(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
adamstown
adamstown
Proper noun
The capital and only settlement of the
A village in Ireland
A in Maryland.
A borough in Pennsylvania.
afterswarm
afterswarm
noun
A swarm of bees that leaves the hive after the primary swarm.
afterswarming
afterwisdom
aimworthiness
aimworthiness
noun
The quality of having good aim (with a weapon).
aircraftswoman
aircraftswoman
noun
An aircraftwoman.
aircraftswomen
aircraftswomen
noun
plural of aircraftswoman
aircraftwoman
aircraftwoman
noun
A female aircraftman.
altamahaw
amowt
anthemwise
anthemwise
adv
(obsolete, music) Alternately.
antiendowment
antiendowment
adj
Opposing an endowment.
antipewism
antiwhitism
antiwhitism
noun
Synonym of antiwhiteness (“hostility towards white people”)
antiwoman
antiwoman
adj
Opposed to women.
archworkmaster
arrowsmith
arrowsmith
noun
A smith who made the iron tips for arrows
automower
automower
noun
An automatic lawnmower.
awakenment
awakenment
noun
An awakening.
awardment
awardment
noun
The giving of an award; something awarded.
bamangwato
bantamweight
bantamweight
noun
(boxing) A weight class in boxing and other sports, intermediate between flyweight and featherweight. In boxing it ranges from 112 to 118 pounds (51 to 54 kg).
A boxer or other competitor of this weight.
bantamweights
bantamweights
noun
plural of bantamweight
bartholomew
bartholomew
Proper noun
An Apostle, identified with Nathanael.
name of biblical origin.
bartholomewtide
basementward
basementward
adv
Toward a basement.
basketwoman
basketwoman
noun
(historical) A woman who sells goods from a basket.
basketworm
basketworm
noun
The larva of a psychid moth.
batholomew
batwoman
batwoman
noun
(UK, military) A female batman (servant)
batwomen
batwomen
noun
plural of batwoman
beekmantown
betweenmaid
bewailment
bewailment
noun
The act of bewailing.
bewrayment
bewrayment
noun
The act or process of bewraying; betrayal
blameworthiness
blameworthiness
noun
The characteristic of being blameworthy.
blameworthinesses
blameworthy
blameworthy
adj
Deserving blame or censure; reprehensible.
boatwoman
boatwoman
noun
A woman who manages a boat.
bowmanstown
bretwaldadom
brewmaster
brewmaster
noun
A person in charge of beer production at a brewery
broomstraw
bumboatwoman
bumboatwoman
noun
A woman who pilots a bumboat.
butterwoman
butterwoman
noun
(dated) A woman who makes or sells butter.
buttwoman
campbelltown
campbeltown
camptown
camptown
noun
A South Korean town whose livelihood relies on a United States Forces Korea military base. Camptowns are associated especially with prostitution.
carpenterworm
carpenterworm
noun
The larva of the moth Prionoxystus robinae
catawampous
catawampously
catawamptious
catawamptious
adj
Alternative form of catawampus
catawamptiously
catawamptiously
adv
Alternative form of catawampusly
catawampus
catawampus
adj
(US) Fierce, destructive.
(US) Out of alignment, in disarray or disorder: crooked, askew.
adv
(US) Diagonally.
(US) Utterly.
noun
(US) A fierce imaginary animal, a bogeyman.
chemawinite
chittamwood
chittamwood
noun
A North American tree (Sideroxylon lanuginosum); the wood of this tree
clamehewit
committeewoman
committeewoman
noun
(US) A woman who is a local leader of a political party.
A woman who is a member of a committee.
commonwealth
commonwealth
noun
(obsolete) The well-being of a community.
Republic. Often capitalized, as Commonwealth.
The entirety of a (secular) society, a polity, a state.
commonwealthism
commonwealthism
noun
(politics) The condition or policy of operating as a commonwealth.
commonwealths
commonwealths
noun
plural of commonwealth
counterwarmth
countrywoman
countrywoman
noun
A female compatriot
A woman who lives in the country or has retained country ways.
craftswoman
craftswoman
noun
A female artisan.
craftswomen
craftswomen
noun
plural of craftswoman
crawthumper
crawthumper
noun
(Ireland, colloquial) An ostentatiously pious person.
currantworm
damewort
damewort
noun
dame's rocket, Hesperis matronalis.
dameworts
dawmont
deathworm
deepwaterman
deepwatermen
disacknowledgement
disacknowledgements
disavowment
disavowment
noun
disavowal
doomwatcher
doomwatcher
noun
A person with a pessimistic outlook on the future.
dowmetal
downstream
downstream
adj
(biology) Towards the 3′ end of a DNA molecule.
(computer networking) In the direction from the server to the client.
(metaphoric) Occurring later than something else; (also, usually, especially) influenced by something else; being a consequence of something else.
