(UK dialectal, chiefly Scotland) A makeshift; substitute.
blowth
blowth
noun
(archaic) Bloom or blossom; blossoms collectively; the state of blossoming.
chewet
chewet
noun
(obsolete) A chough.
(obsolete) A kind of meat pie.
crwths
crwths
noun
plural of crwth
dwight
dwight
Proper noun
name derived from the surname.
A village/town in Illinois.
A city/town in Kansas.
A village in Nebraska.
A city/village in North Dakota.
etowah
etowah
Proper noun
a small town in Arkansas, USA.
a census-designated place in North Carolina, USA.
a small town in Oklahoma, USA.
a city in Tennessee, USA.
an unincorporated community in West Virginia, USA.
a river in Georgia, USA.
growth
growth
noun
(biology) Something that grows or has grown.
(biology) The act of growing, getting bigger or higher.
(economics) Ellipsis of economic growth.
(pathology) An abnormal mass such as a tumor.
An increase in psychological strength or resilience; an increased ability to overcome adversity.
An increase in size, number, value, or strength.
hewart
hewett
hewitt
howitz
howitz
noun
(obsolete, military) A howitzer.
howkit
howlet
howlet
noun
An owl; an owlet.
htizwe
hurwit
ibtcwh
inwith
inwith
Preposition
within
iworth
mathew
mathew
Proper noun
name, an occasional spelling variant of Matthew.
methow
mowcht
nowhat
nowhat
adv
(archaic) Not at all; in no respect.
nowhit
nowhit
adv
(archaic) Not a whit; not to the slightest degree; in no way.
nowthe
nowthe
adv
Obsolete form of nouthe.
rethaw
rethaw
verb
(transitive, intransitive) To thaw again after freezing or having been frozen.
rowths
slewth
sowlth
sowlth
noun
(folklore) A kind of spirit in Irish folklore.
stowth
swarth
swarth
adj
(archaic) swarthy
noun
Alternative form of sward
An apparition of a person about to die; a wraith.
swatch
swatch
noun
(Northern England, obsolete) A tag or other small object attached to another item as a means of identifying its owner; a tally; specifically the counterfoil of a tally.
(UK) A channel or passage of water between sandbanks, or between a sandbank and a seashore.
(figuratively) A clump or portion of something.
(figuratively) A demonstration, an example, a proof.
A piece, pattern, or sample, generally of cloth or a similar material.
A selection of such samples bound together.
verb
To create a swatch, especially a sample of knitted fabric.
swathe
swathe
noun
(chiefly British) Alternative spelling of swath
A bandage; a band
verb
To bind with a swathe, band, bandage, or rollers
swaths
swaths
noun
plural of swath
swathy
swathy
adj
Of or like a swathe, in mowing.
sweath
swelth
switch
switch
adj
(freestyle skiing) Pertaining to skiing backwards.
(snowboarding) Pertaining to riding with the front and back feet swapped round compared to one's normal position.
noun
(BDSM) One who is willing to take either a submissive or a dominant role in a sexual relationship.
(card games) A variant of crazy eights where one card, such as an ace, reverses the direction of play.
(computer science) A command line notation allowing specification of optional behavior.
(computing, networking) A networking device connecting multiple wires, allowing them to communicate simultaneously, when possible. Compare to the less efficient hub device that solely duplicates network packets to each wire.
(computing, programming) A programming construct that takes different actions depending on the value of an expression.
(genetics) A mechanism within DNA that activates or deactivates a gene.
(historical) A separate mass or tress of hair, or of some substance (such as jute) made to resemble hair, formerly worn on the head by women.
(music) Synonym of rute.
(rail transport, US) A movable section of railroad track which allows the train to be directed down one of two destination tracks; (set of) points.
(telecommunications) A system of specialized relays, computer hardware, or other equipment which allows the interconnection of a calling party's telephone line with any called party's line.
A change or exchange.
