(transitive, obsolete) To acknowledge; confess (often with "of" or "on"), reveal, disclose, realize
(transitive, obsolete) To recognize.
afrown
afrown
adj
frowning
ajowan
ajowan
noun
Alternative form of ajwain
aldwon
allows
allows
verb
Third-person singular simple present indicative form of allow
androw
anyhow
anyhow
adv
(conjunctive) In any case. Used to indicate that a statement explains or supports a previous statement.
(manner) In any way or manner whatever.
aprowl
aprowl
adj
Prowling.
aronow
arrows
arrows
noun
(heraldry) Short darts feathered at the ends.
plural of arrow
verb
Third-person singular simple present indicative form of arrow
arrowy
arrowy
adj
Consisting of arrows.
Formed or moving like, or in any respect resembling, an arrow; for example swift or slender or straight
aswoon
aswoon
adv
In a swoon.
atwood
atwood
Proper noun
An English topographic surname for someone who lived near a wood.
A small city in Kansas, USA
avowal
avowal
noun
An open declaration of affirmation or admission of knowledge.
avowed
avowed
adj
asserted under oath, or vow
openly acknowledged
positively stated
verb
simple past tense and past participle of avow
avower
avower
noun
A person who avows
avowry
avowry
noun
(ecclesiastical) Advowson, the right to appoint to a benefice or office.
(historical) A form of medieval patronage in which colonial tenants, often from criminal backgrounds, were guaranteed protection by an English lord in exchange for the payment of a tax.
(law) The act of avowing and justifying in one's own right the distraining of goods.
(obsolete) A protector, especially a patron saint.
(obsolete) Avowal (open affirmation or admission).
awmous
awoken
awoken
verb
(nonstandard, rare) Misspelling of awaken.
past participle of awake
aworry
aworth
awrong
awrong
adv
(obsolete) Wrongly.
axwort
ballow
ballow
adj
(obsolete) Round; pot-bellied.
noun
(nautical) Deep water inside a shoal or bar.
barlow
barlow
Proper noun
The name of several villages in north-eastern England.
originating from one of these villages.
The name of several towns in the United States, either named after one of the English villages or a person bearing the surname.
barrow
barrow
noun
(Britain) A small vehicle used to carry a load and pulled or pushed by hand.
(chiefly Britain) A hill.
(mining) A heap of rubbish, attle, or other such refuse.
(obsolete except in scientific use and in some dialects) A castrated boar.
(obsolete) A mountain.
(saltworks) A wicker case in which salt is put to drain.
A long sleeveless flannel garment for infants.
A mound of earth and stones raised over a grave or graves.
bartow
bartow
Proper noun
a city in Florida, USA
bedown
begowk
begowk
verb
(archaic, Scotland) To play a trick on, make a fool of.
behowl
behowl
verb
(archaic, transitive) To howl at.
beknow
beknow
verb
(transitive) To acknowledge; own; confess.
(transitive) To know about; have knowledge of; recognise; understand; be aware (of); be knowledgeable about.
bellow
bellow
noun
The deep roar of a large animal, or any similar loud noise.
verb
To make a loud, deep, hollow noise like the roar of an angry bull.
To shout in a deep voice.
belows
benbow
berkow
beshow
beshow
noun
A large food fish (Anoplopoma fimbria) of the north Pacific coast; the candlefish or sablefish.
beslow
besnow
besnow
verb
To scatter like snow, or as if like snow.
To snow on; to cover with snow, or as if with snow.
To whiten with snow, or as with snow.
bestow
bestow
verb
(transitive) To apply; make use of; use; employ.
(transitive) To dispose of.
(transitive) To give in marriage.
(transitive) To give; confer; impart gratuitously; present (something) to someone or something, especially as a gift or honour.
(transitive) To lay up in store; to deposit for safe keeping; to stow or place; to put (something) somewhere.
(transitive) To lodge, or find quarters for; to provide with accommodation.
(transitive, obsolete) To behave or deport.
bework
bework
verb
(transitive) To work around or about; surround.
(transitive) To work over; rework; edit.
