(UK, dialectal) A friend at one's back; a backer; one who does his best for another; a supporter.
(UK, dialectal) A hangnail.
(UK, dialectal, obsolete) A false friend; a secret enemy.
backgeared
backhander
backhander
noun
(informal) A bribe, a secret payment.
(racquet sports) A player who plays a backhand shot.
(racquet sports) A shot played backhand, a backhand stroke.
(surfing) A surfer who approaches a swell with the wave behind them ("on their backhand") rather than facing the wave ("on their forehand").
A blow with the back of the hand.
A glass of wine given out of turn, the bottle having been handed backwards.
backiebird
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.
backspread
backtender
backvelder
backvelder
noun
A native or inhabitant of the backveld.
backyarder
backyarder
noun
One who carries on a project or business in a backyard, especially the raising of poultry.
badgerlike
badgerlike
adj
Similar to a badger.
Similar to that of a badger.
baldricked
baldricked
adj
Wearing a baldrick (ornamental belt).
bankrolled
bankrolled
verb
simple past tense and past participle of bankroll
bankrupted
bankrupted
verb
simple past tense and past participle of bankrupt
barebacked
barebacked
adj
Of a bird raised for meat: lacking feathers, seen as an undesirable trait.
adv
Synonym of bareback
barenecked
barenecked
adj
Having the neck bare.
batterdock
bedarkened
bedarkened
adj
Dim, dark, or obscure
verb
simple past tense and past participle of bedarken
betuckered
birdieback
birkenhead
birkenhead
Proper noun
An English topographic surname
Either of F. E. Smith, Frederick Smith or Frederick Smith the 1st, 2nd and 3rd Earls of Birkenhead
the town itself.
blackbeard
blackbeard
Proper noun
The archetypal pirate, who lived in the 17th and 18th centuries.
blockaders
blockaders
noun
plural of blockader
bookbinder
bookbinder
noun
A person whose profession is binding pages together to form books.
bookdealer
bookdealer
noun
One who trades in books.
bookholder
bookholder
noun
(obsolete) A prompter at a theatre.
A support for a book, holding it open for reading or copying.
boondocker
boondocker
noun
A kind of combat boot worn in the US Marine Corps.
bordermark
bracketted
breadmaker
breadmaker
noun
(dated) One who makes bread; a baker.
Alternative form of bread maker
breakdowns
breakdowns
noun
plural of breakdown
brickfield
brickfield
noun
A place where bricks are made; a brickyard.
bridestake
bridgelike
bridgelike
adj
Resembling or characteristic of a bridge.
Similar to the card game of bridge.
bridgework
bridgework
noun
(dentistry) A partial denture that is anchored to existing teeth.
The component parts of a bridge.
The construction or repair of bridges.
brookeland
brookfield
cadilesker
cadilesker
noun
A chief judge in the Ottoman Empire.
candymaker
candymaker
noun
A manufacturer of candy.
cankerbird
cankeredly
cankeredly
adv
In a cankered manner.
cankerweed
cedarbrook
checkrowed
checkrowed
verb
simple past tense and past participle of checkrow
chronodeik
cinderlike
cinderlike
adj
Resembling or characteristic of a cinder.
clarkedale
clarkfield
clarksdale
coldturkey
cradlelike
cradlelike
adj
Resembling a cradle.
crookedest
crookedest
adj
superlative form of crooked: most crooked
crookkneed
crooknosed
crooksided
daggerlike
daggerlike
adj
Resembling or characteristic of a dagger.
darkhaired
darknesses
darknesses
noun
plural of darkness
plural of darknesse
dawnstreak
debarkment
defrocking
defrocking
noun
The formal removal of the rights and authority of a member of the clergy.
verb
present participle of defrock
dekadarchy
dekadarchy
noun
(politics) Synonym of decarchy: rule by ten people.
dekadrachm
dekagramme
dekaliters
dekaliters
noun
plural of dekaliter
dekameters
dekameters
noun
plural of dekameter
dekaparsec
dekaparsec
noun
Alternative form of decaparsec
derricking
derricking
verb
present participle of derrick
derrickman
derrickman
noun
A member of an oil drilling rig who works on a derrick suspended above the rig floor, manhandling the drillpipe.
derrickmen
derrickmen
noun
plural of derrickman
desertlike
desertlike
adj
Resembling a desert
dickeybird
disembarks
disembarks
verb
Third-person singular simple present indicative form of disembark
disfrocked
disfrocked
verb
simple past tense and past participle of disfrock
divekeeper
divekeeper
noun
The proprietor of a seedy bar or tavern.
