(nautical) The compartment nearest the stern in the hold of a ship
alkaptone
applejack
applejack
noun
An alcoholic drink similar to apple brandy and calvados, made by freeze-distilling ("jacking") apple cider.
apronlike
apronlike
adj
Resembling an apron.
asklepios
aspidiske
backpedal
backpedal
verb
(intransitive) To pedal backwards on a bicycle.
(intransitive) To step backwards.
(intransitive, idiomatic) To distance oneself from an earlier claim or statement; back off from an idea.
backpiece
backpiece
noun
A decorated comb that attaches a veil to the back of a bride's head.
A large tattoo on a person's back.
A piece or plate of armour protecting a person's back.
backplane
backplane
noun
(electronics) A circuit board that connects several connectors in parallel to each other, so that each pin of each connector is linked to the same relative pin of all the other connectors, forming a computer bus.
backplate
backplate
noun
(UK, automotive) A rigid metal plate inside the brake drum, which supports the wheel cylinder, brake shoes, and other parts of a drum brake.
(underwater diving) A plate harnessed to a diver's back, to which the gas cylinders are attached.
A metal plate on the rear of a computer's casing, used to cover a port or slot.
A plate protecting a fighting person's back.
A wood or metal (or glass, etc) plate that serves as a backing for an object.
Part of a condenser microphone that sits behind the diaphragm and which acts, in conjunction with the diaphragm, as a sort of variable capacitor.
backropes
backspace
backspace
noun
(computing) A keyboard key used for removing a character behind the cursor, and moving the cursor one position backwards.
(computing) The non-printable text character representing a backspace.
The key on a typewriter that moves the head one position backwards.
verb
(computing) To move a magnetic tape to a previous block.
(computing) To remove a character behind a cursor.
backspear
backspeer
backspeir
backspier
backswept
backswept
adj
Swept back.
bakeapple
bakeapple
noun
(Atlantic Canada) The cloudberry, Rubus chamaemorus
bakership
bakership
noun
The role or status of a baker.
bakeshops
bakeshops
noun
plural of bakeshop
barkeeper
barkeeper
noun
A bartender: a person preparing and serving drinks at a bar.
beekeeper
beekeeper
noun
A person who maintains hives and keeps bees, especially for the production of honey.
bepranked
bespeaker
bespeaker
noun
One who bespeaks.
bespecked
bespeckle
bespeckle
verb
To add speckles.
blockpate
bookkeeps
bookkeeps
verb
Third-person singular simple present indicative form of bookkeep
bookplate
bookplate
noun
A printed piece of paper pasted on one of the pages of a book, most often on the inside front cover, showing ownership and thus deterring theft.
verb
(transitive) To affix a bookplate to (a book).
bookpress
boxkeeper
boxkeeper
noun
(now historical) A theatre attendant in charge of the boxes.
buckplate
bumpkinet
calpacked
calpacked
adj
Wearing a calpack.
capeskins
capeskins
noun
plural of capeskin
capeworks
capmakers
capmakers
noun
plural of capmaker
chappelka
cheapjack
cheapjack
adj
shabby
noun
A peddler, a travelling hawker.
checkrope
chempaduk
chickpeas
chickpeas
noun
plural of chickpea
chokedamp
chokedamp
noun
(mining) A damp consisting chiefly of carbon dioxide, so called for its ability to asphyxiate.
clerkship
clerkship
noun
(law) A temporary job of assisting a judge in writing legal opinions, generally available to a beginning attorney for one to two years.
(medicine) Clinical training for physicians during the second half of medical school.
