(most common British spelling, also sometimes used in the US) Alternative spelling of acknowledgment
acknowledgements
acknowledgements
noun
plural of acknowledgement
acknowledgment
acknowledgment
noun
(law) A formal statement or document recognizing the fulfillment or execution of a legal requirement or procedure.
(law) The act of a person admitting a child as their own.
(telecommunications, computing, networking) A response (ACK) sent by a receiver to indicate successful receipt of a transmission (See Wikipedia article on transmission).
A message from the addressee informing the originator that the originator's communication has been received and understood.
A recognition as genuine or valid; an avowing or admission in legal form.
A reward or other expression or token of gratitude.
An expression of gratitude for a benefit or an obligation.
The act of acknowledging
The act of recognizing in a particular character or relationship; recognition of existence, authority, truth, or genuineness.
acknowledgments
acknowledgments
noun
plural of acknowledgment
afterglow
afterglow
noun
An afterparty.
The glow seen in the sky after sunset.
The light emitted by a phosphor after excitation.
The light emitted by an incandescent object while cooling.
The mildly euphoric feeling experienced after a pleasurable experience, especially after an orgasm or drug-induced high.
afterglows
afterglows
noun
plural of afterglow
aftergrowth
aftergrowth
noun
(figuratively) Any abstraction of the above.
A second growth, seen in plants like crops or timber after harvesting.
afterknowledge
afterknowledge
noun
Knowledge acquired later, or after the event.
afterworking
battlewagon
battlewagon
noun
(military) A heavily-armed combat vehicle.
(nautical) A battleship.
battlewagons
battlewagons
noun
plural of battlewagon
bestowage
bestowage
noun
(obsolete) Stowage.
browbeating
browbeating
verb
present participle of browbeat
cabbagetown
cabinetworking
cheektowaga
counterthwarting
counterwager
counterwager
noun
A wager in response or opposition to another wager.
cowgate
disacknowledgement
disacknowledgements
dogwatches
dogwatches
noun
plural of dogwatch
downgate
downstage
downstage
adj
At the front of a stage.
adv
Toward or at the front of a theatrical stage.
Towards a motion-picture or television camera.
noun
The part of a stage that is closest to the audience or camera.
verb
(medicine, transitive) To restage downward; to restage (a case of a disease, usually a cancer) to a lower stage than that found at last assessment (compare upstage).
downtreading
downtreading
verb
present participle of downtread
eagletown
edgartown
edgartown
Proper noun
a town on Massachusetts, which is the county seat of
gagetown
gagetown
Proper noun
A village in Michigan, USA
A village in New Brunswick, Canada
gainestown
galewort
garmentworker
garmentworker
noun
A person who works making clothes.
garnetwork
gatewoman
gatewoman
noun
The female equivalent of a gateman.
gatewood
gateworks
gentianwort
gentlewoman
gentlewoman
noun
(US, politics) A female member of a legislature, especially a female member of a House of Representatives.
(historical) A woman of the nobility.
gentlewomanhood
gentlewomanhood
noun
The qualities or condition of a gentlewoman.
gentlewomanish
gentlewomanlike
gentlewomanlike
adj
Characteristic of a gentlewoman; having the qualities of a gentlewoman.
adv
In a manner befitting a gentlewoman.
gentlewomanliness
gentlewomanliness
noun
The quality of being gentlewomanly.
gentlewomanly
gentlewomanly
adj
Having the manners or behavior of a gentlewoman; having social graces; polite.
germantown
gerrardstown
gnatflower
goatweed
goatweed
noun
Ageratum conyzoides, a herb with white to mauve flowers, native to tropical America, especially Brazil.
Croton capitatus, the hogwort.
goldthwaite
goldthwaite
Proper noun
a small city in Texas, USA
goldwater
goodwater
grapewort
groundwater
groundwater
noun
Water that exists beneath the earth's surface in underground streams and aquifers.
groundwaters
groundwaters
noun
plural of groundwater
hagerstown
hagerstown
Proper noun
A city in and county seat of located in the west-central part of the American state of Maryland.
A town in in the American state of Indiana.
heartwounding
howgates
knowledgeability
knowledgeability
noun
The condition of being knowledgeable.
leatherworking
leatherworking
noun
The manufacture of articles from leather.
metalworking
metalworking
noun
The art and craft of shaping metal.
metalworkings
metalworkings
noun
plural of metalworking
mouthwatering
mouthwatering
adj
(by extension) Enticing or tantalizing.
