babka | (noun) a coffee cake flavored with orange rind and raisins and almonds | - |
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baboo | (noun) used as a Hindi courtesy title; equivalent to English `Mr' | Synonyms: babu |
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baboon | (noun) large terrestrial monkeys having doglike muzzles | - |
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baboonish | (adjective) resembling a baboon | - |
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babu | (noun) used as a Hindi courtesy title; equivalent to English `Mr' | Synonyms: baboo |
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babushka | (noun) a woman's headscarf folded into a triangle and tied under the chin; worn by Russian peasant women | - |
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baby | (noun) a project of personal concern to someone | - |
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(noun) a very young mammal | - |
(noun) a very young child (birth to 1 year) who has not yet begun to walk or talk | Synonyms: babe, infant |
(noun) the youngest member of a group (not necessarily young) | - |
(noun) an immature childish person | Synonyms: child |
(noun) an unborn child; a human fetus | - |
(noun) a beloved person; used as terms of endearment | Synonyms: beloved, darling, dear, dearest, dearie, deary, honey, love, sweetheart, sweetie |
(verb) treat with excessive indulgence | Synonyms: cocker, coddle, cosset, featherbed, indulge, mollycoddle, pamper, spoil |
babygram | (noun) an X-ray of the entire body of an infant. | - |
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babyhood | (noun) the earliest state of immaturity | Synonyms: infancy |
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(noun) the early stage of growth or development | Synonyms: early childhood, infancy |
babyish | (adjective) characteristic of a baby | - |
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babyminder | (noun) a person who looks after babies (usually in the person's own home) while the babys' parents are working | Synonyms: baby minder, minder |
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babysit | (verb) work or act as a baby-sitter | Synonyms: baby-sit, sit |
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(verb) take watchful responsibility for | Synonyms: baby-sit |
babysitter | (noun) a person engaged to care for children when the parents are not home | Synonyms: baby-sitter, sitter |
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babysitting | (noun) the work of a baby sitter; caring for children when their parents are not home | Synonyms: baby sitting |
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babytalk | (noun) the developing speech of a young child | Synonyms: baby talk |
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(noun) an adult's imitation of the speech of a young child | Synonyms: baby talk, motherese |
bacca | (noun) an indehiscent fruit derived from a single ovary having one or many seeds within a fleshy wall or pericarp: e.g. grape, tomato, cranberry | Synonyms: simple fruit |
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baccalaureate | (noun) an academic degree conferred on someone who has successfully completed undergraduate studies | Synonyms: bachelor's degree |
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(noun) a farewell sermon to a graduating class at their commencement ceremonies | - |
baccarat | (noun) a card game played in casinos in which two or more punters gamble against the banker; the player wins who holds 2 or 3 cards that total closest to nine | Synonyms: chemin de fer |
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baccate | (adjective) resembling a berry | Synonyms: berrylike |
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(adjective) producing or bearing berries | Synonyms: bacciferous, berried |
bacchanal | (adjective) used of riotously drunken merrymaking | Synonyms: bacchanalian, bacchic, carousing, orgiastic |
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(noun) a wild gathering involving excessive drinking and promiscuity | Synonyms: bacchanalia, debauch, debauchery, drunken revelry, orgy, riot, saturnalia |
(noun) someone who engages in drinking bouts | Synonyms: bacchant, drunken reveler, drunken reveller |
(noun) a drunken reveller; a devotee of Bacchus | Synonyms: bacchant |
bacchanalia | (noun) a wild gathering involving excessive drinking and promiscuity | Synonyms: bacchanal, debauch, debauchery, drunken revelry, orgy, riot, saturnalia |
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bacchanalian | (adjective) used of riotously drunken merrymaking | Synonyms: bacchanal, bacchic, carousing, orgiastic |
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bacchant | (noun) (classical mythology) a priest or votary of Bacchus | - |
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(noun) a drunken reveller; a devotee of Bacchus | Synonyms: bacchanal |
(noun) someone who engages in drinking bouts | Synonyms: bacchanal, drunken reveler, drunken reveller |
bacchante | (noun) (classical mythology) a priestess or votary of Bacchus | - |
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bacchantic | (adjective) of or relating to or resembling a bacchanalian reveler | - |
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bacchic | (adjective) used of riotously drunken merrymaking | Synonyms: bacchanal, bacchanalian, carousing, orgiastic |
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bacciferous | (adjective) producing or bearing berries | Synonyms: baccate, berried |
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baccivorous | (adjective) feeding on berries | - |
