(sports) The preparatory stroke preceding that which produces contact with the target. Normally associated with sports using an implement such as a bat, club, racket or stick.
verb
To swing backward.
benchwork
benchwork
noun
the structure supporting a model railway layout
work performed at a workbench
brownback
brownback
noun
A bird, the dowitcher or red-breasted snipe.
A note of scrip printed on brown paper, such as that issued by the city of St. Louis during a financial crisis.
A postage stamp printed in brown ink, used in the 1890s.
brunswick
brunswick
Proper noun
A city in Germany; Braunschweig.
Any of several towns in the United States and elsewhere.
A suburb of Melbourne, Australia.
buckwagon
buckwagon
noun
(South Africa) A strong wagon with a frame over the wheels used for hauling goods.
(US) A buckboard; a wagon for personal transport as well as transporting goods.
chainwork
chainwork
noun
Work looped or linked after the manner of a chain.
cockswain
cockswain
noun
Alternative spelling of coxswain
cookstown
coworking
coworking
noun
The use of a shared working environment for independent activities by different organisations.
crackdown
crackdown
noun
Abruptly stern measures or disciplinary action; increased enforcement
crownlike
crownlike
adj
Resembling a crown.
crownwork
crownwork
noun
(dentistry) The addition of a crown.
A type of fortification, like a hornwork, but consisting of a full bastion with the walls on either side ending in half-bastions from which longer flank walls run back towards the main fortress.
fancywork
fancywork
noun
Decorative embroidery.
hornwrack
hornwrack
noun
(zoology) A bryozoan of the genus Flustra.
kennewick
kennewick
Proper noun
A city in in the southeastern part of the State of Washington, along the southwest bank of the
kiungchow
knackaway
knockaway
knockdown
knockdown
adj
(of a rivet head) To be formed into a head by upsetting in fastening.
Capable of being taken apart for packing or removal.
powerful enough to overwhelm or knock down
reduced in price, originally to a price below which an article would not be sold by the auctioneer
noun
(film, television) A shelter erected for use as a temporary dressing room.
(genetics) A genetically modified organism that carries one or more genes in its chromosomes that have been made less active or had their expression reduced.
(genetics) The use of a reagent such as an oligonucleotide with sequence complementary to an active gene or its mRNA transcript, to interfere with the expression of said gene.
(nautical) The condition of a sailboat being pushed abruptly to horizontal, with the mast parallel to the water surface.
(slang, obsolete, uncountable) Very strong ale or beer.
(soccer) a short pass played downwards, for example from the head onto someone's feet.
A collection of parts required to assemble a product, typically manufactured in one region and exported elsewhere for assembly.
An act of knocking down or the condition of being knocked down.
An overwhelming blow.
verb
(genetics) To employ the knockdown technique
kwangchow
landwrack
landwreck
mackinaws
mackinaws
noun
plural of mackinaw
neckwears
neckwears
noun
plural of neckwear
pickstown
sneckdraw
sneckdraw
noun
(obsolete, Scotland) One who is sly, cunning, devious.
snickdraw
snowpacks
snowpacks
noun
plural of snowpack
sweelinck
swingback
thickwind
thwacking
thwacking
noun
The action or sound of a thwack; a beating.
verb
present participle of thwack
unwrecked
unwrecked
adj
Not wrecked.
vowinckel
wackiness
wackiness
noun
the state of being wacky
wapanucka
weinstock
wenchlike
wenchlike
adj
Like or characteristic of a wench
whincheck
wickatunk
wickthing
windshock
windsocks
windsocks
noun
plural of windsock
wingbacks
wingbacks
noun
plural of wingback
workbench
workbench
noun
A sturdy bench or table at which manual work is done by a carpenter, machinist, etc.
wreckings
wreckings
noun
plural of wrecking
wrynecked
wrynecked
adj
Having a distorted neck; having the deformity called wryneck.