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| Backset | | (n.) Whatever is thrown back in its course, as ... |
| Backset | | (v. i.) To plow again, in the fall; -- ... |
| Backsettler | | (n.) One living in the back or outlying districts ... |
| Backsheesh | | (n.) Alt. of Backshish ... |
| Backshish | | (n.) In Egypt and the Turkish empire, a gratuity; ... |
| Backside | | (n.) The hinder part, posteriors, or rump of a ... |
| Backsight | | (n.) The reading of the leveling staff in its ... |
| Backslid | | (imp.) of Backslide ... |
| Backslid | | () of Backslide ... |
| Backslidden | | (p. p.) of Backslide ... |
| Backslide | | (v. i.) To slide back; to fall away; esp. ... |
| Backslider | | (n.) One who backslides. ... |
| Backsliding | | (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Backslide ... |
| Backsliding | | (a.) Slipping back; falling back into sin or error; ... |
| Backsliding | | (n.) The act of one who backslides; abandonment of ... |
| Backstaff | | (n.) An instrument formerly used for taking the altitude ... |
| Backstair | | (a.) Private; indirect; secret; intriguing; -- as if finding ... |
| Backstairs | | (a.) Alt. of Backstair ... |
| Backstay | | (n.) A rope or stay extending from the masthead ... |
| Backstay | | (n.) A rope or strap used to prevent excessive ... |
| Backster | | (n.) A backer. ... |
| Backstitch | | (n.) A stitch made by setting the needle back ... |
| Backstitch | | (v. i.) To sew with backstitches; as, to backstitch ... |
| Backstop | | (n.) In baseball, a fence, prop. at least 90 ... |
| Backstop | | (n.) In rounders, the player who stands immediately behind ... |
| Backstop | | (n.) In cricket, the longstop; also, the wicket keeper. ... |
| Backstress | | (n.) A female baker. ... |
| Backsword | | (n.) A sword with one sharp edge. ... |
| Backsword | | (n.) In England, a stick with a ... |
| Backward | | (adv.) Alt. of Backwards ... |
| Backward | | (a.) Directed to the back or rear; as, backward ... |
| Backward | | (a.) Unwilling; averse; reluctant; hesitating; loath. ... |
| Backward | | (a.) Not well advanced in learning; not quick of ... |
| Backward | | (a.) Late or behindhand; as, a backward season. ... |
| Backward | | (a.) Not advanced in civilization; undeveloped; as, the country ... |
| Backward | | (a.) Already past or gone; bygone. ... |
| Backward | | (n.) The state behind or past. ... |
| Backward | | (v. i.) To keep back; to hinder. ... |
| Backwardation | | (n.) The seller's postponement of delivery of stock or ... |
| Backwardly | | (adv.) Reluctantly; slowly; aversely. ... |
| Backwardly | | (adv.) Perversely; ill. ... |
| Backwardness | | (n.) The state of being backward. ... |
| Backwards | | (adv.) With the back in advance or foremost; as, ... |
| Backwards | | (adv.) Toward the back; toward the rear; as, to ... |
| Backwards | | (adv.) On the back, or with the back downward. ... |
| Backwards | | (adv.) Toward, or in, past time or events; ago. ... |
| Backwards | | (adv.) By way of reflection; reflexively. ... |
| Backwards | | (adv.) From a better to a worse state, as ... |
| Backwards | | (adv.) In a contrary or reverse manner, way, or ... |
| Backwash | | (v. i.) To clean the oil from (wood) after ... |
| Backwater | | (n.) Water turned back in its course by an ... |
| Backwater | | (n.) An accumulation of water overflowing the low lands, ... |
| Backwater | | (n.) Water thrown back by the turning of a ... |
| Backwoods | | (n. pl.) The forests or partly cleared grounds ... |
| Backwoodsman | | (n.) A man living in the forest in or ... |
| Backwoodsmen | | (pl. ) of Backwoodsman ... |
| Backworm | | (n.) A disease of hawks. See Filanders. ... |
| baclofen | | ... |
| Bacon | | (n.) The back and sides of a pig salted ... |
| Baconian | | (a.) Of or pertaining to Lord Bacon, or to ... |
| Baconian | | (n.) One who adheres to the philosophy of Lord ... |
