airlock | (noun) a chamber that provides access to space where air is under pressure | Synonyms: air lock |
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ballock | (noun) one of the two male reproductive glands that produce spermatozoa and secrete androgens | Synonyms: ball, bollock, egg, nut, orchis, testicle, testis |
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block | (noun) the act of obstructing or deflecting someone's movements | Synonyms: blocking |
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(noun) a solid piece of something (usually having flat rectangular sides) | - |
(noun) an obstruction in a pipe or tube | Synonyms: blockage, closure, occlusion, stop, stoppage |
(noun) a simple machine consisting of a wheel with a groove in which a rope can run to change the direction or point of application of a force applied to the rope | Synonyms: pulley-block, pulley, pulley block |
(noun) a metal casting containing the cylinders and cooling ducts of an engine | Synonyms: cylinder block, engine block |
(noun) a platform from which an auctioneer sells | Synonyms: auction block |
(noun) housing in a large building that is divided into separate units | - |
(noun) an inability to remember or think of something you normally can do; often caused by emotional tension | Synonyms: mental block |
(noun) a number or quantity of related things dealt with as a unit | - |
(noun) a rectangular area in a city surrounded by streets and usually containing several buildings | Synonyms: city block |
(noun) (computer science) a sector or group of sectors that function as the smallest data unit permitted | - |
(noun) a three-dimensional shape with six square or rectangular sides | Synonyms: cube |
blockade | (noun) a war measure that isolates some area of importance to the enemy | Synonyms: encirclement |
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(noun) prevents access or progress | - |
blockage | (noun) the act of blocking | Synonyms: closure, occlusion |
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(noun) an obstruction in a pipe or tube | Synonyms: block, closure, occlusion, stop, stoppage |
(noun) the physical condition of blocking or filling a passage with an obstruction | Synonyms: obstruction |
blockbuster | (noun) an unusually successful hit with widespread popularity and huge sales (especially a movie or play or recording or novel) | Synonyms: megahit, smash hit |
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(noun) a large bomb used to demolish extensive areas (as a city block) | - |
blocker | (noun) a class of drugs that inhibit (block) some biological process | Synonyms: blocking agent |
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(noun) a football player whose responsibility is to block players attempting to stop an offensive play | - |
blockhead | (noun) a stupid person; these words are used to express a low opinion of someone's intelligence | Synonyms: bonehead, dumbass, dunce, dunderhead, fuckhead, hammerhead, knucklehead, loggerhead, lunkhead, muttonhead, numskull, shithead |
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blockhouse | (noun) a stronghold that is reinforced for protection from enemy fire; with apertures for defensive fire | - |
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blocking | (noun) the act of obstructing or deflecting someone's movements | Synonyms: block |
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bollock | (noun) a pulley-block at the head of a topmast | Synonyms: bullock block |
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(noun) one of the two male reproductive glands that produce spermatozoa and secrete androgens | Synonyms: ball, ballock, egg, nut, orchis, testicle, testis |
breechblock | (noun) a metal block in breech-loading firearms that is withdrawn to insert a cartridge and replaced to close the breech before firing | Synonyms: breech closer |
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bullock | (noun) castrated bull | Synonyms: steer |
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(noun) young bull | - |
cellblock | (noun) a division of a prison (usually consisting of several cells) | Synonyms: ward |
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chadlock | (noun) weedy Eurasian plant often a pest in grain fields | Synonyms: Brassica kaber, charlock, field mustard, Sinapis arvensis, wild mustard |
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charlock | (noun) weedy Eurasian plant often a pest in grain fields | Synonyms: Brassica kaber, chadlock, field mustard, Sinapis arvensis, wild mustard |
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clock | (noun) a timepiece that shows the time of day | - |
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clocking | (noun) the time taken to traverse a measured course | - |
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clockmaker | (noun) someone whose occupation is making or repairing clocks and watches | Synonyms: clocksmith |
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clocks | (noun) European weed naturalized in southwestern United States and Mexico having reddish decumbent stems with small fernlike leaves and small deep reddish-lavender flowers followed by slender fruits that stick straight up; often grown for forage | Synonyms: alfilaria, alfileria, Erodium cicutarium, filaree, filaria, pin clover, pin grass, redstem storksbill |
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clocksmith | (noun) someone whose occupation is making or repairing clocks and watches | Synonyms: clockmaker |
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clockwork | (noun) any mechanism of geared wheels that is driven by a coiled spring; resembles the works of a mechanical clock | - |
