(rail transport, Britain, Australia) A railway locomotive that can be attached to the rear of a train to assist it in climbing an incline.
A vessel employed in the cod fishery on the banks of Newfoundland.
One who conducts the business of banking; one who, individually, or as a member of a company, keeps an establishment for the deposit or loan of money, or for traffic in money, bills of exchange, etc.
The dealer in a casino, or one who keeps the bank in a banking game.
The stone bench on which a mason cuts or squares his work.
barken
barken
adj
(poetic) Made of bark.
verb
(intransitive, UK dialectal, Scotland) To become hard or form a crust, like bark.
(transitive, UK dialectal) To tan or dye with bark.
berkin
birken
birken
adj
(obsolete or dialectal, Scotland and Northern England) Made of birch; birchen.
broken
broken
adj
(colloquial, US, of a situation) Not having gone in the way intended; saddening.
(meteorology, of the sky) Five-eighths to seven-eighths obscured by clouds; incompletely covered by clouds.
(of a bone or body part) Fractured; having the bone in pieces.
(of a line) Dashed; made up of short lines with small gaps between each one and the next.
(of a melody) Having periods of silence scattered throughout; not regularly continuous.
(of a person) Completely defeated and dispirited; shattered; destroyed.
(of a promise, etc) Breached; violated; not kept.
(of an electronic connection) Disconnected, no longer open or carrying traffic.
(of land) Uneven.
(of language) Grammatically non-standard, especially as a result of being produced by a non-native speaker.
(of skin) Split or ruptured.
(of sleep) Interrupted; not continuous.
(software, informal) Badly designed or implemented.
(sports and gaming, of a tactic or option) Overpowered; overly powerful; too powerful.
Fragmented; in separate pieces.
Having no money; bankrupt, broke.
Non-functional; not functioning properly.
verb
past participle of break
bunker
bunker
noun
(Britain, chiefly historical) A large bin or container for storing coal, often built outdoors in the yard of a house.
(Britain, slang) One who bunks off; a truant from school.
(US, regional) The menhaden, any of several species of fish in the genera Brevoortia and Ethmidium.
(golf) A hazard on a golf course consisting of a sand-filled hollow.
(military) A hardened shelter, often partly buried or fully underground, designed to protect the inhabitants from falling bombs or other attacks.
(nautical) A container for storing coal or fuel oil for a ship's engine; (by extension) the quantity of fuel needed to replenish that container.
(paintball) An obstacle used to block an opposing player's view and field of fire.
(rail transport) The coal compartment on a tank engine.
(slang) A kitchen worktop.
A sort of box or chest, as in a window, the lid of which serves as a seat.
verb
(Nigeria) To steal bunker fuel by illicitly siphoning it off.
(by extension, Britain, informal) To place (someone) in a position that is difficult to get out of; to hinder.
(golf) To hit (a golf ball) into a bunker; (chiefly passive) to place (a golfer) in the position of having a golf ball in a bunker.
(nautical) Of a vessel: to take a load of coal or fuel oil for its engine.
(paintball) To fire constantly at (an opponent hiding behind an obstacle), trapping them and preventing them from firing at other players; also, to eliminate (an opponent behind an obstacle) by rushing to the position and firing at extremely close range as the player becomes exposed.
Often followed by down: to take shelter in a bunker or other place.
To load (a vessel) with coal or fuel oil for the engine.
canker
canker
noun
(phytopathology) A plant disease marked by gradual decay.
A corroding or sloughing ulcer; especially a spreading gangrenous ulcer or collection of ulcers in or about the mouth.
A kind of wild rose; the dog rose.
A region of dead plant tissue caused by such a disease.
A worm or grub that destroys plant buds or leaves; cankerworm.
An avian disease affecting doves, poultry, parrots and birds of prey, caused by Trichomonas gallinae.
An obstinate and often incurable disease of a horse's foot, characterized by separation of the horny portion and the development of fungoid growths. Usually resulting from neglected thrush.
Anything which corrodes, corrupts, or destroys.
verb
(intransitive) To be or become diseased, or as if diseased, with canker; to grow corrupt; to become venomous.
(intransitive) To waste away, grow rusty, or be oxidized, as a mineral.
(transitive) To affect as a canker; to eat away; to corrode; to consume.
(transitive) To infect or pollute; to corrupt.
conker
conker
noun
(Britain) A horse chestnut, used in the game of conkers.
Alternative form of kankar
danker
danker
adj
comparative form of dank: more dank
darken
darken
verb
(impersonal) To get dark (referring to the sky, either in the evening or as a result of cloud).
