Leather made from the hide of a cow or similar animal.
cowskins
cowskins
noun
plural of cowskin
cowsucker
crackdown
crackdown
noun
Abruptly stern measures or disciplinary action; increased enforcement
crackdowns
crackdowns
noun
plural of crackdown
craftwork
craftwork
noun
An item produced by handicraft.
craftworker
craftworker
noun
A maker of craftwork.
cragwork
crakow
crewelwork
crewelwork
noun
embroidery made using a crewel
crewelworks
crewelworks
noun
plural of crewelwork
cribwork
cribwork
noun
cribbing (structural members)
cribworks
cribworks
noun
plural of cribwork
crockeryware
crockeryware
noun
crockery
crosswalk
crosswalk
noun
(US) A point designated for pedestrians to cross a street.
(databases) A mapping between equivalent elements (fields) in different database schemas.
verb
(databases) To map equivalent elements (fields) in different database schemas.
crosswalks
crosswalks
noun
plural of crosswalk
crosswicks
crowkeeper
crowkeeper
noun
(obsolete) A person employed to scare off crows.
(obsolete) A scarecrow.
crowkeepers
crowkeepers
noun
plural of crowkeeper
crownlike
crownlike
adj
Resembling a crown.
crownmaker
crownmaker
noun
A manufacturer of crowns.
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.
crowstick
cuckooflower
cuckooflower
noun
lady's smock (Cardamine pratensis)
ragged robin (Silene flos-cuculi, syn. Lychnis flos-cuculi)
cutwork
cutwork
noun
A form of embroidery in which intervening fabric is cut away
cutworks
cutworks
noun
plural of cutwork
dawcock
dawcock
noun
(obsolete) A jackdaw.
(obsolete) A silly fellow.
disacknowledge
disacknowledge
verb
(transitive) To refuse to acknowledge or recognize something; to disavow or deny.
disacknowledgement
disacknowledgements
dockworker
dockworker
noun
A person who works on the dock of a harbor or shipyard, usually employed to load or unload freight.
dockworkers
dockworkers
noun
plural of dockworker
dowhacky
downpatrick
downtick
downtick
noun
(finance) A stock market transaction or quote at a price below a preceding one.
A small decrease or downward change in something that has been steady or rising.
ducktown
ductwork
ductwork
noun
The system of ducts in a particular building.
electroweak
electroweak
adj
(physics) Describing the combination of the electromagnetic and weak nuclear forces.
facework
facework
noun
(mining) work done at the face, such as the coalface
(sociology, psychology) The communicative strategies involved in upholding face, or social prestige.
The material of the outside or front side, as of a wall or building.
fancywork
fancywork
noun
Decorative embroidery.
flockowner
flockowner
noun
Someone who owns a flock of animals.
flockwise
flockwise
adv
In or as a flock.
flowerpecker
flowerpecker
noun
Any member of the family Dicaeidae of passerine birds, many of which feed on nectar.
forebackwardly
fredericktown
gatchwork
gatchwork
noun
Decorative work made from gatch.
gedecktwork
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
icework
icework
noun
(geology) Glacier action.
Art or building work using ice as a material.
jabberwock
jabberwock
Proper noun
A fantastical dreaded monster with flaming eyes.
jabberwockian
jabberwockies
jabberwockies
noun
plural of jabberwocky
jabberwocky
jabberwocky
adj
absurd, nonsense, nonsensical
meaningless, worthless
noun
invented or meaningless language; nonsense
jacksontown
jackwood
jackwood
noun
Cryptocarya glaucescens, a rainforest tree of eastern Australia whose bark is dark brown or reddish-brown and often scaly.
katowice
katowice
Proper noun
A city in southern Poland, capital of Silesian Voivodeship.
kawchodinne
kiaochow
kickdown
kickdown
noun
(automotive) In a vehicle with automatic transmission, a downshift triggered by pressing down the throttle pedal.
kingchow
kiungchow
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
knockdowns
knockdowns
noun
plural of knockdown
knockemdown
knockwurst
knockwurst
noun
Alternative spelling of knackwurst
knockwursts
knockwursts
noun
plural of knockwurst
kowatch
kowc
kwangchow
kwangchowan
kweichow
kwoc
lacework
lacework
noun
A piece or example of lace.
laceworker
laceworker
noun
Synonym of lacemaker
laceworks
laceworks
noun
A factory that produces lace.
lacquerwork
lacquerwork
noun
Artistic or decorative work made with lacquer.
