ACKNOWLEDGE | • acknowledge v. (Transitive) To admit the knowledge of; to recognize as a fact or truth; to declare one’s belief in. • acknowledge v. (Transitive) To own or recognize in a particular quality, character or relationship; to admit the claims… • acknowledge v. (Transitive) To be grateful of (e.g. a benefit or a favour). |
ALLOWANCING | • allowancing v. Present participle of allowance. • ALLOWANCE v. to make an allowance to. |
ANGLETWITCH | • angletwitch n. (Rare, dialectal) An angleworm; earthworm. • ANGLETWITCH n. a worm used as bait in fishing. |
BESCRAWLING | • bescrawling v. Present participle of bescrawl. • BESCRAWL v. to cover with scrawls. |
CAKEWALKING | • cakewalking v. Present participle of cakewalk. • CAKEWALK v. to step stylishly. |
CLERGYWOMAN | • clergywoman n. An ordained (female) Christian minister; a female member of the clergy. • clergywoman n. A woman belonging to a clergyman’s family. • CLERGYWOMAN n. a woman who is a member of the clergy. |
DOWNSCALING | • downscaling v. Present participle of downscale. • downscaling n. The act by which something is downscaled; a reduction in size or numbers. • DOWNSCALE v. to scale down. |
DUCKWALKING | • duckwalking v. Present participle of duckwalk. • duck␣walking v. Present participle of duck walk. • DUCKWALK v. to do a comic walk, like a duck's. |
GOOGLEWHACK | • googlewhack n. A Google search result consisting of a single hit, in response to a search on two separate words. • GOOGLEWHACK n. an Internet search that produces one hit only. |
LOWERCASING | • lowercasing v. Present participle of lowercase. • LOWERCASE v. to make lower case. |
LUCKENGOWAN | • LUCKENGOWAN n. (Scots) the globeflower. |
OUTCRAWLING | • outcrawling v. Present participle of outcrawl. • OUTCRAWL v. to surpass in crawling. |
RACEWALKING | • racewalking n. (Sports) A sport in which people try to walk as fast as possible, subject to the constraint that at… • racewalking v. Present participle of racewalk. • race␣walking n. Alternative spelling of racewalking. |
SCRAWLINGLY | • scrawlingly adv. In a way that scrawls or scribbles. • SCRAWLING adv. of writing, hasty, illegible. |
WARCHALKING | • warchalking v. Present participle of warchalk. • WARCHALKING n. the activity of drawing chalk symbols in public places in order to indicate the location of wireless Internet access points. |
WILDCATTING | • wildcatting v. Present participle of wildcat. • WILDCATTING n. the practice of drilling an experimental well in search of oil, gas etc. |