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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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doorlock | (noun) a lock on an exterior door | - |
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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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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 |
firelock | (noun) a muzzle loader that had a flintlock type of gunlock | Synonyms: flintlock |
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flintlock | (noun) an obsolete gunlock that has flint embedded in the hammer; the flint makes a spark that ignites the charge | - |
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(noun) a muzzle loader that had a flintlock type of gunlock | Synonyms: firelock |
flock | (noun) a group of birds | - |
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(noun) a group of sheep or goats | Synonyms: fold |
(noun) a church congregation guided by a pastor | - |
(noun) an orderly crowd | Synonyms: troop |
(noun) (often followed by `of') a large number or amount or extent | Synonyms: batch, deal, good deal, great deal, hatful, heap, lot, mass, mess, mickle, mint, mountain, muckle, passel, peck, pile, plenty, pot, quite a little, raft, sight, slew, spate, stack, tidy sum, wad |
footlocker | (noun) a trunk for storing personal possessions; usually kept at the foot of a bed (as in a barracks) | Synonyms: locker |
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forelock | (noun) a lock of a horse's mane that grows forward between the ears | Synonyms: foretop |
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(noun) a lock of hair growing (or falling) over the forehead | - |
glockenspiel | (noun) a percussion instrument consisting of a set of graduated metal bars mounted on a frame and played with small hammers | Synonyms: orchestral bells |
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goldilocks | (noun) early-flowering perennial of southern and southeastern Europe with flower heads resembling those of goldenrod | Synonyms: Aster linosyris, goldilocks aster, Linosyris vulgaris |
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gridlock | (noun) a traffic jam so bad that no movement is possible | - |
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gunlock | (noun) the action that ignites the charge in a firearm | Synonyms: firing mechanism |
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hammerlock | (noun) a wrestling hold in which the opponent's arm is twisted up behind his back | - |
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handlock | (noun) shackle that consists of a metal loop that can be locked around the wrist; usually used in pairs | Synonyms: cuff, handcuff, manacle |
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havelock | (noun) a cloth covering for a service cap with a flap extending over the back of the neck to protect the neck from direct rays of the sun | - |
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headlock | (noun) a wrestling hold in which the opponent's head is locked between the crook of your elbow and the side of your body | - |
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hemlock | (noun) an evergreen tree, could refer to any one of a genus of conifers named Tsuga | Synonyms: hemlock tree |
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(noun) soft coarse splintery wood of a hemlock tree especially the western hemlock | - |
(noun) large branching biennial herb native to Eurasia and Africa and adventive in North America having large fernlike leaves and white flowers; usually found in damp habitats; all parts extremely poisonous | Synonyms: California fern, Conium maculatum, Nebraska fern, poison hemlock, poison parsley, winter fern |
(noun) poisonous drug derived from an Eurasian plant of the genus Conium | - |
hillock | (noun) a small natural hill | Synonyms: hammock, hummock, knoll, mound |
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interlock | (noun) the act of interlocking or meshing | Synonyms: interlocking, mesh, meshing |
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(noun) a device that prevents an automotive engine from starting | Synonyms: ignition interlock |
interlocking | (noun) the act of interlocking or meshing | Synonyms: interlock, mesh, meshing |
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(noun) contact by fitting together | Synonyms: engagement, mesh, meshing |
lock | (noun) any wrestling hold in which some part of the opponent's body is twisted or pressured | - |
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(noun) a fastener fitted to a door or drawer to keep it firmly closed | - |
(noun) a restraint incorporated into the ignition switch to prevent the use of a vehicle by persons who do not have the key | Synonyms: ignition lock |
(noun) enclosure consisting of a section of canal that can be closed to control the water level; used to raise or lower vessels that pass through it | Synonyms: lock chamber |
(noun) a mechanism that detonates the charge of a gun | - |
(noun) a strand or cluster of hair | - |
lockage | (noun) passage through a lock in a canal or waterway | - |
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(noun) a system of locks in a canal or waterway | - |
(noun) a fee charged for passage through a lock in a canal or waterway | - |
lockbox | (noun) a fireproof metal strongbox (usually in a bank) for storing valuables | Synonyms: deposit box, safe-deposit, safe-deposit box, safety-deposit, safety deposit box |
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lockdown | (noun) the act of confining prisoners to their cells (usually to regain control during a riot) | - |
