(figuratively) By extension, any result or consequence following a major event.
An earthquake that follows in the same vicinity as another, usually larger, earthquake (the "mainshock").
Emotional and physical distress following a traumatic event.
aftershocks
aftershocks
noun
plural of aftershock
akrochordite
akrochordite
noun
(mineralogy) A monoclinic-prismatic reddish brown mineral containing arsenic, hydrogen, magnesium, manganese, and oxygen.
amphikaryotic
archworkmaster
artichoke
artichoke
noun
A dull green colour, like that of an artichoke.
A plant related to the thistle with enlarged flower heads eaten as a vegetable while immature, Cynara cardunculus var. scolymus.
artichokes
artichokes
noun
plural of artichoke
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.
blackthorns
blackthorns
noun
plural of blackthorn
botchwork
botchwork
noun
Inferior and shoddy work.
buckthorn
buckthorn
noun
Hippophae (family Elaeagnaceae), the sea buckthorn.
also genus Frangula, especially Frangula alnus, the alder buckthorn.
especially genus Rhamnus,
especially the common buckthorn or purging buckthorn; Rhamnus cathartica.
catchwork
catchwork
noun
A simple irrigation system, used on sloping land, in which water from a stream or spring is fed in at the top and allowed to trickle down over a number of artificial terraces.
chariotlike
chariotlike
adj
Resembling or characteristic of a chariot.
charnockite
charnockite
noun
(mineralogy) An orthopyroxene-bearing quartz-feldspar rock.
charnockites
charnockites
noun
plural of charnockite
chaunoprockt
checkerspot
checkerspot
noun
Any of a group of butterflies of the subfamily Nymphalinae whose wings bear a checkered, spotted pattern.
chickenwort
chickenwort
noun
common chickweed
chokestrap
chokestrap
noun
A strap leading from the bellyband to the lower part of the collar, to keep the collar in place.
chondroskeleton
chondroskeleton
noun
A skeleton (of some fish and of mammal embryos) composed of hyaline cartilage
clockwatcher
clockwatcher
noun
Alternative form of clock-watcher
clothmaker
clothmaker
noun
A person who makes cloth.
clothworker
clothworker
noun
A textile worker.
cockfighter
cockfighter
noun
One who engages in a cockfight.
cockthrowing
cockthrowing
noun
Alternative form of cock throwing
countercheck
countercheck
noun
A restriction or limit.
A second check (in order to confirm or deny a previous one).
verb
To recheck.
To restrict or limit by counteracting.
countershock
countershock
noun
A shock that travels in the opposite direction to an applied impulse
crooktoothed
dikaryophytic
earthshock
earthshock
Noun
An earthquake.
ektachrome
ektodynamorphic
ektodynamorphic
adj
Alternative form of ectodynamorphic
electroshock
electroshock
noun
(An) electric shock.
(medicine) Electroconvulsive therapy.
verb
(medicine) To administer electroconvulsive therapy.
electroshocks
electroshocks
noun
plural of electroshock
verb
Third-person singular simple present indicative form of electroshock
gatchwork
gatchwork
noun
Decorative work made from gatch.
hackathorn
hackthorn
heartblock
hemikaryotic
heterokaryotic
heterokaryotic
adj
Relating to heterokaryosis or to heterokaryons
heterokinetic
hexakisoctahedron
hexakisoctahedron
noun
A three-dimensional solid with 48 faces arranged around 9 planes of reflection and 13 rotary axes.
hickorywithe
hockingport
honeymoonstruck
honeystucker
hydrokinetic
hydrokinetic
adj
Of or pertaining to hydrokinetics
Of or pertaining to the kinetic energy of moving fluids
hydrokinetical
hydrokinetical
adj
Synonym of hydrokinetic
hydrokinetics
hydrokinetics
noun
(physics) The branch of physics concerned with the movement of fluids
hyperkeratotic
hyperkeratotic
adj
Of, pertaining to, or suffering from hyperkeratosis
hyperleukocytosis
hyperleukocytosis
noun
The condition of having an unusually high leukocyte count.
interchoke
interchoked
interchoking
intershock
intershock
adj
Between shocks.
verb
To shock mutually, as if by collision.
katachromasis
katamorphic
kataphoretic
kataphoretic
adj
Alternative form of cataphoretic
kataphoric
kataphoric
adj
Alternative form of cataphoric
keratinophilic
keratinophilic
adj
Capable of thriving on keratin.
