Any of several large food and game yellowtail fishes of the genus Seriola, found in warm waters of all oceans.
attackman
attackman
noun
(sports) A player in a position whose primary responsibility is offense.
backframe
backstamp
barmbrack
barmbrack
noun
An Irish yeasted bread with sultanas and raisins.
beckerman
benchmark
benchmark
noun
(computing) A computer program that is executed to assess the performance of the runtime environment.
A standard by which something is evaluated or measured.
A surveyor's mark made on some stationary object and shown on a map; used as a reference point.
verb
(intransitive, followed by at) To give certain results in a benchmark test.
(transitive, intransitive, followed by against) To use something (e.g., a competitor's product) as a standard to improve one's own thing.
blackdamp
blackdamp
noun
Choke damp.
blackgums
blackgums
noun
plural of blackgum
blackmail
blackmail
noun
(England law, historical) Black rent, or rent paid in corn, meat, or the lowest coin, as opposed to white rent, which was paid in silver.
(archaic) A form of protection money (or corn, cattle, etc.) anciently paid, in the north of England and south of Scotland, to the allies of robbers in order to be spared from pillage.
Compromising material that can be used to extort someone, dirt.
The extortion of money or favours by threats of public accusation, exposure, or censure.
verb
(Kenya) To speak ill of someone; to defame someone.
(transitive) To extort money or favors from (a person) by exciting fears of injury other than bodily harm, such as injury to reputation, distress of mind, false accusation, etc.
blackmore
brackmard
brackmard
noun
Alternative form of braquemard (“type of sword”)
brambrack
bucketman
buckramed
buckramed
verb
simple past tense and past participle of buckram
cakemaker
cakemaker
noun
Someone who makes cakes.
camelback
camelback
noun
(countable) A camelback sofa or chair.
(countable) A flexible water container worn on the back.
(countable) A house with a second storey that does not completely cover the ground floor.
(countable, rail transport) A railway locomotive that has its cab in the middle as opposed to at the end.
(uncountable) A type of rubber used in tyre restoration.
(uncountable) The backs of camels.
camellike
camellike
adj
Resembling or characteristic of a camel.
canmaking
capmakers
capmakers
noun
plural of capmaker
capmaking
capmaking
noun
The manufacture of caps (the headgear).
cardmaker
cardmaker
noun
A manufacturer of cards.
carmakers
carmakers
noun
plural of carmaker
cartmaker
cartmaker
noun
A manufacturer of carts.
casemaker
casemaker
noun
One who manufactures cases.
chamkanni
checkmark
checkmark
noun
Alternative form of check mark
verb
(transitive) To mark with a ✓ symbol; to tick.
checkmate
checkmate
intj
(by extension) Said when one has placed a person in a losing situation with no escape.
(chess) Word called out by the victor when making a move that wins the game.
noun
(figuratively, by extension) Any losing situation with no escape; utter defeat.
The conclusive victory in a game of chess that occurs when an opponent's king is threatened with unavoidable capture.
verb
(transitive, by extension) To place in a losing situation that has no escape.
(transitive, chess) To put the king of an opponent into checkmate.
chemakuan
chempaduk
chimakuan
chimariko
chimariko
Noun
A tribe that lived in a canyon on the Trinity River in California until they were all but destroyed in the mid-1800s, at which point survivors fled and assimilated into the Hupa and Shasta tribes.
Proper noun
The language spoken by this tribe, which is either a language isolate or perhaps Hokan.
chokedamp
chokedamp
noun
(mining) A damp consisting chiefly of carbon dioxide, so called for its ability to asphyxiate.
chokerman
chokerman
noun
A person employed to fasten the choker around logs for haulage.
clackamas
clambakes
clambakes
noun
plural of clambake
cloakroom
cloakroom
noun
(Britain, Ireland) A room intended for holding luggage, as at an airport.
(Britain, Ireland, euphemistic) A lavatory, now particularly a small secondary lavatory or a men's room.
