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  • backslashing — Present participle of backslash.
  • backstabbing — Backstabbing consists of unkind and disloyal actions or remarks that are likely to harm someone such as a friend or colleague.
  • backstarting — a marketing technique in publishing, whereby new customers are sent back issues of magazines or journals as part of their subscription
  • backstopping — a wall, wire screen, or the like, serving to prevent a ball from going too far beyond the normal playing area.
  • bait casting — the act or technique of casting an artificial or natural lure attached to a silk or nylon line wound on a reel having a revolving spool, the rod used being shorter and less flexible than that used in fly casting.
  • bait-casting — designating fishing equipment designed for use with live bait or artificial lures, in which the weight of the bait or lure pulls the line from a winch-type reel, as during casting or trolling
  • baking sheet — A baking sheet is a flat piece of metal on which you bake foods such as biscuits or pies in an oven.
  • bargain sale — an event at which goods are sold at low prices, usually to clear old stocks
  • barn raising — (in rural areas) a party, usually providing food, drink, etc., for the purpose of assisting a neighbor to put up a new barn.
  • barnstorming — A barnstorming performance is full of energy and very exciting to watch.
  • base jumping — a sport in which a participant parachutes from any of a variety of fixed objects such as high buildings, cliffs, etc
  • base pairing — the hydrogen bonding that occurs between complementary nitrogenous bases in the two polynucleotide chains of a DNA molecule
  • base-pairing — the process of binding separate DNA sequences by base pairs.
  • basic weight — basis weight.
  • basing point — a geographical location from which freight charges are computed by the seller regardless of the point from which the goods are shipped.
  • basis weight — the weight in pounds of a ream of paper of a basic size, usually 25 × 38 inches (63 × 96 cm) for book stock, 17 × 22 inches (43 × 55 cm) for writing stock, and 20 × 26 inches (50 × 66 cm) for cover stock.
  • basketmaking — The construction of baskets, especially by traditional means.
  • bastard wing — a tuft of feathers attached to the first digit of a bird, distinct from the wing feathers attached to the other digits and the ulna
  • bastardizing — Present participle of bastardize.
  • bastinadoing — Present participle of bastinado.
  • bathing suit — A bathing suit is a piece of clothing which people wear when they go swimming.
  • bearskin rug — the pelt of a bear, used as a rug
  • beggar-ticks — any of various plants, such as the bur marigold and tick trefoil, having fruits or seeds that cling to clothing, fur, etc
  • beta testing — (programming)   Evaluation of a pre-release (potentially unreliable) version of a piece of software (or possibly hardware) by making it available to selected users ("beta testers") before it goes on general distribution. Beta testign aims to discover bugs that only occur in certain environments or under certain patterns of use, while reducing the volume of feedback to a manageable level. The testers benefit by having earlier access to new products, features and fixes. Beta testing may be preceded by "alpha testing", performed in-house by a handful of users (e.g. other developers or friends), who can be expected to give rapid, high quality feedback on design and usability. Once the product is considered to be usable for its intended purpose it then moves on to "beta testing" by a larger, but typically still limited, number of ordinary users, who may include external customers. Some companies such as Google or Degree Jungle stretch the definition, claiming their products are "in beta" for many months by millions of users. The term derives from early 1960s terminology for product cycle checkpoints, first used at IBM but later standard throughout the industry. "Alpha test" was the unit test, module test or component test phase; "Beta Test" was initial system test. These themselves came from earlier A- and B-tests for hardware. The A-test was a feasibility and manufacturability evaluation done before any commitment to design and development. The B-test was a demonstration that the engineering model functioned as specified. The C-test (corresponding to today's beta) was the B-test performed on early samples of the production design.
  • bias binding — a strip of material cut on the bias for extra stretch and often doubled, used for binding hems, interfacings, etc, or for decoration
  • bilingualism — Bilingualism is the ability to speak two languages equally well.
  • billingsgate — the largest fish market in London, on the N bank of the River Thames; moved to new site at Canary Wharf in 1982 and the former building converted into offices
  • bio-organism — a dangerous fast-proliferating organism that could be used as the basis of a biological weapon
  • biomagnetics — the study of magnetic fields as a form of therapy
  • biomagnetism — animal magnetism.
  • biscay green — a yellowish green.
  • biting stage — the second part of the oral phase of psychosexual development, approximately 8 to18 months of age, during which a child has the urge to bite or chew objects.
  • blazing star — a North American liliaceous plant, Chamaelirium luteum, with a long spike of small white flowers
  • blind casing — (in a box window frame) a rough framework to which the trim is secured.
  • block signal — a fixed railroad signal governing the movements of trains entering and using a given section of track.
  • blues guitar — blues guitar music
  • bluesnarfing — the practice of using one Bluetooth-enabled mobile phone to steal contact details, ring tones, images, etc from another
  • boardsailing — windsurfing
  • bond washing — a series of deals in bonds made with the intention of avoiding taxation
  • braggadocios — empty boasting; bragging.
  • brainwashing — the process of brainwashing.
  • braunschweig — Brunswick
  • bright spark — If you say that some bright spark had a particular idea or did something, you mean that their idea or action was clever, or that it seemed clever but was silly in some way.
  • broadcasting — Broadcasting is the making and sending out of television and radio programmes.
  • bushwhacking — to make one's way through woods by cutting at undergrowth, branches, etc.
  • cablecasting — relating to broadcasting by cable
  • caenogenesis — the development of structures and organs in an embryo or larva that are adaptations to its way of life and are not retained in the adult form
  • caliginosity — darkness
  • camp springs — a city in central Maryland, near Washington, D.C.
  • camping site — A camping site is the same as a campsite.
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