(organic chemistry) Any of a class of divalent functional groups derived from an alkane by removal of two hydrogen atoms from the same carbon atom, the free valencies being part of a double bond - R₂C=
almondlike
almondlike
adj
Resembling or characteristic of a almond.
andreyevka
arsenicked
arsenicked
adj
(rare) Poisoned with arsenic.
backberand
backberend
backfriend
backfriend
noun
(UK, dialectal) A friend at one's back; a backer; one who does his best for another; a supporter.
(UK, dialectal) A hangnail.
(UK, dialectal, obsolete) A false friend; a secret enemy.
backhanded
backhanded
adj
(of writing) inclining to the left
Backwards, turned around.
Indirect.
Insincere, sarcastic, ironic, or self-contradictory.
Involving a backward flip of the hand.
Retrospective, occurring after the fact rather than in advance.
Self-serving, corrupt, slipshod, or neglectful.
With the back of the hand.
adv
In a backhanded manner.
verb
simple past tense and past participle of backhand
backhander
backhander
noun
(informal) A bribe, a secret payment.
(racquet sports) A player who plays a backhand shot.
(racquet sports) A shot played backhand, a backhand stroke.
(surfing) A surfer who approaches a swell with the wave behind them ("on their backhand") rather than facing the wave ("on their forehand").
A blow with the back of the hand.
A glass of wine given out of turn, the bottle having been handed backwards.
backtender
backwinded
balkanised
balkanised
verb
simple past tense and past participle of balkanise
balkanized
balkanized
verb
simple past tense and past participle of balkanize
bankrolled
bankrolled
verb
simple past tense and past participle of bankroll
bankrupted
bankrupted
verb
simple past tense and past participle of bankrupt
barenecked
barenecked
adj
Having the neck bare.
bedarkened
bedarkened
adj
Dim, dark, or obscure
verb
simple past tense and past participle of bedarken
birkenhead
birkenhead
Proper noun
An English topographic surname
Either of F. E. Smith, Frederick Smith or Frederick Smith the 1st, 2nd and 3rd Earls of Birkenhead
the town itself.
breakdowns
breakdowns
noun
plural of breakdown
brookeland
candlewick
candlewick
noun
A soft cotton yarn that gives a tufted pattern to embroidery
The thread used to make the wicks of candles
candymaker
candymaker
noun
A manufacturer of candy.
cankerbird
cankeredly
cankeredly
adv
In a cankered manner.
cankerweed
damnyankee
danknesses
danknesses
noun
plural of dankness
darknesses
darknesses
noun
plural of darkness
plural of darknesse
dawnstreak
debarkment
derrickman
derrickman
noun
A member of an oil drilling rig who works on a derrick suspended above the rig floor, manhandling the drillpipe.
diakineses
diakineses
noun
plural of diakinesis
diakinesis
diakinesis
noun
(cytology) the last stage of prophase, in which the nucleolus and nuclear envelope disappear, spindle fibers form, and the chromosomes shorten in preparation for metaphase.
diakinetic
diakinetic
adj
(biology) of, relating to, or produced by diakinesis
dickensian
dickensian
Adjective
Of or pertaining to Charles Dickens or, especially, his writings.
Reminiscent of the environments and situations most commonly portrayed in Dickens' writings, such as poverty and social injustice and other aspects of Victorian England.
Noun
A person who studies or admires the works of
donkeyback
donkeyback
noun
(with on, upon, etc.) The back of a donkey.
dragonlike
dragonlike
Adjective
Resembling a dragon or some aspect of one.
drakestone
drawknives
drawknives
noun
plural of drawknife
dreikanter
dreikanter
noun
(petrology) A type of pebble that has three curved faces formed by wind-blown sand.
drinkables
drinkables
noun
plural of drinkable
drinkwater
drinkwater
adj
(of a place) Small, rural, and insignificant.
noun
Potable water; water intended for drinking
dyskinesia
dyskinesia
noun
(countable) A disorder involving such state.
(uncountable) A state of involuntary muscle movements, like tics and torticollis, and reduced voluntary muscle movements.
edgemaking
edgemaking
noun
The manufacture of the edges of shoes.
flanderkin
gardenlike
gardenlike
adj
Resembling a garden
gekkonidae
goldenback
goldenback
noun
(regional) The natterjack.
Any of a group of large woodpeckers that are resident breeders in tropical southern Asia.
handbanker
handpicked
handpicked
adj
(figurative) Selected with great care or by insiders or an individual.