keratohelcosis
kinchinmort
kinematographic
kinematographical
kinematographical
adj
cinematographical
kinematographically
kinetochore
kinetochore
noun
(biology) The protein structure in eukaryotes which assembles on the centromere and links the chromosome to microtubule polymers from the mitotic spindle during mitosis.
kinetochores
kinetochores
noun
plural of kinetochore
kinetographic
kinetographic
adj
(photography) Relating to kinetography.
kittikachorn
kootchar
kootchar
noun
A stingless Australian bee Trigona australis
korahitic
kurchatovium
kurchatovium
noun
(physics) A rejected name for rutherfordium.
leatherstocking
leatherstocking
Noun
A man who develops survival skills in order to live in the wild, away from civilization.
lockhart
lockhart
Proper noun
a city in Texas, USA
locksmithery
locksmithery
Noun
The work of a locksmith.
markgenossenschaft
motherfucker
motherfucker
intj
(vulgar) A semi-voluntary vocalization in place of a gasp.
(vulgar) Expressing dismay or discontent.
(vulgar) Synonym of ouch.
(vulgar) Synonym of wow.
noun
(vulgar) A good very close friend or relative.
(vulgar) An extremely intense experience, often but not always negative.
(vulgar) Any person, often but not always with the connotation that the person is disliked or is threatening.
(vulgar, literally) One who engages in incest with their mother.
(vulgar, literally) One who engages in sex with a mother, not necessarily one's own.
(vulgar, offensive) An extremely contemptible or mean person.
(with as or like, forming a compound unit adverbial intensifier) To an extreme degree.
netherstock
netherstock
noun
(historical) A 16th-century stocking reaching above the knee and worn with upperstocks.
A stocking.
octakishexahedron
octakishexahedron
noun
(geometry, rare) A polyhedron with 48 faces.
ostrichlike
ostrichlike
adj
Ignoring an imminent threat or unpleasant reality; head-in-the-sand
Resembling or characteristic of an ostrich; struthian
overthick
overthickly
overthickness
patchwork
patchwork
noun
(derogatory) A state of regulations whose constituents have an opaque scope of application because of their questionable delimitation with regard to each other.
(figurative) Any kind of creation that utilizes many different aspects to create one whole piece.
A work, such as a blanket, composed of many different colors and shapes, sewn together to make an interesting whole.
verb
To assemble from a variety of sources; to cobble together.
To create a patchwork from pieces of fabric.
patchworked
patchworked
verb
simple past tense and past participle of patchwork
patchworking
patchworking
noun
The making of patchworks
verb
present participle of patchwork
patchworks
patchworks
noun
plural of patchwork
patchworky
patchworky
adj
Like patchwork; untidy, variegated, higgledy-piggledy.
petrouchka
pharmacokinetic
pharmacokinetic
adj
(pharmacology) Of or relating to pharmacokinetics.
pharmacokinetics
pharmacokinetics
noun
(pharmacology) A branch of pharmacology concerned with the rate at which drugs are absorbed, distributed, metabolized, and eliminated by the body.
(pharmacology) The particular rates at which drugs are absorbed, distributed, metabolized, and eliminated by the body.
phenylketonuric
phenylketonuric
adj
Having or relating to phenylketonuria.
noun
A person who has phenylketonuria.
phosphofructokinase
phosphofructokinase
noun
(biochemistry) Any of a group of kinase enzymes that convert fructose phosphates to biphosphates
pitchfork
pitchfork
noun
(casual, loosely) Any fork used for farm labor, even a digging fork (but such usage is often considered ignorant by experienced farmers).
(rare) A tuning fork.
A similar fork with slightly more and heavier tines, used for mucking stalls and pitching soiled bedding into a wagon or manure spreader.
An agricultural tool comprising a fork with sparse, light tines, attached to a long handle, used for pitching hay (especially loose hay) high up onto a stack (as on a wagon or haystack, or into a haymow).
verb
(transitive) To toss or carry with a pitchfork.