| Baconian | | (n.) One who maintains that Lord Bacon is the ... |
| bacteremia | | ... |
| bacteremic | | ... |
| Bacteria | | (n.p.) See Bacterium. ... |
| Bacteria | | (pl. ) of Bacterium ... |
| Bacterial | | (a.) Of or pertaining to bacteria. ... |
| Bactericidal | | (a.) Destructive of bacteria. ... |
| Bactericide | | (n.) Same as Germicide. ... |
| Bacterin | | (n.) A bacterial vaccine. ... |
| bacterin | | ... |
| Bacteriological | | (a.) Of or pertaining to bacteriology; as, bacteriological studies. ... |
| Bacteriologist | | (n.) One skilled in bacteriology. ... |
| Bacteriology | | (n.) The science relating to bacteria. ... |
| Bacteriolysis | | (n.) Chemical decomposition brought about by bacteria without the ... |
| Bacteriolysis | | (n.) The destruction or dissolution of bacterial cells. ... |
| Bacterioscopic | | (a.) Relating to bacterioscopy; as, ... |
| Bacterioscopist | | (n.) One skilled in ... |
| Bacterioscopy | | (n.) The application of a knowledge of bacteria for ... |
| Bacterioscopy | | (n.) Microscopic examination or investigation of bacteria. ... |
| bacteriostat | | ... |
| bacteriostatic | | ... |
| Bacterium | | (n.) A microscopic vegetable organism, belonging to the class ... |
| bacteriuria | | ... |
| Bacteroid | | (a.) Alt. of Bacteroidal ... |
| Bacteroidal | | (a.) Resembling bacteria; as, bacteroid particles. ... |
| bacteroides | | ... |
| Bactrian | | (a.) Of or pertaining to Bactria in Asia. ... |
| Bactrian | | (n.) A native of Bactria. ... |
| bactrim | | ... |
| Bacule | | (n.) See Bascule. ... |
| Baculine | | (a.) Of or pertaining to the rod or punishment ... |
| Baculite | | (n.) A cephalopod of the extinct genus Baculites, found ... |
| Baculometry | | (n.) Measurement of distance or altitude by a staff ... |
| Bad | | (imp.) Bade. ... |
| Bad | | (superl.) Wanting good qualities, whether physical or moral; injurious, ... |
| Bad | | () of Bid ... |
| Bad lands | | () Barren regions, especially in the western United States, ... |
| Badaud | | (n.) A person given to idle observation of everything, ... |
| Badder | | () compar. of Bad, a. ... |
| Badderlocks | | (n.) A large black seaweed (Alaria esculenta) sometimes eaten ... |
| Baddish | | (a.) Somewhat bad; inferior. ... |
| Bade | | () A form of the pat tense of Bid. ... |
| Bade | | (imp.) of Bid ... |
| Badge | | (n.) A distinctive mark, token, sign, or cognizance, worn ... |
| Badge | | (n.) Something characteristic; a mark; a token. ... |
| Badge | | (n.) A carved ornament on the stern of a ... |
| Badge | | (v. t.) To mark or distinguish with a badge. ... |
| Badgeless | | (a.) Having no badge. ... |
| Badger | | (n.) An itinerant licensed dealer in commodities used for ... |
| Badger | | (n.) A carnivorous quadruped of the genus Meles or ... |
| Badger | | (n.) A brush made of badgers' hair, used by ... |
| Badger | | (v. t.) To tease or annoy, as a badger ... |
| Badger | | (v. t.) To beat down; to cheapen; to barter; ... |
| Badger game | | () The method of blackmailing by decoying a person ... |
| Badger State | | () Wisconsin; -- a nickname. ... |
| Badger-legged | | (a.) Having legs of unequal length, as the badger ... |
| Badgered | | (imp. & p. p.) of Badger ... |
| Badgerer | | (n.) One who badgers. ... |
| Badgerer | | (n.) A kind of dog used in badger baiting. ... |
| Badgering | | (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Badger ... |
| Badgering | | (n.) The act of one who badgers. ... |
| Badgering | | (n.) The practice of buying wheat and other kinds ... |
| Badiaga | | (n.) A fresh-water sponge (Spongilla), common in the north ... |
| Badian | | (n.) An evergreen Chinese shrub of the Magnolia family ... |
| Badigeon | | (n.) A cement or paste (as of plaster and ... |
| Badigeon | | (n.) A cement or distemper paste (as of plaster ... |
| Badinage | | (n.) Playful raillery; banter. ... |
