(computing) A feature that prevents a keyboard from registering multiple simultaneous keypresses that would cause ghosting.
Blocks used to support (a building, etc.) temporarily.
The act by which something is blocked; an obstruction.
The precise movement and positioning of actors in order to facilitate a performance (originally planned using miniature blocks).
verb
present participle of block
bookings
bookings
noun
plural of booking
bookling
bookling
noun
A short-length or compact book, typically under one hundred pages.
boskages
boskages
noun
plural of boskage
brockage
brockage
noun
(coin collecting) A type of error coin in which one side of the coin has the normal design and the other side has a mirror image of the same design impressed upon it.
brokages
brokages
noun
plural of brokage
brooking
brooking
verb
present participle of brook
bunkoing
bunkoing
verb
present participle of bunko
cagework
cagework
noun
A cage or cage-like structure.
chocking
chocking
verb
present participle of chock
cloakage
cloaking
cloaking
noun
The act of wrapping or covering with a cloak.
The material from which cloaks are made.
verb
present participle of cloak
clocking
clocking
noun
A time measurement made according to a clock.
verb
present participle of clock
cloglike
cloglike
adj
Resembling or characteristic of a clog (type of shoe).
clonking
clonking
verb
present participle of clonk
cockling
cockling
noun
A young, small, or immature cock.
verb
present participle of cockle
cokeburg
comaking
cookings
cookings
noun
plural of cooking
corkages
corkages
noun
plural of corkage
corkwing
corkwing
noun
corkwing wrasse (Symphodus melops)
cragwork
croaking
croaking
noun
The sound of something that croaks.
verb
present participle of croak
crocking
crocking
verb
present participle of crock
crooking
crooking
noun
The act by which something is crooked.
verb
present participle of crook
daglocks
daglocks
noun
plural of daglock
dockages
dockages
noun
plural of dockage
dogtrick
drouking
flocking
flocking
noun
A material textured in this way, such as the artificial snow of a Christmas tree.
The process of adding small particles to a surface for the sake of texture.
verb
present participle of flock
folksong
folksong
noun
Alternative spelling of folk song
folkvang
foreking
foreking
noun
A preceding king.
A predecessor on the throne.
frocking
frocking
noun
material for making frocks
verb
present participle of frock
froglike
froglike
adj
Similar to a frog (amphibian), or to a characteristic of a frog.
a froglike croak
adv
In a froglike way
frogskin
frogskin
noun
(US, slang) A greenback, a United States dollar.
The skin of a frog, or leather made from it.
gadzooks
gadzooks
intj
(archaic) An expression of surprise, shock etc.
gamecock
gamecock
noun
A fighting cock: a rooster used in cockfighting.
garookuh
garookuh
noun
(archaic) A small fishing vessel of the Persian Gulf.
garrooka
gasworks
gasworks
noun
A factory where coal is converted to coal gas and coke.
gavelock
gavelock
noun
(UK, Scotland, dialect) An iron crow or lever.
(rare, obsolete) A spear or dart.
geckotid
gekkones
gekkonid
gekkonid
noun
(zoology) Any member of the family Gekkonidae, the largest family of geckos.
gemsboks
gemsboks
noun
plural of gemsbok
geoducks
geoducks
noun
plural of geoduck
ghorkhar
giftbook
gingkoes
ginkgoes
goadlike
goadlike
adj
Resembling or characteristic of a goad.
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.
gobstick
gobylike
gobylike
adj
Resembling or characteristic of a goby (fish).
goddikin
godmaker
godowsky
gokuraku
goldlike
goldlike
adj
Similar to it in color.
Similar to it in value.
goldmark
goldmark
noun
A German mark of gold standard, as opposed to on paper
goldwork
goldwork
noun
Work done using gold metal, as in embroidery or jewellery.
golkakra
golkakra
noun
(India) Synonym of gac (“Momordica cochinchinensis”).
gonglike
gonglike
adj
Resembling or characteristic of a gong.
goodlike
goodlike
adj
(UK, dialect, archaic) well-favoured; handsome
gorcocks
gorcocks
noun
plural of gorcock
gorkhali
gorlicki
gorlovka
goshawks
goshawks
noun
plural of goshawk
gowdnook
gowkedly
grabhook
greekdom
greenock
greenock
Proper noun
a town on the south side of the Scotland, which is the administrative centre of council area
a small town in the South Australia.
gridlock
gridlock
noun
(figuratively, by extension) any paralysis of a complex system due to severe congestion, conflict, or deadlock.
A condition of total, interlocking traffic congestion on the streets or highways of a crowded city, in which no one can move because everyone is in someone else's way.
