A strap used to keep horses' heads high, fashionable in Victorian England but painful and damaging to a horse's neck.
checkroll
checkroll
noun
A list of servants in a household, or slaves on a plantation.
checkroom
checkroom
noun
(US) A room where outdoor clothing or luggage may be temporarily stored.
checkrope
checkrows
checkrows
verb
Third-person singular simple present indicative form of checkrow
checksums
checksums
noun
plural of checksum
checkwork
checkwork
noun
Anything made so as to form alternate squares like those of a checkerboard.
cheechako
cheechako
noun
Someone new to Alaska or the Yukon; originally, a gold rush newcomer.
cheekbone
cheekbone
noun
The small prominent bone of the cheek.
cheekfuls
cheekiest
cheekiest
adj
superlative form of cheeky: most cheeky
cheekless
cheekless
adj
Without cheeks.
chefornak
chemakuan
chemicked
chemicked
verb
simple past tense and past participle of chemic
chemicker
chempaduk
cherenkov
cherokees
chetverik
chetverik
noun
An old Russian dry measure, approximately 26.24 litres; one fourth of an osmina.
chewstick
chewstick
noun
A twig with a frayed end, used for cleaning the teeth.
Any of various plants in the genus Gouania used for oral hygiene, especieally Gouania lupuloides, of the Caribbean.
chickadee
chickadee
noun
A small passerine bird (songbird) of the genus Parus or the family Paridae.
Affectionate term of address.
chickaree
chickaree
noun
(Canada, US) A small squirrel, one of the species of Tamiasciurus, that lives in evergreen forests of North America.
chickasaw
chickasha
chickened
chickened
verb
simple past tense and past participle of chicken
chickhood
chickhood
noun
The period of being a chick (young bird).
chickling
chickling
noun
A small chick or chicken; a baby chick.
The leguminous plant Lathyrus sativus as well as other Lathyrus species.
chickpeas
chickpeas
noun
plural of chickpea
chickweed
chickweed
noun
Ageratum conyzoides, chickweed
Cerastium - mouse-ear chickweed
Holosteum - jagged chickweed
Moenchia - upright chickweed
Paronychia - chickweed
Stellaria pro parte - chickweed
especially common chickweed, Stellaria media, a common, edible weed in North America and Europe.
childkind
childkind
noun
All children, considered as a group.
childlike
childlike
adj
Innocent and trustful; credulous; artless.
Of, like, or suitable for a child.
chimakuan
chimariko
chimariko
Noun
A tribe that lived in a canyon on the Trinity River in California until they were all but destroyed in the mid-1800s, at which point survivors fled and assimilated into the Hupa and Shasta tribes.
Proper noun
The language spoken by this tribe, which is either a language isolate or perhaps Hokan.
chinalike
chinalike
adj
Resembling china (the ceramic or porcelain material) or some aspect of it.
chinkapin
chinkapin
noun
Alternative form of chinquapin.
chinkiang
chinkiest
chinookan
chinookan
Adjective
Of or relating to a small language family spoken in Oregon and Washington along the Columbia River by Chinook peoples.
chinovnik
chinovnik
noun
A bureaucrat in the Tsarist Russian government.
chipmucks
chipmucks
noun
plural of chipmuck
chipmunks
chipmunks
noun
plural of chipmunk
chockfull
choirlike
choirlike
adj
Resembling a choir or its sound.
chokeable
chokebore
chokebore
noun
A shotgun that is made with such a bore.
In a shotgun, a bore which is tapered to a slightly smaller diameter at a short distance to the rear of the muzzle, in order to prevent the rapid dispersion of the shot.
verb
(transitive) To provide (a gun) with a chokebore.
chokedamp
chokedamp
noun
(mining) A damp consisting chiefly of carbon dioxide, so called for its ability to asphyxiate.
chokerman
chokerman
noun
A person employed to fasten the choker around logs for haulage.
chokeweed
chokingly
chokingly
adv
While or as if choking, or in such a way as to cause one to choke.
chopstick
chopstick
noun
(ethnic slur) An Asian person.
