(history) The ruler of an archduchy, in particular the Archduchy of Austria.
(history) The son or male-line grandson of an emperor of the Austro-Hungarian Empire.
archdukedom
archdukedom
noun
The territory or dignity of an archduke or archduchess; an archduchy.
archdukedoms
archdukedoms
noun
plural of archdukedom
archdukes
archdukes
noun
plural of archduke
auckland
auckland
Proper noun
The largest conurbation in New Zealand.
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
backgrounded
backgrounded
adj
(computing) (of a task) Made non-interactive
Moved to the background
verb
simple past tense and past participle of background
backgrounder
backgrounder
noun
(chiefly US) A briefing or document typically provided prior to a meeting or other event that gives basic details on subjects that are likely to be mentioned.
A cattle farmer or rancher who runs a backgrounding operation.
A person employed to draw backgrounds for a comic or cartoon.
backgrounds
backgrounds
noun
plural of background
verb
Third-person singular simple present indicative form of background
backhauled
backhauled
verb
simple past tense and past participle of backhaul
bareknuckled
bauckiebird
beduck
beduck
verb
(transitive) To duck or immerse thoroughly; submerge.
betuckered
bivouacked
bivouacked
verb
simple past tense and past participle of bivouac
blackduck
blackfigured
blackguard
blackguard
noun
(archaic) A man who uses foul language in front of a woman, typically a woman of high standing in society.
(old-fashioned, usually used only of men) A scoundrel; an unprincipled contemptible person; an untrustworthy person.
The lowest servant in a household charged with pots, pans, and other kitchen equipment.
verb
(intransitive) To act like a blackguard; to be a scoundrel.
(transitive) To revile or abuse in scurrilous language.
blackguarded
blackguarded
verb
simple past tense and past participle of blackguard
blackguardism
blackguardism
noun
Blackguardly behaviour or language.
blackguardize
blackguardize
verb
To make blackguardly.
blackguardly
blackguardly
adj
Characteristic of a blackguard.
blackguardry
blackguards
blackguards
noun
plural of blackguard
blockaderunning
blockbusted
bloodsuck
bloodsucker
bloodsucker
noun
(by extension) Any parasite.
(by extension) One who attempts to take as much from others as possible; a leech.
A vampire.
An animal that drinks the blood of others, especially by sucking blood through a puncture wound; a hemovore.
The changeable lizard (Calotes versicolor).
bloodsuckers
bloodsuckers
noun
plural of bloodsucker
bloodsucking
bloodsucking
adj
(by extension, of a person) parasitic, leechlike or freeloading
(of an insect or animal) That draws off the blood of another animal, or a person.
bloodsuckings
bruckled
buckboard
buckboard
noun
A simple, distinctively American four-wheeled horse-drawn wagon designed for personal transport as well as for transporting animal fodder and domestic goods, often with a spring-mounted seat for the driver.
buckboards
buckboards
noun
plural of buckboard
buckden
bucked
bucked
verb
simple past tense and past participle of buck
bucketed
bucketed
verb
simple past tense and past participle of bucket
buckeyed
buckfield
buckhead
buckhound
buckhound
noun
(UK) A hound for deer hunting.
buckhounds
buckhounds
noun
plural of buckhound
buckland
bucklandite
buckled
buckled
verb
simple past tense and past participle of buckle
bucklered
bucklered
verb
simple past tense and past participle of buckler
buckramed
buckramed
verb
simple past tense and past participle of buckram
buckskinned
buckskinned
adj
Wearing clothes made from buckskin.
bucktoothed
bucktoothed
adj
Having buckteeth
bullnecked
bullnecked
adj
Having a thick, muscular neck
bunchbacked
bundocks
burckhardt
burdick
burdock
burdock
noun
Any of the species of biennial thistles in the genus Arctium.
burdocks
burdocks
noun
plural of burdock
bushwhacked
bushwhacked
verb
simple past tense and past participle of bushwhack
buttocked
buttocked
adj
(in combination) Having some specific type of buttocks
cadouk
caduke
caduke
adj
(obsolete) perishable; frail; transitory
caudebeck
cauked
caulked
caulked
adj
Having cracks or crevices stopped-up with a filler.
verb
simple past tense and past participle of caulk
chappaquiddick
chaukidari
checksummed
checksummed
verb
simple past tense and past participle of checksum
chempaduk
chucked
chucked
verb
simple past tense and past participle of chuck
chuckled
chuckled
verb
simple past tense and past participle of chuckle
chucklehead
chucklehead
noun
(informal) A stupid or clumsy person.
