| ankle | (noun) a gliding joint between the distal ends of the tibia and fibula and the proximal end of the talus | Synonyms: ankle joint, articulatio talocruralis, mortise joint |
|---|
| anklebone | (noun) the bone in the ankle that articulates with the leg bones to form the ankle joint | Synonyms: astragal, astragalus, talus |
|---|
| anklet | (noun) an ornament worn around the ankle | Synonyms: ankle bracelet |
|---|
| (noun) a sock that reaches just above the ankle | Synonyms: anklets, bobbysock, bobbysocks |
| (noun) a shoe for a child or woman that has a strap around the ankle | - |
| anklets | (noun) a sock that reaches just above the ankle | Synonyms: anklet, bobbysock, bobbysocks |
|---|
| auklet | (noun) any of several small auks of the northern Pacific coasts | - |
|---|
| backlash | (noun) an adverse reaction to some political or social occurrence | - |
|---|
| (noun) a movement back from an impact | Synonyms: rebound, recoil, repercussion |
| backlighting | (noun) lighting from behind | - |
|---|
| backlog | (noun) an accumulation of jobs not done or materials not processed that are yet to be dealt with (especially unfilled customer orders for products or services) | - |
|---|
| (noun) something kept back or saved for future use or a special purpose | Synonyms: reserve, stockpile |
| (noun) the large log at the back of a hearth fire | - |
| baklava | (noun) rich Middle Eastern cake made of thin layers of flaky pastry filled with nuts and honey | - |
|---|
| balkline | (noun) line across a billiard table behind which the cue balls are placed at the start of a game | Synonyms: baulk-line, string line |
|---|
| biweekly | (noun) a periodical that is published twice a week or every two weeks (either 104 or 26 issues per year) | - |
|---|
| blackleg | (noun) someone who works (or provides workers) during a strike | Synonyms: rat, scab, strikebreaker |
|---|
| blacklist | (noun) a list of people who are out of favor | Synonyms: black book, shitlist |
|---|
| booklet | (noun) a small book usually having a paper cover | Synonyms: brochure, folder, leaflet, pamphlet |
|---|
| booklouse | (noun) minute wingless psocopterous insects injurious to books and papers | Synonyms: book louse, deathwatch, Liposcelis divinatorius |
|---|
| booklover | (noun) someone who loves (and usually collects) books | Synonyms: bibliophile, book lover |
|---|
| bricklayer | (noun) a craftsman skilled in building with bricks | - |
|---|
| bricklaying | (noun) the craft of laying bricks | - |
|---|
| brooklet | (noun) a small brook | - |
|---|
| brooklime | (noun) plant of western North America and northeastern Asia having prostrate stems with dense racemes of pale violet to lilac flowers | Synonyms: American brooklime, Veronica americana |
|---|
| (noun) European plant having low-lying stems with blue flowers; sparsely naturalized in North America | Synonyms: European brooklime, Veronica beccabunga |
| buckle | (noun) fastener that fastens together two ends of a belt or strap; often has loose prong | - |
|---|
| (noun) a shape distorted by twisting or folding | Synonyms: warp |
| buckler | (noun) armor carried on the arm to intercept blows | Synonyms: shield |
|---|
| buckleya | (noun) parasitic shrub of the eastern United States having opposite leaves and insignificant greenish flowers followed by oily dull green olivelike fruits | Synonyms: Buckleya distichophylla |
|---|
| cackle | (noun) a loud laugh suggestive of a hen's cackle | - |
|---|
| (noun) noisy talk | Synonyms: chatter, yack, yak, yakety-yak |
| (noun) the sound made by a hen after laying an egg | - |
| cackler | (noun) a hen that has just laid an egg and emits a shrill squawk | - |
|---|
| (noun) any of various insectivorous Old World birds with a loud incessant song; in some classifications considered members of the family Muscicapidae | Synonyms: babbler |
| checklist | (noun) a list of items (names or tasks etc.) to be checked or consulted | - |
|---|
| chuckle | (noun) a soft partly suppressed laugh | Synonyms: chortle |
|---|
| cockle | (noun) common edible, burrowing European bivalve mollusk that has a strong, rounded shell with radiating ribs | - |
|---|
| (noun) common edible European bivalve | - |
| cocklebur | (noun) any coarse weed of the genus Xanthium having spiny burrs | Synonyms: cockle-bur, cockle-burr, cockleburr |
|---|
| (noun) burdock having heart-shaped leaves found in open woodland, hedgerows and rough grassland of Europe (except extreme N) and Asia Minor; sometimes cultivated for medicinal and culinary use | Synonyms: Arctium lappa, great burdock, greater burdock |
| cockleburr | (noun) any coarse weed of the genus Xanthium having spiny burrs | Synonyms: cockle-bur, cockle-burr, cocklebur |
|---|
| cockleshell | (noun) a small light flimsy boat | - |
|---|
| cockloft | (noun) a small loft or garret | - |
|---|
| crackle | (noun) glazed china with a network of fine cracks on the surface | Synonyms: crackle china, crackleware |
