(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
bartholomewtide
blindworm
blindworm
noun
Anguis fragilis (slowworm), a small species of legless lizard.
bloodworm
bloodworm
noun
Alternative spelling of blood worm
bohmerwald
bowdlerism
bowdlerism
noun
A policy of bowdlerization, or censorship by removing what is considered indecent.
bowmansdale
bretwaldadom
clampdown
clampdown
noun
A sudden repressive or punitive restriction or control
cumberworld
cumberworld
noun
(derogatory, obsolete) Someone who, or something which, is an encumbrance on the world; a useless person or thing.
daleswoman
daleswoman
noun
A female dalesman.
deflowerment
deflowerment
Noun
The loss of a girl or woman's virginity.
demiowl
demiwolf
demiwolf
noun
(archaic) A mongrel dog, between a dog and a wolf.
demiworld
disacknowledgement
disacknowledgements
disembowel
disembowel
verb
(transitive) To take or draw from the body, as the web of a spider.
(transitive) To take or let out the bowels or interior parts of; to eviscerate.
disemboweled
disemboweled
verb
simple past tense and past participle of disembowel
disemboweling
disemboweling
noun
The act by which somebody is disemboweled.
verb
present participle of disembowel
disembowelled
disembowelled
verb
(chiefly Britain) simple past tense and past 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
disembowels
disembowels
verb
Third-person singular simple present indicative form of disembowel
dowmetal
downtrampling
drawloom
drawloom
noun
(archaic) A kind of loom used in weaving figured patterns.
(dated) A kind of damask made on the drawloom.
dreamworld
dreamworld
noun
An imaginary world, such as experienced while dreaming.
dreamworlds
dreamworlds
noun
plural of dreamworld
elderwoman
elderwomen
elmwood
elmwood
noun
The wood of the elm tree.
emboweled
embowelled
embowelled
verb
simple past tense and past participle of embowel
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.
homewardly
knowledgement
knowledgement
noun
(non-native speakers' English) Misconstruction of knowledge.
lambsdown
landswoman
lardworm
laundrywoman
laundrywoman
noun
A woman employed to wash clothes.
laundrywomen
laundrywomen
noun
plural of laundrywoman
leewardmost
leewardmost
adj
superlative form of leeward: most leeward
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
limawood
limewood
limewood
noun
The wood of the lime (linden) tree.
lindworm
lindworm
noun
A draconic creature, similar to a wyvern.
A wingless serpentine dragon having two arms.
longmeadow
macdowell
manifoldwise
maplewood
marblewood
marblewood
noun
The Australian tree Acacia bakeri.
The ebony Diospyros marmorata.
maudlinwort
maudlinwort
noun
The oxeye daisy.
mcclellandtown
mcdowell
meadowland
meadowland
noun
A tract of land cultivated as a meadow.
meadowlands
meadowlands
noun
plural of meadowland
meadowlark
meadowlark
noun
Any of several songbirds of the genera Sturnella and Leistes, native to the Americas.
The meadow pipit (Anthus pratensis).
meadowlarks
meadowlarks
noun
plural of meadowlark
meadowless
meadowless
adj
Without meadows.
mellowed
mellowed
adj
(of fruit) That has turned soft or tender by reason of ripeness.
That has become mellow.
verb
simple past tense and past participle of mellow
mellwood
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
microworlds
microworlds
noun
plural of microworld
middlebrow
middlebrow
adj
(derogatory) Neither highbrow or lowbrow, but somewhere in between.
noun
A person or thing that is neither highbrow nor lowbrow, but in between.
middlebrowism
middlebrowism
noun
middlebrow attitudes generally
middlebrows
middlebrows
noun
plural of middlebrow
middlesworth
middletown
middlewoman
middlewoman
noun
The female equivalent of a middleman; a female intermediary.
middlewomen
middlewomen
noun
plural of middlewoman
mildewproof
mildewproof
adj
Resistant to mildew.
verb
(transitive) To make resistant to mildew.
milkwood
milkwood
noun
(South Africa) Mimusops zeyheri, the Transvaal red milkwood.
