(architecture, informal) A vestibule, foyer or entranceway with doors to the exterior on one end and doors to the interior on the other, functioning to keep indoor and outdoor air, humidity, and air temperatures separate.
A sealed, airtight chamber, such as in a manned spacecraft or submarine, used to provide access to and from the sealed area without allowing air out or water in.
Alternative form of air lock
alarick
alkalic
alkalic
adj
(geology, of a rock) Containing a relatively high proportion of alkali; alkaline.
alkylic
alkylic
adj
Relating to, or composed of alkyl chains; aliphatic
arclike
arclike
adj
Resembling or characteristic of an arc.
armlock
armlock
noun
(figuratively, by extension) Power to control or heavily influence something or someone.
A wrestling move in which the opponent's arm is held immobile.
Any of several distinct attacks against an opponent’s arm in martial arts.
verb
(transitive) To hold in an armlock.
backler
backlet
backlit
backlit
adj
Lit or illuminated from behind.
verb
simple past tense and past participle of backlight
backlog
backlog
noun
A large log to burn at the back of a fire.
A log containing text previously read, as in text-based video games or chat rooms.
A reserve source or supply.
An accumulation or buildup, especially of unfilled orders, unconsumed products or unfinished work.
verb
(transitive, intransitive) To acquire something as a backlog, or to become a backlog
ballock
ballock
noun
Alternative spelling of bollock
barlock
bechalk
bechalk
verb
(archaic) To cover with chalk, or whiten as if with chalk.
beckley
beckley
Proper noun
a village in district, East Sussex, England
a hamlet in district, Hampshire, England
a village in district, Oxfordshire, England
a neighbourhood in Kentucky, USA.
a city in West Virginia, USA, and the county seat of Named after
becloak
becloak
verb
(transitive, literally, figurative) To cover or surround, as with a cloak.
befleck
befleck
verb
(poetic) to cover with small spots or flecks
belucki
bilcock
bilcock
noun
The European water rail.
bilicki
blacked
blacked
verb
simple past tense and past participle of black
blacken
blacken
verb
(intransitive, ergative) To become black.
(transitive) To cook (meat or fish) by coating with pepper, etc., and quickly searing in a hot pan.
(transitive, causative) To cause to be or become black.
(transitive, causative) To make dirty.
To defame or sully.
blacker
blacker
adj
comparative form of black: more black
noun
One who blacks.
blackey
blackie
blackie
noun
Alternative spelling of blacky
blackit
blackly
blackly
adv
Darkly or gloomily.
Wickedly.
With a black appearance.
blalock
blickey
blickey
noun
(dialectal, New York, New Jersey, Pennsylvania, dated) A canister or dinner pail usually of tin.
blickie
blocked
blocked
adj
(Ireland, slang) Drunk
(of a computer account or similar) Disabled or disconnected, so as to prevent access.
(of a person, telephone number, IP address, etc.) Banned or barred from connecting or logging on.
Obstructed, so that through movement or flow is prevented or impeded.
Unable to move owing to an obstruction.
verb
simple past tense and past participle of block
blocker
blocker
noun
(card games) A playing card, needed by one player, that is held by another.
(computing) A bug or issue that prevents software from being released.
(computing) An application that stops / impedes unauthorised access to a programme.
(computing) One who prevents another user from contacting them electronically.
(marketing) A gatekeeper who refuses the marketer access to the person they wish to contact.
(poker) A blocker bet.
(sports) One who blocks or impedes the movement of an opponent.
A close-fitting rectangular glove worn by a goalie in multiple forms of hockey.
A person who blocks (stretches or moulds) hats.
A puberty blocker.
blockus
bolckow
bollock
bollock
noun
(Britain, Ireland, vulgar, chiefly in the plural) A testicle.
verb
(Britain, transitive, vulgar, slang) To reprimand severely and grossly.
(Britain, vulgar, slang) To exhaust, tire out.
brickel
brickle
brickle
adj
(Appalachia or archaic or dialect) Alternative form of breakle
verb
(Canada, dialect) To fail spectacularly.
brickly
brickly
adj
(dialect) fragile; brittle
brockle
brockle
adj
Of animals: variegated, speckled, multicolored; usually used in the phrase brockle-faced.
Of food odors: malodorous, flatulent, pungent: smelling of sulfur, hydrogen sulfide, or hydrogen disulfide.
bruckle
bruckle
adj
(dialectal) Frail, weak, fragile.
buckels
buckled
buckled
verb
simple past tense and past participle of buckle
buckler
buckler
noun
(nautical) A block of wood or plate of iron made to fit a hawse hole, or the circular opening in a half-port, to prevent water from entering when the vessel pitches.
(obsolete) A shield resembling the Roman scutum. In modern usage, a smaller variety of shield is usually implied by this term.
