(biology, medicine) Impaired patency of the urethra owing to any sort of fusion that either partially or completely obstructs its lumen (for example, stricture due to adhesions).
arbuckle
arguslike
arumlike
auldfarrantlike
bankruptlike
bankruptlike
adj
Resembling or characteristic of a bankrupt.
bareknuckle
bareknuckled
baulkier
baulkier
adj
comparative form of baulky: more baulky
beakerful
beakerful
noun
The amount that a beaker will hold.
beauclerk
berkelium
berkelium
noun
A transuranic chemical element (symbol Bk) with an atomic number of 97.
blackfigured
blackguarded
blackguarded
verb
simple past tense and past participle of blackguard
blackguardize
blackguardize
verb
To make blackguardly.
blakesburg
blockaderunning
blockbuster
blockbuster
noun
(US) One who engages in blockbusting (technique encouraging people to sell property).
(informal) Something, especially an event or a film, book or other creative work, that is intended to achieve high sales (perhaps indicated by large budgets or high advertising spending) or that is conceived on a large or epic scale
(informal) Something, such as a film or book, that sustains exceptional and widespread popularity and achieves enormous sales, as opposed to a box office bomb.
(slang) Anything very large or powerful; a whopper.
A high-explosive bomb used for the purposes of demolishing extensive areas, such as a city block.
A large firework of the firecracker type; an M-80.
blockbusters
blockbusters
noun
plural of blockbuster
bloodsucker
bloodsucker
noun
(by extension) Any parasite.
(by extension) One who attempts to take as much from others as possible; a leech.
A vampire.
An animal that drinks the blood of others, especially by sucking blood through a puncture wound; a hemovore.
The changeable lizard (Calotes versicolor).
bloodsuckers
bloodsuckers
noun
plural of bloodsucker
blunker
boulework
boulework
noun
(woodworking) Obsolete form of buhl work.
boullework
bruckle
bruckle
adj
(dialectal) Frail, weak, fragile.
bruckled
bruckleness
brushlike
brushlike
adj
Having the form of a brush.
brutelike
brutelike
adj
Resembling or characteristic of a brute.
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.
bucklered
bucklered
verb
simple past tense and past participle of buckler
bucklering
bucklering
verb
present participle of buckler
bucklers
bucklers
noun
plural of buckler
bulker
bulker
noun
(nautical) A bulk dry goods cargo ship.
(nautical) A person employed to ascertain the bulk or size of goods, in order to fix the amount of freight or dues payable on them.
A person who bulks (gains body mass).
Anything, such as a dietary supplement or an exercise, that helps a person to gain body mass.
bulkier
bulkier
adj
comparative form of bulky: more bulky
bulletmaker
bulletmaker
noun
A manufacturer of bullets.
bullocker
bullsticker
bullsucker
bullwhacker
bullwhacker
noun
(US) The driver of a bullock team.
bulrushlike
bulrushlike
adj
Resembling or characteristic of a bulrush.
bulwarked
bulwarked
verb
simple past tense and past participle of bulwark
bunkerville
burkesville
burkettsville
burkeville
burkittsville
burkle
burkley
burkville
burlesk
burlesk
noun
Obsolete form of burlesque.
burlesks
burlesks
noun
plural of burlesk
butlerlike
butlerlike
adj
Resembling or characteristic of a butler.
butterflylike
butterflylike
adj
Resembling or characteristic of a butterfly.
butterlike
butterlike
adj
Resembling butter or some aspect of it.
buttermilk
buttermilk
noun
Cultured buttermilk, a fermented dairy product produced from cow's milk, with a characteristically sour taste.
The liquid left over after producing butter from full cream milk by the churning process, also called traditional buttermilk.
buttermilks
buttermilks
noun
plural of buttermilk
buttresslike
buttresslike
adj
Resembling or characteristic of a buttress.
buzzardlike
buzzardlike
adj
Resembling or characteristic of a buzzard.
cantankerously
cantankerously
adv
In a cantankerous manner.
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.
caulkers
caulkers
noun
plural of caulker
chalkcutter
cherublike
cherublike
adj
Resembling or characteristic of a cherub.
choruslike
choruslike
adj
Resembling or characteristic of a chorus.
chuckler
chuckler
noun
(India, archaic) A shoemaker, a cobbler.
Someone who chuckles.
chucklers
chucklers
noun
plural of chuckler
churchlike
churchlike
adj
Resembling or befitting a church or a worship service.
clunker
clunker
noun
(informal) A decrepit motor car.
(informal) Anything which is in poor condition or of poor quality.
clunkers
clunkers
noun
plural of clunker
clunkier
clunkier
adj
comparative form of clunky: more clunky
cocklebur
cocklebur
noun
Any of the coarse composite weeds of the genus Xanthium, with a prickly fruit.
cocksurely
cocksurely
adv
In a cocksure manner.
coldturkey
computerlike
computerlike
adj
Having some similarity to a computer.
counterblockade
counterblockade
noun
A blockade set up in opposition to another blockade.
counterblockades
counterblockades
noun
plural of counterblockade
counterclockwise
counterclockwise
adj
(US, Canada) Moving or located in the direction of rotation opposite from clockwise.
adv
(US, Canada) In the direction of rotation opposite from clockwise.
counterlocking
courtlike
courtlike
adj
Courteous; polite.
