A blood sausage made from pork blood, a high proportion of cereal (oats or barley), and spices; eaten at breakfast and combined in starters and salads.

(chemistry) A fine black powder of amorphous carbon manufactured by the incomplete combustion of natural gas or oil, and used as a pigment in the manufacture of ink and paint. Used as a filler in rubber like polymers and rubber. It helps the polymers resist deterioration by ultraviolet rays.

(uncountable) A subgenre of comedy and satire that deals with subjects that are believed to be serious or controversial, such as death, divorce, drug abuse, etc.

(medicine, historical) A pandemic outbreak of bubonic plague throughout Europe and most of Asia in the 14th century that killed nearly half the population of Europe and Asia.

A member of the RIC British irregular army group, operating against Irish republicans in the War of Independence 1920/21.

(informal, aviation) A flight recorder; the brightly colored cockpit voice recorders and flight data recorders in an aircraft designed to aid in determining the cause of an accident.

(web development) To focus on the inputs and outputs without worrying about the internal complexity.

Alternative spelling of blackjack / Caranx lugubris, a gamefish / Bidens spp., from the family of Asteraceae / (obsolete) The larva of a turnip sawfly (Athalia rosae) / (mining, mineralogy) Sphalerite.

(countable) A light bulb that emits ultraviolet light, usually used to create the illusion that anything white is glowing. / (uncountable, slang) ultraviolet radiation/light

Pertaining to Black Russia. / Used other than figuratively or idiomatically: see Black, Russian.