Slanderous or speaking badly, especially of a person without that person's knowledge.
noun
The action of slandering a person without that person's knowledge.
verb
present participle of backbite
backdating
backdating
noun
The act by which something is backdated.
verb
present participle of backdate
backstring
bedticking
beknighted
beknighted
verb
simple past tense and past participle of beknight
beknotting
beltmaking
beltmaking
noun
The manufacture of belts.
besticking
besticking
verb
present participle of bestick
bethanking
bethanking
verb
present participle of bethank
bethinking
bethinking
noun
The act of thinking, thinking about, considering, reflecting, or remembering.
verb
present participle of bethink
betokening
betokening
verb
present participle of betoken
blacklight
blacklight
noun
Alternative form of black light (“ultraviolet bulb”)
blanketing
blanketing
noun
(countable) A layer of something that covers like a blanket.
(nautical, slang) A manoeuvre in which one vessel covers or becalms another with its sails.
(rail transport) Provision of a layer under the trackbed to prevent clay subsoil and water being forced to the surface by the weight of trains.
(uncountable, countable) Cloth for making blankets.
(uncountable, countable) The act or punishment of tossing in a blanket.
verb
present participle of blanket
blitzkrieg
blitzkrieg
noun
A fast military offensive, typically involving a large and highly mobile tank force with air support.
boltmaking
boltmaking
noun
The manufacture of bolts.
bookwright
bookwright
noun
A writer of books; an author.
bootmaking
bootmaking
noun
The making of boots.
bracketing
bracketing
noun
(architecture) A series or group of brackets; brackets, collectively.
The act of enclosing (text, etc.) in brackets.
verb
present participle of bracket
brightwork
brightwork
noun
Polished metal fixtures, especially aboard a boat.
The varnished or oiled wood trim aboard a boat.
caretaking
caretaking
noun
The act of taking care or taking charge of something.
cartmaking
cartmaking
noun
The manufacture of carts.
cockfights
cockfights
noun
plural of cockfight
cricketing
cricketing
adj
That plays cricket.
noun
(archaic) A game of cricket.
verb
present participle of cricket
crocketing
crocketing
noun
(architecture) ornamentation with crockets
ekebergite
ekebergite
noun
(archaic, mineralogy) Wernerite, a scapolite mineral.
feltmaking
feltmaking
noun
The manufacture of felt.
folkething
garnetlike
garnetwork
gastrodisk
gatekeeper
gatekeeper
noun
(psychology) In dissociative identity disorder, an aspect of the personality that controls access to the various identities.
A common orange and brown butterfly with eyespots, Pyronia tithonus, of the family Nymphalidae.
A person or group who controls access to something or somebody.
A person who guards or monitors passage through a gate.
One who gatekeeps.
geckotidae
geikielite
geikielite
noun
(mineralogy) A trigonal-rhombohedral mineral containing magnesium, oxygen, and titanium.
gentlefolk
gentlefolk
noun
(archaic) People of superior social position.
geopolitik
getmjlkost
gieseckite
gieseckite
noun
(mineralogy) A greenish-grey variety of muscovite.
gitanemuck
goatsucker
goatsucker
noun
Any bird in the nightjar family Caprimulgidae.
gonotokont
gottschalk
grannyknot
grapestalk
greenstick
greenstick
noun
A greenstick fracture.
grottolike
grottolike
adj
Resembling or characteristic of a grotto
grottowork
grottowork
noun
artificial ornamental rockwork in imitation of a grotto
groupthink
groupthink
noun
A process of reasoning or decision-making by a group, especially one characterized by uncritical acceptance of or conformity to a perceived majority view.
grubstaked
grubstaked
verb
simple past tense and past participle of grubstake
grubstaker
grubstaker
noun
One who provides a prospector with a grubstake.
grubstakes
grubstakes
noun
plural of grubstake
guitarlike
guitarlike
adj
Resembling a guitar
gunstocker
gunstocker
noun
A manufacturer of gunstocks.
gutterlike
gutterlike
adj
Resembling or characteristic of a gutter.
heatmaking
hektograph
hektograph
noun
Alternative form of hectograph
iceskating
iceskating
verb
present participle of iceskate
jogjakarta
karinghota
katalyzing
katalyzing
verb
present participle of katalyze
keithsburg
kensington
kensington
noun
(dated, Midwestern US and Western US) A sewing circle for women.
kentigerma
keratalgia
keratalgia
noun
Pain of the cornea
kerygmatic
kerygmatic
adj
Presumptuous.
Relating to the kerygmata.
khagiarite
khagiarite
noun
(mineralogy) A black vitreous variety of pantellerite.
khidmatgar
khidmutgar
khidmutgar
noun
Alternative form of khitmatgar
khitmatgar
khitmatgar
noun
(British India, South Asia) A male servant, with responsibility for waiting at table.
khitmutgar
khitmutgar
noun
Alternative spelling of khitmatgar
kigensetsu
killington
kinetogram
kinetogram
noun
The image produced by a kinetograph
kinghunter
kiteflying
kiteflying
noun
(archaic) A mode of raising money, or sustaining one's credit, by the use of paper which is merely nominal.
The flying of kites.
kittanning
kittanning
Proper noun
a borough in Pennsylvania, USA
klagenfurt
knightdale
knighthead
knighthead
noun
A bollard or bitt.
A mitred backing timber which extends the after line of the rabbet in the stem to give extra support to the ends of the planks and the bowsprit.
Either of two timbers rising from the keel of a sailing ship and supporting the inner end of the bowsprit.
knighthood
knighthood
noun
An honour whereby one is made into a knight, and one can thereafter be called "Sir"
The knights collectively, the body of knights.
