A plant related to the thistle with enlarged flower heads eaten as a vegetable while immature, Cynara cardunculus var. scolymus.
backcloth
backcloth
noun
The painted scenery at the back of a stage; the backdrop.
backhouse
backhouse
noun
(US, Canada, euphemistic) An outhouse: an outbuilding used as a lavatory.
(now dialect) An outbuilding behind the main building.
benchwork
benchwork
noun
the structure supporting a model railway layout
work performed at a workbench
blockhead
blockhead
noun
(colloquial) A stupid person.
A sideshow performer who hammers nails or similar items through his or her nostril into the nasal cavity; human blockhead.
verb
(rare) To behave in a stupid manner.
To perform as a human blockhead.
blockhole
blockhole
noun
(by extension) The approximate place where the toe of the bat touches the pitch when a batsman is taking guard.
(cricket) A small depression in the pitch caused by batsmen tapping their bats on the point where they have taken block.
blockship
blockship
noun
(nautical) A vessel that is deliberately sunk in order to block a waterway (to prevent it being used by an enemy)
bodycheck
bodycheck
noun
Alternative spelling of body check
boschboks
boschboks
noun
plural of boschbok
boschvark
botchwork
botchwork
noun
Inferior and shoddy work.
boychicks
boychicks
noun
plural of boychick
brickhood
buckholts
buckhound
buckhound
noun
(UK) A hound for deer hunting.
buckshots
buckshots
noun
plural of buckshot
buckthorn
buckthorn
noun
Hippophae (family Elaeagnaceae), the sea buckthorn.
also genus Frangula, especially Frangula alnus, the alder buckthorn.
especially genus Rhamnus,
especially the common buckthorn or purging buckthorn; Rhamnus cathartica.
bucktooth
bucktooth
noun
An upper tooth that protrudes further than the bottom teeth.
cakehouse
cakehouse
noun
(archaic) A place for the storage of cakes of material, such as seedcake.
(archaic) A place where cakes are sold.
cashbooks
cashbooks
noun
plural of cashbook
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.
chainwork
chainwork
noun
Work looped or linked after the manner of a chain.
chapbooks
chapbooks
noun
plural of chapbook
charlocks
charlocks
noun
plural of charlock
chechakos
checkbook
checkbook
noun
Alternative form of chequebook
checkhook
checkoffs
checkoffs
noun
plural of checkoff
checkouts
checkouts
noun
plural of checkout
checkroll
checkroll
noun
A list of servants in a household, or slaves on a plantation.
checkroom
checkroom
noun
(US) A room where outdoor clothing or luggage may be temporarily stored.
checkrope
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.
cheechako
cheechako
noun
Someone new to Alaska or the Yukon; originally, a gold rush newcomer.
cheekbone
cheekbone
noun
The small prominent bone of the cheek.
chefornak
cherenkov
cherokees
chickhood
chickhood
noun
The period of being a chick (young bird).
chimariko
chimariko
Noun
A tribe that lived in a canyon on the Trinity River in California until they were all but destroyed in the mid-1800s, at which point survivors fled and assimilated into the Hupa and Shasta tribes.
Proper noun
The language spoken by this tribe, which is either a language isolate or perhaps Hokan.
chinookan
chinookan
Adjective
Of or relating to a small language family spoken in Oregon and Washington along the Columbia River by Chinook peoples.
chinovnik
chinovnik
noun
A bureaucrat in the Tsarist Russian government.
chockfull
choirlike
choirlike
adj
Resembling a choir or its sound.
chokeable
chokebore
chokebore
noun
A shotgun that is made with such a bore.
In a shotgun, a bore which is tapered to a slightly smaller diameter at a short distance to the rear of the muzzle, in order to prevent the rapid dispersion of the shot.
verb
(transitive) To provide (a gun) with a chokebore.
chokedamp
chokedamp
noun
(mining) A damp consisting chiefly of carbon dioxide, so called for its ability to asphyxiate.
chokerman
chokerman
noun
A person employed to fasten the choker around logs for haulage.
chokeweed
chokingly
chokingly
adv
While or as if choking, or in such a way as to cause one to choke.
chopstick
chopstick
noun
(ethnic slur) An Asian person.
