(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.
afterwisdom
antiendowment
antiendowment
adj
Opposing an endowment.
awardment
awardment
noun
The giving of an award; something awarded.
bartholomewtide
basementward
basementward
adv
Toward a basement.
betweenmaid
bewilderment
bewilderment
noun
A confusing or perplexing situation.
The state of being bewildered.
bewilderments
bewilderments
noun
plural of bewilderment
bretwaldadom
chittamwood
chittamwood
noun
A North American tree (Sideroxylon lanuginosum); the wood of this tree
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.
damewort
damewort
noun
dame's rocket, Hesperis matronalis.
dameworts
dawmont
deathworm
deepwaterman
deepwatermen
deflowerment
deflowerment
Noun
The loss of a girl or woman's virginity.
dimwit
dimwit
noun
(derogatory) A person who is deficient in intelligence.
dimwits
dimwits
noun
plural of dimwit
dimwitted
dimwitted
adj
Alternative spelling of dim-witted
dimwittedly
dimwittedly
adv
In a dimwitted or stupid manner.
dimwittedness
dimwittedness
noun
The state or condition of being dimwitted.
disacknowledgement
disacknowledgements
disavowment
disavowment
noun
disavowal
discrownment
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
doomwatcher
doomwatcher
noun
A person with a pessimistic outlook on the future.
dowment
dowmetal
downmost
downmost
adj
Furthest down; located at the bottom of a system or structure.
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
dumbwaiter
dumbwaiter
noun
(obsolete) A lazy Susan.
(obsolete) A table or set of trays on rollers used for serving food.
A small elevator used to move food etc. from one floor of a building to another.
dumbwaiters
dumbwaiters
noun
plural of dumbwaiter
dustwoman
dustwoman
noun
(Britain) Female equivalent of dustman; a woman employed to collect domestic refuse.
dwindlement
dwindlement
noun
The process of dwindling; gradual reduction to nothing.
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
gentlewomanhood
gentlewomanhood
noun
The qualities or condition of a gentlewoman.
handicraftswoman
handicraftswoman
noun
A female practitioner of a handicraft.
intermewed
intermewed
adj
(of a hawk) Kept in confinement through a molt.
knowledgement
knowledgement
noun
(non-native speakers' English) Misconstruction of knowledge.
leewardmost
leewardmost
adj
superlative form of leeward: most leeward
madderwort
madderwort
noun
Any plant of the same family (Rubiaceae) as the madder.
Rubia tinctorum (common madder)
madwort
madwort
noun
Any of certain alyssums.
German madwort (Asperugo procumbens)
madworts
madworts
noun
plural of madwort
mastwood
mastwood
noun
The evergreen plant Calophyllum inophyllum.
matchwood
matchwood
noun
wood, often in the form of splinters, suitable for making matches
matweed
matweed
noun
Amaranthus blitoides (prostate amaranth, mat amaranth)
Axonopus fissifolius (common carpetgrass)
Guilleminea spp.
Nardus stricta
maudlinwort
maudlinwort
noun
The oxeye daisy.
mcclellandtown
mdewakanton
meadowsweet
meadowsweet
noun
A Eurasian perennial flowering plant of Rosaceae family, Filipendula ulmaria.
Any plant of the genus Spiraea of the Rosaceae family, native to the temperate Northern Hemisphere and consisting of about 80-100 species of shrubs.
meadowsweets
meadowsweets
noun
plural of meadowsweet
meadowwort
meadowwort
noun
The plant meadowsweet.
meadsweet
meadsweet
noun
meadowsweet.
meadwort
meadwort
noun
(obsolete) Meadowsweet, a plant found near rivers or on damp ground.
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
metewand
metewand
noun
(obsolete) A measuring rod (in both its literal and figurative sense).
metwand
metwand
noun
Alternative form of metewand
middlesworth
middletown
middleweight
middleweight
noun
(countable) A boxer who fights in this division; a similar wrestler etc
(countable, business, by extension) An employee ranking anywhere between junior and senior.
(uncountable) A weight class in professional boxing between light middleweight or welterweight and super middleweight or cruiserweight; a similar division in wrestling and other sports
middleweights
middleweights
noun
plural of middleweight
midtown
midtown
noun
(US) The part of a city between uptown and downtown
midtowns
midtowns
noun
plural of midtown
midwatch
midwatch
noun
(nautical) A watch kept from midnight until four o'clock in the morning.
midwatches
midwatches
noun
plural of midwatch
midwest
midwest
name
Alternative spelling of Midwest
midwestern
midwestern
adj
Alternative letter-case form of Midwestern
Of or pertaining to any region identified as midwest
midwesterner
midwesterner
noun
Alternative letter-case form of Midwesterner
midwesterners
midwesterners
noun
plural of midwesterner, an alternative capitalization of Midwesterner.
midwestward
midwestward
adv
Toward the Midwest.
midwinter
midwinter
noun
The middle of winter.
The winter solstice; about December 21st or 22nd.
midwinterly
midwinters
midwinters
noun
plural of midwinter
midwintry
midwintry
adj
Resembling or characteristic of midwinter.
mintweed
misbestowed
misbestowed
verb
simple past tense and past participle of misbestow
modesttown
morrowtide
morrowtide
noun
(now rare, archaic) The morning.
motherward
motherward
adv
Toward one's mother.
mountainward
mountainward
adv
Towards a mountain or mountains.
mountainwards
mountainwards
Adverb
Towards a mountain or mountains.
mowstead
mudwort
mudwort
noun
Limosella aquatica, a small herbaceous plant growing on muddy shores.
multidwelling
multidwelling
adj
Relating to more than one dwelling.
noun
A dwelling occupied by more than one household.
multitowered
multitowered
adj
Having more than one tower.
multiwarhead
multiwarhead
adj
(of a missile) Comprising more than one warhead.
multiword
multiword
adj
Alternative form of multi-word
multiwords
muttonwood
myrtlewood
nonacknowledgment
nonacknowledgment
noun
Absence of acknowledgment; failure to acknowledge something.
nonendowment
outwardmost
outwardmost
adj
Farthest outward.
overshadowment
overshadowment
noun
overshadowing
preacknowledgement
preacknowledgement
noun
Alternative form of preacknowledgment
preacknowledgment
preacknowledgment
noun
acknowledgment in advance
prewonderment
reacknowledgment
reacknowledgment
noun
Alternative form of reacknowledgement
reendowment
reendowment
noun
The act of endowing again.
shittimwood
shittimwood
noun
The wood of the shittim.
shittimwoods
slowmouthed
smartweed
smartweed
noun
Any of a number of plants in the genus Persicaria (formerly Polygonum).
stampweed
stemwards
stemwards
adv
(botany, nautical) Towards a stem
stormward
stormwind
stormwind
noun
A heavy wind; a wind that brings a storm.
stowbordman
stowbordmen
streamward
streamwood
superacknowledgment
sweetheartdom
sweetmouthed
swordsmith
swordsmith
noun
A maker of swords.
systemwide
systemwide
adj
Throughout a system.
tandemwise
tandemwise
adj
Arranged in tandem (one behind the other).
templeward
theowdom
thimbleweed
thimbleweed
noun
Anemone cylindrica
Anemone virginiana
Rudbeckia laciniata
thimbleweeds
thimbleweeds
noun
plural of thimbleweed
threadworm
threadworm
noun
(UK, Australia) The pinworm.
A parasitic roundworm, Strongyloides stercoralis, which causes strongyloidiasis.
threadworms
threadworms
noun
plural of threadworm
thunderworm
thunderworm
noun
A small burrowing snake-like lizard (Rhineura floridana) native to Florida.