The act of bestowing or conferring something, especially an honour; bestowal
beswarming
beswarming
verb
present participle of beswarm
bewailment
bewailment
noun
The act of bewailing.
bewrayment
bewrayment
noun
The act or process of bewraying; betrayal
bigwiggism
bigwiggism
noun
Alternative form of bigwigism
birnamwood
bitterworm
bohmerwald
bondswoman
bondswoman
noun
The female equivalent of a bondsman.
bondswomen
bondswomen
noun
plural of bondswoman
boswellism
boswellism
Noun
The writing style of (1740–1795), Scottish lawyer and writer, best known for his biography of
bowdlerism
bowdlerism
noun
A policy of bowdlerization, or censorship by removing what is considered indecent.
bowdoinham
bowerwoman
bowerwoman
noun
(historical) A female servant who waits upon a lady in her bedroom.
brewmaster
brewmaster
noun
A person in charge of beer production at a brewery
broomstraw
bullamacow
byeworkman
camberwell
combflower
combwright
disembowel
disembowel
verb
(transitive) To take or draw from the body, as the web of a spider.
(transitive) To take or let out the bowels or interior parts of; to eviscerate.
disembower
dombrowski
dumbwaiter
dumbwaiter
noun
(obsolete) A lazy Susan.
(obsolete) A table or set of trays on rollers used for serving food.
A small elevator used to move food etc. from one floor of a building to another.
emboweling
embowelled
embowelled
verb
simple past tense and past participle of embowel
emboweller
embowering
embowering
verb
present participle of embower
embrowning
embrowning
verb
present participle of embrown
gimbawawed
homebrewed
homebrewed
adj
(by extension) Homemade.
(of a beverage) Brewed at home.
noun
Drink brewed at home.
verb
simple past tense and past participle of homebrew
imbowering
imbowering
verb
present participle of imbower
imbrowning
imbrowning
verb
present participle of imbrown
longbowman
longbowman
noun
An archer who uses a longbow.
lowbrowism
lowbrowism
noun
lowbrow attitudes and policies generally
marblewood
marblewood
noun
The Australian tree Acacia bakeri.
The ebony Diospyros marmorata.
marrowbone
marrowbone
noun
(humorous, chiefly in the plural) The shins or knees, chiefly in references to kneeling.
A bone containing edible marrow.
microweber
microweber
noun
A unit equal to one millionth of a weber.
middlebrow
middlebrow
adj
(derogatory) Neither highbrow or lowbrow, but somewhere in between.
noun
A person or thing that is neither highbrow nor lowbrow, but in between.
milliweber
milliweber
noun
A unit of magnetic flux, one thousandth of a weber.
mindblower
mindblower
noun
(slang) Anything mind-blowing.
misbestows
misbestows
verb
Third-person singular simple present indicative form of misbestow
noblewoman
noblewoman
noun
A woman having a noble rank, especially one belonging to the peerage; a Lady.
noblewomen
noblewomen
noun
plural of noblewoman
rombowline
rombowline
noun
(nautical) Old, condemned canvas, rope, etc., unfit for use except in chafing gear.
rumbowline
rumbowline
noun
Alternative form of rombowline
rumbowling
scrubwoman
scrubwoman
noun
(US) A woman employed to do general housework, such as cleaning a house or office.
scrubwomen
scrubwomen
noun
plural of scrubwoman
snowmobile
snowmobile
noun
(vehicles) A vehicle with skis at the front and a caterpillar track at the rear, used for travelling over snow, sometimes as sport.
verb
(intransitive) To ride or race in a snowmobile.
subworkman
subworkman
noun
A subordinate workman.
subworkmen
subworkmen
noun
plural of subworkman
swampberry
thimblewit
thumbscrew
thumbscrew
noun
(figuratively) A weakness that can be taken advantage of.
A screw that can be turned with the thumb and fingers.
An instrument of torture used to crush the fingers.
timberwood
timberwork
timberwork
noun
Work made of timbers.
tumbledown
tumbledown
adj
in disrepair; poorly maintained
tumbleweed
tumbleweed
noun
(attributive) Describing unwanted silence and inactivity. Often used of a situation when one makes a statement that is ignored or ill-received by one's audience, as the resultant silence is likened to that of a desolate desert with rolling tumbleweeds.
A tan colour, like that of a tumbleweed.
Any plant which habitually breaks away from its roots in the autumn, and is driven by the wind, as a light, rolling mass, over the fields and prairies; as Russian thistle, witch grass, wild indigo, Amaranthus albus, etc.
unwarmable
unwarmable
adj
Impossible to warm.
waggumbura
wahabitism
wahhabiism
wambliness
wambliness
noun
The quality or state of being wambly.
wamblingly
wamblingly
adv
In a wambling manner; shakily; unsteadily.
warrambool
warrambool
noun
(Australia) A shallow watercourse.
waterbloom
wavenumber
wavenumber
noun
(mathematics, physics) A measure of the number of waves in unit distance; inversely proportional to its wavelength.
whiskbroom
whiskbroom
noun
A small hand broom, with a short handle, for brushing clothes.