countercheck | (noun) something that checks the correctness of a previous check | Synonyms: double check |
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(noun) a check that restrains another check | - |
cowlick | (noun) a tuft of hair that grows in a different direction from the rest of the hair and usually will not lie flat | - |
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coxsackievirus | (noun) enterovirus causing a disease resembling poliomyelitis but without paralysis | Synonyms: Coxsackie virus |
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crack | (noun) the act of cracking something | Synonyms: cracking, fracture |
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(noun) a usually brief attempt | Synonyms: fling, go, offer, pass, whirl |
(noun) a narrow opening | Synonyms: gap |
(noun) a purified and potent form of cocaine that is smoked rather than snorted; highly addictive | Synonyms: crack cocaine, tornado |
(noun) a blemish resulting from a break without complete separation of the parts | - |
(noun) witty remark | Synonyms: quip, sally, wisecrack |
(noun) a sudden sharp noise | Synonyms: cracking, snap |
(noun) a long narrow cleft | Synonyms: cleft, crevice, fissure, scissure |
(noun) a long narrow depression in a surface | Synonyms: chap, cranny, crevice, fissure |
(noun) a chance to do something | Synonyms: shot |
crackdown | (noun) severely repressive actions | - |
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cracker | (noun) a party favor consisting of a paper roll (usually containing candy or a small favor) that pops when pulled at both ends | Synonyms: cracker bonbon, snapper |
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(noun) firework consisting of a small explosive charge and fuse in a heavy paper casing | Synonyms: banger, firecracker |
(noun) a thin crisp wafer made of flour and water with or without leavening and shortening; unsweetened or semisweet | - |
(noun) a poor White person in the southern United States | Synonyms: redneck |
(noun) a programmer who cracks (gains unauthorized access to) computers, typically to do malicious things | - |
crackerberry | (noun) creeping perennial herb distinguished by red berries and clustered leaf whorls at the tips of shoots; Greenland to Alaska | Synonyms: bunchberry, Cornus canadensis, dwarf cornel, pudding berry |
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crackerjack | (noun) something excellent of its kind | Synonyms: jimdandy, jimhickey |
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(noun) someone excellent of their kind | Synonyms: jimdandy, jimhickey |
cracking | (noun) the act of cracking something | Synonyms: crack, fracture |
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(noun) a sudden sharp noise | Synonyms: crack, snap |
(noun) the process whereby heavy molecules of naphtha or petroleum are broken down into hydrocarbons of lower molecular weight (especially in the oil-refining process) | - |
crackle | (noun) glazed china with a network of fine cracks on the surface | Synonyms: crackle china, crackleware |
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(noun) the sharp sound of snapping noises | Synonyms: crackling, crepitation |
crackleware | (noun) glazed china with a network of fine cracks on the surface | Synonyms: crackle, crackle china |
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crackling | (noun) the sharp sound of snapping noises | Synonyms: crackle, crepitation |
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(noun) the residue that remains after animal fat has been rendered | Synonyms: greaves |
cracklings | (noun) the crisp residue left after lard has been rendered | - |
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crackpot | (noun) a whimsically eccentric person | Synonyms: crank, fruitcake, nut, nut case, screwball |
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cracksman | (noun) a thief who breaks open safes to steal valuable contents | Synonyms: safebreaker, safecracker |
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crick | (noun) a painful muscle spasm especially in the neck or back (`rick' and `wrick' are British) | Synonyms: kink, rick, wrick |
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cricket | (noun) a game played with a ball and bat by two teams of 11 players; teams take turns trying to score runs | - |
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(noun) leaping insect; male makes chirping noises by rubbing the forewings together | - |
cricketer | (noun) an athlete who plays cricket | - |
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crock | (noun) an earthen jar (made of baked clay) | Synonyms: earthenware jar |
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(noun) nonsense; foolish talk | - |
(noun) a black colloidal substance consisting wholly or principally of amorphous carbon and used to make pigments and ink | Synonyms: carbon black, lampblack, smut, soot |
crockery | (noun) tableware (eating and serving dishes) collectively | Synonyms: dishware |
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crocket | (noun) an architectural ornament of curved foliage used at the edge of a spire or gable | - |
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crookback | (noun) a person whose back is hunched because of abnormal curvature of the upper spine | Synonyms: humpback, hunchback |
