A traditional Indian musical theater performance, telling stories from religious texts.
angkhak
ankusha
barkhan
behnken
bethank
bethank
verb
(transitive, rare) To bestow thanks upon; to thank.
bethink
bethink
verb
(intransitive) To meditate, ponder; to consider.
(obsolete, transitive) To think about, to recollect.
(reflexive) To think of (something or somebody) or that (followed by clause); to remind oneself, to consider, to reflect upon.
To determine, resolve.
bohunks
bohunks
noun
plural of bohunk
chaiken
chetnik
chetnik
noun
(now historical) A member of a Serbian royalist army band.
An adherent of an nationalist revival of the historical Chetnik movement.
chewink
chewink
noun
A bird, Pipilo erythrophthalmus, the Eastern towhee.
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.
chignik
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).
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
chunked
chunked
verb
simple past tense and past participle of chunk
dakhini
dankish
dankish
adj
Somewhat dank.
dashnak
elkanah
elkanah
Proper noun
Any of several minor characters in the Old Testament, including the father of Samuel.
name of Biblical origin.
elkhorn
elkhorn
noun
A highly-branched coral (Acropora palmata) supposed to resemble the horns of an elk
The horn of an elk
encheck
gherkin
gherkin
noun
A small cucumber, often pickled whole.
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
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.
(transitive) To make uninteresting or trite by frequent use.
(transitive) To use as a hackney.
haikwan
haikwan
Noun
Chinese maritime customs
haitink
hancock
hankers
hankers
verb
Third-person singular simple present indicative form of hanker
hankies
hankies
noun
plural of hanky
hanking
hanking
verb
present participle of hank
hankins
harkens
harkens
verb
Third-person singular simple present indicative form of harken
harking
harking
noun
The act of harking back; a reversion or return.
verb
present participle of hark
harkins
harnack
haskins
hawking
hawking
noun
Action of the verb to hawk.
verb
present participle of hawk
hawkins
hawknut
hawknut
noun
Synonym of kippernut
hawkyns
hearken
hearken
verb
(intransitive) To listen; to attend or give heed to what is uttered; to hear with attention, compliance, or obedience.
(intransitive, obsolete) To enquire; to seek information.
(transitive, archaic except poetic) To hear (something) with attention; to have regard to (something).
heckman
heinrik
hekking
helenka
hendrik
henhawk
henlike
henlike
adj
Resembling or characteristic of a hen.
henpeck
henpeck
noun
(rare) A man who is meekly subservient to his wife.
verb
(chiefly by a wife) To nag persistently.
henrika
hickman
hickman
Proper noun
a city in Kentucky, USA
hijinks
hijinks
noun
Alternative spelling of high jinks
hinkley
hoboken
hocking
hocking
verb
present participle of hock
hockney
hodgkin
hoenack
hogskin
hogskin
noun
Leather tanned from a hog's skin.
hokiang
holking
holking
verb
present participle of holk
honaker
honkers
honkers
noun
plural of honker
honkeys
honkeys
noun
plural of honkey
honkies
honkies
noun
plural of honkie
plural of honky
honking
honking
adj
(informal) Having a bad smell.
Alternative spelling of honkin'
noun
A sound that honks.
verb
present participle of honk
honokaa
hooking
hooking
noun
(ice hockey, bandy, floorball) The penalized action of using one's stick to restrain an opponent.
The act of catching or fastening something on a hook.
verb
present participle of hook
hookman
hookman
noun
someone who uses a hook
hopkins
hornick
hoskins
howking
hukawng
hulking
hulking
adj
Large and bulky, heavily built; massive.
noun
A kind of sloping embankment used as a coastal defence.
verb
present participle of hulk
humnoke
huneker
hunkers
hunkers
noun
The haunches
plural of hunker
verb
Third-person singular simple present indicative form of hunker
hunkies
hunkies
noun
plural of hunkie
plural of hunky
hunlike
husking
husking
noun
A meeting of neighbours or friends to assist in husking maize.
verb
present participle of husk
inkbush
inkbush
noun
The plant Cestrum laevigatum.
The plant Forestiera eggersiana.
The plant Suaeda torreyana.
inkfish
inkfish
noun
(colloquial) A cuttlefish.
(colloquial) An octopus or squid.
inkhorn
inkhorn
noun
(archaic) A small portable container, often made of horn, used to carry ink.
(used attributively, derogatory, of vocabulary) Pedantic, obscurely scholarly.
inkshed
inkshed
noun
The writing of polemical letters or articles.
jahncke
kachina
kachina
noun
(Pueblo culture) A masked dancer who represents such a being in a ceremonial dance or masked ceremony.