On a smaller scale: the situation in which cars enter a signal-controlled intersection too late during the green light cycle, and are unable to clear the intersection (due to congestion in the next block) when the light turns red, thus blocking the cross traffic when it's their turn to go. Repeated at enough intersections, this phenomenon can lead to citywide gridlock.
verb
To cause traffic congestion.
gritrock
gritrock
noun
gritstone
grosbeak
grosbeak
noun
Any of several finches and cardinals that have a large, powerful bill
grosmark
gunkhole
gunkhole
noun
(nautical) A small cove, especially a small fishing community.
verb
(nautical) To cruise in shallow coastal waters, spending the nights in gunkholes.
gunlocks
gunlocks
noun
plural of gunlock
gunstock
gunstock
noun
The handle of a handgun.
The rear part of a musket, rifle or shotgun which is pressed into the shoulder.
hedgcock
hockling
hogbacks
hogbacks
noun
plural of hogback
hoicking
hoicking
noun
The process of gathering mucous and phlegm in the mouth and spitting it out.
verb
present participle of hoick
hongkong
invoking
invoking
verb
present participle of invoke
jingkoes
jokingly
jokingly
adv
In a joking manner.
joktaleg
jongkind
kampongs
kampongs
noun
plural of kampong
kangaroo
kangaroo
adj
(finance, investments) Characterized by rapidly jumping prices in securities markets or by belief that the prices are unstable in contrast to bear and bull markets.
Of or relating to Australia.
noun
(Canada, attributive) A hooded jacket with a front pocket, usually of fleece material, a kangaroo jacket.
A member of the Macropodidae family of large marsupials with strong hind legs for hopping, native to Australia.
verb
To hunt kangaroo.
To move like a kangaroo
To practice kangaroo care on an infant; to hold a premature infant against the skin.
kaoliang
kaoliang
noun
A sorghum-based variety of baijiu.
Any of various Chinese varieties of sorghum.
keerogue
keerogue
noun
(Ireland) A beetle.
kenogeny
kerogens
kerogens
noun
plural of kerogen
keylargo
killawog
killogie
killogie
noun
(Scotland, obsolete) The fireplace of a kiln.
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
kingbolt
kingbolt
noun
The main bolt of a structure, especially the bolt in a motor vehicle that links the chassis to the axle, providing the steering pivot.
kingchow
kingdoms
kingdoms
noun
plural of kingdom
kinghood
kinghood
noun
The quality or state of being a king; kingship.
The state of being a king.
kinghorn
kingmont
kingpost
kingpost
noun
Alternative spelling of king post
kingston
kingston
noun
monkfish, angel shark (Squatina squatina)
kingwood
kingwood
noun
(uncountable) The wood of this tree, used in cabinetmaking.
Dalbergia cearensis, a Brazilian tree having a violet-brown, hard texture.
kinology
kinology
noun
The branch of physics that deals with the laws of motion.
kithogue
kitthoge
klingsor
knighton
knighton
Proper noun
a town in Powys, Wales, on the border with England. Its railway station is across the River Teme in Shropshire, England.
a hamlet on the Isle of Wight, England. The K is usually pronounced to distinguish it from Niton.
a suburb of Leicester, England.
a hamlet in Staffordshire, England, on the Shropshire border.
a hamlet in Oxfordshire, England, part of Compton Beauchamp.
a hamlet near Ramsbury, Wiltshire, England.
knobbing
knobbing
noun
(UK, vulgar, slang) A session of penetrative sexual intercourse.
A pattern of knobs or lumps.
verb
present participle of knob
knocking
knocking
noun
(automotive) A repetitive ping, knock, or similar sound coming from an engine in which there are repeated uncontrolled explosions in the combustion chamber.
An act in which something is knocked on, or the sound thus produced
verb
present participle of knock
knolling
knolling
verb
present participle of knoll
knorring
knotting
knotting
noun
(chiefly mathematics) The formation of a knot.
(uncountable, zoology) The swelling of the bulbus glandis.
verb
present participle of knot
knouting
knouting
noun
A flogging with a knout.
A leather scourge.
verb
present participle of knout
knowings
knowings
noun
plural of knowing
knowling
kodaking
kodaking
verb
present participle of kodak
koftgari
koftgari
noun
Ornamental work produced by inlaying steel with gold; a variety of damascening common in Indian art.
koksagyz
koleroga
koleroga
noun
A disease of palm trees such as areca palms and of many other commercially important plants caused by the oomycete Phytophthora palmivora.
Diseases of coffee, citrus, and persimmon caused by the fungus Ceratobasidium noxium
kolodgie
kongoese
kopfring
kornberg
korngold
korrigan
korrigan
noun
A long-haired nocturnal and often malevolent Breton fairy princess.
korrigum
korrigum
noun
Damaliscus korrigum korrigum, an antelope of a subspecies of the topi.
kotowing
kotowing
noun
Alternative form of kowtowing
verb
present participle of kotow
kratogen
krongold
kugelhof
kurajong
kymogram
kymogram
noun
A graphical record produced by a kymograph.
legworks
legworks
noun
plural of legwork
lockages
lockages
noun
plural of lockage
lockings
lockings
noun
plural of locking
logbooks
logbooks
noun
plural of logbook
longbeak
longbeak
noun
The American red-bellied snipe (Limnodromus scolopaceus).