banjitars
plural of banjitar

bankskuta
A large yawl-rigged Swedish fishing vessel with scoop-shaped bow and concave floor.

bankskutas
plural of bankskuta

bannerware
software that contains banner advertising for other software by the same maker

bantamweight
A weight class in boxing and other sports, intermediate between flyweight and featherweight. In boxing it ranges from 112 to 118 pounds (51 to 54 kg).
A boxer or other competitor of this weight.

bantamweights
plural of bantamweight

barcode
Any set of machine-readable parallel bars or concentric circles, varying in width, spacing, or height, encoding information according to a symbology.
A portion of a gene that identifies a particular species.
An instance of self-harm, typically with multiple parallel cuts along a line, similar in form to a machine barcode.

barcodes
plural of barcode

bardiche
A poleaxe with a long blade that extends beyond the shaft.

bardiches
plural of bardiche

bargee
A crewman of a working barge.
A vulgar person, prone to bad language. Editors of this dictionary, when cleaning up this entry, may wish to search "bargee" at madameulalie.org for examples of its usage in the works of P.G. Wodehouse.

bargees
plural of bargee

barillet
A small cask, or something resembling one, for example the barrel of a gun.

barillets
plural of barillet

barrelhead
The head of a barrel, especially when the barrel has been stood vertically and its head thus serves horizontally like a tabletop.

barrelheads
plural of barrelhead

barrelmaking
The manufacture of barrels.

barrelman
A sailor keeping a lookout from the crow's nest (often in the form of a barrel)

barrelmancy
The strategic use of containers of explosives in combat.

barreters
plural of barreter

barrico
A small cask.

barricoes
plural of barrico

barricos
plural of barrico

barrique
A barrel or cask of varying capacity, very roughly 200 litres.

barriques
plural of barrique

bascart
A shopping cart or trolley.

bascarts
plural of bascart

baseburner
A type of stove that automatically re-adds coal, when needed, to the base using a hopper.

baseburners
plural of baseburner

bashism
A shell command specific to the Bash interpreter.

bashisms
plural of bashism

bashow
In matchmaking, a preliminary meeting of a potential couple in one of their parents' homes.

bashows
plural of bashow

basisterna
plural of basisternum

basisternum
The anterior of the two sternal skeletal plates of insects

basitrich
A type of nematocyst that has spines only at the base of the tube

basitriches
plural of basitrich

basketmaking
The construction of baskets, especially by traditional means.

basketwork
Material woven in the style of a basket.
The craft of making such material.

basketworks
plural of basketwork

basoches
plural of basoche

bastable
A cast iron pot that is suspended over an open fire, often with hot coals placed on the lid for more even cooking.

bastables
plural of bastable

bastible
Alternative form of bastable.

bastibles
plural of bastible

battleplane
An airplane for military use.

battleplanes
plural of battleplane

bayila
Alternative form of baila.

beaker
A flat-bottomed, straight-sided, glass vessel, with a lip and often a small spout, used as a laboratory container.
A drinking vessel without a handle.
A mug.
An ancient bell-shaped ceramic pot with a wide mouth, narrow neck, and flaring body, used by the Beaker people during the late Neolithic and early Bronze Age.
A scientist.

beakers
plural of beaker

beanpot
A pot for cooking or serving beans.

beanpots
plural of beanpot

beaterman
The operator of a beater machine in papermaking.

beatermen
plural of beaterman.

becak
A cycle rickshaw.

bedbox
A box-bed.
A nest box.
A very small bedroom that does not hold much more than a bed.

bedboxes
plural of bedbox

bedcord
A cord or rope interwoven into a bedstead as support for a rope bed.

bedcords
plural of bedcord

bedlamp
A bedside lamp.

bedlamps
plural of bedlamp

begnet
A bayonet.

begnets
plural of begnet.

begware
nagware

bellarmine
A stoneware jug of a pattern that originated around Cologne, Germany, in the 16th century, having a bearded face or mask supposed to represent Cardinal Bellarmine, a leader in the Counter-Reformation.

bellarmines
plural of bellarmine

bellcrank
A type of crank that changes motion through an angle, typically 90 or 180 degrees.

bellcranks
plural of bellcrank

bellmouth
A bell-shaped extension at the end of a pipe.

bellmouths
plural of bellmouth

bellowsful
Enough to fill a bellows.

bellowsfuls
plural of bellowsful

bellowsmaking
The manufacture of bellows.

bellpush
A button that rings a bell (such as a doorbell) when pressed.

bellpushes
plural of bellpush

belomancy
Studying the flight of arrows, an ancient form of divination used by the Greeks and Arabs.

benchball
An informal sport resembling basketball, with the fixed baskets replaced by goalkeepers standing on benches.

benitier
The vase or vessel for holy water in Roman Catholic churches.

benitiers
plural of benitier

berdiche
Alternative form of bardiche.

berdiches
plural of berdiche

berthage
A place for mooring vessels in a dock or harbor.

berthages
plural of berthage

besague
A kind of double-bladed axe.
A kind of martel or war-hammer, with its head(s) shaped like a pick, mattock, or beak.
A plate (as of armor) that protects an otherwise-exposed area, such as the armpit (alternative form of besagew), the elbow, or the hand

besagues
plural of besague

betweenane
Any bicyclic alkene having a double bond, each trans position of which is joined by a chain of carbon atoms.

betweenanes
plural of betweenane

bicitaxi
rickshaw, cycle taxi

bicitaxis
plural of bicitaxi

bickern
An anvil with two projecting taper ends.

bickerns
plural of bickern

bidoublet
A binary doublet.

bidoublets
plural of bidoublet

bidriware
Objects made of bidri metalwork.

bidriwares
plural of bidriware

bilander
A small two-masted merchant vessel, used near the coast or in canals, mostly in the Netherlands.

bilanders
plural of bilander

billander
Alternative form of bilander.

billanders
plural of billander

billycan
A lightweight pot for cooking or boiling water, used in camping.

billycans
plural of billycan

binangle
A form of chisel in which two angles keep the cutting edge or point close to its central axis.

binangles
plural of binangle

biocarrier
A plastic former, of an intricate shape, that holds biological agents in water-purification plants.
Any biological agent that can carry a drug etc into the body.

biocarriers
plural of biocarrier

biocompass
A biological compass.

biocompasses
plural of biocompass

biocybernetics
The application of cybernetics to biological science

biodilution
A decrease in concentration of especially a pollutant with a corresponding increase in the trophic level in a body of water.

biomachine
A biological organism, or group of organisms, that functions like, or is treated as, a machine

biomachines
plural of biomachine

biomechanism
biological mechanism
biomechanics

bionanosensor
A biological or biochemical nanosensor

bionanosensors
plural of bionanosensor

biopathomechanism
A biopathological mechanism

bioprobe
A biological or biochemical probe

bioprobes
plural of bioprobe

bioptome
A pincer-shaped cutting and grasping instrument used in medicine for taking biopsy specimens.

bioptomes
plural of bioptome

biosatellite
an artificial satellite that is designed to carry humans or other organisms

biosatellites
plural of biosatellite

bioterror
Synonym of bioterrorism.

bioterrorism
Terrorism that involves biological weapons or other biological agents.

bipolarism
The characterization and practice of politics as the struggle and balance between left-wing and right-wing powers or ideologies.

bipolarisms
plural of bipolarism

birack
A rack in which the two operations are invertible.

biracks
plural of birack

birdbolt
A short blunt arrow for killing birds without piercing them.
Anything that smites without penetrating.