(architecture, informal) A vestibule, foyer or entranceway with doors to the exterior on one end and doors to the interior on the other, functioning to keep indoor and outdoor air, humidity, and air temperatures separate.
A sealed, airtight chamber, such as in a manned spacecraft or submarine, used to provide access to and from the sealed area without allowing air out or water in.
Alternative form of air lock
akerley
alarick
alberik
alborak
alkmaar
alkoran
allwork
allwork
noun
Domestic or other work of all kinds.
amlikar
amlikar
noun
An embroidered Kashmir shawl.
aralkyl
aralkyl
noun
(organic chemistry) Any univalent radical derived from an alkyl radical by replacing one or more hydrogen atoms by aryl groups
arclike
arclike
adj
Resembling or characteristic of an arc.
arkdale
armlike
armlike
adj
Resembling or characteristic of an arm (limb).
armlock
armlock
noun
(figuratively, by extension) Power to control or heavily influence something or someone.
A wrestling move in which the opponent's arm is held immobile.
Any of several distinct attacks against an opponent’s arm in martial arts.
verb
(transitive) To hold in an armlock.
artlike
artlike
adj
Resembling or characteristic of art.
askarel
askarel
noun
A synthetic electrically insulating liquid which is nonflammable; when decomposed by an electric arc, the gaseous products also are nonflammable.
backler
bakerly
bakerly
adj
Characteristic of a baker.
balkers
balkers
noun
plural of balker
balkier
balkier
adj
comparative form of balky: more balky
barkley
barlock
berkley
bilkers
bilkers
noun
plural of bilker
blacker
blacker
adj
comparative form of black: more black
noun
One who blacks.
blanker
blanker
adj
comparative form of blank: more blank
noun
(computing) An early form of screensaver that blanked out the screen display when it was not in use.
bleaker
bleaker
adj
comparative form of bleak: more bleak
bleeker
blenker
blinker
blinker
noun
(cellular automata) In Conway's Game of Life, an arrangement of three cells in a row that switches between horizontal and vertical orientations in each generation.
(informal, US, automotive) Anything that blinks, such as the turn signal of an automobile.
(rare) The eyelid.
(slang) A black eye.
Eye shields attached to a hood for horses, to prevent them from seeing backwards and partially sideways.
Whatever obstructs sight or discernment.
verb
(transitive) To put blinkers on.
blocker
blocker
noun
(card games) A playing card, needed by one player, that is held by another.
(computing) A bug or issue that prevents software from being released.
(computing) An application that stops / impedes unauthorised access to a programme.
(computing) One who prevents another user from contacting them electronically.
(marketing) A gatekeeper who refuses the marketer access to the person they wish to contact.
(poker) A blocker bet.
(sports) One who blocks or impedes the movement of an opponent.
A close-fitting rectangular glove worn by a goalie in multiple forms of hockey.
A person who blocks (stretches or moulds) hats.
A puberty blocker.
blunker
brekkle
brickel
brickle
brickle
adj
(Appalachia or archaic or dialect) Alternative form of breakle
verb
(Canada, dialect) To fail spectacularly.
brickly
brickly
adj
(dialect) fragile; brittle
briskly
briskly
adv
Fast, quickly, swiftly.
brockle
brockle
adj
Of animals: variegated, speckled, multicolored; usually used in the phrase brockle-faced.
Of food odors: malodorous, flatulent, pungent: smelling of sulfur, hydrogen sulfide, or hydrogen disulfide.
bruckle
bruckle
adj
(dialectal) Frail, weak, fragile.
bruskly
bruskly
adv
Alternative spelling of brusquely
buckler
buckler
noun
(nautical) A block of wood or plate of iron made to fit a hawse hole, or the circular opening in a half-port, to prevent water from entering when the vessel pitches.
(obsolete) A shield resembling the Roman scutum. In modern usage, a smaller variety of shield is usually implied by this term.
(zoology) One of the large, bony, external plates found on many ganoid fishes.
(zoology) The anterior segment of the shell of a trilobite.
A kind of shield, of various shapes and sizes, held in the hand or worn on the arm (usually the left), for protecting the front of the body. In the sword and buckler play of the Middle Ages in England, the buckler was a small shield, used not to cover the body but to stop or parry blows.
One who buckles something.
verb
(transitive, obsolete) To shield; to defend.
bulkier
bulkier
adj
comparative form of bulky: more bulky
bulwark
bulwark
noun
(figurative) Any means of defence or security.
(nautical) The planking or plating along the sides of a nautical vessel above her gunwale that reduces the likelihood of seas washing over the gunwales and people being washed overboard.
A breakwater.
A defense or safeguard.
A defensive wall or rampart.
verb
(transitive) To fortify something with a wall or rampart.