(usually in the plural) An East Asian eating utensil usually used as a pair and held in one hand to grip pieces of food or occasionally to mix liquids or scoop up small pieces of food. The utensil is a stick, usually made of wood and measuring approximately 23cm (10 inches) in length.
verb
(transitive, intransitive, informal) To pick up (food) using chopsticks.
chuckchis
chuckfull
chuckhole
chuckhole
noun
(US) A pothole.
chucklers
chucklers
noun
plural of chuckler
chuckling
chuckling
noun
(gerund of chuckle) An instance in which someone chuckles
verb
present participle of chuckle
chukchees
chungking
chunkhead
chunkiest
chunkiest
adj
superlative form of chunky: most chunky
churnmilk
churnmilk
noun
Synonym of buttermilk
clackdish
clackdish
noun
Alternative form of clack dish
clerkhood
clerkhood
noun
The role or status of a clerk.
clerkship
clerkship
noun
(law) A temporary job of assisting a judge in writing legal opinions, generally available to a beginning attorney for one to two years.
(medicine) Clinical training for physicians during the second half of medical school.
The state or business of a clerk.
clothlike
clothlike
adj
Resembling cloth.
coachwork
coachwork
noun
The body of a motor vehicle (as opposed to the chassis).
cockfight
cockfight
noun
A contest, in a cockpit, between gamecocks fitted with cockspurs
verb
To participate in (as a rooster), or organize and run (as a gambler or bookmaker), a cockfighting event.
cockhorse
cockhorse
adj
(figuratively) Lofty in feeling; exultant, proud, upstart.
Lifted up, as one is on a tall horse.
noun
(archaic) A child's rocking horse.
(obsolete) A high or tall horse.
cockishly
cocklight
cocklight
noun
twilight at cockcrow; daybreak.
cockloche
cockmatch
cockmatch
noun
(archaic) A cockfight.
cockroach
cockroach
noun
(Australia, slang, derogatory, humorous) A person from New South Wales.
(Australia, slang, obsolete) A hard lump of brown sugar.
(offensive, slang, ethnic slur, Rwanda) A Tutsi.
(slang, offensive) A person or a member of a group of people regarded as undesirable and rapidly procreating.
A black or brown straight-winged insect of the order Blattodea.
cockshead
cockshead
noun
A leguminous herb, Onobrychis caput-galli, with small spiny-crested pods.
cockshies
cockshies
noun
plural of cockshy
verb
Third-person singular simple present indicative form of cockshy
cockshoot
cockshuts
cockshuts
noun
plural of cockshut
cookhouse
cookhouse
noun
A small building where cooking takes place.
cookishly
cookshack
cookshack
noun
A simple building where food is cooked, for example in a logging settlement.
cookshops
cookshops
noun
plural of cookshop
cornhusks
cornhusks
noun
plural of cornhusk
crackhemp
creashaks
creekfish
creekfish
noun
(US) Erimyzon oblongus, the chubsucker.
cuttyhunk
cuttyhunk
noun
(fishing) A fishing line made from linen threads twisted together.
dabchicks
dabchicks
noun
plural of dabchick
daishikis
daishikis
noun
plural of daishiki
dakerhens
dakerhens
noun
plural of dakerhen
dashmaker
deathlike
deathlike
adj
(obsolete) Deadly.
Resembling or characteristic of death.
a deathlike silence
deckhands
deckhands
noun
plural of deckhand
verb
Third-person singular simple present indicative form of deckhand
deckhouse
deckhouse
noun
A cabin that protrudes above a ship's deck.
dishmaker
dishmaker
noun
A manufacturer of dishes.
ditchbank
dockhands
dockhands
noun
plural of dockhand
dockhouse
donkeyish
donkeyish
adj
Resembling or characteristic of a donkey; asinine.
doohickey
doohickey
noun
A thing (used in a vague way to refer to something whose name one cannot recall)
doohickus
doohickus
noun
(informal) An unspecified or nameless thing; doohickey.