The state or business of a clerk.
clumplike
clumplike
adj
Resembling or characteristic of a clump.
copydesks
copydesks
noun
plural of copydesk
corapeake
cowkeeper
cowkeeper
noun
(archaic) cowherd
crackhemp
crackrope
crackrope
noun
(obsolete) Alternative form of crack-rope
crapelike
crapelike
Adjective
Resembling crape.
disparkle
disparkle
verb
(obsolete, transitive) To scatter around.
dunpickle
dunpickle
noun
(obsolete) marsh harrier (a bird)
ekphorias
ekphorias
noun
plural of ekphoria
ekphorize
enkolpion
epikleses
epiklesis
epikouros
epinikian
epinikian
adj
epinicial
epinikion
epinikion
noun
Alternative form of epinicion
figpecker
figpecker
noun
A bird, the western Orphean warbler, Sylvia hortensis, prized by gourmets.
firepinks
firepinks
noun
plural of firepink
flyspecks
flyspecks
noun
plural of flyspeck
forepeaks
forepeaks
noun
plural of forepeak
forespake
forespake
verb
(archaic) simple past tense of forespeak
forespeak
forespeak
verb
(transitive, archaic) To foretell, to predict.
Alternative spelling of forspeak
forespoke
forespoke
verb
simple past tense of forespeak
forspoken
forspoken
adj
(obsolete) Bewitched, charmed.
verb
past participle of forspeak.
gipsylike
gipsylike
adj
Alternative form of gypsylike
grapelike
grapelike
adj
Resembling or characteristic of a grape.
grapeskin
grapeskin
noun
The skin of a grape.
gypsylike
gypsylike
adj
Resembling or characteristic of a gypsy.
hammerkop
hammerkop
noun
A bird from southern Africa, Scopus umbretta, of the family Scopidaeand related to the herons.
handspike
handspike
noun
A bar or lever, generally of wood, used in a windlass or capstan, for heaving anchor, and, in modified forms, for various purposes.
handspoke
handspoke
noun
Alternative form of handspike
harpylike
harpylike
Adjective
Resembling a harpy; ravenous or shrewish.
henpecked
henpecked
adj
(particularly of husbands or boyfriends) Intimidated or overwhelmed by a nagging or overbearing wife or girlfriend.
hoddypeak
hoopmaker
housekeep
housekeep
noun
(archaic or fantasy) The person in charge of a house; a housekeeper or innkeeper.
verb
(intransitive) To carry out the domestic duties of housekeeping.
(transitive, intransitive, computing) To perform the general tasks of housekeeping.
housekept
housekept
verb
simple past tense and past participle of housekeep
hutkeeper
hutkeeper
noun
One who maintains a hut that can be used by hikers, climbers, etc.
innkeeper
innkeeper
noun
The person responsible for the running of an inn, usually the proprietor.
jackplane
jackplane
noun
Alternative spelling of jack plane
jacksnipe
jacksnipe
noun
Lymnocryptes minimus, a migratory small stocky wader, the smallest of the snipes.
jampacked
jampacked
adj
Alternative spelling of jam-packed
verb
simple past tense and past participle of jampack
jokeproof
jokeproof
adj
(rare) Unable or unwilling to understand a joke; humorless.
(rare) Unable to be joked about.
kalispell
kalispell
Proper noun
a city in Montana, USA
kallitype
kallitype
noun
An early photograph produced using an organic salt of iron, preferably the ferric oxalate.
kamperite
kampliles
kampmeier
kampuchea
kampylite
kampylite
noun
Alternative form of campylite
kanephore
karyotype
karyotype
noun
(genetics) A record of such characteristics, usually photographic.
(genetics) The observed characteristics (number, type, shape, etc) of the chromosomes of an individual or species.
(obsolete, genetics) A group of individuals or species that have the same chromosomal characteristics.
verb
To investigate or record such characteristics
kataplexy
kataplexy
noun
Alternative form of cataplexy
keeperess
keeperess
noun
(literary) A female keeper.
keepering
keepering
noun
gamekeeping
keepsakes
keepsakes
noun
plural of keepsake
kelyphite
kelyphite
noun
(mineralogy) A substitution mineral found surrounding garnet in peridotites.
kephalins
kephalins
noun
plural of kephalin
keplerian
keplerian
adj
Alternative letter-case form of Keplerian
keyesport
kickplate
kickplate
noun
A usually metal strip mounted at the base of a door to prevent scuffing.
kidnapers
kidnapers
noun
plural of kidnaper
kidnapped
kidnapped
adj
subjected to kidnapping
verb
simple past tense and past participle of kidnap
kidnappee
kidnappee
noun
One who is kidnapped.
kidnapper
kidnapper
noun
A person who kidnaps someone.
kilampere
kilopoise
kinescope
kinescope
noun
(historical) An early television receiver tube.
