A member of an Algonquin people that lived along the Ottawa River in Ontario and Quebec.
Proper noun
The Adirondacks
akaniaceae
alpenstock
alpenstock
noun
a stout adjustable walking stick with a metal point, used by mountain climbers and walkers in hilly or uneven terrain
anakinetic
anankastic
anankastic
adj
(linguistics) Imperative, as in the anankastic conditional.
(psychology) Characterised by compulsion; obsessive-compulsive.
anchorlike
anchorlike
adj
Resembling an anchor.
antihijack
antiknocks
antiknocks
noun
plural of antiknock
archipenko
arsenicked
arsenicked
adj
(rare) Poisoned with arsenic.
ashkenazic
ashkenazic
Adjective
Of or relating to the Ashkenazi Jews.
assapanick
auchinleck
backaching
backberand
backberend
backbiting
backbiting
adj
Slanderous or speaking badly, especially of a person without that person's knowledge.
noun
The action of slandering a person without that person's knowledge.
verb
present participle of backbite
backbitten
backbitten
verb
past participle of backbite
backdating
backdating
noun
The act by which something is backdated.
verb
present participle of backdate
backfiring
backfiring
noun
A failure that leads to further misfortune.
The occurrence of a backfire.
verb
present participle of backfire
backfriend
backfriend
noun
(UK, dialectal) A friend at one's back; a backer; one who does his best for another; a supporter.
(UK, dialectal) A hangnail.
(UK, dialectal, obsolete) A false friend; a secret enemy.
backgammon
backgammon
noun
A board game for two players in which each has 15 stones which move between 24 triangular points according to the roll of a pair of dice; the object is to move all of one's pieces around, and bear them off the board.
{{lb|en|backgammon}} A victory in the game when the loser has not borne off a stone, and still has one or more stones in the winner's inner home row or on the bar.
verb
To win at a backgammon game with the opponent having one or more pieces in the winner’s inner home row or on the bar.
background
background
adj
Less important or less noticeable in a scene or system.
noun
(computing) A type of activity on a computer that is not normally visible to the user.
(computing) The image or color over which a computer's desktop items are shown (e.g. icons or application windows).
(physics) Clipping of background radiation.
A less important feature of scenery (as opposed to foreground).
A part of the picture that depicts scenery to the rear or behind the main subject; context.
Information relevant to the current situation about past events; history.
One's social heritage, or previous life; what one did in the past.
verb
(journalism) To gather and provide background information (on).
To put in a position that is not prominent.
simple past tense and past participle of backgrind
backhanded
backhanded
adj
(of writing) inclining to the left
Backwards, turned around.
Indirect.
Insincere, sarcastic, ironic, or self-contradictory.
Involving a backward flip of the hand.
Retrospective, occurring after the fact rather than in advance.
Self-serving, corrupt, slipshod, or neglectful.
With the back of the hand.
adv
In a backhanded manner.
verb
simple past tense and past participle of backhand
backhander
backhander
noun
(informal) A bribe, a secret payment.
(racquet sports) A player who plays a backhand shot.
(racquet sports) A shot played backhand, a backhand stroke.
(surfing) A surfer who approaches a swell with the wave behind them ("on their backhand") rather than facing the wave ("on their forehand").
A blow with the back of the hand.
A glass of wine given out of turn, the bottle having been handed backwards.
backliding
backplanes
backplanes
noun
plural of backplane
backstring
backtender
backtenter
backwinded
bankalachi
bankruptcy
bankruptcy
noun
(finance, law) A legally declared or recognized condition of insolvency of a person or organization.
(Australia, New Zealand) The act of cheering for or supporting a team.
An act of jeering or heckling.
verb
present participle of barrack
bechalking
bechalking
verb
present participle of bechalk
becloaking
becloaking
verb
present participle of becloak
bedticking
beflecking
beflecking
verb
present participle of befleck
benchmarks
benchmarks
noun
plural of benchmark
verb
Third-person singular simple present indicative form of benchmark
besticking
besticking
verb
present participle of bestick
blackeners
blackeners
noun
plural of blackener
blackening
blackening
noun
(countable) The result or an instance of such an act or process; a black stain or mark.
(uncountable) The act or process of turning (becoming) black in colour.
Any of various (dark-colored) surface treatments for metal substrates, to inhibit corrosion; on steel, generally, synonym of bluing.
The act of defaming or sullying.
verb
present participle of blacken
blackprint
blacksnake
blacksnake
noun
(US) A long, tapering whip.
