(slang, dated) A Falkland Islander, native to the Falkland Islands.
kelpie
kelpie
noun
A malevolent shapeshifting spirit, most often in the form of a horse, believed to haunt the rivers and lochs of Scotland.
An Australian breed of sheepdog.
kemple
kemple
noun
(Scotland) The size of a standard load of straw, approximately 450 pounds.
kepler
keppel
keslep
kipfel
kipfel
noun
A type of crescent-shaped biscuit or bread roll.
klepac
kleper
klepht
klepht
noun
(historical) An anti-Ottoman insurgent living in the mountains when Greece was a part of the Ottoman Empire.
klippe
koppel
kopple
linkup
linkup
noun
(climbing) enchainment
A connection.
The act of connecting.
lipkin
lipski
lockup
lockup
noun
(UK, chiefly) A storage unit with a door secured by a padlock or deadbolt; a garage.
(computing) A condition where a system stops responding to inputs; a freeze.
(marketing, by extension) A fixed layout involving one or more logos and possibly related text.
(mechanical engineering) A condition in which one or more of a vehicle's wheels suddenly cease to rotate due to the application of excessive brake torque, causing the affected wheel(s) to skid.
(printing, historical) A device for locking type into position for printing.
(slang) A jail cell, or a period of incarceration.
lookup
lookup
noun
An attempt to retrieve data.
The process of locating a term in a reference work.
verb
Misspelling of look up.
packly
palaka
palank
palkee
palkee
noun
Archaic form of palki (“a palanquin”).
peckle
peckly
pelick
pelick
noun
The American coot (genus Fulica).
pelike
pelike
noun
A ceramic container of Ancient Greece, similar to an amphora.
pelkie
pickel
pickle
pickle
noun
(Northern England, Scotland) A kernel; a grain (of salt, sugar, etc.)
(Northern England, Scotland) A small or indefinite quantity or amount (of something); a little, a bit, a few. Usually in partitive construction, frequently without "of"; a single grain or kernel of wheat, barley, oats, sand or dust.
(baseball) A rundown.
(endearing) A mildly mischievous loved one.
(informal) A difficult situation; peril.
(metalworking) A bath of dilute sulphuric or nitric acid, etc., to remove burnt sand, scale, rust, etc., from the surface of castings, or other articles of metal, or to brighten them or improve their colour.
(often in the plural) Any vegetable preserved in vinegar and consumed as relish.
(slang) A pipe for smoking methamphetamine.
(uncountable) A children’s game with three participants that emulates a baseball rundown
A cucumber preserved in a solution, usually a brine or a vinegar syrup.
A sweet, vinegary pickled chutney popular in Britain.
In an optical landing system, the hand-held controller connected to the lens, or apparatus on which the lights are mounted.
The brine used for preserving food.
verb
(Northern England, Scotland, transitive, intransitive) To eat sparingly.
(Northern England, Scotland, transitive, intransitive) To pilfer.
(historical) To pour brine over a person after flogging them, as a method of punishment.
(programming, in Python) To serialize.
(transitive) To remove high-temperature scale and oxidation from metal with heated (often sulphuric) industrial acid.
(transitive, ergative) To preserve food (or sometimes other things) in a salt, sugar or vinegar solution.
pinkly
pinkly
adv
In a pink manner; with pink colour.
placks
placks
noun
plural of plack
plakat
planck
planck
Noun
Used attributively in the names of various units, formulae etc. first devised or worked on by the German physicist (1858–1947), chiefly in the realm of quantum theory.
A Planck unit.
planks
planks
noun
plural of plank
verb
Third-person singular simple present indicative form of plank
planky
plinks
plinks
noun
plural of plink
verb
Third-person singular simple present indicative form of plink
pliske
plisky
plisky
noun
(obsolete, Scotland) practical joke
plonko
plonko
noun
(Australia, informal) someone addicted to cheap wine.
plonks
plonks
noun
plural of plonk
verb
Third-person singular simple present indicative form of plonk
plouky
plucks
plucks
verb
Third-person singular simple present indicative form of pluck
plucky
plucky
adj
(informal) Having or showing pluck, courage or spirit in trying circumstances.
plunks
plunks
verb
Third-person singular simple present indicative form of plunk
pokily
pokily
adv
In a poky way.
polack
polkas
polkas
noun
plural of polka
verb
Third-person singular simple present indicative form of polka
pollak
pollok
polska
polska
noun
A kind of Nordic dance, usually danced with a partner in 3/4 meter.
puckle
puckle
noun
(dialectal) A fairy; elf; sprite.
(obsolete) The devil; Satan.
pytlik
skelps
skelps
verb
Third-person singular simple present indicative form of skelp
splake
splake
noun
A hybrid fish derived from a male brook trout and a female lake trout
uplake
uplick
uplink
uplink
noun
(by analogy, less formally) The communication path from a mobile device to a base station, a consumer to the network backbone, a client device to a server etc.
Data transmission from a data station to the headend.
The portion of a communications link used for the transmission of signals from an Earth terminal to a satellite or to an airborne platform. An uplink is the converse of a downlink. An uplink or downlink is distinguished from reverse link or forward link.
verb
To transmit a signal by means of an uplink.
uplock
uplock
noun
(aviation) A mechanism that secures an aircraft's landing gear in the retracted position, helping to prevent an uncommanded gear deployment during flight.