(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
alderwoman
alderwoman
noun
(rare) A female alderman.
alderwomen
alderwomen
noun
plural of alderwoman
awellimiden
bewilderment
bewilderment
noun
A confusing or perplexing situation.
The state of being bewildered.
bewilderments
bewilderments
noun
plural of bewilderment
blindworm
blindworm
noun
Anguis fragilis (slowworm), a small species of legless lizard.
bowmansdale
clampdown
clampdown
noun
A sudden repressive or punitive restriction or control
daleswoman
daleswoman
noun
A female dalesman.
deflowerment
deflowerment
Noun
The loss of a girl or woman's virginity.
disacknowledgement
disacknowledgements
disemboweling
disemboweling
noun
The act by which somebody is disemboweled.
verb
present participle of disembowel
disembowelling
disembowelling
noun
The act by which somebody is disembowelled.
verb
(chiefly Britain, Canada, Australia, New Zealand, Ireland, South Africa) present participle of disembowel
disembowelment
disembowelment
noun
The act of disemboweling.
disembowelments
disembowelments
noun
plural of disembowelment
downtrampling
dwindlement
dwindlement
noun
The process of dwindling; gradual reduction to nothing.
elderwoman
elderwomen
gentlewomanhood
gentlewomanhood
noun
The qualities or condition of a gentlewoman.
goldwynism
goldwynism
Noun
Any of a number of often-repeated malapropisms originally uttered by US film producer Samuel Goldwyn (1879-1974) or a malapropism reminiscent of Goldwyn's utterances.
knowledgement
knowledgement
noun
(non-native speakers' English) Misconstruction of knowledge.
lambsdown
landswoman
laundrywoman
laundrywoman
noun
A woman employed to wash clothes.
laundrywomen
laundrywomen
noun
plural of laundrywoman
lemonweed
lemonweed
noun
Lithospermum ruderale, a flowering plant in the borage family, native to western North America.
lemonwood
lemonwood
noun
A small evergreen tree, Pittosporum eugenioides, from New Zealand, whose leaves smell of lemon when crushed
lindworm
lindworm
noun
A draconic creature, similar to a wyvern.
A wingless serpentine dragon having two arms.
longmeadow
manifoldwise
maudlinwort
maudlinwort
noun
The oxeye daisy.
mcclellandtown
meadowland
meadowland
noun
A tract of land cultivated as a meadow.
meadowlands
meadowlands
noun
plural of meadowland
meltdown
meltdown
noun
(informal) A tantrum or emotional outburst.
(psychology) An autistic response to stress or sensory overload, in which the person is overwhelmed by intense, seemingly disproportionate emotions, behaving erratically and becoming unable to mask.
A situation being likened to a nuclear meltdown; a crisis.
Computer engineers were at a loss last night to explain why the Government had been hit by arguably the worst electronic meltdown in the history of Whitehall. https://web.archive.org/web/20041209011615/http://news.independent.co.uk/uk/politics/story.jsp?story=587262
Severe overheating of the core of a nuclear reactor resulting in the core melting and potentially in radiation escaping.
meltdowns
meltdowns
noun
plural of meltdown
middletown
middlewoman
middlewoman
noun
The female equivalent of a middleman; a female intermediary.
middlewomen
middlewomen
noun
plural of middlewoman
midlandward
midwinterly
mildewing
mildewing
verb
present participle of mildew
mindblower
mindblower
noun
(slang) Anything mind-blowing.
mindblowers
mindblowers
noun
plural of mindblower
misacknowledge
misacknowledge
verb
(rare) To fail to acknowledge; to acknowledge wrongly.
misknowledge
misknowledge
noun
Misapprehension; imperfect or incorrect knowledge; misunderstanding.
mowland
multidwelling
multidwelling
adj
Relating to more than one dwelling.
noun
A dwelling occupied by more than one household.
needlewoman
needlewoman
noun
A woman who works with a needle; a female embroiderer, sewer, etc.
needlewomen
needlewomen
noun
plural of needlewoman
newfangledism
nonacknowledgment
nonacknowledgment
noun
Absence of acknowledgment; failure to acknowledge something.
odalwoman
preacknowledgement
preacknowledgement
noun
Alternative form of preacknowledgment
preacknowledgment
preacknowledgment
noun
acknowledgment in advance
reacknowledgment
reacknowledgment
noun
Alternative form of reacknowledgement
semiwildness
snowmold
spindleworm
spindleworm
noun
(rare) The larva of a noctuid moth (Achatodes zeae) which feeds inside the stalks of maize, sometimes causing much damage. It is smooth, with a black head and tail and a row of black dots across each segment.
superacknowledgment
swampland
swampland
noun
(countable, uncountable) Low-lying land that is regularly flooded; especially such land that is drier than a bog or a marsh.
