knossos
— Navneord
– Engelsk
~ an ancient town on Crete where Bronze Age culture flourished from about 2000 BC to 1400 BC
knot
— Navneord
– Engelsk
~ a hard cross-grained round piece of wood in a board where a branch emerged; "the saw buckled when it hit a knot"
knot
— Navneord
– Engelsk
~ (of ships and wind) a unit of speed equal to one nautical mile per hour or about 1.15 statute miles per hour
knot
— Navneord
– Engelsk
~ any of various fastenings formed by looping and tying a rope (or cord) upon itself or to another rope or to another object
knot
— Navneord
– Engelsk
~ a tight cluster of people or things; "a small knot of women listened to his sermon"; "the bird had a knot of feathers forming a crest"
knot
— Navneord
– Engelsk
~ a sandpiper that breeds in the Arctic and winters in the southern hemisphere
knot
— Navneord
– Engelsk
~ something twisted and tight and swollen; "their muscles stood out in knots"; "the old man's fists were two great gnarls"; "his stomach was in knots"
knot
— Navneord
– Engelsk
~ soft lump or unevenness in a yarn; either an imperfection or created by design
knotgrass
— Navneord
– Engelsk
~ low-growing weedy grass with spikelets along the leaf stems
knothole
— Navneord
– Engelsk
~ a hole in a board where a knot came out
knotted
— Tillægsord
– Engelsk
~ used of old persons or old trees; covered with knobs or knots; "gnarled and knotted hands"; "a knobbed stick"
knotted
— Tillægsord
– Engelsk
~ tied with a knot; "his carefully knotted necktie"
knottiness
— Navneord
– Engelsk
~ puzzling complexity
knotty
— Tillægsord
– Engelsk
~ used of old persons or old trees; covered with knobs or knots; "gnarled and knotted hands"; "a knobbed stick"
knotty
— Tillægsord
– Engelsk
~ tangled in knots or snarls; "a mass of knotted string"; "snarled thread"
knotty
— Tillægsord
– Engelsk
~ highly complex or intricate and occasionally devious; "the Byzantine tax structure"; "Byzantine methods for holding on to his chairmanship"; "convoluted legal language"; "convoluted reasoning"; "the plot was too involved"; "a knotty problem"; "got his way by labyrinthine maneuvering"; "Oh, what a tangled web we weave"- Sir Walter Scott; "tortuous legal procedures"; "tortuous negotiations lasting for months"
knotty
— Tillægsord
– Engelsk
~ making great mental demands; hard to comprehend or solve or believe; "a baffling problem"; "I faced the knotty problem of what to have for breakfast"; "a problematic situation at home"
knout
— Navneord
– Engelsk
~ a whip with a lash of leather thongs twisted with wire; used for flogging prisoners