(attributive) The blocking out of as much light as possible.
(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.
A large-scale power failure, and resulting loss of electricity to consumers.
A temporary loss of consciousness.
A temporary loss of memory.
An instance of censorship, especially a temporary one.
verb
(nonstandard) Alternative form of black out
blackouts
blackouts
noun
plural of blackout
blacktongue
blockaderunning
blockbusted
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
blockbusting
blockbusting
adj
Having the characteristics of a blockbuster; hugely successful.
noun
(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.
blockhouse
blockhouse
noun
(dated) A temporary wooden fortification with a projecting upper story.
A reinforced building from which to control hazardous operations, such as an explosion or a rocket launch.
A sturdy military fortification, often of concrete, with gunports.
blockhouses
blockhouses
noun
plural of blockhouse
blockout
blockout
noun
(construction) A void that is deliberately not filled with concrete, so that it can be used to insert something else such as pipework.
blocksburg
blockus
bloodsuck
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
bloodsucking
bloodsucking
adj
(by extension, of a person) parasitic, leechlike or freeloading
(of an insect or animal) That draws off the blood of another animal, or a person.
bloodsuckings
bluestocking
bluestocking
noun
(historical) A member of an 18th-century Blue Stockings Society.
(historical) The English parliament of 1653, more commonly called the Barebones Parliament
(usually derogatory) A scholarly, literary, or cultured woman.
bluestockingish
bluestockingish
adj
Like a bluestocking, or scholarly woman.
bluestockingism
bluestockingism
noun
(colloquial) The character or manner of a bluestocking; female pedantry.
bluestockings
bluestockings
noun
plural of bluestocking
bouckville
buckholts
buffaloback
buffaloback
noun
The back of a buffalo
bullock
bullock
noun
(archaic) A young bull.
A castrated bull; an ox.
verb
To bully.
bullocker
bullockite
bullockman
bullocks
bullocks
intj
(slang, euphemistic) Expression of frustration.
noun
(slang, euphemistic) Testicles.
plural of bullock
bullocky
bullocky
noun
(Australia and New Zealand colloquial, now historical) A person (usually a man) who drives a cart pulled by a team of bullocks.
bullyrock
bumclock
cantankerously
cantankerously
adv
In a cantankerous manner.
chockful
chockful
adj
Alternative spelling of chock-full
chockfull
choruslike
choruslike
adj
Resembling or characteristic of a chorus.
chuckhole
chuckhole
noun
(US) A pothole.
chuckholes
chuckholes
noun
plural of chuckhole
chucklesome
chucklesome
adj
Causing chuckles; humorous.
clockhouse
clockhouse
noun
(architecture) A house or dwelling featuring a large visible clock on its exterior.
(architecture) A part of a building featuring such a clock; the section of a clocktower in which the clock is housed.
clockmutch
clockmutch
noun
(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.
cloudcuckooland
cloudcuckooland
noun
Alternative spelling of cloud-cuckoo-land
cloudlike
cloudlike
adj
Resembling a cloud or clouds; thus, often, fluffy
cockalorum
cockalorum
noun
(countable) A menial yet self-important person; a person who makes empty boasts.
(uncountable) A game similar to leapfrog.
(uncountable) Boastful speech, crowing.
cockalorums
cockalorums
noun
plural of cockalorum
cocklebur
cocklebur
noun
Any of the coarse composite weeds of the genus Xanthium, with a prickly fruit.
cocksurely
cocksurely
adv
In a cocksure manner.
cokuloris
cokuloris
noun
Alternative form of cucoloris
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
countryfolk
countryfolk
noun
One who lives in the country; a rural dweller.
courtlike
courtlike
adj
Courteous; polite.
Resembling or characteristic of a court.
crookshouldered
cuckhold
cuckhold
noun
Obsolete form of cuckold.
cuckold
cuckold
noun
(fetishism) A man who is attracted to or aroused by the sexual infidelity of a partner.
A West Indian plectognath fish, Rhinesomus triqueter.
A man married to an unfaithful wife, especially when he is unaware or unaccepting of the fact.
