A boycott, usually as part of an industrial dispute.
A preparation, containing lampblack, used to produce a shiny black coating.
Shoe polish.
verb
present participle of black
blackleg
blackleg
noun
(countable) A person who cheats in a game; a cheater, especially a dishonest bookmaker.
(countable) A person who takes the place of striking workers; a scab.
(uncountable, agriculture, veterinary medicine) A fatal cattle disease caused by the soil-borne bacterium Clostridium chauvoei; symptomatic anthrax.
verb
To continue working whilst fellow workers strike.
blackrag
blanking
blanking
noun
(television) The reduction of the brightness of the scanning beam to zero when it needs to be moved without updating the picture.
A metalworking process to form the rough shape of a sheet-metal workpiece.
An instance of something being blanked out.
verb
present participle of blank
blinking
blinking
adj
(UK, euphemistic, slang) bloody
That blinks.
noun
The act of something that blinks.
verb
present participle of blink
blockage
blockage
noun
A thing that is blocking; an obstruction.
The state of being blocked.
constipation
blocking
blocking
noun
(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
bookling
bookling
noun
A short-length or compact book, typically under one hundred pages.
buckling
buckling
adj
Wavy; curly, as hair.
noun
(geology) A folding into hills and valleys.
A young male domestic goat of between one and two years.
Smoked herring.
The act of fastening a buckle.
The action of collapsing under pressure or stress.
verb
present participle of buckle
bulkages
bulkages
noun
plural of bulkage
cackling
cackling
noun
A sound that cackles.
verb
present participle of cackle
cagelike
cagelike
adj
Like a cage.
caulking
caulking
noun
A sealing material used to seal joints between heterogeneous materials in many kinds of construction and manufacture.
verb
present participle of caulk
chalking
chalking
noun
(painting) The appearance of non-gloss paint on an exterior surface due to chemical deterioration and removal by weather.
Something chalked on a surface.
verb
present participle of chalk
clacking
clacking
noun
A sound that clacks.
verb
present participle of clack
clanking
clanking
noun
A noise that clanks.
verb
present participle of clank
cleeking
cleeking
verb
present participle of cleek
clerkage
clerkage
noun
The work of a clerk.
clerking
clerking
verb
present participle of clerk
clicking
clicking
noun
The sound or action of a click.
verb
present participle of click
clinking
clinking
noun
A noise that clinks.
verb
present participle of clink
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
clucking
clucking
adj
(slang, euphemistic) fucking (as intensifier)
noun
The action of the verb cluck; a cluck sound.
verb
present participle of cluck
clunking
clunking
adj
clunky; awkward
noun
A sound that clunks.
verb
present participle of clunk
cockling
cockling
noun
A young, small, or immature cock.
verb
present participle of cockle
craglike
craglike
adj
Resembling or characteristic of a crag.
daglocks
daglocks
noun
plural of daglock
darkling
darkling
adj
(figurative) Obscure; taking place unseen, as if in the dark.
(poetic) Dark; growing dark; darkening.
adv
In the dark; in obscurity.
noun
(fantasy) A creature that lives in the dark.
Darkness
verb
present participle of darkle
duckling
duckling
noun
A young duck.
dukeling
dukeling
noun
A little or insignificant duke.
dunkling
eglevsky
erlkings
erlkings
noun
plural of erlking
fanglike
fanglike
adj
Resembling a fang.
flacking
flacking
verb
present participle of flack
flaglike
flaglike
adj
Resembling or characteristic of a flag (cloth emblem).
flanking
flanking
verb
present participle of flank
flecking
flecking
noun
A flecked pattern.
verb
present participle of fleck
flicking
flicking
noun
The act by which something is flicked.
verb
present participle of flick
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
flunking
flunking
verb
present participle of flunk
folksong
folksong
noun
Alternative spelling of folk song
folkvang
froglike
froglike
adj
Similar to a frog (amphibian), or to a characteristic of a frog.
a froglike croak
adv
In a froglike way
gagelike
gamelike
gamelike
adj
Resembling a game.
garlicky
garlicky
adj
Tasting or smelling of garlic.
gatelike
gatelike
adj
Resembling or characteristic of a gate.
gaumlike
gavelock
gavelock
noun
(UK, Scotland, dialect) An iron crow or lever.
