(transitive) To admit the knowledge of; to recognize as a fact or truth; to declare one's belief in
(transitive) To be grateful of (e.g. a benefit or a favour)
(transitive) To own as genuine or valid; to assent to (a legal instrument) to give it validity; to avow or admit in legal form.
(transitive) To own or recognize in a particular quality, character or relationship; to admit the claims or authority of; to give recognition to.
(transitive) To report (the receipt of a message to its sender).
acknowledgeable
acknowledgeable
adj
Able to be acknowledged.
Worthy of acknowledgement.
acknowledged
acknowledged
adj
Generally accepted, recognized or admitted.
verb
simple past tense and past participle of acknowledg
simple past tense and past participle of acknowledge
acknowledgedly
acknowledgedly
adv
Confessedly, admittedly.
acknowledgement
acknowledgement
noun
(most common British spelling, also sometimes used in the US) Alternative spelling of acknowledgment
acknowledgements
acknowledgements
noun
plural of acknowledgement
acknowledger
acknowledger
noun
One who acknowledges.
acknowledgers
acknowledgers
noun
plural of acknowledger
acknowledges
acknowledges
verb
Third-person singular simple present indicative form of acknowledge
acknowledging
acknowledging
adj
(obsolete, specifically) Expressing esteem or gratitude.
That acknowledges, in various sense; (especially) that notices or recognises someone or something.
noun
(archaic) The act of acknowledging something.
verb
present participle of acknowledg
present participle of acknowledge
acknowledgment
acknowledgment
noun
(law) A formal statement or document recognizing the fulfillment or execution of a legal requirement or procedure.
(law) The act of a person admitting a child as their own.
(telecommunications, computing, networking) A response (ACK) sent by a receiver to indicate successful receipt of a transmission (See Wikipedia article on transmission).
A message from the addressee informing the originator that the originator's communication has been received and understood.
A recognition as genuine or valid; an avowing or admission in legal form.
A reward or other expression or token of gratitude.
An expression of gratitude for a benefit or an obligation.
The act of acknowledging
The act of recognizing in a particular character or relationship; recognition of existence, authority, truth, or genuineness.
acknowledgments
acknowledgments
noun
plural of acknowledgment
allowance
allowance
noun
(commerce) A customary deduction from the gross weight of goods, differing by country.
(engineering) A planned deviation between an exact dimension and a nominal or theoretical dimension.
(horse racing) A permitted reduction in the weight that a racehorse must carry.
(minting) A permissible deviation in the fineness and weight of coins, owing to the difficulty in securing exact conformity to the standard prescribed by law.
(obsolete) Approval; approbation.
(obsolete) License; indulgence.
A child's allowance; pocket money.
Abatement; deduction; the taking into account of mitigating circumstances
Acknowledgment.
An amount, portion, or share that is allotted or granted; a sum granted as a reimbursement, a bounty, or as appropriate for any purpose
Permission; granting, conceding, or admitting
verb
(transitive) To put upon a fixed allowance (especially of provisions and drink).
(transitive) To supply in a fixed and limited quantity.
allowanced
allowanced
verb
simple past tense and past participle of allowance
allowances
allowances
noun
plural of allowance
allowancing
allowancing
verb
present participle of allowance
anticlockwise
anticlockwise
adj
(South Africa, Australia, New Zealand, British, Ireland, of movement) in a circular fashion so as to be moving to the left at the top of the circle and to the right at the bottom (when viewed from the front), in the opposite direction to the way the hands of an analogue clock move.
adv
(Australia, New Zealand, Britian, Ireland) In an anticlockwise fashion.
archilowe
bachelorwise
bachelorwise
adv
In the manner of a bachelor; (as though) living alone as a single man.
backblow
backflow
backflow
noun
The flow of a fluid (through a pipe etc.) in a direction opposite to that which is normal or intended.
verb
To flow in the wrong or backward direction.
backflowing
backflowing
adj
flowing backwards
verb
present participle of backflow
baldcrown
beclown
beclown
verb
(transitive) To make a fool of.
beclowned
beclowned
verb
simple past tense and past participle of beclown
beclowning
beclowning
verb
present participle of beclown
beclowns
beclowns
verb
Third-person singular simple present indicative form of beclown
belchertown
belowdecks
belowdecks
adv
(nautical) Below the main deck of a ship.
benchfellow
bewelcome
bewelcome
verb
(transitive, intensive) To welcome; greet or bestow with a welcome; welcome fully or completely.
blackfellow
blackfellow
noun
(Australia, now usually considered offensive) A (male) Australian Aborigine.
blackfellows
blackfellows
noun
plural of blackfellow
blackwood
blackwood
noun
(uncountable) The very dark wood of such trees.