A private lounge next to a legislative chamber.
A room intended for holding guests' cloaks and other heavy outerwear, as at a theater or night club.
clogmaker
clogmaker
noun
A manufacturer of clogs (type of shoe).
cockamamy
cockamamy
adj
foolish, silly
trifling
cockmatch
cockmatch
noun
(archaic) A cockfight.
coinmaker
coinmaker
noun
One who makes coins.
combmaker
combmaker
noun
A manufacturer of combs.
comebacks
comebacks
noun
plural of comeback
conemaker
cordmaker
cordmaker
noun
One who manufactures cords.
coremaker
coremaker
noun
(engineering) A manufacturer of the cores used to produce the hollow parts of castings.
corkmaker
crackhemp
crackmans
cracksman
cracksman
noun
(archaic, informal) A burglar or safebreaker.
cracksmen
cracksmen
noun
plural of cracksman
creamcake
creamcake
noun
Alternative form of cream cake
creamlike
creamlike
adj
Resembling cream.
cupmaking
cupmaking
noun
The manufacture of cups.
drammocks
eckermann
facemaker
gamecocks
gamecocks
noun
plural of gamecock
gimcracks
gimcracks
noun
plural of gimcrack
verb
Third-person singular simple present indicative form of gimcrack
gimcracky
gimcracky
adj
Gimcrack.
hackamore
hackamore
noun
A kind of bridle with no bit.
hackeymal
hamtramck
hamtramck
Proper noun
A city in Wayne County, Michigan, United States.
hockamore
hockamore
noun
(obsolete) A Rhenish white wine.
humpbacks
humpbacks
noun
plural of humpback
verb
Third-person singular simple present indicative form of humpback
jacksmelt
jacksmelt
noun
Atherinopsis californiensis, an edible neotropical silverside native to the Pacific coast of North America.
jacksmith
jacksmith
noun
A smith who makes jacks.
jampacked
jampacked
adj
Alternative spelling of jam-packed
verb
simple past tense and past participle of jampack
kamachile
kamachile
noun
Alternative form of camachile
kamacites
kamacites
noun
plural of kamacite
kamarupic
kamchadal
kamchadal
Noun
A member of the ethnic group who are the original inhabitants of the Kamchatka peninsula in Russia.
kamchatka
kamchatka
Proper noun
A long peninsula in the Russian Far East, lying between the Pacific Ocean and the Sea of Okhotsk.
kampuchea
kanamycin
kanamycin
noun
(pharmacology) A broad-spectrum aminoglycoside antibiotic from a Japanese soil streptomyces (Streptomyces kanamyceticus), used to treat severe bacterial infections and tuberculosis.
kascamiol
kinematic
kinematic
adj
(physics) Of or relating to motion or to kinematics.
lacemaker
lacemaker
noun
A person who makes lace.
lackeydom
lackeydom
noun
The realm or sphere of lackeys.
lackeyism
lackeyism
noun
Fawning servility.
lamarckia
lampblack
lampblack
noun
An amorphous form of carbon made from incompletely burned organic matter; used to make pigments and inks.
verb
(transitive) To blacken (something) using this form of carbon.
leukaemic
leukaemic
adj
Characteristic of, or associated with leukaemia.
lockerman
lockerman
noun
A person in charge of a refrigerated storage locker.
lockmaker
lockmaker
noun
A manufacturer of locks.
mackallow
mackenboy
mackensen
mackenzie
mackenzie
Proper noun
of Scottish origin.
name, transferred use of the surname since the 1970s, also in the form Makenzie.
