(uncountable, geology, mining, engineering, construction) The solid rock that exists at some depth below the ground surface. Bedrock is rock "in place", as opposed to material that has been transported from another location by weathering and erosion.
verb
(transitive, figurative) To establish on a solid foundation.
berwick
berwick
Proper noun
Any of various towns, including:
a town in Maine, USA.
bewreck
bewreck
verb
(transitive, dialectal) To wreck completely; ruin; destroy.
bickern
bickern
noun
An anvil with two projecting taper ends.
bickers
bickers
verb
Third-person singular simple present indicative form of bicker
blacker
blacker
adj
comparative form of black: more black
noun
One who blacks.
blocker
blocker
noun
(card games) A playing card, needed by one player, that is held by another.
(computing) A bug or issue that prevents software from being released.
(computing) An application that stops / impedes unauthorised access to a programme.
(computing) One who prevents another user from contacting them electronically.
(marketing) A gatekeeper who refuses the marketer access to the person they wish to contact.
(poker) A blocker bet.
(sports) One who blocks or impedes the movement of an opponent.
A close-fitting rectangular glove worn by a goalie in multiple forms of hockey.
A person who blocks (stretches or moulds) hats.
A puberty blocker.
bracked
bracken
bracken
noun
(uncountable) An area of countryside heavily populated by this fern.
(uncountable, countable) Any of several coarse ferns, of the genus Pteridium, that form dense thickets; often poisonous to livestock.
bracker
bracket
bracket
noun
(UK) "(" and ")" specifically, the other forms above requiring adjectives for disambiguation.
(US) "[" and "]" specifically - as opposed to the other forms, which have their own technical names.
(algebra) A pair of values that represent the smallest and largest elements of a range.
(engineering) Any intermediate object that connects a smaller part to a larger part, the smaller part typically projecting sideways from the larger part.
(land surveying, 19th century) a mark cut into a stone by land surveyors to secure a bench.
(military) The cheek or side of an ordnance carriage, supporting the trunnions.
(military) Typically of stationary weapons, the zone enclosed by one long and one short shot impact expected to be hit very accurately.
(nautical) A short crooked timber, resembling a knee, used as a support.
(sports) A prediction of the outcome of games in a tournament, used for betting purposes.
(sports) A printed diagram of games in a tournament.
(typography) The small curved or angular corner formed by a serif and a stroke in a letter.
A fixture attached to a wall to hold up a shelf.
Alternative form of bragget (“drink made with ale and honey”)
One of several ranges of numbers.
verb
(military) To gauge the range of a target by firing equally short and long of it and ranging the weapon between the two to achieve a very accurate hit.
(philosophy, phenomenology) In the philosophical system of Edmund Husserl and his followers, to set aside metaphysical theories and existential questions concerning what is real in order to focus philosophical attention simply on the actual content of experience.
(photography) To take multiple images of the same subject, using a range of exposure settings, in order to help ensure that a satisfactory image is obtained.
To bound on both sides, to surround, as enclosing with brackets.
To enclose in typographical brackets.
To mark distinctly for special treatment.
To place in the same category.
To set aside, discount, ignore.
To support by means of mechanical brackets.
brecken
bricked
bricked
verb
simple past tense and past participle of brick
brickel
bricken
bricken
adj
(archaic) Made of brick.
bricker
bricker
noun
A bricklayer.
A brickmaker.
brickle
brickle
adj
(Appalachia or archaic or dialect) Alternative form of breakle
verb
(Canada, dialect) To fail spectacularly.
brocked
brocked
adj
(Scotland) variegated, having a mixture of black and white
verb
simple past tense and past participle of brock
brocken
brocket
brocket
noun
A genus, Mazama, of short-horned deer from Brazil.
A stag in its second year, before its horns have started branching.
brockie
brockle
brockle
adj
Of animals: variegated, speckled, multicolored; usually used in the phrase brockle-faced.
Of food odors: malodorous, flatulent, pungent: smelling of sulfur, hydrogen sulfide, or hydrogen disulfide.
broucek
brubeck
bruckle
bruckle
adj
(dialectal) Frail, weak, fragile.
buckers
buckers
noun
plural of bucker
buckler
buckler
noun
(nautical) A block of wood or plate of iron made to fit a hawse hole, or the circular opening in a half-port, to prevent water from entering when the vessel pitches.
(obsolete) A shield resembling the Roman scutum. In modern usage, a smaller variety of shield is usually implied by this term.
(zoology) One of the large, bony, external plates found on many ganoid fishes.
(zoology) The anterior segment of the shell of a trilobite.