(Pueblo culture) A vaguely ancestral anthropomorphic spirit being, associated with clouds and rain or personifying the power in the sun, the earth, or corn (among other things).
(Pueblo culture) A wooden doll, as might be given to a child, which represents such a being.
kachine
kahunas
kahunas
noun
plural of kahuna
kanawha
kanawha
Proper noun
a small city in Hancock County, Iowa, USA
a river in West Virginia, USA, which flows into the Ohio River.
an unincorporated community in Wood County, West Virginia.
an originally proposed (and rejected) name for the state of West Virginia.
kanchil
kanchil
noun
A small, agile chevrotain of the genus Tragulus, especially Tragulus kanchil (lesser mouse-deer).
kaneohe
kashden
kathlin
kathlyn
kathryn
kathryn
Proper noun
name, a spelling variant of Catherine.
A city/village in North Dakota.
katonah
kechuan
kelchin
kelchyn
kenareh
kenareh
noun
A smaller Persian rug serving as a side or end runner for a larger rug.
kenches
kenches
noun
plural of kench
kendrah
kenneth
kenneth
Proper noun
name, originally used in Scotland, popular in all English-speaking countries in the 20th century.
kennith
kenosha
kentish
kentish
Proper noun
The dialect of Modern English spoken in Kent.
A dialect of Old English that was spoken in the Anglo-Saxon kingdom of Kent.
Adjective
Of or relating to Kent or its inhabitants.
kernish
kernish
adj
(obsolete) clownish; boorish
keshena
ketchan
khahoon
khahoon
noun
(historical) A unit of volume used in India until 1920 consisting of 1280 raik totalling 1.7616 m².
khamsin
khamsin
noun
A hot, dry wind, common in Egypt, Sudan and the Levant towards the end of March and April, which blows (for about 50 days each year) from the desert, bringing with it hot weather and sand / sandstorms.
khanate
khanate
noun
A region or place ruled by a khan.
khanjar
khanjar
noun
A kind of dagger used in certain Arabian countries.
khanjee
khanjee
noun
Archaic form of khanji.
khankah
khazens
khellin
khellin
noun
(organic chemistry) A derivative of chromone and furan with lipophilic and vasodilatory properties, found in the plant Visnaga daucoides (syn. Ammi visnaga).
kherson
kherson
Proper noun
A port city on the Dnieper in Ukraine, administrative centre of Kherson province.
Kherson province (oblast), in southern Ukraine.
khoisan
khojent
khokani
khotana
kinchen
kinchin
kinchin
noun
(obsolete, UK, thieves' cant) A child.
kinkhab
kinkhab
noun
Alternative form of kincob
kinloch
kinship
kinship
noun
relation or connection by blood, marriage or adoption
relation or connection by nature or character
kischen
kitchen
kitchen
noun
(attributive) A domesticated or uneducated form of a language.
(by extension) Cuisine; style of cooking.
(chiefly African-American Vernacular) The nape of a person's hairline, often referring to its uncombed or "nappy" look.
(dated) A utensil for roasting meat.
(music) The percussion section of an orchestra.
(obsolete) Anything eaten as a relish with bread, potatoes, etc.; a condiment.
(slang) A public gaming room in a casino.
A room or area for preparing food.
verb
(by extension) To embellish; to dress up.
To do kitchen work; to prepare food.
To embellish a basic food; to season, add condiments, etc.
kithing
kithing
verb
present participle of kithe
knavish
knavish
adj
Having the characteristics of a knave; mischievous, roguish, waggish, rascally or impertinent
knights
knights
noun
plural of knight
verb
Third-person singular simple present indicative form of knight
knishes
knishes
noun
plural of knish
knorhmn
knoweth
knoweth
verb
(archaic) third-person singular simple present form of know
knowhow
knowhow
noun
Alternative spelling of know-how
kochkin
kohanim
kohanim
noun
plural of kohen
koorhmn
kornher
kranach
krishna
krishna
Proper noun
A deity worshiped across many traditions of Hinduism. Krishna is often depicted as a young cowherd boy with a dark or blue complexion playing a flute (as in the Bhagavata Purana) or a youthful prince giving philosophical direction and guidance (as in the Bhagavad Gita) He is the divine speaker of the Bhagavad Gita and the eighth avatar of Vishnu.
A river in southern India.
A district in South Indian state of Andhra Pradesh.