(zoology) One of the large, bony, external plates found on many ganoid fishes.
(zoology) The anterior segment of the shell of a trilobite.
A kind of shield, of various shapes and sizes, held in the hand or worn on the arm (usually the left), for protecting the front of the body. In the sword and buckler play of the Middle Ages in England, the buckler was a small shield, used not to cover the body but to stop or parry blows.
One who buckles something.
verb
(transitive, obsolete) To shield; to defend.
buckles
buckles
noun
plural of buckle
verb
Third-person singular simple present indicative form of buckle
buckley
bucklin
bucklum
bullock
bullock
noun
(archaic) A young bull.
A castrated bull; an ox.
verb
To bully.
cackled
cackled
verb
simple past tense and past participle of cackle
cackler
cackler
noun
A person or creature that cackles.
cackles
cackles
noun
plural of cackle
verb
Third-person singular simple present indicative form of cackle
cadlock
cadlock
noun
Obsolete form of charlock.
caickle
calkage
calkers
calkers
noun
plural of calker
calking
calking
noun
Alternative form of caulking
verb
present participle of calk
calkins
calkins
noun
plural of calkin
calpack
calpack
noun
A kind of cap from Turkic countries, with a high crown.
caplock
caplock
noun
A firearm that is discharged by means of a percussion cap.
carkled
carlick
carlock
carlock
noun
A sort of Russian isinglass, made from the air bladder of the sturgeon, and used in clarifying wine.
catlike
catlike
adj
nimble, quick, graceful
resembling a cat; feline
slow, deliberate, quiet and stealthy
catwalk
catwalk
noun
(by extension, "the catwalk") The business of making clothes for fashion shows.
(nautical) An elevated enclosed passage providing access fore and aft from the bridge of a merchant vessel.
A narrow elevated stage on which models parade; a runway
Any similar elevated walkway.
caulked
caulked
adj
Having cracks or crevices stopped-up with a filler.
verb
simple past tense and past participle of caulk
caulker
caulker
noun
(informal) Archaic form of corker (“something large or remarkable, a whopper”).
(slang, archaic) An alcoholic drink; a dram.
A person who caulks various structures (as ships) and certain types of piping.
A tool used for caulking ships; a caulking iron.
celeski
celinka
chackle
chackle
verb
(England, dialectal, rare) To chatter (to talk or make noise) or chuckle.
chalked
chalked
verb
simple past tense and past participle of chalk
chalker
chalker
noun
One who chalks.
chalkos
chaluka
checkle
chilkat
chinkle
chinkle
noun
(nautical) A turn or kink in a rope.
(rare) A ringing sound of low volume.
verb
(rare, intransitive) To chink or jingle.
(transitive) To tinkle or cause to tinkle; to produce a continued chinking sound with.
chkalik
chkalov
chkfile
chladek
cholick
cholick
noun
Obsolete form of cholic.
chuckle
chuckle
adj
(obsolete) Clumsy.
noun
A quiet laugh.
verb
(intransitive, archaic) To make the sound of a chicken; to cluck.
(transitive) To communicate through chuckling.
(transitive, archaic) To call together, or call to follow, as a hen calls her chickens; to cluck.
(transitive, archaic) To fondle; to indulge or pamper.
To laugh quietly or inwardly.
clacked
clacked
verb
simple past tense and past participle of clack
clacker
clacker
noun
(Australia, New Zealand, slang) The anus.
(by extension) Any device that makes a clacking noise.
(music) A percussion instrument that makes a clacking noise.
clacket
clacket
verb
(intransitive) To move with a clackety sound.
(intransitive, UK, regional) To chatter or prattle.
clanked
clanked
verb
simple past tense and past participle of clank
clankum
clarkia
clarkia
noun
Any of several annual flowering plants, of the genus Clarkia, native to the Americas.
clarkin
clawker
cleeked
cleeked
verb
simple past tense and past participle of cleek
clerked
clerked
verb
simple past tense and past participle of clerk
clerkly
clerkly
adj
(obsolete) Scholarly.
Of clerks; befitting a clerk.
adv
(obsolete) In a scholarly manner.
clicked
clicked
verb
past participle of click
clicker
clicker
noun
(UK, obsolete) Someone who stands by a shop door to invite people to buy; a tout.
(printing, historical) An employee who locks the type in the form to make it ready for printing.
(printing, obsolete) One who has charge of the work of a companionship.
(slang) The remote-control device used to change settings on a television set, VCR, or other electronic equipment.
A machine that cuts materials using a steel rule die. The name comes from the sound (click) when the material is cut. May be hand, pneumatic, or hydraulic powered.
A person who cuts out the uppers of shoes from pieces of leather using a flexible knife that clicks as it changes direction.
A signalling device used by military forces. Pressed between thumb and fingers, it makes a small but distinctive click understood by other members of a unit.
