| ALLOWABILITY | • allowability n. The state of being allowable; legitimacy; permissibleness. • ALLOWABILITY n. the state of being allowable. |
| CARRIAGEWAYS | • carriageways n. Plural of carriageway. • CARRIAGEWAY n. the part of a road used by vehicular traffic. |
| CARRYFORWARD | • carryforward n. (Accounting, taxation) An income tax loss or credit not usable in the current year that can be applied… • carry␣forward v. (Idiomatic, accounting, of a balance) To transfer to a new page, column, ledger, or similar entity. • carry␣forward v. (Idiomatic, accounting, of an operating loss or other legal credit) To apply to the taxable income of… |
| COMPANIONWAY | • companionway n. (Nautical) a staircase or ladder from one deck to another on a ship. • COMPANIONWAY n. the stairs from upper deck of ship to lower deck. |
| ENTRANCEWAYS | • entranceways n. Plural of entranceway. • ENTRANCEWAY n. an entrance. |
| LAUNDRYWOMAN | • laundrywoman n. A woman employed to wash clothes. • LAUNDRYWOMAN n. a woman who washes clothes for a living. |
| MARSHMALLOWY | • marshmallowy adj. Resembling or characteristic of a marshmallow. • marshmallowy adj. Tending to be a pushover; overly accommodating. • marshmallowy adj. Vacuous. |
| MULLIGATAWNY | • mulligatawny n. An Indian soup having a meat base and curry seasoning. • MULLIGATAWNY n. (Tamil) an East Indian curry-soup. |
| PADDYWACKING | • PADDYWACK v. to spank or smack. |
| SHADOWGRAPHY | • shadowgraphy n. The creation of shadowgraph images. • shadowgraphy n. The selective blocking of a light source in order to produce the silhouettes of animals, etc. as a form… • SHADOWGRAPHY n. the making of images by shadowgraph. |
| SLANTINGWAYS | • slantingways adv. Synonym of slantwise. • SLANTINGWAYS adv. in a slanting direction. |
| STEERAGEWAYS | • steerageways n. Plural of steerageway. • STEERAGEWAY n. a rate of motion sufficient to make a ship or boat respond to movements of the rudder. |
| STRAIGHTAWAY | • straightaway n. A straight section of a racetrack. • straightaway adv. Alternative form of straight away (“at once; immediately”). • straightaway adj. Extending into the distance in a straight line. |
| STRAIGHTWAYS | • straightways n. Plural of straightway. • straightways adv. Synonym of straightway. • STRAIGHTWAYS adv. (archaic) in a direct course, also STRAIGHTWAY. |
| UNANSWERABLY | • unanswerably adv. In an unanswerable manner; beyond refutation. • UNANSWERABLE adv. not capable of being answered. |
| WALLYDRAIGLE | • wallydraigle n. A feeble or underdeveloped person or animal. • WALLYDRAIGLE n. (Scots) a feeble, imperfectly developed, or slovenly creature, also WALLYDRAG. |
| WHATABOUTERY | • whataboutery n. Protesting at hypocrisy; responding to criticism by accusing one’s opponent of similar or worse faults. • whataboutery n. Protesting at inconsistency; refusing to act in one instance unless similar action is taken in other… • WHATABOUTERY n. (of two communities in conflict) the practice of repeatedly blaming the other side and referring to events from the past. |