| Badly | | (adv.) In a bad manner; poorly; not well; unskillfully; ... |
| Badminton | | (n.) A game, similar to lawn tennis, played with ... |
| Badminton | | (n.) A preparation of claret, spiced and sweetened. ... |
| Badness | | (n.) The state of being bad. ... |
| Baenomere | | (n.) One of the somites (arthromeres) that make up ... |
| Baenopod | | (n.) One of the thoracic legs of Arthropods. ... |
| Baenosome | | (n.) The thorax of Arthropods. ... |
| Baetulus | | (n.) A meteorite, or similar rude stone artificially shaped, ... |
| Baff | | (n.) A blow; a stroke. ... |
| Baff | | (v. t. & i.) To strike; to beat; to ... |
| Baff | | (n.) A blow; stroke; thud ... |
| Baff | | (n.) a stroke in which the sole of ... |
| Baffle | | (v. t.) To cause to undergo a disgraceful punishment, ... |
| Baffle | | (v. t.) To check by shifts and turns; to ... |
| Baffle | | (v. t.) To check by perplexing; to disconcert, frustrate, ... |
| Baffle | | (v. i.) To practice deceit. ... |
| Baffle | | (v. i.) To struggle against in vain; as, a ... |
| Baffle | | (n.) A defeat by artifice, shifts, and turns; discomfiture. ... |
| Baffle | | (n.) A deflector, as a plate or wall, so ... |
| Baffle | | (n.) A grating or plate across a channel or ... |
| Baffle | | (n.) A lever for operating the throttle valve of ... |
| Baffled | | (imp. & p. p.) of Baffle ... |
| Bafflement | | (n.) The process or act of baffling, or of ... |
| Baffler | | (n.) One who, or that which, baffles. ... |
| Baffling | | (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Baffle ... |
| Baffling | | (a.) Frustrating; discomfiting; disconcerting; as, baffling currents, winds, tasks. ... |
| Baffy | | (v. t.) A short wooden club having a deeply ... |
| Baft | | (n.) Same as Bafta. ... |
| Bafta | | (n.) A coarse stuff, usually of cotton, originally made ... |
| Bag | | (n.) A sack or pouch, used for holding anything; ... |
| Bag | | (n.) A sac, or dependent gland, in animal bodies, ... |
| Bag | | (n.) A sort of silken purse formerly tied about ... |
| Bag | | (n.) The quantity of game bagged. ... |
| Bag | | (n.) A certain quantity of a commodity, such as ... |
| Bag | | (v. t.) To put into a bag; as, to ... |
| Bag | | (v. t.) To seize, capture, or entrap; as, to ... |
| Bag | | (v. t.) To furnish or load with a bag ... |
| Bag | | (v. i.) To swell or hang down like a ... |
| Bag | | (v. i.) To swell with arrogance. ... |
| Bag | | (v. i.) To become pregnant. ... |
| Bag net | | () A bag-shaped net for catching fish. ... |
| Bagasse | | (n.) Sugar cane, as it comes crushed from the ... |
| bagassosis | | ... |
| Bagatelle | | (n.) A trifle; a thing of no importance. ... |
| Bagatelle | | (n.) A game played on an oblong board, having, ... |
| Baggage | | (n.) The clothes, tents, utensils, and provisions of an ... |
| Baggage | | (n.) The trunks, valises, satchels, etc., which a traveler ... |
| Baggage | | (n.) Purulent matter. ... |
| Baggage | | (n.) Trashy talk. ... |
| Baggage | | (n.) A man of bad character. ... |
| Baggage | | (n.) A woman of loose morals; a prostitute. ... |
| Baggage | | (n.) A romping, saucy girl. ... |
| Baggage master | | () One who has charge of the baggage at ... |
| Baggager | | (n.) One who takes care of baggage; a camp ... |
| Baggala | | (n.) A two-masted Arab or Indian trading vessel, used ... |
| Bagged | | (imp. & p. p.) of Bag ... |
| Baggily | | (adv.) In a loose, baggy way. ... |
| Bagging | | (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Bag ... |
| Bagging | | (n.) Cloth or other material for bags. ... |
| Bagging | | (n.) The act of putting anything into, or as ... |
| Bagging | | (n.) The act of swelling; swelling. ... |
| Bagging | | (n.) Reaping peas, beans, wheat, etc., with a chopping ... |
| Baggy | | (a.) Resembling a bag; loose or puffed out, or ... |
| baginismus | | ... |
| Bagman | | (n.) A commercial traveler; one employed to solicit orders ... |
