(architecture, informal) A vestibule, foyer or entranceway with doors to the exterior on one end and doors to the interior on the other, functioning to keep indoor and outdoor air, humidity, and air temperatures separate.
A sealed, airtight chamber, such as in a manned spacecraft or submarine, used to provide access to and from the sealed area without allowing air out or water in.
Alternative form of air lock
airlocks
airlocks
noun
plural of airlock
alarick
alkalimetric
alkalimetric
adj
(chemistry) Describing a titration in which the titrant is an alkali.
alkalimetrical
alkalimetrical
adj
Alternative form of alkalimetric
alkalimetrically
alkalimetrically
adv
By means of alkalimetry.
alkaptonuric
alkaptonuric
adj
Relating to alkaptonuria
alkoranic
allokurtic
alrick
anchorlike
anchorlike
adj
Resembling an anchor.
ankyloproctia
aprickle
aprickle
adj
Prickling.
arclike
arclike
adj
Resembling or characteristic of an arc.
atrickle
atrickle
adj
Trickling.
autarkical
autarkical
adj
Autarkic.
autarkically
autarkically
adv
In an autarkic way.
bachelorlike
bachelorlike
adj
Resembling or characteristic of a bachelor.
backfiller
backfiller
noun
A machine for refilling an excavation.
backslider
backslider
noun
A recidivist; one who backslides, especially in a religious sense; an apostate.
She married him thinking to change his ways, and for a while he got religion, but he was ever a backslider; she soon began finding bottles stashed about the house.
backsliders
backsliders
noun
plural of backslider
backtrail
backtrail
noun
A small path or trail that is not used regularly.
The path over which one has already traveled.
verb
To backtrack along a trail.
baldrick
baldrick
noun
Alternative form of baldric
baldricked
baldricked
adj
Wearing a baldrick (ornamental belt).
baldricks
baldricks
noun
plural of baldrick
barleysick
barrackville
billsticker
billsticker
noun
Someone who sticks up advertisements on billboards, walls, and similar surfaces.
blackberries
blackberries
noun
plural of blackberry
verb
Third-person singular simple present indicative form of blackberry
blackberrylike
blackberrylike
adj
Resembling or characteristic of a blackberry.
blackbird
blackbird
noun
(slang, derogatory, historical, among slavers and pirates) A native of the South Pacific islands.
A common true thrush, Turdus merula, found in woods and gardens over much of Eurasia, and introduced elsewhere.
A variety of New World birds of the family Icteridae (26 species of icterid bird).
verb
To enslave someone, especially through chicanery or force
blackbirded
blackbirded
verb
simple past tense and past participle of blackbird
blackbirder
blackbirder
noun
A person involved in blackbirding (kidnapping Pacific islanders as cheap labour).
A ship used for blackbirding.
blackbirders
blackbirders
noun
plural of blackbirder
blackbirding
blackbirding
noun
(UK, Australia) The practice of kidnapping Pacific Islanders, or kanakas, for sale as cheap labour.
verb
present participle of blackbird
blackbirds
blackbirds
noun
plural of blackbird
verb
Third-person singular simple present indicative form of blackbird
blackfigured
blackfire
blackfisher
blackfriars
blackfriars
intj
(obsolete, UK, thieves' cant) look out; beware
noun
plural of blackfriar
blackguardism
blackguardism
noun
Blackguardly behaviour or language.
blackguardize
blackguardize
verb
To make blackguardly.
blacklister
blacklister
noun
One who blacklists.
blacklisters
blacklisters
noun
plural of blacklister
blackmailer
blackmailer
noun
Someone who blackmails.
blackmailers
blackmailers
noun
plural of blackmailer
blackprint
blackshirt
blackshirt
noun
(by extension) Any member of a fascist party.
(historical, chiefly in the plural) A uniformed member of a paramilitary wing of the Italian Fascist Party.
blackshirted
blockaderunning
blockier
blockier
adj
comparative form of blocky: more blocky
bombernickel
bootlicker
bootlicker
noun
(by extension, derogatory) Anyone who is seen as supporting authoritarianism.