doohinkey
doohinkus
doorcheek
doorcheek
noun
The jamb or sidepiece of a door.
doughlike
doughlike
adj
Resembling dough.
doukhobor
doukhobor
Noun
A member of a religious group of Russian origin who rejected the Czarist government of the late 1800s and the Russian Orthodox priests, icons, and rituals, aiming to internalize the living spirit of God in each individual.
dovzhenko
droschken
droshkies
droshkies
noun
plural of droshky
duckhouse
duckwheat
dukhobors
duskishly
duskishly
adv
In a duskish manner.
eaglehawk
eaglehawk
noun
(Australia) Any large bird of prey, especially the wedge-tailed eagle, Aquila audax.
earthlike
earthlike
adj
(of a planet) Resembling the Earth
earthwork
earthwork
noun
Any structure made from earth; especially an embankment or rampart used as a fortification.
ekphorias
ekphorias
noun
plural of ekphoria
ekphorize
elkhounds
elkhounds
noun
plural of elkhound
elkoshite
ellachick
ellachick
noun
The freshwater turtle Emys marmorata.
eskisehir
etherlike
etherlike
adj
Resembling or characteristic of ether.
fatherkin
fatherkin
noun
(dated) Fond term of address for one's father.
fishhooks
fishhooks
noun
(slang) A pair of jacks (the playing card)
plural of fishhook
fishworks
fishworks
noun
A fish processing plant.
fishyback
flashback
flashback
noun
(authorship) A dramatic device in which an earlier event is inserted into the normal chronological flow of a narrative.
(databases) A query that operates against data from an earlier time, before it was changed.
(psychology) A vivid mental image of a past trauma or other sensation that the trauma is happening in the present, especially one that recurs.
A similar recurrence of the effects of a hallucinogenic drug.
The condition of the flame propagating down the hose of an oxy-fuel welding system.
verb
(intransitive) To undergo a flashback; to experience a vivid mental image from the past.
flashlike
flashlike
adj
Resembling or characteristic of a flash.
fleshhook
fleshhook
noun
(historical) A hook designed to lift meat out of boiling water.
fleshlike
fleshlike
adj
Resembling flesh
flunkyish
flunkyish
adj
Like a flunky.
foehnlike
foehnlike
adj
Resembling or characteristic of a foehn (type of wind).
folkright
folkright
noun
(obsolete) The common law or right of the people.
foreshank
foreshank
noun
A cut of meat from this part.
The upper part of the foreleg of cattle.
foreshock
foreshock
noun
(geology) A small earth tremor which precedes the mainshock in an earthquake sequence. Not all mainshocks have foreshocks.
Any shock or disturbance which precedes an event
forethink
forethink
verb
(transitive, rare) To plan (something) in advance; think, consider, or contrive beforehand; prognosticate.
(transitive, rare) To think about beforehand; to anticipate.
forksmith
frecklish
frecklish
adj
Having freckles; freckled.
Resembling or characteristic of a freckle.
freethink
frithwork
fukushima
fukushima
Proper noun
A city in Japan.
A prefecture in Japan.
The Fukushima Daiichi nuclear disaster following a tsunami in 2011.
gatchwork
gatchwork
noun
Decorative work made from gatch.
gawkihood
gawkishly
gawkishly
adv
In a gawkish manner.
ghostlike
ghostlike
adj
Seemingly invisible; as a ghost, similar to a ghost.
gorakhpur
gorchakov
grasshook
grilikhes
gunkholed
gunkholed
verb
simple past tense and past participle of gunkhole
gymkhanas
gymkhanas
noun
plural of gymkhana
hackamore
hackamore
noun
A kind of bridle with no bit.
hackberry
hackberry
noun
(uncountable) The wood of these plants.
Any of several deciduous trees of the genus Celtis, widespread over the Northern Hemisphere, having small fruit.
Prunus padus, a species of cherry tree, of Eurasia, or its berry.