Of or relating to a language family that developed among ancient indigenous peoples in South America and migrated to Central America and the Greater Antilles in the Caribbean and the Atlantic, including what is now the Bahamas.
arkansaw
artworks
artworks
noun
plural of artwork
askewgee
astakiwi
awabakal
awabakal
Noun
A people indigenous to New South Wales, Australia.
Proper noun
The language spoken by these people.
awakable
awakable
adj
Able to be awoken.
awakened
awakened
adj
Aroused or activated.
Having been woken up.
verb
simple past tense and past participle of awaken
awakener
awakener
noun
One who, or that which, awakens.
awakings
awakings
noun
plural of awaking
backblow
backdown
backdown
noun
An act of backing down; a retraction or withdrawal.
backflow
backflow
noun
The flow of a fluid (through a pipe etc.) in a direction opposite to that which is normal or intended.
verb
To flow in the wrong or backward direction.
backsaws
backsaws
noun
plural of backsaw
backwall
backwall
noun
(sports) Alternative form of back wall
backward
backward
adj
(chess) Of a pawn, further behind than pawns of the same colour on adjacent files and unable to be moved forward safely.
(cricket) Further behind the batsman's popping crease than something else.
(cricket) On that part of the field behind the batsman's popping crease.
(figuratively) Acting or moving oppositely to the desired direction of progress.
(figuratively) Of a culture, country, practice etc., undeveloped or unsophisticated.
(figuratively) Slow to apprehend; having difficulties in learning.
(obsolete) Already past or gone; bygone.
(obsolete) Unwilling; averse; reluctant.
Acting or moving in the direction opposite to that in which someone or something is facing.
Acting or moving in the direction opposite to the usual direction of movement.
Lacking progressive or enlightened thought; outdated.
Late or behindhand.
Reluctant or unable to advance or act.
Reversed in order or sequence.
Situated toward or at the rear of something.
adv
(figuratively) Oppositely to the desired direction of progress, or from a better to a worse state.
(obsolete) In the past.
At, near or towards the rear of something.
By way of reflection; reflexively.
In a direction opposite to the usual direction of movement.
In a reversed order or sequence.
In a reversed orientation; back to front.
Toward or into the past;
noun
The state behind or past.
backwash
backwash
noun
(economics) The situation where economic growth in one area harms other areas by attracting people and business away from those areas.
(nautical) The backward flow of water from oars or propeller or breaking waves.
The result or consequence of an event; an aftermath.
The saliva, spit or food particles that have flowed back into a drink after someone has drunk from it.
The similar flow of air from an aircraft engine.
verb
(transitive) To affect with backwash.
To clean the oil from wool after combing.
To operate a water filter in the reverse direction in order to clean it.
backwind
backwind
noun
(nautical) The flow of air so deflected
verb
(nautical) To deflect air into the back of a sail or of a vessel
(transitive) To wind backwards.
backwood
backwood
adj
Native to or located in a remote rural location.
Rustic, unsophisticated, countrified.
backword
backword
noun
A contention, retort, or reply.
A contradiction or answer to put off an engagement; a countermand.
A section of commentary at the end of a book.
backworm
backworm
noun
(obsolete) The thread-like worm found in filanders, the disease of hawks.
backwort
backwrap
backwrap
noun
(computing, dated) A word wrap feature that restores a word to the preceding line when space is made for it by deletion.
A portion of something that is wrapped backward.
verb
(computing, dated) To restore a word to the preceding line when space is made for it by deletion.
To wrap around the back of something.
bakeware
bakeware
noun
Cooking equipment intended for use inside an oven.
bakewell
bakewell
noun
Alternative form of Bakewell
baklawas
baklawas
noun
plural of baklawa
ballhawk
ballhawk
noun
(baseball, chiefly in Chicago) A person who specializes in catching home-run and foul balls.
(sports) A player who handles the ball skilfully
bandwork
bandwork
noun
(art) Decorative work resembling interlaced bands.
bankweed
bawcocks
bawcocks
noun
plural of bawcock
bawdrick
beadwork
beadwork
noun
Decorative work involving beads.
beamwork
bethwack
bethwack
verb
(transitive) To pelt, thrash, or cudgel soundly.
bikeways
bikeways
noun
plural of bikeway
blauwbok
blauwbok
noun
The bluebuck (extinct mammal).
blowback
blowback
noun
(computing) Synonym of backscatter.
