(backgammon) A game in which a player blocks the opponent's progress by forming two or more points in the opponent's home board.
An indirect strategy in which one attempts to achieve one's goals by maneuvering behind the scenes.
bagmaker
bagmaker
noun
A manufacturer of bags.
blackgum
blackgum
noun
Alternative form of black gum (“tree”)
comaking
dekagram
dekagram
noun
Alternative form of decagram
demiking
gamecock
gamecock
noun
A fighting cock: a rooster used in cockfighting.
gamelike
gamelike
adj
Resembling a game.
gasmaker
gaumlike
gemsboks
gemsboks
noun
plural of gemsbok
gemsbuck
gemsbuck
noun
Alternative form of gemsbok
germlike
germlike
adj
Having the characteristics of a germ
gimcrack
gimcrack
adj
Showy but of poor quality; worthless.
noun
Something showy but worthless; a bauble or gimmick.
verb
(transitive) To embellish with gimcracks.
(transitive) To put together quickly and without much care; to bodge.
gimmicks
gimmicks
noun
plural of gimmick
verb
Third-person singular simple present indicative form of gimmick
gimmicky
gimmicky
adj
Containing gimmicks.
Resembling, or characteristic of a gimmick.
godmaker
goldmark
goldmark
noun
A German mark of gold standard, as opposed to on paper
greekdom
greekism
grosmark
gummaker
gunmaker
gunmaker
noun
One who manufactures guns.
gurmukhi
gurmukhi
Proper noun
An abugida script, or writing system, designed for writing the Punjabi language, and subsequently also adapted to write other lects, such as Braj Bhasha, Hindi, Sanskrit and Sindhi.
gymkhana
gymkhana
noun
(India, dated) A meeting for such sports.
(India, dated) A place of public resort for athletic games, etc.
A competition where riders and horses display a range of skills and aptitudes.
jimigaki
kampongs
kampongs
noun
plural of kampong
kangayam
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
kimigayo
kingdoms
kingdoms
noun
plural of kingdom
kingmont
kingsman
kingsman
noun
(military) The lowest enlisted rank in the Duke of Lancaster's Regiment of the British Army, equivalent to private in the rest of the British Army.
Alternative form of king's man.
kirigami
kirigami
noun
An art similar to origami, with cutting permitted.
korrigum
korrigum
noun
Damaliscus korrigum korrigum, an antelope of a subspecies of the topi.
krigsman
kymogram
kymogram
noun
A graphical record produced by a kymograph.
mackling
mackling
verb
present participle of mackle
mafeking
magicked
magicked
verb
simple past tense and past participle of magic
markings
markings
noun
plural of marking
the pattern of colouration on a particular animal
maskegon
maskings
maskings
noun
plural of masking
mcknight
meckling
meekling
megabuck
megabuck
noun
(informal) A million dollars.
muskeggy
muskeggy
adj
Resembling or characteristic of muskeg (type of boggy terrain).
muskegon
muskogee
muskogee
Noun
A member of an American Indian people; the Creek.
Proper noun
The language spoken by these people.
A city in Oklahoma.
naumkeag
naumkeag
noun
(historical) A machine for smoothing the surface of a shoe's sole and heel with a fine abrasive.
verb
(historical) To smooth the parts of a shoe using this machine.
ockeghem
okmulgee
pigmaker
pugmarks
pugmarks
noun
plural of pugmark
remaking
remaking
noun
recreation; reconstruction
verb
present participle of remake
rugmaker
rugmaker
noun
One who manufactures rugs.
skaamoog
skiagram
skiagram
noun
A picture or image created from shadows, especially with X-rays.
skimming
skimming
noun
(crime) The act of fraudulently copying a magnetic stripe from a magnetic stripe card, such as found on credit cards and bank cards, through the use of a skimmer
(uncountable) The sport of skimboarding.
(uncountable, economics) Short for cream skimming.
(uncountable, finance) Short for price skimming.
A motion or action that skims.
Something skimmed from a surface etc.
verb
present participle of skim
skimping
skimping
adj
scanty; meagre; done inefficiently.
verb
present participle of skimp
skiogram
smacking
smacking
adj
That resounds with a loud smack or series of smacks.
noun
A series of smacks; the act by which somebody is smacked.
verb
present participle of smack
smeeking
smerking
smerking
verb
present participle of smerk
smirking
smirking
noun
The act of one who smirks.
verb
present participle of smirk
smocking
smocking
noun
(sewing) An embroidery technique in which the fabric is gathered and then embroidered with decorative stitches to hold the gathers in place; the product of the use of this embroidery technique.
verb
present participle of smock
smokings
smokings
noun
plural of smoking
unmaking
unmaking
noun
The act by which something is unmade.
verb
present participle of unmake
upmaking
upmaking
noun
(nautical, historical) Pieces of plank or timber piled on each other as filling up in building, especially between the bilgeways and ship's bottom, preparatory to launching.
(printing, historical) The arrangement of lines into columns or pages.