A kind of shield, of various shapes and sizes, held in the hand or worn on the arm (usually the left), for protecting the front of the body. In the sword and buckler play of the Middle Ages in England, the buckler was a small shield, used not to cover the body but to stop or parry blows.
One who buckles something.
verb
(transitive, obsolete) To shield; to defend.
buckner
cackler
cackler
noun
A person or creature that cackles.
calkers
calkers
noun
plural of calker
cankers
cankers
noun
plural of canker
verb
Third-person singular simple present indicative form of canker
cankery
cankery
adj
Full of canker.
Like a canker.
Surly; malignant; cantankerous.
carcake
carcake
noun
A traditional Scottish delicacy, a sort of cake made from the milk of a newly-calved cow mixed with oatmeal, associated with Shrove Tuesday.
carkled
carryke
caulker
caulker
noun
(informal) Archaic form of corker (“something large or remarkable, a whopper”).
(slang, archaic) An alcoholic drink; a dram.
A person who caulks various structures (as ships) and certain types of piping.
A tool used for caulking ships; a caulking iron.
chacker
chalker
chalker
noun
One who chalks.
charked
charked
verb
simple past tense and past participle of chark
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.
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.
chekker
chicker
chinker
chinker
noun
Any material that is used to fill chinks
chirked
chirked
verb
simple past tense and past participle of chirk
chirker
chirker
adj
comparative form of chirk: more chirk
chocker
chocker
adj
(informal) Tightly packed, especially with people.
chokers
chokers
noun
plural of choker
chokier
chokier
adj
comparative form of choky: more choky
chucker
chucker
noun
(cricket) A bowler who throws or chucks the ball rather than bowls it.
One who chucks; a thrower.
chukker
chukker
noun
One of the six playing periods, each 7½ minutes long, of a game of polo.
clacker
clacker
noun
(Australia, New Zealand, slang) The anus.
(by extension) Any device that makes a clacking noise.
(music) A percussion instrument that makes a clacking noise.
clawker
clerked
clerked
verb
simple past tense and past participle of clerk
clerkly
clerkly
adj
(obsolete) Scholarly.
Of clerks; befitting a clerk.
adv
(obsolete) In a scholarly manner.
clicker
clicker
noun
(UK, obsolete) Someone who stands by a shop door to invite people to buy; a tout.
(printing, historical) An employee who locks the type in the form to make it ready for printing.
(printing, obsolete) One who has charge of the work of a companionship.
(slang) The remote-control device used to change settings on a television set, VCR, or other electronic equipment.
A machine that cuts materials using a steel rule die. The name comes from the sound (click) when the material is cut. May be hand, pneumatic, or hydraulic powered.
A person who cuts out the uppers of shoes from pieces of leather using a flexible knife that clicks as it changes direction.
A signalling device used by military forces. Pressed between thumb and fingers, it makes a small but distinctive click understood by other members of a unit.
A small mechanical device that produces a clicking sound, used in dog training.
An electronic device used by individual students in the classroom to respond to multiple-choice questions, etc.
Someone who clicks, for example using a computer mouse.
clinker
clinker
noun
(in the plural) fetters.
(nautical, chiefly attributive) A style of boatbuilding using overlapping planks.
A mass of bricks fused together by intense heat.
A scum of oxide of iron formed in forging.
A very hard brick used for paving customarily made in the Netherlands.
An intermediate product in the manufacture of Portland cement, obtained by sintering limestone and alumino-silicate materials such as clay into nodules in a cement kiln.
Hardened volcanic lava.
Slag or ash produced by intense heat in a furnace, kiln or boiler that forms a hard residue upon cooling.
Someone or something that clinks.
verb
(transitive, intransitive) To convert or be converted into clinker.
clocker
clocker
noun
(Scotland, dated) A clucking hen.
(slang) A low-level drug dealer who operates on the streets.
A person who clocks (illegally winds back the milometer of) a motor car
clunker
clunker
noun
(informal) A decrepit motor car.
(informal) Anything which is in poor condition or of poor quality.
cockers
cockers
noun
plural of cocker
cockier
cockier
adj
comparative form of cocky: more cocky
cockler
cockler
noun
One who finds and sells cockles.
comaker
comaker
noun
(finance) A person who endorses a promissory note.
conkers
conkers
noun
(Britain, games) A game for two players in which the participants each have a horse-chestnut (known as a "conker") suspended from a length of string, and take turns to strike their opponent's conker with their own with the object of destroying the opponent's conker before their own is destroyed.
plural of conker
cookers
cookers
noun
plural of cooker
cookery
cookery
noun
(archaic) A place where cooking is done.
(archaic) Cooking tools or apparatus.
(obsolete) A delicacy; a dainty.
Obsolete form of kukri.