A device to turn electric current on and off or direct its flow.
A slender woody plant stem used as a whip; a thin, flexible rod, associated with corporal punishment in the United States.
verb
(ecclesiastical) To shift to another circuit.
(intransitive) To change places, tasks, etc.
(intransitive) To take on the opposite role (leader vs. follower) in a partner dance.
(slang, intransitive) To get angry suddenly; to quickly or unreasonably become enraged.
(transitive) To change (something) to the specified state using a switch.
(transitive) To exchange.
(transitive, in modern times Southern US) To whip or hit with a switch.
To be swung or whisked.
To swing or whisk.
To trim.
To turn from one railway track to another; to transfer by a switch; generally with off, from, etc.
swithe
swithe
adv
Alternative form of swith
swythe
swythe
adv
(obsolete) quickly; swithe
tawhai
tawhid
tawhid
noun
(Islam) the central Islamic doctrine of God's divine unity
tawsha
tewhit
tewhit
noun
Alternative form of tewit
thawed
thawed
verb
simple past tense and past participle of thaw
thawer
thawer
noun
A device for thawing something.
thewed
thewed
adj
Accustomed or educated.
Having thews or muscles.
verb
simple past tense and past participle of thew
thowel
thowel
noun
A rowlock.
A tholepin in a boat.
thrawn
thraws
thrown
thrown
adj
(slang) Confused; perplexed.
Launched by throwing.
Twisted into a single thread, as silk or yarn.
verb
past participle of throw
throws
throws
noun
plural of throw
verb
Third-person singular simple present indicative form of throw
thwack
thwack
noun
A heavy slapping sound.
The act of thwacking; a strike or blow, especially with a flat implement.
verb
To beat.
To fill to overflow.
To hit with a flat implement.
thwait
thwart
thwart
adj
(figuratively, dated) Of people: having a tendency to oppose; obstinate, perverse, stubborn.
(figuratively, dated) Of situations or things: adverse, unfavourable, unlucky.
Placed or situated across something else; cross, oblique, transverse.
adv
(obsolete) Across the direction of travel or length of; athwart, crosswise, obliquely, transversely.
noun
(nautical) A brace, perpendicular to the keel, that helps maintain the beam (“breadth”) of a marine vessel against external water pressure and that may serve to support the rail.
(nautical) A seat across a boat on which a rower may sit.
(rare) An act of thwarting; something which thwarts; a hindrance, an obstacle.
prep
(archaic or poetic) Across, athwart.
verb
(transitive) To cause to fail; to frustrate, to prevent.
(transitive, also figuratively, obsolete) To hinder or obstruct by placing (something) in the way of; to block, to impede, to oppose.
(transitive, intransitive, obsolete) To move (something) across or counter to; to cross.
(transitive, obsolete) To place (something) across (another thing); to position crosswise.
thwing
thwite
thwite
verb
(obsolete, UK, dialect) To cut or clip with a knife; to whittle.
thworl
towght
towhee
towhee
noun
Any of several species of birds of the genera Pipilo and Melozone.
trowth
tweesh
twitch
twitch
noun
(birdwatching) A trip taken in order to observe a rare bird.
(farriery) A stick with a hole in one end through which passes a loop, which can be drawn tightly over the upper lip or an ear of a horse and twisted to keep the animal quiet during minor surgery.
(informal) Action of spotting or seeking out a bird, especially a rare one.
(mining) The sudden narrowing almost to nothing of a vein of ore.
(physiology) A brief, contractile response of a skeletal muscle elicited by a single maximal volley of impulses in the neurons supplying it.
A brief, small (sometimes involuntary) movement out of place and then back again; a spasm.
couch grass (Elymus repens; a species of grass, often considered as a weed)
verb
(intransitive) To perform a twitch; spasm.
(transitive) To cause to twitch; spasm.
(transitive) To jerk sharply and briefly.