(transitive) To provide protection of defense for something.
burkley
burlesk
burlesk
noun
Obsolete form of burlesque.
cackler
cackler
noun
A person or creature that cackles.
calkers
calkers
noun
plural of calker
carkled
carlick
carlock
carlock
noun
A sort of Russian isinglass, made from the air bladder of the sturgeon, and used in clarifying wine.
caulker
caulker
noun
(informal) Archaic form of corker (“something large or remarkable, a whopper”).
(slang, archaic) An alcoholic drink; a dram.
A person who caulks various structures (as ships) and certain types of piping.
A tool used for caulking ships; a caulking iron.
chalker
chalker
noun
One who chalks.
clacker
clacker
noun
(Australia, New Zealand, slang) The anus.
(by extension) Any device that makes a clacking noise.
(music) A percussion instrument that makes a clacking noise.
clarkia
clarkia
noun
Any of several annual flowering plants, of the genus Clarkia, native to the Americas.
clarkin
clawker
clerked
clerked
verb
simple past tense and past participle of clerk
clerkly
clerkly
adj
(obsolete) Scholarly.
Of clerks; befitting a clerk.
adv
(obsolete) In a scholarly manner.
clicker
clicker
noun
(UK, obsolete) Someone who stands by a shop door to invite people to buy; a tout.
(printing, historical) An employee who locks the type in the form to make it ready for printing.
(printing, obsolete) One who has charge of the work of a companionship.
(slang) The remote-control device used to change settings on a television set, VCR, or other electronic equipment.
A machine that cuts materials using a steel rule die. The name comes from the sound (click) when the material is cut. May be hand, pneumatic, or hydraulic powered.
A person who cuts out the uppers of shoes from pieces of leather using a flexible knife that clicks as it changes direction.
A signalling device used by military forces. Pressed between thumb and fingers, it makes a small but distinctive click understood by other members of a unit.
A small mechanical device that produces a clicking sound, used in dog training.
An electronic device used by individual students in the classroom to respond to multiple-choice questions, etc.
Someone who clicks, for example using a computer mouse.
clinker
clinker
noun
(in the plural) fetters.
(nautical, chiefly attributive) A style of boatbuilding using overlapping planks.
A mass of bricks fused together by intense heat.
A scum of oxide of iron formed in forging.
A very hard brick used for paving customarily made in the Netherlands.
An intermediate product in the manufacture of Portland cement, obtained by sintering limestone and alumino-silicate materials such as clay into nodules in a cement kiln.
Hardened volcanic lava.
Slag or ash produced by intense heat in a furnace, kiln or boiler that forms a hard residue upon cooling.
Someone or something that clinks.
verb
(transitive, intransitive) To convert or be converted into clinker.
clocker
clocker
noun
(Scotland, dated) A clucking hen.
(slang) A low-level drug dealer who operates on the streets.
A person who clocks (illegally winds back the milometer of) a motor car
clunker
clunker
noun
(informal) A decrepit motor car.
(informal) Anything which is in poor condition or of poor quality.
cockler
cockler
noun
One who finds and sells cockles.
crackle
crackle
noun
(physics) The fifth derivative of the position vector with respect to time (after velocity, acceleration, jerk, and jounce), i.e. the rate of change of jounce.
(pottery) A style of glaze giving the impression of many small cracks.
A prolonged, frequent cracking sound; a fizzing, popping sound.
Synonym of crackling (“crispy rind of roast pork”)
verb
(intransitive) To make a prolonged, frequent cracking sound which sounds like fizzing or popping.
Misspelling of cackle.
crackly
crackly
adj
Involving or producing a crackle.
crankle
crankle
noun
A bend, twist or crinkle.
verb
To bend, turn, or wind.
To break into bends, turns, or angles; to crinkle.
crankly
crickle
crinkle
crinkle
noun
A wrinkle, fold, crease, or unevenness.
The act of crinkling
verb
(intransitive) To rustle, as stiff cloth when moved.
(transitive, intransitive) To fold, crease, crumple, or wad.
crinkly
crinkly
adj
Having crinkles; wrinkly.
That crinkles.
noun
(derogatory) An old person.
crookle
crookle
verb
(obsolete, dialectal, East Midlands, Lancashire, Yorkshire) To bend; to make crooked.
crunkle
crunkle
verb
(UK, obsolete, dialectal) To crumple.
curkell
curlike
curlike
adj
Resembling or characteristic of a cur.
darkful
darkful
adj
(archaic) Full of darkness
darkled
darkled
verb
simple past tense and past participle of darkle
darkles
darkles
verb
Third-person singular simple present indicative form of darkle
drunkly
drunkly
adv
In a drunk manner; drunkenly.
ducklar
earlike
earlike
adj
Resembling an ear (body part).
earlock
earlock
noun
A lock of curly hair worn by the ear, often by Jewish men for religious reasons, and formerly by Elizabethan dandies.
elektra
elkader
elkader
Proper noun
a city in Iowa, USA
elkhart
elkhart
Proper noun
a village in Logan County, Illinois, USA.
