(most common British spelling, also sometimes used in the US) Alternative spelling of acknowledgment
acknowledgements
acknowledgements
noun
plural of acknowledgement
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
adamstown
adamstown
Proper noun
The capital and only settlement of the
A village in Ireland
A in Maryland.
A borough in Pennsylvania.
alderwoman
alderwoman
noun
(rare) A female alderman.
alderwomen
alderwomen
noun
plural of alderwoman
antiendowment
antiendowment
adj
Opposing an endowment.
backswordman
backswordman
noun
(historical) One who fights with a backsword or singlestick.
backswordmen
backswordmen
noun
plural of backswordman
backswordsman
backwoodsman
backwoodsman
noun
(informal, UK politics) A Peer who is seldom present in the House of Lords of the United Kingdom Parliament, who may be encouraged to attend when a very important vote is expected.
A person who is acclimated to living in a forest area that is far removed from civilization or modern conveniences.
An uncivilized person.
backwoodsmen
backwoodsmen
noun
plural of backwoodsman
bandworm
beadswoman
beadswoman
noun
A female beadsman.
beadswomen
beadswomen
noun
plural of beadswoman
bedeswoman
bedeswoman
noun
Alternative form of beadswoman
bedeswomen
bedeswomen
noun
plural of bedeswoman
bedewoman
birdwoman
birdwoman
noun
(informal) a female aviator.
A mythological creature that is part woman and part bird.
A woman who works with birds.
birdwomen
birdwomen
noun
plural of birdwoman
birnamwood
blindworm
blindworm
noun
Anguis fragilis (slowworm), a small species of legless lizard.
bondswoman
bondswoman
noun
The female equivalent of a bondsman.
bondswomen
bondswomen
noun
plural of bondswoman
bondwoman
bondwoman
noun
A woman who is bound in servitude; a female slave.
bondwomen
bondwomen
noun
plural of bondwoman
bowdoinham
bowermaiden
bowmansdale
cinnamonwood
cinnamonwood
noun
Synonym of sassafras
clampdown
clampdown
noun
A sudden repressive or punitive restriction or control
comedown
comedown
noun
A calm, mellow period experienced after the initial high from taking drugs.
A sudden drop to a lower status, condition or level; a disappointment or letdown.
comedowns
comedowns
noun
plural of comedown
communitywide
communitywide
adj
Throughout a community.
counterembowed
counterembowed
adj
(heraldry) Bent, curved or arched in two directions, both to the left and to the right, or both upwards and downwards.
dairywoman
dairywoman
noun
A woman who works in a dairy, or who delivers dairy products.
dairywomen
dairywomen
noun
plural of dairywoman
daleswoman
daleswoman
noun
A female dalesman.
dawmont
deflowerment
deflowerment
Noun
The loss of a girl or woman's virginity.
deworming
deworming
noun
The elimination of parasitic worms from an animal.
verb
present participle of deworm
deywoman
diamondwise
diamondwise
adj
Oriented like a diamond.
diamondwork
diamondwork
noun
masonry with diamond-shaped patterns
ornamentation with diamonds (precious stones)
disacknowledgement
disacknowledgements
disavowment
disavowment
noun
disavowal
discrownment
disemboweling
disemboweling
noun
The act by which somebody is disemboweled.
verb
present participle of disembowel
disembowelling
disembowelling
noun
The act by which somebody is disembowelled.
verb
(chiefly Britain, Canada, Australia, New Zealand, Ireland, South Africa) present participle of disembowel
disembowelment
disembowelment
noun
The act of disemboweling.
disembowelments
disembowelments
noun
plural of disembowelment
disendowment
disendowment
noun
The act of depriving of an endowment or endowments.
disownment
disownment
noun
The act of disowning.
disownments
disownments
noun
plural of disownment
disworkmanship
dowment
downcome
downcome
noun
A downpour of rain.
A tumbling or falling down; a sudden or heavy fall; an overthrow; ruin; destruction.
In ironmaking, a pipe that leads combustible gases downward from the top of the blast furnace to the hot-blast stoves, boilers, etc., where they are burned.
verb
To come down; fall down; come or fall apart.
downcomer
downcomer
noun
A large external pipe in a water-tube boiler, carrying unheated water from the steam drum down to the water drum as part of the circulation path.
A pipe for leading the hot gases from the top of a blast furnace downward to the regenerators, boilers, etc.
downcomes
downcomes
noun
plural of downcome
downcoming
downcoming
adj
Moving downwards.
verb
present participle of downcome
downmost
downmost
adj
Furthest down; located at the bottom of a system or structure.
downsman
downsome
downsome
adj
Low-spirited; melancholy.
downstream
downstream
adj
(biology) Towards the 3′ end of a DNA molecule.
(computer networking) In the direction from the server to the client.
(metaphoric) Occurring later than something else; (also, usually, especially) influenced by something else; being a consequence of something else.
Further along in the flow of current, in relation to a river, stream, bloodstream, or other flow of fluid.
adv
Following the path of a river or stream
verb
To stream downward.
downtime
downtime
noun
A period of time set aside for rest and relaxation; leisure time.
The amount of time lost due to forces beyond one's control, as with a computer crash.
downtimes
downtimes
noun
plural of downtime
downtrampling
draftswoman
draftswoman
noun
A woman employed in making drawings.
A woman exceptionally skilled in drawing.
draftswomanship
draftswomanship
noun
(rare) The art or craft of a female draftsman.
draftwoman
draftwoman
noun
Alternative form of draftswoman
draughtswoman
draughtswoman
noun
Alternative spelling of draftswoman
draughtswomanship
draughtswomanship
noun
draughtsmanship by a woman
dustwoman
dustwoman
noun
(Britain) Female equivalent of dustman; a woman employed to collect domestic refuse.
dworman
elderwoman
elderwomen
embrowned
embrowned
adj
Made brown; browned.