(intransitive) To be blinded, lose one’s eyesight.
(intransitive) To become dark or darker (having less light).
(intransitive) To become dark or darker in colour.
(intransitive) To become gloomy, darker in mood.
(transitive) To blind, impair the eyesight.
(transitive) To cloud, obscure, or perplex; to render less clear or intelligible.
(transitive) To make dark or darker by reducing light.
(transitive) To make dark or darker in colour.
(transitive) To make foul; to sully; to tarnish.
(transitive) To render gloomy, darker in mood.
dunker
dunker
noun
(basketball) A person tasked with performing or training others in slam dunks.
(naval) A kind of sonobuoy.
A biscuit that is suitable for dunking in a cup of tea.
Any snack food suitable for dunking in sauce.
Someone who dunks.
endark
endark
verb
(archaic) To darken
enfork
enrank
enrank
verb
(figurative, obsolete) To classify (someone in a particular group); to enroll, register.
(obsolete) To place in ranks or in order.
enrika
ferkin
fraken
franek
franke
funker
funker
noun
One who funks, or backs out of something due to cowardice.
gerkin
grekin
hanker
hanker
verb
To crave, want or desire.
harken
harken
verb
(intransitive, US, figuratively) To hark back, to return or revert (to a subject, etc.), to allude to, to evoke, to long or pine for (a past event or era).
(transitive, intransitive, chiefly US) Alternative spelling of hearken: to hear, to listen, to have regard.
henrik
henryk
honker
honker
noun
(informal) A large nose.
(informal) A wild goose.
(slang) A loud burst of flatulence.
(slang) Anything impressively large; a whopper.
(slang) The telephone.
One who honks.
hunker
hunker
noun
(dated) A political conservative.
verb
(intransitive) To apply oneself to a task
(intransitive) To crouch or squat close to the ground or lie down
inkers
inkers
noun
plural of inker
inkier
inkier
adj
comparative form of inky: more inky
janker
janker
noun
(Scotland) A long pole on two wheels, used in hauling logs.
jerkin
jerkin
noun
(historical) A type of men's garment popular in the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries: a close-fitting collarless jacket, with or without sleeves.
A sleeveless jacket, usually leather; a long waistcoat.
Alternative form of gyrkin
jinker
jinker
noun
(Australia) A high wheeled wagon designed to carry lumber suspended under the body of the vehicle.
junker
junker
noun
(informal, US, Canada) A beat-up automobile.
A person with an interest in disused or discarded objects.
A young German noble or squire, especially a member of the aristocratic party in Prussia, stereotyped with narrow-minded militaristic and authoritarian attitudes.
kadner
kanred
kanter
karena
karens
karine
karlen
karmen
karney
karren
kearns
kearny
kedron
keener
keener
adj
comparative form of keen: more keen
noun
(dated) One who keens at a funeral.
(informal, chiefly Canada) Someone who is excessively keen or eager, possibly making others look bad; a brown-noser.
kendir
kendra
kendra
noun
(India) centre
kendre
kendry
kendyr
kenner
kenner
noun
One who kens or knows.
kenric
kenvir
kepner
kerana
kerana
noun
(music) A long Persian trumpet.
kerens
kerens
Proper noun
A city in Texas.
kerman
kernan
kerned
kerned
adj
Having part of the face projecting beyond the body or shank; -- said of type.
verb
simple past tense and past participle of kern
kernel
kernel
noun
(botany) A single seed or grain, especially of corn or wheat.
(botany) The central (usually edible) part of a nut, especially once the hard shell has been removed.
(botany, US) The stone of certain fruits, such as peaches or plums.
(calculus) A function used to define an integral transform.
(chemistry) The nucleus and electrons of an atom excluding its valence electrons.
(computing) The central part of many computer operating systems which manages the system's resources and the communication between hardware and software components.
(computing) The core engine of any complex software system.
(mathematics) A set of pairs of a mapping's domain which are mapped to the same value.
(mathematics, category theory) For a category with zero morphisms: the equalizer of a given morphism and the zero morphism which is parallel to that given morphism.
(mathematics, fuzzy set theory) The set of members of a fuzzy set that are fully included (i.e., whose grade of membership is 1).
(mathematics, linear algebra, functional analysis) For a given function (especially a linear map between vector spaces), the set of elements in the domain which are mapped to zero; (formally) given f : X → Y, the set {x ∈ X : f(x) = 0}.
(slang) The human clitoris.
A small mass around which other matter is concreted; a nucleus; a concretion or hard lump in the flesh.
