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  • backcrossing — (genetics) The crossing of a hybrid with one of its parents or an individual genetically similar to its parent.
  • backflipping — the process of reversing one's position
  • backgrounded — Simple past tense and past participle of background.
  • backgrounder — A backgrounder is a short article in a newspaper or magazine that provides background information about a particular subject.
  • backhandedly — In a backhanded manner.
  • backlighting — Movies, Television. a light source placed behind an actor, object, or scene to create a highlight that separates the subject from the background.
  • backpedaling — to retard the forward motion by pressing backward on the pedal, especially of a bicycle with coaster brakes.
  • backslapping — Backslapping is noisy, cheerful behavior which people use in order to show affection or appreciation to each other.
  • backslashing — Present participle of backslash.
  • backsolution — The process or result of backsolving.
  • 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.
  • backswordman — a person who uses a backsword.
  • backtracking — to return over the same course or route.
  • backwardness — toward the back or rear.
  • backwoodsman — Backwoodsmen are people, especially politicians, who like the old ways of doing things, or who are involved in an organization at a local level.
  • backwoodsmen — Plural form of backwoodsman.
  • badger skunk — hog-nosed skunk (def 1).
  • badger-skunk — Also called badger skunk, rooter skunk. a large, naked-muzzled skunk, Conepatus mesoleucus, common in the southwestern U.S. and Mexico, having a black coat with one broad white stripe down the back and tail.
  • báinín skirt — a skirt made of this material
  • baker island — an island in the central Pacific near the equator, belonging to the U.S. 1 sq. mi. (2.6 sq. km).
  • baker's oven — an oven used esp for baking bread
  • baking sheet — A baking sheet is a flat piece of metal on which you bake foods such as biscuits or pies in an oven.
  • baldwin park — city in SW Calif.: suburb of Los Angeles: pop. 76,000
  • balkan frame — an overhead frame, fastened to a bed, from which a splinted, fractured leg or arm is suspended and held in traction.
  • banbury cake — a cake consisting of a pastry base filled with currants, raisins, candied peel, and sugar, with a crisscross pattern on the top
  • bandaranaike — Chandrika
  • bank account — A bank account is an arrangement with a bank which allows you to keep your money in the bank and to take some out when you need it.
  • bank balance — Your bank balance is the amount of money that you have in your bank account at a particular time.
  • bank charges — penalties charged by a bank to a customer, for example when the customer's account is overdrawn or if a cheque is not honoured
  • bank deposit — money placed in a bank account
  • bank holiday — A bank holiday is a public holiday.
  • bank manager — A bank manager is someone who is in charge of a bank, or a particular branch of a bank, and who is involved in making decisions about whether or not to lend money to businesses and individuals.
  • bank robbery — theft from a bank
  • bank swallow — a swallow, Riparia riparia, of the Northern Hemisphere, that nests in tunnels dug in sand or clay banks.
  • bankruptcies — Plural form of bankruptcy.
  • banks island — an island of N Canada, in the Northwest Territories: the westernmost island of the Arctic Archipelago. Area: about 67 340 sq km (26 000 sq miles)
  • banksia rose — a climbing rose, Rosa banksiae, native to China, having long, serrated leaves and white or yellow flowers.
  • bare-knuckle — without boxing gloves
  • barking deer — muntjac.
  • barking frog — a robber frog, Hylactophryne augusti, of Texas, New Mexico, and Mexico, having a call like a dog's bark.
  • basketmaking — The construction of baskets, especially by traditional means.
  • bearskin rug — the pelt of a bear, used as a rug
  • beaten track — well-trodden path or route
  • ben franklin — Aretha [uh-ree-thuh] /əˈri θə/ (Show IPA), born 1942, U.S. singer.
  • benchmarking — In business, benchmarking is a process in which a company compares its products and methods with those of the most successful companies in its field, in order to try to improve its own performance.
  • birket karun — a lake in N Egypt. 25 miles (40 km) long; about 5 miles (8 km) wide; 90 sq. mi. (233 sq. km).
  • black bryony — a climbing herbaceous Eurasian plant, Tamus communis, having small greenish flowers and poisonous red berries: family Dioscoreaceae
  • black canyon — a canyon of the Colorado River between Arizona and Nevada: site of Boulder Dam.
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