Third-person singular simple present indicative form of becrawl
benchwarmer
benchwarmer
noun
Alternative spelling of bench-warmer
benchwarmers
benchwarmers
noun
plural of benchwarmer
bescrawl
bescrawl
verb
(transitive) To cover (something) with scrawls; to scribble over.
bethwack
bethwack
verb
(transitive) To pelt, thrash, or cudgel soundly.
birdwatch
birdwatch
noun
A session of observing and identifying birds.
verb
(intransitive) To take part in birdwatching; to observe and identify birds.
birdwatched
birdwatched
verb
simple past tense and past participle of birdwatch
birdwatches
birdwatches
verb
Third-person singular simple present indicative form of birdwatch
birdwatching
birdwatching
noun
(slang) The hobby of watching rocket launches.
Observing or identifying wild birds in their natural environment.
blackfellow
blackfellow
noun
(Australia, now usually considered offensive) A (male) Australian Aborigine.
blackfellows
blackfellows
noun
plural of blackfellow
blackhawk
blackware
blackware
noun
Any pottery of a black or nearly black colour.
blackwash
blackwash
noun
(chiefly politics) A villainization campaign.
(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.
blackwasher
blackwasher
noun
One who blackwashes.
blackwashing
blackwashing
noun
(derogatory) The revisionist portrayal of something as belonging to a black race of people.
(derogatory) The revisionist portrayal of something as evil.
The application of a coating of blackwash.
verb
present participle of blackwash
blackwater
blackwater
noun
Blackwater fever; malaria caused by Plasmodium falciparum.
Waste from domestic toilets; water containing fecal matter.
Water containing loam, tannins, etc., giving it a very dark appearance.
blackwaters
blackwaters
noun
plural of blackwater
blackweed
blackweed
noun
Common ragweed (Ambrosia artemisiifolia.)
blackwell
blackwood
blackwood
noun
(uncountable) The very dark wood of such trees.
African blackwood (Dalbergia melanoxylon), of Africa
Australian blackwood (Acacia melanoxylon), of eastern Australia
Bombay blackwood (Dalbergia latifolia), of India
Haematoxylum campechianum, a tree from Mexico.
blackwork
blackwork
noun
(obsolete) Work connected with funerals, as an undertaker's assistant or a maker of mourning clothes, etc.
(sewing) A form of counted-thread embroidery that is usually stitched on even-weave fabric with a twisted thread.
blackwort
bladderwrack
bladderwrack
noun
Fucus vesiculosus, a seaweed in which iodine was first discovered.
bleachworks
bleachworks
noun
A factory that manufactures bleach.
blowback
blowback
noun
(computing) Synonym of backscatter.
(firearms) A type of action where the pressure from the fired cartridge blows a sliding mechanism backward to extract the fired cartridge, chamber another cartridge, and cock the hammer.
(rail transport) On a steam locomotive, the reversal of exhaust gases when the regulator is closed without using the blower.
(slang) The act of shotgunning (inhaling from a pipe etc. and exhaling into another smoker's mouth).
An unintended adverse result, especially of covert political action.
blowbacks
blowbacks
noun
plural of blowback
blowcase
borowolframic
bowback
bowdichia
bowgrace
bowgrace
noun
(nautical) A frame or fender of rope or junk, laid out at the sides or bows of a vessel to secure it from damage.
bracketwise
bracketwise
adv
In terms of brackets (in various senses).
branchway
branchway
noun
(poetic) A path or route formed by the branches of trees.
braunschweig
braunschweig
Proper noun
a city in Lower Saxony, Germany; Brunswick
braunschweiger
braunschweiger
noun
Alternative letter-case form of Braunschweiger (a sausage).
brickwall
brickwall
noun
(nonstandard) Alternative form of brick wall
brockway
browache
brownback
brownback
noun
A bird, the dowitcher or red-breasted snipe.
A note of scrip printed on brown paper, such as that issued by the city of St. Louis during a financial crisis.
A postage stamp printed in brown ink, used in the 1890s.
brownistical
buchenwald
buchwald
bucksaw
bucksaw
noun
A saw, in a metal frame, used to cut lengths of wood.
bucksaws
bucksaws
noun
plural of bucksaw
buckwagon
buckwagon
noun
(South Africa) A strong wagon with a frame over the wheels used for hauling goods.