The core, centre, or essence of an object or system.
verb
To crenellate
To enclose within a kernel
kerner
kernes
kernes
noun
plural of kerne
kernoi
kernoi
noun
plural of kernos
kernos
kernos
noun
(historical) A pottery ring or stone tray to which are attached several small vessels for holding ritual offerings in Ancient Greece.
kerrin
kerwin
kerwon
kieran
kieran
Proper noun
name, an anglicized form of Ciarán.
kinder
kinder
adj
comparative form of kind: more kind
adv
Alternative form of kinda
noun
(Philippines) Short for kindergarten.
(chiefly humorous or in German or Yiddish contexts) Children.
kinker
kinker
noun
(circus, slang) A performer in a circus.
kinzer
kirned
kirsen
kirven
knarle
knauer
knifer
knifer
noun
Someone who sells knives.
Someone who stabs another with a knife.
knower
knower
noun
Agent noun of know: one who knows.
korean
korney
korten
kraken
kraken
noun
Alternative form of Kraken
krenek
kronen
kroner
kroner
noun
plural of krone
kurten
kyrine
lanker
lanker
adj
comparative form of lank: more lank
linker
linker
noun
(finance, informal) A linked bond, one for which the principal is indexed to inflation.
(genetics) A short oligonucleotide containing a recognition sequence for a restriction enzyme, used to blunt the ends of sticky DNA segments.
(grammar) A word or short expression that links clauses or other syntactic elements.
(software compilation) A computer program that takes one or more objects generated by compilers and assembles them into a single executable program.
That which links.
verb
(genetics) To ligate a DNA segment using a linker.
lunker
lunker
noun
(US) Anything, especially a sport fish, that is especially large for its type; a whopper.
menkar
menkar
Proper noun
Alpha Ceti, a red giant star in the constellation of Cetus
merkin
merkin
noun
(Britain, slang, derogatory) An American.
(LGBT, slang) The male counterpart of a beard, a companion to a lesbian to feign her straightness.
A mop for cleaning cannon.
A woman's pubic wig. Worn for nude stage appearances and by women, originally after shaving their pubic hair to eliminate lice or for other reasons, now often as a fashion item.
narked
narked
verb
simple past tense and past participle of nark
neckar
neckar
Proper noun
A river in Germany, a major tributary of the Rhine, mostly flowing through Baden-Württemberg
necker
necker
noun
(especially in compounds) Someone or something with a certain type of neck.
Someone who kisses; a kisser.
nekkar
newark
newark
Proper noun
Any of several place names, see Wikipedia:Newark.
a town in Nottinghamshire, England: see
an unincorporated community in Beech Creek Township, Indiana, USA.
(informal) Someone who nicks (steals) something, a thief.
(obsolete, slang) One of the night brawlers of London formerly noted for breaking windows with halfpence.
A snigger or suppressed laugh.
A soft neighing sound characteristic of a horse.
A type of mythological sea creature or sea monster; also, a water sprite; a nix or nixie; a mermaid or merman.
The cutting lip which projects downward at the edge of a boring bit and cuts a circular groove in the wood to limit the size of the hole that is bored.
verb
(UK, informal) To snatch or steal.
To make a soft neighing sound characteristic of a horse.
To produce a snigger or suppressed laugh.
orkney
orkney
Proper noun
The Orkney Islands.
perkin
perkin
noun
A kind of weak perry.
pernik
pinker
pinker
adj
comparative form of pink: more pink
noun
One who pinks (in various senses).
punker
punker
noun
(music, dated slang) Synonym of punk: a musician known for playing punk rock or a fan of the genre.
Archaic form of punkah.
ranked
ranked
verb
simple past tense and past participle of rank
ranker
ranker
adj
comparative form of rank: more rank
noun
(countable) One who ranks things, or arranges them in ranks.
(countable) One with a specified rank.
(countable, military) A common soldier.
A kind of soil developed over non-calcareous material, usually rock.
ranket
rankle
rankle
noun
(rare) A festering, embittering object or condition, either mental, or a physical sore or ulcer.
verb
(intransitive) To fester.
(transitive or intransitive) To cause irritation or deep bitterness.
rebank
reckon
reckon
noun
(dialectal) Alternative form of rackan (“chain”)
verb
(colloquial) To conclude, as by an enumeration and balancing of chances; hence, to think; to suppose; -- followed by an objective clause
(intransitive) To make an enumeration or computation; to engage in numbering or computing.
To charge, attribute, or adjudge to one, as having a certain quality or value.
To come to an accounting; to draw up or settle accounts; to examine and strike the balance of debt and credit; to adjust relations of desert or penalty.