The quality of being a knight.
knightless
knightless
adj
(not comparable) Without a knight.
(rare, obsolete) Unbecoming of a knight; unchivalrous.
knightlike
knightlike
adj
Knightly; bold, gallant, etc.
knightling
knightling
noun
A small or petty knight.
knightship
knightship
noun
(mathematics, computing) A spaceship, in a cellular automaton, which moves knightwise (i.e., moving two spaces along the x-axis for every space it moves along the y-axis [or vice versa], in the manner of a chess knight); a spaceship which moves with slope 2; a (2,1) spaceship.
Honorific formal address to a knighted person. Usually used with the relevant possessive pronoun.
The honor bestowed that makes someone a knight.
knowingest
knowingest
adj
superlative form of knowing: most knowing
koniggratz
krageroite
kratogenic
kuomintang
kuomintang
Proper noun
A nationalist political party in pre-Communist China that ruled China from 1928 until the Communists overthrew it in 1949, and was subsequently the major administrative party of Taiwan.
kymatology
kymatology
noun
The study of wave motion.
lagerkvist
lutemaking
lutemaking
noun
The manufacture of lutes.
makeweight
makeweight
noun
Something included to add to the apparent weight or force of an argument.
Something of inferior quality which is included in a shipment to make up the weight.
marketings
marketings
noun
plural of marketing
mintmaking
mythmaking
mythmaking
noun
The production or composing of myths.
networking
networking
noun
The process of meeting new people in a business or social context.
The use of computer networks.
verb
present participle of network
nighthawks
nighthawks
noun
plural of nighthawk
nightstick
nightstick
noun
(US, law enforcement) A long narrow pole-like club carried by police and security personnel, for use in self-defense.
nightstock
nitpicking
nitpicking
noun
(figuratively, by extension) A process of finding or pointing out tiny details or errors, particularly if the pointed-out details seem insignificant or irrelevant to all but the finder.
The painstaking process of removing nits (lice eggs) from someone's hair.
outbarking
outbarking
verb
present participle of outbark
outcooking
outcooking
verb
present participle of outcook
outkeeping
outkeeping
verb
present participle of outkeep
outkicking
outkicking
verb
present participle of outkick
outkissing
outkissing
verb
present participle of outkiss
outranking
outranking
verb
present participle of outrank
outrocking
outrocking
verb
present participle of outrock
outseeking
outsmoking
outsmoking
verb
present participle of outsmoke
outsulking
outsulking
verb
present participle of outsulk
outtalking
outtalking
verb
present participle of outtalk
outtasking
outtasking
verb
present participle of outtask
outwalking
outwalking
verb
present participle of outwalk
outworking
outworking
noun
The process by which something is carried out or accomplished; the act or results of developing something.
verb
present participle of outwork
overtaking
overtaking
noun
The act by which one thing overtakes another.
verb
present participle of overtake
peastaking
piatigorsk
pigsticked
pigsticker
pigsticker
noun
(UK, India) A horse well-suited to hunt wild boar.
(UK, India) A hunter of wild boar.
(US, dialect) A sled with a pointed front.
A large knife, used as a weapon.
A pork butcher.
A spike bayonet
pyatigorsk
pyatigorsk
Proper noun
spa city in south-Stavropol krai, administrative center of the of Russia
reknitting
reknitting
verb
present participle of reknit
reknotting
reknotting
verb
present participle of reknot
restacking
restacking
noun
The act or result of stacking something again.
verb
present participle of restack
restocking
restocking
noun
An act of replenishing stock.
verb
present participle of restock
restriking
restriking
verb
present participle of restrike
rethinking
rethinking
noun
The act of thinking again or differently.
verb
present participle of rethink
retracking
retracking
verb
present participle of retrack
saltmaking
saltmaking
noun
The manufacture of salt.
skedgewith
skeltering
skeltering
verb
present participle of skelter
skirtingly
skirtingly
adv
So as to skirt or go around something.
skittering
skittering
noun
The act of one who skitters.
verb
present participle of skitter
skogbolite
skywriting
skywriting
noun
Messages, left by leaving a trail of smoke from an airplane, that are visible from the ground.
smoketight
smoketight
adj
impervious to smoke
spirketing
spirketing
noun
(nautical) The planking from the waterways up to the portsills.
stackering
stackgarth
stalkingly
stalkingly
adv
In a stalking way; with a haughty walk.
staymaking
sticktight
sticktight
noun
Hackelia virginiana, a biennial plant native to Eastern North America, with sticky burrs.
stinkingly
stinkingly
adv
In a stinking way.
stockading
stockading
verb
present participle of stockade
stockinged
stockinged
adj
Wearing socks but no shoes.
Wearing stockings.
verb
simple past tense and past participle of stocking
stockinger
stockinger
noun
One who weaves stockings.
strackling
strickling
strickling
verb
present participle of strickle
strikingly
strikingly
adv
(degree) To a remarkable degree or extent.
(evaluative) Remarkably, surprisingly.
(manner) In a striking way.
Strikingly, he had bowed deeply to the Emperor.
stringlike
stringlike
adj
Resembling string or a piece of string.
strongback
strongback
noun
(carpentry) A load-bearing post with a T-shaped cross-section, where the short T-tail prevents bowing of the long post.
(nautical) A strong bar placed across a hatch opening to hold hatch boards or hatch covers. (FM 55-501)
(nautical) The fore-and-aft spar extending from stem to stern on a lifeboat and serving as a raised spreader for a boat cover. (FM 55-501)
(sculpture) A backing pole used to reinforce and stabilize vertically-oriented sculptures.
(space science) A vertical structure used to support and stabilize a rocket, often hosting fuel and power umbilical connections. Usually retracted immediately before launch.