(transitive) To spot or seek out a bird, especially a rare one.
unthaw
unthaw
verb
(transitive, intransitive) To thaw out, to unfreeze; to become soft (of something which had been frozen).
upwith
warmth
warmth
noun
(art) The effect of using mostly red and yellow hues.
A moderate degree of heat; the sensation of being warm.
Fervor, intensity of emotion or expression.
Friendliness, kindness or affection.
warthe
washta
wathen
wather
wather
noun
Pronunciation spelling of water.
waucht
waucht
noun
(Scotland) A large draught of any liquid.
verb
(obsolete) To drink, to quaff.
waught
waught
noun
Alternative form of waucht
wealth
wealth
noun
(countable) A great amount; an abundance or plenty.
(uncountable, economics) Riches; a great amount of valuable assets or material possessions.
(measurement) Mass (net weight, troy weight, carat weight, etc.).
(physics) Mass (atomic weight, molecular weight, etc.) (in restricted circumstances)
(physics, proscribed) Synonym of mass (in general circumstances)
(slang, countable) One pound of drugs, especially cannabis.
(slang, uncountable) Shipments of (often illegal) drugs.
(statistics) A variable which multiplies a value for ease of statistical manipulation.
(topology) The smallest cardinality of a base.
(typography) The boldness of a font; the relative thickness of its strokes.
(visual art) The illusion of mass.
(visual art) The relative thickness of a drawn rule or painted brushstroke, line weight.
(visual art) The thickness and opacity of paint.
(weightlifting) An object, such as a weight plate or barbell, used for strength training.
A standardized block of metal used in a balance to measure the mass of another object.
An object used to make something heavier.
Importance or influence.
Pressure; burden.
The force on an object due to the gravitational attraction between it and the Earth (or whatever astronomical object it is primarily influenced by).
The resistance against which a machine acts, as opposed to the power which moves it.
Weight class
verb
(transitive) To add weight to something; to make something heavier.
(transitive) To bias something; to slant.
(transitive) To load, burden or oppress someone.
(transitive, dyeing) To load (fabrics) with barite, etc. to increase the weight.
(transitive, horse racing) To handicap a horse with a specified weight.
(transitive, mathematics) To assign weights to individual statistics.
(transitive, sports) To give a certain amount of force to a throw, kick, hit, etc.
weneth
wether
wether
noun
A castrated goat.
A castrated ram.
Archaic spelling of weather.
verb
(transitive) To castrate a male sheep or goat.
whatna
whatna
abbrev
(Scotland, Northern England, dialect, archaic) what kind of
whatre
whatso
whatso
adj
(obsolete) Clipping of whatsoever.
pron
(obsolete) Whatever, whatsoever.
wheats
wheats
noun
plural of wheat
wheaty
wheaty
adj
Resembling, or tasting of, wheat.
whilst
whilst
adv
(archaic or obsolete except dialectal) Often preceded by the: During the time; meanwhile.
conj
Although; in contrast; whereas.
Besides; in addition.
During the whole, or until the end, of the time that; as long as, at the same time.
Only if; provided that; as long as.
Within, or before the end, of the time that.
whisht
whisht
intj
(Ireland; Britain, especially Scotland, Northumbria) Shush, silence, be quiet!
A sound often used to calm livestock, cattle, sheep etc.
whists
whists
noun
plural of whist
whitby
whitby
Proper noun
A town and seaport in North Yorkshire, England.
Any of a number of other places.
whited
whited
verb
simple past tense and past participle of white
whiten
whiten
verb
(ergative) (To cause) to become white or whiter; to bleach or blanch.
whiter
whiter
adj
comparative form of white: more white
whites
whites
noun
(US, military) A white uniform formerly worn by officers of United States Marine Corps.
(cricket) Cricket whites.
(informal) leukorrhea.
A set of white clothes, especially as a uniform.
Linen, especially laundry, that is white.
