autostainer
Any of several laboratory devices intended to automate immunohistochemistry staining.

autostainers
plural of autostainer

autostop
A coupon-based system of hitchhiking that operated in communist Poland from the 1950s until the 1990s.

autostops
plural of autostop

autotelegraph
Synonym of telautograph.

autotelegraphs
plural of autotelegraph

autotimer
An automatic timer.

autotimers
plural of autotimer

autotitrator
An automatic titrator

autotitrators
plural of autotitrator

autotransformer
A transformer with a single winding, its output being taken from taps.

autotransformers
plural of autotransformer

autovac
A device that uses vacuum to raise fuel from the main tank to a small auxiliary tank, from which it flows by gravity to the carburetor, eliminating the (then often unreliable) fuel pump.

autovacs
plural of autovac

autowinder
A device that winds on the film in a camera after each exposure

autowinders
plural of autowinder

auxanometer
An instrument to measure the growth of plants.

auxanometers
plural of auxanometer

auxetometer
An instrument for measuring the magnifying power of a lens or system of lenses.

auxetometers
plural of auxetometer

auxetophone
A pneumatic type of sound-playback device used in the early part of the twentieth century.

auxetophones
plural of auxetophone

auxometer
An instrument measuring the magnifying power of lenses.

auxometers
plural of auxometer

avadia
A traditional earthen pot used for storing buttermilk in South India.

avaram
A leguminous shrub with smooth cinnamon brown bark (Senna auriculata) from Southern Asia.
A tannin from the bush' bark mainly used to tan hides.

averruncator
An instrument for pruning trees, consisting of two blades, or a blade and a hook, fixed on the end of a long rod.

averruncators
plural of averruncator

avertissement
A warning; used to indicate a minor rule infraction by one of the fencers

avertissements
plural of avertissement

avicide
Any substance used to kill birds.

avicides
plural of avicide

avionics
The science and technology of the development and use of electrical and electronic devices in aviation.
The devices used in avionics.

avo
A subdivision of currency, equal to one hundredth of a Macanese pataca.

avos
plural of avo

avrianismos
A faction of the press in Greece in the era of 1980-1990 that employed yellow press/tabloid tactics, i.e., salacious revelations concerning the private life of politicians for sociopolitical relevance.

awner
A device for cutting the awns from grain.

awners
plural of awner

axlepin
Synonym of linchpin.

axlepins
plural of axlepin

azahetero
Used to identify a nitrogen heteroatom as a substituent in a molecule

azamethiphos
A particular organothiophosphate insecticide, used to control parasites in salmon.

azaserine
A glutamine analogue and carcinogen, primarily used for researching pancreatic cancer in animal models.

azaspirodecanedione
Any of a class of nonaddictive drugs with anxiolytic effects, used to treat anxiety and depression.

azaspirodecanediones
plural of azaspirodecanedione

azidonorleucine
The azido derivative of norleucine (2S)-2-amino-6-azidohexanoic acid that is used to label proteins

azoindoxyl
Any indoxyl that contains a two atom nitrogen group (-N=N-) uniting two hydrocarbon radicals, typically used for dyes in electron microscopy.

azoindoxyls
plural of azoindoxyl

azone
Any azo derivative of a ketone, but especially any of a family of aliphatic azo derivatives of cycloheptanone that are used to increase the permeability of skin in order to facilitate drug uptake

azones
plural of azone

azotometer
An apparatus for measuring or determining the proportion of nitrogen.

azotometers
plural of azotometer

azumolene
A more water-soluble analogue of dantrolene, used to treat malignant hyperthermia.

bablah
The rind of the fruit of several East Indian species of acacia, especially Vachellia nilotica, formerly Acacia arabica; neb-neb. It contains gallic acid and tannin, and is used for dyeing drab.

bablahs
plural of bablah

babystay
A stay just forward of the mast, used to support the mast.

babystays
plural of babystay

backbond
An instrument which, in conjunction with another making an absolute disposition, constitutes a trust.

backbonds
plural of backbond

backerboard
A board used behind or under other material, often as support.
A board used behind or under other material, often as support.
A board used behind or under other material, often as support.

backerboards
plural of backerboard

backfiller
A machine for refilling an excavation.

backfillers
plural of backfiller

backflash
The hazardous situation where the flame propagates backward down the hose of an oxyfuel welding and cutting system.
Synonym of flashback (“dramatic device”).

backflashes
plural of backflash

backheeler
A backheel kick.

backheelers
plural of backheeler

backhoe
A piece of excavating equipment, either an integral subassembly or an attachment, consisting of a digging bucket or scoop on the end of an articulated arm, drawn backwards to move earth; used in excavator/digger and backhoe tractors.
Ellipsis of backhoe tractor: A specialized tractor with the backhoe subassembly. This type of tractor has been superceded by the backhoe loader and trackhoe in most roles.
Ellipsis of backhoe loader: A multi-purpose tractor with a front-mounted loading bucket and a rear-mounted digging bucket. The tractor combines a front-end loader/loader (component) and an excavator/digger (component).

backhoes
plural of backhoe

backjumping
A form of backtracking that may move more than one level at a time, used to improve the efficiency of certain algorithms.

backpack
A knapsack, sometimes mounted on a light frame, but always supported by straps, worn on a person’s back for the purpose of carrying things, especially when hiking, or on a student's back when carrying books.
A similarly placed item containing a parachute or other life-support equipment.

backpacks
plural of backpack

backporch
Alternative spelling of back porch.

backporches
plural of backporch

backrest
The back piece of a chair, used to support the sitter's back.
A guide attached to the slide rest of a lathe, and placed in contact with the work to steady it in turning.

backrests
plural of backrest

backsack
A backpack.
The back of the testicles.

backscatterer
A device used in backscattering

backscatterers
plural of backscatterer

backscratcher
A long slender rod with a rake-like device on one end, sometimes in the form of a human hand, designed to let a person scratch their own back.
A participant in corruption, such as a briber or pay-to-play participant.

backscratchers
plural of backscratcher

backshadowings
plural of backshadowing

backshell
Part of an electrical conductor or other electrical device, such as a cable clamp or adapter, that is threaded onto the rear connector accessory threads of plug or receptacle connectors to make up the total connector assembly.

backshells
plural of backshell

backspace
The key on a typewriter that moves the head one position backwards.
A keyboard key used for removing a character behind the cursor, and moving the cursor one position backwards.
A non-printable text character representing a backspace.

backspacer
A mechanism in a typewriter that controls backspacing.

backspacers
plural of backspacer

backstore
An area in the back of a store or shop.
A back end data storage; a backing store device.

backstores
plural of backstore

backswing
The preparatory stroke preceding that which produces contact with the target. Normally associated with sports using an implement such as a bat, club, racket or stick.

backswings
plural of backswing