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baccy | (noun) leaves of the tobacco plant dried and prepared for smoking or ingestion | Synonyms: tobacco |
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bach | (verb) lead a bachelor's existence | Synonyms: bachelor |
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bachelor | (noun) a man who has never been married | Synonyms: unmarried man |
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(noun) a knight of the lowest order; could display only a pennon | Synonyms: bachelor-at-arms, knight bachelor |
(verb) lead a bachelor's existence | Synonyms: bach |
bachelorette | (noun) a young unmarried woman who lives alone | Synonyms: bachelor girl |
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bachelorhood | (noun) the state of being an unmarried man | - |
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(noun) the time of a man's life prior to marriage | - |
bacillar | (adjective) relating to or produced by or containing bacilli | Synonyms: bacillary |
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(adjective) formed like a bacillus | Synonyms: bacillary, bacilliform, baculiform, rod-shaped |
bacillary | (adjective) relating to or produced by or containing bacilli | Synonyms: bacillar |
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(adjective) formed like a bacillus | Synonyms: bacillar, bacilliform, baculiform, rod-shaped |
bacilliform | (adjective) formed like a bacillus | Synonyms: bacillar, bacillary, baculiform, rod-shaped |
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bacillus | (noun) aerobic rod-shaped spore-producing bacterium; often occurring in chainlike formations; found primarily in soil | Synonyms: B |
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bacitracin | (noun) a polypeptide antibiotic of known chemical structure effective against several types of Gram-positive organisms; usually applied locally | - |
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back | (adjective) related to or located at the back | - |
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(adjective) of an earlier date | - |
(adjective) located at or near the back of an animal | Synonyms: hind, hinder |
(noun) (American football) the position of a player on a football team who is stationed behind the line of scrimmage | - |
(noun) the side that goes last or is not normally seen | Synonyms: rear |
(noun) a support that you can lean against while sitting | Synonyms: backrest |
(noun) the part of a garment that covers the back of your body | - |
(noun) the protective covering on the front, back, and spine of a book | Synonyms: binding, book binding, cover |
(noun) the posterior part of a human (or animal) body from the neck to the end of the spine | Synonyms: dorsum |
(noun) the series of vertebrae forming the axis of the skeleton and protecting the spinal cord | Synonyms: backbone, rachis, spinal column, spine, vertebral column |
(noun) the part of something that is furthest from the normal viewer | Synonyms: rear |
(noun) (football) a person who plays in the backfield | - |
(adverb) at or to or toward the back or rear | Synonyms: backward, backwards, rearward, rearwards |
(adverb) in or to or toward a past time | Synonyms: backward |
(adverb) in repayment or retaliation | - |
(adverb) in or to or toward a former location | - |
(adverb) in or to or toward an original condition | - |
(adverb) in reply | - |
(verb) establish as valid or genuine | Synonyms: back up |
(verb) strengthen by providing with a back or backing | - |
(verb) shift to a counterclockwise direction | - |
(verb) place a bet on | Synonyms: bet on, gage, game, punt, stake |
(verb) travel backward | - |
(verb) cause to travel backward | - |
(verb) support financial backing for | - |
(verb) be behind; approve of | Synonyms: endorse, indorse, plump for, plunk for, support |
(verb) give support or one's approval to | Synonyms: endorse, indorse, second |
(verb) be in back of | - |
backache | (noun) an ache localized in the back | - |
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backband | (noun) a broad band that passes over the back of a horse and supports the shafts of a vehicle | - |
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backbeat | (noun) a loud steady beat | - |
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backbench | (noun) any of the seats occupied by backbenchers in the House of Commons | - |
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backbencher | (noun) a member of the House of Commons who is not a party leader | - |
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backbend | (noun) an acrobatic feat in which the trunk is bent backward from a standing position until the hands touch the floor | - |
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backbite | (verb) say mean things | Synonyms: bitch |
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backbiter | (noun) one who attacks the reputation of another by slander or libel | Synonyms: defamer, libeler, maligner, slanderer, traducer, vilifier |
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backblast | (noun) backfire from a recoilless weapon | Synonyms: back-blast |
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backboard | (noun) a board used to support the back of someone or something | - |
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(noun) a raised vertical board with basket attached; used to play basketball | Synonyms: basketball backboard |
backbone | (noun) the part of a network that connects other networks together | - |
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(noun) the part of a book's cover that encloses the inner side of the book's pages and that faces outward when the book is shelved | Synonyms: spine |