That is pleasing to the sense of taste; appetizing; that makes one salivate.
neowashingtonia
nonacknowledgment
nonacknowledgment
noun
Absence of acknowledgment; failure to acknowledge something.
nonsweating
nonwatertight
nonwatertight
adj
Not watertight.
oswegatchie
outgnawed
outgnawed
verb
simple past tense and past participle of outgnaw
outswagger
outswagger
verb
(transitive) To surpass in swaggering.
outswearing
outswearing
verb
present participle of outswear
outwearing
outwearing
verb
present participle of outwear
outwearying
outwearying
verb
present participle of outweary
outweaving
outweaving
verb
present participle of outweave
outwrangle
outwrangle
verb
(transitive) To surpass in wrangling.
outwrangled
outwrangled
verb
simple past tense and past participle of outwrangle
overstowage
overwatching
overwatching
verb
present participle of overwatch
overwatering
overwatering
verb
present participle of overwater
overweightage
overweightage
noun
(India) Extra or undue weight or importance.
partridgewood
plowgate
plowgate
noun
Alternative form of ploughgate
postweaning
postweaning
adj
Following the weaning period
preacknowledgement
preacknowledgement
noun
Alternative form of preacknowledgment
preacknowledgment
preacknowledgment
noun
acknowledgment in advance
pseudosweating
reacknowledgment
reacknowledgment
noun
Alternative form of reacknowledgement
saegertown
sparrowtongue
stageworthy
stageworthy
adj
(theater) Worthy, fit, or deserving of stage presentation; stageable.
staggerwort
staggerwort
noun
Jacobaea vulgaris (syn. Senecio jacobaea), a kind of ragwort.
stonewalling
stonewalling
noun
A refusal to answer or to cooperate.
verb
present participle of stonewall
stonewashing
stonewashing
verb
present participle of stonewash
stowage
stowage
noun
A charge for stowing and storage.
A place where things are stowed.
Amount of room for storing things.
The act or practice of stowing.
Things that are stowed.
stowages
stowages
noun
plural of stowage
straightforwarder
straightforwardest
straightforwardness
straightforwardness
noun
The state or quality of being straightforward.
superacknowledgment
tanglewood
thousandweight
togawise
togawise
adv
In the manner of a toga.
towage
towage
noun
A charge for towing.
The act of towing.
towages
towages
noun
plural of towage
towngate
trianglework
twaddlemonger
twaddlemonger
noun
(rare, humorous, derogatory) one who writes or publishes twaddle
unacknowledgment
unacknowledgment
noun
Lack of acknowledgment; failure to acknowledge.
ungentlewomanlike
ungentlewomanlike
adj
Not gentlewomanlike.
unstraightforwardness
unstraightforwardness
noun
The state or quality of being unstraightforward; a lack of straightforwardness; obliqueness, evasiveness.
waggonette
waggonette
noun
Alternative form of wagonette
wagonette
wagonette
noun
A kind of pleasure wagon, uncovered and with seats extended along the sides, designed to carry six or eight persons besides the driver.
wagonettes
wagonettes
noun
plural of wagonette
washingtonese
washingtonville
watchdogged
watchdogged
verb
simple past tense and past participle of watchdog
watercoloring
watercoloring
noun
The practice of painting in watercolors.
waterdog
waterdog
noun
A mudpuppy.
A small irregular floating cloud supposed to indicate rain.
An axolotl (Ambystoma mexicanum).
The mature larva of an ambystomid salamander, particularly that of the tiger salamander (Ambystoma tigrinum).
waterdogs
waterdogs
noun
plural of waterdog
waterfowling
waterfowling
noun
The sport of hunting waterfowl.
waterlog
waterlog
verb
(transitive) To saturate with water.
(transitive, nautical) To make (a boat) heavy and in danger of sinking by flooding it with water.
waterlogged
waterlogged
adj
(nautical) in danger of sinking because of excess water onboard
soaked with water
waterloggedness
waterloggedness
noun
The quality of being waterlogged.
waterlogger
waterlogging
waterlogging
verb
present participle of waterlog
waterlogs
waterlogs
verb
Third-person singular simple present indicative form of waterlog
watermonger
watermonger
noun
A seller of water.
waterproofing
waterproofing
noun
A waterproof material.
The treatment of something to make it waterproof.
verb
present participle of waterproof
waterproofings
waterproofings
noun
plural of waterproofing
wealthmonger
wealthmonger
noun
(derogatory) A rich person.
weatherboarding
weatherboarding
noun
(architecture) A type of wooden siding in which a house is sided with long, thin, overlapping boards.
weatherologist
weatherologist
noun
(rare) A meteorologist.
weatherology
weatherology
noun
(rare) meteorology, as used to forecast the weather
weatherproofing
weatherproofing
noun
(UK) The practice of protecting a building and its interior from the elements/weather and wind or Something protecting the interior of a building or similar from weather and wind
verb
present participle of weatherproof
weatogue
wellingtonia
wellingtonia
noun
(UK) A large coniferous tree, Sequoiadendron giganteum, from California.
Wellingtonia arnottiana, now Meliosma arnottiana
wellingtonian
wellingtonian
Noun
A resident of Wellington, New Zealand.
wheatgrower
wheatgrower
noun
A person or company that grows wheat.
witenagemot
witenagemot
noun
(history, countable) A specific session of such an assembly.
(history, usually uncountable, sometimes countable) Any of several assemblies which existed in Anglo-Saxon England from the 7th to the 11th century, initially with regional jurisdiction (there being different ones in Essex, Kent, Mercia, Northumbria, Sussex and Wessex), later with national jurisdiction, made up of important noblemen.
witenagemote
witenagemote
noun
Alternative form of witenagemot
witenagemots
witenagemots
noun
plural of witenagemot
woodagate
woolgather
woolgatherer
woolgatherer
noun
One who engages in woolgathering.
woolgathering
woolgathering
noun
Indulgence in idle fancies or daydreams.
The gathering of fragments of wool torn from sheep by bushes, etc.