A coastal rockfish of California, Sebastes chlorostictus.
chuckleheaded
chuckleheaded
adj
stupid, idiotic
chuckleheadedness
chuckleheadedness
noun
The quality of being chuckleheaded.
chuckleheads
chuckleheads
noun
plural of chucklehead
chunked
chunked
verb
simple past tense and past participle of chunk
chunkhead
chutzpadik
chutzpadik
adj
Showing chutzpah; not showing due respect; impudent; impertinent; brazen.
cloudcuckooland
cloudcuckooland
noun
Alternative spelling of cloud-cuckoo-land
cloudlike
cloudlike
adj
Resembling a cloud or clouds; thus, often, fluffy
clucked
clucked
verb
simple past tense and past participle of cluck
clunked
clunked
verb
simple past tense and past participle of clunk
cocksuredom
coldturkey
counterattacked
counterattacked
verb
simple past tense and past participle of counterattack
counterblockade
counterblockade
noun
A blockade set up in opposition to another blockade.
counterblockades
counterblockades
noun
plural of counterblockade
counterdike
crookshouldered
cuckhold
cuckhold
noun
Obsolete form of cuckold.
cuckold
cuckold
noun
(fetishism) A man who is attracted to or aroused by the sexual infidelity of a partner.
A West Indian plectognath fish, Rhinesomus triqueter.
A man married to an unfaithful wife, especially when he is unaware or unaccepting of the fact.
The scrawled cowfish, Acanthostracion quadricornis and allied species.
verb
(transitive) To make a cuckold or cuckquean of someone by being unfaithful, or by seducing their partner or spouse.
cuckolded
cuckolded
verb
simple past tense and past participle of cuckold
cuckolding
cuckolding
noun
The practice of making a man a cuckold, especially as a sexual kink.
verb
present participle of cuckold
cuckoldize
cuckoldize
verb
(obsolete, transitive) To cuckold.
cuckoldly
cuckoldly
adj
Possessing the qualities of a cuckold.
adv
Like or as a cuckold.
cuckoldom
cuckoldom
noun
(archaic) cuckoldry
cuckoldries
cuckoldries
noun
plural of cuckoldry
cuckoldry
cuckoldry
noun
(zoology) Among certain male fish, the practice of interrupting a mating pair to release sperm in an attempt to fertilize the female.
An act of adultery committed by a married woman against her husband.
The state of being a cuckold.
cuckolds
cuckolds
noun
plural of cuckold
verb
Third-person singular simple present indicative form of cuckold
cuckoldy
cuckoldy
adj
Characteristic of a cuckold.
cuckooed
cuckooed
verb
simple past tense and past participle of cuckoo
cuckoomaid
cuckoomaiden
cuddebackville
deckedout
deckhouse
deckhouse
noun
A cabin that protrudes above a ship's deck.
deckhouses
deckhouses
noun
plural of deckhouse
demibuckram
detruck
detruck
verb
(intransitive) To exit from a truck.
To unload things from a truck.
deutschemark
deutschmark
dikelocephalus
dockhouse
doohickus
doohickus
noun
(informal) An unspecified or nameless thing; doohickey.
doruck
doucker
doucker
noun
diver
goldeneye
grebe
pochard
scaup
scoter
tufted duck
douschka
drucken
drummock
drummock
noun
Alternative form of drammock
drumstick
drumstick
noun
(South Asia, Myanmar) The moringa or drumstick tree, Moringa oleifera, especially its slender, cylindrical pods.
(slang, chiefly in the plural) A person's leg.
A stick used to play drums.
The second joint of the legbone of a chicken or other fowl, especially as an item of food.
drumsticks
drumsticks
noun
plural of drumstick
dubcek
duchesslike
duchesslike
adj
Resembling or characteristic of a duchess.
duck
duck
noun
(Midlands) Dear, mate (informal way of addressing a friend or stranger).
(UK, slang, obsolete) A faggot; a meatball made from offal.
(US) A cairn used to mark a trail.