lacquerworks
lacquerworks
noun
plural of lacquerwork
lacwork
lacwork
noun
Ornamentation by means of lacquer.
latticework
latticework
noun
A lattice or lattice-like structure; interlacing laths or strips.
latticeworks
latticeworks
noun
plural of latticework
lockjaw
lockjaw
noun
(pathology) A spasmodic, nervous system disease brought on by the tetanus bacteria. It causes muscles to seize up and may cause death by suffocation.
lockjaws
lockjaws
noun
plural of lockjaw
lockwood
lockwood
Proper noun
An area of Huddersfield named after a local family
lockwork
lockwork
noun
(firearms) The assembly forming the firing mechanism of a gun.
lodowick
lucknow
lucknow
Proper noun
State capital of Uttar Pradesh (India).
mackallow
mcknightstown
misacknowledge
misacknowledge
verb
(rare) To fail to acknowledge; to acknowledge wrongly.
muckworm
muckworm
noun
A larva living in mud or manure.
Someone who gathers wealth through overwork of employees and sordid means; a miser.
muckworms
muckworms
noun
plural of muckworm
nawrocki
nicktown
nonacknowledgment
nonacknowledgment
noun
Absence of acknowledgment; failure to acknowledge something.
norridgewock
outthwack
outwick
packwood
packwood
Proper noun
A ghost town in California.
A city in Iowa.
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.
pawneerock
peacockwise
peacockwise
adv
In the manner of a peacock.
peckerwood
peckerwood
noun
(Southern US, Appalachia) A peckerwood sawmill.
(Southern US, Appalachia, slang) A woodpecker.
(US, offensive, slang) A white person, especially a Southerner, or one who is ignorant, rustic, or bigoted.
(prison slang) A white (male) inmate, especially one who is racist or who is a member of a race-based prison gang.
peckerwoods
peckerwoods
noun
plural of peckerwood
pedricktown
pickleworm
pickleworm
noun
Diaphania nitidalis, a crambid moth with wide triangular wings, a serious agricultural pest.
pickstown
pickwork
piecework
piecework
noun
Alternative spelling of piece work
pieceworker
pieceworker
noun
A worker who is paid according to the number of units of work produced.
pieceworkers
pieceworkers
noun
plural of pieceworker
pitchwork
pitchwork
noun
The work of a coal miner who is paid in a share of the mined material.
plowback
plowbacks
pockweed
pockwood
pockwood
noun
(archaic) lignum vitae
preacknowledge
preacknowledge
verb
(transitive) To acknowledge in advance.
preacknowledged
preacknowledged
verb
simple past tense and past participle of preacknowledge
preacknowledgement
preacknowledgement
noun
Alternative form of preacknowledgment
preacknowledging
preacknowledging
verb
present participle of preacknowledge
preacknowledgment
preacknowledgment
noun
acknowledgment in advance
prickwood
prickwood
noun
A shrub (Euonymus europaeus), the spindle tree.
quickwork
quickwork
noun
(nautical, archaic) All of the submerged section of a vessel's planking.
(nautical, archaic) The planking between the spirketing and the clamps.
(nautical, archaic) The short planks between the portholes.
rackwork
rackwork
noun
Any mechanism with a rack, such as a rack and pinion.
rackworks
rackworks
noun
plural of rackwork
reacknowledge
reacknowledge
verb
(transitive) To acknowledge again or anew.
reacknowledged
reacknowledged
verb
simple past tense and past participle of reacknowledge
reacknowledging
reacknowledging
verb
present participle of reacknowledge
reacknowledgment
reacknowledgment
noun
Alternative form of reacknowledgement
rickwood
rockafellow
rockaway
rockaway
noun
(dated, uncommon) A light, low, four-wheeled carriage with standing top, open at the sides, but with waterproof curtains for bad weather.
(dated, uncommon) A similar but heavier carriage, enclosed except at the front, and with a door at each side.
rockaways
rockaways
noun
plural of rockaway
rockview
rockwall
rockward
rockwards
rockweed
rockweed
noun
Ascophyllum nodosum, a seaweed also known as knotted wrack.
Fucus vesiculosus, a similar seaweed also known as bladderwrack.
rockweeds
rockweeds
noun
plural of rockweed
rockwell
rockwood
rockwood
noun
(mineralogy) fossil wood
(mineralogy) ligniform asbestos
rockwork
rockwork
noun
(climbing) The act of climbing a rock face, cliff, etc.
Ornamental work done with rocks, as for example around a pond.