| BACKRONYM | • backronym n. A word that is originally not an acronym but is turned into one by devising a full form for it, sometimes… • backronym v. To create a backronym. • BACKRONYM n. an acronym formed using the initial letters or syllables of an existing word, also BACRONYM. |
| CANKEROUS | • cankerous adj. Infected with canker; ulcerous. • cankerous adj. Causing canker; ulcerating. • CANKEROUS adj. afflicted with a canker. |
| CHAINWORK | • chainwork n. Work looped or linked after the manner of a chain. • CHAINWORK n. work looped or linked like a chain. |
| CHOKERMAN | • chokerman n. A person employed to fasten the choker around logs for haulage. • CHOKERMAN n. (Canadian) a person responsible for attaching chokers to logs. |
| CORNCAKES | • corncakes n. Plural of corncake. • CORNCAKE n. a cake made of maize meal. |
| CORNCRAKE | • corncrake n. A bird of the rail family, Crex crex, that breeds in meadows and arable farmland across Europe and western… • corn-crake n. Alternative form of corncrake. • corn␣crake n. Alternative form of corncrake. |
| CORNFLAKE | • cornflake n. A toasted flake of maize used as breakfast cereal. • corn␣flake n. Alternative form of cornflake. • CORNFLAKE n. a crazy or silly person; (in plural) toasted flakes of maize, eaten esp. as a breakfast cereal. |
| CORNSTALK | • cornstalk n. (Botany) The tough, fibrous stalk of a corn (maize) plant, often ground for silage after harvest. • cornstalk n. (Botany) A single specimen of a corn plant once past the seedling stage and which may, at maturity… • cornstalk n. (Australia, slang, obsolete) A non-indigenous person born in Australia. |
| CRACKDOWN | • crackdown n. Abruptly stern measures or disciplinary action; increased enforcement. • crack␣down v. (Idiomatic, often with ’on’) To take harsh action (against), as when enforcing a law more stringently than before. • CRACKDOWN n. the taking of a firm action. |
| CROAKINGS | • croakings n. Plural of croaking. • CROAKING n. a low, hoarse sound. |
| CRYOBANKS | • cryobanks n. Plural of cryobank. • CRYOBANK n. a place for storing human tissue at very low temperatures. |
| FANCYWORK | • fancywork n. Decorative embroidery. • FANCYWORK n. ornamental needlework. |
| HORNWRACK | • hornwrack n. (Zoology) A bryozoan of the genus Flustra. • HORNWRACK n. a bryozoan of the genus Flustra. |
| PICKAROON | • pickaroon n. Archaic form of picaroon. • PICKAROON n. (Spanish) a pirate ship, also PICAROON. |
| THORNBACK | • thornback n. Any animal with a thorny back, especially marine animals, such as… • thornback n. (Archaic) A woman over a certain age (variously 26 or 30) who has never married, older than a spinster. • THORNBACK n. a kind of skate having thornlike spines on its back, aka roker. |