Picked by hand rather than by machinery.
verb
simple past tense and past participle of handpick
handshaker
handshaker
noun
One who gives a handshake.
handshakes
handshakes
noun
plural of handshake
handstroke
handstroke
noun
(bellringing) The pull on the sally that swings the bell through a full circle
handworked
handworked
adj
worked by hand
handworker
handworker
noun
One who carries out handwork, working by hand rather than using a machine.
heraklidan
islandlike
islandlike
adj
Resembling or characteristic of an island.
jackknifed
jackknifed
verb
simple past tense and past participle of jackknife
jerkinhead
jerkinhead
noun
(architecture) The hipped part of a roof which is hipped only for a part of its height, leaving a truncated gable.
junkdealer
kalsomined
kalsomined
verb
simple past tense and past participle of kalsomine
kaolinised
kaolinised
verb
simple past tense and past participle of kaolinise
kaolinized
kaolinized
verb
simple past tense and past participle of kaolinize
kenduskeag
keratinoid
keratinoid
adj
Resembling, or composed of keratin
kidnappers
kidnappers
noun
plural of kidnapper
kincardine
kincardine
Proper noun
a town on the River in council area, Scotland
the former county town of Scotland, abandoned in the Middle Ages.
a hamlet near council area, Scotland
a municipality and community in Ontario, Canada.
kirkinhead
knackebrod
knapsacked
knapsacked
adj
Wearing a knapsack.
verb
simple past tense and past participle of knapsack
kneadingly
kneadingly
adv
(rare) In the manner of one who is kneading.
knifeboard
knifeboard
noun
(historical, by extension) An early bus with narrow, restrictive seating; a knifeboard bus.
(historical, chiefly attributive) A way of arranging benches back to back, resembling a knifeboard; common on the open upper deck of early double-deck omnibuses and trams.
A board on which knives are cleaned or polished.
knightdale
knighthead
knighthead
noun
A bollard or bitt.
A mitred backing timber which extends the after line of the rabbet in the stem to give extra support to the ends of the planks and the bowsprit.
Either of two timbers rising from the keel of a sailing ship and supporting the inner end of the bowsprit.
krugerrand
krugerrand
noun
Alternative letter-case form of Krugerrand
lakelander
landlocked
landlocked
adj
(US, real estate, of a property or parcel) Surrounded by other property and having no access to a public road.
(of a country, geographical region, etc.) Surrounded by land (having no borders with the sea).
Living in freshwater, such as landlocked salmon.
landlooker
landmarker
lunkheaded
lunkheaded
adj
obtuse; foolish; idiotic.
mackinawed
mackinawed
adj
Clad in garments made of mackinaw.
maidenlike
maidenlike
adj
Like a maiden; gentle, demure.
makedhonia
markedness
markedness
noun
(linguistics) The quality of a word, form or phoneme that is considered to be more complicated, less natural or stranger than the usual form.
medrinacks
neudeckian
outflanked
outflanked
verb
simple past tense and past participle of outflank
outthanked
outthanked
verb
simple past tense and past participle of outthank
overbanked
overbanked
adj
Furnished with too many banks (financial institutions).
overdarken
overdarken
verb
(transitive, intransitive) To make or become too dark.
peakedness
peakedness
noun
(chiefly in combination) The condition of having a (specified form of) peak
(statistics) kurtosis (archaic).
prefranked
prefranked
adj
Of mail, an envelope, etc.: franked in advance.
premankind
reawakened
reawakened
verb
simple past tense and past participle of reawaken
reedmaking
ribandlike
ribandlike
adj
Resembling or characteristic of a riband.
ringbarked
ringbarked
verb
simple past tense and past participle of ringbark
sandnecker
shakedowns
shakedowns
noun
plural of shakedown
shrinkhead
sneckdrawn
sundaylike
sundaylike
Adjective
Resembling a Sunday or some aspect of one, especially the religious observances and abstinence from work of the Christian Sabbath.
swannecked
tankodrome
tankodrome
noun
(obsolete, military) A training location for use of tanks; tank park.
tidemaking
unattacked
unattacked
adj
Not having been attacked.
unawakened
unawakened
adj
Not awakened; sleeping; unconscious; unaware.
uncankered
uncankered
adj
Not cankered.
uncasketed
uncasketed
adj
Not enclosed in a casket.
undamasked
undamasked
adj
Not damasked.
undarkened
undarkened
adj
Not darkened.
underbaked
underbaked
verb
simple past tense and past participle of underbake
undercloak
undercloak
noun
(construction) A fixed underlayer of tile or fibre cement on a roof, to support the mortar above.
verb
(construction, transitive) To apply such an underlayer to.
undermaker
undertaken
undertaken
verb
past participle of undertake
undertaker
undertaker
noun
(historical) A contractor for the royal revenue in England, one of those who undertook to manage the House of Commons for the king in the Addled Parliament of 1614.
(historical) A person receiving land in Ireland during the Elizabethan era, so named because they gave an undertaking to abide by several conditions regarding marriage, to be loyal to the crown, and to use English as their spoken language.
(rare) One who undertakes or commits to doing something.
A funeral director; someone whose business is to manage funerals, burials and cremations.
undertakes
undertakes
verb
Third-person singular simple present indicative form of undertake
unembanked
unembanked
adj
Not embanked.
unimbanked
unimbanked
adj
Archaic form of unembanked.
unjacketed
unjacketed
adj
Not jacketed
unkidnaped
unlackeyed
unlackeyed
adj
Without a lackey or servant.
unladylike
unladylike
adj
Not ladylike; ill-mannered.
unmarketed
unmarketed
adj
Not marketed.
unnapkined
unnapkined
adj
Not covered with a napkin.
unpackaged
unpackaged
adj
Not packaged.
unremarked
unremarked
adj
(often with "upon") Not the subject of any remark
Not remarked or noticed; unnoticed.
unshackled
unshackled
adj
Not shackled.
verb
simple past tense and past participle of unshackle