Biscuit vs. Cracker

A biscuit is a flour-based baked food product. In most countries, particularly in the Commonwealth and Ireland, biscuits are typically hard, flat and unleavened.

a person or thing that cracks.

a small baked unleavened cake, typically crisp, flat, and sweet

a decorated paper cylinder which, when pulled apart, makes a sharp noise and releases a small toy or other novelty

porcelain or other pottery which has been fired but not glazed

a thin dry biscuit, typically eaten with cheese

a light brown colour.

a fine example of something

a small flat piece of wood used to join two larger pieces of wood together, fitting into slots in each.

another term for poor white

A small cake of shortened bread leavened with baking powder or soda.

A thin crisp wafer or biscuit, usually made of unsweetened dough.

A thin, crisp cracker.

A firecracker.

A cookie.

A small cardboard cylinder covered with decorative paper that holds candy or a party favor and pops when a paper strip is pulled at one or both ends and torn.

A hard, dry cracker given to dogs as a treat or dietary supplement.

The apparatus used in the cracking of petroleum.

A thin, often oblong, waferlike piece of wood, glued into slots to connect larger pieces of wood in a joint.

One who gains unauthorized access to a computer or computer network, usually for a malicious purpose such as to steal information or damage programs. See Usage Note at hacker.

A pale brown.

(Offensive) Used as a disparaging term for a white person, especially one who is poor and from the southeast United States.

pl. biscuit Clay that has been fired once but not glazed. Also called bisque2.

A dry, thin, crispy baked bread (usually salty or savoury, but sometimes sweet, as in the case of graham crackers and animal crackers).

A small, flat, baked good which is either hard and crisp or else soft but firm; a cookie.

A short piece of twisted string tied to the end of a whip that creates the distinctive sound when the whip is thrown or cracked.

A small, usually soft and flaky bread, generally made with baking soda, which is similar in texture to a scone but which is usually not sweet.

A firecracker.

A cracker.

A person or thing that cracks, or that cracks a thing (e.g. whip cracker; nutcracker).

(nautical) The "bread" formerly supplied to naval ships, which was made with very little water, kneaded into flat cakes, and slowly baked, and which often became infested with weevils.

The final section of certain whips, which is made of a short, thin piece of unravelled rope and produces a cracking sound.

A form of unglazed earthenware.

A Christmas cracker.

A light brown colour.

Refinery equipment used to pyrolyse organic feedstocks. If catalyst is used to aid pyrolysis it is informally called a cat-cracker

(woodworking) A thin oval wafer of wood or other material inserted into mating slots on pieces of material to be joined to provide gluing surface and strength in shear.

A fine, great thing or person (crackerjack).

A plastic card bearing the codes for authorizing a nuclear attack.

An ambitious or hard-working person (i.e. someone who arises at the 'crack' of dawn).

A handgun, especially a revolver.

(computing) One who cracks (i.e. overcomes) computer software or security restrictions.

A puck (hockey puck).

(obsolete) A noisy boaster; a swaggering fellow.

(slang) The head.

An impoverished white person from the southeastern United States, originally associated with Georgia and parts of Florida; (by extension) any white person.

A kind of unraised bread, of many varieties, plain, sweet, or fancy, formed into flat cakes, and bakes hard; as, ship biscuit.

A police officer.

A small loaf or cake of bread, raised and shortened, or made light with soda or baking powder. Usually a number are baked in the same pan, forming a sheet or card.

A northern pintail, species of dabbling duck.

Earthen ware or porcelain which has undergone the first baking, before it is subjected to the glazing.

(obsolete) A pair of fluted rolls for grinding caoutchouc.

A species of white, unglazed porcelain, in which vases, figures, and groups are formed in miniature.

One who, or that which, cracks.

small round bread leavened with baking-powder or soda

A noisy boaster; a swaggering fellow.

any of various small flat sweet cakes (`biscuit' is the British term)

A small firework, consisting of a little powder inclosed in a thick paper cylinder with a fuse, and exploding with a sharp noise; - usually called firecracker.

A thin, dry biscuit, often hard or crisp; as, a Boston cracker; a Graham cracker; a soda cracker; an oyster cracker.

A nickname to designate a poor white in some parts of the Southern United States.

The pintail duck.

A pair of fluted rolls for grinding caoutchouc.

a thin crisp wafer made or flour and water with or without leavening and shortening; unsweetened or semisweet

a poor white person in the southern United States

a programmer who `cracks' (gains unauthorized access to) computers, typically to do malicious things;

firework consisting of a small explosive charge and fuse in a heavy paper casing

a party favor consisting of a paper roll (usually containing candy or a small favor) that pops when pulled at both ends