(US) A buckboard; a wagon for personal transport as well as transporting goods.
buckwash
buckwasher
buckwashing
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.]
buckwheater
buckwheater
noun
A poor and unskilled farmer.
buckwheatlike
buckwheatlike
adj
Resembling or characteristic of buckwheat.
buckwheats
buckwheats
noun
plural of buckwheat
bullamacow
bullwhack
bullwhack
verb
(US) To work as a bullwhacker, driving a bullock team.
bullwhacker
bullwhacker
noun
(US) The driver of a bullock team.
bushwack
bushwack
verb
Alternative spelling of bushwhack
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
bushwhacked
bushwhacked
verb
simple past tense and past participle of bushwhack
bushwhacker
bushwhacker
noun
(Australia) A person who lives in the bush, especially as a fugitive; a person who clears woods and bush country.
(US) One who travels through the woods, off the designated path.
(US, historical) A guerrilla (of either side) during the American Civil War.
(dated) Someone who attacks without warning.
A small, soft-floored inflatable boat (designed for use by one or two people).
bushwhackers
bushwhackers
noun
plural of bushwhacker
bushwhacking
bushwhacking
noun
criticizing, by someone or a person(s), on policies and stances by George W. Bush, in forums and discussions
fighting, as a guerilla, especially in wooded country
travelling through thick wooded country, cutting away scrub to make progress
verb
present participle of bushwhack
bushwhacks
bushwhacks
verb
Third-person singular simple present indicative form of bushwhack
cabbagetown
cabbagewood
cabbagewood
noun
The tree Ceodes umbellifera.
cabbageworm
cabbageworm
noun
Alternative form of cabbage worm
cabbageworms
cabbageworms
noun
plural of cabbageworm
cabinetwork
cabinetwork
noun
cabinetmaking
furniture made by a cabinetmaker
cabinetworker
cabinetworker
noun
One who makes cabinets; a practitioner of cabinetwork.
cabinetworking
cabinetworks
cableway
cableway
noun
A system of suspended cables from which cable cars are hung.
cableways
cableways
noun
plural of cableway
caddisworm
caddisworm
noun
The larva of the caddis fly.
caddisworms
caddisworms
noun
plural of caddisworm
caddow
caddow
noun
(UK, dialect) A jackdaw.
cadew
cadew
noun
(obsolete) A caddice.
cadwal
cadwallader
cadweed
cadwell
cagework
cagework
noun
A cage or cage-like structure.
cahow
cahow
noun
An endangered nocturnal burrowing bird, Pterodroma cahow, from Bermuda; the Bermuda petrel.
cahows
cahows
noun
plural of cahow
cakewalk
cakewalk
noun
(historical) A contest in which cake was offered for the best dancers.
(idiomatic) Something that is easy or simple, or that does not present a great challenge.
(music) The style of music associated with such a contest.
(performing arts) The dance, or strutting style of dance associated with such a contest.
verb
(intransitive) To perform the cakewalk dance.
cakewalked
cakewalked
verb
simple past tense and past participle of cakewalk
cakewalker
cakewalker
noun
A performer of the cakewalk dance.
cakewalkers
cakewalkers
noun
plural of cakewalker
cakewalking
cakewalking
verb
present participle of cakewalk
cakewalks
cakewalks
noun
plural of cakewalk
caldoracaldwell
caldwell
caldwell
Proper noun
A locality in Alberta, Canada
A city in Arkansas
A ghost town in California
One of two villages in England
A city in Idaho
A city in Kansas
A town in Liberia
A community in New Brunswick, Canada
A borough in New Jersey
A town in New South Wales
A village in Ohio
A city in Texas
callaway
callow
callow
adj
(by extension) Immature, lacking in life experience.
(by extension, life-cycle developmental stage) Newly emerged or hatched, juvenile.
(of a brick) Unburnt.
Bald, hairless, bare.
Lacking color or firmness (of some kinds of insects or other arthropods, such as spiders, just after ecdysis); teneral.
Of land: low-lying and liable to be submerged.
Shallow or weak-willed.
