The native language spoken by the Pit River people of present-day California.
ackworth
aircrews
aircrews
noun
plural of aircrew
airscrew
airscrew
noun
Any actuator disk whose working fluid is air.
The propeller of an aircraft; the prop.
archways
archways
noun
plural of archway
archwife
archwife
noun
A big, masculine wife; a dominating woman; virago.
archwise
archwise
adj
In the shape of an arch.
avowance
avowance
noun
(obsolete) An upholding; defence; vindication.
(obsolete) The act of avowing; avowal.
backblow
backdown
backdown
noun
An act of backing down; a retraction or withdrawal.
backflow
backflow
noun
The flow of a fluid (through a pipe etc.) in a direction opposite to that which is normal or intended.
verb
To flow in the wrong or backward direction.
backsaws
backsaws
noun
plural of backsaw
backwall
backwall
noun
(sports) Alternative form of back wall
backward
backward
adj
(chess) Of a pawn, further behind than pawns of the same colour on adjacent files and unable to be moved forward safely.
(cricket) Further behind the batsman's popping crease than something else.
(cricket) On that part of the field behind the batsman's popping crease.
(figuratively) Acting or moving oppositely to the desired direction of progress.
(figuratively) Of a culture, country, practice etc., undeveloped or unsophisticated.
(figuratively) Slow to apprehend; having difficulties in learning.
(obsolete) Already past or gone; bygone.
(obsolete) Unwilling; averse; reluctant.
Acting or moving in the direction opposite to that in which someone or something is facing.
Acting or moving in the direction opposite to the usual direction of movement.
Lacking progressive or enlightened thought; outdated.
Late or behindhand.
Reluctant or unable to advance or act.
Reversed in order or sequence.
Situated toward or at the rear of something.
adv
(figuratively) Oppositely to the desired direction of progress, or from a better to a worse state.
(obsolete) In the past.
At, near or towards the rear of something.
By way of reflection; reflexively.
In a direction opposite to the usual direction of movement.
In a reversed order or sequence.
In a reversed orientation; back to front.
Toward or into the past;
noun
The state behind or past.
backwash
backwash
noun
(economics) The situation where economic growth in one area harms other areas by attracting people and business away from those areas.
(nautical) The backward flow of water from oars or propeller or breaking waves.
The result or consequence of an event; an aftermath.
The saliva, spit or food particles that have flowed back into a drink after someone has drunk from it.
The similar flow of air from an aircraft engine.
verb
(transitive) To affect with backwash.
To clean the oil from wool after combing.
To operate a water filter in the reverse direction in order to clean it.
backwind
backwind
noun
(nautical) The flow of air so deflected
verb
(nautical) To deflect air into the back of a sail or of a vessel
(transitive) To wind backwards.
backwood
backwood
adj
Native to or located in a remote rural location.
Rustic, unsophisticated, countrified.
backword
backword
noun
A contention, retort, or reply.
A contradiction or answer to put off an engagement; a countermand.
A section of commentary at the end of a book.
backworm
backworm
noun
(obsolete) The thread-like worm found in filanders, the disease of hawks.
backwort
backwrap
backwrap
noun
(computing, dated) A word wrap feature that restores a word to the preceding line when space is made for it by deletion.
A portion of something that is wrapped backward.
verb
(computing, dated) To restore a word to the preceding line when space is made for it by deletion.
To wrap around the back of something.
bawarchi
bawarchi
noun
(India, historical) A cook.
bawcocks
bawcocks
noun
plural of bawcock
bawdrick
bawdrics
bawdrics
noun
plural of bawdric
becoward
becrawls
becrawls
verb
Third-person singular simple present indicative form of becrawl
bescrawl
bescrawl
verb
(transitive) To cover (something) with scrawls; to scribble over.
bethwack
bethwack
verb
(transitive) To pelt, thrash, or cudgel soundly.
