| CANOEWOOD | • canoewood n. The wood of the tree Liriodendron tulipifera. • CANOEWOOD n. another name for the tulip tree. |
| CHOWDOWNS | • CHOWDOWN n. the act of eating a large quantity of food, esp. for competitive purposes. |
| CHOWHOUND | • chowhound n. (Slang) A foodie or glutton. • chow␣hound n. Alternative form of chowhound. • CHOWHOUND n. one fond of eating. |
| CLOSEDOWN | • closedown n. (Radio, television) The point when a radio or television station shuts down transmission and goes off… • close␣down v. (Transitive, intransitive) To stop trading as a business. • close␣down v. (Transitive) To surround someone, as to impede their movement. |
| CLOUDTOWN | • CLOUDTOWN n. an imaginary situation or land, esp. as the result of wishful thinking, also CLOUDLAND. |
| COMEDOWNS | • comedowns n. Plural of comedown. • come-downs n. Plural of come-down. • COMEDOWN n. a drop in status. |
| COOLDOWNS | • cooldowns n. Plural of cooldown. • COOLDOWN n. a period after exertion to resume normal heartbeat. |
| CORNROWED | • cornrowed v. Simple past tense and past participle of cornrow. • cornrowed adj. (Of a person or hairstyle) Having cornrows or being in a cornrow style. • CORNROW v. to braid hair tightly in rows close to the scalp, also CORNBRAID. |
| COUNTDOWN | • countdown n. A count backward in fixed units to the time of some event, especially the launch of a space vehicle. • countdown n. The acts of preparation carried out during this period. • countdown n. A radio or television program counting down the top songs of a given week, usually in reverse order… |
| DOWNCOMER | • downcomer n. A pipe to conduct something downwards. • DOWNCOMER n. a pipe that connects a cistern to a toilet pan. |
| DOWNCOMES | • downcomes n. Plural of downcome. • DOWNCOME n. a sudden fall; a downfall. |
| DOWNCOURT | • downcourt adv. (Basketball) Toward one’s team’s offensive basket. • DOWNCOURT adj. in or into the opposing end of the court, as in basketball. |
| DOWNFORCE | • downforce n. Any force (produced by aerodynamics or gravity etc) that acts downwards. • DOWNFORCE n. an aerodynamically caused downward force in a car, which improves its roadholding. |
| KNOCKDOWN | • knockdown n. An act of knocking down or the condition of being knocked down. • knockdown n. An overwhelming blow. • knockdown n. (Slang, obsolete, uncountable) Very strong ale or beer. |
| LANCEWOOD | • lancewood n. A tough, elastic and heavy wood obtained from the West Indies and Guiana, formerly much used for carriage… • lancewood n. New Zealand trees in the genus Pseudopanax. • lancewood n. (Australia) Any of various Australian trees having hard timber, especially Acacia shirleyi of Queensland… |
| LOCKDOWNS | • lockdowns n. Plural of lockdown. • lock-downs n. Plural of lock-down. • LOCKDOWN n. the confinement of prisoners to their cells. |
| TOUCHDOWN | • touchdown n. (American football, Canadian football) A six-point score occurring when the ball enters possession of… • touchdown n. (Rugby) A defensive action of grounding the ball in the team’s own in-goal to stop the play. • touchdown n. (Rugby) A try (scoring play of grounding the ball in the opposing team’s in-goal). |
| WORDCOUNT | • wordcount n. Alternative form of word count. • word␣count n. The number of words in a passage, a text, a speech, a corpus, etc. • WORDCOUNT n. a count of words in a document. |