(chiefly vulgar, slang) A penis, especially a black penis.
Alternative form of black snake: any of several relatively harmless North American snakes.
verb
To whip with a long, tapering whip.
blackstone
blackthorn
blackthorn
noun
A large shrub or small tree, Prunus spinosa, that is native to Europe, western Asia, and north Africa. It has a dark bark and bears thorns.
A stick or staff taken from this tree.
blockading
blockading
verb
present participle of blockade
blockiness
blockiness
noun
The state or condition of being blocky.
bontebucks
bontebucks
noun
plural of bontebuck
boondocker
boondocker
noun
A kind of combat boot worn in the US Marine Corps.
bottleneck
bottleneck
noun
(by extension) The part of a process that is too slow or cumbersome.
(figurative) In traffic, any narrowing of the road, especially resulting in a delay.
The narrow portion that forms the pouring spout of a bottle; the neck of a bottle.
verb
(intransitive) To form a bottleneck.
(transitive) To slow by causing a bottleneck.
bounceback
bounceback
noun
(Internet) An automated response to an email, indicating that it could not be delivered.
(marketing) A customized order form sent out with previously ordered goods, encouraging the customer to make a further order, perhaps motivated by a discount or free gift.
A rebound.
An economic recovery.
bracketing
bracketing
noun
(architecture) A series or group of brackets; brackets, collectively.
The act of enclosing (text, etc.) in brackets.
verb
present participle of bracket
branchlike
branchlike
adj
resembling a branch of a tree
brickliner
brickmason
buckatunna
buckhannon
buckhannon
Proper noun
a city in West Virginia, USA
buckhounds
buckhounds
noun
plural of buckhound
buckingham
buckingham
Proper noun
A place name:
A town in Buckinghamshire, England.
A former city in Quebec, Canada, merged into Gatineau in 2002.
An unincorporated community in Colorado, USA, named after a railroad official.
A census-designated place in Florida, USA.
A village in Illinois, USA.
An unincorporated community in Iowa, USA, named after Buckingham County, VA.
A former city in Texas, USA, now part of Richardson, Texas.
A census-designated place and county seat of Buckingham County in Virginia, USA.
A dukedom in the English peerage.
An English habitational surname derived from the place name.
bucklering
bucklering
verb
present participle of buckler
buckraming
buckraming
verb
present participle of buckram
bullnecked
bullnecked
adj
Having a thick, muscular neck
bullockman
bumsucking
cairnbrook
cakemaking
cakemaking
noun
The making of cakes.
cambyuskan
candlewick
candlewick
noun
A soft cotton yarn that gives a tufted pattern to embroidery
The thread used to make the wicks of candles
candymaker
candymaker
noun
A manufacturer of candy.
candystick
canebrakes
canebrakes
noun
plural of canebrake
cankerbird
cankeredly
cankeredly
adv
In a cankered manner.
cankerfret
cankerroot
cankerweed
cankerworm
cankerworm
noun
(figurative) A corrupting or destructive force.
Either of two caterpillars, the larvae of geometrid moths, that are destructive to fruit, buds and leaves.
cankerwort
cankerwort
noun
The plant Taraxacum officinale.
canvasback
canvasback
noun
A North American wild duck, Aythya valisineria, popular as a game bird.
canvaslike
canvaslike
adj
Resembling canvas (the fabric).
cardmaking
cardmaking
noun
The manufacture of greeting cards (usually as a small-scale hobby).
caretaking
caretaking
noun
The act of taking care or taking charge of something.
cartmaking
cartmaking
noun
The manufacture of carts.
casemaking
casemaking
noun
The manufacture of cases.
catskinner
catskinner
noun
(slang, US) One who drives (or operates) a tracked vehicle.
cavernlike
cavernlike
adj
Resembling or characteristic of a cavern.
cementlike
cementlike
adj
Resembling or characteristic of cement.
cementwork
centistoke
centistoke
noun
(physics) Misconstruction of centistokes (unit of kinematic viscosity)
chainbreak
chainmaker
chainmaker
noun
A tool use to add a link to a chain
One who makes chains.
chalkiness
chalkiness
noun
The state of being chalky.
chalkstone
chalkstone
noun
(medicine) A chalk-like concretion, consisting mainly of urate of sodium, found in those affected with gout; a tophus.
