(finance) In a condition of bankruptcy; unable to pay one's debts.
Destitute of, or wholly lacking (something once possessed, or something one should possess).
Having been legally declared insolvent.
noun
(UK, law, obsolete) A trader who secretes himself, or does certain other acts tending to defraud his creditors.
One who becomes unable to pay his or her debts; an insolvent person.
verb
(transitive) To force into bankruptcy.
breakups
breakups
noun
plural of breakup
buckjump
buckjump
verb
(Australia) Of a horse, to jump upwards with arched back and head down in an attempt to throw its rider.
(Australia) To take part in a buckjumping competition.
bumpkins
bumpkins
noun
plural of bumpkin
checkups
checkups
noun
plural of checkup
chipmuck
chipmuck
noun
Archaic form of chipmunk.
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.
chumpaka
cockspur
cockspur
noun
A blade for tying to the foot of a gamecock.
A kind of grass (Echinochloa crus-galli).
A kind of hawthorn (Crataegus crus-galli).
crackups
crackups
noun
plural of crackup
cupcakes
cupcakes
noun
plural of cupcake
cupmaker
cupmaker
noun
someone who makes cups
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.
dukeship
dukeship
noun
The quality or condition of being a duke.
dummkopf
dummkopf
noun
A stupid person; a dolt, dimwit, or blockhead.
humpback
humpback
noun
(by extension) A hump or protuberance on the shoulders or back of an animal.
(derogatory, now offensive) A person with a humpback; a person who suffers from kyphosis.
(figurative) A rounded topographical feature, such as a mountain or hill.
A humpback salmon.
A humpback whale.
A humped back (deformity in humans caused by abnormal curvature of the upper spine).
verb
To hunt humpback whales.
hunkpapa
jumprock
jumprock
noun
Any of a number of North American fish in the sucker genus Moxostoma
kajeputs
kalumpit
kamarupa
kerplunk
kerplunk
noun
A thudding or thunking sound.
verb
To make a thudding or thunking sound.
ketchups
ketchups
noun
plural of ketchup
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
kinipetu
kolhapur
kolhapur
Proper noun
A city in Maharashtra province, western India.
koupreys
koupreys
noun
plural of kouprey
kualapuu
kulpmont
larkspur
larkspur
noun
Any plant of the genus Delphinium, especially Delphinium ajacis and other plants of the subgenus Delphinium subg. Consolida.
mudpacks
mudpacks
noun
plural of mudpack
muspikes
nipmucks
nutpicks
nutpicks
noun
plural of nutpick
verb
Third-person singular simple present indicative form of nutpick
outkeeps
outkeeps
verb
Third-person singular simple present indicative form of outkeep
outspeak
outspeak
verb
(intransitive, rare, dialectal) To speak out or aloud.
(transitive) To surpass in speaking; say or express more than; signify or claim superiority to; be superior to in meaning or significance; speak louder than.
(transitive, rare, dialectal) To declare; utter; express; vocalise.
outspoke
outspoke
verb
simple past tense of outspeak
palebuck
pamunkey
papaikou
papsukai
parukutu
pawhuska
pawhuska
Proper noun
a city in Oklahoma, USA
penuckle
perukery
perukier
perukier
noun
A maker or seller of perukes.
pewaukee
phulkari
phulkari
noun
(countable) A cloth or garment embroidered in this style.
(uncountable) A style of Punjabi embroidery characterized by patterns of flowers.
pluckage
pluckers
pluckers
noun
plural of plucker
pluckier
pluckier
adj
comparative form of plucky: more plucky
pluckily
pluckily
adv
In a plucky manner.
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
pluglike
pluglike
adj
Resembling or characteristic of a plug.
plumlike
plumlike
adj
Resembling or characteristic of a plum.
plumrock
plunkers
plunkers
noun
plural of plunker
plunkett
plunking
plunking
noun
A noise that plunks.
verb
present participle of plunk
pookhaun
potlucks
potlucks
noun
plural of potluck
verb
Third-person singular simple present indicative form of potluck
prankful
prankful
adj
Full of pranks; mischievous.
predusks
puckball
puckball
noun
(obsolete) A puffball fungus.
puckered
puckered
verb
simple past tense and past participle of pucker
puckerel
puckerer
puckerer
noun
One who, or that which, puckers.
puckfist
puckfist
noun
A puffball (Lycoperdon giganteum).
pucklike
pucklike
adj
Resembling or characteristic of a puck.
puckling
puckster
puckster
noun
(US, Canada) An ice hockey player.
pudovkin
puffback
puffback
noun
Any bird of the genus Dryoscopus.
pugmarks
pugmarks
noun
plural of pugmark
pukeweed
pullback
pullback
noun
(architecture) The iron hook fixed to a casement to pull it shut, or to hold it partly open at a fixed point.
(category theory) The limit of a cospan: a Cartesian square or “pullback square”.
(category theory) Within a Cartesian square (which has a pair of divergent morphisms and a pair of convergent morphisms) the divergent morphism which is directly opposite to a given one of the convergent morphisms, said to be “along” the convergent morphism which is between that pair of opposite morphisms. (The pullback is said to be “of” the given morphism.)
