(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
amoskeag
anagignoskomena
angiokeratoma
angiokeratoma
noun
(medicine) A benign cutaneous lesion of capillaries, resulting in small marks of red to blue colour and characterized by hyperkeratosis.
antismoking
antismoking
adj
Opposing or prohibiting smoking, particularly the smoking of tobacco
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.
backgammons
backgammons
noun
plural of backgammon
verb
Third-person singular simple present indicative form of backgammon
bellowsmaking
bemocking
bemocking
verb
present participle of bemock
bergomask
bergomask
noun
(obsolete) A kind of rustic dance.
besmoking
besmoking
verb
present participle of besmoke
blockmaking
blockmaking
noun
The manufacture of blocks for use in printing.
The manufacture of nautical blocks.
bluestockingism
bluestockingism
noun
(colloquial) The character or manner of a bluestocking; female pedantry.
bodicemaking
bodymaking
boilermaking
boilermaking
noun
The manufacture of boilers.
boltmaking
boltmaking
noun
The manufacture of bolts.
bookmaking
bookmaking
noun
The art or practice of compiling books from the writings of others.
The art or profession of determining odds and receiving and paying off bets, especially bets on the outcome of sporting events.
bookmakings
bookmakings
noun
plural of bookmaking
bookmarking
bookmarking
verb
present participle of bookmark
bookmonger
bookmonger
noun
(archaic) A bookseller.
bootmaking
bootmaking
noun
The making of boots.
bottlemaking
bottlemaking
noun
The manufacture of bottles.
bowmaking
bowmaking
noun
The manufacture of bows (for archery or for musical instruments).
boxmaking
boxmaking
noun
The manufacture of boxes.
broommaking
cloakmaking
cloakmaking
noun
The manufacture of cloaks.
clockmaking
clockmaking
noun
The art or trade of a clockmaker; the manufacture of clocks.
clogmaker
clogmaker
noun
A manufacturer of clogs (type of shoe).
clogmaking
clogmaking
noun
The manufacture of clogs (type of shoe).
clothmaking
clothmaking
noun
The art or trade of a clothmaker.
coachmaking
coachmaking
noun
The manufacture of coaches (vehicles).
cockermeg
cockermeg
noun
An arrangement of pit props used to support a coalface
coffinmaking
coffinmaking
noun
The manufacture of coffins.
coinmaking
coinmaking
noun
The manufacture of coins.
colormaking
colormaking
noun
The manufacture of paints or dyes.
comaking
combmaking
combmaking
noun
The manufacture of combs.
conemaking
coremaking
coremaking
noun
(engineering) The manufacture of the cores used to produce the hollow parts of castings.
corkmaking
couchmaking
couchmaking
noun
The manufacture of couches.
disacknowledgement
disacknowledgements
dollmaking
dollmaking
noun
The manufacture of dolls.
domagk
doormaking
doormaking
noun
The manufacture of doors.
doughmaker
doughmaking
doughmaking
noun
The making of dough.
embosking
embosking
verb
present participle of embosk
endokaryogamy
eskimologist
eskimologist
noun
(rare) Alternative spelling of Eskimologist
eskimology
eskimology
Noun
The study of the Eskimo people.
frankalmoign
frankalmoign
noun
(UK, historical) A form of land tenure in return for religious duty or service.
frankalmoigne
frankalmoigne
noun
A tenure by which a religious corporation holds lands given to them and their successors forever, usually on condition of praying for the soul of the donor and his heirs; - called also tenure by free alms.
gallowsmaker
gallowsmaker
noun
A manufacturer of gallows.
gamecock
gamecock
noun
A fighting cock: a rooster used in cockfighting.
gamecocks
gamecocks
noun
plural of gamecock
gammock
gammock
noun
(UK, dialect) A frolic; fun.
verb
(UK, dialect, intransitive) To frolic; to lark about.
garmentworker
garmentworker
noun
A person who works making clothes.
gemsbok
gemsbok
noun
A large African antelope (Oryx gazella).
gemsboks
gemsboks
noun
plural of gemsbok
gemwork
gemwork
noun
ornamentation with gems; jewellery
gentlewomanlike
gentlewomanlike
adj
Characteristic of a gentlewoman; having the qualities of a gentlewoman.
adv
In a manner befitting a gentlewoman.
getmjlkost
glovemaker
glovemaker
noun
A maker of gloves; a glover.
glovemaking
glovemaking
noun
The manufacture of gloves.
gnomelike
gnomelike
adj
Resembling a gnome.
godmaker
godmaking
goldmark
goldmark
noun
A German mark of gold standard, as opposed to on paper
gomukhi
gomulka
greekdom
gromyko
grosmark
gulfhammock
gumbolike
gumpoldskirchner
gymnotoka
gymnotokous
hektogram
holidaymaking
holidaymaking
noun
(Britain) Going on holiday.
homekeeping
homekeeping
adj
Staying at home.
noun
Synonym of housekeeping (“looking after domestic affairs in a house”)
homemaking
homemaking
noun
The management of a household considered as an occupation.
homemakings
homemakings
noun
plural of homemaking
hookmaking
hookmaking
noun
The manufacture of hooks.
ironmaking
ironmaking
noun
The making of iron (from an ore)
kagoshima
kagoshima
Proper noun
A city in the south coast of the island of Kyushu in Japan
A prefecture in southwestern Japan
kalsomining
kalsomining
verb
present participle of kalsomine
kampong
kampong
noun
(Cambodia) A landing, a port; a river town.