African blackwood (Dalbergia melanoxylon), of Africa
Australian blackwood (Acacia melanoxylon), of eastern Australia
Bombay blackwood (Dalbergia latifolia), of India
Haematoxylum campechianum, a tree from Mexico.
blackwork
blackwork
noun
(obsolete) Work connected with funerals, as an undertaker's assistant or a maker of mourning clothes, etc.
(sewing) A form of counted-thread embroidery that is usually stitched on even-weave fabric with a twisted thread.
blackwort
bleachworks
bleachworks
noun
A factory that manufactures bleach.
blockwood
blowback
blowback
noun
(computing) Synonym of backscatter.
(firearms) A type of action where the pressure from the fired cartridge blows a sliding mechanism backward to extract the fired cartridge, chamber another cartridge, and cock the hammer.
(rail transport) On a steam locomotive, the reversal of exhaust gases when the regulator is closed without using the blower.
(slang) The act of shotgunning (inhaling from a pipe etc. and exhaling into another smoker's mouth).
An unintended adverse result, especially of covert political action.
blowbacks
blowbacks
noun
plural of blowback
blowcase
blowcock
blowtorch
blowtorch
noun
(US, military, slang) A jet fighter.
A tool which projects a controlled stream of a highly flammable gas over a spark in order to produce a controlled flame.
verb
To apply a blowtorch to something.
blowtorched
blowtorched
verb
past participle of blowtorch
blowtorches
blowtorches
noun
plural of blowtorch
verb
Third-person singular simple present indicative form of blowtorch
blowtorching
blowtorching
verb
present participle of blowtorch
bolckow
borowolframic
breechesflower
brockwell
brownistical
bullamacow
bunchflower
bunchflower
noun
A perennial herb, Melanthium virginicum, having a branched cluster of pale flowers
caldoracaldwell
callow
callow
adj
(by extension) Immature, lacking in life experience.
(by extension, life-cycle developmental stage) Newly emerged or hatched, juvenile.
(of a brick) Unburnt.
Bald, hairless, bare.
Lacking color or firmness (of some kinds of insects or other arthropods, such as spiders, just after ecdysis); teneral.
Of land: low-lying and liable to be submerged.
Shallow or weak-willed.
Unfledged (of a young bird), featherless.
noun
A callow or teneral phase of an insect or other arthropod, typically shortly after ecdysis, while the skin still is hardening, the colours have not yet become stable, and as a rule, before the animal is able to move effectively.
A callow young bird.
An alluvial flat.
calloway
callower
callower
adj
comparative form of callow: more callow
callowest
callowest
adj
superlative form of callow: most callow
callowman
callowness
callowness
noun
The condition of being callow; immaturity.
callownesses
callownesses
noun
plural of callowness
campbelltown
campbeltown
candlepower
candlepower
noun
(dated) A unit of luminous intensity of a light source, equal to 0.981 candelas.
candlepowers
candlepowers
noun
plural of candlepower
candlewood
candlewood
noun
Dacryodes excelsa, a tree native to Puerto Rico.
Pterocelastrus tricuspidatus, a medium-sized evergreen tree indigenous to South Africa.
candlewoods
candlewoods
noun
plural of candlewood
cankerflower
carlow
carlow
Proper noun
A county in the Republic of Ireland
A town in the county of Carlow, Ireland.
carrolltown
castlewood
castlewood
Proper noun
Any of a number of towns in USA or Canada
catalowne
catawampously
catawamptiously
catawamptiously
adv
Alternative form of catawampusly
cauliflower
cauliflower
noun
Brassica oleracea var. botrytis, an annual variety of cabbage, of which the cluster of young flower stalks and buds is eaten as a vegetable.
The edible head or curd of a cauliflower plant.
The swelling of a cauliflower ear.
verb
(transitive, intransitive) To (cause to) swell up like a cauliflower ear.
cauliflowers
cauliflowers
noun
plural of cauliflower
cellarwoman
cellarwoman
noun
A female cellarman.
chalkworker
chamberfellow
charlestown
charlesworth
charlottetown
charlottetown
Proper noun
Provincial capital of Prince Edward Island (Canada).
cheeseflower
cheswold
childcrowing
childwold
chilhowee
chilhowie
chlodwig
chowchilla
chowchilla
noun
Orthonyx spaldingii, a passerine bird in the logrunner family Orthonychidae, endemic to Australia.
clampdown
clampdown
noun
A sudden repressive or punitive restriction or control
clamworm
clamworm
noun
Alternative form of clam worm
clamworms
clamworms
noun
plural of clamworm
clanfellow
clanfellow
noun
A fellow member of a clan.
clanswoman
clanswoman
noun
a female member of a clan.
clanswomen
clanswomen
noun
plural of clanswoman
clapwort
clapwort
noun
A North American herb (Conopholis americana) that is parasitic on the roots of oak
classfellow
classfellow
noun
(dated or India) classmate
classwork
classwork
noun
That part of a scholar's work that is done in class.
clawson
cleaverwort
cleaverwort
noun
Synonym of cleavers (“the bedstraw”)
clergywoman
clergywoman
noun
A woman belonging to a clergyman's family.
