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noun

1. (most common British spelling, also sometimes used in the US) Alternative spelling of acknowledgment

noun

1. plural of acknowledgement

noun

1. (law) A formal statement or document recognizing the fulfillment or execution of a legal requirement or procedure.
2. (law) The act of a person admitting a child as their own.
3. (telecommunications, computing, networking) A response (ACK) sent by a receiver to indicate successful receipt of a transmission (See Wikipedia article on transmission).
4. A message from the addressee informing the originator that the originator's communication has been received and understood.
5. A recognition as genuine or valid; an avowing or admission in legal form.
6. A reward or other expression or token of gratitude.
7. An expression of gratitude for a benefit or an obligation.
8. The act of acknowledging
9. The act of recognizing in a particular character or relationship; recognition of existence, authority, truth, or genuineness.

noun

1. plural of acknowledgment

adj

1. (rare) Composed of both good and evil.

adj

1. Relating to alkaptonuria

noun

1. a stout adjustable walking stick with a metal point, used by mountain climbers and walkers in hilly or uneven terrain

noun

1. A mountain-climber, especially one that uses an alpenstock.

noun

1. plural of alpenstock

adj

1. Of or pertaining to ankylosis.

adj

1. (South Africa, Australia, New Zealand, British, Ireland, of movement) in a circular fashion so as to be moving to the left at the top of the circle and to the right at the bottom (when viewed from the front), in the opposite direction to the way the hands of an analogue clock move.

adv

1. (Australia, New Zealand, Britian, Ireland) In an anticlockwise fashion.

noun

1. The painted scenery at the back of a stage; the backdrop.

noun

1. (printing, historical) The handle of a printer's ball.

adj

1. (rare) Deep-bosomed.

noun

1. Someone who suffers from bibliokleptomania.

Noun

1. A member of the clergy.

noun

1. A tropical American bush of the genus Melampodium

noun

1. (attributive) The blocking out of as much light as possible.
2. (historical) The mandatory blocking of all light emanating from buildings, as well as outdoor and street lighting as a measure against aerial bombing or naval attack, as imposed during, e.g., World War II.
3. A large-scale power failure, and resulting loss of electricity to consumers.
4. A temporary loss of consciousness.
5. A temporary loss of memory.
6. An instance of censorship, especially a temporary one.

verb

1. (nonstandard) Alternative form of black out

noun

1. plural of blackout

noun

1. Colicroot, Aletris farinosa
2. Culver's root, Veronicastrum virginicum
3. Either of two species in the genus Pterocaulon: Pterocaulon pycnostachyum and Pterocaulon virgatum
4. Several plant diseases caused by fungi in the genus Aphanomyces causing that cause roots to rot and turn black.

noun

1. A large shrub or small tree, Prunus spinosa, that is native to Europe, western Asia, and north Africa. It has a dark bark and bears thorns.
2. A stick or staff taken from this tree.

noun

1. plural of blackthorn

noun

1. (US, countable) A paved area on a schoolground reserved for recess activities, often doubling as a parking lot.
2. (US, countable) A road so paved.
3. (US, uncountable) Asphalt concrete or similar bituminous black paving material used for the surface of roads (e.g., tarmacadam, tarmac).

verb

1. (US) To pave with blacktop.

verb

1. simple past tense and past participle of blacktop

verb

1. present participle of blacktop

verb

1. Third-person singular simple present indicative form of blacktop

noun

1. (US) One who engages in blockbusting (technique encouraging people to sell property).
2. (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
3. (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.
4. (slang) Anything very large or powerful; a whopper.
5. A high-explosive bomb used for the purposes of demolishing extensive areas, such as a city block.
6. A large firework of the firecracker type; an M-80.

noun

1. plural of blockbuster

adj

1. Having the characteristics of a blockbuster; hugely successful.

noun

1. (US) A technique used to encourage people to sell their property by giving the impression that a neighborhood is changing for the worse, especially by implying a change in its racial makeup.

adj

1. superlative form of blocky: most blocky

noun

1. (construction) A void that is deliberately not filled with concrete, so that it can be used to insert something else such as pipework.

noun

1. (countable) The breeding line of a thoroughbred horse or other animal.
2. (uncountable) Thoroughbred animals in general, but especially horses.

noun

1. plural of bloodstock

noun

1. (historical) A member of an 18th-century Blue Stockings Society.
2. (historical) The English parliament of 1653, more commonly called the Barebones Parliament
3. (usually derogatory) A scholarly, literary, or cultured woman.

adj

1. Like a bluestocking, or scholarly woman.

noun

1. (colloquial) The character or manner of a bluestocking; female pedantry.

noun

1. plural of bluestocking

noun

1. (dated) A shoeshine boy; a person who shines shoes as an occupation.

verb

1. (transitive) To shine shoes.

noun

1. plural of bootblack

noun

1. (US) A toady or sycophant.

verb

1. (intransitive) To engage in fawning, servile behavior.
2. (transitive) To seek favor from by fawning, servile behavior.

verb

1. simple past tense and past participle of bootlick

noun

1. (by extension, derogatory) Anyone who is seen as supporting authoritarianism.
2. (derogatory) A person who behaves in a servile or obsequious manner; a toady

noun

1. plural of bootlicker

noun

1. servile behaviour

verb

1. present participle of bootlick

verb

1. Third-person singular simple present indicative form of bootlick

noun

1. (by extension) The part of a process that is too slow or cumbersome.
2. (figurative) In traffic, any narrowing of the road, especially resulting in a delay.
3. The narrow portion that forms the pouring spout of a bottle; the neck of a bottle.

verb

1. (intransitive) To form a bottleneck.
2. (transitive) To slow by causing a bottleneck.