(derogatory) A person who behaves in a servile or obsequious manner; a toady
bootlickers
bootlickers
noun
plural of bootlicker
brachyskelic
brachyskelic
adj
Having unusually short legs
brackettville
brainsickly
brainsickly
adv
(obsolete) In a brainsick manner.
branchlike
branchlike
adj
resembling a branch of a tree
brecksville
brickel
brickfield
brickfield
noun
A place where bricks are made; a brickyard.
brickfielder
brickfielder
noun
(Australia) A hot, dry, dusty wind of southern or central Australia.
brickfields
brickfields
noun
plural of brickfield
brickkiln
brickkiln
noun
A kiln in which bricks are baked.
bricklay
bricklayer
bricklayer
noun
A craftsman who builds walls and suchlike out of bricks.
bricklayers
bricklayers
noun
plural of bricklayer
bricklaying
bricklaying
noun
The act of building a wall by laying bricks, usually with cement between the surfaces of the bricks.
bricklayings
bricklayings
noun
plural of bricklaying
brickle
brickle
adj
(Appalachia or archaic or dialect) Alternative form of breakle
verb
(Canada, dialect) To fail spectacularly.
brickleness
brickleness
noun
(obsolete) brittleness
brickles
brickles
verb
Third-person singular simple present indicative form of brickle
bricklike
bricklike
adj
Resembling a brick
brickliner
bricklining
brickly
brickly
adj
(dialect) fragile; brittle
brickwall
brickwall
noun
(nonstandard) Alternative form of brick wall
brocklin
bucklering
bucklering
verb
present participle of buckler
bullsticker
cadilesker
cadilesker
noun
A chief judge in the Ottoman Empire.
candlestickward
cardlike
cardlike
adj
Resembling or characteristic of a card.
Resembling or characteristic of card (the material).
carkingly
carkingly
adv
(archaic) In a carking manner; so as to weary or distress.
carlick
carnivallike
carnivallike
adj
Like a carnival; festive.
cartoonlike
cartoonlike
adj
Resembling a cartoon
caterpillarlike
caterpillarlike
adj
Resembling or characteristic of a caterpillar.
cathedrallike
cathedrallike
adj
Resembling a cathedral
cavernlike
cavernlike
adj
Resembling or characteristic of a cavern.
chalkier
chalkier
adj
comparative form of chalky: more chalky
chalkosideric
chalkrail
chariotlike
chariotlike
adj
Resembling or characteristic of a chariot.
checkerbellies
checkrail
checkrail
noun
Alternative spelling of check rail
cherrylike
cherrylike
adj
Resembling a cherry, such as in shape, color, or flavor
cherublike
cherublike
adj
Resembling or characteristic of a cherub.
chickenheartedly
chickenheartedly
adv
Alternative form of chicken-heartedly
chikmagalur
chilmark
chlorpikrin
choirlike
choirlike
adj
Resembling a choir or its sound.
choruslike
choruslike
adj
Resembling or characteristic of a chorus.
christianlike
christianlike
Adjective
Befitting a Christian.
christlike
christlike
Adjective
Characteristic of Jesus Christ or his works.
christlikeness
christlikeness
Noun
The quality of being Christlike.
churchlike
churchlike
adj
Resembling or befitting a church or a worship service.
churnmilk
churnmilk
noun
Synonym of buttermilk
ciderlike
ciderlike
Adjective
Resembling cider.
cinderlike
cinderlike
adj
Resembling or characteristic of a cinder.
clackmannanshire
clackmannanshire
Proper noun
A historic county in Scotland (abolished in 1975) and present-day council area (created 1996) bordering the council areas of Stirling, Fife, and
clarkeite
clarkeite
noun
(mineralogy) A uranium oxide mineral of variable composition and uncertain structure, its colour varying from dark brown to orange.
clarkeites
clarkesville
clarkesville
Proper noun
A in
A in that is the of
clarkfield
clarkia
clarkia
noun
Any of several annual flowering plants, of the genus Clarkia, native to the Americas.
clarkias
clarkias
noun
plural of clarkia
clarkin
clarksville
clarksville
Proper noun
A community in
A near
A in the U.S. state of that is the of
An in
An unincorporated community in
An unincorporated community in
An unincorporated community in
A in
An unincorporated community in Indiana.