(firearms) A type of action where the pressure from the fired cartridge blows a sliding mechanism backward to extract the fired cartridge, chamber another cartridge, and cock the hammer.
(rail transport) On a steam locomotive, the reversal of exhaust gases when the regulator is closed without using the blower.
(slang) The act of shotgunning (inhaling from a pipe etc. and exhaling into another smoker's mouth).
An unintended adverse result, especially of covert political action.
bookward
bookways
bowmaker
bowmaker
noun
Alternative form of bow maker
brockway
bucksaws
bucksaws
noun
plural of bucksaw
buckwash
bulwarks
bulwarks
noun
plural of bulwark
verb
Third-person singular simple present indicative form of bulwark
bushwack
bushwack
verb
Alternative spelling of bushwhack
bywalker
cagework
cagework
noun
A cage or cage-like structure.
cakewalk
cakewalk
noun
(historical) A contest in which cake was offered for the best dancers.
(idiomatic) Something that is easy or simple, or that does not present a great challenge.
(music) The style of music associated with such a contest.
(performing arts) The dance, or strutting style of dance associated with such a contest.
verb
(intransitive) To perform the cakewalk dance.
canework
canework
noun
Objects made from canes (slender, flexible plant stems).
capework
capework
noun
The use of a cape, in bullfighting, to distract the bull
casework
casework
noun
The work required to deal with cases in any profession where a "case" has a specific definition (e.g. legal, social work, planning, etc.).
catwalks
catwalks
noun
plural of catwalk
chadwick
chawbuck
chawbuck
verb
(obsolete, transitive) To beat with a chabuk.
chewbark
clawback
clawback
noun
(US law of evidence) A rule that permits a party to take back evidentiary materials that were mistakenly turned over to the other party but to which the other party would not have been entitled.
(US taxation law) Money that a party is entitled to keep under one tax provision but is taken by another tax provision.
(US, business) Any recovery of a performance-related payment based on discovery that the performance was not genuine.
(obsolete) A flatterer or sycophant.
clawlike
clawlike
adj
Resembling a claw
clawsick
cockawee
cockawee
noun
Synonym of long-tailed duck
cookware
cookware
noun
The assorted objects, such as pots, pans, baking sheets, etc., used for cooking
cowquake
cowquake
noun
quaking grass; Briza media
crackjaw
crackjaw
adj
Difficult or unpleasant to pronounce.
cragwork
darktown
darktown
noun
(US, dated) An African-American area of a city in the American South.
dawnlike
dawnlike
adj
Resembling dawn or some aspect of it.
dayworks
dayworks
noun
plural of daywork
deadwork
deadwork
noun
Unprofitable work that is necessary as a preliminary, e.g. preparing a mine before ore can be extracted.
doorhawk
dorhawks
dorhawks
noun
plural of dorhawk
dowhacky
downtake
downtake
noun
An outlet for conveying something downward.
Material conveyed downward by such an outlet.
drawback
drawback
noun
A disadvantage; something that detracts or takes away.
A partial refund of an import fee, as when goods are re-exported from the country that collected the fee.
The inhalation of a lungful of smoke from a cigarette.
drawknot
drawlink
drawlink
noun
(rail transport) drawbar
duckwalk
duckwalk
noun
Alternative spelling of duck walk
verb
(intransitive) To jump on one leg while moving the other back and forth, a motion sometimes employed by guitar players in popular music.
(intransitive) To walk while squatting.
dworshak
enewetak
facework
facework
noun
(mining) work done at the face, such as the coalface
(sociology, psychology) The communicative strategies involved in upholding face, or social prestige.