(South Africa) Sideroxylon inermis, the white milkwood
(South Asia, Australia) Alstonia scholaris (scholar tree, milky pine), and other species in the genus Alstonia.
Many species of the genus Tabernaemontana, that are native to the Americas.
Trimeris scaevolifolia, a tree endemic to the Atlantic island of St. Helena.
milkwoods
milkwoods
noun
plural of milkwood
millwood
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.
moldwarp
moldwarps
moldwarps
noun
plural of moldwarp
mouldwarp
mouldwarp
noun
(now regional, archaic) A mole, Talpa europea.
mowland
mudflow
mudflow
noun
A type of landslide characterized by large flows of mud and water.
The dried-out product of such a flow.
mudflows
mudflows
noun
plural of mudflow
muldrow
multitowered
multitowered
adj
Having more than one tower.
multiword
multiword
adj
Alternative form of multi-word
multiwords
muzzlewood
muzzlewood
noun
The tree Eucalyptus stellulata.
myrtlewood
needlewoman
needlewoman
noun
A woman who works with a needle; a female embroiderer, sewer, etc.
needlewomen
needlewomen
noun
plural of needlewoman
nonacknowledgment
nonacknowledgment
noun
Absence of acknowledgment; failure to acknowledge something.
odalwoman
overwhelmed
overwhelmed
verb
simple past tense and past participle of overwhelm
owldom
owldom
noun
The realm or sphere of owls.
palmwood
palmwood
noun
The wood of the coconut palm.
pillowmade
preacknowledgement
preacknowledgement
noun
Alternative form of preacknowledgment
preacknowledgment
preacknowledgment
noun
acknowledgment in advance
prewelcomed
railwaydom
railwaydom
noun
The world or sphere of railways.
reacknowledgment
reacknowledgment
noun
Alternative form of reacknowledgement
salmwood
slowmouthed
smallsword
smallsword
noun
A light one-handed sword, designed for thrusting, which evolved out of the longer and heavier rapier of the late Renaissance.
smallswords
smallswords
noun
plural of smallsword
smallwood
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
swashbucklerdom
swelldom
swelldom
noun
(dated, humorous) People of rank and fashion; the class of swells, collectively.
swindledom
swindledom
noun
The realm or sphere of swindlers.
tumbledown
tumbledown
adj
in disrepair; poorly maintained
twaddledom
twaddlemonger
twaddlemonger
noun
(rare, humorous, derogatory) one who writes or publishes twaddle
twaddlesome
twaddlesome
adj
Characterised or marked by twaddling
unacknowledgment
unacknowledgment
noun
Lack of acknowledgment; failure to acknowledge.
unemboweled
unembowelled
unmellowed
unmellowed
adj
Not mellowed.
unoverwhelmed
unoverwhelmed
adj
Not overwhelmed.
unwelcomed
unwelcomed
adj
Not having been welcomed.
unwieldsome
unwieldsome
adj
(obsolete) Not easily wielded or managed.
waddlesome
waddlesome
adj
Characterised by a waddling gait.
wadmol
wadmol
noun
A rough woolen fabric once used in Scandinavia and parts of Britain to make warm or protective clothing
wadmoll
wadmolls
wadmolls
noun
plural of wadmoll
wadmols
warlordism
warlordism
noun
The behaviours and practices of warlords.
warlordisms
warlordisms
noun
plural of warlordism
warmblooded
warmblooded
adj
Alternative spelling of warm-blooded
welcomed
welcomed
adj
Having received a warm welcome.
verb
simple past tense and past participle of welcome
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
whaledom
whaledom
noun
The realm or sphere of whales.
wheedlesome
wheedlesome
adj
Characterised or marked by wheedling; coaxing, cajoling.
wheeldom
wildomar
wildsome
wildsome
adj
Characterised or marked by wildness
wimbledon
wimbledon
Proper noun
The principal business area and suburb in the London Borough of Merton.
The Wimbledon Championships, a prestigious tennis tournament.