(figuratively) By extension, any result or consequence following a major event.
An earthquake that follows in the same vicinity as another, usually larger, earthquake (the "mainshock").
Emotional and physical distress following a traumatic event.
ahorseback
ahorseback
adv
On the back of a horse; horseback.
anchorlike
anchorlike
adj
Resembling an anchor.
archipenko
archjockey
archmocker
archworker
artichokes
artichokes
noun
plural of artichoke
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.
backhooker
backlasher
backlasher
noun
A participant in a backlash
backrushes
backrushes
noun
plural of backrush
backwasher
backwasher
noun
(textiles) A machine used for washing wool after carding to remove the impurities.
bekerchief
benchmarks
benchmarks
noun
plural of benchmark
verb
Third-person singular simple present indicative form of benchmark
berkshires
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.
blackheart
blackheart
noun
A cruel and remorseless person.
A heart-shaped cherry with a very dark skin.
A type of malleable cast iron with minimum tensile strength of 350 N/mm².
Any of various plant diseases that cause darkening of the central tissue.
blackshear
blackshear
Proper noun
a city in Georgia, USA
blockholer
boneshaker
boneshaker
noun
A velocipede (the bicycle of the late 1860s).
Something jolty.
bookholder
bookholder
noun
(obsolete) A prompter at a theatre.
A support for a book, holding it open for reading or copying.
branchlike
branchlike
adj
resembling a branch of a tree
breakshugh
breasthook
breasthook
noun
(nautical) A horizontal timber fitted in the bows of a ship to add strength and to connect the sides to the stem.
brokership
brokership
noun
The role or position of a broker.
brookhaven
brookhaven
Proper noun
Any of several towns and cities in the United States and Canada:
a city in Mississippi, USA, and the county seat of Named after Brookhaven, New York.
brookhouse
brookshire
brushmaker
brushmaker
noun
A person who makes brushes.
buckwasher
cashkeeper
chainbreak
chainmaker
chainmaker
noun
A tool use to add a link to a chain
One who makes chains.
chairmaker
chairmaker
noun
A manufacturer of chairs.
cheboksary
cheboksary
Proper noun
The capital city of Chuvashia, Russia
checkering
checkering
noun
Alternative form of chequering
verb
present participle of checker
checkerist
checkerist
noun
One who plays the game of checkers.
checkrooms
checkrooms
noun
plural of checkroom
checkrowed
checkrowed
verb
simple past tense and past participle of checkrow
checkrower
checkrower
noun
(agriculture) A device for checkrowing.
checkstrap
cherkesser
cherrylike
cherrylike
adj
Resembling a cherry, such as in shape, color, or flavor
cherubikon
cherublike
cherublike
adj
Resembling or characteristic of a cherub.
chickories
chickories
noun
plural of chickory
chokeberry
chokeberry
noun
Either of two species in Aronia, formerly and sometimes in Photinia, deciduous shrubs, native to Russia and eastern North America and most commonly found in wet woods and swamps.
The fruit of such a shrub.
chokestrap
chokestrap
noun
A strap leading from the bellyband to the lower part of the collar, to keep the collar in place.
choruslike
choruslike
adj
Resembling or characteristic of a chorus.
christlike
christlike
Adjective
Characteristic of Jesus Christ or his works.
chronodeik
chubsucker
chubsucker
noun
Any of various freshwater suckers of the genus Erimyzon, native to North America.
churchlike
churchlike
adj
Resembling or befitting a church or a worship service.
clerkships
clerkships
noun
plural of clerkship
clothmaker
clothmaker
noun
A person who makes cloth.
coachmaker
coachmaker
noun
A coachbuilder.
cockchafer
cockchafer
noun
Any of the large European beetles from the genus Melolontha that are destructive to vegetation.
Any of various other similar beetles, such as of the genera Acrossidius, Cyphochilus, Rhopaea, etc.
cockhorses
cockhorses
noun
plural of cockhorse
cornhusker
cornhusker
noun
(usually capitalized) A person who is a native or resident of the U.S. state of Nebraska.
A person or device that removes husks from corn.
couchmaker
couchmaker
noun
A manufacturer of couches.
crosscheck
crosscheck
noun
(ice hockey) A penalty where a player strikes another with the shaft of his stick.
(lacrosse) A penalty where a player hits another player with the shaft of their lacrosse stick with their hands spread apart.
verb
(lacrosse) To hit another player with the shaft of a lacrosse stick.
To re-examine; to double-check.
crutchlike
crutchlike
adj
Resembling or characteristic of a crutch.
darkhaired
dekadarchy
dekadarchy
noun
(politics) Synonym of decarchy: rule by ten people.
dekadrachm
doughmaker
dykehopper
dzerzhinsk
earthdrake
earthdrake
noun
(in early Anglo-Saxon literature) a dragon.
earthmaker
earthquake
earthquake
noun
(planetary geology) Such a quake specifically occurring on the planet Earth, as opposed to other celestial bodies.
