A word used when the actual name of the object in question will not come to mind. Very versatile but often very vague. It is derived from the phrase "what-you-may-call-it" which can be found in T. H. White's The Once and Future King.
> Claire- "Hey, Adam, hand me the- the- you know, the whachamacallit."
> Adam- "The what?"

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学英语单词
aerosolsonde
aggregate level of borrowing
alikhans
aniline test
anticoherer
arrestins
assistant cylinder
associated performance index
autarchic
backward branch of diffraction curve
basement areaway
beflag
Belle Terre
Benneckenstein
bi nominal distribution
bisibelebath
blood collecting vehicle
buddie
Caesio chrysozoma
Chacance
chromatographic mobility
cold-weather test
combined steel formwork
container semi-trailer
crunch numbers
cut-keys
Denker operation
display delayed
dual trust
earth's temperature regime
East Laroch
emarcide
euroamerican
exon-introns
exopodal plate
expansion stay
exsanguinations
first cousins once removed
flywheel starter
goggle-eyed plover
grism
gyroscopic direction-indicating instrument
haraldsson
harmonic suppression
helicopter carrier
helliwell
hod carriers
hold somebody to ransom
hydrosilicofluoric acid
i-somned
impartations
karst tectonic basin
larry page
lateral excursion
locality predication
luminance distribution
mean increase of power in waves
medium term projection
membrana basilaris ductus cochlearis
menswear
mess treasurer
MTAL
Nattenheim
nervia
oceanic island magmatic association
orientation information
out-of-commision
oversee
particulate organic matter
pelvic pole
peridinium oceanicum
permanent tooth bud
perverseness
phantom channel
plotland
polycheles aculeatus
programmable point-of-sale terminal
rappin'
read.me
road traffic
sales-and-marketing
scanning limits
screw type anchor
seed-breeding field
semiorbicular
Semnani
siduron
smole
spruths
stadholdership
straight shank milling cutter
stream outlet
striplight lamp
strugglings
sudden short-circuit test
supercooled rain
Tomichi
turnover rate of current capital
unspitted
unwearying
weekendy
weinke