| BACKDATE | • backdate v. To give or assign a date to a document that is earlier than the current or true date. • backdate n. An assigned date that is earlier than the current or true date. • BACKDATE v. to date to an earlier time. |
| BACKDOOR | • backdoor n. Alternative spelling of back door, which can be used attributively. • backdoor v. Alternative spelling of back door. • back␣door n. A subsidiary entrance to a building or house at its rear, normally away from the street. |
| BACKDOWN | • backdown n. An act of backing down; a retraction or withdrawal. • back␣down v. (Idiomatic) To take a less aggressive position in a conflict than one previously has or has planned to. • back␣down v. (Idiomatic) To withdraw from a commitment or position. |
| BACKDROP | • backdrop n. A decorated cloth hung at the back of a stage. • backdrop n. An image that serves as a visual background. • backdrop n. The setting or background of an acted performance. |
| CLERKDOM | • clerkdom n. The role or status of clerk. • CLERKDOM n. the status of a clerk. |
| GEEKDOMS | • GEEKDOM n. the world of geeks. |
| JACKDAWS | • jackdaws n. Plural of jackdaw. • JACKDAW n. a bird resembling a crow. |
| JOCKDOMS | • JOCKDOM n. the world of athletes. |
| KICKDOWN | • kickdown n. (Automotive) In a vehicle with automatic transmission, a downshift triggered by pressing down the throttle pedal. • kick-down n. Alternative form of kickdown. • kick␣down v. To break or demolish something by physical bodily force. |
| LOCKDOWN | • lockdown n. The confinement of people in their own rooms (e.g., in a school) or cells (in a prison), or to their… • lockdown n. (US) A contrivance to fasten logs together in rafting. • lock-down n. Alternative form of lockdown. |
| LOOKDOWN | • lookdown n. An oddly-shaped Atlantic marine fish, Selene vomer. • look␣down v. Used other than figuratively or idiomatically: see look, down. • look␣down v. (Intransitive) To lower one’s eyes; to direct one’s look downwards. |
| MARKDOWN | • markdown n. A reduction in price in order to stimulate sales. • mark␣down v. To reduce the price of. • mark␣down v. To write a memorandum about. |
| SHEIKDOM | • sheikdom n. The domain ruled by a sheik. • SHEIKDOM n. the domain of a sheik, also SHEIKHDOM. |
| TALUKDAR | • talukdar n. (Historical) An Indian landholder in the Mughal Empire and British Raj, responsible for collecting taxes from a taluk. • TALUKDAR n. (Hindi) a proprietor of a taluk, a large estate. |
| WEEKDAYS | • weekdays n. Plural of weekday. • weekdays adv. On weekdays. • WEEKDAY n. usually any day from Monday to Friday. |
| WORKDAYS | • workdays n. Plural of workday. • work␣days n. Plural of work day. • WORKDAY n. a day on which work is done. |