a city in Elkhart County, Indiana, USA.
a city in Polk County, Iowa, USA.
a city in Kansas, USA, and the county seat of Morton County.
a town in Anderson County, Texas, USA.
elkhorn
elkhorn
noun
A highly-branched coral (Acropora palmata) supposed to resemble the horns of an elk
The horn of an elk
elkport
enkraal
enkraal
verb
(transitive) To place in a kraal.
erlking
erlking
noun
(mythology) In German literature and modern pseudo-mythology, a malicious elf or spirit who preys on children.
fackler
falkirk
falkirk
Proper noun
A town in the Central Lowlands of Scotland, originally in
A unitary council area in Scotland, and previously a local government district in Region (1975-1996).
falkner
fartlek
fartlek
noun
An athletic training technique, used especially in running, in which periods of intense effort alternate with periods of less strenuous effort in a continuous workout.
fickler
fickler
adj
comparative form of fickle: more fickle
flacker
flacker
verb
(intransitive) To flicker; to quiver.
(intransitive) To flutter like a bird.
flakers
flakers
noun
plural of flaker
flakier
flakier
adj
comparative form of flaky: more flaky
flanker
flanker
noun
(American football) A wide receiver who lines up behind the line of scrimmage.
(military) A fortification or soldier projecting so as to defend another work or to command the flank of an assailing body.
(rugby) A player who plays in the back row of the scrum.
verb
(obsolete) To attack sideways.
(obsolete) To defend by lateral fortifications.
flasker
flasker
noun
(historical) A whisky smuggler.
flecker
flecker
verb
(transitive) To fleck; to speckle.
flicker
flicker
noun
(US) Any of certain small woodpeckers, especially of the genus Colaptes.
(figurative) A short moment.
An unsteady flash of light.
One who flicks.
verb
(intransitive) To burn or shine unsteadily, or with a wavering light.
(intransitive) To keep going on and off; to appear and disappear for short moments; to flutter.
(transitive, intransitive) To flutter or flap.
flocker
flocker
noun
One who or that which flocks; a bird species that forms flocks.
flukier
flukier
adj
comparative form of fluky: more fluky
flunker
flunker
noun
(slang, Canada, US) Someone who has flunked: failed in an examination, been kept back to repeat a grade, or flunked out of school.
flusker
forkful
forkful
noun
The amount that a fork will hold.
forwalk
forwalk
verb
(transitive) To walk (someone) excessively; weary with walking.
forwelk
forwelk
verb
(intransitive, obsolete) To wither; decay; fade.
frankel
frankly
frankly
adv
(sciences, medicine) To a degree large enough as to be plainly evident.
(sentence adverb) In truth, to tell the truth.
In a frank or candid manner, especially in a way that may seem too open, excessively honest, or slightly blunt.
freckle
freckle
noun
(Australia) A small sweet consisting of a flattish mound of chocolate covered in hundreds and thousands.
(Australia, slang) The anus.
A small brownish or reddish pigmentation spot on the surface of the skin.
Any small spot or discoloration.
verb
(intransitive) To become covered with freckles.
(transitive) To cover with freckles.
freckly
freckly
adj
Full of or marked with freckles; sprinkled with spots; freckled.
adv
(obsolete) hurriedly
boldly; eagerly.
frickle
frickle
noun
(Canada, US) A snack food consisting of a fried pickle.
(obsolete) A bushel basket.
friskle
frolick
frolick
adj
Archaic form of frolic.
grackle
grackle
noun
(formerly) Any of several Asian myna birds of the genus Gracula.
Any of several American blackbirds of the genus Quiscalus, and related genera, having iridescent plumage.
grockle
grockle
noun
(slang, Britain, various parts of the West Country) A tourist from elsewhere in the country
hackler
hackler
noun
A worker who separated the coarse part of flax or hemp with a hackle; a flax-dresser
harlock
heckler
heckler
noun
(US, military, slang) An aircraft flying attack missions at night.
Alternative form of hackler (“worker who separates flax”)
One who heckles; somebody who insults, makes fun of, or teases.
hokerly
hulkier
hulkier
adj
comparative form of hulky: more hulky
hurlock
hurlock
Proper noun
A town in Maryland.
irklion
jerkily
jerkily
adv
In a jerky manner.
kancler
karacul
karakul
karakul
noun
A sheep of a Central Asian breed.
A type of hat made from the wool of these sheep.
karalee
karbala
kardelj
karelia
karilla
karleen
karlene
karlens
karling
karlise
karloff
karolyn
karthli
kartvel
karylin
kegeler
kegeler
noun
Alternative form of kegler
keglers
keglers
noun
plural of kegler
keldron
kelford
kelters
kelters
noun
plural of kelter
kenlore
kenlore
noun
(philosophy) epistemology; theory of knowledge
keratol
kerbela
kerflap
kerflop
kerflop
intj
The sound of something flopping heavily, or moving along in a flopping manner.