(caving) A cave passage containing water with low, or no, airspace.
(cricket) A batsman's score of zero after getting out. (short for duck's egg, since the digit "0" is round like an egg.)
(finance, slang, dated) Synonym of lame duck (“one who cannot fulfil their contracts”)
(in the plural) Trousers made of such material.
(medicine) A long-necked medical urinal for men.
(slang) A playing card with the rank of two.
(uncountable) The flesh of a duck used as food.
A building intentionally constructed in the shape of an everyday object to which it is related.
A marble to be shot at with another marble (the shooter) in children's games.
A term of endearment; pet; darling.
A tightly-woven cotton fabric used as sailcloth.
An aquatic bird of the family Anatidae, having a flat bill and webbed feet.
One of the weights used to hold a spline in place for the purpose of drawing a curve.
Specifically, an adult female duck; contrasted with drake and with duckling.
verb
(intransitive) To bow.
(intransitive) To enter a place for a short moment.
(intransitive) To go under the surface of water and immediately reappear; to plunge one's head into water or other liquid.
(intransitive) To quickly lower the head or body, often in order to prevent it from being struck by something.
(transitive) To evade doing something.
(transitive) To lower (something) into water; to thrust or plunge under liquid and suddenly withdraw.
(transitive) To lower the volume of (a sound) so that other sounds in the mix can be heard more clearly.
(transitive) To quickly lower (the head or body), often in order to prevent it from being struck by something.
duckbill
duckbill
noun
(informal) A hadrosaur.
(informal) The duck-billed platypus.
A fish of the family Percophidae
Bull ray (Aetomylaeus bovinus, now Pteromylaeus bovinus).
Percophis brasiliensis (Brazilian flathead).
duckbills
duckbills
noun
plural of duckbill
duckblind
duckboard
duckboard
noun
A panel of wooden slats typically lain on a concrete floor in a workshop. Compliance of slats arranged in two crossed layers reduces fatigue for a person operating a machine tool or working at a bench.
One of a long series of boards laid from side to side as a path across wet or muddy ground; normally used in plural.
Wooden, low walkway or short part of a path with one or more planks, logs, or boards laid after each other lengthwise, often two planks wide; also called bog board, bog bridge, or puncheon.
duckboards
duckboards
noun
plural of duckboard
duckboat
ducked
ducked
verb
simple past tense and past participle of duck
ducker
ducker
noun
Alternative form of doucker
One who, or that which, ducks; a plunger; a diver.
duckeries
duckeries
noun
plural of duckery
duckers
duckers
noun
plural of ducker
duckery
duckery
noun
A plantation for ducks.
duckfoot
duckfoot
noun
(agriculture, often attributive) A relatively small, shallow share used in tillage, shaped like a duck's foot.
duckfooted
duckfooted
adj
Alternative spelling of duck-footed
duckhearted
duckhood
duckhood
noun
The state or quality of being a duck.
duckhouse
duckhunting
duckie
duckie
noun
Alternative spelling of ducky
duckier
duckier
adj
comparative form of ducky: more ducky
duckies
duckies
noun
plural of duckie
plural of ducky
duckiest
duckiest
adj
superlative form of ducky: most ducky
ducking
ducking
adj
(slang, humorous) Euphemistic form of fucking.
noun
(countable) An instance of ducking (a person in water, etc).
(uncountable) The action of the verb to duck.
verb
present participle of duck
duckish
duckish
adj
Characteristically resembling a duck; somewhat ducklike
noun
(Newfoundland) dusk
ducklar
ducklet
ducklet
noun
A duckling.
duckling
duckling
noun
A young duck.
ducklings
ducklings
noun
plural of duckling
ducklingship
duckmeat
duckmeat
noun
(archaic) duckweed
duckmole
duckmole
noun
(obsolete) Synonym of platypus
duckpin
duckpin
noun
A short, squat form of tenpin.
duckpins
duckpins
noun
A game played by bowling a small ball at such pins.
plural of duckpin
duckpond
duckpond
noun
A pond that is populated by ducks.
ducks
ducks
noun
(Britain, chiefly Northern England, used vocatively) Dear (used as a pet name).
(nautical) The light trousers worn by sailors in hot climates.
(poker slang) A pair of twos.
plural of duck
verb
Third-person singular simple present indicative form of duck