(differential geometry) The map between cotangent bundles of manifolds corresponding to a smooth map between smooth manifolds, which at each point is the dual map to the corresponding pushforward.
(film) The act of drawing a camera back to broaden the visible scene.
(finance) A reduction in the price of a financial instrument after reaching a peak
(historical) A device for making a woman's gown hang close and straight in front.
(sports) An attacking pass from the wing into a position further from the attacking goal line.
That which holds back, or causes to recede; a drawback; a hindrance.
The act or result of pulling back; a withdrawal.
pulplike
pulplike
adj
Resembling pulp; pulpy.
pumpkins
pumpkins
noun
plural of pumpkin
pumpknot
pumplike
pumplike
adj
Resembling or characteristic of a pump.
punketto
punkiest
punkiest
adj
superlative form of punky: most punky
punkling
punkling
noun
(obsolete) A young strumpet
Someone young associated with the punk movement or music.
punkwood
purkinje
pusslike
raunpick
reunpack
reunpack
verb
To unpack again.
rounspik
sapskull
sapskull
noun
A stupid person; a saphead.
seppukus
seppukus
noun
plural of seppuku
shakeups
shakeups
noun
plural of shakeup
shuckpen
shunpike
shunpike
noun
A side road or route.
verb
To travel by side roads so as to avoid the toll roads or turnpikes.
skalpund
skepfuls
skepfuls
noun
plural of skepful
skeppund
skeppund
noun
(historical) An old Swedish unit of weight, equivalent to 374 pounds.
skippund
skippund
noun
Alternative form of skeppund
skullcap
skullcap
noun
(anatomy) The calvaria, the top part of the skull, covering the cranial cavity containing the brain.
(botany) Any of several species of flowering plants of the genus Scutellaria, in the Lamiaceae family.
(historical) A torture device for compressing the skull.
A small domed cap that covers the area from the forehead to just above the back of the neck.
A yarmulke-like hat worn as an element of ghetto fashion.
skunktop
souplike
souplike
adj
Resembling soup; soupy.
spelunks
spelunks
verb
Third-person singular simple present indicative form of spelunk
spruiker
spruiker
noun
(Australia) One who spruiks business, a tout.
(Australia) One who toots their own horn.
spunkier
spunkier
adj
comparative form of spunky: more spunky
spunkies
spunkily
spunkily
adv
in a spunky manner
spunking
spunking
verb
present participle of spunk
spurlike
spurlike
adj
Resembling a spur.
spurlock
sputniks
sputniks
noun
plural of sputnik.
stackups
stackups
noun
plural of stackup
stickups
stickups
noun
plural of stickup
tcheckup
tsukupin
tuckshop
tuckshop
noun
Alternative spelling of tuck shop
tupakihi
tupakihi
noun
(New Zealand) The tutu, a shrub of New Zealand.
turnpike
turnpike
noun
(Scotland) A winding stairway.
(chiefly US) A toll road, especially a toll expressway.
(mathematical economics) A trajectory on a finite time interval that satisfies an optimality criterion which is associated with a cost function.
(military) A beam filled with spikes to obstruct passage; a cheval de frise.
A frame consisting of two bars crossing each other at right angles and turning on a post or pin, to hinder the passage of animals, but admitting a person to pass between the arms; a turnstile.
A gate or bar set across a road to stop carriages, animals, and sometimes people, until a toll is paid,
verb
To form (a road, etc.) in the manner of a turnpike road, or into a rounded form, as the path of a road.
turnpoke
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.
unparked
unparked
adj
Not having been parked.
verb
simple past tense and past participle of unpark
unpeaked
unpeaked
adj
Not having a peak.
unpecked
unpecked
adj
Not pecked.
unpicked
unpicked
adj
Not having been picked.
verb
simple past tense and past participle of unpick
unpinked
unpinked
adj
Not pinked; of clothing or fabric, not ornamented with holes or scallops.
unpocket
unpocket
verb
(transitive) To remove from a pocket.
unpucker
unpucker
verb
(transitive) To smooth away the puckers or wrinkles of.
unspeaks
unspeaks
verb
Third-person singular simple present indicative form of unspeak
unspoken
unspoken
adj
(sometimes postpositive) Not formally articulated or stated; implicit or understood.
(sometimes postpositive) Not spoken; not said.
verb
past participle of unspeak
upbroken
upbroken
verb
simple past tense and past participle of upbreak
upchucks
upchucks
verb
Third-person singular simple present indicative form of upchuck
upkindle
upkindle
verb
(poetic) To kindle upward.
uplinked
uplinked
verb
simple past tense and past participle of uplink
uplooker
uplooker
noun
One who gazes upward.
upmaking
upmaking
noun
(nautical, historical) Pieces of plank or timber piled on each other as filling up in building, especially between the bilgeways and ship's bottom, preparatory to launching.
(printing, historical) The arrangement of lines into columns or pages.
verb
present participle of upmake
upmarket
upmarket
adj
Designed for customers with a high income.
adv
Towards the more expensive end of the market.
verb
To make or become upmarket.
upstrike
upstrike
noun
(often attributive) A kind of early typewriter whose typebar falls back into position under gravity after typing each character, with the disadvantage that typed characters are not immediately visible.