(usually in the plural) An East Asian eating utensil usually used as a pair and held in one hand to grip pieces of food or occasionally to mix liquids or scoop up small pieces of food. The utensil is a stick, usually made of wood and measuring approximately 23cm (10 inches) in length.
verb
(transitive, intransitive, informal) To pick up (food) using chopsticks.
chuckhole
chuckhole
noun
(US) A pothole.
clerkhood
clerkhood
noun
The role or status of a clerk.
clothlike
clothlike
adj
Resembling cloth.
coachwork
coachwork
noun
The body of a motor vehicle (as opposed to the chassis).
cockfight
cockfight
noun
A contest, in a cockpit, between gamecocks fitted with cockspurs
verb
To participate in (as a rooster), or organize and run (as a gambler or bookmaker), a cockfighting event.
cockhorse
cockhorse
adj
(figuratively) Lofty in feeling; exultant, proud, upstart.
Lifted up, as one is on a tall horse.
noun
(archaic) A child's rocking horse.
(obsolete) A high or tall horse.
cockishly
cocklight
cocklight
noun
twilight at cockcrow; daybreak.
cockloche
cockmatch
cockmatch
noun
(archaic) A cockfight.
cockroach
cockroach
noun
(Australia, slang, derogatory, humorous) A person from New South Wales.
(Australia, slang, obsolete) A hard lump of brown sugar.
(offensive, slang, ethnic slur, Rwanda) A Tutsi.
(slang, offensive) A person or a member of a group of people regarded as undesirable and rapidly procreating.
A black or brown straight-winged insect of the order Blattodea.
cockshead
cockshead
noun
A leguminous herb, Onobrychis caput-galli, with small spiny-crested pods.
cockshies
cockshies
noun
plural of cockshy
verb
Third-person singular simple present indicative form of cockshy
cockshoot
cockshuts
cockshuts
noun
plural of cockshut
cookhouse
cookhouse
noun
A small building where cooking takes place.
cookishly
cookshack
cookshack
noun
A simple building where food is cooked, for example in a logging settlement.
cookshops
cookshops
noun
plural of cookshop
cornhusks
cornhusks
noun
plural of cornhusk
deckhouse
deckhouse
noun
A cabin that protrudes above a ship's deck.
dockhands
dockhands
noun
plural of dockhand
dockhouse
doohickey
doohickey
noun
A thing (used in a vague way to refer to something whose name one cannot recall)
doohickus
doohickus
noun
(informal) An unspecified or nameless thing; doohickey.
doorcheek
doorcheek
noun
The jamb or sidepiece of a door.
droschken
duckhouse
foreshock
foreshock
noun
(geology) A small earth tremor which precedes the mainshock in an earthquake sequence. Not all mainshocks have foreshocks.
Any shock or disturbance which precedes an event
gatchwork
gatchwork
noun
Decorative work made from gatch.
gorchakov
hackamore
hackamore
noun
A kind of bridle with no bit.
hackthorn
hackworks
hackworks
noun
plural of hackwork
haddocker
haddocker
noun
A commercial fisherman who catches haddock.
A fishing boat used for catching haddock.
hairlocks
hairlocks
noun
plural of hairlock
havelocks
havelocks
noun
plural of havelock
havockers
havockers
noun
plural of havocker
havocking
headlocks
headlocks
noun
plural of headlock
verb
Third-person singular simple present indicative form of headlock
headstock
headstock
noun
(mining) A headframe.
(rail transport) A transverse structural member at the extreme end of a rail vehicle's underframe, also used on some bogies.
A beam that supports a bell.
A clamp that restrains a cow by the neck.