Made dark or dusky (“having a rather dark shade of colour”); darkened.
verb
simple past tense and past participle of embrown
endowment
endowment
noun
(Mormonism) A ceremony designed to prepare participants for their role in the afterlife.
(insurance) Endowment assurance or pure endowment.
Property or funds invested for the support and benefit of a person or not-for-profit institution.
Something with which a person or thing is endowed.
endowments
endowments
noun
plural of endowment
enwombed
enwombed
adj
(archaic) Pregnant.
freedwoman
freedwoman
noun
A woman who has been released from a condition of slavery.
freedwomen
freedwomen
noun
plural of freedwoman
gentlewomanhood
gentlewomanhood
noun
The qualities or condition of a gentlewoman.
goldwynism
goldwynism
Noun
Any of a number of often-repeated malapropisms originally uttered by US film producer Samuel Goldwyn (1879-1974) or a malapropism reminiscent of Goldwyn's utterances.
handicraftswoman
handicraftswoman
noun
A female practitioner of a handicraft.
handworkman
handworkman
noun
A man who works with his hands; one who carries out handwork.
handworm
herdswoman
herdswoman
noun
A woman who tends livestock, especially cows and sheep.
herdswomen
herdswomen
noun
plural of herdswoman
imbrowned
imbrowned
verb
simple past tense and past participle of imbrown
jasminewood
jimsonweed
jimsonweed
noun
(US) A poisonous plant of the Datura stramonium species, part of the nightshade (Solanaceae) family. A hallucinogen occasionally ingested by those looking for a cheap high.
(US, by extension, proscribed) Any poisonous plant of the genus Datura.
jimsonweeds
jimsonweeds
noun
plural of jimsonweed
knockemdown
knowledgement
knowledgement
noun
(non-native speakers' English) Misconstruction of knowledge.
lambsdown
landswoman
laundrywoman
laundrywoman
noun
A woman employed to wash clothes.
laundrywomen
laundrywomen
noun
plural of laundrywoman
lemonweed
lemonweed
noun
Lithospermum ruderale, a flowering plant in the borage family, native to western North America.
lemonwood
lemonwood
noun
A small evergreen tree, Pittosporum eugenioides, from New Zealand, whose leaves smell of lemon when crushed
lindworm
lindworm
noun
A draconic creature, similar to a wyvern.
A wingless serpentine dragon having two arms.
longmeadow
madwoman
madwoman
noun
A woman who is insane.
madwomen
madwomen
noun
plural of madwoman
manifoldwise
markdown
markdown
noun
A reduction in price in order to stimulate sales.
markdowns
markdowns
noun
plural of markdown
maudlinwort
maudlinwort
noun
The oxeye daisy.
mawbound
mcclellandtown
mdewakanton
meadowing
meadowink
meadowland
meadowland
noun
A tract of land cultivated as a meadow.
meadowlands
meadowlands
noun
plural of meadowland
meltdown
meltdown
noun
(informal) A tantrum or emotional outburst.
(psychology) An autistic response to stress or sensory overload, in which the person is overwhelmed by intense, seemingly disproportionate emotions, behaving erratically and becoming unable to mask.
A situation being likened to a nuclear meltdown; a crisis.
Computer engineers were at a loss last night to explain why the Government had been hit by arguably the worst electronic meltdown in the history of Whitehall. https://web.archive.org/web/20041209011615/http://news.independent.co.uk/uk/politics/story.jsp?story=587262
Severe overheating of the core of a nuclear reactor resulting in the core melting and potentially in radiation escaping.
meltdowns
meltdowns
noun
plural of meltdown
microdrawing
microdrawing
noun
A drawing showing the microscopic detail of something.
middletown
middlewoman
middlewoman
noun
The female equivalent of a middleman; a female intermediary.
middlewomen
middlewomen
noun
plural of middlewoman
midtown
midtown
noun
(US) The part of a city between uptown and downtown
midtowns
midtowns
noun
plural of midtown
mindblower
mindblower
noun
(slang) Anything mind-blowing.
mindblowers
mindblowers
noun
plural of mindblower
misacknowledge
misacknowledge
verb
(rare) To fail to acknowledge; to acknowledge wrongly.
misknowledge
misknowledge
noun
Misapprehension; imperfect or incorrect knowledge; misunderstanding.
miswording
miswording
noun
An instance of incorrect wording.
verb
present participle of misword
modesttown
moondown
moonward
moonward
adj
Which faces or points to or leads to the moon.
adv
Toward the moon.
moonwards
mormonweed
morningward
morningward
adv
(poetic) Toward morning.
mornward
mornward
adv
(poetic) Toward the morning.
moundwork
mountainward
mountainward
adv
Towards a mountain or mountains.
mountainwards
mountainwards
Adverb
Towards a mountain or mountains.
mowland
mudminnow
mudminnow
noun
Any member of the family Umbridae of ray-finned freshwater fish found in temperate regions across the Northern Hemisphere.
mudminnows
mudminnows
noun
plural of mudminnow
muttonwood
needlewoman
needlewoman
noun
A woman who works with a needle; a female embroiderer, sewer, etc.
needlewomen
needlewomen
noun
plural of needlewoman
newspaperdom
newspaperdom
noun
The realm or sphere of newspaper publishing or journalism.
nonacknowledgment
nonacknowledgment
noun
Absence of acknowledgment; failure to acknowledge something.