The white uniform of a chef.
plural of white
verb
Third-person singular simple present indicative form of white
whitey
whitey
adj
Alternative form of whity
noun
(African-American Vernacular, derogatory, ethnic slur, offensive) A white person, a person of Western European descent.
(Britain, slang) A state or bout of sickness, especially induced by cannabis use.
whitin
whorts
whorts
noun
plural of whort
widths
widths
noun
plural of width
wights
wights
noun
plural of wight
witchy
witchy
adj
Of, pertaining to, or characteristic of witches; witchlike.
The children are scared to go near the witchy old woman's house at night.
withal
withal
adv
(archaic or obsolete) Synonym of therewith (“with this, that, or those”)
All things considered; nevertheless.
Together with the rest; besides; in addition.
postp
(archaic) Used at the end of a clause or sentence, after the object: with.
witham
withed
withed
verb
simple past tense and past participle of withe
withee
withen
wither
wither
adv
(obsolete or chiefly in compounds) Against, in opposition to.
noun
singular of withers (“part of the back of a four-legged animal that is between the shoulder blades”)
verb
(intransitive) To become helpless due to emotion.
(intransitive) To shrivel, droop or dry up, especially from lack of water.
(intransitive, figurative) To lose vigour or power; to languish; to pass away.
(obsolete) To go against, resist; oppose.
(transitive) To cause to shrivel or dry up.
(transitive) To make helpless due to emotion.
withes
withes
noun
plural of withe
verb
Third-person singular simple present indicative form of withe
within
within
adj
(law) In the context of which the present document or ruling is made.
adv
In or into the interior; inside.
prep
Before the specified duration ends.
In the inner part, spatially; physically inside.
worths
worths
noun
plural of worth
verb
Third-person singular simple present indicative form of worth
worthy
worthy
adj
Admirable or honourable.
Deserving, or having sufficient worth.
Having worth, merit, or value.
Suited; suitable; befitting.
noun
A distinguished or eminent person.
verb
(transitive) To render or treat as worthy; exalt; revere; honour; esteem; respect; value; reward; adore.
wosith
wraith
wraith
noun
A ghost or specter, especially a person's likeness seen just after their death.
wraths
wraths
noun
plural of wrath
wrathy
wrathy
adj
(chiefly US) Feeling wrath; very angry, furious.
wreath
wreath
noun
(heraldry) An appendage to the shield, placed above it, and supporting the crest; an orle, a torse. It generally represents a twist of two cords of silk, one tinctured like the principal metal, the other like the principal color in the coat of arms.
A defect in glass.
An ornamental circular band made, for example, of plaited flowers and leaves, and used as decoration; a garland or chaplet, especially one given to a victor.
Something twisted, intertwined, or curled.
verb
(transitive) To place an entwined circle of flowers upon or around something.
(transitive) To wrap around something in a circle.
wretch
wretch
noun
(archaic) An exile.
An unhappy, unfortunate, or miserable person.
An unpleasant, annoying, worthless, or despicable person.
verb
Misspelling of retch.
wricht
wright
wright
noun
(obsolete except in compounds) A builder or maker of something.
verb
(dated) Misspelling of write.
wrihte
writhe
writhe
noun
(knot theory) The number of negative crossings subtracted from the number of positive crossings in a knot
(rare) A contortion.
verb
(intransitive) To twist bodily; to contort one's self; to be distorted.
(transitive) To contort (a part of the body).
(transitive) To extort.
(transitive) To twist, wring (something).
writhy
writhy
adj
Characterized by or prone to writhing.
wrocht
wrothe
wrothe
verb
simple past tense of writhe
wrothy
wrothy
adj
Alternative form of wrathy
wrycht
wuther
wuther
noun
(archaic, dialectal) A low roaring or rushing sound.
verb
(intransitive, archaic, dialectal) To make a rushing sound; to whizz.
(intransitive, archaic, dialectal) To shake vigorously.