(ophthalmology) Exhibiting aphakia; lacking the lens of the eye.
noun
One who has aphakia.
ashcake
ashcake
noun
(Eastern US) A johnnycake.
backhoe
backhoe
noun
(chiefly US, Canada, Australia) A multi-purpose tractor with a front-mounted loading bucket and a rear-mounted digging bucket. The tractor combines a front-end loader/loader and an excavator/digger.
A piece of excavating equipment consisting of a digging bucket or scoop on the end of an articulated arm, drawn backwards to move earth. Used in excavator/digger and backhoe tractors.
verb
To excavate using such equipment.
bechalk
bechalk
verb
(archaic) To cover with chalk, or whiten as if with chalk.
becheck
botchka
boychik
boychik
noun
(chiefly Jewish) Term of endearment for a young boy, or a young man.
(chiefly Jewish) Term of endearment for any special male with whom one is familiar.
buckish
buckish
adj
(now rare) Like a dandy; foppish.
(obsolete) Like a male goat; foul-smelling or lascivious.
cahokia
cchakri
chabouk
chabouk
noun
Alternative form of chabuk
chabuks
chabuks
noun
plural of chabuk
chacker
chackle
chackle
verb
(England, dialectal, rare) To chatter (to talk or make noise) or chuckle.
chaiken
chakari
chakazi
chakazi
noun
A variety of copal.
chakdar
chakobu
chakram
chakram
noun
(historical) An old Indian coin from Travancore.
A disc-like throwing weapon originally from India.
chakras
chakras
noun
plural of chakra
chalked
chalked
verb
simple past tense and past participle of chalk
chalker
chalker
noun
One who chalks.
chalkos
chaluka
chamkis
champak
champak
noun
Alternative form of champac (Magnolia champaca)
charkas
charkas
noun
plural of charka
charked
charked
verb
simple past tense and past participle of chark
charkha
charkha
noun
(Pakistan, India) A domestic spinning wheel, used mostly for spinning cotton.
chataka
chataka
noun
A bird in Indian mythology, represented as having a beak on its head that waits for rains to quench its thirst, and associated with the Jacobin cuckoo (Clamator jacobinus).
chebeck
checked
checked
adj
(Canada, US) Having a pattern of checks; checkered.
(aviation or other transport, of baggage) Delivered to the airline (or train line, ferry, etc.) during check-in to be stored in an inaccessible area to the passenger (the hold) during the flight (or other journey).
(phonology) Of consonants, glottalized.
(phonology) Of syllables, having a coda.
Verified or validated in some way.
verb
simple past tense and past participle of check
checker
checker
noun
A pattern of alternating colours as on a chessboard.
A playing piece in the game of checkers (British: draughts).
An individual square appearing in such a pattern.
One who hinders or stops something.
One who makes a check mark.
One who or that which checks or verifies something.
The clerk who tallies cost of purchases and accepts payment.
The fruit of the wild service tree or chequer tree, Photinia villosa, syn. Sorbus terminalis
verb
(intransitive) To develop markings in a pattern of alternating light and dark positions, like a checkerboard.
(transitive) To mark in a pattern of alternating light and dark positions, like a checkerboard.
checkle
checkup
checkup
noun
A routine inspection.
A routine visit to the doctor, dentist, or the like.
cheeked
cheeked
adj
(usually in combination) Having some specific type of cheek.
verb
simple past tense and past participle of cheek
cheeker
cheeker
noun
(horse-riding) A rubber ring that holds the bit high in the horse's mouth.
(rare, obsolete or historical) A butcher who specifically processes cheek meat.
chekhov
chekist
chekist
Noun
A member of the Cheka.
chekker
chekmak
chekmak
noun
A Turkish fabric of silk and cotton, with gold thread interwoven.
chemick
chemick
noun
Obsolete form of chemic.
cheskey
chetnik
chetnik
noun
(now historical) A member of a Serbian royalist army band.
An adherent of an nationalist revival of the historical Chetnik movement.
chettik
chewink
chewink
noun
A bird, Pipilo erythrophthalmus, the Eastern towhee.
chibouk
chibouk
noun
A Turkish tobacco pipe.
chickee
chickee
noun
A traditional open-sided dwelling built by the Native Americans of Florida.
chicken
chicken
adj
(informal) Cowardly.
noun
(UK dialectal or obsolete) plural of chick
(archaic) The young of any bird; a chick.
(countable) A domesticated species of junglefowl (usually, Gallus gallus; sometimes, Gallus gallus domesticus or Gallus domesticus), especially so-called when young.
(countable, Polari) A young, attractive, slim man, usually having little body hair; compare chickenhawk.
(countable, slang) A coward.
(countable, slang) A young or inexperienced person.
A confrontational game in which the participants move toward each other at high speed (usually in automobiles); the player who turns first to avoid colliding into the other is the chicken (that is, the loser).
A simple dance in which the movements of a chicken are imitated.
The game of dare.
verb
(intransitive) To avoid a situation one is afraid of.
chicker
chickie
chickie
noun
(childish) A chick, a baby chicken
(slang, diminutive) A woman.
chiggak
chignik
chikara
chikara
noun
A Hindu musical instrument of the violin class.
An Indian antelope (Gazella bennettii).
The Indian four-horned antelope (Tetracerus quadricornis).
chilkat
chiniks
chinked
chinked
verb
simple past tense and past participle of chink
chinker
chinker
noun
Any material that is used to fill chinks
chinkle
chinkle
noun
(nautical) A turn or kink in a rope.