The art and practice of preparing food for consumption, especially by the application of heat; cooking.
corkage
corkage
noun
A fee charged by a restaurant to serve wine that a diner has provided.
corkers
corkers
noun
plural of corker
corkier
corkier
adj
comparative form of corky: more corky
corkite
corkite
noun
(mineralogy) A trigonal-ditrigonal pyramidal mineral containing hydrogen, iron, lead, oxygen, phosphorus, and sulfur.
cracked
cracked
adj
(of a voice) Harsh or dissonant.
(slang) Crazy; crackpot.
(slang) Extremely good at something (usually a video game).
Broken into coarse pieces.
Broken so that cracks appear on, or under, the surface.
verb
simple past tense and past participle of crack
cracker
cracker
noun
(Florida, slang, derogatory) A police officer.
(US, derogatory, ethnic slur, offensive) An impoverished white person from the southeastern United States, originally associated with Georgia and parts of Florida; (by extension) any white person.
(computing) One who cracks (i.e. overcomes) computer software or security restrictions.
(obsolete) A noisy boaster; a swaggering fellow.
(obsolete) A pair of fluted rolls for grinding caoutchouc.
(slang, chiefly Britain, Australia, New Zealand) A fine, great thing or person (crackerjack).
A Christmas cracker.
A dry, thin, crispy baked bread (usually salty or savoury, but sometimes sweet, as in the case of graham crackers and animal crackers).
A firecracker.
A northern pintail, species of dabbling duck.
A person or thing that cracks, or that cracks a thing (e.g. whip cracker; nutcracker).
A short piece of twisted string tied to the end of a whip that creates the distinctive sound when the whip is thrown or cracked.
An ambitious or hard-working person (i.e. someone who arises at the 'crack' of dawn).
Refinery equipment used to pyrolyse organic feedstocks. If catalyst is used to aid pyrolysis it is informally called a cat-cracker
The final section of certain whips, which is made of a short, thin piece of unravelled rope and produces a cracking sound.
cracket
crackle
crackle
noun
(physics) The fifth derivative of the position vector with respect to time (after velocity, acceleration, jerk, and jounce), i.e. the rate of change of jounce.
(pottery) A style of glaze giving the impression of many small cracks.
A prolonged, frequent cracking sound; a fizzing, popping sound.
Synonym of crackling (“crispy rind of roast pork”)
verb
(intransitive) To make a prolonged, frequent cracking sound which sounds like fizzing or popping.
Misspelling of cackle.
cranked
cranked
adj
Formed with, or having, a bend or crank.
verb
simple past tense and past participle of crank
cranker
cranker
adj
comparative form of crank: more crank
noun
One who operates a crank.
crankle
crankle
noun
A bend, twist or crinkle.
verb
To bend, turn, or wind.
To break into bends, turns, or angles; to crinkle.
creaked
creaked
verb
simple past tense and past participle of creak
creaker
creaker
noun
Alternative form of krieker (“pectoral sandpiper”)
One who, or that which, creaks.
creeker
cricked
cricked
verb
simple past tense and past participle of crick
cricket
cricket
noun
(US, slang, humorous, in the plural) In the form crickets: absolute silence; no communication.
(aviation, slang) An aural warning sound consisting of a continuously-repeating chime, designed to be difficult for pilots to ignore.
(chiefly Britain, usually in negative constructions) An act that is fair and sportsmanlike.
(dialectal) A wooden footstool.
(sports) A game played outdoors with bats and a ball between two teams of eleven, popular in England and many Commonwealth countries.
A relatively small area of a roof constructed to divert water from a horizontal intersection of the roof with a chimney, wall, expansion joint, or other projection.
A signalling device used by soldiers in hostile territory to identify themselves to a friendly in low visibility conditions.
A variant of the game of darts. See Cricket (darts).
An insect in the order Orthoptera, especially family Gryllidae, that makes a chirping sound by rubbing its wing casings against combs on its hind legs.
verb
(rare, intransitive) To play the game of cricket.
crickey
crickle
crinkle
crinkle
noun
A wrinkle, fold, crease, or unevenness.
The act of crinkling
verb
(intransitive) To rustle, as stiff cloth when moved.
(transitive, intransitive) To fold, crease, crumple, or wad.
croaked
croaked
verb
simple past tense and past participle of croak
croaker
croaker
noun
(colloquial) A frog.
(dated) A vocal pessimist, grumbler, or doomsayer.
(slang) A doctor.
A fish in the family Sciaenidae, known for the throbbing sounds it makes.
