(baseball, slang) A catcher; the position of catcher.
(cricket, dated) The longstop.
(cricket, dated) The wicket-keeper.
(espionage) Something serving to bolster or support a cover story etc.
(rounders) The player who stands immediately behind the striking base.
A default arrangement that holds if all else fails.
A thing or a person put in the rear or in the back of something to reinforce, hold, support.
verb
(transitive) To bolster, support.
(transitive) To serve as backstop for.
backwort
bakerton
banknote
banknote
noun
(now historical) A promissory note issued by a bank, payable at a given time to a specific beneficiary.
A piece of paper currency.
bankston
berakoth
berakoth
noun
plural of berakah
blackout
blackout
noun
(attributive) The blocking out of as much light as possible.
(historical) The mandatory blocking of all light emanating from buildings, as well as outdoor and street lighting as a measure against aerial bombing or naval attack, as imposed during, e.g., World War II.
A large-scale power failure, and resulting loss of electricity to consumers.
A temporary loss of consciousness.
A temporary loss of memory.
An instance of censorship, especially a temporary one.
verb
(nonstandard) Alternative form of black out
blackpot
blacktop
blacktop
noun
(US, countable) A paved area on a schoolground reserved for recess activities, often doubling as a parking lot.
(US, countable) A road so paved.
(US, uncountable) Asphalt concrete or similar bituminous black paving material used for the surface of roads (e.g., tarmacadam, tarmac).
verb
(US) To pave with blacktop.
boathook
boathook
noun
(by extension) A pole or rod with such a hook at one end.
A hook attached to a pole used for pulling or pushing boats, rafts, logs or other objects to or from the side of a boat.
boatlike
boatlike
adj
Resembling a boat
bookmate
bookmate
noun
A schoolfellow; an associate in studying.
bootjack
bootjack
noun
a V-shaped, or forked, device for pulling off boots.
boutylka
breakout
breakout
adj
Of a book, film, or other work: leading its author to mainstream success.
noun
(aviation) The point at which visibility returns after passing through cloud.
A breakdown of statistics; a detailed view of component parts.
A room in a hotel etc. that can be taken by a smaller group at a large conference.
An escape from any restrictive or confining situation.
An escape from prison.
An outbreak (sudden eruption of disease etc.).
caretook
caretook
verb
simple past tense of caretake
clarkton
cloaklet
cloaklet
noun
A short cloak
coatrack
coatrack
noun
(US) Alternative spelling of coat rack
cockatoo
cockatoo
noun
(slang, obsolete) A lookout posted during a two-up game, when gambling was illegal.
A bird of the family Cacatuidae with a curved beak and a zygodactyl foot.
cockboat
cockboat
noun
(nautical) A small rowing boat, especially one pulled behind a larger ship, or used to ferry goods between a ship and the shore.
cockmate
cocktail
cocktail
adj
(obsolete) Ostentatiously lacking in manners.
noun
(UK, slang, dated) A mean, half-hearted fellow.
(by extension) A mixture of other substances or things.
A horse, not of pure breed, but having only one eighth or one sixteenth impure blood in its veins.
A mixed alcoholic beverage.
A species of rove beetle, so called from its habit of elevating the tail.
verb
(transitive) To adulterate (fuel, etc.) by mixing in other substances.
(transitive) To treat (a person) to cocktails.
comatiks
comatiks
noun
plural of comatik
contakia
contakia
noun
plural of contakion
crackpot
crackpot
adj
(informal) Eccentric or impractical.
noun
(informal) An eccentric, crazy or foolish person.
(informal) Someone addicted to crack cocaine (i.e. a drug addict).
dakotans
daktylon
daktylos
darktown
darktown
noun
(US, dated) An African-American area of a city in the American South.
datebook
datebook
noun
A book in which appointments are kept, each listed beside the day when it occurs.
demotika
downtake
downtake
noun
An outlet for conveying something downward.
Material conveyed downward by such an outlet.
drawknot
duckboat
fatstock
fatstock
noun
Fattened livestock.
faulkton
faulkton
Proper noun
a small city in South Dakota, USA
flatwork
flatwork
noun
(construction) Horizontal construction work using concrete, such as floors.
flokatis
flokatis
noun
plural of flokati
folkboat
folkboat
noun
A small, affordable sailboat, rigged as a sloop.
folktale
folktale
noun
A tale or story that is part of the oral tradition of a people or a place.
footback
footmark
footmark
noun
footprint (an impression made by a foot)
footwalk
footwalk
noun
A pedestrian walkway.
foretack
foretack
noun
(nautical) The fore tack (part of a sail)
foretake
foretake
verb
(transitive) To take or choose before another (option); prefer.