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crookneck | (noun) yellow squash with a thin curved neck and somewhat warty skin | Synonyms: crookneck squash, summer crookneck |
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crosscheck | (noun) an illegal check (chopping at an opponent's arms or stick) | - |
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(noun) an instance of confirming something by considering information from several sources | - |
crossjack | (noun) the lowermost sail on a mizzenmast | Synonyms: mizzen course |
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cuckold | (noun) a man whose wife committed adultery | - |
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cuckolding | (noun) A sexual act where a married person has sex with another person while their spouse watches | - |
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cuckoldom | (noun) the state of a husband whose wife has committed adultery | - |
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cuckoldry | (noun) the practice of making cuckolds; sexual conquests of married women | - |
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cuckoo | (noun) any of numerous European and North American birds having pointed wings and a long tail | - |
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(noun) a man who is a stupid incompetent fool | Synonyms: bozo, fathead, goof, goofball, goose, jackass, twat, zany |
cuckooflower | (noun) a bitter cress of Europe and America | Synonyms: Cardamine pratensis, cuckoo flower, lady's smock, meadow cress |
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cuckoopint | (noun) common European arum with lanceolate spathe and short purple spadix; emerges in early spring; source of a starch called arum | Synonyms: Arum maculatum, jack-in-the-pulpit, lords-and-ladies |
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cupronickel | (noun) a 60/40 alloy of copper and nickel | - |
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cutback | (noun) a reduction in quantity or rate | - |
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dabchick | (noun) small European grebe | Synonyms: little grebe, Podiceps ruficollis |
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deadlock | (noun) a situation in which no progress can be made or no advancement is possible | Synonyms: dead end, impasse, stalemate, standstill |
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deck | (noun) any of various platforms built into a vessel | - |
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(noun) street name for a packet of illegal drugs | - |
(noun) a porch that resembles the deck on a ship | - |
(noun) a pack of 52 playing cards | Synonyms: deck of cards, pack of cards |
decker | (noun) (often used in combinations) something constructed with multiple levels | - |
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deckhand | (noun) a member of a ship's crew who performs manual labor | Synonyms: roustabout |
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deckle | (noun) (paper making) a frame used to form paper pulp into sheets | - |
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(noun) rough edge left by a deckle on handmade paper or produced artificially on machine-made paper | Synonyms: deckle edge |
derrick | (noun) a simple crane having lifting tackle slung from a boom | - |
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(noun) a framework erected over an oil well to allow drill tubes to be raised and lowered | - |
diamondback | (noun) large deadly rattlesnake with diamond-shaped markings | Synonyms: Crotalus adamanteus, diamondback rattlesnake |
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dick | (noun) obscene terms for penis | Synonyms: cock, pecker, prick, putz, shaft, tool |
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(noun) someone who is a detective | Synonyms: gumshoe, hawkshaw |
dickens | (noun) a word used in exclamations of confusion | Synonyms: deuce, devil |
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dickey | (noun) a man's detachable insert (usually starched) to simulate the front of a shirt | Synonyms: dickie, dicky, shirtfront |
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(noun) a small third seat in the back of an old-fashioned two-seater | Synonyms: dickey-seat, dickie-seat, dickie, dicky-seat, dicky |
dickeybird | (noun) small bird; adults talking to children sometimes use these words to refer to small birds | Synonyms: dickey-bird, dicky-bird, dickybird |
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dickhead | (noun) insulting terms of address for people who are stupid or irritating or ridiculous | Synonyms: asshole, bastard, cocksucker, mother fucker, motherfucker, prick, shit, SOB, son of a bitch, whoreson |
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dickie | (noun) a man's detachable insert (usually starched) to simulate the front of a shirt | Synonyms: dickey, dicky, shirtfront |
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(noun) a small third seat in the back of an old-fashioned two-seater | Synonyms: dickey-seat, dickey, dickie-seat, dicky-seat, dicky |
dicky | (noun) a man's detachable insert (usually starched) to simulate the front of a shirt | Synonyms: dickey, dickie, shirtfront |
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(noun) a small third seat in the back of an old-fashioned two-seater | Synonyms: dickey-seat, dickey, dickie-seat, dickie, dicky-seat |