Further along in the flow of current, in relation to a river, stream, bloodstream, or other flow of fluid.
adv
Following the path of a river or stream
verb
To stream downward.
downtrampling
draftswoman
draftswoman
noun
A woman employed in making drawings.
A woman exceptionally skilled in drawing.
draftswomanship
draftswomanship
noun
(rare) The art or craft of a female draftsman.
draftwoman
draftwoman
noun
Alternative form of draftswoman
draughtswoman
draughtswoman
noun
Alternative spelling of draftswoman
draughtswomanship
draughtswomanship
noun
draughtsmanship by a woman
dumbwaiter
dumbwaiter
noun
(obsolete) A lazy Susan.
(obsolete) A table or set of trays on rollers used for serving food.
A small elevator used to move food etc. from one floor of a building to another.
dumbwaiters
dumbwaiters
noun
plural of dumbwaiter
dustwoman
dustwoman
noun
(Britain) Female equivalent of dustman; a woman employed to collect domestic refuse.
earthworm
earthworm
noun
(figurative) A contemptible person; a groveller.
A worm of the family Lumbricidae, or, more generally, of the suborder Lumbricina.
A worm that lives in the ground.
earthworms
earthworms
noun
plural of earthworm
enswathement
enswathement
noun
The act of enswathing.
The state of being enswathed.
enwrapment
enwrapment
noun
A wrapper or envelope.
The act of enwrapping.
fameworthy
fameworthy
adj
Worthy or deserving of fame.
farmtown
farmtown
noun
A farmhouse, farmyard and associated buildings
flamethrower
flamethrower
noun
A device that projects a flame for starting fires, and sometimes also additional fuel to help ignition. Used either as a weapon or a tool.
flamethrowers
flamethrowers
noun
plural of flamethrower
flatworm
flatworm
noun
Any of very many parasitic or free-living worms, of the phylum Platyhelminthes, having a flattened body with no skeleton or body cavity.
flatworms
flatworms
noun
plural of flatworm
flowmanostat
footwarmer
footwarmer
noun
Something used to keep the feet warm, especially during a journey.
footwarmers
footwarmers
noun
plural of footwarmer
frametown
fruitwoman
garmentworker
garmentworker
noun
A person who works making clothes.
gatewayman
gatewayman
noun
(mining, historical) A kind of road repair worker in coal mines.
gatewaymen
gatewaymen
noun
plural of gatewayman
gatewoman
gatewoman
noun
The female equivalent of a gateman.
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
gewrztraminer
gnatworm
gnatworm
noun
The aquatic larva of a gnat.
hamewith
hammerwort
hammerwort
noun
Parietaria officinalis, a plant of the nettle family.
handicraftswoman
handicraftswoman
noun
A female practitioner of a handicraft.
harmsworth
harrowment
hatchwayman
hawkmoth
hawkmoth
noun
(entomology) Any of several moths, of the family Sphingidae, that hover over flowers when sucking nectar through a long proboscis.
hawkmoths
hawkmoths
noun
plural of hawkmoth
hearthwarming
heartwarming
heartwarming
adj
Alternative form of heart-warming
heartworm
heartworm
noun
(veterinary medicine) (uncountable) The condition caused by this organism.
(veterinary medicine) A parasitic organism that afflicts dogs, the roundworm Dirofilaria immitis.
huntswoman
huntswoman
noun
A female huntsman.
imlaystown
inswathement
interweavement
interweavement
noun
An interweaving.
inwrapment
jamestown
jamestown
Proper noun
Any of numerous places in English-speaking regions
In Virginia, the first English settlement in America.
The capital of the island Saint Helena.
A small city in Kentucky, USA
jawsmith
jawsmith
noun
(US, slang) A union organizer; later especially of the International Workers of the World.
(US, slang) An orator, especially a demagogue.
kowagmiut
kwatuma
lawrightman
lawrightman
noun
(historical) A lay judge in Orkney.
lawrightmen
lawrightmen
noun
plural of lawrightman
leewardmost
leewardmost
adj
superlative form of leeward: most leeward
limewater
limewater
noun
(inorganic chemistry) a solution of calcium hydroxide in water, used as a simple test for carbon dioxide, and in skin preparations.
lingtowman
lukewarmth
lukewarmth
noun
lukewarmness
macatawa
madderwort
madderwort
noun
Any plant of the same family (Rubiaceae) as the madder.
Rubia tinctorum (common madder)
madwort
madwort
noun
Any of certain alyssums.
German madwort (Asperugo procumbens)
madworts
madworts
noun
plural of madwort
maeystown
maharawat
mahtowa
makeweight
makeweight
noun
Something included to add to the apparent weight or force of an argument.
Something of inferior quality which is included in a shipment to make up the weight.