A river in the Northwest Territories, the longest in Canada, running from Great Slave Lake to the Beaufort Sea.
mackerels
mackerels
noun
plural of mackerel
mackerras
mackinaws
mackinaws
noun
plural of mackinaw
mackinboy
macksburg
mackville
mafficked
mafficked
verb
simple past tense and past participle of maffick
mafficker
mafficker
noun
(dated) One who mafficks, or celebrates boisterously.
magicking
magicking
verb
present participle of magic
mahlstick
mahlstick
noun
Alternative form of maulstick
malbrouck
malbrouck
noun
An arboreal monkey from Africa, Chlorocebus cynosuros.
mallemuck
mallemuck
noun
(obsolete) A mollymawk.
mammocked
mammocked
verb
simple past tense and past participle of mammock
manchukuo
manchukuo
Proper noun
A Japanese-controlled puppet state in Manchuria that existed from 1932 to 1945.
mangohick
marketech
markevich
marrakech
marrakech
Proper noun
A city in central Morocco.
marshbuck
marshbuck
noun
Alternative form of marsh buck
matchbook
matchbook
noun
A small folded sheet of cardboard containing rows of cardboard matches, generally with a striker on the outside.
matchlock
matchlock
noun
Early type of firearm, using a smoldering piece of cord to fire the powder in the firing pan.
The gunlock used in such a weapon, having a slow smouldering match, see: slow match.
matchmake
matchmake
verb
To do matchmaking: to set up a date between two people or to arrange a marriage.
matchmark
matchmark
noun
(engineering) A mark inscribed on a component to aid alignment with the rest of an assembly.
mattituck
mauckport
maulstick
maulstick
noun
(art) A short stick with a pad on one end, used by a painter to steady their hand, and to prevent it from accidentally touching the painting.
mavericks
mavericks
noun
plural of maverick
mccaskill
mccormack
mccracken
meckelian
meckelian
Adjective
Of or relating to (1781-1833), German anatomist.
megabucks
megabucks
noun
(informal) Collectively, a very large amount of money (whether in dollars or other currency).
plural of megabuck
merrimack
merrimack
Proper noun
a town in Hillsborough County, New Hampshire, USA.
a river in New Hampshire and Connecticut, USA, which flows into the Atlantic Ocean.
micramock
micramock
noun
(Florida) A cowrie (genus Cypraea).
minitrack
mispacked
mispacked
verb
simple past tense and past participle of mispack
monadnock
monadnock
noun
A hill or mountain standing isolated above a predominantly flat plain.
monkcraft
moochulka
moochulka
noun
Alternative form of muchalka
mosaicked
mosaicked
adj
(photography) Formed from a "mosaic" of images.
Composed of a mosaic.
mossbacks
mossbacks
noun
plural of mossback
mossyback
mossyback
noun
(fishing, obsolete) A fish that is large and old, especially one that has algae growing on its back; a mossback.
(informal) A person with old-fashioned views; hence, one who is very conservative or reactionary; a mossback.
(informal, historical, obsolete) Synonym of mossback (“a person who stayed hidden to evade conscription (especially by the Confederate States Army) during the American Civil War (1861–1865)”)
(obsolete) The menhaden, mossbanker, or mossbunker, a marine fish of the genus Brevoortia or Ethmidium.
muckamuck
muckamuck
noun
(countable, colloquial, sometimes derogatory) A person in a position of power or authority, or of high status.
(Britain, derogatory) A sensationalist, scandalmongering journalist, one who is not driven by any social principles.
(US) One who investigates and exposes issues of corruption that often violate widely held values; e.g. one who exposes political corruption or the poor conditions in prisons.
(US, historical) One of a group of American investigative reporters, novelists and critics of the Progressive Era (the 1890s to the 1920s).
muckrakes
muckrakes
verb
Third-person singular simple present indicative form of muckrake
mucksweat
nicknamed
nicknamed
verb
simple past tense and past participle of nickname
nicknamee
nicknamee
noun
The person on whom a nickname is bestowed.
nicknamer
nicknamer
noun
One who bestows a nickname.
nicknames
nicknames
noun
plural of nickname
pacemaker
pacemaker
noun
(anatomy) A set of nerves which stimulate the heart to beat.
(by extension, medicine) A medical implement that is used to stimulate a heart to beat by simulating the action of the natural pacemaker.
One who sets the pace in a race, to guide the others.