verb

1. simple past tense and past participle of bottleneck

noun

1. plural of bottleneck

verb

1. Third-person singular simple present indicative form of bottleneck

adv

1. In a cantankerous manner.

adj

1. Resembling a cartoon

noun

1. (medicine) A chalk-like concretion, consisting mainly of urate of sodium, found in those affected with gout; a tophus.
2. (obsolete) A mass or piece of chalk.

adj

1. Having or resembling chalkstones.

adj

1. Resembling or characteristic of a chariot.

noun

1. Alternative form of ciclatoun

noun

1. (biochemistry) Any of several peptide hormones that stimulate the digestion of fat and protein; abbreviated to CCK.

noun

1. A skeleton (of some fish and of mammal embryos) composed of hyaline cartilage

noun

1. phonolite

noun

1. A short cloak

noun

1. (New York, obsolete) A three-piece cap or bonnet worn by women, with a straight central piece reaching from the neck to the forehead and two side pieces reaching as far down as the chin.

noun

1. Alternative form of clock-watcher

adj

1. Resembling or characteristic of a cloister.

noun

1. A basket for holding clothes to be laundered.

adj

1. Resembling cloth.

noun

1. A person who makes cloth.

noun

1. The art or trade of a clothmaker.

noun

1. A textile worker.

noun

1. Archaic form of cockatiel.

noun

1. Nymphicus hollandicus, a small, rather atypical cockatoo with a distinctive pointed yellow crest, native to Australia. Avicultural forms come in many color mutations such as White Face Gray, White Face Pearl, Fallow, Pearl Pied, Cinnamon Pearl, and White Face Pied.

noun

1. Alternative form of cockboat

noun

1. (UK, regional) A very small haycock.

noun

1. twilight at cockcrow; daybreak.

noun

1. A small attic or garret

noun

1. plural of cockloft

adj

1. (obsolete) Ostentatiously lacking in manners.

noun

1. (UK, slang, dated) A mean, half-hearted fellow.
2. (by extension) A mixture of other substances or things.
3. A horse, not of pure breed, but having only one eighth or one sixteenth impure blood in its veins.
4. A mixed alcoholic beverage.
5. A species of rove beetle, so called from its habit of elevating the tail.

verb

1. (transitive) To adulterate (fuel, etc.) by mixing in other substances.
2. (transitive) To treat (a person) to cocktails.

verb

1. simple past tense and past participle of cocktail

noun

1. Work as a cocktail waitress.

noun

1. plural of cocktail

adj

1. In the manner of a colt

noun

1. The skin of a colt.

adj

1. Resembling or characteristic of a comet.

adj

1. Having some similarity to a computer.

noun

1. (obsolete) The district to which a constable's power is limited.

adv

1. counterclockwise

noun

1. (Australia, slang, derogatory) a non-indigenous native of New South Wales.
2. (Australia, slang, obsolete) A non-indigenous person born in Australia.
3. (botany) A single specimen of a corn plant once past the seedling stage and which may, at maturity, bear multiple ears of corn.
4. (botany) The tough, fibrous stalk of a corn (maize) plant, often ground for silage after harvest.

noun

1. plural of cornstalk

noun

1. A blockade set up in opposition to another blockade.

noun

1. plural of counterblockade

adj

1. (US, Canada) Moving or located in the direction of rotation opposite from clockwise.

adv

1. (US, Canada) In the direction of rotation opposite from clockwise.

noun

1. One who lives in the country; a rural dweller.

adj

1. Courteous; polite.
2. Resembling or characteristic of a court.

noun

1. Cardamine diphylla, a spring woodland plant native to North America.

noun

1. (biology) The situation where one or more components of a signal transduction pathway affect another pathway.
2. (electronics) Undesirable signals from a neighbouring transmission circuit; undesired coupling between circuits.
3. A traditional Chinese comedic performance in the form of a dialogue.
4. Conversation that is incidental to the topic under discussion.

verb

1. To hold an incidental conversation

adj

1. Of or pertaining to a cytoskeleton.

noun

1. A matrix of intercellular protein, in the forms of microfilaments and microtubules, that provide some rigidity to cells

adj

1. Resembling or characteristic of a doctor.

noun

1. The part of a drill that holds the shank of the bit.

noun

1. Alternative form of exoskeleton

adj

1. (physics) Describing any of several phenomena in which electric charge causes movement
2. (physics) Describing the heating effect of an electric current

noun

1. (physics) the electrodynamics of electrical circuits

noun

1. (An) electric shock.
2. (medicine) Electroconvulsive therapy.

verb

1. (medicine) To administer electroconvulsive therapy.

noun

1. plural of electroshock

verb

1. Third-person singular simple present indicative form of electroshock

adj

1. (physics) Describing the combination of the electromagnetic and weak nuclear forces.

adj

1. Relating to epiplankton

adj

1. Resembling a factory in any of various respects

noun

1. A joint of the horse's leg below the knee or hock and above the hoof.
2. The tuft of hair that grows at this joint.

adj

1. (in combination) Having fetlocks (of a specified kind).
2. Tied by the fetlock.

noun

1. plural of fetlock

noun

1. (heraldry) A shackle or lock.

noun

1. A type of lock used on muskets, rifles, and pistols from the early 17th to the mid-19th century.
2. An early type of firearm, using a spring-loaded flint to strike sparks into the firing pan.

noun

1. plural of flintlock

adj

1. superlative form of flocky: most flocky

noun

1. A head shepherd.

noun

1. folk craftsmanship

adj

1. about the traditions and stories of a country or community; Characteristic of folklore.

noun

1. A sycophant; a fawner; a toady.

adj

1. sycophantic

noun

1. The act of licking someone's feet.
2. sycophantic behavior