(medicine) A lotion made by mixing calomel and limewater.
(slang, New Zealand) A whitewash victory for any New Zealand national sporting team.
(slang, cricket) A whitewash victory for the West Indies cricket team. Started in the 1984–86 "Blackwash" series of the West Indian cricket team in England in 1984.
(slang, mining) Public campaigns and advertising funded by the coal industry to draw attention away from environmentally unsustainable practices or to justify exclusion from carbon taxes.
verb
(transitive) To blacken, to cover with a black color.
(transitive) To portray in a revisionist fashion as belonging to a black race of people.
(transitive) To villainize, to present in a damaging light.
botchwork
botchwork
noun
Inferior and shoddy work.
buckwheat
buckwheat
noun
(Western US) Any of the wild buckwheats in the genus Eriogonum.
(cooking) The fruit of this plant used as a pseudocereal.
(derogatory, offensive, ethnic slur, US) Curly hair of a black person.
(slang) A slow and painful murder by the Mafia as a warning to others.
(slang) Pubic hair.
An Asian plant, of the species Fagopyrum esculentum. [from 16th c.]
bullwhack
bullwhack
verb
(US) To work as a bullwhacker, driving a bullock team.
bushwhack
bushwhack
verb
to ambush
to fight, as a guerilla, especially in wooded country
to travel through thick wooded country, cutting away scrub to make progress
catchwork
catchwork
noun
A simple irrigation system, used on sloping land, in which water from a stream or spring is fed in at the top and allowed to trickle down over a number of artificial terraces.
chadwicks
chainwork
chainwork
noun
Work looped or linked after the manner of a chain.
chawstick
chawstick
noun
Alternative form of chewstick (“plant”)
checkrows
checkrows
verb
Third-person singular simple present indicative form of checkrow
checkwork
checkwork
noun
Anything made so as to form alternate squares like those of a checkerboard.
chewstick
chewstick
noun
A twig with a frayed end, used for cleaning the teeth.
Any of various plants in the genus Gouania used for oral hygiene, especieally Gouania lupuloides, of the Caribbean.
chickasaw
chickweed
chickweed
noun
Ageratum conyzoides, chickweed
Cerastium - mouse-ear chickweed
Holosteum - jagged chickweed
Moenchia - upright chickweed
Paronychia - chickweed
Stellaria pro parte - chickweed
especially common chickweed, Stellaria media, a common, edible weed in North America and Europe.
chokeweed
coachwork
coachwork
noun
The body of a motor vehicle (as opposed to the chassis).
duckwheat
gatchwork
gatchwork
noun
Decorative work made from gatch.
hackworks
hackworks
noun
plural of hackwork
hardwicke
hornwrack
hornwrack
noun
(zoology) A bryozoan of the genus Flustra.
kawaguchi
kickshaws
kickshaws
noun
Alternative form of kickshaw
plural of kickshaw
kickwheel
kiungchow
kwangchow
outthwack
patchwork
patchwork
noun
(derogatory) A state of regulations whose constituents have an opaque scope of application because of their questionable delimitation with regard to each other.
(figurative) Any kind of creation that utilizes many different aspects to create one whole piece.
A work, such as a blanket, composed of many different colors and shapes, sewn together to make an interesting whole.
verb
To assemble from a variety of sources; to cobble together.
To create a patchwork from pieces of fabric.
pitchwork
pitchwork
noun
The work of a coal miner who is paid in a share of the mined material.
rickshaws
rickshaws
noun
plural of rickshaw
schweiker
shipwreck
shipwreck
noun
(countable, uncountable) An event where a ship sinks or runs aground.
(figurative) destruction; ruin; irretrievable loss
A ship that has sunk or run aground so that it is no longer seaworthy.
verb
To wreck a boat through a collision or mishap.
shirewick
shockwave
shockwave
noun
Alternative spelling of shock wave
smethwick
smethwick
Proper noun
a town in the metropolitan borough of West Midlands, England
smithwick
thickwind
throwback
throwback
noun
(US, accounting) A practice to avoid untaxed nowhere income by instead taxing such income in the originating state for a given transaction.
(derogatory) A person considered to be primitive, uncivilized and mentally deficient.
(slang, often attributive) A person or thing that evokes memories.
A person similar to an ancestor, or something new similar to what already existed.
A reversion to an earlier stage of development.
An atavism.
An organism that has characteristics of a more primitive form.
Coordinate terms: nowhere income, throwout
thwackers
thwackers
noun
plural of thwacker
thwacking
thwacking
noun
The action or sound of a thwack; a beating.
verb
present participle of thwack
wahkiacus
watchmake
watchwork
watchwork
noun
The work produced by watchmaking; the mechanical arrangements making up a watch (portable timepiece).
weighlock
weighlock
noun
A lock, as on a canal, in which boats are weighed and their tonnage is settled.
wenchlike
wenchlike
adj
Like or characteristic of a wench
whackiest
whackiest
adj
superlative form of whacky: most whacky
whaleback
whaleback
noun
(geology) A landform (typically a sand dune) having the form of the back of a whale.
(historical) A kind of cargo steamship with a hull that continuously curves above the waterline from vertical to horizontal.
whickered
whickered
verb
simple past tense and past participle of whicker
whincheck
whipcrack
whipcrack
noun
The crack of a whip.
whipstick
whipstick
noun
A whipstock; the handle of a whip.
whipstock
whipstock
noun
(by extension) The driver of a carriage.
The stock, or rigid handle, of a whip.
whiteback
whiteback
noun
A wild duck, the canvasback.
whitracks
whittrick
wickedish
wickedish
adj
Somewhat wicked.
wickthing
windshock
witchlike
witchlike
adj
Resembling or characteristic of a witch.
witchwork
woodchuck
woodchuck
noun
A rodent of the family Sciuridae, belonging to the group of large ground squirrels known as marmots, Marmota monax.
woodshock
woodshock
noun
(US, Canada, dialects, obsolete) The groundhog, or its pelt.
(US, Canada, dialects, obsolete) The marten, or its pelt.
workbench
workbench
noun
A sturdy bench or table at which manual work is done by a carpenter, machinist, etc.
wreckfish
wreckfish
noun
Any of the perciform marine fish of the family Polyprionidae, often inhabiting caves and shipwrecks.
wretchock
wretchock
noun
A stunted or abortive cock; the smallest of a brood of domestic birds; any puny or imperfect creature.