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.
chalkworker
clockwatcher
clockwatcher
noun
Alternative form of clock-watcher
coachwork
coachwork
noun
The body of a motor vehicle (as opposed to the chassis).
disworkmanship
doorhawk
dorhawk
dorhawk
noun
A bird, the European goatsucker.
dorhawks
dorhawks
noun
plural of dorhawk
dworshak
earthwork
earthwork
noun
Any structure made from earth; especially an embankment or rampart used as a fortification.
earthworks
earthworks
noun
plural of earthwork
featherwork
featherwork
noun
(countable) A cultural artifact made with feathers.
(uncountable) The working of feathers into a cultural artifact.
featherworker
fliegerabwehrkanone
gatchwork
gatchwork
noun
Decorative work made from gatch.
hackbarrow
hackbarrow
noun
(historical) A kind of wheelbarrow used to carry new-made bricks to the hacks or racks where they are dried.
hackwork
hackwork
noun
Work, usually of a professional nature, either repetitive or done to a formula.
hackworks
hackworks
noun
plural of hackwork
hairwork
hairwork
noun
Jewellery made from human hair.
hairworks
hairworks
noun
plural of hairwork
hammerwork
handiwork
handiwork
noun
A handmade object; handicraft.
The result of personal efforts.
Work done by the hands.
Work done personally.
handiworks
handiworks
noun
plural of handiwork
handwork
handwork
noun
Work done by the hands, as opposed to by machine.
verb
(transitive) To work (materials) by hand, without the use of a machine.
handworked
handworked
adj
worked by hand
handworker
handworker
noun
One who carries out handwork, working by hand rather than using a machine.
handworkers
handworkers
noun
plural of handworker
handworkman
handworkman
noun
A man who works with his hands; one who carries out handwork.
handworks
handworks
noun
plural of handwork
hardworking
hardworking
adj
Of a person, taking their work seriously and doing it well and rapidly.
haskwort
hawksmoor
headwork
headwork
noun
Mental or intellectual labour; the use of logic and clear thinking.
headworker
headworker
noun
One who performs mental or intellectual labour.
headworking
headworks
headworks
noun
Any structure at the head or diversion point of a waterway. It is smaller than a barrage and is used to divert water from a river into a canal or from a large canal into a smaller canal.
hornwrack
hornwrack
noun
(zoology) A bryozoan of the genus Flustra.
khowar
khowar
Proper noun
An the spoken by the
kwashiorkor
kwashiorkor
noun
(pathology) A form of malnutrition, found in children, caused by dietary insufficiency of protein in combination with a high-carbohydrate diet.
kwashiorkors
kwashiorkors
noun
plural of kwashiorkor
lathwork
lathwork
Noun
A covering of laths.
lathworks
lathworks
noun
plural of lathwork
leatherwork
leatherwork
noun
Articles thus produced.
The making of articles from leather.
leatherworker
leatherworker
noun
A person who makes things from leather.
leatherworking
leatherworking
noun
The manufacture of articles from leather.
markworthy
markworthy
adj
Worthy of note or remark.
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.
patchworked
patchworked
verb
simple past tense and past participle of patchwork
patchworking
patchworking
noun
The making of patchworks
verb
present participle of patchwork
patchworks
patchworks
noun
plural of patchwork
patchworky
patchworky
adj
Like patchwork; untidy, variegated, higgledy-piggledy.
porokaiwhiria
porokaiwhiria
noun
(New Zealand) pigeonwood
schwarzkopf
scratchwork
scratchwork
noun
The first layer of plaster to be applied in plasterwork.
shopwalker
shopwalker
noun
(Britain) Alternative form of shop-walker
sorehawk
southwark
southwark
Proper noun
A London Borough within Greater London, to the south of the River Thames, including the historic borough plus the Pool of London and Bankside.
sparrowhawk
sparrowhawk
noun
(falconry) A female such bird, a male being a musket.
Alternative form of sparrow hawk; the American kestrel, Falco sparverius, of similar size and habit.
Any of numerous other relatively small Old World species of Accipiter, that prey on smaller birds or otherwise resemble A. nisus.
The Eurasian sparrowhawk, Accipiter nisus, a small, short-winged European hawk that preys on smaller birds.
starchworks
swashbucklerdom
swashwork
talkworthy
talkworthy
adj
Worth talking about.
thankworthily
thankworthiness
thankworthiness
noun
The quality or state of being thankworthy.
thankworthy
thankworthy
adj
Deserving thanks; worthy of gratitude.
thatchwork
thrawcrook
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
throwbacks
throwbacks
noun
plural of throwback
tomahawker
tomahawker
noun
One who uses a tomahawk as a weapon.
washwork
watchwork
watchwork
noun
The work produced by watchmaking; the mechanical arrangements making up a watch (portable timepiece).
watchworks
weathercock
weathercock
noun
(chiefly Canada, US) A kind of wind pump whose top behaves like a weather vane, moving with the wind direction, but which also has a wheel attached to measure wind speed.
(figuratively) One who veers with every change of current opinion; a fickle, inconstant person.
A weather vane, sometimes in the form of a cockerel.
verb
(intransitive, of a boat) To turn upwind because of the difference in water pressure on two sides.
(intransitive, of an airplane or missile) To veer into the direction of the oncoming (relative) wind.
(transitive) To act as a weathercock for.
weathercockish
weathercockish
adj
Fickle or changeable in one's views.
weathercockism
weathercocks
weathercocks
noun
plural of weathercock
weathercocky
weathercocky
adj
Synonym of weathercockish
whiskerando
whiskerandoed
whiskerandos
woodhacker
woodhacker
Noun
The yaffle
workaholic
workaholic
adj
In the nature or manner of a workaholic.
noun
A person who feels compelled to work excessively, including while at home.
workaholics
workaholics
noun
plural of workaholic
workaholism
workaholism
noun
The urge of a person to work excessively.
workaholisms
workhand
workhand
noun
A workman or laborer; a hand.
workmanship
workmanship
noun
The quality of something made by an artisan or craftsman.