An ordained (female) Christian minister; a female member of the clergy.
clergywomen
clergywomen
noun
plural of clergywoman
clewiston
cliffwood
clintwood
cloakwise
cloakwise
adv
In the manner of a cloak.
clockwatcher
clockwatcher
noun
Alternative form of clock-watcher
clockwise
clockwise
adj
Moving clockwise; having rotary motion in the manner of a clock.
adv
In a curve or twist corresponding to the movement of the hands of a clock.
clockwork
clockwork
adj
Driven by clockwork.
Very smooth and regular.
noun
A mechanism powered by a coiled spring and regulated by some form of escapement; the power is transmitted through toothed gearwheels and used to drive a mechanical clock, toy, or other device.
The action of behaving mechanically in the manner of a clock.
clockworked
clockworks
clockworks
noun
plural of clockwork
clogwheel
clogwheel
noun
(obsolete, Yorkshire) A solid cartwheel (rather than one with spokes)
clogwood
clogwood
noun
The wood (typically alder) used for making clogs.
clogwyn
clogwyn
noun
cliff, precipice
cloisterwise
closedown
closedown
noun
(radio, television) The point when a radio or television station shuts down transmission and goes off the air for a predetermined period, as used to happen overnight.
closewing
clothworker
clothworker
noun
A textile worker.
clotweed
clotweed
noun
cocklebur
cloudward
cloudward
adj
Synonym of upward
adv
Alternative form of cloudwards
cloudwards
cloudwards
adv
Towards the clouds; upwards
clovewort
clovewort
noun
(historical) an herb mentioned in Old English herbals, probably Ranunculus acris
Any plant of the family Caryophyllaceae.
Avens, which has clove-scented roots
Clove pink, which has clove-scented flowers
clow
clowder
clowder
noun
A group of cats or other small felines.
clowders
clowders
noun
plural of clowder
clower
clown
clown
noun
(obsolete) A man of coarse nature and manners; an awkward fellow; an illbred person; a boor.
(obsolete) One who works upon the soil; a rustic; a churl; a yokel.
A clownfish.
A person who acts in a silly fashion.
A slapstick performance artist often associated with a circus and usually characterized by bright, oversized clothing, a red nose, face paint, and a brightly colored wig.
A stupid or badly-behaved person.
verb
(intransitive) To act in a silly or playful fashion.
(transitive, African-American Vernacular) To ridicule.
clownade
clownage
clownage
noun
(obsolete) The behaviour or manners of a clown or rustic.
clowned
clowned
verb
simple past tense and past participle of clown
clowneries
clowneries
noun
plural of clownery
clownery
clownery
noun
The behaviour of a clown; clownishness, tomfoolery.
clownheal
clownheal
noun
The herb Stachys palustris, supposedly used to heal wounds to the feet made with a scythe
clowning
clowning
noun
Clownish behaviour.
verb
present participle of clown
clownish
clownish
adj
(now rare) Pertaining to peasants; rustic.
(now rare) Uncultured, boorish; rough, coarse.
Resembling or characteristic of a circus clown; comical, ridiculous.
clownishly
clownishly
adv
In a clownish, undignified, or foolish manner; absurdly, ridiculously.
clownishness
clownishness
noun
the state of being clownish
clownishnesses
clownishnesses
noun
plural of clownishness
clowns
clowns
noun
plural of clown
verb
Third-person singular simple present indicative form of clown
clownship
clownship
noun
The role or art of a clown.
clowre
clowring
clubfellow
clubfellow
noun
A fellow member of a club.
clubwoman
clubwoman
noun
(dated) A woman who is a member of a club.
clubwomen
clubwomen
noun
plural of clubwoman
clubwood
coachfellow
coachfellow
noun
(figuratively) A comrade.
One of a pair of horses employed to draw a coach.
coalwood
cobewail
cocklewife
codswallop
codswallop
intj
(UK, Ireland, Australia, New Zealand, slang) Used to express disbelief: nonsense!; rubbish!
noun
(UK, Ireland, Australia, New Zealand, slang) Senseless talk or writing; nonsense; rubbish.