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.
blowcase
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.
brockway
browache
buchwald
bucksaws
bucksaws
noun
plural of bucksaw
buckwash
bushwack
bushwack
verb
Alternative spelling of bushwhack
cableway
cableway
noun
A system of suspended cables from which cable cars are hung.
cagework
cagework
noun
A cage or cage-like structure.
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.
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
calloway
callower
callower
adj
comparative form of callow: more callow
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
caneware
caneware
noun
A form of traditional unglazed light-brown stoneware.
canewise
canework
canework
noun
Objects made from canes (slender, flexible plant stems).
cantwise
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
carassow
carassow
noun
Archaic form of curassow.
caraways
caraways
noun
plural of caraway
cardwell
careworn
careworn
adj
Worn down by cares: showing the signs of long-term stress, tired and haggard due to prolonged worry.
carraway
carraway
noun
Alternative form of caraway
cartware
cartwell
cartwhip
cartwhip
noun
A long whip used by the driver of a cart.
verb
(transitive) To beat with a cartwhip.
caseweed
caseweed
noun
The plant shepherd's purse
casewood
casework
casework
noun
The work required to deal with cases in any profession where a "case" has a specific definition (e.g. legal, social work, planning, etc.).
caseworm
caseworm
noun
A worm or grub that makes a case for itself.
cashtown
casstown
castaway
castaway
adj
Cast adrift or ashore; marooned.
Cast out; rejected or excluded from a group.
Shipwrecked.
noun
(nautical) A shipwrecked sailor.
A discarded person or thing.
An outcast; someone cast out of a group or society.
catawbas
catawbas
noun
plural of catawba
catspaws
catspaws
noun
plural of catspaw
catwalks
catwalks
noun
plural of catwalk
causeway
causeway
noun
A road that is raised so as to be above water, marshland, and similar low-lying obstacles. Originally causeways were much like dykes, generally pierced to let water through, whereas many modern causeways are more like bridges or viaducts.
verb
(obsolete, transitive) To pave, to cobble.
cavetown
cawnpore
chadwick
chafewax
chafewax
noun
Alternative form of chaffwax
chaffwax
chaffwax
noun
(UK, law, historical) A chancery officer who fitted wax for sealing writs and other documents.
chairway
chaochow
chatwood
chatwood
noun
Little sticks; twigs for burning; firewood.
chawbone
chawbuck
chawbuck
verb
(obsolete, transitive) To beat with a chabuk.
chawdron
chawdron
noun
(now historical) A sauce made from chopped entrails.
(obsolete) Entrails, intestines (of animals as food)
chaworth
chewable
chewable
adj
(finance, of a poison pill) Allowing for a particular type of bid that does not trigger the flip-in.
Capable of being chewed.
Chewy.
noun
A medicine supplied in a form that can be chewed.
Anything that is chewable; anything that is able to be chewed.
chewalla
chewbark
chewelah
chichewa
chingpaw
chinhwan
chippewa
chippewa
Noun
A member of the Ojibwe people.
Proper noun
The Ojibwe language.
Any of four rivers, one each in Michigan, Minnesota, Ontario, and Wisconsin.
choctaws
chowanoc
cityward
cityward
adj
Directed toward cities
adv
Toward a city or cities
clamworm
clamworm
noun
Alternative form of clam worm
clapwort
clapwort
noun
A North American herb (Conopholis americana) that is parasitic on the roots of oak
clawback
clawback
noun
(US law of evidence) A rule that permits a party to take back evidentiary materials that were mistakenly turned over to the other party but to which the other party would not have been entitled.
(US taxation law) Money that a party is entitled to keep under one tax provision but is taken by another tax provision.
(US, business) Any recovery of a performance-related payment based on discovery that the performance was not genuine.
(obsolete) A flatterer or sycophant.
clawless
clawless
adj
Having no claws.
clawlike
clawlike
adj
Resembling a claw
clawsick
clayware
clayware
noun
Articles made from clay.
clayweed
clearway
clearway
noun
(UK, Australia, New Zealand) A road or other path that is kept free of obstructions, or on which stopping is strictly regulated, in order to maintain free flow of movement.
