(zoology) The segment of an insect's body to which the wings are attached; the thorax or mesosoma.
alkarsin
alkarsin
Noun
cacodyl
alkitran
aprickle
aprickle
adj
Prickling.
arkville
arumlike
atrickle
atrickle
adj
Trickling.
baldrick
baldrick
noun
Alternative form of baldric
bardlike
bardlike
adj
Resembling or characteristic of a bard.
barnlike
barnlike
adj
Resembling a barn
baulkier
baulkier
adj
comparative form of baulky: more baulky
bearlike
bearlike
adj
Having physical or temperamental characteristics like those of a bear.
Like that of a bear
bierbalk
bierbalk
noun
(obsolete) A church road (such as a path across fields) for funerals.
birdlike
birdlike
adj
Similar to a bird or an aspect of a bird; reminiscent of birds; avian.
adv
(postpositive) In the manner of a bird; as, to fly.
blinkard
blinkard
noun
(obsolete) One with bad eyes.
A dim-witted or stupid person; an idiot.
blinkers
blinkers
noun
(plural only) A kind of goggles, used to protect the eyes from glare, dust, etc.
(plural only, slang) Spectacles.
A pair of leather or rubber eye cups attached to a horse hood in order to impede the rear vision of racehorses and harness horses; blinders in (USA).
plural of blinker
verb
Third-person singular simple present indicative form of blinker
blockier
blockier
adj
comparative form of blocky: more blocky
breislak
bricklay
brickles
brickles
verb
Third-person singular simple present indicative form of brickle
brinkley
brinklow
brocklin
brooklin
byrlakin
cardlike
cardlike
adj
Resembling or characteristic of a card.
Resembling or characteristic of card (the material).
chalkier
chalkier
adj
comparative form of chalky: more chalky
chilmark
clarkias
clarkias
noun
plural of clarkia
clerking
clerking
verb
present participle of clerk
clerkish
clerkish
adj
Like or resembling a clerk.
clickers
clickers
noun
plural of clicker
clinkers
clinkers
noun
(Ulster, anatomy) testicles
plural of clinker
clinkery
clinkery
adj
Having the characteristics of clinker.
clunkier
clunkier
adj
comparative form of clunky: more clunky
colicker
cordlike
cordlike
adj
Resembling or characteristic of a cord.
corkhill
corklike
corklike
adj
Resembling or characteristic of a cork.
corkline
corkline
noun
(fishing) The top line of a gillnet, which has attached floats (often, but not always, made of cork) that give that edge of the net buoyancy.
cormlike
cormlike
adj
Resembling a corm.
crablike
crablike
adj
Having some characteristics of a crab
Walking or moving sideways
craglike
craglike
adj
Resembling or characteristic of a crag.
crankily
crankily
adv
In a cranky manner.
creakily
creakily
adv
In a creaky manner.
crinkled
crinkled
adj
Having crinkles
verb
simple past tense and past participle of crinkle
crinkles
crinkles
noun
plural of crinkle
verb
Third-person singular simple present indicative form of crinkle
croakily
croakily
adv
In a croaky manner.
curblike
curblike
adj
Alternative form of kerblike
darklier
darklier
adv
(literary, dated) comparative form of darkly: more darkly
darkling
darkling
adj
(figurative) Obscure; taking place unseen, as if in the dark.
(poetic) Dark; growing dark; darkening.
adv
In the dark; in obscurity.
noun
(fantasy) A creature that lives in the dark.
Darkness
verb
present participle of darkle
dartlike
dartlike
adj
Resembling the movement of a thrown dart: swift and abrupt
deerkill
deerlike
deerlike
adj
Resembling or characteristic of a deer.
disliker
disliker
noun
One who dislikes.
doorlike
doorlike
adj
Resembling a door.
drawlink
drawlink
noun
(rail transport) drawbar
driskill
droplike
droplike
adj
Resembling or characteristic of a drop of liquid.
drumlike
drumlike
adj
Resembling a drum, such as in sound or shape
durukuli
durukuli
noun
Alternative form of douroucouli
erlkings
erlkings
noun
plural of erlking
fairlike
fairlike
adj
Resembling or characteristic of a fair (entertainment and trading event).
fernlike
fernlike
adj
Resembling a fern.
filemark
filemark
noun
(computing) A special value used on computer tape to separate individual files.
firelike
firelike
adj
Resembling or characteristic of fire; fiery.
firelock
firelock
noun
(by extension, historical) A firearm using such a gunlock.
(historical) A form of gunlock, in which the priming is ignited by a spark.
fleckier
flickers
flickers
noun
plural of flicker
verb
Third-person singular simple present indicative form of flicker
flickery
flickery
adj
Seeming to flicker; unsteady
fliskier
flockier
flockier
adj
comparative form of flocky: more flocky
florikan
floriken
floriken
Noun
An Indian bustard (Otis aurita).
folksier
folksier
adj
comparative form of folksy: more folksy
foremilk
foremilk
noun
The first milk drawn from a cow during milking; in humans, the milk secreted initially during breastfeeding, typically low in fat and rich in protein.
forklift
forklift
noun
A small industrial vehicle with a power-operated fork-like pronged platform that can be raised and lowered for insertion under a load, often on pallets, to be lifted and moved.
verb
To move or stack with, or as if with, such a vehicle.
forklike
forklike
adj
Resembling or characteristic of a fork.
forktail
forktail
noun
(UK, dialect) A salmon in its fourth year's growth.