(noun) fortitude and determination | Synonyms: grit, gumption, guts, moxie, sand |
(noun) the series of vertebrae forming the axis of the skeleton and protecting the spinal cord | Synonyms: back, rachis, spinal column, spine, vertebral column |
(noun) a central cohesive source of support and stability | Synonyms: anchor, keystone, linchpin, lynchpin, mainstay |
backbreaking | (adjective) characterized by effort to the point of exhaustion; especially physical effort | Synonyms: arduous, grueling, gruelling, hard, heavy, laborious, operose, punishing, toilsome |
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backchat | (noun) light teasing repartee | Synonyms: banter, give-and-take, raillery |
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backcloth | (noun) scenery hung at back of stage | Synonyms: backdrop, background |
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backcross | (verb) mate a hybrid of the first generation with one of its parents | - |
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backdate | (verb) make effective from an earlier date | - |
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backdoor | (noun) a secret or underhand means of access (to a place or a position) | Synonyms: back door |
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(noun) an entrance at the rear of a building | Synonyms: back door, back entrance |
(noun) an undocumented way to get access to a computer system or the data it contains | Synonyms: back door |
backdown | (noun) a retraction of a previously held position | Synonyms: climb-down, withdrawal |
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backdrop | (noun) scenery hung at back of stage | Synonyms: backcloth, background |
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backed | (adjective) having a back or backing, usually of a specified type | - |
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(adjective) used of film that is coated on the side opposite the emulsion with a substance to absorb light | - |
backer | (noun) someone who provides financial support for some venture | Synonyms: angel |
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backfield | (noun) the offensive football players who line up behind the linemen | - |
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backfire | (noun) a miscalculation that recoils on its maker | Synonyms: boomerang |
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(noun) a loud noise made by the explosion of fuel in the manifold or exhaust of an internal combustion engine | - |
(noun) the backward escape of gases and unburned gunpowder after a gun is fired | Synonyms: blowback |
(noun) a fire that is set intentionally in order to slow an approaching forest fire or grassfire by clearing a burned area in its path | - |
(verb) set a controlled fire to halt an advancing forest to prairie fire | - |
(verb) emit a loud noise as a result of undergoing a backfire | - |
(verb) come back to the originator of an action with an undesired effect | Synonyms: backlash, recoil |
backflow | (noun) a flow that returns toward its source | Synonyms: backflowing |
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backflowing | (noun) a flow that returns toward its source | Synonyms: backflow |
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backgammon | (noun) a board game for two players; pieces move according to throws of the dice | - |
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background | (noun) scenery hung at back of stage | Synonyms: backcloth, backdrop |
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(noun) (computer science) the area of the screen in graphical user interfaces against which icons and windows appear | Synonyms: desktop, screen background |
(noun) a person's social heritage: previous experience or training | - |
(noun) the part of a scene (or picture) that lies behind objects in the foreground | Synonyms: ground |
(noun) information that is essential to understanding a situation or problem | Synonyms: background knowledge |
(noun) extraneous signals that can be confused with the phenomenon to be observed or measured | Synonyms: background signal |
(noun) relatively unimportant or inconspicuous accompanying situation | - |
(noun) the state of the environment in which a situation exists | Synonyms: scope, setting |
(verb) understate the importance or quality of | Synonyms: downplay, play down |
backgrounder | (noun) a press conference or interview in which a government official explains to reporters the background of an action or policy | - |
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backgrounding | (noun) the execution of low priority programs while higher priority programs are not using the processing system | Synonyms: background processing |
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backhand | (adjective) (of racket strokes) made across the body with back of hand facing direction of stroke | Synonyms: backhanded |
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(adjective) (of handwriting) having the letters slanting backward | Synonyms: left-slanting |
(noun) a return made with the back of the hand facing the direction of the stroke | Synonyms: backhand shot, backhand stroke |
(verb) hit a tennis ball backhand | - |
backhanded | (adjective) (of racket strokes) made across the body with back of hand facing direction of stroke | Synonyms: backhand |
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(adjective) roundabout or ambiguous | - |
backhander | (noun) a backhanded blow | - |
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backhoe | (noun) an excavator whose shovel bucket is attached to a hinged boom and is drawn backward to move earth | - |