A small mechanical device that produces a clicking sound, used in dog training.
An electronic device used by individual students in the classroom to respond to multiple-choice questions, etc.
Someone who clicks, for example using a computer mouse.
clicket
clicket
noun
(UK, dialect) A latchkey.
(UK, dialect) The knocker of a door.
verb
(intransitive, of a fox or foxes) To be in oestrus; to copulate.
clinked
clinked
verb
simple past tense and past participle of clink
clinker
clinker
noun
(in the plural) fetters.
(nautical, chiefly attributive) A style of boatbuilding using overlapping planks.
A mass of bricks fused together by intense heat.
A scum of oxide of iron formed in forging.
A very hard brick used for paving customarily made in the Netherlands.
An intermediate product in the manufacture of Portland cement, obtained by sintering limestone and alumino-silicate materials such as clay into nodules in a cement kiln.
Hardened volcanic lava.
Slag or ash produced by intense heat in a furnace, kiln or boiler that forms a hard residue upon cooling.
Someone or something that clinks.
verb
(transitive, intransitive) To convert or be converted into clinker.
clinkum
cloaked
cloaked
adj
Covered, hidden, disguised.
Wearing a cloak.
verb
simple past tense and past participle of cloak
clocked
clocked
adj
(UK, colloquial) Of a motor vehicle: having had its odometer turned back so as to display a lower mileage.
(electronics) Electronically running at a particular rate; governed by a repetitive time signal.
Embroidered with clocks.
verb
simple past tense and past participle of clock
clocker
clocker
noun
(Scotland, dated) A clucking hen.
(slang) A low-level drug dealer who operates on the streets.
A person who clocks (illegally winds back the milometer of) a motor car
clokies
clonked
clonked
verb
simple past tense and past participle of clonk
closkey
clucked
clucked
verb
simple past tense and past participle of cluck
clunked
clunked
verb
simple past tense and past participle of clunk
clunker
clunker
noun
(informal) A decrepit motor car.
(informal) Anything which is in poor condition or of poor quality.
cockily
cockily
adv
In a cocky manner.
cockled
cockled
adj
(obsolete) Enclosed in a shell.
verb
simple past tense and past participle of cockle
cockler
cockler
noun
One who finds and sells cockles.
cockles
cockles
noun
plural of cockle
verb
Third-person singular simple present indicative form of cockle
cocklet
cocklet
noun
(UK, regional) A very small haycock.
colback
colicky
colicky
adj
Of, pertaining to, or suffering from colic
collock
conklin
cowlick
cowlick
noun
An unruly lock or section of hair that sticks straight out from the skull or lies at an angle at odds with the rest of an individual's hair, like a whorl or vortex.
cowlike
cowlike
adj
Resembling or characteristic of a cow.
crackle
crackle
noun
(physics) The fifth derivative of the position vector with respect to time (after velocity, acceleration, jerk, and jounce), i.e. the rate of change of jounce.
(pottery) A style of glaze giving the impression of many small cracks.
A prolonged, frequent cracking sound; a fizzing, popping sound.
Synonym of crackling (“crispy rind of roast pork”)
verb
(intransitive) To make a prolonged, frequent cracking sound which sounds like fizzing or popping.
Misspelling of cackle.
crackly
crackly
adj
Involving or producing a crackle.
crankle
crankle
noun
A bend, twist or crinkle.
verb
To bend, turn, or wind.
To break into bends, turns, or angles; to crinkle.
crankly
crickle
crinkle
crinkle
noun
A wrinkle, fold, crease, or unevenness.
The act of crinkling
verb
(intransitive) To rustle, as stiff cloth when moved.
(transitive, intransitive) To fold, crease, crumple, or wad.
crinkly
crinkly
adj
Having crinkles; wrinkly.
That crinkles.
noun
(derogatory) An old person.
crookle
crookle
verb
(obsolete, dialectal, East Midlands, Lancashire, Yorkshire) To bend; to make crooked.
crunkle
crunkle
verb
(UK, obsolete, dialectal) To crumple.
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.
cuplike
cuplike
adj
Resembling a cup.
curkell
curlike
curlike
adj
Resembling or characteristic of a cur.
daglock
daglock
noun
A dirty or clotted lock of wool on a sheep.
dallack
deblock
deblock
verb
(transitive) To unblock; remove a blockage from.
(transitive, computing) To process (digital video) so as to remove block-shaped artifacts of encoding.
(transitive, computing) To separate the logical records that have been combined into a physical block for storage.
deckels
deckels
noun
plural of deckel
deckles
deckles
noun
plural of deckle
dislock
ducklar
ducklet
ducklet
noun
A duckling.
earlock
earlock
noun
A lock of curly hair worn by the ear, often by Jewish men for religious reasons, and formerly by Elizabethan dandies.