Unfledged (of a young bird), featherless.
noun
A callow or teneral phase of an insect or other arthropod, typically shortly after ecdysis, while the skin still is hardening, the colours have not yet become stable, and as a rule, before the animal is able to move effectively.
A callow young bird.
An alluvial flat.
calloway
callower
callower
adj
comparative form of callow: more callow
callowest
callowest
adj
superlative form of callow: most callow
callowman
callowness
callowness
noun
The condition of being callow; immaturity.
callownesses
callownesses
noun
plural of callowness
camberwell
camerawoman
camerawoman
noun
A woman who operates any kind of camera.
camerawomen
camerawomen
noun
plural of camerawoman
camerawork
camerawork
noun
Skill or technique involving the use of a camera, especially a video camera.
campbelltown
campbeltown
camphorweed
camphorweed
noun
Any of the genus Pluchea of flowering plants in the Asteraceae family.
camphorwood
camphorwood
noun
The wood of Cinnamomum camphora, an evergreen tree whose leaves have a smell of camphor when crushed.
camptown
camptown
noun
A South Korean town whose livelihood relies on a United States Forces Korea military base. Camptowns are associated especially with prostitution.
campward
campward
adv
Toward a camp, campwards
campwood
camwood
camwood
noun
An African hardwood tree, Baphia nitida, that is a form of sandalwood.
cancerweed
cancerweed
noun
Lyreleaf sage or wild sage (Salvia lyrata).
Rattlesnake root (Prenanthes alba, now Nabulus spp.)
cancerwort
cancerwort
noun
(obsolete) A species of the speedwell plant (Veronica sp.).
Kickxia elatine (harpleaf cancerwort)
Kickxia spuria (roundleaf cancerwort)
Linaria vulgaris, the common toadflax.
candlepower
candlepower
noun
(dated) A unit of luminous intensity of a light source, equal to 0.981 candelas.
candlepowers
candlepowers
noun
plural of candlepower
candlestickward
candlewaster
candlewaster
noun
(obsolete, derogatory) One who consumes candles by staying up late reading and studying; a student.
candlewasting
candlewasting
Adjective
Causing a waste of candles by studying late into the night.
candlewick
candlewick
noun
A soft cotton yarn that gives a tufted pattern to embroidery
The thread used to make the wicks of candles
candlewicking
candlewicks
candlewicks
noun
plural of candlewick
candlewood
candlewood
noun
Dacryodes excelsa, a tree native to Puerto Rico.
Pterocelastrus tricuspidatus, a medium-sized evergreen tree indigenous to South Africa.
candlewoods
candlewoods
noun
plural of candlewood
candlewright
candlewright
noun
(obsolete) A chandler, or maker of candles.
candyweed
caneware
caneware
noun
A form of traditional unglazed light-brown stoneware.
canewares
canewares
noun
plural of caneware
canewise
canework
canework
noun
Objects made from canes (slender, flexible plant stems).
cankerflower
cankerweed
cankerworm
cankerworm
noun
(figurative) A corrupting or destructive force.
Either of two caterpillars, the larvae of geometrid moths, that are destructive to fruit, buds and leaves.
cankerworms
cankerworms
noun
plural of cankerworm
cankerwort
cankerwort
noun
The plant Taraxacum officinale.
canoewood
canoewood
noun
The wood of the tree Liriodendron tulipifera.
cantwise
caperdewsie
caperwort
caperwort
noun
Any plant of the family Capparaceae
capetown
capeweed
capeweed
noun
The plant Arctotheca calendula
capewise
capewise
adv
In the manner of a cape.
capework
capework
noun
The use of a cape, in bullfighting, to distract the bull
capeworks
capshaw
capwell
carassow
carassow
noun
Archaic form of curassow.
carassows
carassows
noun
plural of carassow
caraway
caraway
noun
A biennial plant, Carum carvi, native to Europe and Asia, mainly grown for its seed to be used as a culinary spice.
A cake or sweetmeat containing caraway seeds.
The seed-like fruit of the caraway plant.
caraways
caraways
noun
plural of caraway
cardew
cardwell
carew
careworn
careworn
adj
Worn down by cares: showing the signs of long-term stress, tired and haggard due to prolonged worry.