A defensive play in which the ball bounces off the top of a hand that has been pressed flat against the floor.
A box on which an actor stands to make them appear taller.
In the US (and e.g. Scotland), a leavened, thicker, fluffier cake.
A kind of makeup, consisting of a thick layer of a compressed powder.
In England, an often unleavened cake similar to a crepe.
Composite leather made of scraps, glue and board, by extension of (4), material originally used for insoles, but later used also for heels and even soles.
Anything very thin and flat.
A type of throw, usually with a ring where the prop is thrown in such a way that it rotates round an axis of the diameter of the prop.
To flatten violently.
To collapse one floor after another.
To make a pancake landing.
A target on the pinball table that is activated when the ball rolls over it.
A graphic element that changes its appearance when the cursor moves over it.
A road traffic accident in which a vehicle overturns.
In the National or European lottery, the situation in which a jackpot that has not been won is carried over to the next week.
The reinvestment of funds in a new issue of the same or similar investment.
The process of incrementing, especially back to an initial value.
A keyboard feature where each key is scanned independently, so that multiple simultaneous keypresses always register correctly.
A fee paid by a borrower in order to defer full repayment of a loan.
The sudden ignition of flammable gasses (produced by pyrolysis in an oxygen-poor environment) near the ceiling of a room or other enclosed space.