Dated spelling of kampung.
kampongs
kampongs
noun
plural of kampong
karamojong
karamojong
Proper noun
A Nilo-Saharan language of Uganda.
karyogamic
karyogamic
adj
Relating to karyogamy.
karyogamies
karyogamies
noun
plural of karyogamy
karyogamy
karyogamy
noun
(biology) The fusion of two nuclei within a cell, especially as the second stage of syngamy.
kathemoglobin
keratoangioma
keratoangioma
noun
(pathology) Angioma of the cornea.
kilogram
kilogram
noun
(proscribed) The unit of weight such that a one-kilogram mass is also a one-kilogram weight.
In the International System of Units, the base unit of mass; conceived of as the mass of one litre of water, but now defined by taking the fixed numerical value of the Planck constant h to be 6.626 070 15 × 10⁻³⁴ when expressed in units of kg⋅m²⋅s⁻¹. Symbol: kg
kilogramme
kilogramme
noun
(UK) Dated spelling of kilogram.
kilogrammetre
kilogrammetre
noun
Alternative spelling of kilogram-meter
kilograms
kilograms
noun
plural of kilogram
kilomegacycle
kilomegacycle
noun
gigahertz (1000 megacycles)
kilometrage
kilometrage
noun
An allowance for travel expenses at a specified rate per kilometre.
The number of kilometres travelled by a vehicle on a certain volume of fuel.
The total distance travelled, in kilometres.
kimigayo
kinematograph
kinematograph
noun
Alternative form of cinematograph
kinematographer
kinematographer
noun
cinematographer
kinematographic
kinematographical
kinematographical
adj
cinematographical
kinematographically
kinematography
kinetogram
kinetogram
noun
The image produced by a kinetograph
kingdom
kingdom
noun
(taxonomy) A rank in the classification of organisms, below domain and above phylum; a taxon at that rank (e.g. the plant kingdom, the animal kingdom).
A realm having a king and/or queen as its actual or nominal sovereign.
A realm, region, or conceptual space where something is dominant.
kingdomed
kingdomed
adj
(obsolete) Having a kingdom or the dignity of a king.
Having a specified type or number of kingdoms.
kingdomful
kingdomful
noun
Enough to fill a kingdom.
kingdomless
kingdomless
adj
Without a kingdom.
kingdoms
kingdoms
noun
plural of kingdom
kingdomship
kingmont
knowledgement
knowledgement
noun
(non-native speakers' English) Misconstruction of knowledge.
knownothingism
koggelmannetje
koggelmannetje
noun
(South Africa) The lizard Agama atra.
kokumingun
kolmogorov
kolmogorov
Adjective
Such that any two distinct points are topologically distinguishable, i.e., there is an open set containing one of the points which does not contain the other point.
kolombangara
kopagmiut
korrigum
korrigum
noun
Damaliscus korrigum korrigum, an antelope of a subspecies of the topi.
koungmiut
kowagmiut
kremlinologist
kremlinologist
Noun
A person involved in Kremlinology.
kremlinologists
kremlinology
kremlinology
Noun
The study of the internal politics of the high members of the government of the USSR.
The study of the internal politics of any powerful and secretive organization.
kreymborg
kromogram
kuomintang
kuomintang
Proper noun
A nationalist political party in pre-Communist China that ruled China from 1928 until the Communists overthrew it in 1949, and was subsequently the major administrative party of Taiwan.
kuskwogmiut
kymatology
kymatology
noun
The study of wave motion.
kymogram
kymogram
noun
A graphical record produced by a kymograph.
kymograms
kymograms
noun
plural of kymogram
kymograph
kymograph
noun
A device that gives a graphical representation of a variation in a phenomenon such as blood pressure over time, using a pen on a rotating drum.
kymographic
kymographic
adj
Of or pertaining to a kymograph.
kymographies
kymographies
noun
plural of kymography
kymography
kymography
noun
The use of a kymograph.
lampworking
lampworking
verb
present participle of lampwork
leukemogenic
leukemogenic
adj
That tends to cause leukemia
lockmaking
lockmaking
noun
The manufacture of locks.
locksmithing
locksmithing
noun
The science and art of making and defeating locks.
lovemaking
lovemaking
noun
(dated) Courtship; amorous advances.
Sexual intercourse.
lovemakings
lovemakings
noun
plural of lovemaking
magnitogorsk
magnitogorsk
Proper noun
A city in Chelyabinsk oblast, Russia.
maiongkong
mallemaroking
mallemaroking
noun
(historical, nautical) Carousing on icebound Greenland whaling ships.