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  • backlisting — Present participle of backlist.
  • backtalking — Present participle of backtalk.
  • badmouthing — Slang. to speak critically and often disloyally of; disparage: Why do you bad-mouth your family so much?
  • baitcasting — (angling) A form of casting in which the weight of the bait pulls the fishing line off of the spool (subject to some control by thumb pressure).
  • baking tray — A baking tray is the same as a baking sheet.
  • banistering — Present participle of banister.
  • bankrupting — Present participle of bankrupt.
  • banquetings — Plural form of banqueting.
  • banteringly — in a bantering fashion
  • basingstoke — a town in S England, in N Hampshire. Pop: 90 171 (2001)
  • bathing cap — a tight rubber cap worn by a swimmer to keep the hair dry
  • bathing hut — a small waterside building where swimmers can change their clothes
  • bathtub gin — homemade gin, especially gin made illegally during Prohibition.
  • batting eye — the batter's visual appraisal of balls pitched toward home plate.
  • bayonetting — (British) present participle of bayonet.
  • bearbaiting — an old form of diversion in which dogs were made to torment a chained bear
  • beautifying — Present participle of beautify.
  • benignantly — kind, especially to inferiors; gracious: a benignant sovereign.
  • bequeathing — to dispose of (personal property, especially money) by last will: She bequeathed her half of the company to her niece.
  • betting man — a person who is in the habit of placing bets
  • betting tax — a tax on gambling
  • binge-watch — to watch a large number of television programmes (especially all the shows from one series) in succession
  • bit bashing — (Also "bit diddling" or bit twiddling). Any of several kinds of low-level programming characterised by manipulation of bit, flag, nibble, and other smaller-than-character-sized pieces of data. These include low-level device control, encryption algorithms, checksum and error-correcting codes, hash functions, some flavours of graphics programming (see bitblt), and assembler/compiler code generation. May connote either tedium or a real technical challenge (more usually the former). "The command decoding for the new tape driver looks pretty solid but the bit-bashing for the control registers still has bugs." See also bit bang, mode bit.
  • brachiating — Botany. having widely spreading branches in alternate pairs.
  • bratticings — a series of temporary wooden housings erected on top of a wall, esp a castle wall
  • brattishing — decorative work along the coping or on the cornice of a building
  • bring about — To bring something about means to cause it to happen.
  • browbeating — to intimidate by overbearing looks or words; bully: They browbeat him into agreeing.
  • bullbaiting — a type of blood sport involving the baiting of a bull by dogs
  • calculating — If you describe someone as calculating, you disapprove of the fact that they deliberately plan to get what they want, often by hurting or harming other people.
  • calibrating — Mark (a gauge or instrument) with a standard scale of readings.
  • candlelight — Candlelight is the light that a candle produces.
  • captivating — Someone or something that is captivating fascinates or attracts you.
  • carbonating — Present participle of carbonate.
  • care-taking — a person who is in charge of the maintenance of a building, estate, etc.; superintendent.
  • cartelizing — Present participle of cartelize.
  • castigating — Present participle of castigate.
  • castigation — to criticize or reprimand severely.
  • castiglione — Count Baldassare (baldasˈsaːre). 1478–1529, Italian diplomat and writer, noted particularly for his dialogue on ideal courtly life, Il Libro del Cortegiano (The Courtier) (1528)
  • casting rod — a fishing rod, generally 4–8 feet (1.2–2.4 meters) long, for casting bait or lures with a reel mounted near the handle that enables the thumb or finger to control the line during a cast, including rods used for bait casting and spinning.
  • catagenesis — the retrogressive evolution of a species. Compare anagenesis (def 1).
  • cataloguing — a list or record, as of items for sale or courses at a university, systematically arranged and often including descriptive material: a stamp catalog.
  • catapulting — Present participle of catapult.
  • catechising — Present participle of catechise.
  • catechizing — Present participle of catechize.
  • cauterizing — Present participle of cauterize.
  • celebrating — Present participle of celebrate.
  • centigramme — Alternative spelling of centigram.
  • centimorgan — a unit of chromosome length, used in genetic mapping, equal to the length of chromosome over which crossing over occurs with 1 per cent frequency
  • centrifugal — acting, moving, or tending to move away from a centre
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