(obsolete) A mass or piece of chalk.
chalkstony
chalkstony
adj
Having or resembling chalkstones.
chandrakhi
checkering
checkering
noun
Alternative form of chequering
verb
present participle of checker
checklaton
checklaton
noun
Alternative form of ciclatoun
checkpoint
checkpoint
noun
(computing) A situation, often represented by a point in time, at which the state of a database system is known to be valid, and to which it can be returned in the event of a crisis by using a combination of backups and logs; the data stored at this event.
(video games) A predetermined point in a map, level or scenario that the player may resume from if they die or restart from if they choose to.
A point or place where a check is performed, especially a point along a road or on a frontier where travellers are stopped for inspection
verb
To set a checkpoint.
checkstone
cheekbones
cheekbones
noun
plural of cheekbone
cheekiness
cheekiness
noun
The state of being cheeky
chekhovian
chekhovian
Adjective
Of or pertaining to Anton Pavlovich Chekhov (1860-1904) or his writings.
chelyuskin
chemicking
chemicking
verb
present participle of chemic
cherubikon
chickening
chickening
verb
present participle of chicken
chickenpox
chickenpox
noun
Alternative form of chicken pox
chickstone
chimarikan
chockstone
chockstone
noun
(climbing) A metal wedge or nut, threaded on a wire, used in rock climbing for protection by wedging it into a crack in the rock.
A stone, ranging in size from a boulder to a pebble, which has become wedged in a vertical fissure or cleft.
chronodeik
chuckingly
chuckstone
chuckstone
Noun
A chuck; a pebble.
chunkiness
chunkiness
noun
the state of being chunky
chutzpanik
cinderlike
cinderlike
adj
Resembling or characteristic of a cinder.
clankingly
clankingly
adv
With a clanking sound.
clatskanie
cleanskins
cleanskins
noun
plural of cleanskin
clearskins
clearskins
noun
plural of clearskin
clinkering
clinkering
verb
present participle of clinker
clinkstone
clinkstone
noun
phonolite
clogmaking
clogmaking
noun
The manufacture of clogs (type of shoe).
cockabondy
cockabondy
noun
(fishing, dated) An angler's artificial fly.
cockernony
cockernony
noun
(Scotland, obsolete) The bunch of hair folded up in a snood worn by a woman.
cockneydom
cockneydom
Noun
The region or home of Cockneys; Cockneys collectively.
cockneyese
cockneyess
cockneyess
noun
A female cockney.
cockneyish
cockneyish
Adjective
Characteristic of, or resembling, Cockneys.
cockneyism
cockneyism
noun
A Cockney phrase or idiom.
The characteristics, manners, or dialect of a Cockney.
cockneyize
cockneyize
verb
To make vulgar and tasteless.
To pronounce with a cockney accent.
cockshying
cockshying
verb
present participle of cockshy
coinmaking
coinmaking
noun
The manufacture of coins.
combmaking
combmaking
noun
The manufacture of combs.
conemaking
contoocook
copperskin
coremaking
coremaking
noun
(engineering) The manufacture of the cores used to produce the hollow parts of castings.
corkmaking
corncockle
corncockle
noun
Any of several species of flowering plants, of the genus Agrostemma, in the Caryophyllaceae family.
cornerback
cornerback
noun
(American football, Gaelic football, hurling) Any of the defensive players who are in position on each side farthest laterally from the ball and whose principal responsibility is to defend against passes.
cornflakes
cornflakes
noun
Alternative spelling of corn flakes
cornhusker
cornhusker
noun
(usually capitalized) A person who is a native or resident of the U.S. state of Nebraska.
A person or device that removes husks from corn.
cornstalks
cornstalks
noun
plural of cornstalk
cottonwick
cottonwick
noun
A grunt (fish) of the species Haemulon melanurum
crackbrain
crackbrain
Noun
An eccentric or crazy person.
crackdowns
crackdowns
noun
plural of crackdown
crackiness
crackiness
noun
The quality of being cracky.
cracklings
cracklings
noun
plural of crackling
crankcases
crankcases
noun
plural of crankcase
crankiness
crankiness
noun
The state of being cranky.
crankplate
crankshaft
crankshaft
noun
A rotating shaft that drives (or is driven by) a crank.
verb
(of a straight bolt or rod) To deform in such a manner that part of the rod or bolt is displaced sideways, offset from the longitudinal axis of the part, but remains parallel with the part's main longitudinal axis, with the final shape somewhat resembling a crankshaft.