(medicine) A lotion made by mixing calomel and limewater.
(slang, New Zealand) A whitewash victory for any New Zealand national sporting team.
(slang, cricket) A whitewash victory for the West Indies cricket team. Started in the 1984–86 "Blackwash" series of the West Indian cricket team in England in 1984.
(slang, mining) Public campaigns and advertising funded by the coal industry to draw attention away from environmentally unsustainable practices or to justify exclusion from carbon taxes.
verb
(transitive) To blacken, to cover with a black color.
(transitive) To portray in a revisionist fashion as belonging to a black race of people.
(transitive) To villainize, to present in a damaging light.
buckwheat
buckwheat
noun
(Western US) Any of the wild buckwheats in the genus Eriogonum.
(cooking) The fruit of this plant used as a pseudocereal.
(derogatory, offensive, ethnic slur, US) Curly hair of a black person.
(slang) A slow and painful murder by the Mafia as a warning to others.
(slang) Pubic hair.
An Asian plant, of the species Fagopyrum esculentum. [from 16th c.]
bullwhack
bullwhack
verb
(US) To work as a bullwhacker, driving a bullock team.
bushwhack
bushwhack
verb
to ambush
to fight, as a guerilla, especially in wooded country
to travel through thick wooded country, cutting away scrub to make progress
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.
chadwicks
chainwork
chainwork
noun
Work looped or linked after the manner of a chain.
chawstick
chawstick
noun
Alternative form of chewstick (“plant”)
chickasaw
coachwork
coachwork
noun
The body of a motor vehicle (as opposed to the chassis).
duckwheat
gatchwork
gatchwork
noun
Decorative work made from gatch.
hackworks
hackworks
noun
plural of hackwork
hardwicke
hornwrack
hornwrack
noun
(zoology) A bryozoan of the genus Flustra.
kawaguchi
kickshaws
kickshaws
noun
Alternative form of kickshaw
plural of kickshaw
kwangchow
outthwack
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.
rickshaws
rickshaws
noun
plural of rickshaw
shockwave
shockwave
noun
Alternative spelling of shock wave
throwback
throwback
noun
(US, accounting) A practice to avoid untaxed nowhere income by instead taxing such income in the originating state for a given transaction.
(derogatory) A person considered to be primitive, uncivilized and mentally deficient.
(slang, often attributive) A person or thing that evokes memories.
A person similar to an ancestor, or something new similar to what already existed.
A reversion to an earlier stage of development.
An atavism.
An organism that has characteristics of a more primitive form.
Coordinate terms: nowhere income, throwout
thwackers
thwackers
noun
plural of thwacker
thwacking
thwacking
noun
The action or sound of a thwack; a beating.
verb
present participle of thwack
wahkiacus
watchmake
watchwork
watchwork
noun
The work produced by watchmaking; the mechanical arrangements making up a watch (portable timepiece).
whackiest
whackiest
adj
superlative form of whacky: most whacky
whaleback
whaleback
noun
(geology) A landform (typically a sand dune) having the form of the back of a whale.
(historical) A kind of cargo steamship with a hull that continuously curves above the waterline from vertical to horizontal.