A simple irrigation system, used on sloping land, in which water from a stream or spring is fed in at the top and allowed to trickle down over a number of artificial terraces.
chainwork
chainwork
noun
Work looped or linked after the manner of a chain.
chalkworker
changchiakow
checkerwork
checkerwork
noun
(figuratively) Any aggregate of varied vicissitudes.
Work consisting of or showing checkers, varied alternately by colour or material.
checkrow
checkrow
verb
(agriculture) To plant seeds at the intersections of a criss-cross pattern previously marked out on the ground.
checkrowed
checkrowed
verb
simple past tense and past participle of checkrow
checkrower
checkrower
noun
(agriculture) A device for checkrowing.
checkrowing
checkrowing
verb
present participle of checkrow
checkrows
checkrows
verb
Third-person singular simple present indicative form of checkrow
checkwork
checkwork
noun
Anything made so as to form alternate squares like those of a checkerboard.
cheektowaga
chequerwork
chequerwork
noun
Alternative form of checkerwork
chickenwort
chickenwort
noun
common chickweed
chokeweed
chowk
chowk
noun
(India, Pakistan) A courtyard.
(India, Pakistan) A marketplace or open area in a city or village.
(India, Pakistan) An intersection or roundabout, where tracks or roads cross (often used in place names).
clockwatcher
clockwatcher
noun
Alternative form of clock-watcher
clothworker
clothworker
noun
A textile worker.
coachwork
coachwork
noun
The body of a motor vehicle (as opposed to the chassis).
cockthrowing
cockthrowing
noun
Alternative form of cock throwing
dowhacky
gatchwork
gatchwork
noun
Decorative work made from gatch.
hackbarrow
hackbarrow
noun
(historical) A kind of wheelbarrow used to carry new-made bricks to the hacks or racks where they are dried.
hackettstown
hackwood
hackwork
hackwork
noun
Work, usually of a professional nature, either repetitive or done to a formula.
hackworks
hackworks
noun
plural of hackwork
hickorywithe
hornwrack
hornwrack
noun
(zoology) A bryozoan of the genus Flustra.
housewrecker
kawchodinne
kiaochow
kingchow
kiungchow
kowatch
kwangchow
kwangchowan
kweichow
mcknightstown
outthwack
patchwork
patchwork
noun
(derogatory) A state of regulations whose constituents have an opaque scope of application because of their questionable delimitation with regard to each other.
(figurative) Any kind of creation that utilizes many different aspects to create one whole piece.
A work, such as a blanket, composed of many different colors and shapes, sewn together to make an interesting whole.
verb
To assemble from a variety of sources; to cobble together.
To create a patchwork from pieces of fabric.
patchworked
patchworked
verb
simple past tense and past participle of patchwork
patchworking
patchworking
noun
The making of patchworks
verb
present participle of patchwork
patchworks
patchworks
noun
plural of patchwork
patchworky
patchworky
adj
Like patchwork; untidy, variegated, higgledy-piggledy.
pitchwork
pitchwork
noun
The work of a coal miner who is paid in a share of the mined material.
schoolwork
schoolwork
noun
Work done for school, including both in class and homework.
schoolworks
schwarzkopf
scratchwork
scratchwork
noun
The first layer of plaster to be applied in plasterwork.
scythework
scythework
noun
The work of cutting with a scythe.
shockwave
shockwave
noun
Alternative spelling of shock wave
starchworks
stitchwork
stitchwork
noun
Work produced by stitching.
stockwright
swashbucklerdom
thatchwork
thrawcrook
throwback
throwback
noun
(US, accounting) A practice to avoid untaxed nowhere income by instead taxing such income in the originating state for a given transaction.
(derogatory) A person considered to be primitive, uncivilized and mentally deficient.
(slang, often attributive) A person or thing that evokes memories.
A person similar to an ancestor, or something new similar to what already existed.
A reversion to an earlier stage of development.
An atavism.
An organism that has characteristics of a more primitive form.
Coordinate terms: nowhere income, throwout
throwbacks
throwbacks
noun
plural of throwback
trenchwork
trenchwork
noun
(military) A system of trenches.
watchwork
watchwork
noun
The work produced by watchmaking; the mechanical arrangements making up a watch (portable timepiece).
watchworks
weathercock
weathercock
noun
(chiefly Canada, US) A kind of wind pump whose top behaves like a weather vane, moving with the wind direction, but which also has a wheel attached to measure wind speed.
(figuratively) One who veers with every change of current opinion; a fickle, inconstant person.
A weather vane, sometimes in the form of a cockerel.
verb
(intransitive, of a boat) To turn upwind because of the difference in water pressure on two sides.
(intransitive, of an airplane or missile) To veer into the direction of the oncoming (relative) wind.
(transitive) To act as a weathercock for.
weathercockish
weathercockish
adj
Fickle or changeable in one's views.
weathercockism
weathercocks
weathercocks
noun
plural of weathercock
weathercocky
weathercocky
adj
Synonym of weathercockish
weighlock
weighlock
noun
A lock, as on a canal, in which boats are weighed and their tonnage is settled.
whacko
whacko
adj
Alternative spelling of wacko
whackos
whackos
noun
plural of whacko
whallock
wheelock
whetrock
whilock
whinnock
whinnock
noun
(UK, dialect) A milk-pail.
(UK, dialect) The smallest pig in a litter; the runt.
whipsocket
whipstock
whipstock
noun
(by extension) The driver of a carriage.
The stock, or rigid handle, of a whip.
whitlock
windshock
witchwork
woehick
woodchuck
woodchuck
noun
A rodent of the family Sciuridae, belonging to the group of large ground squirrels known as marmots, Marmota monax.
woodchucks
woodchucks
noun
plural of woodchuck
woodhack
woodhack
Noun
The yaffle
woodhacker
woodhacker
Noun
The yaffle
woodshock
woodshock
noun
(US, Canada, dialects, obsolete) The groundhog, or its pelt.
(US, Canada, dialects, obsolete) The marten, or its pelt.
workaholic
workaholic
adj
In the nature or manner of a workaholic.
noun
A person who feels compelled to work excessively, including while at home.
workaholics
workaholics
noun
plural of workaholic
workbench
workbench
noun
A sturdy bench or table at which manual work is done by a carpenter, machinist, etc.
workbenches
workbenches
noun
plural of workbench
wretchock
wretchock
noun
A stunted or abortive cock; the smallest of a brood of domestic birds; any puny or imperfect creature.