The material of the outside or front side, as of a wall or building.
fastwalk
fawkener
fawnlike
fawnlike
adj
Resembling or characteristic of a fawn.
fawnskin
fawnskin
noun
The skin of a fawn
flatwork
flatwork
noun
(construction) Horizontal construction work using concrete, such as floors.
folkways
folkways
noun
plural of folkway
footwalk
footwalk
noun
A pedestrian walkway.
forwaked
forwaked
adj
(obsolete) tired out with excessive waking or watching
gasworks
gasworks
noun
A factory where coal is converted to coal gas and coke.
gawkiest
gawkiest
adj
superlative form of gawky: most gawky
goshawks
goshawks
noun
plural of goshawk
hacksaws
hacksaws
noun
plural of hacksaw
verb
Third-person singular simple present indicative form of hacksaw
hackwood
hackwork
hackwork
noun
Work, usually of a professional nature, either repetitive or done to a formula.
hairwork
hairwork
noun
Jewellery made from human hair.
handwork
handwork
noun
Work done by the hands, as opposed to by machine.
verb
(transitive) To work (materials) by hand, without the use of a machine.
hardwick
hartwick
haskwort
hawebake
hawebake
Noun
The baked berry of the hawthorn tree, i.e. coarse fare.
hawkbill
hawkbill
noun
Alternative spelling of hawksbill
hawkeyes
hawkeyes
noun
plural of hawkeye
hawkings
hawkings
noun
plural of hawking
hawklike
hawklike
adj
Reminiscent of a hawk.
hawkmoth
hawkmoth
noun
(entomology) Any of several moths, of the family Sphingidae, that hover over flowers when sucking nectar through a long proboscis.
hawknose
hawknose
noun
A nose shaped like a hawk's beak.
hawkshaw
hawkshaw
noun
(dated, 19th century) A detective.
hawkweed
hawkweed
noun
Any species of plant of the genus Hieracium and its segregate genus Pilosella, in the sunflower family (Asteraceae).
hawkwise
hayakawa
headwark
headwark
noun
A headache.
headwork
headwork
noun
Mental or intellectual labour; the use of logic and clear thinking.
hickwall
hickwall
noun
(UK, regional) A European green woodpecker, Picus viridis.
(UK, regional) A lesser spotted woodpecker, Dryobates minor.
(UK, regional, archaic) A blue tit, Cyanistes caeruleus.
huskanaw
huskanaw
noun
(historical) A Powhatan initiation ritual for boys, involving fasting and narcotics.
jackdaws
jackdaws
noun
plural of jackdaw
jackweed
jackwood
jackwood
noun
Cryptocarya glaucescens, a rainforest tree of eastern Australia whose bark is dark brown or reddish-brown and often scaly.
jawbreak
jaworski
jaywalks
jaywalks
verb
Third-person singular simple present indicative form of jaywalk
kalewife
kanawari
kanazawa
kanazawa
Proper noun
The capital of Ishikawa prefecture in north-central Honshū in Japan.
A ward of the city of Yokohama, Kanagawa prefecture in Kantō region of Japan.
kangwane
kangwane
Proper noun
A bantustan in South Africa, intended by the apartheid government to be a semi-independent homeland for the Swazi people.
kapowsin
kapwepwe
katowice
katowice
Proper noun
A city in southern Poland, capital of Silesian Voivodeship.
kawabata
kawakawa
kawakawa
noun
A fish, Euthynnus affinis, the false albacore.
Alternative form of kiwikiwi (“star fern”)
Piper excelsum (syn. Macropiper excelsum), a shrub endemic to New Zealand.
kawasaki
kawasaki
Proper noun
A city in Kanagawa prefecture, Japan.
A Japanese motorcycle manufacturer
keewatin
kelpware
kelpware
noun
kelp
kennesaw
kewaskum
kewaunee
kewaunee
Proper noun
a city on Lake Michigan in Wisconsin, USA, and the county seat of Kewaunee County.
kherwari
kiangwan
kiaochow
kickshaw
kickshaw
noun
A dainty or delicacy.
A trinket or gewgaw.
kikawaeo
kikawaeo
noun
The fern Dryopteris cyatheoides.
killawog
kiloware
kiloware
noun
(philately) Postage stamps bought by weight, rather than numerical quantity, and commonly still on paper.
kilowatt
kilowatt
noun
One thousand (10³) watts.
kingwana
kiriwina
kirkwall
kirkwall
Proper noun
The capital of the Orkney Islands.
kirkward
kiwanian
kiwanian
Noun
A member of an international coeducational service club founded in 1915 in Detroit, Michigan.
knapweed
knapweed
noun
Any of various common weeds of the genus Centaurea
especially Centaurea nigra.
knifeway
knitwear
knitwear
noun
knitted garments
knowable
knowable
adj
Capable of being known, understood or comprehended.