To count as in a number, rank, or series; to estimate by rank or quality; to place by estimation; to account; to esteem; to repute.
To count; to enumerate; to number; also, to compute; to calculate.
To reckon with something or somebody or not, i.e to reckon without something or somebody: to take into account, deal with, consider or not, i.e. to misjudge, ignore, not take into account, not deal with, not consider or fail to consider; e.g. reckon without one's host
reinke
reinks
reinks
verb
Third-person singular simple present indicative form of reink
reking
reknit
reknit
verb
To knit again.
reknot
reknot
verb
To knot again.
reknow
relink
relink
verb
(transitive) To link again or anew.
renick
rerank
rerank
verb
(transitive) To rank again; to rank in a different order.
resink
resink
verb
(transitive) To sink again.
reskin
reskin
noun
Something that uses the exact same model as something else, but has superficial differences such as textures.
verb
(computing) To change the skin, or visual appearance, of an application.
To replace the skin of a motor vehicle, especially so as to market the same car under different brands
rinker
rinker
noun
(colloquial) One who skates at a rink.
rockne
ruhnke
runkel
runkle
runkle
verb
(intransitive) To wrinkle or crease.
serkin
sinker
sinker
noun
(baseball) Any of several high speed pitches that have a downward motion near the plate; a two-seam fastball, a split-finger fastball, or a forkball.
(construction) Sinker nail, used for framing in current construction.
(fishing) A weight used in fishing to cause the line or net to sink.
(slang) A doughnut; a biscuit.
In knitting machines, one of the thin plates, blades, or other devices, that depress the loops upon or between the needles.
One who sinks something.
snaker
tanker
tanker
noun
(automotive, UK) A fuel tanker, petrol tanker, road tanker.
(automotive, US) A tank truck.
(aviation, firefighting) An aircraft built or modified to carry water and/or fire retardant for dropping on wildfires.
(aviation, usually military) An aircraft carrying a large supply of jet fuel or avgas for aerial refueling of other aircraft, plus equipment allowing the in-air transfer of fuel.
(military) Member of a tank crew, or of an armoured unit.
(nautical) A tank ship, a vessel used to transport large quantities of liquid.
(rail transport) A tank car.
(surfing slang) A longboard.
verb
(aviation) To carry more fuel than necessary for a flight, in order to avoid having to refuel at a destination where fuel is more expensive or in short supply.
(transitive) To transport (oil, etc.) in a tanker.
tinker
tinker
noun
(dated, chiefly Britain and Ireland, offensive) A member of the Irish Traveller community or of other itinerant groups. A gypsy.
(military, obsolete) A hand mortar.
(usually with "little") A mischievous person, especially a playful, impish youngster.
A bird, the razor-billed auk.
An itinerant tinsmith and mender of household utensils made of metal.
Any of various fish: chub mackerel, silverside, skate, or young mackerel about two years old.
Someone who repairs, or attempts repair, on anything mechanical, or who invents such devices; one who tinkers; a tinkerer.
The act of repair or invention.
verb
(intransitive) To work as a tinker.
(transitive, intransitive) To fiddle with something in an attempt to fix, mend or improve it, especially in an experimental or unskilled manner.
tunker
turken
turken
noun
Synonym of Naked Neck (“chicken of a breed without feathers on its neck”)
unrake
unrake
verb
(transitive) To rake back (the ashes or embers of a fire).
wanker
wanker
noun
(obsolete, Britain, school slang) A salted, and lightly smoked herring or mackerel; a bloater.
(slang, derogatory, vulgar) A penis.
(slang, derogatory, vulgar) A person who wanks.
(slang, derogatory, vulgar) An annoying person.
(slang, derogatory, vulgar) An idiot, a stupid person.
(slang, derogatory, vulgar) An ineffectual person.
(slang, derogatory, vulgar) Someone who shows off too much, a poser or poseur; someone who is overly self-satisfied.
(slang, humorous, vulgar) A very informal address used between friends.
winker
winker
noun
(UK, colloquial) An eye.
(US, colloquial) An eyelash.
A player of the game of tiddlywinks.
A screen attached to the bridle of a horse or other domesticated animal preventing it from being able to see things to its side.
A small bellows in an organ, regulated by a spring, controlling variations of wind pressure.
Somebody who winks; somebody who connives.
The winking membrane of a bird's eye; the winking muscle.
wrekin
wroken
wroken
verb
(obsolete) past participle of wreak
yanker
yanker
noun
(Scotland) A brazen lie
Someone who pranks someone, who yanks chains, such as with crank calls.