(Western US) Any of the wild buckwheats in the genus Eriogonum.
(cooking) The fruit of this plant used as a pseudocereal.
(derogatory, offensive, ethnic slur, US) Curly hair of a black person.
(slang) A slow and painful murder by the Mafia as a warning to others.
(slang) Pubic hair.
An Asian plant, of the species Fagopyrum esculentum. [from 16th c.]
buckwheater
buckwheater
noun
A poor and unskilled farmer.
buckwheatlike
buckwheatlike
adj
Resembling or characteristic of buckwheat.
buckwheats
buckwheats
noun
plural of buckwheat
catchwork
catchwork
noun
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.
chawstick
chawstick
noun
Alternative form of chewstick (“plant”)
checkwriter
checkwriter
noun
A machine that writes on preprinted checks in such a way as to prevent fraudulent alteration of the check.
One who writes checks.
cheektowaga
chewstick
chewstick
noun
A twig with a frayed end, used for cleaning the teeth.
Any of various plants in the genus Gouania used for oral hygiene, especieally Gouania lupuloides, of the Caribbean.
chickenwort
chickenwort
noun
common chickweed
chickwit
clockwatcher
clockwatcher
noun
Alternative form of clock-watcher
clothworker
clothworker
noun
A textile worker.
cockthrowing
cockthrowing
noun
Alternative form of cock throwing
duckwheat
gatchwork
gatchwork
noun
Decorative work made from gatch.
hackettstown
hartwick
hickorywithe
kitchenward
kitchenward
adj
To the kitchen
adv
(figuratively) Toward food in general.
Toward the kitchen.
kitchenwards
kitchenwards
adv
Alternative form of kitchenward
kitchenware
kitchenware
noun
(attributive, uncountable) Of or pertaining to utensils and appliances used for food preparation.
Instruments and utensils found in a kitchen, particularly those associated with the preparation and serving of food.
kitchenwares
kitchenwares
noun
plural of kitchenware
kitchenwife
kowatch
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.
saskatchewan
saskatchewan
Proper noun
A river in Canada.
Prairie province in western Canada (named after the river, which flows through it) which has Regina as its capital city.
scratchwork
scratchwork
noun
The first layer of plaster to be applied in plasterwork.
scythework
scythework
noun
The work of cutting with a scythe.
shrewstruck
smethwick
smethwick
Proper noun
a town in the metropolitan borough of West Midlands, England
smithwick
starchworks
stitchwork
stitchwork
noun
Work produced by stitching.
stockwright
switchback
switchback
noun
(aviation) A flight path consisting of a series of steep ascents and descents, generally flown as a stunt.
(chiefly Britain) A path or road having a series of steep ascents and descents.
(chiefly Canada, US, road transport) A sharp bend in a path or road which causes a traveller to almost reverse their direction of travel, especially one of a series of such bends on an incline; a hairpin bend; also a path or road having such a series of bends.
A railway track on a steep slope in a zigzag formation, in which a train travels in a reverse direction at each switch.
A railway track on which there are steep ascents and descents, a train moving partially or fully by the force of gravity using the momentum generated when descending to travel up an ascending part of the track; especially (Britain, dated), such a track built for fun rides at an amusement park; a type of rollercoaster.
verb
(intransitive) To take a zigzag course or path.
switchbacked
switchbacked
verb
simple past tense and past participle of switchback
switchbacker
switchbacks
switchbacks
noun
plural of switchback
switchkeeper
switchlike
switchlike
adj
Resembling or characteristic of a switch (control that can be turned on and off).
thatchwork
thickwind
thickwit
thickwit
Noun
A stupid person.
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
thwack
thwack
noun
A heavy slapping sound.
The act of thwacking; a strike or blow, especially with a flat implement.
verb
To beat.
To fill to overflow.
To hit with a flat implement.
thwacked
thwacked
verb
simple past tense and past participle of thwack
thwacker
thwacker
noun
A club, rod, stick, etc., used to thwack.
A person who strikes a resounding blow with an object.
thwackers
thwackers
noun
plural of thwacker
thwacking
thwacking
noun
The action or sound of a thwack; a beating.
verb
present participle of thwack
thwackingly
thwackingly
adv
With a thwacking sound.
thwacks
thwacks
noun
plural of thwack
verb
Third-person singular simple present indicative form of thwack
thwackstave
trenchwork
trenchwork
noun
(military) A system of trenches.
twickenham
twickenham
Proper noun
A town in southwest London
Twickenham Stadium, the largest rugby stadium in England
unthwacked
watchkeeper
watchkeeper
noun
A lookout (person who keeps watch).
watchmake
watchmaker
watchmaker
noun
A person who repairs (and originally made) watches.
watchmakers
watchmakers
noun
plural of watchmaker
watchmaking
watchmaking
noun
The making (and repairing) of watches
watchmakings
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
weathersick
weinschenkite
weinschenkite
noun
(mineralogy) The mineral churchite-(Y).
wewahitchka
whackiest
whackiest
adj
superlative form of whacky: most whacky
whatreck
whetrock
whipsocket
whipstick
whipstick
noun
A whipstock; the handle of a whip.
whipstock
whipstock
noun
(by extension) The driver of a carriage.
The stock, or rigid handle, of a whip.
whiteback
whiteback
noun
A wild duck, the canvasback.
whitlock
whitrack
whitracks
whitterick
whitterick
noun
Alternative form of whitret
whittrick
wickthing
witchlike
witchlike
adj
Resembling or characteristic of a witch.
witchuck
witchuck
noun
(UK, dialect, obsolete) The sand martin, or bank swallow.
witchwork
wretchock
wretchock
noun
A stunted or abortive cock; the smallest of a brood of domestic birds; any puny or imperfect creature.