| ATHWARTSHIPS | • athwartships adv. (Nautical) Across the vessel sideways, i.e. in a direction at right angles to the fore-and-aft line of the vessel. • ATHWARTSHIPS adv. transverse to a ship, also ATHWARTSHIP, THWARTSHIP. |
| CLAPPERCLAWS | • clapperclaws v. Third-person singular simple present indicative form of clapperclaw. • CLAPPERCLAW v. (archaic) to claw or scratch. |
| NEWSPAPERMAN | • newspaperman n. A man who works in the production of the text of a newspaper; a reporter, editor, etc. • NEWSPAPERMAN n. a person who owns or is employed by a newspaper. |
| PARALLELWISE | • parallelwise adj. Parallel. • parallelwise adv. Parallelly. • PARALLELWISE adv. in parallel fashion. |
| PARATANIWHAS | • PARATANIWHA n. (Maori) a New Zealand plant with pink and red serrated leaves. |
| PASSAGEWORKS | • passageworks n. Plural of passagework. • PASSAGEWORK n. music that allows a performer to display virtuosity. |
| PLASTICWARES | • plasticwares n. Plural of plasticware. |
| SCAPEGALLOWS | • scapegallows n. (Colloquial, dated) A criminal who has narrowly escaped being hanged. • SCAPEGALLOWS n. a person who deserves hanging. |
| SHADOWGRAPHS | • shadowgraphs n. Plural of shadowgraph. • SHADOWGRAPH n. an image produced by throwing a shadow on a screen. |
| 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. |
| SPACEWALKERS | • spacewalkers n. Plural of spacewalker. • SPACEWALKER n. one who walks in space. |
| SPACEWALKING | • spacewalking v. Present participle of spacewalk. • SPACEWALK v. to walk in space. |
| SPARROWFARTS | • SPARROWFART n. (colloquial) the very early morning. |
| SPARROWGRASS | • sparrowgrass n. (Dialect, nonstandard) Asparagus. • sparrow-grass n. Alternative form of sparrowgrass. • sparrow␣grass n. Alternative form of sparrowgrass. |
| SPARROWHAWKS | • sparrowhawks n. Plural of sparrowhawk. • sparrow␣hawks n. Plural of sparrow hawk. • SPARROWHAWK n. any of several small hawks of Eurasia and North Africa that prey on smaller birds. |
| WAPPENSCHAWS | • WAPPENSCHAW n. (Scots) a periodical gathering of the people within an area for the purpose of seeing that each man was armed according to his rank, and ready to take the field, also WAPENSCHAW, WAPENSHAW, WAPINSCHAW, WAPINSHAW, WAPPENSHAW, WAPPENSHAWING. |
| WATERMANSHIP | • watermanship n. Skill in propelling oneself through the water, whether by swimming or boating. • WATERMANSHIP n. the business, skill, or art of a waterman. |