The scrawled cowfish, Acanthostracion quadricornis and allied species.
verb
(transitive) To make a cuckold or cuckquean of someone by being unfaithful, or by seducing their partner or spouse.
cuckolded
cuckolded
verb
simple past tense and past participle of cuckold
cuckolding
cuckolding
noun
The practice of making a man a cuckold, especially as a sexual kink.
verb
present participle of cuckold
cuckoldize
cuckoldize
verb
(obsolete, transitive) To cuckold.
cuckoldly
cuckoldly
adj
Possessing the qualities of a cuckold.
adv
Like or as a cuckold.
cuckoldom
cuckoldom
noun
(archaic) cuckoldry
cuckoldries
cuckoldries
noun
plural of cuckoldry
cuckoldry
cuckoldry
noun
(zoology) Among certain male fish, the practice of interrupting a mating pair to release sperm in an attempt to fertilize the female.
An act of adultery committed by a married woman against her husband.
The state of being a cuckold.
cuckolds
cuckolds
noun
plural of cuckold
verb
Third-person singular simple present indicative form of cuckold
cuckoldy
cuckoldy
adj
Characteristic of a cuckold.
cuckooflower
cuckooflower
noun
lady's smock (Cardamine pratensis)
ragged robin (Silene flos-cuculi, syn. Lychnis flos-cuculi)
cuckoopintle
cuckstool
culleoka
cupronickel
cupronickel
noun
An alloy of copper containing from 10 to 40% nickel.
cupronickels
cupronickels
noun
plural of cupronickel
curlylocks
cushionlike
cushionlike
adj
Resembling or characteristic of a cushion.
dikelocephalus
duckmole
duckmole
noun
(obsolete) Synonym of platypus
flickermouse
glucokinase
glucokinase
noun
A hexokinase isozyme that facilitates phosphorylation of glucose to glucose-6-phosphate, occurring in cells in the liver, pancreas, gut, and brain of humans and most other vertebrates.
glucokinases
glucokinases
noun
plural of glucokinase
glucokinin
gluconokinase
gluconokinase
noun
(biochemistry) A transferase enzyme that catalyzes the chemical reaction ATP + D-gluconate ⇌ ADP + 6-phospho-D-gluconate.
gulfhammock
gumpoldskirchner
gunlock
gunlock
noun
A mechanism fitted to a cannon that fires it when a cord is pulled.
gunlocks
gunlocks
noun
plural of gunlock
gurolinick
holluschick
holluschick
noun
A "bachelor seal"; a holluschickie.
holluschickie
holluschickie
noun
A bachelor seal; a young male seal which is prevented from mating by its herd's older males, mated bulls defending their territory.
plural of holluschick
honeysuckle
honeysuckle
noun
Any of several species of superficially similar plants from Australia
Any of the many species of arching shrubs and climbing vines of the genus Lonicera in the Caprifoliaceae family, many with sweet smelling, bell shaped flowers.
Banksia aquilonia (northern banksia)
Banksia integrifolia (coast banksia)
Banksia marginata (silver banksia)
Banksia serrata (red honeysuckle)
Lambertia multiflora (many-flowered honeysuckle)
honeysuckled
honeysuckled
adj
Covered with honeysuckle.
honeysuckles
honeysuckles
noun
plural of honeysuckle
hucklebone
hucklebone
noun
Alternative form of huckle bone
hullock
hullock
noun
(sailing) A small part of a sail lowered in a gale to keep the ship’s head to the sea.
hurlock
hurlock
Proper noun
A town in Maryland.
hyperleukocytosis
hyperleukocytosis
noun
The condition of having an unusually high leukocyte count.
intraleukocytic
intraleukocytic
adj
(cytology) Between leukocytes.
kamptulicon
kamptulicon
noun
(archaic) A kind of elastic floorcloth, made of India rubber, gutta-percha, linseed oil, and powdered cork.
kilobuck
kilobuck
noun
(informal, usually in the plural) A thousand dollars.
kilocurie
kilocurie
noun
A unit equal to 1,000 curies.
kinetonucleus
klockau
kluckhohn
knucklebone
knucklebone
noun
(slang) A die.
A bone that forms a knuckle in the human hand, in an animal's paw or any bone that forms a similar bump.
