Word Meanings - BAKER - Book Publishers vocabulary database

1. One whose business it is to bake bread, biscuit, etc. 2. A portable oven in which baking is done. A baker's dozen, thirteen. -- Baker foot, a distorted foot. Jer. Taylor. -- Baker's itch, a rash on the back of the hand, caused

Additional info about word: BAKER

1. One whose business it is to bake bread, biscuit, etc. 2. A portable oven in which baking is done. A baker's dozen, thirteen. -- Baker foot, a distorted foot. Jer. Taylor. -- Baker's itch, a rash on the back of the hand, caused by the irritating properties of yeast. -- Baker's salt, the subcarbonate of ammonia, sometimes used instead of soda, in making bread.

Related words: (words related to BAKER)

• WHOSESOEVER
  The possessive of whosoever. See Whosoever.
• CAUSEFUL
  Having a cause.
• CAUSATIVE
  1. Effective, as a cause or agent; causing. Causative in nature of a number of effects. Bacon. 2. Expressing a cause or reason; causal; as, the ablative is a causative case.
• BUSINESS
  The position, distribution, and order of persons and properties on the stage of a theater, as determined by the stage manager in rehearsal. 7. Care; anxiety; diligence. Chaucer. To do one's business, to ruin one. Wycherley. -- To make one's
• BREADEN
  Made of bread.
• BAKING
  1. The act or process of cooking in an oven, or of drying and hardening by heat or cold. 2. The quantity baked at once; a batch; as, a baking of bread. Baking powder, a substitute for yeast, usually consisting of an acid, a carbonate, and a little
• CAUSEWAYED; CAUSEYED
  Having a raised way ; paved. Sir W. Scott. C. Bronté.
• BREADBASKET
  The stomach. S. Foote.
• PORTABLENESS
  The quality or state of being portable; portability.
• CAUSATOR
  One who causes. Sir T. Browne.
• BREADFRUIT
  The tree itself, which is one of considerable size, with large, lobed leaves. Cloth is made from the bark, and the timber is used for many purposes. Called also breadfruit tree and bread tree. (more info) 1. The fruit of a tree found
• BREADTHWISE
  In the direction of the breadth.
• CAUSTICILY
  1. The quality of being caustic; corrosiveness; as, the causticity of potash. 2. Severity of language; sarcasm; as, the causticity of a reply or remark.
• BREADTHLESS
  Without breadth.
• BAKEMEAT; BAKED-MEAT
  A pie; baked food. Gen. xl. 17. Shak.
• WHICHEVER; WHICHSOEVER
  Whether one or another; whether one or the other; which; that one which; as, whichever road you take, it will lead you to town.
• CAUSAL
  A causal word or form of speech. Anglo-Saxon drencan to drench, causal of Anglo-Saxon drincan to drink. Skeat.
• BISCUIT
  A species of white, unglazed porcelain, in which vases, figures, and groups are formed in miniature. Meat biscuit, an alimentary preparation consisting of matters extracted from meat by boiling, or of meat ground fine and combined with flour, so
• CAUSATIVELY
  In a causative manner.
• CAUSTICALLY
  In a caustic manner.
• ANTICAUSODIC
  See ANTICAUSOTIC
• SUPPORTABLE
  Capable of being supported, maintained, or endured; endurable. -- Sup*port"a*ble*ness, n. -- Sup*port"a*bly, adv.
• BREAD
  To spread. Ray.
• EXPORTABLE
  Suitable for exportation; as, exportable products.
• SWINEBREAD
  The truffle.