A village on the Mediterranean coast of Egypt which contains several ancient Egyptian, Greek, and Roman structures.
A bay outside this village, at the mouth of the Nile, where on 1 August 1798 a British fleet led by defeated the French in the
akmudar
ataturk
autarky
autarky
noun
National economic self-sufficiency.
The state of personal self-sufficiency.
backrun
backrun
noun
A reverse flow, either of a fluid or of an anchor chain.
betrunk
betrunk
verb
(transitive) To deprive (a river) of its lower course or trunk by submergence or erosion of the land by the sea.
blunker
bordiuk
bourkha
bourock
breakup
breakup
noun
(Alaska and northern Canada, seasons, time) The time of year during which winter ice covering bodies of water disintegrates; more generally, spring.
A loss of emotional control; a breakdown.
The act of breaking up; disintegration or division.
The termination of a friendship or a romantic relationship.
broucek
brubeck
bruckle
bruckle
adj
(dialectal) Frail, weak, fragile.
brufsky
brusker
brusker
adj
comparative form of brusk: more brusk
bruskly
bruskly
adv
Alternative spelling of brusquely
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
buckram
buckram
noun
A coarse cloth of cotton, linen or hemp, stiffened with size or glue, used in bookbinding to cover and protect the books, in garments to keep them in the form intended, and for wrappers to cover merchandise.
A plant, Allium ursinum, also called ramson, wild garlic, or bear garlic.
verb
(transitive) To stiffen with or as if with buckram.
buckras
buckras
noun
plural of buckra
bukhara
bukhara
Proper noun
A city in Uzbekistan, founded in the 6th century
bulkier
bulkier
adj
comparative form of bulky: more bulky
bulwark
bulwark
noun
(figurative) Any means of defence or security.
(nautical) The planking or plating along the sides of a nautical vessel above her gunwale that reduces the likelihood of seas washing over the gunwales and people being washed overboard.
A breakwater.
A defense or safeguard.
A defensive wall or rampart.
verb
(transitive) To fortify something with a wall or rampart.
(transitive) To provide protection of defense for something.
bunkers
bunkers
noun
plural of bunker
bunkery
bunraku
bunraku
noun
A traditional form of Japanese puppet theatre.
burbank
burbank
Proper noun
A city in California
A heavy cotton canvas, used for convertible tops for cars in the early 20th century
burbark
burdick
burdock
burdock
noun
Any of the species of biennial thistles in the genus Arctium.
burkers
burkers
noun
plural of burker
burkett
burking
burking
verb
present participle of burke
burkite
burkitt
burkley
burlesk
burlesk
noun
Obsolete form of burlesque.
buroker
burrock
burrock
noun
A small weir or dam in a river to direct the stream to gaps where fish traps are placed.
buskers
buskers
noun
plural of busker
buskirk
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.
chucker
chucker
noun
(cricket) A bowler who throws or chucks the ball rather than bowls it.
One who chucks; a thrower.
chukars
chukars
noun
plural of chukar
chukkar
chukker
chukker
noun
One of the six playing periods, each 7½ minutes long, of a game of polo.
clunker
clunker
noun
(informal) A decrepit motor car.
(informal) Anything which is in poor condition or of poor quality.
crackup
crackup
noun
A crash or wreck, generally involving a car or airplane.
crankum
crinkum
crunkle
crunkle
verb
(UK, obsolete, dialectal) To crumple.
curkell
curlike
curlike
adj
Resembling or characteristic of a cur.
curnock
currack
currock
cutwork
cutwork
noun
A form of embroidery in which intervening fabric is cut away
darkful
darkful
adj
(archaic) Full of darkness
darksum
detruck
detruck
verb
(intransitive) To exit from a truck.
To unload things from a truck.
doucker
doucker
noun
diver
goldeneye
grebe
pochard
scaup
scoter
tufted duck
droukan
drouked
drouket
droukit
drucken
drunken
drunken
adj
(obsolete) Saturated with liquid
Applied to various spicy stir-fried dishes in Asian cuisine.
Characterized by or resulting from drunkenness.
Drunk, in the state of intoxication after having drunk an alcoholic beverage.