(aviation) An area projecting from the end of a runway that is kept clear of obstructions exceeding a height that increases with distance from the end of the runway.
clownade
clownage
clownage
noun
(obsolete) The behaviour or manners of a clown or rustic.
coachway
coalwood
cobewail
cockawee
cockawee
noun
Synonym of long-tailed duck
coldslaw
coldslaw
noun
Archaic form of coleslaw.
coleslaw
coleslaw
noun
A salad of finely shredded raw cabbage and sometimes shredded carrots, dressed with mayonnaise (white slaw) or a vinaigrette (red slaw).
cookware
cookware
noun
The assorted objects, such as pots, pans, baking sheets, etc., used for cooking
cordwain
cordwain
noun
A kind of leather from Córdoba, originally of tanned goatskin, later of horsehide.
cornwall
cornwall
Proper noun
A maritime county of England, forming its south-western extremity, bordered by Devon in the east.
the country of the Cornish, currently having the status of a royal duchy in England, consisting at least of the Cornwall County and the Isles of Scilly
A town in Connecticut
A town in New York
A city in Ontario
A borough in Pennsylvania
A town in Prince Edward Island
A town in Vermont
cowardly
cowardly
adj
Showing cowardice; lacking in courage; weakly fearful.
adv
(archaic) In the manner of a coward, cowardlily.
cowbanes
cowbanes
noun
plural of cowbane
cowflaps
cowflaps
noun
plural of cowflap
cowgrass
cowhages
cowhands
cowhands
noun
plural of cowhand
cowheart
cowichan
cowichan
Noun
A member of a certain Native American tribe of British Columbia.
Adjective
Of or relating to this tribe.
Of or relating to a form of distinctively-patterned heavy knitting developed by the tribe.
cowquake
cowquake
noun
quaking grass; Briza media
cowshard
cowsharn
cowwheat
cowwheat
noun
Alternative spelling of cow-wheat
coxswain
coxswain
noun
(archaic) The second or third mate of a vessel, in charge of the master's barge.
(naval) A rank or position.
(rowing) The member of a crew who steers the shell and coordinates the power and rhythm of the rowers.
In a ship's boat, the helmsman given charge of the boat's crew.
verb
(transitive, intransative) To act as coxswain for.
coxwains
crabweed
crabwise
crabwise
adj
(figuratively) Incidental.
In the manner of a crab; sideways.
crabwood
crabwood
noun
A flowering plant of the genus Carapa in the mahogany family, Meliaceae.
crackjaw
crackjaw
adj
Difficult or unpleasant to pronounce.
cragwork
craneway
craneway
noun
An opening allowing cranes to pass in and out of an industrial building.
The area within which a crane operates or can move.
cranwell
crawdads
crawdads
noun
plural of crawdad
crawfish
crawfish
noun
(Quebec, Canada, slang, derogatory) A slur against Anglo-Canadians used in some corners of Quebec (including the Gaspé).
(South Africa) Various marine crustaceans, rock lobster; especially Jasus lalandii, the Cape crawfish.
(Southern US, Midwestern US and Western US) Various freshwater crustaceans, crayfish.
verb
(colloquial, Southern US) To backpedal, desert or withdraw (also used with out).
crawfoot
crawford
crawford
Proper noun
derived from several different placenames.
crawlers
crawlers
noun
plural of crawler
crawlier
crawlier
adj
comparative form of crawly: more crawly
crawling
crawling
noun
The motion of something that crawls.
verb
present participle and gerund of crawl
crawlway
crawlway
noun
A low duct or tunnel designed to be traversed by crawling.
crenshaw
crossway
crossway
noun
(archaic) A crossroad.
crowbait
crowbait
noun
(US, often attributive) An old, emaciated horse.
crowbars
crowbars
noun
plural of crowbar
verb
Third-person singular simple present indicative form of crowbar
crowshay
cumshaws
cumshaws
noun
plural of cumshaw
curassow
curassow
noun
Any of several species of bird in the genera Nothocrax, Mitu, Pauxi, and Crax of the Cracidae family, limited to the Americas.