(US) A tax on sales of agricultural goods in order to finance a generic commodity marketing program.
(US) The collection of union dues or other fees from employees via deductions from their wages.
(US) The optional allocation of part of a citizen's income tax towards the presidential election campaign fund.
checkout
checkout
noun
(Internet, by extension) The process of confirming and paying for an online purchase.
(darts) The number of points that a player scores on their final, winning visit to the oche.
A test to see if some device is functioning properly.
An inspection or investigation.
The place in a supermarket where this is done.
The process of checking out items at a supermarket or library.
The process of checking out of a hotel, or the latest time to vacate a room in one.
checkrow
checkrow
verb
(agriculture) To plant seeds at the intersections of a criss-cross pattern previously marked out on the ground.
chedlock
chercock
cherokee
chockler
chokered
chokered
adj
Wearing a choker.
chokiest
chokiest
adj
superlative form of choky: most choky
chookies
chookies
noun
plural of chookie
cockhead
cockhead
noun
(engineering) The rounded or pointed top of a grinding mill spindle, forming a pivot on which the stone is balanced.
(vulgar, slang) The glans penis.
(vulgar, slang, derogatory) Dickhead, a term of abuse.
dockhead
dohickey
dohickey
noun
Alternative spelling of doohickey
echikson
ekphoria
elkhound
elkhound
noun
Any Scandinavian breed of dog bred to hunt elk (US: moose).
Norwegian Elkhound, a breed of dog from Norway for hunting elk (US: moose).
eyehooks
eyehooks
noun
plural of eyehook; alternative form of eye hooks
forehock
forehock
noun
The hock from the foreleg of a pig
forehook
forehook
noun
(nautical) A piece of timber placed across the stern, to unite the bows and strengthen the fore part of the ship; a breast hook.
forkhead
forkhead
noun
(biochemistry) A sequence of amino acids that forms a motif, in FOX proteins, that binds to DNA.
(minced oath) Euphemistic form of fuckhead.
(obsolete) An arrow with a barbed tip.
The forked end of a rod in a knuckle joint or similar.
gunkhole
gunkhole
noun
(nautical) A small cove, especially a small fishing community.
verb
(nautical) To cruise in shallow coastal waters, spending the nights in gunkholes.
hakodate
halolike
halolike
adj
Resembling or characteristic of a halo.
havelock
havelock
noun
A cap incorporating a cloth hanging down the sides and back, to protect the ears and neck; often created ad hoc by placing a kerchief on the head and holding it in place with a cap.
havocked
havocker
havocker
noun
A person who causes havoc.
hawknose
hawknose
noun
A nose shaped like a hawk's beak.
headlock
headlock
noun
A wrestling move where the attacker puts their arm tightly round their opponent's head, which the opponent can't easily escape from.
verb
(transitive) To restrain in a headlock.
headwork
headwork
noun
Mental or intellectual labour; the use of logic and clear thinking.
hedgcock
heelwork
heelwork
noun
A routine in dog shows in which the dog moves at the handler's heels, sometimes choreographed to music.
hemlocks
hemlocks
noun
plural of hemlock
herblock
herdbook
herdbook
noun
A book containing the list and pedigrees of one or more herds of cattle.
herolike
herolike
adj
Resembling or characteristic of a hero; heroic.
hobucken
hockelty
hocktide
hocktide
Proper noun
A mediaeval English festival celebrated on the second Tuesday after Easter Sunday.
hoecakes
hoecakes
noun
plural of hoecake
hokiness
hokiness
noun
The state or condition of being hoky.
holyoake
homefolk
homelike
homelike
adj
Having the comfortable characteristics of a home.
homemake
homemake
verb
(intransitive) To manage a household; to engage in homemaking.
(transitive) To prepare (a recipe, etc.) at home through one's own efforts, rather than buying it; to create homemade goods.
homesick
homesick
adj
(often with for) Missing one's home and family very much when away; nostalgic.
homework
homework
noun
(by extension) Something which one is encouraged to learn or study on their own.
(literally, now rare) Any work that is done at home; housework.
(slang, euphemistic) Sexual intercourse.
Exercises assigned by a teacher to a student which review concepts studied in class.
honecker
hoodlike
hoodlike
adj
Resembling a hood.
hooflike
hooflike
adj
Resembling a hoof.
hookheal
hookiest
hookiest
adj
superlative form of hooky: most hooky
hookless
hookless
adj
Without hooks.
hooklets
hooklets
noun
plural of hooklet
hooklike
hooklike
adj
Resembling a hook.
hooknose
hooknose
noun
A fish, the armed bullhead
An aquiline nose
Someone with such a nose, especially Jews
hookweed
hookwise
hooplike
hooplike
adj
Resembling a hoop.
hornbeak
hornbeak
noun
The hornfish.
hornbeck
hornkeck
hornlike
hornlike
adj
Of a hard substance, similar to horn.