A shaking of the ground, caused by volcanic activity or movement around geologic faults.
verb
(intransitive) To undergo an earthquake.
earthshock
earthshock
Noun
An earthquake.
earthsmoke
earthworks
earthworks
noun
plural of earthwork
ektachrome
enkerchief
ereshkigal
ereshkigel
eskishehir
fatherlike
fatherlike
adj
having the qualities of a father
fingerhook
fisherfolk
fisherfolk
noun
(anthropology) Members of a culture that is dominated by fishing.
People who fish for a living.
Recreational fishers.
fishworker
fishworker
noun
A laborer in the fishing industry.
frankhouse
freakishly
freakishly
adv
In a freakish manner.
frenchlick
frithsoken
gawkhammer
greenshank
greenshank
noun
A wading bird, Tringa nebularia, that has long greenish legs and is native to Eurasia.
hackbuteer
hackbuteer
noun
An arquebusier.
hackbutter
hackbutter
Noun
An arquebusier.
hackdriver
hackleburg
hacksilber
hacksilber
noun
Alternative form of hacksilver
hairstreak
hairstreak
noun
Any of many butterflies, of the subfamily Theclinae, that have hairlike projections on the back wings.
hakenkreuz
hakenkreuz
noun
(chiefly India, often capitalized) The swastika that is used as a Nazi symbol.
hallmarked
hallmarked
adj
Stamped with a hallmark
verb
simple past tense and past participle of hallmark
hallmarker
hallmarker
noun
A person who, or device that applies a hallmark
halterlike
hammerlike
hammerlike
adj
Resembling or characteristic of a hammer.
hammerlock
hammerlock
noun
A hold, in wrestling, in which an opponent's arm is twisted up behind his back; an armlock
hammerwork
handbanker
handshaker
handshaker
noun
One who gives a 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.
hankerings
hankerings
noun
plural of hankering
haversacks
haversacks
noun
plural of haversack
headshaker
headworker
headworker
noun
One who performs mental or intellectual labour.
hearkening
hearkening
noun
The act of one who hearkens or listens.
verb
present participle of hearken
hearselike
hearselike
adj
Resembling or characteristic of a hearse.
heartblock
heartbreak
heartbreak
noun
overwhelming mental anguish or grief, especially that caused by loss or disappointment
heartbroke
heartbroke
adj
(dialect or nonstandard) heartbroken
heartquake
heartquake
noun
Trembling of the heart; trepidation; fear.
heartshake
heatstroke
heatstroke
noun
Alternative spelling of heat stroke.
hedgemaker
hedgemaker
noun
One who constructs a hedge.
hekhsherim
hektograph
hektograph
noun
Alternative form of hectograph
hektoliter
hektometer
hektostere
hemikaryon
herakleion
heraklidan
hermitlike
hermitlike
adj
Resembling or characteristic of a hermit
hermokopid
herrenvolk
herrenvolk
noun
A master race, especially with reference to Nazi ideology.
herskowitz
highjacker
highjacker
noun
Alternative spelling of hijacker
hitchhiker
hitchhiker
noun
(informal, botany) A bur that attaches and clings to clothing, or a bur-bearing plant.
(preceded by definite article) A dance move in which the dancer mimics the motions of someone thumbing a ride.
(radio, advertising) An advertisement at the end of a programme.
A person or thing that hitchhikes.
An item attached to a travel bug and hidden in a geocache to be found and transported to other caches or around the world.
homekeeper
homekeeper
noun
Synonym of housekeeper (“one who looks after domestic affairs in a house”)
homemakers
homemakers
noun
plural of homemaker
homeseeker
homeworker
homeworker
noun
A person who works from home.
honeybrook
hoodwinker
hoodwinker
noun
One who hoodwinks.
hookwormer
horsebacks
horsebacks
noun
plural of horseback
housebreak
housebreak
verb
(intransitive, US) To break into a house, typically to burgle it.
(transitive, US) To train an animal to avoid urinating or defecating in the house, except within a litterbox, toilet, or other receptacle.
housebroke
housebroke
verb
simple past tense of housebreak
houseworks
huckstered
huckstered
verb
simple past tense and past participle of huckster
hucksterer
hucksterer
noun
huckster
huckstress
huckstress
noun
A female huckster.
hunterlike
hunterlike
adj
Resembling or characteristic of a hunter.
hystericky
hystericky
adj
(informal) Hysterical; inclined to hysterics.
inkhornize
inkhornize
verb
(transitive, obsolete, rare) To address (someone) using obscure words.
intercheck
interchoke
intershock
intershock
adj
Between shocks.
verb
To shock mutually, as if by collision.
jackhammer
jackhammer
noun
A portable percussive power tool that combines a hammer and chisel used to drill or break hard matter, for instance rock or concrete.
verb
(intransitive) To use a jackhammer.
(intransitive, figurative) To move like a jackhammer.
(of the heart or pulse) To beat hard, to pound.
(transitive) To break (something) using a jackhammer.
(transitive) To form (something) using a jackhammer.
(transitive, figurative) To move (something) like a jackhammer.
(transitive, figurative) To strike (something) repeatedly with force, to pound.