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backing | (noun) the act of providing approval and support | Synonyms: backup, championship, patronage |
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(noun) something forming a back that is added for strengthening | Synonyms: mount |
(noun) financial resources provided to make some project possible | Synonyms: financial backing, financial support, funding, support |
backlash | (noun) an adverse reaction to some political or social occurrence | - |
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(noun) a movement back from an impact | Synonyms: rebound, recoil, repercussion |
(verb) come back to the originator of an action with an undesired effect | Synonyms: backfire, recoil |
backless | (adjective) lacking a back | - |
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backlighting | (noun) lighting from behind | - |
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backlog | (noun) an accumulation of jobs not done or materials not processed that are yet to be dealt with (especially unfilled customer orders for products or services) | - |
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(noun) something kept back or saved for future use or a special purpose | Synonyms: reserve, stockpile |
(noun) the large log at the back of a hearth fire | - |
(verb) accumulate and create a backlog | - |
backmost | (adjective) located farthest to the rear | Synonyms: hindermost, hindmost, rearmost |
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backpack | (noun) a bag carried by a strap on your back or shoulder | Synonyms: back pack, haversack, knapsack, packsack, rucksack |
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(verb) hike with a backpack | Synonyms: pack |
backpacker | (noun) a hiker who wears a backpack | Synonyms: packer |
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backpacking | (noun) carrying something in a pack on the back | Synonyms: packing |
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backpedal | (verb) modify one's opinion, make it less strong | - |
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(verb) pedal backwards on a bicycle | - |
(verb) step backwards, in boxing | - |
backplate | (noun) plate armor protecting the back; worn as part of a cuirass | - |
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backrest | (noun) a support that you can lean against while sitting | Synonyms: back |
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backroom | (noun) the meeting place of a group of leaders who make their decisions via private negotiations | - |
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backsaw | (noun) a handsaw that is stiffened by metal reinforcement along the upper edge | Synonyms: back saw |
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backscatter | (verb) scatter (radiation) by the atoms of the medium through which it passes | - |
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backscratcher | (noun) a long-handled scratcher for scratching your back | - |
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(noun) someone who is willing to trade favors or services for mutual advantage | - |
backseat | (noun) a seat at the back of a vehicle (especially the seat at the back of an automobile) | - |
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(noun) a secondary or inferior position or status | - |
backsheesh | (noun) a relatively small amount of money given for services rendered (as by a waiter) | Synonyms: baksheesh, bakshis, bakshish, gratuity, pourboire, tip |
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backside | (noun) the fleshy part of the human body that you sit on | Synonyms: arse, ass, behind, bottom, bum, buns, butt, buttocks, can, derriere, fanny, fundament, hind end, hindquarters, keister, nates, posterior, prat, rear, rear end, rump, seat, stern, tail, tail end, tooshie, tush |
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(noun) the side of an object that is opposite its front | Synonyms: back end, rear |
backslap | (verb) display excessive cordiality (towards) | - |
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backslapper | (noun) someone who demonstrates enthusiastic or excessive cordiality | - |
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backslide | (verb) drop to a lower level, as in one's morals or standards | Synonyms: lapse |
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backslider | (noun) someone who lapses into previous undesirable patterns of behavior | Synonyms: recidivist, reversionist |
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backsliding | (noun) a failure to maintain a higher state | Synonyms: lapse, lapsing, relapse, relapsing, reversion, reverting |
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backspace | (noun) the typewriter key used for back spacing | Synonyms: backspace key, backspacer |
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(verb) hit the backspace key on a computer or typewriter keyboard | - |
backspacer | (noun) the typewriter key used for back spacing | Synonyms: backspace, backspace key |
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backspin | (noun) spin (usually of a moving ball) that retards or reverses the forward motion | - |
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backstage | (adjective) concealed from public view or attention | Synonyms: offstage |
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(noun) a stage area out of sight of the audience | Synonyms: offstage, wing |
(adverb) in or to a backstage area of a theater | - |
(adverb) out of view of the public; behind the scenes | - |