(rare, obsolete) A spear or dart.
geelbeck
germlike
germlike
adj
Having the characteristics of a germ
giftlike
girllike
girllike
adj
Resembling or characteristic of a girl.
glackens
gladbeck
gleeking
gleeking
verb
present participle of gleek
glenlike
glenlike
adj
Resembling or characteristic of a glen.
gluelike
gluelike
adj
Resembling glue or some aspect of it.
gnatlike
gnatlike
adj
Resembling or characteristic of a gnat; tiny, insignificant.
goadlike
goadlike
adj
Resembling or characteristic of a goad.
goatlike
goatlike
adj
Resembling or characteristic of a goat.
gobylike
gobylike
adj
Resembling or characteristic of a goby (fish).
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
gorkhali
gorlicki
gorlovka
gowkedly
grackles
grackles
noun
plural of grackle
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.
gulflike
gulflike
adj
Resembling or characteristic of a gulf.
gulllike
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
gurkhali
hackling
hackling
verb
present participle of hackle
heckling
heckling
noun
The act of one who heckles.
The preparation of flax for spinning using special combs called hackles.
verb
present participle of heckle
hockling
inklings
inklings
noun
plural of inkling
jacklegs
jacklegs
noun
plural of jackleg
jokingly
jokingly
adv
In a joking manner.
joktaleg
kalagher
kaliyuga
kallinge
kaoliang
kaoliang
noun
A sorghum-based variety of baijiu.
Any of various Chinese varieties of sorghum.
kasigluk
keckling
keckling
noun
Old rope or iron chains wound around a cable.
keelages
keelages
noun
plural of keelage
keeldrag
kegelers
kegelers
noun
plural of kegeler
keglings
keighley
keighley
Proper noun
a town in West Yorkshire, England.
keisling
kenleigh
keylargo
kibbling
kibbling
verb
present participle of kibble
killawog
killings
killings
noun
plural of killing
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
kiltings
kiltings
noun
plural of kilting
kindling
kindling
adj
Illuminated, lit.
noun
Small pieces of wood and twigs used to start a fire.
The act by which something is kindled.
verb
present participle of kindle
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.
kingklip
kingklip
noun
A popular South African food fish; Genypterus capensis .
kinglake
kingless
kingless
adj
Without a king.
kinglets
kinglets
noun
plural of kinglet
kinglier
kinglier
adj
comparative form of kingly: more kingly
kinglike
kinglike
adj
Resembling or characteristic of a king.
kinglily
kinglily
adv
In a kingly manner.
kingling
kingling
noun
A kinglet; a petty king or ruler.
kingsley
kingsley
Proper noun
The name of various geographical places; see
kinology
kinology
noun
The branch of physics that deals with the laws of motion.
kintlage
kitlings
kitlings
noun
plural of kitling
kittling
kittling
noun
(obsolete) Alternative form of kitling
verb
present participle of kittle
kleagles
klingsor
klngsley
kludging
kludging
verb
present participle of kludge
kneeling
kneeling
noun
The act by which someone kneels.
verb
present participle of kneel
knelling
knelling
noun
The tolling of a bell.
verb
present participle of knell
knightly
knightly
adj
Befitting a knight; formally courteous (as a knight); chivalrous, gallant and courtly.
Of or pertaining to a knight or knights.
adv
In the manner of a knight; chivalrously.
knolling
knolling
verb
present participle of knoll
knowling
knulling
knurling
knurling
noun
A knurled pattern
verb
present participle of knurl
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