Any of various small insectivorous birds in the genus Enicurus.
franklin
franklin
noun
(historical) A freeholder, especially as belonging to a class of landowners in the 14th and 15th century ranking at the bottom of the gentry.
freakily
freakily
adv
In a freaky manner.
friskful
friskful
adj
(rare) Lively; frolicsome.
friskily
friskily
adv
in a frisky manner
froglike
froglike
adj
Similar to a frog (amphibian), or to a characteristic of a frog.
a froglike croak
adv
In a froglike way
frolicks
frolicks
noun
plural of frolick
verb
Third-person singular simple present indicative form of frolick
frolicky
frolicky
adj
(obsolete) frolicsome
garlicky
garlicky
adj
Tasting or smelling of garlic.
germlike
germlike
adj
Having the characteristics of a germ
girllike
girllike
adj
Resembling or characteristic of a girl.
gorkhali
gorlicki
gridlock
gridlock
noun
(figuratively, by extension) any paralysis of a complex system due to severe congestion, conflict, or deadlock.
A condition of total, interlocking traffic congestion on the streets or highways of a crowded city, in which no one can move because everyone is in someone else's way.
On a smaller scale: the situation in which cars enter a signal-controlled intersection too late during the green light cycle, and are unable to clear the intersection (due to congestion in the next block) when the light turns red, thus blocking the cross traffic when it's their turn to go. Repeated at enough intersections, this phenomenon can lead to citywide gridlock.
verb
To cause traffic congestion.
gurkhali
hacklier
hairlike
hairlike
adj
Resembling hair; having the texture, consistency, or appearance of hair.
hairlock
hairlock
noun
A lock of hair.
harelike
harelike
adj
Characteristic of, or resembling a hare.
haremlik
haremlik
noun
A harem.
harplike
harplike
adj
Resembling a harp or the sound of harp music
heraklid
herblike
herblike
adj
Resembling or characteristic of a herb.
herdlike
herdlike
adj
Resembling or characteristic of a herd, especially in having a propensity to follow blindly after a leader.
herolike
herolike
adj
Resembling or characteristic of a hero; heroic.
hornlike
hornlike
adj
Of a hard substance, similar to horn.
Projecting like a horn.
hrdlicka
inlooker
iraklion
iraklion
Proper noun
The capital city of Crete, Greece.
irislike
irislike
adj
Resembling or characteristic of an iris (the plant or its flower).
ironlike
ironlike
adj
Resembling iron or some aspect of it.
kailyard
kailyard
noun
(Scotland) A kitchen garden.
A late-nineteenth and early-twentieth century school of writing, set in small Scottish towns, a notable example being J. M Barrie's A Small Minister
kairolin
kakarali
kakarali
noun
Lecythis ollaria, a South American tree.
kalahari
kalahari
Proper noun
A large desert in southern Africa.
kaliform
kaliform
adj
Characteristic of the tumbleweed Kali.
karelian
karelian
Adjective
Of, or pertaining to, Karelia or its people, culture or language.
Noun
Someone from Karelia
Proper noun
A language closely related to Finnish, spoken in Karelia, Russia and Finland.
karilynn
karolina
karoline
keelbird
kefifrel
kelliher
keralite
keralite
Noun
A person from Kerala.
Adjective
Of or relating to Keralite people.
kerolite
kerolite
noun
(mineralogy) A metamorphic nickel-bearing phyllosilicate mineral similar to talc and serpentine.
kielstra
kilbride
killadar
killadar
noun
Alternative form of kiladar
killcrop
killcrop
noun
(obsolete) A changeling.
killdeer
killdeer
noun
A North American plover (Charadrius vociferus) with a distinctive cry and territorial behavior that includes feigning injury to distract interlopers from the nest.
killoran
killwort
killwort
noun
The plant Chelidonium majus.
kilntree
kilobars
kilobars
noun
plural of kilobar
kilogram
kilogram
noun
(proscribed) The unit of weight such that a one-kilogram mass is also a one-kilogram weight.
In the International System of Units, the base unit of mass; conceived of as the mass of one litre of water, but now defined by taking the fixed numerical value of the Planck constant h to be 6.626 070 15 × 10⁻³⁴ when expressed in units of kg⋅m²⋅s⁻¹. Symbol: kg
kilorads
kilorads
noun
plural of kilorad
kiloware
kiloware
noun
(philately) Postage stamps bought by weight, rather than numerical quantity, and commonly still on paper.
kiloword
kiloword
noun
(computing) A unit of storage capacity, equal to 1024 words.
kimberli
kimberly
kimberly
Proper noun
Any of several places in the US named for persons with the surname.
name popular in the 1960s and the 1970s.
kindlers
kindlers
noun
plural of kindler
kindlier
kindlier
adj
comparative form of kindly: more kindly
kinglier
kinglier
adj
comparative form of kingly: more kingly
kirkland
kirkland
noun
(Scotland, especially in plural) land owned by the church
kirklike
kirklike
adj
(Scotland) churchlike; churchly
kirkwall
kirkwall
Proper noun
The capital of the Orkney Islands.
kirtland
kittrell
klarrisa
klingsor
klisters
klisters
noun
plural of klister
klutzier
klutzier
adj
comparative form of klutzy: more klutzy
knurlier
knurlier
adj
comparative form of knurly: more knurly
knurling
knurling
noun
A knurled pattern
verb
present participle of knurl
kohlrabi
kohlrabi
noun
Brassica oleracea var. gongylodes, a variety of the cabbage, having a turnip-shaped edible stem.