The setting or background of an acted performance.
verb
(transitive) To serve as a backdrop for.
backrope
bricktop
capework
capework
noun
The use of a cape, in bullfighting, to distract the bull
caprocks
caprocks
noun
plural of caprock
cockspur
cockspur
noun
A blade for tying to the foot of a gamecock.
A kind of grass (Echinochloa crus-galli).
A kind of hawthorn (Crataegus crus-galli).
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).
cropsick
cropsick
adj
(obsolete) Sick in the stomach, especially from excess in eating or drinking.
doorkeep
dropkick
dropkick
noun
(Australia, derogatory, informal) An unintelligent or useless person.
(professional wrestling) a kick made to the opponent by leaping into the air and kicking with both feet before dropping to the ground.
(soccer) kicking where the football is dropped and kicked as it touches the ground.
verb
to make a dropkick
to score via a dropkick
droplike
droplike
adj
Resembling or characteristic of a drop of liquid.
ekphoria
forepeak
forepeak
noun
(nautical) The part of the hold of a ship within the angle of the bow
forspeak
forspeak
verb
(transitive, dialectal, Northern England and Scotland) To injure or cause bad luck through immoderate praise or flattery; to affect with the curse of an evil tongue, which brings ill luck upon all objects of its praise.
(transitive, obsolete) Alternative spelling of forespeak
(transitive, obsolete) To bewitch, to charm.
(transitive, obsolete) To forbid, to prohibit; to oppose.
(transitive, obsolete) To say bad things about; to slander.
forspoke
forspoke
verb
simple past tense of forspeak
freakpot
jumprock
jumprock
noun
Any of a number of North American fish in the sucker genus Moxostoma
kelpwort
kelpwort
noun
The plant kali.
killcrop
killcrop
noun
(obsolete) A changeling.
klaproth
kolhapur
kolhapur
Proper noun
A city in Maharashtra province, western India.
kopfring
koupreys
koupreys
noun
plural of kouprey
kromskop
kromskop
Noun
A device used for taking colour photographs of specimens in pathology.
kryptons
kryptons
noun
plural of krypton
lakeport
lakeport
noun
A port located on a lake.
lockport
lockport
Proper noun
an unincorporated community in Manitoba, Canada.
a city in Illinois, USA.
an unincorporated community in Indiana, USA.
an unincorporated community in Kentucky, USA.
a town in Louisiana, USA.
a city and a town in New York, USA. The city is the county seat of
a ghost town in Ohio, USA.
morepork
morepork
intj
The call of a morepork.
noun
(chiefly New Zealand) The Tasmanian spotted owl (Ninox novaeseelandiae), a small brown owl indigenous to New Zealand and Tasmania.
A foolish person; also, a person who is wearisome.
A person who is lazy or slow; a slowcoach, a slowpoke.
openwork
openwork
noun
(mining) A quarry; an open cut.
Any of several forms of metalwork or needlework having decorative openings.
overkeep
overkeep
verb
(transitive) To keep or observe too strictly.
(transitive) To keep too long.
overpack
overpack
noun
A container intended to hold smaller containers.
verb
(intransitive) To pack too much.
overpark
overpark
verb
(intransitive) To park (a vehicle) for longer than is permitted.
overpeck
overpick
overskip
overskip
verb
To skip or leap over; to treat with indifference.
oxpecker
oxpecker
noun
Either of two species of passerine bird in the genus Buphagus, in the monotypic family Buphagidae, endemic to sub-Saharan African savannah.
parkston
parroket
parroket
noun
Archaic form of parakeet.
pembroke
pembroke
Proper noun
A town in Pembrokeshire, Wales
pembrook
petrovsk
pickford
pickfork
pickover
pickwork
pilework
pilework
noun
A structure built of piles; piling.
pinkroot
pinkroot
noun
A perennial North American herb (Spigelia marilandica), sometimes cultivated for its showy red blossoms.
An annual South American and West Indian plant (Spigelia anthelmia).
The root of Spigelia marilandica or Spigelia anthelmia, used as a powerful vermifuge.
pinkwort
pinworks
pinworks
noun
A factory that makes pins.
pipework
pipework
noun
(music) The pipes and stops of an organ
Any system of pipes or tubes; piping
piroshki
piroshki
noun
Alternative spelling of pirozhki
pirozhki
pirozhki
noun
A single such pastry.
Small pastries filled with finely chopped meat, vegetables or fruit baked or fried, from eastern European cuisine, or a serving of these.
pirozhok
pirozhok
noun
singular of pirozhki - Russian пирожки́ (pirožkí)
pithwork
playwork
playwork
noun
(UK) A branch of childcare involving the supervision and development of play.
A role.