dickybird | (noun) small bird; adults talking to children sometimes use these words to refer to small birds | Synonyms: dickey-bird, dickeybird, dicky-bird |
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dieback | (noun) a disease of plants characterized by the gradual dying of the young shoots starting at the tips and progressing to the larger branches | - |
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diestock | (noun) a device that holds the dies that cut external threads on metal cylinders | - |
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dipstick | (noun) a graduated rod dipped into a container to indicate the fluid level | - |
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dock | (noun) the solid bony part of the tail of an animal as distinguished from the hair | - |
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(noun) a short or shortened tail of certain animals | Synonyms: bob, bobtail |
(noun) landing in a harbor next to a pier where ships are loaded and unloaded or repaired; may have gates to let water in or out | Synonyms: dockage, docking facility |
(noun) a platform built out from the shore into the water and supported by piles; provides access to ships and boats | Synonyms: pier, wharf, wharfage |
(noun) an enclosure in a court of law where the defendant sits during the trial | - |
(noun) a platform where trucks or trains can be loaded or unloaded | Synonyms: loading dock |
(noun) any of certain coarse weedy plants with long taproots, sometimes used as table greens or in folk medicine | Synonyms: sorrel, sour grass |
dockage | (noun) the act of securing an arriving vessel with ropes | Synonyms: docking, moorage, tying up |
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(noun) landing in a harbor next to a pier where ships are loaded and unloaded or repaired; may have gates to let water in or out | Synonyms: dock, docking facility |
(noun) a fee charged for a vessel to use a dock | Synonyms: docking fee |
docker | (noun) a laborer who loads and unloads vessels in a port | Synonyms: dock-walloper, dock worker, dockhand, dockworker, loader, longshoreman, lumper, stevedore |
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docket | (noun) a temporally organized plan for matters to be attended to | Synonyms: agenda, schedule |
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(noun) (law) the calendar of a court; the list of cases to be tried or a summary of the court's activities | - |
dockhand | (noun) a laborer who loads and unloads vessels in a port | Synonyms: dock-walloper, dock worker, docker, dockworker, loader, longshoreman, lumper, stevedore |
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docking | (noun) the act of securing an arriving vessel with ropes | Synonyms: dockage, moorage, tying up |
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dockside | (noun) the region adjacent to a boat dock | - |
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dockworker | (noun) a laborer who loads and unloads vessels in a port | Synonyms: dock-walloper, dock worker, docker, dockhand, loader, longshoreman, lumper, stevedore |
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dockyard | (noun) an establishment on the waterfront where vessels are built or fitted out or repaired | - |
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doohickey | (noun) something unspecified whose name is either forgotten or not known | Synonyms: dojigger, doodad, gimmick, gismo, gizmo, gubbins, thingamabob, thingamajig, thingmabob, thingmajig, thingumabob, thingumajig, thingummy, whatchamacallit, whatchamacallum, whatsis, widget |
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doorknocker | (noun) a device (usually metal and ornamental) attached by a hinge to a door | Synonyms: knocker, rapper |
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doorlock | (noun) a lock on an exterior door | - |
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downtick | (noun) a transaction in the stock market at a price below the price of the preceding transaction | - |
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drawback | (noun) the quality of being a hindrance | - |
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dreadlock | (noun) one of many long thin braids of hair radiating from the scalp; popularized by Rastafarians | - |
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dreck | (noun) merchandise that is shoddy or inferior | Synonyms: schlock, shlock |
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dropkick | (noun) (football) kicking (as for a field goal) in which the football is dropped and kicked as it touches the ground | - |
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dropkicker | (noun) a football kicker who drops the ball and kicks it just as it reaches the ground | - |
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drumstick | (noun) a stick used for playing a drum | - |
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(noun) the lower joint of the leg of a fowl | - |
drydock | (noun) a large dock from which water can be pumped out; used for building ships or for repairing a ship below its waterline | Synonyms: dry dock, graving dock |
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duck | (noun) small wild or domesticated web-footed broad-billed swimming bird usually having a depressed body and short legs | - |