A part of a machine (such as a lathe or drill) that supports a rotating part
The part of a lute-type string instrument, such as a guitar, that holds the tuning pegs or tensioning screws of the strings.
hickories
hickories
noun
plural of hickory
hillocked
hillocked
Adjective
Having hillocks.
hitchcock
hitchcock
Proper noun
Alfred Hitchcock, English filmmaker
hockamore
hockamore
noun
(obsolete) A Rhenish white wine.
hockessin
hockmoney
hockshops
hockshops
noun
plural of hockshop
hogchoker
hogchoker
noun
Trinectes maculatus, a small flatfish found along the coast of parts of North America.
hogsucker
hogsucker
noun
Hypentelium nigricans, a species of fish found throughout the Mississippi river basin, growing up to two feet in length.
holdbacks
holdbacks
noun
plural of holdback
hollyhock
hollyhock
noun
Any of several flowering plants of the genus Alcea in the Malvaceae family.
honeysuck
honeysuck
noun
(dialect, archaic) honeysuckle
hookcheck
hoopstick
hornwrack
hornwrack
noun
(zoology) A bryozoan of the genus Flustra.
horseback
horseback
adv
On the back of a horse.
noun
(countable) A ridge of sand, gravel, and boulders.
(usually with on, upon, etc.) The back of a horse.
horselock
hotchkiss
izvozchik
jockeyish
kalanchoe
kalanchoe
noun
Any of the genus Kalanchoe of tropical, succulent flowering plants.
kincheloe
kinkcough
kinkcough
noun
Alternative form of chincough (“whooping cough”)
kirchhoff
kiungchow
kluckhohn
kokoschka
koluschan
koluschan
Noun
Tlingit
Proper noun
Tlingit
Adjective
Tlingit
korahitic
kuangchou
kwangchow
locksmith
locksmith
noun
(gambling, slang) someone who only bets when they are sure they will win
one who practices locksmithing
lunchhook
manchukuo
manchukuo
Proper noun
A Japanese-controlled puppet state in Manchuria that existed from 1932 to 1945.
mangohick
matchbook
matchbook
noun
A small folded sheet of cardboard containing rows of cardboard matches, generally with a striker on the outside.
matchlock
matchlock
noun
Early type of firearm, using a smoldering piece of cord to fire the powder in the firing pan.
The gunlock used in such a weapon, having a slow smouldering match, see: slow match.
mechnikov
mohockism
moochulka
moochulka
noun
Alternative form of muchalka
neckcloth
neckcloth
noun
(historical) An ornamental cravat, usually white.
nonchalky
nonchalky
adj
Not chalky.
notchback
notchback
noun
A motor car whose rear window makes an angle with its back segment
ockenheim
outthwack
overcheck
overcheck
noun
A check pattern that is superimposed upon another pattern
A strap that stretches from the pollstrap of the bridle to the saddle
verb
(transitive) To check or verify more than necessary.
overchoke
overthick
packcloth
packcloth
noun
A strong, coarse cloth used for packaging
packhorse
packhorse
noun
A horse used as a pack animal.
packhouse
packhouse
noun
A building where fruit and vegetables are packed prior to distribution to shops.
patchcock
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.
picktooth
picktooth
Noun
A toothpick.
pinchcock
pinchcock
noun
A clamp on a flexible pipe to regulate the flow of fluid.
pitchfork
pitchfork
noun
(casual, loosely) Any fork used for farm labor, even a digging fork (but such usage is often considered ignorant by experienced farmers).
(rare) A tuning fork.
A similar fork with slightly more and heavier tines, used for mucking stalls and pitching soiled bedding into a wagon or manure spreader.
An agricultural tool comprising a fork with sparse, light tines, attached to a long handle, used for pitching hay (especially loose hay) high up onto a stack (as on a wagon or haystack, or into a haymow).
verb
(transitive) To toss or carry with a pitchfork.
(transitive, figurative) To throw suddenly.
pitchwork
pitchwork
noun
The work of a coal miner who is paid in a share of the mined material.
pockhouse
pohickory
pohickory
noun
A kind of hickory nut milk prepared by Native Americans in New England and used as a beverage.