| CANTANKEROUS | • cantankerous adj. Given to or marked by an ill-tempered, quarrelsome nature; ill-tempered, cranky, crabby. • CANTANKEROUS adj. difficult or irritating to deal with. |
| CORNHUSKINGS | • cornhuskings n. Plural of cornhusking. • CORNHUSKING n. the removal of the husk from corn. |
| COUNTERSINKS | • countersinks n. Plural of countersink. • countersinks v. Third-person singular simple present indicative form of countersink. • COUNTERSINK v. to make a countersink on (a hole). |
| KINETONUCLEI | • KINETONUCLEUS n. a DNA body located near the base of the flagellum in flagellate protozoa, also KINETOPLAST. |
| KNUCKLEBONES | • knucklebones n. Plural of knucklebone. • knucklebones n. A children’s game, originally played with the knucklebones of sheep, in which small objects are picked… • KNUCKLEBONE n. the bone of the knuckle. |
| LUCKENGOWANS | • LUCKENGOWAN n. (Scots) the globeflower. |
| MOUNTEBANKED | • mountebanked v. Simple past tense and past participle of mountebank. • MOUNTEBANK v. to act as a mountebank. |
| NOMENKLATURA | • nomenklatura n. (Now historical) A list of bureaucratic posts in government and industry in the former Soviet Union… • nomenklatura n. The people on such lists; (by extension), any privileged class, a social or political elite. • NOMENKLATURA n. (Russian) officeholders and managers in a communist regime. |
| OUTRECKONING | • outreckoning v. Present participle of outreckon. • OUTRECKON v. to surpass in reckoning. |
| ROCKHOUNDING | • rockhounding n. The activities of a rock hound; amateur geology. • ROCKHOUNDING n. of a rock-collector, looking for rocks. |
| ROUGHNECKING | • roughnecking v. Present participle of roughneck. • ROUGHNECK v. to work as a roughneck on an oil rig. |
| TECHNOJUNKIE | • technojunkie n. (Informal) One who has an addiction to computer technology. • TECHNOJUNKIE n. someone who is obsessed with technology. |
| UNBROKENNESS | • unbrokenness n. The state or condition of being unbroken. • UNBROKENNESS n. the state of being unbroken. |
| UNDERCOOKING | • undercooking v. Present participle of undercook. • UNDERCOOK v. to cook insufficiently or to a lesser extent than usual. |
| UNDERKINGDOM | • underkingdom n. The realm of an underking. • underkingdom n. A subordinate or dependent kingdom. • UNDERKINGDOM n. a subkingdom. |
| UNDERWORKING | • underworking v. Present participle of underwork. • underworking n. Lower or underlying workings. • UNDERWORK v. to work insufficiently hard. |
| UNRECKONABLE | • unreckonable adj. That cannot be reckoned; uncountable, innumerable. • UNRECKONABLE adj. that cannot be reckoned. |
| UNSTOCKINGED | • unstockinged adj. Not wearing stockings. • UNSTOCKINGED adj. not stockinged. |