| Bagmen | | (pl. ) of Bagman ... |
| Bagnio | | (n.) A house for bathing, sweating, etc.; -- also, ... |
| Bagnio | | (n.) A brothel; a stew; a house of prostitution. ... |
| Bagpipe | | (n.) A musical wind instrument, now used chiefly in ... |
| Bagpipe | | (v. t.) To make to look like a bagpipe. ... |
| Bagpiper | | (n.) One who plays on a bagpipe; a piper. ... |
| Bagreef | | (n.) The lower reef of fore and aft sails; ... |
| Bague | | (n.) The annular molding or group of moldings dividing ... |
| Baguet | | (n.) Alt. of Baguette ... |
| Baguette | | (n.) A small molding, like the astragal, but smaller; ... |
| Baguette | | (n.) One of the minute bodies seen in the ... |
| Bagwig | | (n.) A wig, in use in the 18th century, ... |
| Bagworm | | (n.) One of several lepidopterous insects which construct, in ... |
| Bah | | (interj.) An exclamation expressive of extreme contempt. ... |
| Bahadur | | (n.) Alt. of Bahaudur ... |
| Bahai | | (n.) A member of the sect of the Babis ... |
| Bahaism | | (n.) The religious tenets or practices of the Bahais. ... |
| Bahar | | (n.) A weight used in certain parts of the ... |
| Bahaudur | | (n.) A title of respect or honor given to ... |
| Baigne | | (v. i.) To soak or drench. ... |
| Baignoire | | (n.) A box of the lowest tier in a ... |
| Bail | | (n.) A bucket or scoop used in bailing water ... |
| Bail | | (v. t.) To lade; to dip and throw; -- ... |
| Bail | | (v. t.) To dip or lade water from; -- ... |
| Bail | | (v./t.) To deliver; to release. ... |
| Bail | | (v./t.) To set free, or deliver from arrest, or ... |
| Bail | | (v./t.) To deliver, as goods in trust, for some ... |
| Bail | | (n.) Custody; keeping. ... |
| Bail | | (n.) The person or persons who procure the release ... |
| Bail | | (n.) The security given for the appearance of a ... |
| Bail | | (n.) The arched handle of a kettle, pail, or ... |
| Bail | | (n.) A half hoop for supporting the cover of ... |
| Bail | | (n.) A line of palisades serving as an exterior ... |
| Bail | | (n.) The outer wall of a feudal castle. Hence: ... |
| Bail | | (n.) A certain limit within a forest. ... |
| Bail | | (n.) A division for the stalls of an open ... |
| Bail | | (n.) The top or cross piece ( or either ... |
| Bail bond | | () A bond or obligation given by a prisoner ... |
| Bail bond | | () Special bail in court to abide the judgment. ... |
| Bailable | | (a.) Having the right or privilege of being admitted ... |
| Bailable | | (a.) Admitting of bail; as, a bailable offense. ... |
| Bailable | | (a.) That can be delivered in trust; as, bailable ... |
| Bailed | | (imp. & p. p.) of Bail ... |
| Bailee | | (n.) The person to whom goods are committed in ... |
| Bailer | | (n.) See Bailor. ... |
| Bailer | | (n.) One who bails or lades. ... |
| Bailer | | (n.) A utensil, as a bucket or cup, used ... |
| Bailey | | (n.) The outer wall of a feudal castle. ... |
| Bailey | | (n.) The space immediately within the outer wall of ... |
| Bailey | | (n.) A prison or court of justice; -- used ... |
| Bailie | | (n.) An officer in Scotland, whose office formerly corresponded ... |
| Bailiff | | (n.) Originally, a person put in charge of something ... |
| Bailiff | | (n.) A sheriff's deputy, appointed to make arrests, collect ... |
| Bailiff | | (n.) An overseer or under steward of an estate, ... |
| Bailiffwick | | (n.) See Bailiwick. ... |
| Bailing | | (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Bail ... |
| Bailiwick | | (n.) The precincts within which a bailiff has jurisdiction; ... |
| Baillie | | (n.) Bailiff. ... |
| Baillie | | (n.) Same as Bailie. ... |
| Bailment | | (n.) The action of bailing a person accused. ... |
| Bailment | | (n.) A delivery of goods or money by one ... |
| Bailor | | (n.) One who delivers goods or money to another ... |
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