(rare) A ringing sound of low volume.
verb
(rare, intransitive) To chink or jingle.
(transitive) To tinkle or cause to tinkle; to produce a continued chinking sound with.
chinook
chinook
noun
(Canada, US, physics, meteorology) The descending, warm, dry wind on the eastern side of the Rocky Mountains that generally blows from the southwest and can rapidly increase the temperature due to the much warmer air it brings.
The chinook salmon (Oncorhynchus tshawytscha).
chirked
chirked
verb
simple past tense and past participle of chirk
chirker
chirker
adj
comparative form of chirk: more chirk
chistka
chistka
noun
A political purge in Russia.
chittak
chkalik
chkalov
chkfile
chladek
chocked
chocked
verb
simple past tense and past participle of chock
chocker
chocker
adj
(informal) Tightly packed, especially with people.
chokage
chokers
chokers
noun
plural of choker
chokeys
chokeys
noun
plural of chokey
chokier
chokier
adj
comparative form of choky: more choky
chokies
chokies
noun
plural of choky
choking
choking
noun
The act of coughing when a person finds it difficult to breath.
The act of trying to kill a person by strangulation.
The process in which a person's airway becomes blocked, resulting in asphyxia in cases that are not treated promptly.
verb
present participle of choke
cholick
cholick
noun
Obsolete form of cholic.
chomsky
chookie
chookie
noun
(Australia, New Zealand, colloquial) A small or young domestic fowl; a chick.
chorook
chucked
chucked
verb
simple past tense and past participle of chuck
chucker
chucker
noun
(cricket) A bowler who throws or chucks the ball rather than bowls it.
One who chucks; a thrower.
chuckey
chuckey
noun
Synonym of turducken
chuckie
chuckie
noun
Alternative form of chucky (“chicken”)
Alternative form of chucky (“pebble”)
chuckle
chuckle
adj
(obsolete) Clumsy.
noun
A quiet laugh.
verb
(intransitive, archaic) To make the sound of a chicken; to cluck.
(transitive) To communicate through chuckling.
(transitive, archaic) To call together, or call to follow, as a hen calls her chickens; to cluck.
(transitive, archaic) To fondle; to indulge or pamper.
To laugh quietly or inwardly.
chugiak
chuipek
chukars
chukars
noun
plural of chukar
chukchi
chukkar
chukkas
chukkas
noun
plural of chukka
chukker
chukker
noun
One of the six playing periods, each 7½ minutes long, of a game of polo.
chunked
chunked
verb
simple past tense and past participle of chunk
cockish
cockish
adj
(obsolete) Wanton, forward.
Cocky, assertive.
Resembling a cock (all senses).
cockshy
cockshy
noun
A game in which trinkets are set upon sticks, to be thrown at by the players.
An object at which stones are flung; (by extension) a person who is abused or vilified.
verb
(transitive, intransitive) To pelt; to throw things at.
cookish
cookish
adj
Resembling or characteristic of a cook.
corkish
corkish
adj
corklike
dekarch
dekarch
noun
decarch
demchok
demchok
Proper noun
A small village and military encampment in the Indian-administered part of the disputed region of Jammu and Kashmir, near Aksai Chin and the
duckish
duckish
adj
Characteristically resembling a duck; somewhat ducklike
noun
(Newfoundland) dusk
eckhart
encheck
hackbut
hackeem
hackees
hackees
noun
plural of hackee
hackers
hackers
noun
plural of hacker
hackery
hackery
noun
(obsolete) A two-wheeled cart used in Asia.
(slang, chiefly derogatory) Advocacy of a position when motivated by political allegiance, public relations interests, or for other reasons considered crass compared to personal conviction.
(slang, computing) The use of hacks (ingenious but inelegant techniques).
hackett
hackies
hackies
noun
plural of hackie
hacking
hacking
adj
Short and interrupted, broken, jerky; hacky.
noun
(UK, countable) A riding or journey on horseback.
(computing) Playful solving of technical work that requires deep understanding, especially of a computer system.
(computing) Unauthorized attempts to bypass the security mechanisms of an information system or network. See also cracker.
(massage) The act of striking the muscles with the side of the hand.
(obsolete) The operation of working over the faces of rough or worn grindstones with a hack-hammer.
(obsolete, brick-making) The piling of bricks for drying.
(obsolete, gem-cutting) The cuts and grooves made in the metal laps by holding the cutting edge of a steel blade against them while in motion, for the purpose of providing receptacles or pockets for the powders using in cutting and polishing gems.
(obsolete, masonry) The separation of a course of stones into two smaller courses, when there are not enough large stones to form a single course.
(pathology) A dry coughing; the emission of a succession of short coughs.
(sports, chiefly American football, soccer, rugby) A kick in the shins.
verb
present participle of hack
hackled
hackled
adj
(fishing, in combination) Having a hackle or feather of a specified kind.
verb
simple past tense and past participle of hackle
hackler
hackler
noun
A worker who separated the coarse part of flax or hemp with a hackle; a flax-dresser
hackles
hackles
noun
plural of hackle
hacklet
hacklet
noun
Synonym of haglet (“the bird”)
hacklog
hackman
hackman
noun
The driver of a hack
hackmen
hackmen
noun
plural of hackman
hackney
hackney
adj
(figuratively) Much used; trite; mean.
Offered for hire.
noun
(archaic) A hired drudge; a hireling; a prostitute.