(transitive, figurative) To throw suddenly.
pitchforked
pitchforked
verb
simple past tense and past participle of pitchfork
pitchforking
pitchforking
noun
The act of pricking with a pitchfork
verb
present participle of pitchfork
pitchforks
pitchforks
noun
plural of pitchfork
pitchwork
pitchwork
noun
The work of a coal miner who is paid in a share of the mined material.
poikilothermic
poikilothermic
adj
(of an animal) Having a body temperature that varies depending on the outside temperature.
prickshot
puckermouth
quickthorn
quickthorn
noun
The may-tree, any species of Crataegus or the species Crataegus monogyna.
rockerthon
rockhampton
rockhampton
Proper noun
A village in Gloucestershire, United Kingdom.
Proper noun
A regional city of Queensland, Australia.
rockhearted
rockshaft
rothermuck
routhercock
schoolmasterlike
scratchwork
scratchwork
noun
The first layer of plaster to be applied in plasterwork.
scythework
scythework
noun
The work of cutting with a scythe.
shackatory
sheetrock
sheetrock
noun
(uncountable) A building material comprising a sheet of gypsum sandwiched between two pieces of heavy paper, used mainly for interior walls and ceilings; drywall
verb
To install and finish sheetrock.
sheetrocked
sheetrocked
verb
simple past tense and past participle of sheetrock
sheetrocking
sheetrocking
verb
present participle of sheetrock
shortcake
shortcake
noun
A dessert made with such a cake, typically having layers of cream and fruit.
A sweet cake or biscuit (crumbly leavened bread) typically made with flour, sugar, salt, butter, milk or cream, and sometimes eggs, and leavened with baking powder or baking soda.
shortcakes
shortcakes
noun
plural of shortcake
starchworks
stitchwork
stitchwork
noun
Work produced by stitching.
stockfather
stockholder
stockholder
noun
(finance) One who owns stock.
a company that maintains a stock of certain products.
stockholders
stockholders
noun
plural of stockholder
stockhorn
stockhorn
noun
(music) An old musical instrument, the pibgorn.
stockwright
tetrakaidecahedron
tetrakaidecahedron
noun
Alternative form of tetrakaidekahedron
thackoor
thatchwork
thermokinematics
therock
thornback
thornback
noun
(archaic) A woman over a certain age (variously 26 or 30) who has never married, older than a spinster.
The thornback guitarfish (Platyrhinoidis triseriata), a species of ray in the north-eastern Pacific Ocean.
The thornback ray or thornback skate (Raja clavata), a species of ray in the Atlantic Ocean.
The thornback skate (Dentiraja lemprieri), a fish endemic to Australia.
thrawcrook
thricecock
thricecock
noun
(UK, dialect, obsolete) the mistle thrush
throck
throckmorton
throwback
throwback
noun
(US, accounting) A practice to avoid untaxed nowhere income by instead taxing such income in the originating state for a given transaction.
(derogatory) A person considered to be primitive, uncivilized and mentally deficient.
(slang, often attributive) A person or thing that evokes memories.
A person similar to an ancestor, or something new similar to what already existed.
A reversion to an earlier stage of development.
An atavism.
An organism that has characteristics of a more primitive form.
Coordinate terms: nowhere income, throwout
throwbacks
throwbacks
noun
plural of throwback
thurrock
thurrock
noun
(nautical, obsolete) The hold of a ship; also, the bilge.
torchlike
torchlike
adj
Resembling or characteristic of a torch.
touchmark
touchmark
noun
(archaic) The manufacturer's official identifying sign, impressed into a pewter object.
(archaic, rare) A symbol, sign, or other inscribed indication used to aid the alignment, calibration, or other adjustment of a measuring device or scientific instrument.
trackhound
trenchwork
trenchwork
noun
(military) A system of trenches.
triakisicosahedral
triakisicosahedron
triakisoctahedral
triakisoctahedrid
triakisoctahedron
triakisoctahedron
noun
(crystallography) A trigonal trisoctahedron.
trochisk
trochisk
noun
(obsolete) A trochiscus.
volksdeutscher
watchwork
watchwork
noun
The work produced by watchmaking; the mechanical arrangements making up a watch (portable timepiece).
watchworks
weathercock
weathercock
noun
(chiefly Canada, US) A kind of wind pump whose top behaves like a weather vane, moving with the wind direction, but which also has a wheel attached to measure wind speed.
(figuratively) One who veers with every change of current opinion; a fickle, inconstant person.
A weather vane, sometimes in the form of a cockerel.
verb
(intransitive, of a boat) To turn upwind because of the difference in water pressure on two sides.
(intransitive, of an airplane or missile) To veer into the direction of the oncoming (relative) wind.