A recording of a television broadcast made by filming the screen of a monitor; a telerecording.
verb
(transitive) To record (a television broadcast) by filming the screen of a monitor.
kingpiece
kinospore
kippering
kippering
noun
The development of an acquired hypospadias, usually as a result of long use of a catheter.
The trait of walking on the front legs while dragging the hind legs (applied to a dog).
verb
present participle of kipper
klemperer
klephtism
klephtism
noun
(historical) The theft and banditry characteristic of the anti-Ottoman insurgency when Greece was a part of the Ottoman Empire.
knapweeds
knapweeds
noun
plural of knapweed
knaveship
knaveship
noun
(countable, obsolete, Scotland) A quantity of corn or flour due to a miller's servant from each batch in a thirlage mill
(uncountable) The condition of being a knave (used mockingly)
kneepiece
kneepiece
noun
(construction) An angular piece of timber strengthening a joint where two roof timbers meet.
The piece of armour that covers the knee.
kneippism
kneippism
Noun
The treatment of disease by forms of hydrotherapy, such as walking barefoot in the morning dew, baths, wet compresses, cold affusions, etc.
knowperts
koniscope
koniscope
noun
An instrument for indicating the quantity of dust in the atmosphere.
koopbrief
kraepelin
lakarpite
lakeports
lakeports
noun
plural of lakeport
lampmaker
lampmaker
noun
A manufacturer of lamps.
lapstrake
lapstrake
adj
Descriptive of or resembling a boat, or a section of a boat, so constructed.
noun
(countable) A boat built in this style.
(uncountable) A style of boatbuilding using overlapping planks.
lapstreak
lapstreak
noun
Alternative form of lapstrake
leakproof
leakproof
adj
Resistant to leaks; hermetic, sound; as of a dry cell battery.
verb
(transitive) To make resistant to leakage.
lickpenny
lickpenny
adj
(obsolete) Expensive.
noun
(obsolete) Something that devours or absorbs lots of money; something expensive.
A miserly person.
locksteps
locksteps
noun
plural of lockstep
loudspeak
makership
makership
noun
The role or status of a maker.
mankeeper
maplelike
maplelike
adj
Resembling or characteristic of a maple tree.
mapmakers
mapmakers
noun
plural of mapmaker
mispacked
mispacked
verb
simple past tense and past participle of mispack
mispickel
mispickel
noun
The mineral arsenopyrite
misspeaks
misspeaks
verb
Third-person singular simple present indicative form of misspeak
misspoken
misspoken
verb
past participle of misspeak
monkeypod
monkeypod
noun
Albizia saman, a flowering tree in the pea family, native to the neotropics.
Couroupita nicaraguarensis (syn. Lecythis nicaraguarensis) (coco de mono)
Lecythis ollaria (coco de mono)
Pithecellobium dulce (blackbead)
Senna petersiana (dwarf cassia)
monkeypot
monkeypot
noun
Alternative form of monkey pot
morpunkee
neckpiece
neckpiece
noun
A piece of clothing to be worn around the neck.
nescopeck
netkeeper
netkeeper
noun
A goalkeeper.
newspeaks
newspeaks
noun
plural of newspeak
nipperkin
nipperkin
noun
(archaic) A small amount of beer, wine, or other liquid, of perhaps 1/8 pint in volume.
(archaic) A small cup or other vessel, of perhaps 1/8 pint in volume.
nitpicked
nitpicked
verb
simple past tense and past participle of nitpick
nitpicker
nitpicker
noun
One who nitpicks (finds fault in unimportant details).