Such a bone once used in knucklebones and other children's games of chance.
knucklebones
knucklebones
noun
A children's game, originally played with the knucklebones of sheep, in which small objects are picked up, moved, thrown, and caught according to various rules.
plural of knucklebone
knucklesome
knucklesome
adj
(literally and figurative) Characterised or marked by knuckle(s); knuckly
knuclesome
koeberliniaceous
koluschan
koluschan
Noun
Tlingit
Proper noun
Tlingit
Adjective
Tlingit
koulibiaca
koulibiaca
noun
A Russian dish of salmon, rice etc. cooked in puff pastry
lacklustrous
lacklustrous
adj
Synonym of lackluster
lacquerwork
lacquerwork
noun
Artistic or decorative work made with lacquer.
lacquerworks
lacquerworks
noun
plural of lacquerwork
laughingstock
laughingstock
noun
Alternative spelling of laughing stock.
laughingstocks
laughingstocks
noun
plural of laughingstock
leptokurtic
leptokurtic
adj
(statistics) Of a distribution: having kurtosis greater than that of a normal distribution; equivalently, having positive excess kurtosis.
leskeaceous
leucoplakia
leucoplakia
noun
Alternative form of leukoplakia
leucoplakial
leukemogenic
leukemogenic
adj
That tends to cause leukemia
leukoblastic
leukoblastic
adj
Relating to leukoblasts.
leukocidic
leukocidic
adj
Alternative form of leucocidic
leukocidin
leukocidin
noun
Alternative form of leucocidin
leukoctyoid
leukocyte
leukocyte
noun
(hematology, cytology, immunology) Any of a class of blood cells that play various roles in cell-mediated immunity.
leukocytes
leukocytes
noun
plural of leukocyte
leukocythemia
leukocytic
leukocytic
adj
Relating to, or containing leukocytes
leukocytoblast
leukocytoid
leukocytoid
adj
Resembling a leukocyte
leukocytopenia
leukocytopenia
noun
(medicine) Leukopenia.
leukocytoses
leukocytoses
noun
plural of leukocytosis
leukocytosis
leukocytosis
noun
Alternative spelling of leucocytosis
leukocytotic
leukopenic
leukopenic
adj
(not comparable) Characterized by, or concerning, leukopenia.
Having leukopenia.
leukoplakic
leukoplakic
adj
Relating to leukoplakia.
leukopoietic
leukopoietic
adj
Relating to leukopoiesis
leukotic
leukotic
adj
Exhibiting or relating to leukosis.
lickerous
lickerous
adj
(archaic) lickerish; lecherous; eager; lustful.
lockbourne
lockesburg
lockful
lockful
noun
Enough water to fill a canal lock.
locknut
locknut
noun
A nut with an inner ring made of a material with elastic properties to prevent it from slipping.
A second nut, screwed down onto another in order to prevent it slipping.
locknuts
locknuts
noun
plural of locknut
lockout
lockout
noun
(by extension) The exclusion of certain people from a place, event, situation, etc.
(computing) A situation where the system is not responding to input.
(labor) The opposite of a strike; a labor disruption where management refuses to allow workers into a plant to work even if they are willing.
(weightlifting) An exercise meant to increase strength in the lockout portion of a lifting motion.
(weightlifting) The final portion of a weightlifting motion where all applicable limbs or joints are fully extended or "locked out".
A safety device designed to prevent touching a moving part when it is under operation.
The action of installing a lock to keep someone out of an area, such as eviction of a tenant by changing the lock.
The restriction of a population to a certain area, but allowing free movement within that region, in order to prevent the spread of disease. Compare lockdown.
lockouts
lockouts
noun
plural of lockout
lockrum
lockup
lockup
noun
(UK, chiefly) A storage unit with a door secured by a padlock or deadbolt; a garage.
(computing) A condition where a system stops responding to inputs; a freeze.
(marketing, by extension) A fixed layout involving one or more logos and possibly related text.
(mechanical engineering) A condition in which one or more of a vehicle's wheels suddenly cease to rotate due to the application of excessive brake torque, causing the affected wheel(s) to skid.
(printing, historical) A device for locking type into position for printing.
(slang) A jail cell, or a period of incarceration.