Spin applied to a ball in order to slow it, change its flight, or stop it when it lands.
verb
(music) To play a section of a record in reverse, as a disc jockey; to apply spinback.
(transitive) To spin (a ball) with this motion.
capeskin
capeskin
noun
A soft sheepskin leather especially used for gloves.
chapnick
chipmunk
chipmunk
noun
A squirrel-like rodent of the genus Tamias, native mainly to North America.
verb
(transitive) To fill (one's mouth or cheeks) with food.
(transitive) To speed up (an audio recording, especially a song), to make the voices high-pitched.
(transitive) To stuff (food) into one's mouth or cheeks, sometimes as part of competitive eating.
crankpin
crankpin
noun
The pin that attaches a connecting rod to a crank
duckpins
duckpins
noun
A game played by bowling a small ball at such pins.
plural of duckpin
duckpond
duckpond
noun
A pond that is populated by ducks.
handpick
handpick
verb
To pick or harvest by hand.
To select carefully and with individual attention.
henpecks
henpecks
verb
Third-person singular simple present indicative form of henpeck
kenspeck
kenspeck
adj
(UK, dialect, Northern England, obsolete) Easily known or seen; obvious; apparent.
keypunch
keypunch
noun
(computing) A mechanical device whose keys are pressed, individually or in combination, to punch holes in punched cards or paper tape that correspond to particular characters.
(computing) An electric machine with a keyboard that has the same function.
verb
To use such a device or machine
kingcups
kingcups
noun
plural of kingcup
knapsack
knapsack
noun
(chiefly US) A case of canvas or leather, for carrying items on the back.
(cryptography) A set of values from which a subset is chosen.
verb
To go hiking while burdened with a knapsack, usually overnight or for longer.
knapscap
kneecaps
kneecaps
noun
plural of kneecap
nipmucks
nitpicks
nitpicks
verb
Third-person singular simple present indicative form of nitpick
nutpicks
nutpicks
noun
plural of nutpick
verb
Third-person singular simple present indicative form of nutpick
pachinko
pachinko
noun
A mechanical ball-dropping game similar to pinball, popular in Japan.
verb
(intransitive) To tumble down through a series of obstacles.
packings
packings
noun
plural of packing
packness
packston
packtong
packtong
noun
Alternative form of paktong
pancaked
pancaked
verb
simple past tense and past participle of pancake
pancakes
pancakes
noun
plural of pancake
panicked
panicked
adj
Experiencing or in a state of panic.
verb
simple past tense and past participle of panic
peacenik
peacenik
noun
(sometimes derogatory) Someone who publicly opposes armed conflict in general, or a particular conflict, or who publicly opposes the proliferation of weapons.
penclerk
penneeck
penstick
penstock
penstock
noun
A sluice or pipe which allows the controlled flow of water from behind a dam, typically routing it to a turbine of a power plant.
The barrel of a wooden pump.
penuckle
pickings
pickings
noun
plural of picking
pickling
pickling
noun
A process by which the oxide scale on steel (especially stainless steels) or other metallic objects is chemically removed (by strong acids).
An instance of processing something in brine or other solution.
verb
present participle of pickle
picknick
picknick
noun
Archaic form of picnic.
picksman
picnicky
picnicky
adj
(informal) Picniclike.
pincheck
pincheck
noun
A kind of sturdy cotton cloth with a dot pattern.
pinckard
pinckney
pinprick
pinprick
noun
A mildly annoying wound or damage.
A very tiny dot.
An insignificant puncture made by a pin or similar point.
verb
(transitive) To produce a jabbing sensation, like a pinprick, in.
(transitive) To puncture with a tiny hole or holes.
plucking
plucking
noun
(gerund of pluck) An act in which something is plucked.
(printing) The undesirable situation in which printed ink becomes detached from the paper.
A fragment of something obtained by plucking.
verb
present participle of pluck
pokonchi
polonick
prickant
pricking
pricking
noun
(mining) A nicking.
(obsolete) Dressing oneself for show; prinking.
A sensation that pricks.
The act of piercing or puncturing with a sharp point.
The act of tracing a hare by its footmarks.
The driving of a nail into a horse's foot so as to produce lameness.
The mark or trace left by a hare's foot; a prick.
verb
present participle of prick
princock
princock
noun
(now rare, dialectal, sometimes attributive) An insolent or cheeky young man.
puckling
pyknotic
pyknotic
adj
(cytology) showing pyknosis
raunpick
reunpack
reunpack
verb
To unpack again.
shuckpen
snapback
snapback
noun
(slang) An adjustable, flat-brimmed baseball cap with snap fasteners on the back.
The reimposition of an earlier and usually higher tariff.
snapjack
snapsack
snapsack
noun
(obsolete) A knapsack.
snipjack
snowpack
snowpack
noun
An accumulation of packed snow, usually the seasonal amount.
spancake
specking
specking
noun
(Australia) The practice by speckers or fossickers of walking around scanning the ground for gemstones.
verb
present participle of speck
spicknel
spicknel
noun
Rare spelling of spignel.
stickpin
stickpin
noun
(US) An ornamented pin used to secure a necktie's end flat against the shirt, a tie tack.
unpacked
unpacked
adj
(sometimes proscribed) Not yet having had its packing removed. (Especially after still. For more on this use, see http://itre.cis.upenn.edu/~myl/languagelog/archives/002171.html)
Having had its packing removed.
Not yet packed.
verb
past participle of unpack
unpacker
unpacker
noun
(computing) A software program that decompresses code or data.
One who, or that which, unpacks.
unpecked
unpecked
adj
Not pecked.
unpicked
unpicked
adj
Not having been picked.
verb
simple past tense and past participle of unpick
unpocket
unpocket
verb
(transitive) To remove from a pocket.
unpucker
unpucker
verb
(transitive) To smooth away the puckers or wrinkles of.