(uncountable, physics) The set of all possible string theories.
swindledom
swindledom
noun
The realm or sphere of swindlers.
tumbledown
tumbledown
adj
in disrepair; poorly maintained
twaddlement
twaddlement
noun
twaddle; nonsense
twaddlemonger
twaddlemonger
noun
(rare, humorous, derogatory) one who writes or publishes twaddle
twelfhyndeman
twelvehyndeman
twinkledum
unacknowledgment
unacknowledgment
noun
Lack of acknowledgment; failure to acknowledge.
underwhelmed
underwhelmed
verb
simple past tense and past participle of underwhelm
underwhelms
underwhelms
verb
Third-person singular simple present indicative form of underwhelm
unemboweled
unembowelled
unmellowed
unmellowed
adj
Not mellowed.
unmildewed
unmildewed
adj
Not mildewed.
unoverwhelmed
unoverwhelmed
adj
Not overwhelmed.
unwelcomed
unwelcomed
adj
Not having been welcomed.
unwhelmed
unwhelmed
adj
Not engulfed or submerged; (figuratively) not overcome with emotion.
verb
simple past tense and past participle of unwhelm
unwieldsome
unwieldsome
adj
(obsolete) Not easily wielded or managed.
waldensianism
waldman
wealdsman
wealdsman
Noun
a man from the Weald.
wealdsmen
weldment
weldment
noun
A part created from an assembly of smaller components that are joined by welding.
weldments
weldments
noun
plural of weldment
westmoreland
westmoreland
Proper noun
a small city in Kansas, USA, and the county seat of Pottawatomie County.
westmorland
westmorland
Proper noun
A former county in the northwest of England, since 1974 absorbed into Cumbria
wilderment
wilderment
noun
(archaic) The state of being bewildered; confusion; bewilderment.
wilderments
wilderments
noun
plural of wilderment
wilmerding
wimbledon
wimbledon
Proper noun
The principal business area and suburb in the London Borough of Merton.
The Wimbledon Championships, a prestigious tennis tournament.
windmill
windmill
noun
(baseball) A pitch where the pitcher swings his arm in a circular motion before throwing the ball.
(basketball) A dunk where the dunker swings his arm in a circular motion before throwing the ball through the hoop.
(figurative) An imaginary enemy, but presented as real.
(juggling) The false shower.
A breakdancing move in which the dancer rolls his/her torso continuously in a circular path on the floor, across the upper chest, shoulders and back, while twirling the legs in a V shape in the air.
A child's toy consisting of vanes mounted on a stick that rotate when blown by a person or by the wind.
A guitar move where the strumming hand mimics a turning windmill.
A machine which translates linear motion of wind to rotational motion by means of adjustable vanes called sails.
Any of various large papilionid butterflies of the genus Byasa, the wings of which resemble the vanes of a windmill.
Any of various muscle exercises in which a large deal of the body makes a great circle, typically one where a kettlebell is raised overhead and the torso is rotated to the other side with the hand reaching its foot (hitting the core, glutes, hamstrings, trapezius, rhomboids, deltoids and rotator cuffs) but sometimes even a windshield wiper.
The structure containing such machinery.
verb
(intransitive) Of a rotating part of a machine, to (become disengaged and) rotate freely.
(transitive, intransitive) To rotate with a sweeping motion.
windmilled
windmilled
verb
simple past tense and past participle of windmill
windmilling
windmilling
noun
The process of milling with a windmill.
verb
present participle of windmill
windmills
windmills
noun
plural of windmill
verb
Third-person singular simple present indicative form of windmill
windmilly
windmilly
adj
(informal) Having many windmills.
withholdment
withholdment
noun
The act of withholding.
woldsman
womanlihood
worldmaking
worldmaking
noun
The creation of a world, as for example in writing fiction.