(transitive) To take, receive, or adopt beforehand; assume.
foretalk
foretalk
noun
Small talk used prior to more meaningful conversation.
forktail
forktail
noun
(UK, dialect) A salmon in its fourth year's growth.
Any of various small insectivorous birds in the genus Enicurus.
franckot
frankton
freakout
freakout
noun
(slang) A frightening or disorientating experience, especially one that results from the use of a hallucinogenic drug.
(slang) An occurrence of unrestrained or irrational behaviour.
freakpot
goatlike
goatlike
adj
Resembling or characteristic of a goat.
goatskin
goatskin
noun
(Ireland, colloquial) a bodhran drum.
A liquid container (especially of wine or water) made from goat leather.
The skin of a goat.
hackbolt
hackbolt
noun
(archaic, Scilly Isles) The greater shearwater or hagdon.
hakafoth
hakodate
halakhot
halakoth
halakoth
noun
plural of halakah
haskwort
hathcock
hawkmoth
hawkmoth
noun
(entomology) Any of several moths, of the family Sphingidae, that hover over flowers when sucking nectar through a long proboscis.
hotcakes
hotcakes
noun
plural of hotcake
ikhnaton
jackboot
jackboot
noun
(informal, by extension) The spirit that motivates a totalitarian or overly militaristic regime or policy.
A glossy leather calf-covering military boot, commonly associated with German soldiers of the WWII era.
verb
(intransitive) To march in jackboots.
(transitive) To stamp on with a jackboot.
jackpots
jackpots
noun
plural of jackpot
joktaleg
kahlotus
kairotic
kairotic
adj
Related to, or characteristic of a kairos
kalathoi
kalathoi
noun
plural of kalathos
kalathos
kalathos
noun
Alternative form of calathus
karafuto
karafuto
Proper noun
a Japanese prefecture (Karafuto-chō) on the South Sakhalin, commonly called South Sakhalin from 1905 to 1945.
kariotta
karlotta
karlotte
karmouth
karyotin
karyotin
noun
chromatin
kasolite
kasolite
noun
(mineralogy) A monoclinic-prismatic mineral containing hydrogen, lead, oxygen, silicon, and uranium.
kathodal
kathodal
adj
Dated form of cathodal.
kathodes
kathodes
noun
plural of kathode
kathodic
kathodic
adj
Dated form of cathodic.
katowice
katowice
Proper noun
A city in southern Poland, capital of Silesian Voivodeship.
keelboat
keelboat
noun
(sailing) Any sailboat having a keel (as opposed to a centerboard or daggerboard).
keitloas
keitloas
noun
plural of keitloa
keratode
keratode
noun
keratose
keratoid
keratoid
adj
(biology) Resembling horn; horny.
Of a cusp, having its two branches curving in opposite directions.
keratoma
keratoma
noun
A horn-like tumour.
keratome
keratome
noun
A surgical instrument for dividing the cornea in cataract operations
keratose
keratose
adj
(medicine) Relating to or marked by keratosis; horny.
noun
(biochemistry) A tough, horny animal substance found in the skeletons of sponges and other invertebrates.
khartoum
khartoum
Proper noun
Capital of the Sudan.
kilowatt
kilowatt
noun
One thousand (10³) watts.
kiskatom
kitasato
klaproth
knothead
knothead
noun
(informal) A stupid or stubborn person.
kodakist
koftgari
koftgari
noun
Ornamental work produced by inlaying steel with gold; a variety of damascening common in Indian art.
kohistan
kohistan
Proper noun
a political district in Afghanistan, Pakistan or Tajikistan
koktaite
koktaite
noun
(mineralogy) A monoclinic-prismatic mineral containing calcium, hydrogen, nitrogen, oxygen, and sulfur.
kolattam
koltunna
komatiks
komatiks
noun
plural of komatik
komitaji
komitaji
noun
Alternative spelling of comitadji
konariot
konstanz
kontakia
kontakia
noun
plural of kontakion
kooletah
kooletah
noun
An Inuit caribou-skin coat.
kootchar
kootchar
noun
A stingless Australian bee Trigona australis
kootenai
kootenai
Proper noun
a small city in Idaho, USA.
kootenay
korahite
koranist
korfonta
kostival
kostroma
kotabaru
kotchian
kottaboi
kottabos
kottabos
noun
Alternative form of cottabus
kotwalee
kotwalee
noun
Archaic form of kotwali.
krakatao
krakatoa
krakatoa
Proper noun
a volcanic island made of ʻaʻā lava in the Sunda Strait between the islands of Java and Sumatra in Indonesia