| CHECKOUT | • checkout n. The process of checking out of a hotel, or the latest time to vacate a room in one. • checkout n. The process of checking out items at a supermarket or library. • checkout n. The place in a supermarket where this is done. |
| CHOKIEST | • chokiest adj. Superlative form of choky: most choky. • CHOKY adj. tending to cause choking. |
| HOOKIEST | • hookiest adj. Superlative form of hooky: most hooky. • HOOKY adj. full of hooks. |
| HOOKLETS | • hooklets n. Plural of hooklet. • HOOKLET n. a small hook. |
| HOTCAKES | • hotcakes n. Plural of hotcake. • hot␣cakes n. Plural of hot cake. • HOTCAKE n. (US) a griddlecake. |
| KATHODES | • kathodes n. Plural of kathode. • KATHODE n. a negatively charged electrode, also CATHODE. |
| KETUBOTH | • ketuboth n. Plural of ketubah. • KETUBAH n. (Hebrew) a contract that states the obligations in Jewish marriages. |
| KHOTBEHS | • khotbehs n. Plural of khotbeh. • KHOTBEH n. (Arabic) an address or public prayer read from the steps of the pulpit in Mohammedan mosques, also KHOTBAH, KHUTBAH. |
| KNOTHEAD | • knothead n. (Informal) A stupid or stubborn person. • KNOTHEAD n. a stupid person. |
| KNOTHOLE | • knothole n. In a piece of lumber, a void left by a knot in the wood; such holes are often convenient for peering… • knothole n. (Cincinnati, sports, attributive) Youth league baseball. • KNOTHOLE n. a hole in a plank. |
| LEKYTHOI | • lekythoi n. Plural of lekythos. • LEKYTHOS n. an oil jar used in ancient Greece, also LECYTHUS, LEKYTHUS. |
| LEKYTHOS | • lekythos n. A pottery flask with a narrow neck, used in Ancient Greece for storing oil. • LEKYTHOS n. an oil jar used in ancient Greece, also LECYTHUS, LEKYTHUS. |
| MEATHOOK | • meathook n. Alternative spelling of meat hook. • meat␣hook n. A two-sided hook normally used in butcheries to hang up meat or the carcasses of animals such as pigs. • meat␣hook n. (Slang, usu. plural) One’s hands or arms. |
| MOTHLIKE | • mothlike adj. Resembling or characteristic of a moth. • MOTHLIKE adj. like a moth. |
| NECKSHOT | • NECKSHOT n. a shot in the neck of an animal. |
| SHAKEOUT | • shakeout n. An event that causes marginal constituents to be eliminated. • shakeout n. (Engineering) The separation of molds from their flask, the castings from the molding sand, and potentially… • shakeout n. The shaking of an object to spread it wide and eject any debris. |
| THICKOES | • thickoes n. Plural of thicko. • THICKO n. (colloquial) a stupid person, also THICKY, THICKIE. |
| TUCKAHOE | • tuckahoe n. Any edible root of a plant used by Native Americans of colonial-era Virginia. • tuckahoe n. (Uncommon, US, Virginia dialect, largely obsolete) A person, especially if poor and malnourished (or… • tuckahoe n. The sclerotium of the wood-decay fungus Wolfiporia extensa, used by Native Americans and the Chinese… |