A city in
An unincorporated community in
A in
A city in
A town in
An unincorporated community in
An unincorporated community in New Jersey.
A in the town of
A town in New York.
A village in
A in Ohio.
An unincorporated community in Ohio.
An unincorporated community in
A in
A city in that is the of
A city in that is the county seat of
A town in and
clearskins
clearskins
noun
plural of clearskin
clergylike
clergylike
adj
Resembling or characteristic of the clergy.
clerking
clerking
verb
present participle of clerk
clerkish
clerkish
adj
Like or resembling a clerk.
clerklier
clerklier
adj
comparative form of clerkly: more clerkly
clerkliest
clerkliest
adj
superlative form of clerkly: most clerkly
clerklike
clerklike
adj
Resembling or characteristic of a clerk; tidy, bureaucratic, etc.
clerkliness
clerkliness
Noun
scholarship
clerkship
clerkship
noun
(law) A temporary job of assisting a judge in writing legal opinions, generally available to a beginning attorney for one to two years.
(medicine) Clinical training for physicians during the second half of medical school.
The state or business of a clerk.
clerkships
clerkships
noun
plural of clerkship
clicker
clicker
noun
(UK, obsolete) Someone who stands by a shop door to invite people to buy; a tout.
(printing, historical) An employee who locks the type in the form to make it ready for printing.
(printing, obsolete) One who has charge of the work of a companionship.
(slang) The remote-control device used to change settings on a television set, VCR, or other electronic equipment.
A machine that cuts materials using a steel rule die. The name comes from the sound (click) when the material is cut. May be hand, pneumatic, or hydraulic powered.
A person who cuts out the uppers of shoes from pieces of leather using a flexible knife that clicks as it changes direction.
A signalling device used by military forces. Pressed between thumb and fingers, it makes a small but distinctive click understood by other members of a unit.
A small mechanical device that produces a clicking sound, used in dog training.
An electronic device used by individual students in the classroom to respond to multiple-choice questions, etc.
Someone who clicks, for example using a computer mouse.
clickers
clickers
noun
plural of clicker
clinker
clinker
noun
(in the plural) fetters.
(nautical, chiefly attributive) A style of boatbuilding using overlapping planks.
A mass of bricks fused together by intense heat.
A scum of oxide of iron formed in forging.
A very hard brick used for paving customarily made in the Netherlands.
An intermediate product in the manufacture of Portland cement, obtained by sintering limestone and alumino-silicate materials such as clay into nodules in a cement kiln.
Hardened volcanic lava.
Slag or ash produced by intense heat in a furnace, kiln or boiler that forms a hard residue upon cooling.
Someone or something that clinks.
verb
(transitive, intransitive) To convert or be converted into clinker.
clinkered
clinkered
verb
simple past tense and past participle of clinker
clinkerer
clinkerer
noun
A person who removes clinker from boilers, furnaces &c
clinkering
clinkering
verb
present participle of clinker
clinkers
clinkers
noun
(Ulster, anatomy) testicles
plural of clinker
clinkery
clinkery
adj
Having the characteristics of clinker.
clockbird
clockbird
noun
Synonym of laughing kookaburra
cloisterlike
cloisterlike
adj
Resembling or characteristic of a cloister.
clunkier
clunkier
adj
comparative form of clunky: more clunky
cofferlike
cofferlike
adj
Resembling or characteristic of a coffer.
cokuloris
cokuloris
noun
Alternative form of cucoloris
colicker
colormaking
colormaking
noun
The manufacture of paints or dyes.
computerlike
computerlike
adj
Having some similarity to a computer.
confervalike
contraclockwise
contraclockwise
adv
counterclockwise
corallike
corallike
adj
Resembling or characteristic of coral.
cordlike
cordlike
adj
Resembling or characteristic of a cord.
corkhill
corklike
corklike
adj
Resembling or characteristic of a cork.
corkline
corkline
noun
(fishing) The top line of a gillnet, which has attached floats (often, but not always, made of cork) that give that edge of the net buoyancy.