One who croaks.
crocked
crocked
adj
(Britain) broken (of a thing)
(Britain) injured (of a person)
(informal, Canada, US) drunk (of a person)
verb
simple past tense and past participle of crock
crocker
crocker
noun
(obsolete) A potter.
crocket
crocket
noun
(architecture) Any of a series of hook-shaped decorative floral elements used in Gothic architecture.
crooked
crooked
adj
(figuratively) Dishonest or illegal; corrupt.
Not straight; having one or more bends or angles.
Set at an angle; not vertical or square.
verb
simple past tense and past participle of crook
crooken
crooken
verb
(archaic, transitive) To make crooked.
crookes
crookle
crookle
verb
(obsolete, dialectal, East Midlands, Lancashire, Yorkshire) To bend; to make crooked.
crunkle
crunkle
verb
(UK, obsolete, dialectal) To crumple.
curkell
curlike
curlike
adj
Resembling or characteristic of a cur.
dackers
deckers
deckers
noun
plural of decker
deckert
dedrick
defrock
defrock
verb
(by extension) To formally remove the rights and authority of someone, e.g. a government official or a medical practitioner.
(figuratively) To formally remove the rights and authority of a member of the clergy.
(literally) To divest of a frock.
dekarch
dekarch
noun
decarch
derrick
derrick
noun
(obsolete) A hangman.
A device that is used for lifting and moving large objects.
A framework that is constructed over a mine or oil well for the purpose of boring or lowering pipes.
verb
(transitive) To hoist with, or as if with, a derrick.
(transitive, baseball, informal) To remove (a pitcher).
detruck
detruck
verb
(intransitive) To exit from a truck.
To unload things from a truck.
dickers
dickers
noun
plural of dicker
dickier
dickier
adj
comparative form of dicky: more dicky
dockers
dockers
noun
plural of docker
dorneck
doucker
doucker
noun
diver
goldeneye
grebe
pochard
scaup
scoter
tufted duck
drabeck
drucken
duckers
duckers
noun
plural of ducker
duckery
duckery
noun
A plantation for ducks.
duckier
duckier
adj
comparative form of ducky: more ducky
earlock
earlock
noun
A lock of curly hair worn by the ear, often by Jewish men for religious reasons, and formerly by Elizabethan dandies.
earpick
earpick
noun
An instrument for removing earwax from the ear.
ebraick
eckardt
eckerty
eckhart
emerick
ettrick
ettrick
Proper noun
a small village in council area, 17 miles south-west of
a small town in New Zealand.
a CDP in Virginia, USA.
a town and village in Wisconsin, USA.
a community in Ontario, Canada.
everick
fackler
ferrick
fickler
fickler
adj
comparative form of fickle: more fickle
flacker
flacker
verb
(intransitive) To flicker; to quiver.
(intransitive) To flutter like a bird.
flecker
flecker
verb
(transitive) To fleck; to speckle.
flicker
flicker
noun
(US) Any of certain small woodpeckers, especially of the genus Colaptes.
(figurative) A short moment.
An unsteady flash of light.
One who flicks.
verb
(intransitive) To burn or shine unsteadily, or with a wavering light.
(intransitive) To keep going on and off; to appear and disappear for short moments; to flutter.
(transitive, intransitive) To flutter or flap.
flocker
flocker
noun
One who or that which flocks; a bird species that forms flocks.
frecked
frecked
verb
simple past tense and past participle of freck
frecken
frecket
freckle
freckle
noun
(Australia) A small sweet consisting of a flattish mound of chocolate covered in hundreds and thousands.
(Australia, slang) The anus.
A small brownish or reddish pigmentation spot on the surface of the skin.
Any small spot or discoloration.
verb
(intransitive) To become covered with freckles.
(transitive) To cover with freckles.
freckly
freckly
adj
Full of or marked with freckles; sprinkled with spots; freckled.
adv
(obsolete) hurriedly
boldly; eagerly.
frickle
frickle
noun
(Canada, US) A snack food consisting of a fried pickle.
(obsolete) A bushel basket.
frocked
frocked
adj
Dressed in a frock.
verb
simple past tense and past participle of frock
fuckers
fuckers
noun
plural of fucker
grackle
grackle
noun
(formerly) Any of several Asian myna birds of the genus Gracula.
Any of several American blackbirds of the genus Quiscalus, and related genera, having iridescent plumage.
grockle
grockle
noun
(slang, Britain, various parts of the West Country) A tourist from elsewhere in the country
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).
hackler
hackler
noun
A worker who separated the coarse part of flax or hemp with a hackle; a flax-dresser
heckler
heckler
noun
(US, military, slang) An aircraft flying attack missions at night.
Alternative form of hackler (“worker who separates flax”)
One who heckles; somebody who insults, makes fun of, or teases.