Projecting like a horn.
hosecock
hoselike
hoselike
adj
Resembling or characteristic of a hose.
hotcakes
hotcakes
noun
plural of hotcake
kaneoche
kathodes
kathodes
noun
plural of kathode
keeshond
kehoeite
kehoeite
noun
(mineralogy) A soft, microcrystalline, hydrated phosphate of aluminium, zinc and calcium.
kenhorst
kerslosh
kerslosh
intj
The sound of something moving noisily through water; slosh.
ketuboth
keyholes
keyholes
noun
plural of keyhole
verb
Third-person singular simple present indicative form of keyhole
kiboshed
kiboshed
verb
simple past tense and past participle of kibosh
kiboshes
kiboshes
verb
Third-person singular simple present indicative form of kibosh
kilnhole
kilnhole
noun
The opening of a kiln into which material is fed.
kithogue
kitthoge
kneehole
kneehole
noun
A space for the knees (and lower legs), especially under a desk.
knothead
knothead
noun
(informal) A stupid or stubborn person.
knothole
knothole
noun
(Cincinnati, sports, attributive) Youth league baseball.
In a piece of lumber, a void left by a knot in the wood; such holes are often convenient for peering through when they occur in fences.
kohekohe
kohekohe
noun
Dysoxylum spectabile, a medium-sized tree native to New Zealand, related to mahogany.
koheleth
koheleth
Proper noun
A king in the book of Ecclesiastes.
kohoutek
kolhozes
kolhozes
noun
plural of kolhoz
kooletah
kooletah
noun
An Inuit caribou-skin coat.
korahite
koreshan
koshered
koshered
verb
simple past tense and past participle of kosher
koyemshi
kugelhof
kweichow
kyphoses
kyphoses
noun
plural of kyphosis
lekythoi
lekythos
lekythos
noun
A pottery flask with a narrow neck, used in Ancient Greece for storing oil.
likehood
likehood
noun
(obsolete) likelihood
lockheed
lockhole
meathook
meathook
noun
Alternative spelling of meat hook
melkhout
melkhout
noun
(South Africa) The milkwood tree.
meshwork
meshwork
noun
A net; an assembly of meshes.
mopehawk
mopehawk
noun
Alternative form of morepork (“the bird”)
mothlike
mothlike
adj
Resembling or characteristic of a moth.
muckhole
neshkoro
ockeghem
okauchee
okechuku
okolehao
okolehao
noun
A distilled beverage made from the ti root, and often containing other ingredients, such as sugar cane and pineapple.
outshake
outshake
verb
(transitive) To surpass in shaking; to shake more or better than.
overhusk
pokerish
pokerish
adj
(US, archaic, colloquial) unsafe, dangerous
(archaic, colloquial) nervous, uneasy
Stiff, like a poker.
ravehook
reaphook
schokker
shackoes
shakeout
shakeout
noun
(engineering) The separation of molds from their flask, the castings from the molding sand, and potentially the cores from the castings.
An event that causes marginal constituents to be eliminated.
The shaking of an object to spread it wide and eject any debris.
shakopee
shakopee
Proper noun
a city in Minnesota, USA
sheikdom
sheikdom
noun
The domain ruled by a sheik.
sherlock
sherlock
verb
Alternative letter-case form of Sherlock
shockers
shockers
noun
plural of shocker
shockley
shoemake
shoepack
shoepack
noun
Alternative spelling of shoepac
shopkeep
shopkeep
noun
(informal) A shopkeeper.
shoplike
shoplike
adj
Resembling or characteristic of a shop.
shotlike
shotlike
adj
Resembling or characteristic of a shot.
sinkhole
sinkhole
noun
(Internet) A domain name server that has been configured to hand out non-routeable addresses for all domains, so that every computer that uses it will fail to get access to the real website.
(computer security) An attack which redirects requests - be it network or memory accesses - to a new location defined by the attacker.
(geology) A hole formed in soluble rock by the action of water, serving to conduct surface water to an underground passage.
(pinball) A hole in the playfield that rewards the player when the ball is guided into it.
A depressed area in which waste or drainage collects.
verb
(Internet, transitive) To configure as a sinkhole (domain name server that gives non-routeable addresses).
skelloch
skelloch
noun
(Scotland) A squeal.
verb
(Scotland, intransitive) To cry out with a shrill voice.
sockhead
sorehawk
sovkhose
sovkhose
noun
Alternative form of sovkhoz
suckhole
suckhole
noun
(US) A whirlpool.
(slang, derogatory) A sycophant, gratuitous pleaser.
verb
(slang, derogatory) To act in a sycophantic manner; suck up.
tchekhov
tekonsha
tophaike
tophaike
noun
(obsolete) A Turkish musket
tuckahoe
tuckahoe
noun
(uncommon, US, Virginia dialect, largely obsolete) A person, especially if poor and malnourished (or if implied to be), living east of Virginia's Blue Ridge Mountains.
Any edible root of a plant used by Native Americans of colonial-era Virginia.
The sclerotium of the wood-decay fungus Wolfiporia extensa, used by Native Americans and the Chinese as food and as a herbal medicine.
The wild potato, the arrow arum, Peltandra virginica.
unchoked
unchoked
verb
simple past tense and past participle of unchoke
unchokes
unchokes
verb
Third-person singular simple present indicative form of unchoke