|---|
| (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 |
|---|
| crackling | (noun) the sharp sound of snapping noises | Synonyms: crackle, crepitation |
|---|
| (noun) the residue that remains after animal fat has been rendered | Synonyms: greaves |
| cracklings | (noun) the crisp residue left after lard has been rendered | - |
|---|
| crinkle | (noun) a slight depression or fold in the smoothness of a surface | Synonyms: crease, furrow, line, seam, wrinkle |
|---|
| crinkleroot | (noun) North American herb with pungent scaly or toothed roots | Synonyms: Cardamine diphylla, crinkle-root, crinkle root, Dentaria diphylla, pepper root, toothwort |
|---|
| deckle | (noun) (paper making) a frame used to form paper pulp into sheets | - |
|---|
| (noun) rough edge left by a deckle on handmade paper or produced artificially on machine-made paper | Synonyms: deckle edge |
| dkl | (noun) a metric unit of volume or capacity equal to 10 liters | Synonyms: dal, decaliter, decalitre, dekaliter, dekalitre |
|---|
| duckling | (noun) young duck | - |
|---|
| (noun) flesh of a young domestic duck | - |
| farkleberry | (noun) shrub or small tree of eastern United States having black inedible berries | Synonyms: sparkleberry, Vaccinium arboreum |
|---|
| fecklessness | (noun) worthlessness due to being feeble and ineffectual | - |
|---|
| fickleness | (noun) unfaithfulness by virtue of being unreliable or treacherous | Synonyms: faithlessness, falseness, inconstancy |
|---|
| folklore | (noun) the unwritten lore (stories and proverbs and riddles and songs) of a culture | - |
|---|
| folklorism | (noun) Invention or adaptation of folklore; including any use of a tradition outside the cultural context in which it was created. | - |
|---|
| forklift | (noun) a small industrial vehicle with a power operated forked platform in front that can be inserted under loads to lift and move them | - |
|---|
| franklin | (noun) a landowner (14th and 15th centuries) who was free but not of noble birth | - |
|---|
| freckle | (noun) a small brownish spot (of the pigment melanin) on the skin | Synonyms: lentigo |
|---|
| grackle | (noun) long-tailed American blackbird having iridescent black plumage | Synonyms: crow blackbird |
|---|
| (noun) glossy black Asiatic starling often taught to mimic speech | Synonyms: Gracula religiosa, hill myna, Indian grackle |
| hackle | (noun) long slender feather on the necks of e.g. turkeys and pheasants | - |
|---|
| hackles | (noun) a feeling of anger and animosity | Synonyms: dander |
|---|
| heckle | (noun) a comb for separating flax fibers | Synonyms: hatchel |
|---|
| heckler | (noun) someone who tries to embarrass you with gibes and questions and objections | Synonyms: badgerer |
|---|
| heckling | (noun) shouting to interrupt a speech with which you disagree | Synonyms: barracking |
|---|
| honeysuckle | (noun) shrub or vine of the genus Lonicera | - |
|---|
| (noun) columbine of eastern North America having long-spurred red flowers | Synonyms: Aquilegia canadensis, meeting house |
| (noun) shrubby tree with silky foliage and spikes of cylindrical yellow nectarous flowers | Synonyms: Australian honeysuckle, Banksia integrifolia, coast banksia |
| huckleberry | (noun) blue-black berry similar to blueberries and bilberries of the eastern United States | - |
|---|
| (noun) any of several shrubs of the genus Gaylussacia bearing small berries resembling blueberries | - |
| (noun) any of various dark-fruited as distinguished from blue-fruited blueberries | - |
| inkle | (noun) a linen tape used for trimming as a decoration | - |
|---|
| inkling | (noun) a slight suggestion or vague understanding | Synonyms: glimmer, glimmering, intimation |
|---|
| jacklight | (noun) a light used as a lure in hunting or fishing at night | - |
|---|
| klavern | (noun) a local unit of the Ku Klux Klan | - |
|---|
| klaxon | (noun) a kind of loud horn formerly used on motor vehicles | Synonyms: claxon |
|---|
| klebsiella | (noun) a genus of nonmotile rod-shaped Gram-negative enterobacteria; some cause respiratory and other infections | - |
|---|
| kleptomania | (noun) an irresistible impulse to steal in the absence of any economic motive | - |
|---|
| kleptomaniac | (noun) someone with an irrational urge to steal in the absence of an economic motive | - |
|---|
| klick | (noun) a metric unit of length equal to 1000 meters (or 0.621371 miles) | Synonyms: kilometer, kilometre, km |
|---|
| klondike | (noun) a form of solitaire that begins with seven piles of cards with the top cards facing up; descending sequences of cards of alternating colors are built on these piles; as aces become available they are placed above the seven piles; the object is to build sequences in suit from ace to king as the remaining cards are dealt out one at a time | - |
|---|
| kludge | (noun) a badly assembled collection of parts hastily assembled to serve some particular purpose | - |
|---|