diyarbekir
dockmaster
dockmaster
noun
Someone in charge of a dock, or of docking.
dockworker
dockworker
noun
A person who works on the dock of a harbor or shipyard, usually employed to load or unload freight.
doctorlike
doctorlike
adj
Resembling or characteristic of a doctor.
dominicker
dominicker
Noun
A Dominique (breed of chicken).
donkeywork
donkeywork
noun
Alternative form of donkey work
doorkeeper
doorkeeper
noun
The person in charge of an entryway, sometimes just a doorman, sometimes something more.
doughmaker
downlooker
downlooker
noun
(fishing) A kind of artificial fly used in fly fishing.
Any of various snipe flies of the genus Rhagio.
downstroke
downstroke
noun
A downward stroke, especially one that is part of a sequence of alternating upward and downward strokes.
dragonlike
dragonlike
Adjective
Resembling a dragon or some aspect of one.
drakesboro
drakestone
drawknives
drawknives
noun
plural of drawknife
dreadlocks
dreadlocks
noun
A hairstyle worn by Rastafarians and others in which the hair is left to grow into long matted strings.
dreikanter
dreikanter
noun
(petrology) A type of pebble that has three curved faces formed by wind-blown sand.
dressmaker
dressmaker
noun
A person who makes tailor-made women's clothes.
drinkables
drinkables
noun
plural of drinkable
drinkwater
drinkwater
adj
(of a place) Small, rural, and insignificant.
noun
Potable water; water intended for drinking
dropkicker
dropkicker
noun
One who dropkicks.
drunkeness
drunkeries
duikerboks
duikerboks
noun
plural of duikerbok
duikerbuck
dukkeripen
dunderfunk
dunderfunk
noun
(obsolete, nautical) ship's biscuit broken up, mixed with molasses etc. and baked
dykehopper
dzerzhinsk
earthdrake
earthdrake
noun
(in early Anglo-Saxon literature) a dragon.
flakeboard
flakeboard
noun
A type of board manufactured from wood flakes
flanderkin
forkedness
forkedness
noun
The state or quality of being forked.
fredericka
fredericka
Proper noun
form (female given name)
fredericks
fretworked
fretworked
adj
Adorned with fretwork.
friederike
friendlike
friendlike
adj
Resembling or characteristic of a friend.
gardenlike
gardenlike
adj
Resembling a garden
girdlecake
girdlelike
girdlelike
adj
Resembling or characteristic of a girdle.
goldworker
goldworker
noun
A metalworker who fashions gold into objects.
grubstaked
grubstaked
verb
simple past tense and past participle of grubstake
hackdriver
hallmarked
hallmarked
adj
Stamped with a hallmark
verb
simple past tense and past participle of hallmark
handbanker
handshaker
handshaker
noun
One who gives a handshake.
handstroke
handstroke
noun
(bellringing) The pull on the sally that swings the bell through a full circle
handworked
handworked
adj
worked by hand
handworker
handworker
noun
One who carries out handwork, working by hand rather than using a machine.
headshaker
headworker
headworker
noun
One who performs mental or intellectual labour.
hedgemaker
hedgemaker
noun
One who constructs a hedge.
heraklidan
hermokopid
hoodwinker
hoodwinker
noun
One who hoodwinks.
huckstered
huckstered
verb
simple past tense and past participle of huckster
interdrink
interdrink
adj
Between drinks.
ironworked
iskenderun
jackarooed
jackarooed
verb
simple past tense and past participle of jackaroo
jackerooed
jackerooed
verb
simple past tense and past participle of jackeroo
jackrolled
jackrolled
verb
simple past tense and past participle of jackroll
jackyarder
jerkinhead
jerkinhead
noun
(architecture) The hipped part of a roof which is hipped only for a part of its height, leaving a truncated gable.
junkdealer
kailyarder
kailyarder
noun
A writer of the Kailyard school, a group of Scottish authors who offered a sentimental and idyllic representation of rural life.
kennerdell
keratinoid
keratinoid
adj
Resembling, or composed of keratin
keratoidea
kerchiefed
kerchiefed
adj
Wearing a kerchief.
kettledrum
kettledrum
noun
(dated) An informal social party at which a light collation is offered, held in the afternoon or early evening.
(music) A large hemispherical brass percussion instrument (one of the timpani) with a drumhead that can be tuned by adjusting its tension.