(transitive) To work, as with thread; embroider.
beworm
beworn
billow
billow
noun
A large wave, swell, surge, or undulating mass of something, such as water, smoke, fabric or sound
verb
To surge or roll in billows.
To swell out or bulge.
blowby
blowby
noun
Alternative spelling of blow-by
blowed
blowed
verb
(dialect) simple past tense and past participle of blow
blowen
blowen
Noun
A prostitute; a courtesan.
blower
blower
noun
(dated) A braggart, or loud talker.
(slang, UK, Ireland, historical) A telephone service providing betting odds and commentary, relayed to customers in a bookmaker's shop via loudspeaker.
(slang, chiefly Britain, New Zealand, Australia, Ireland, usually preceded by the) Telephone.
A ducted fan, usually part of a heating, ventilation, and/or air conditioning system.
A person who blows.
A small fish of the Atlantic coast, Sphoeroides maculatus; the puffer.
Any device that blows.
The whale; so called by seamen, from its habit of spouting up a column of water.
blowie
blowie
noun
(Australia, slang) A blowfly, Lucilia cuprina.
(Australia, slang) The common toadfish, Tetractenos hamiltoni.
(sex, slang) A blow job.
blowse
blowse
noun
(obsolete) A ruddy, fat-faced woman; a wench.
blowsy
blowsy
adj
(chiefly of a woman's hair or dress) Slovenly or unkempt, in the manner of a beggar or slattern.
Having a reddish, coarse complexion, especially with a pudgy face.
Unrefined, countrified.
blowth
blowth
noun
(archaic) Bloom or blossom; blossoms collectively; the state of blossoming.
blowup
blowup
noun
(photography) An enlargement
An explosion, or violent outburst
blowze
blowze
Noun
A ruddy, fat-faced woman; a wench.
blowzy
blowzy
adj
Alternative spelling of blowsy
bogway
bohawn
borlow
borrow
borrow
noun
(archaic) A ransom; a pledge or guarantee.
(archaic) A surety; someone standing bail.
(construction, civil engineering) A borrow pit.
(golf, countable, uncountable) Deviation of the path of a rolling ball from a straight line; slope; slant.
(programming) In the Rust programming language, the situation where the ownership of a value is temporarily transferred to another region of code.
verb
(Upper Midwestern United States, West Midlands, Malaysia, proscribed) To lend.
(arithmetic) In a subtraction, to deduct (one) from a digit of the minuend and add ten to the following digit, in order that the subtraction of a larger digit in the subtrahend from the digit in the minuend to which ten is added gives a positive result.
(ditransitive) To temporarily obtain (something) for (someone).
(golf) To adjust one's aim in order to compensate for the slope of the green.
(informal) To interrupt the current activity of (a person) and lead them away in order to speak with them, get their help, etc.
(informal) To receive (something, usually of trifling value) from somebody, with little possibility of returning it.
(linguistics) To adopt a word from another language.
(obsolete except in ballads) To secure the release of (someone) from prison.
To adopt (an idea) as one's own.
To feign or counterfeit.
To receive (something) from somebody temporarily, expecting to return it.
To receive money from a bank or other lender under the agreement that the lender will be paid back over time.
bostow
botzow
bowboy
bowden
bowdle
bowdon
bowell
bowels
bowels
noun
(obsolete) The body as the source of offspring.
Compassion, sympathy.
The concept or quality that defines something at its very core.
The deepest or innermost part.
The intestines.
plural of bowel
bowers
bowers
noun
plural of bower
bowery
bowery
adj
Sheltered by trees; leafy; shady.
noun
(archaic) In the early settlements of New York State, USA, a farm or estate.
Structure with roof for shade but with no walls used for public gatherings. A pavilion.
bowess
bowess
noun
(obsolete, falconry) A bower, or young hawk.
bowfin
bowfin
noun
A voracious ganoid fish, Amia calva, the last survivor of the order Amiiformes, found in the fresh waters of the United States.
bowing
bowing
noun
A bending.
A technique for using the bow on a string instrument such as a violin.