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(noun) a heavy cotton fabric of plain weave; used for clothing and tents | - |
(noun) flesh of a duck (domestic or wild) | - |
(noun) (cricket) a score of nothing by a batsman | Synonyms: duck's egg |
duckbill | (noun) small densely furred aquatic monotreme of Australia and Tasmania having a broad bill and tail and webbed feet; only species in the family Ornithorhynchidae | Synonyms: duck-billed platypus, duckbilled platypus, Ornithorhynchus anatinus, platypus |
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(noun) primitive fish of the Mississippi valley having a long paddle-shaped snout | Synonyms: paddlefish, Polyodon spathula |
duckboard | (noun) a boardwalk laid across muddy ground | - |
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ducking | (noun) the act of wetting something by submerging it | Synonyms: dousing, immersion, submersion |
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(noun) hunting ducks | Synonyms: duck hunting |
duckling | (noun) young duck | - |
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(noun) flesh of a young domestic duck | - |
duckpin | (noun) a bowling pin that is short and squat by comparison with a tenpin | - |
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duckpins | (noun) a bowling game using a pin smaller than a tenpin but proportionately wider | - |
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duckweed | (noun) any small or minute aquatic plant of the family Lemnaceae that float on or near the surface of shallow ponds | - |
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ducky | (noun) a special loved one | Synonyms: darling, dearie, deary, favorite, favourite, pet |
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dunnock | (noun) small brownish European songbird | Synonyms: hedge sparrow, Prunella modularis, sparrow |
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electroshock | (noun) the administration of a strong electric current that passes through the brain to induce convulsions and coma | Synonyms: ECT, electroconvulsive therapy, electroshock therapy |
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fallback | (noun) to break off a military action with an enemy | Synonyms: disengagement, pullout |
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fatback | (noun) salt pork from the back of a hog carcass | - |
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fecklessness | (noun) worthlessness due to being feeble and ineffectual | - |
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feedback | (noun) response to an inquiry or experiment | - |
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(noun) the process in which part of the output of a system is returned to its input in order to regulate its further output | - |
feedstock | (noun) the raw material that is required for some industrial process | - |
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fetlock | (noun) projection behind and above a horse's hoof | - |
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(noun) the joint between the cannon bone and the pastern | Synonyms: fetlock joint |
fickleness | (noun) unfaithfulness by virtue of being unreliable or treacherous | Synonyms: faithlessness, falseness, inconstancy |
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fiddleneck | (noun) hairy annual of California to Mexico with crowded cymes of small blue to lilac or mauve flowers | Synonyms: Phacelia tanacetifolia |
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fiddlestick | (noun) a bow used in playing the violin | Synonyms: violin bow |
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finback | (noun) large flat-headed whalebone whale having deep furrows along the throat; of Atlantic and Pacific | Synonyms: Balaenoptera physalus, common rorqual, fin whale, finback whale |
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firebrick | (noun) brick made of fire clay; used for lining e.g. furnaces and chimneys | - |
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firecracker | (noun) firework consisting of a small explosive charge and fuse in a heavy paper casing | Synonyms: banger, cracker |
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firelock | (noun) a muzzle loader that had a flintlock type of gunlock | Synonyms: flintlock |
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flack | (noun) artillery designed to shoot upward at airplanes | Synonyms: ack-ack, ack-ack gun, antiaircraft, antiaircraft gun, flak, pom-pom |
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(noun) intense adverse criticism | Synonyms: attack, blast, fire, flak |
(noun) a slick spokesperson who can turn any criticism to the advantage of their employer | Synonyms: flack catcher, flak, flak catcher |
flapjack | (noun) a flat cake of thin batter fried on both sides on a griddle | Synonyms: battercake, flannel-cake, flannel cake, flapcake, griddlecake, hot cake, hotcake, pancake |
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flashback | (noun) a transition (in literary or theatrical works or films) to an earlier event or scene that interrupts the normal chronological development of the story | - |
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(noun) an unexpected but vivid recurrence of a past experience (especially a recurrence of the effects of an hallucinogenic drug taken much earlier) | - |