| klutz | (noun) (Yiddish) a clumsy dolt | - |
|---|
| klystron | (noun) an electron tube used to generate or amplify electromagnetic radiation in the microwave region by velocity modulation | - |
|---|
| knuckle | (noun) a joint of a finger when the fist is closed | Synonyms: knuckle joint, metacarpophalangeal joint |
|---|
| knuckleball | (noun) a baseball pitch thrown with little speed or spin | Synonyms: knuckler |
|---|
| knucklebones | (noun) a game in which jackstones are thrown and picked up in various groups between bounces of a small rubber ball | Synonyms: jacks, jackstones |
|---|
| knucklehead | (noun) a stupid person; these words are used to express a low opinion of someone's intelligence | Synonyms: blockhead, bonehead, dumbass, dunce, dunderhead, fuckhead, hammerhead, loggerhead, lunkhead, muttonhead, numskull, shithead |
|---|
| knuckler | (noun) a baseball pitch thrown with little speed or spin | Synonyms: knuckleball |
|---|
| knuckles | (noun) (used in the plural) a small metal weapon; worn over the knuckles on the back of the hand | Synonyms: brass knuckles, brass knucks, knuckle duster, knucks |
|---|
| mackle | (noun) a printed impression that is blurred or doubled | - |
|---|
| mickle | (noun) (often followed by `of') a large number or amount or extent | Synonyms: batch, deal, flock, good deal, great deal, hatful, heap, lot, mass, mess, mint, mountain, muckle, passel, peck, pile, plenty, pot, quite a little, raft, sight, slew, spate, stack, tidy sum, wad |
|---|
| muckle | (noun) (often followed by `of') a large number or amount or extent | Synonyms: batch, deal, flock, good deal, great deal, hatful, heap, lot, mass, mess, mickle, mint, mountain, passel, peck, pile, plenty, pot, quite a little, raft, sight, slew, spate, stack, tidy sum, wad |
|---|
| necklace | (noun) jewelry consisting of a cord or chain (often bearing gems) worn about the neck as an ornament (especially by women) | - |
|---|
| necklet | (noun) decoration worn about the neck (fur piece or tight necklace) as an ornament | - |
|---|
| neckline | (noun) the line formed by the edge of a garment around the neck | - |
|---|
| nomenklatura | (noun) the system of patronage in communist countries; controlled by committees in the Communist Party | - |
|---|
| parkland | (noun) a large area of land preserved in its natural state as public property | Synonyms: park |
|---|
| periwinkle | (noun) edible marine gastropod | Synonyms: winkle |
|---|
| (noun) small edible marine snail; steamed in wine or baked | Synonyms: winkle |
| (noun) chiefly trailing poisonous plants with blue flowers | - |
| (noun) commonly cultivated Old World woody herb having large pinkish to red flowers | Synonyms: Cape periwinkle, Catharanthus roseus, cayenne jasmine, Madagascar periwinkle, old maid, red periwinkle, rose periwinkle, Vinca rosea |
| pickle | (noun) vegetables (especially cucumbers) preserved in brine or vinegar | - |
|---|
| (noun) informal terms for a difficult situation | Synonyms: fix, hole, jam, kettle of fish, mess, muddle |
| picklepuss | (noun) someone with a habitually sullen or gloomy expression | Synonyms: gloomy Gus, pouter, sourpuss |
|---|
| prickle | (noun) a small sharp-pointed tip resembling a spike on a stem or leaf | Synonyms: pricker, spikelet, spine, sticker, thorn |
|---|
| prickleback | (noun) small elongate fishes of shallow northern seas; a long dorsal fin consists entirely of spines | - |
|---|
| (noun) small (2-4 inches) pugnacious mostly scaleless spiny-backed fishes of northern fresh and littoral waters having elaborate courtship; subjects of much research | Synonyms: stickleback |
| prickliness | (noun) the quality of being covered with prickly thorns or spines | Synonyms: bristliness, spininess, thorniness |
|---|
| prickling | (noun) a somatic sensation as from many tiny stings | Synonyms: tingle, tingling |
|---|
| quicklime | (noun) a white crystalline oxide used in the production of calcium hydroxide | Synonyms: burnt lime, calcined lime, calcium oxide, calx, fluxing lime, lime, unslaked lime |
|---|
| recklessness | (noun) the trait of giving little thought to danger | Synonyms: foolhardiness, rashness |
|---|
| risklessness | (noun) safety as a consequence of entailing no risk | - |
|---|
| schtickl | (noun) a really little shtik | Synonyms: schtikl, shtickl, shtikl |
|---|
| schtikl | (noun) a really little shtik | Synonyms: schtickl, shtickl, shtikl |
|---|
| semiweekly | (noun) a periodical that is published twice each week (or 104 issues per year) | - |
|---|
| shackle | (noun) a restraint that confines or restricts freedom (especially something used to tie down or restrain a prisoner) | Synonyms: bond, hamper, trammel |
|---|
| (noun) a U-shaped bar; the open end can be passed through chain links and closed with a bar | - |
| shtickl | (noun) a really little shtik | Synonyms: schtickl, schtikl, shtikl |
|---|
| shtikl | (noun) a really little shtik | Synonyms: schtickl, schtikl, shtickl |
|---|