The act of bending at the waist, as a sign of respect or greeting.
verb
present participle and gerund of bow (all senses)
bowker
bowlds
bowled
bowled
adv
(cricket) (Dismissed) by the bowled ball hitting and breaking the batsman's wicket.
verb
simple past tense and past participle of bowl
bowleg
bowleg
noun
A leg that curves outward at the knee. It might refer to the leg of a human, animal or even a piece of furniture.
bowler
bowler
noun
(baseball, slang, 1800s) The pitcher.
(bowling) One who engages in the sport of bowling.
(cricket) A player selected mainly for his bowling ability.
(cricket) The player currently bowling.
A bowler hat; a round black hat formerly popular among British businessmen.
bowles
bowles
noun
plural of bowle
bowlin
bowlus
bowman
bowman
noun
(archery) A man who uses a bow; an archer.
(nautical) The person, in a team or among oarsmen, positioned nearest the bow.
bowmen
bowmen
noun
plural of bowman
bowpin
bowpot
bowpot
noun
Archaic form of bough pot.
bowrah
bowsaw
bowsaw
noun
Alternative form of bow saw
bowsed
bowsed
verb
simple past tense and past participle of bowse
bowser
bowser
noun
(Britain) A mobile water tank deployed to distribute fresh water in emergency situations where the normal system of piped distribution has broken down or is insufficient.
(Ireland, slang, used in the vocative) A buffoon or imbecile.
(now chiefly Australia and New Zealand) A fuel metering/delivery pump at a filling station.
A road vehicle (often a trailer) for the transport of liquid fuel, particularly aviation fuel at an airfield.
bowses
bowses
verb
Third-person singular simple present indicative form of bowse
bowsie
bowsie
noun
(Ireland) Alternative spelling of bowsy (“lout”)
(sailing) A simple device with three holes used for tensioning stays on boats or guy-lines on tents.
bowtel
bowtie
bowtie
adj
Having the shape that the displayed part of a bowtie does when the latter is tied.
noun
(US) A kind of road intersection. See Bowtie (road).
A man's necktie tied in a bow around the throat.
bowwow
bowwow
noun
Alternative spelling of bow-wow
bowyer
bowyer
noun
(archaic) A person who uses the bow, an archer.
A person who makes or sells bows (for use with arrows).
bozuwa
brarow
brokaw
browed
browed
adj
(in combination) Having a brow.
brower
browet
browis
browis
noun
(obsolete or dialectal) brewis
browne
browne
Proper noun
a spelling variant of Brown.
browns
browns
noun
plural of brown
verb
Third-person singular simple present indicative form of brown
browny
browny
adj
Somewhat brown; having a brownish tinge.
browse
browse
noun
(countable) That which one browses through; something to read.
(uncountable) Fodder for cattle and other animals.
(uncountable) Young shoots and twigs.
verb
(archaic, transitive) To feed on, as pasture; to pasture on; to graze.
(intransitive, of an animal) To move about while eating parts of plants, especially plants other than pasture, such as shrubs or trees.
(transitive, computing) To navigate through hyperlinked documents on a computer, usually with a browser.
To move about while sampling, such as with food or products on display.
To scan, to casually look through in order to find items of interest, especially without knowledge of what to look for beforehand.
browst
bultow
bultow
noun
A trawl; a boulter.
The mode of fishing with a boulter or spiller.
burrow
burrow
noun
(mining) A heap or heaps of rubbish or refuse.
A tunnel or hole, often as dug by a small creature.
Obsolete form of barrow. A mound.
Obsolete form of borough. An incorporated town.
verb
(intransitive) (with adverbial of direction) to move underneath or press up against in search of safety or comfort
(intransitive) (with into) to investigate thoroughly
(intransitive) to dig a tunnel or hole
byword
byword
noun
A characteristic word or expression; a word or phrase associated with a person or group.
A nickname or epithet.
A proverb or proverbial expression, common saying; a frequently used word or phrase.
An object of notoriety or contempt, scorn or derision.
Someone or something that stands as an example (i.e. metonymically) for something else, by having some of that something's characteristic traits.
bywork
bywork
noun
Work done in addition to one's normal duties; subordinate or secondary business; work done on the side.
caddow
caddow
noun
(UK, dialect) A jackdaw.
cahows
cahows
noun
plural of cahow
callow
callow
adj
(by extension) Immature, lacking in life experience.