Resembling or characteristic of a court.
crookshouldered
crunkle
crunkle
verb
(UK, obsolete, dialectal) To crumple.
crutchlike
crutchlike
adj
Resembling or characteristic of a crutch.
cuckoldries
cuckoldries
noun
plural of cuckoldry
cuckooflower
cuckooflower
noun
lady's smock (Cardamine pratensis)
ragged robin (Silene flos-cuculi, syn. Lychnis flos-cuculi)
culverkey
culverkey
noun
(obsolete) An English meadow plant, perhaps the columbine or the bluebell squill (Hyacinthoides non-scripta).
culverkeys
culverkeys
noun
plural of culverkey
cupronickel
cupronickel
noun
An alloy of copper containing from 10 to 40% nickel.
cupronickels
cupronickels
noun
plural of cupronickel
curblike
curblike
adj
Alternative form of kerblike
curkell
curlike
curlike
adj
Resembling or characteristic of a cur.
daughterlike
daughterlike
adj
Resembling a daughter.
drumlike
drumlike
adj
Resembling a drum, such as in sound or shape
drunkelew
drunkenly
drunkenly
adv
In a drunken manner.
earlduck
faulkner
faulkner
noun
Obsolete form of falconer.
flickermouse
flourlike
flourlike
Adjective
Resembling flour.
fluework
fluework
noun
A system of organ stops in which the sound is caused by wind passing through a flue or fissure and striking an edge above; distinguished from reedwork.
fluker
flukeworm
flukeworm
noun
Any usually parasitic worm in the class Trematoda.
flukewort
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.
flunkers
flunkers
noun
plural of flunker
flusker
flutework
flutework
noun
(architecture) Fluted ornamentation; groovework.
freakful
freakful
adj
(archaic) Full of whims or caprices.
fruitlike
fruitlike
adj
Resembling fruit.
furnacelike
furnacelike
adj
Resembling or characteristic of a furnace.
furrowlike
furrowlike
adj
Resembling or characteristic of a furrow.
gluemaker
gluemaker
noun
A manufacturer of glue.
gourdlike
gourdlike
adj
Resembling a gourd.
grieshuckle
grouselike
grouselike
adj
Resembling or characteristic of a grouse.
guardlike
guardlike
adj
Resembling or characteristic of a guard.
guitarlike
guitarlike
adj
Resembling a guitar
gumpoldskirchner
gutterlike
gutterlike
adj
Resembling or characteristic of a gutter.
hackleburg
hakenkreuzler
handkerchiefful
handkerchiefful
noun
As much as a handkerchief will hold.
housekeeperlike
housekeeperly
housekeeperly
adj
Befitting a housekeeper.
huckleberries
huckleberries
noun
plural of huckleberry
huckleberry
huckleberry
noun
(US, slang) The person one is looking for; the right person for the job.
(slang) A person of little consequence.
A shrub growing this fruit.
A small amount, a short distance, as in the phrase huckleberry above a persimmon.
A small round fruit of a dark blue or red color of several plants in the related genera Vaccinium and Gaylussacia.
verb
(intransitive) To pick huckleberries.
hulkier
hulkier
adj
comparative form of hulky: more hulky
hunterlike
hunterlike
adj
Resembling or characteristic of a hunter.
hurkle
hurkle
verb
(intransitive) to draw in the parts of the body, especially with pain or cold
(of the limbs) to contract, to pull in
to cower
hurleyhacket
hydraulicked
hydraulicked
verb
simple past tense and past participle of hydraulic
hyperleukocytosis
hyperleukocytosis
noun
The condition of having an unusually high leukocyte count.
interleukin
interleukin
noun
(biochemistry) Any of a group of cytokine proteins important in the regulation of lymphocyte function.
interleukins
interleukins
noun
plural of interleukin
intraleukocytic
intraleukocytic
adj
(cytology) Between leukocytes.
junkdealer
kaiserslautern
karakule
karlsruhe
karlsruhe
Proper noun
A city in Baden-Württemberg, Germany.
A city/village in North Dakota.
karrusel
karrusel
noun
The carousel of a clock or watch
keraphyllous
keratoglobus
keratoglobus
noun
(pathology) A disorder of the eye in which the cornea is enlarged and globular in shape.
keratoglossus
keratoleukoma
keratoleukoma
noun
(pathology) A white opacity of the cornea
keraulophon
keraulophone
kerflummox
kerflummox
verb
(transitive, informal) To flummox; to perplex or baffle.
kerfuffle
kerfuffle
noun
(chiefly Commonwealth, informal) A disorderly outburst, disturbance, commotion, or tumult. [from 19th c.]
verb
(chiefly Britain, informal) To make a disorderly outburst or commotion.
kerguelen
kerplunk
kerplunk
noun
A thudding or thunking sound.
verb
To make a thudding or thunking sound.
kerplunking
kerplunking
verb
present participle of kerplunk
kettledrum
kettledrum
noun
(dated) An informal social party at which a light collation is offered, held in the afternoon or early evening.
(music) A large hemispherical brass percussion instrument (one of the timpani) with a drumhead that can be tuned by adjusting its tension.