Given to habitual excessive use of alcohol.
verb
(archaic, still occasionally in juxtaposition with eaten) past participle of drink
(transitive, intransitive) To make or become drunk or drunken; intoxicate
drunker
drunker
adj
comparative form of drunk: more drunk
drunkly
drunkly
adv
In a drunk manner; drunkenly.
duckers
duckers
noun
plural of ducker
duckery
duckery
noun
A plantation for ducks.
duckier
duckier
adj
comparative form of ducky: more ducky
ducklar
duikers
duikers
noun
plural of duiker
dunkard
dunkers
dunkers
noun
plural of dunker
dunkirk
dunkirk
Proper noun
Dunkerque, a town in Nord-Pas de Calais, France
A village in Kent, England.
A city in Indiana, US.
A city in New York, US.
A village in Ohio, US.
A town in Wisconsin, US.
duskier
duskier
adj
comparative form of dusky: more dusky
eskuara
euryoky
euryoky
noun
Alternative form of euroky
euskara
euskera
flukier
flukier
adj
comparative form of fluky: more fluky
flunker
flunker
noun
(slang, Canada, US) Someone who has flunked: failed in an examination, been kept back to repeat a grade, or flunked out of school.
flusker
forkful
forkful
noun
The amount that a fork will hold.
fraktur
fraktur
noun
(US) A Pennsylvania German document style, incorporating watercolour illustration and fraktur lettering.
(typography) A style of black letter type, used especially in Germany in the 16th to 20th centuries.
fuckers
fuckers
noun
plural of fucker
funkers
funkers
noun
plural of funker
funkier
funkier
adj
comparative form of funky: more funky
furmark
futhark
futhark
noun
The Germanic runic alphabet; especially specifically the Elder or Younger futhark alphabet (of Scandinavia and the European mainland), as contrasted with the Anglo-Saxon futhorc.
futhork
futhork
noun
Alternative spelling of futhorc
gerenuk
gerenuk
noun
A type of long-necked gazelle, Litocranius walleri, native to central and eastern Africa.
greenuk
gunrack
gunrack
noun
A rack for storing a gun.
gurkhas
gyokuro
hauberk
hauberk
noun
(less common) A similar shirt of scale mail, plate, leather, or other armor material.
A coat of mail; especially, the long coat of mail of the European Middle Ages, as contrasted with the habergeon, which is shorter and sometimes sleeveless.
heureka
heureka
intj
Alternative form of eureka
hrutkay
hulkier
hulkier
adj
comparative form of hulky: more hulky
huneker
hunkers
hunkers
noun
The haunches
plural of hunker
verb
Third-person singular simple present indicative form of hunker
hurkaru
hurkaru
Noun
A running footman; a messenger.
hurlock
hurlock
Proper noun
A town in Maryland.
hurrock
huskers
huskers
noun
plural of husker
huskier
huskier
adj
comparative form of husky: more husky
intrunk
intrunk
verb
To enclose as if in a trunk.
irkutsk
irkutsk
Proper noun
A city in Siberia, Russia, administrative centre of Irkutsk Oblast.
joukery
junkers
junkers
noun
plural of junker
junkier
junkier
adj
comparative form of junky: more junky
jurkoic
kadsura
kamerun
kananur
karacul
karakul
karakul
noun
A sheep of a Central Asian breed.
A type of hat made from the wool of these sheep.
kashrut
kashrut
noun
The Jewish dietary laws, stating which foods are fit to eat (kosher).
kastura
katurai
kauries
kauries
noun
plural of kaurie
kerchug
kerchug
intj
The sound of something dropping into water; a plop.
kerouac
kerugma
kerugma
noun
Alternative spelling of kerygma
keruing
keruing
noun
A hardwood timber from Malaysia and Indonesia
keturah
khartum
khevzur
khubber
khudari
kiepura
kirundi
klucker
knurled
knurled
verb
simple past tense and past participle of knurl
knurlin
kordula
korunas
kouprey
kouprey
noun
A wild, forest-dwelling ox, Bos sauveli, from Vietnam and surrounding countries
kouproh
kouproh
noun
Alternative form of kouprey
krausen
kreuzer
kreuzer
noun
(historical) A small coin of varying value formerly used in parts of Germany and Austria.