(by extension, life-cycle developmental stage) Newly emerged or hatched, juvenile.
(of a brick) Unburnt.
Bald, hairless, bare.
Lacking color or firmness (of some kinds of insects or other arthropods, such as spiders, just after ecdysis); teneral.
Of land: low-lying and liable to be submerged.
Shallow or weak-willed.
Unfledged (of a young bird), featherless.
noun
A callow or teneral phase of an insect or other arthropod, typically shortly after ecdysis, while the skin still is hardening, the colours have not yet become stable, and as a rule, before the animal is able to move effectively.
A callow young bird.
An alluvial flat.
carlow
carlow
Proper noun
A county in the Republic of Ireland
A town in the county of Carlow, Ireland.
carrow
carrow
noun
(archaic) A strolling gamester in Ireland.
cawood
chowed
chowed
verb
simple past tense and past participle of chow
chowry
chowry
noun
A flyflap or whisk originally made from the bushy tail of a yak.
chowse
chowse
verb
(transitive) Obsolete spelling of chouse (“to cheat, to swindle”)
clower
clowns
clowns
noun
plural of clown
verb
Third-person singular simple present indicative form of clown
clowre
cobweb
cobweb
noun
(Internet slang, rare) A web page that either has not been updated for a long time, or that is rarely visited.
(figurative) Something thin and unsubstantial, or flimsy and worthless; valueless remainder.
(informal, usually in the plural) fuzzy inexact memories.
A spiderweb, or the remains of one, especially an asymmetrical one that is woven with an irregular pattern of threads.
An intricate plot to catch the unwary.
One of its filaments; gossamer.
The European spotted flycatcher, Muscicapa striata.
cogway
collow
colwen
colwin
colwyn
conway
conway
Proper noun
Former English name of Conwy in North Wales.
derived from the city or its river.
name transferred from the surname.
A city in Arkansas, USA
A city in South Carolina, USA
cornew
corwin
corwun
coshow
cotwal
cotwal
noun
Alternative form of cutwal
cotwin
cotwin
noun
A twin's twin.
cowage
cowage
noun
A leguminous climbing plant, Mucuna pruriens, the spiculae of which are sometimes used as a mechanical vermifuge.
coward
coward
adj
(heraldry, of a lion) Borne in the escutcheon with his tail doubled between his legs.
Cowardly.
noun
A person who lacks courage.
verb
(transitive, obsolete) To intimidate.
cowboy
cowboy
noun
(Britain, informal) A dishonest and/or incompetent independent tradesman.
(card games, slang) A playing card of king rank.
(informal) A person who engages in reckless behavior, especially for the purpose of showing off.
A man who identifies with cowboy culture, including wearing a cowboy hat and being a fan of country and western music.
A man who tends free-range cattle, especially in the American West.
verb
(intransitive) To work as a cowboy, herding cattle.
cowden
cowdie
cowdie
noun
The kauri tree.
coween
cowell
cowers
cowers
verb
Third-person singular simple present indicative form of cower
coweta
coweta
Proper noun
a city in Oklahoma, USA.
cowier
cowier
adj
comparative form of cowy: more cowy
cowing
cowing
verb
present participle of cow
cowish
cowish
adj
timorous; fearful; cowardly
noun
An umbelliferous plant (Lomatium cous) with edible tuberous roots, found in Oregon, USA.
cowled
cowled
adj
(of a chimney) Fitted with a cowl.
Wearing a cowl; hooded.
verb
simple past tense and past participle of cowl
cowles
cowley
cowley
Proper noun
A district of London, England, in the borough of Hillingdon
A town near Oxford, England
A village in Alberta, Canada
A town in Wyoming
cowman
cowman
noun
cattle rancher
cattleman
cowmen
cowmen
noun
plural of cowman
cowpat
cowpat
noun
A dropping of cow dung.
cowpea
cowpea
noun
Any of the plants in the species Vigna unguiculata, including the black-eyed pea.