A boycott, usually as part of an industrial dispute.
A preparation, containing lampblack, used to produce a shiny black coating.
Shoe polish.
verb
present participle of black
blackleg
blackleg
noun
(countable) A person who cheats in a game; a cheater, especially a dishonest bookmaker.
(countable) A person who takes the place of striking workers; a scab.
(uncountable, agriculture, veterinary medicine) A fatal cattle disease caused by the soil-borne bacterium Clostridium chauvoei; symptomatic anthrax.
verb
To continue working whilst fellow workers strike.
blackrag
blanking
blanking
noun
(television) The reduction of the brightness of the scanning beam to zero when it needs to be moved without updating the picture.
A metalworking process to form the rough shape of a sheet-metal workpiece.
An instance of something being blanked out.
verb
present participle of blank
blockage
blockage
noun
A thing that is blocking; an obstruction.
The state of being blocked.
constipation
bulkages
bulkages
noun
plural of bulkage
cackling
cackling
noun
A sound that cackles.
verb
present participle of cackle
cagelike
cagelike
adj
Like a cage.
caulking
caulking
noun
A sealing material used to seal joints between heterogeneous materials in many kinds of construction and manufacture.
verb
present participle of caulk
chalking
chalking
noun
(painting) The appearance of non-gloss paint on an exterior surface due to chemical deterioration and removal by weather.
Something chalked on a surface.
verb
present participle of chalk
clacking
clacking
noun
A sound that clacks.
verb
present participle of clack
clanking
clanking
noun
A noise that clanks.
verb
present participle of clank
clerkage
clerkage
noun
The work of a clerk.
cloakage
cloaking
cloaking
noun
The act of wrapping or covering with a cloak.
The material from which cloaks are made.
verb
present participle of cloak
craglike
craglike
adj
Resembling or characteristic of a crag.
daglocks
daglocks
noun
plural of daglock
darkling
darkling
adj
(figurative) Obscure; taking place unseen, as if in the dark.
(poetic) Dark; growing dark; darkening.
adv
In the dark; in obscurity.
noun
(fantasy) A creature that lives in the dark.
Darkness
verb
present participle of darkle
fanglike
fanglike
adj
Resembling a fang.
flacking
flacking
verb
present participle of flack
flaglike
flaglike
adj
Resembling or characteristic of a flag (cloth emblem).
flanking
flanking
verb
present participle of flank
folkvang
gagelike
gamelike
gamelike
adj
Resembling a game.
garlicky
garlicky
adj
Tasting or smelling of garlic.
gatelike
gatelike
adj
Resembling or characteristic of a gate.
gaumlike
gavelock
gavelock
noun
(UK, Scotland, dialect) An iron crow or lever.
(rare, obsolete) A spear or dart.
glackens
gladbeck
gnatlike
gnatlike
adj
Resembling or characteristic of a gnat; tiny, insignificant.
goadlike
goadlike
adj
Resembling or characteristic of a goad.
goatlike
goatlike
adj
Resembling or characteristic of a goat.
goldmark
goldmark
noun
A German mark of gold standard, as opposed to on paper
golkakra
golkakra
noun
(India) Synonym of gac (“Momordica cochinchinensis”).
gorkhali
gorlovka
grackles
grackles
noun
plural of grackle
gurkhali
hackling
hackling
verb
present participle of hackle
jacklegs
jacklegs
noun
plural of jackleg
joktaleg
kalagher
kaliyuga
kallinge
kaoliang
kaoliang
noun
A sorghum-based variety of baijiu.
Any of various Chinese varieties of sorghum.
kasigluk
keelages
keelages
noun
plural of keelage
keeldrag
keylargo
killawog
kilogram
kilogram
noun
(proscribed) The unit of weight such that a one-kilogram mass is also a one-kilogram weight.
In the International System of Units, the base unit of mass; conceived of as the mass of one litre of water, but now defined by taking the fixed numerical value of the Planck constant h to be 6.626 070 15 × 10⁻³⁴ when expressed in units of kg⋅m²⋅s⁻¹. Symbol: kg
kinglake
kintlage
kleagles
koleroga
koleroga
noun
A disease of palm trees such as areca palms and of many other commercially important plants caused by the oomycete Phytophthora palmivora.
Diseases of coffee, citrus, and persimmon caused by the fungus Ceratobasidium noxium
kraaling
kraaling
verb
present participle of kraal
krahling
larkling
leakages
leakages
noun
plural of leakage
linkages
linkages
noun
plural of linkage
lockages
lockages
noun
plural of lockage
longbeak
longbeak
noun
The American red-bellied snipe (Limnodromus scolopaceus).
mackling
mackling
verb
present participle of mackle
pagelike
pagelike
adj
Resembling a page (sheet in a book, etc.).
plankage
planking
planking
noun
A series of planks; a group of planks.
The practice of lying face down with arms to the sides, in unusual public spaces, and taking photographs to record the act.
verb
present participle of plank
pluckage
polkaing
polkaing
verb
present participle of polka
rakingly
rankling
rankling
noun
A sensation that rankles.
verb
present participle of rankle
ringwalk
sagolike
sagolike
adj
Resembling or characteristic of sago.
shaglike
shaglike
adj
Resembling or characteristic of shag (the material).
skalawag
skoaling
skoaling
noun
A traditional Scandinavian toast, especially with aquavit.
verb
present participle of skoal
slackage
slacking
slacking
verb
present participle of slack
slangkop
snaglike
snaglike
adj
Resembling a snag.
staglike
staglike
adj
Resembling or characteristic of a stag.
stalking
stalking
noun
Hunting for game by moving silently and stealthily or by waiting in ambush.
The act of going stealthily.
The crime of following or harassing another person, causing him or her to fear death or injury.
The removal of stalks from bunches of grapes prior to winemaking.
verb
present participle of stalk
swaglike
swaglike
adj
Resembling or characteristic of a swag, or loop of draped fabric; falling in loops or folds.
tackling
tackling
noun
(nautical) The tackle of a vessel.
The harness for drawing a carriage.
The process by which something is tackled or dealt with.
verb
present participle of tackle
takingly
takingly
adv
(dated) attractively; fetchingly
talcking
talkings
talkings
noun
plural of talking
togalike
togalike
adj
Resembling or characteristic of a toga.
wakingly
wakingly
adv
While one is awake.
walkings
walkings
noun
plural of walking
walkling
weakling
weakling
adj
weak, either physically, morally or mentally
noun
(figuratively) A person of weak character, lacking in courage and/or moral strength.
A person of weak or even sickly physical constitution