(textiles) A machine used for washing wool after carding to remove the impurities.
blackwasher
blackwasher
noun
One who blackwashes.
bleachworks
bleachworks
noun
A factory that manufactures bleach.
breakweather
buckwasher
buckwheater
buckwheater
noun
A poor and unskilled farmer.
bullwhacker
bullwhacker
noun
(US) The driver of a bullock team.
bushwhacker
bushwhacker
noun
(Australia) A person who lives in the bush, especially as a fugitive; a person who clears woods and bush country.
(US) One who travels through the woods, off the designated path.
(US, historical) A guerrilla (of either side) during the American Civil War.
(dated) Someone who attacks without warning.
A small, soft-floored inflatable boat (designed for use by one or two people).
bushwhackers
bushwhackers
noun
plural of bushwhacker
chalkworker
chewbark
clockwatcher
clockwatcher
noun
Alternative form of clock-watcher
earthwork
earthwork
noun
Any structure made from earth; especially an embankment or rampart used as a fortification.
earthworks
earthworks
noun
plural of earthwork
featherwork
featherwork
noun
(countable) A cultural artifact made with feathers.
(uncountable) The working of feathers into a cultural artifact.
featherworker
fliegerabwehrkanone
gawkhammer
hammerwork
handworked
handworked
adj
worked by hand
handworker
handworker
noun
One who carries out handwork, working by hand rather than using a machine.
handworkers
handworkers
noun
plural of handworker
hardwicke
hawker
hawker
noun
A peddler, a huckster, a person who sells easily transportable goods.
Any dragonfly of the family Aeshnidae; a darner.
Someone who breeds and trains hawks and other falcons; a falconer.
hawkers
hawkers
noun
plural of hawker
hawkery
hawkery
noun
A place where hawks used for hunting are kept.
Aggressive salesmanship.
Alternative form of Hawkery
The practice of hunting using hawks.
headwark
headwark
noun
A headache.
headwork
headwork
noun
Mental or intellectual labour; the use of logic and clear thinking.
headworker
headworker
noun
One who performs mental or intellectual labour.
headworking
headworks
headworks
noun
Any structure at the head or diversion point of a waterway. It is smaller than a barrage and is used to divert water from a river into a canal or from a large canal into a smaller canal.
jayhawker
jayhawker
noun
(historical) An abolitionist raider in the Kansas–Missouri border skirmishes during the American Civil War.
Any robber or bandit.
kershaw
kerwham
kerwham
intj
A wham; a sound of a powerful collision.
kherwari
kherwarian
kirschwasser
kirschwasser
noun
A distilled spirit made from cherries, usually of the species Cerasus avium; kirsch.
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
leatherwork
leatherwork
noun
Articles thus produced.
The making of articles from leather.
leatherworker
leatherworker
noun
A person who makes things from leather.
leatherworking
leatherworking
noun
The manufacture of articles from leather.
lukewarmish
lukewarmish
adj
Somewhat lukewarm; tepid.
lukewarmth
lukewarmth
noun
lukewarmness
nightwalker
nightwalker
noun
(archaic, euphemistic) A prostitute who looks for clients on the streets.
(fantasy) A vampire.
nightwalkers
nightwalkers
noun
plural of nightwalker
patchworked
patchworked
verb
simple past tense and past participle of patchwork
scharwenka
schweizerkase
sheepwalker
shewmaker
shopwalker
shopwalker
noun
(Britain) Alternative form of shop-walker
sorehawk
starkweather
swashbuckler
swashbuckler
noun
A daring adventurer.
A kind of period adventure story with flashy action and lighthearted tone.
A swordsman or fencer who engages in showy or extravagant sword play.
swashbucklerdom
swashbucklering
swashbucklering
adj
Alternative form of swashbuckling
swashbucklers
swashbucklers
noun
plural of swashbuckler
swashbucklery
swashbucklery
noun
adventure and excitement; that which is swashbuckling
switchbacker
thankworthiness
thankworthiness
noun
The quality or state of being thankworthy.
thrawartlike
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
tomahawker
tomahawker
noun
One who uses a tomahawk as a weapon.
warwickshire
warwickshire
Proper noun
An inland county of England bordered by Staffordshire, Leicestershire, Northamptonshire, Oxfordshire, Gloucestershire, West Midlands and Worcestershire.
watchkeeper
watchkeeper
noun
A lookout (person who keeps watch).
watchmaker
watchmaker
noun
A person who repairs (and originally made) watches.
watchmakers
watchmakers
noun
plural of watchmaker
watershake
weakhearted
weakhearted
adj
fainthearted
weakheartedly
weakheartedly
adv
In a weakhearted manner.
weakheartedness
weakheartedness
noun
The state or quality of being weakhearted.
wealthmaker
wealthmaker
noun
One who generates wealth.
weatherbreak
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
weathermaker
weathermaker
noun
One who attempts to influence the weather by magic; one who performs a weathermaking ritual.
weathermaking
weathermaking
noun
The (attempted) influencing of the weather, by magic or technology.
weathersick
whacker
whacker
noun
(informal) Synonym of whopper (“an outrageous or blatant lie”)
(informal) Synonym of whopper (“anything large”)
One who, or something which, whacks.
whackers
whackers
noun
plural of whacker
whackier
whackier
adj
comparative form of whacky: more whacky
whalebacker
whalesucker
whalesucker
noun
A tropical species of remora, Remora australis, that attaches exclusively to cetaceans.
whatreck
wheelmaker
wheelmaker
noun
One who makes wheels.
whinchacker
whipcracker
whipcracker
noun
One who cracks a whip.
whipmaker
whipmaker
noun
A manufacturer of whips.
whiskerage
whiskerage
noun
Whiskers.
whiskerando
whiskerandoed
whiskerandos
whitaker
whitakers
whitebark
whitebark
noun
The North American pine Pinus albicaulis, found in mountainous and subalpine regions, often as krummholz.