(US) Any rapid bluegrass dance tune, especially featuring a five-string banjo.
(US, dated) A noisy, rapid, shuffling dance engaged in competitively by a number of persons or pairs in succession, common in traditional African American music from the Southern United States.
(US, dated) Any noisy dance performed by shuffling the feet, usually by one person at a time.
(chemistry) Breaking of chemical bonds within a compound to produce simpler compounds or elements.
(film, television) A detailed description of a forthcoming project, including the characters and roles required.
(music) The percussion break of songs chosen by a DJ for use in hip-hop music.
(physics) The sudden transition of an electrical insulator to a conductor when subjected to a sufficiently strong voltage, caused by the partial or complete ionization of the insulator.
(sports) A loss of organization (of the parts of a system).
A failure, particularly mechanical in nature.
A musical technique by which the music is stripped down, becoming simpler, varying in heaviness depending on the genre.
A physical collapse or lapse of mental stability.
Listing, division or categorization in great detail.
Something that has experienced a mechanical failure.
capeworks
caseworks
cookwares
cookwares
noun
plural of cookware
dayworker
dayworker
noun
An employee paid on an irregular basis; a casual worker.
deadworks
deadworks
noun
(nautical) The parts of a laden ship that are above water.
earthwork
earthwork
noun
Any structure made from earth; especially an embankment or rampart used as a fortification.
falsework
falsework
noun
(engineering) A temporary framework used in the building of bridges and arched structures in order to hold items in place until the structure is able to support itself.
(engineering) Scaffolding, a temporary frame serving to support and brace a building under construction until it can stand alone.
framework
framework
noun
(figuratively) A basic conceptual structure.
(figuratively) The larger branches of a tree that determine its shape.
(literally) A support structure comprising joined parts or conglomerated particles and intervening open spaces of similar or larger size.
(literally) The arrangement of support beams that represent a building's general shape and size.
(software engineering) A reusable piece of code (and, sometimes, other utilities) providing a standard environment within which an application can be implemented.
These ‘three principles of connexion’ compose the framework of principles in Hume's account of the association of ideas.
gasworker
gasworker
noun
Someone who works in a gasworks
gateworks
glazework
glazework
noun
glazed decorative work
headworks
headworks
noun
Any structure at the head or diversion point of a waterway. It is smaller than a barrage and is used to divert water from a river into a canal or from a large canal into a smaller canal.
laceworks
laceworks
noun
A factory that produces lace.
leadworks
leadworks
noun
A factory that processes lead (the metal).
plural of leadwork
meatworks
meatworks
noun
(Australia, New Zealand) A slaughterhouse or meat processing plant.
metalwork
metalwork
noun
Objects made of metal.
The act of shaping metal, metalworking.
panelwork
panelwork
noun
(architecture) wainscoting
paperwork
paperwork
noun
(US, prison slang) Court documents or pre-sentencing investigation reports detailing the prisoner's criminal history (usually in the context of discerning whether an inmate has been charged for sex-related offenses or is likely to be an informant).
(hyperbolic) excessive paperwork, busy work, red tape.
routine work involving written documents
written documents
platework
plowmaker
rangework
rangework
noun
Masonry consisting of horizontal rows of ashlar.
ropewalks
ropewalks
noun
plural of ropewalk
sawworker
scalework
scalework
noun
Artistic ornamentation resembling the scales of a fish.
seatworks
snakeworm
snakewort
snowbreak
snowmaker
snowmaker
noun
A device for creating snow.
spadework
spadework
noun
(figuratively) Work done in preparation for something else.
Work done by digging with a spade.
teamworks
waferwork
wakerobin
wakerobin
noun
Any of several perennial flowering plants, of the genus Trillium, having flowers with three petals.
Any plant of the genus Arum, especially the cuckoopint.
walkerton
walkovers
walkovers
noun
plural of walkover
warworker
waterwork
waterwork
noun
(countable) A machine or mechanism for raising or carrying water.
(countable, art) A textile fabric used like tapestry.
(countable, uncountable) Some action or activity done on, in, or using water.
(historical) A hydraulic apparatus by which a supply of water is furnished for ornamental purposes; also, an ornamental fountain or waterfall.
(uncountable, art) A style of painting executed in distemper or size, on canvas or a wall, intended to resemble a tapestry; (countable) such a painting.
waxworker
waxworker
noun
(archaic) A bee that produces wax.
A worker in the wax industry.
An artist who makes waxworks.
wordbreak
wordbreak
noun
Alternative form of word break
wordmaker
wordmaker
noun
Someone who invents or coins new words.
workplace
workplace
noun
The place where someone works.
workspace
workspace
noun
(computing) A file (or system of files) in which related software and data can be manipulated or developed in isolation from others.
(computing, graphical user interface) An empty portion of the screen or window that serves as a container for other windows or objects.
(computing, graphical user interface) Any of the screens that can be switched between in a virtual desktop.
(robotics) The set of points that can be reached by the end-effector of a robotic manipulator
An area allocated for someone to work in, especially in an office.
worktable
worktable
noun
(historical) A small table used by ladies for doing needlework.
