. |
| BLOCKBUSTING | • blockbusting n. (US) A technique used to encourage people to sell their property by giving the impression that a neighborhood… • blockbusting adj. Having the characteristics of a blockbuster; hugely successful. • BLOCKBUSTING n. the act of bringing about the sale of property in an area by stirring up fears of racial change. |
| BLOODSUCKING | • bloodsucking adj. (Of an insect or animal) That draws off the blood of another animal, or a person. • bloodsucking adj. (By extension, of a person) parasitic, leechlike or freeloading. • blood-sucking adj. Alternative form of bloodsucking. |
| BLUESTOCKING | • bluestocking n. (Usually derogatory) A scholarly, literary, or cultured woman. • bluestocking n. (Historical) A member of an 18th-century Blue Stockings Society. • bluestocking n. (Historical) The English parliament of 1653, more commonly called the Barebones Parliament. |
| BACKGROUNDERS | • backgrounders n. Plural of backgrounder. • BACKGROUNDER n. an off the record briefing for reporters. |
| BACKGROUNDING | • backgrounding v. Present participle of background. • backgrounding n. The act by which something is backgrounded, in any sense. • backgrounding n. An intermediate stage in cattle production, between weaning and placement in a feedlot, during which… |
| BLOCKBUSTINGS | • BLOCKBUSTING n. the act of bringing about the sale of property in an area by stirring up fears of racial change. |
| BLUESTOCKINGS | • bluestockings n. Plural of bluestocking. • blue-stockings n. Plural of blue-stocking. • BLUESTOCKING n. an early feminist; an educated or literary woman. |