Work that is very easy or enjoyable.
plumrock
pocketer
pocketer
noun
One who pockets something, or (figurative) appropriates money or goods.
pockmark
pockmark
noun
A crater in the seafloor caused by erupting gas or liquid.
A mark or scar in the skin caused by a pock.
pokerish
pokerish
adj
(US, archaic, colloquial) unsafe, dangerous
(archaic, colloquial) nervous, uneasy
Stiff, like a poker.
pokeroot
pokeroot
noun
Synonym of pokeweed
polykarp
porelike
porelike
adj
Resembling or characteristic of pores.
porkchop
porkchop
noun
(chiefly attributive) Alternative form of pork chop
porkfish
porkfish
noun
Any grunt (fish) of the species Anisotremus virginicus.
porkiest
porkiest
adj
superlative form of porky: most porky
porkless
porkless
adj
Without pork.
porkling
porkling
noun
(dated) A young pig; a porket.
porkpies
porkpies
noun
plural of porkpie
porkwood
porkwood
noun
The wood of the spekboom tree (Portulacaria afra).
porokoto
portapak
portapak
noun
A portable, battery-powered, self-contained video recording system.
porthook
postmark
postmark
noun
A marking made by a postal service on a letter, package, postcard or the like, usually indicating the place where and the date and time when the item was received or processed for the first time, and often serving to cancel a postage stamp.
verb
To apply a postmark on.
potcrook
potmaker
potmaker
noun
A manufacturer of pots.
precooks
precooks
verb
Third-person singular simple present indicative form of precook
preknown
preknown
adj
Already known; known in advance.
presoaks
presoaks
noun
plural of presoak
verb
Third-person singular simple present indicative form of presoak
prestock
pretoken
prickado
princock
princock
noun
(now rare, dialectal, sometimes attributive) An insolent or cheeky young man.
probrick
provoked
provoked
verb
simple past tense and past participle of provoke
provokee
provokee
noun
One who is subjected to provocation.
provoker
provoker
noun
A person who provokes; a troublemaker
provokes
provokes
verb
Third-person singular simple present indicative form of provoke
reaphook
repocket
repocket
verb
(transitive) To pocket again; to return to one's pocket.
respoken
respoken
verb
past participle of respeak
rockport
ropebark
ropelike
ropelike
adj
Resembling rope.
ropewalk
ropewalk
noun
A long straight narrow lane, or a covered pathway, where long strands of material were laid before being twisted into rope.
A place where rope is made, a rope factory.
Any narrow walkway that has rope handrails.
ropework
ropework
noun
(nautical) The making, repairing, knotting, splicing and storing of rope, and the manufacture of devices from rope, mostly by use of the marlinspike
A form of raised convex or painted decoration in the form of twisted rope applied to architecture, ceramics, metalwork and furniture
rounspik
shipwork
shipwork
noun
The work of building and repairing ships.
shopmark
shopmark
noun
A logo indicating the workshop from which a product originated.
shopwork
slopwork
slopwork
noun
(figuratively) Hasty, slovenly work of any kind.
The manufacture of slops, or cheap ready-made clothing.
soapbark
soapbark
noun
The bark of the evergreen tree, Quillaja saponaria, which when pulverised forms a lather with water.
The tree Quillaja saponaria.
soaprock
soaprock
noun
soapstone
spaework
spookery
spookery
noun
(countable) Something characteristic of a spook.
(uncountable) The condition of being spooky.
spookier
spookier
adj
comparative form of spooky: more spooky
sprocket
sprocket
noun
(architecture) A flared extension at the base of a sloped roof.
(mechanical engineering) A toothed wheel that enmeshes with a chain or other perforated band.
(usually in the plural) The tooth of such a wheel.
A placeholder name for an unnamed, unspecified, or hypothetical manufactured good or product.
spurlock
stopwork
tapework
topmaker
topmaker
noun
A person or company in the business of topmaking.
topworks
topworks
verb
Third-person singular simple present indicative form of topwork
trackpot
traprock
traprock
noun
Alternative form of trap rock
treckpot
turnpoke
upbroken
upbroken
verb
simple past tense and past participle of upbreak
uplooker
uplooker
noun
One who gazes upward.
upstroke
upstroke
noun
The upward stroke of a pen, brush, piston, etc.
workship
workship
noun
(archaic) workmanship
workshop
workshop
noun
A brief, intensive course of education for a small group, emphasizing interaction and practical problem solving.
A room, especially one which is not particularly large, used for manufacturing or other light industrial work.
An academic conference.
verb
(transitive) To help a playwright revise a draft of (a play) by rehearsing it with actors and critiquing the results.
(transitive) To work on or revise something, especially collaboratively, in a workshop.
(transitive, business) To improve through collaboration.