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locker | (noun) a storage compartment for clothes and valuables; usually it has a lock | Synonyms: cabinet, storage locker |
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(noun) a trunk for storing personal possessions; usually kept at the foot of a bed (as in a barracks) | Synonyms: footlocker |
(noun) a fastener that locks or closes | - |
locket | (noun) a small ornamental case; usually contains a picture or a lock of hair and is worn on a necklace | - |
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locking | (noun) the act of locking something up to protect it | Synonyms: lockup |
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lockjaw | (noun) an acute and serious infection of the central nervous system caused by bacterial infection of open wounds; spasms of the jaw and laryngeal muscles may occur during the late stages | Synonyms: tetanus |
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lockkeeper | (noun) a worker in charge of a lock (on a canal) | Synonyms: lockman, lockmaster |
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lockman | (noun) a worker in charge of a lock (on a canal) | Synonyms: lockkeeper, lockmaster |
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lockmaster | (noun) a worker in charge of a lock (on a canal) | Synonyms: lockkeeper, lockman |
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locknut | (noun) supplementary nut that is screwed down on a primary nut to prevent it from loosening | Synonyms: safety nut |
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lockout | (noun) a management action resisting employee's demands; employees are barred from entering the workplace until they agree to terms | - |
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lockring | (noun) washer that prevents a nut from loosening | Synonyms: lock ring, lock washer |
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locksmith | (noun) someone who makes or repairs locks | - |
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lockstep | (noun) a manner of marching in file in which each person's leg moves with and behind the corresponding leg of the person ahead | - |
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(noun) a standard procedure that is followed mindlessly | - |
lockstitch | (noun) machine stitch in which the top thread interlocks with the bobbin thread | - |
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lockup | (noun) the act of locking something up to protect it | Synonyms: locking |
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(noun) jail in a local police station | - |
matchlock | (noun) an early style of musket; a slow-burning wick would be lowered into a hole in the breech to ignite the charge | - |
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oarlock | (noun) a holder attached to the gunwale of a boat that holds the oar in place and acts as a fulcrum for rowing | Synonyms: peg, pin, rowlock, thole, tholepin |
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padlock | (noun) a detachable lock; has a hinged shackle that can be passed through the staple of a hasp or the links in a chain and then snapped shut | - |
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pillock | (noun) a person who is not very bright | Synonyms: dolt, dullard, poor fish, pudden-head, pudding head, stupe, stupid, stupid person |
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pollock | (noun) important food and game fish of northern seas (especially the northern Atlantic); related to cod | Synonyms: Pollachius pollachius, pollack |
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(noun) lean white flesh of North Atlantic fish; similar to codfish | Synonyms: pollack |
roadblock | (noun) a barrier set up by police to stop traffic on a street or road in order to catch a fugitive or inspect traffic etc. | Synonyms: barricade |
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(noun) any condition that makes it difficult to make progress or to achieve an objective | Synonyms: barrier |
rowlock | (noun) a holder attached to the gunwale of a boat that holds the oar in place and acts as a fulcrum for rowing | Synonyms: oarlock, peg, pin, thole, tholepin |
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schlock | (noun) merchandise that is shoddy or inferior | Synonyms: dreck, shlock |
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schlockmeister | (noun) (slang) a merchant who deals in shoddy or inferior merchandise | Synonyms: shlockmeister |
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sherlock | (noun) someone who can be employed as a detective to collect information and assist in criminal investigations | Synonyms: operative, PI, private detective, private eye, private investigator, shamus |
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shlock | (noun) merchandise that is shoddy or inferior | Synonyms: dreck, schlock |
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shlockmeister | (noun) (slang) a merchant who deals in shoddy or inferior merchandise | Synonyms: schlockmeister |
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shylock | (noun) someone who lends money at excessive rates of interest | Synonyms: loan shark, moneylender, usurer |
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sunblock | (noun) a cream spread on the skin; contains a chemical (as PABA) to filter out ultraviolet light and so protect from sunburn | Synonyms: sun blocker, sunscreen |
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warlock | (noun) a male witch or demon | - |
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wedlock | (noun) the state of being a married couple voluntarily joined for life (or until divorce) | Synonyms: marriage, matrimony, spousal relationship, union |
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