(historical) An archaic stringed instrument associated particularly with Wales, though once played widely in Europe, and characterized by a vaulted back and enough space for the player to stop each of the six strings on the fingerboard. Played variously by plucking or bowing.
ewart
ewart
Proper noun
name from the Norman French for Edward
derived from the given name
grewt
ratwa
ratwa
noun
The muntjac, or barking deer.
rewet
rewet
noun
A gunlock.
verb
(transitive) To wet again.
rotow
rowet
rowte
rowth
rowty
starw
straw
straw
adj
(figurative) Imaginary, but presented as real.
Made of straw.
Of a pale, yellowish beige colour, like that of a dried straw.
noun
(countable) A dried stalk of a cereal plant.
(countable) A drinking straw.
(figurative) Anything proverbially worthless; the least possible thing.
(uncommon) A pale, yellowish beige colour, like that of a dried straw.
(uncountable) Such dried stalks considered collectively; this bulk matter may be a chief salable product, a by-product, fodder, bedding, or green manure, depending on region and on current market conditions.
verb
(obsolete, slang) To sell straws on the streets in order to cover the giving to the purchaser of things usually banned, such as pornography.
To lay straw around plants to protect them from frost.
strew
strew
verb
(archaic) To cover, or lie upon, by having been scattered.
(dated, except strewn) To distribute objects or pieces of something over an area, especially in a random manner.
(transitive, archaic) To spread abroad; to disseminate.
To populate with at random points; to cause to appear randomly distributed throughout.
strow
strow
verb
Obsolete form of strew.
swart
swart
adj
(UK dialectal) Black.
(obsolete) Gloomy; malignant.
Of a dark hue; moderately black; swarthy; tawny.
noun
(IE dialectal) Variant of swath.
(UK dialectal) Black or dark dyestuff.
Obsolete spelling of sward
verb
(transitive) To make swart or tawny; blacken; tan.
tawer
tawer
noun
One who taws; a dresser of whitleather.
tewer
thraw
threw
threw
verb
(colloquial, nonstandard) past participle of throw
simple past tense of throw
throw
throw
noun
(obsolete) A moment, time, occasion.
(obsolete) A period of time; a while.
(veterinary medicine) The act of giving birth in animals, especially in cows.
A distance travelled; displacement.
A piece of fabric used to cover a bed, sofa or other soft furnishing.
A single instance, occurrence, venture, or chance.
Obsolete spelling of throe
One's ability to throw.
The act of throwing something.
The flight of a thrown object.
verb
(American football) Synonym of pass
(baseball, slang, of a team, a manager, etc.) To select (a pitcher); to assign a pitcher to a given role (such as starter or reliever).
(ceramics) To make (a pot) by shaping clay as it turns on a wheel.
(figuratively) To send desperately.
(martial arts) To lift the opponent off the ground and bring him back down, especially into a position behind the thrower.
(obsolete, Scotland, Northern England) To twist or turn.
(sports, video games) To intentionally lose a game.
(transitive) To cause a certain number on the die or dice to be shown after rolling it.
(transitive) To eject or cause to fall off.
(transitive) To hurl; to cause an object to move rapidly through the air.
(transitive) To imprison.
(transitive) To install (a bridge).
(transitive) To move to another position or condition; to displace.
(transitive) To project or send forth.
(transitive) To show sudden emotion, especially anger.
(transitive, bridge) To discard.
(transitive, computing) To send (an error) to an exception-handling mechanism in order to interrupt normal processing.
(transitive, cricket, of a bowler) To deliver (the ball) illegally by straightening the bowling arm during delivery.
(transitive, informal) To confuse or mislead.
(transitive, intransitive) To roll (a die or dice).
(transitive, of a punch or boxing combination) To deliver.
(transitive, said of one's voice) To change in order to give the illusion that the voice is that of someone else.
(transitive, veterinary medicine) Of animals: to give birth to (young).
To organize an event, especially a party.
To put on hastily; to spread carelessly.
To twist two or more filaments of (silk, etc.) so as to form one thread; to twist together, as singles, in a direction contrary to the twist of the singles themselves; sometimes applied to the whole class of operations by which silk is prepared for the weaver.
tower
tower
noun
(cartomancy) The nineteenth Lenormand card, representing structure, bureaucracy, stability and loneliness.
(figurative) A strong refuge; a defence.
(figuratively) Any item, such as a computer case, that is usually higher than it is wide.
(historical) A tall fashionable headdress worn in the time of King William III and Queen Anne.
(informal) An interlocking tower.
(obsolete) High flight; elevation.
A control tower.
A similarly framed structure with a platform or enclosed area on top, used as a lookout for spotting fires, plane crashes, fugitives, etc.
A very tall iron-framed structure, usually painted red and white, on which microwave, radio, satellite, or other communication antennas are installed; mast.
A water tower.
Any very tall building or structure; skyscraper.
One who tows.
The sixteenth trump or Major Arcana card in many Tarot decks, usually deemed an ill omen.
verb
(intransitive) To be high or lofty; to soar.
(intransitive) To be very tall.
(obsolete, transitive) To soar into.
trawl
trawl
noun
A long fishing line having many short lines bearing hooks attached to it; a setline.
A net or dragnet used for trawling.
verb
(intransitive) To fish from a slow-moving boat.
(intransitive) To make an exhaustive search for something within a defined area.
(transitive, intransitive) To take (fish or other marine animals) with a trawl.
trews
trews
noun
(Britain) trousers, especially if close fitting and tartan.
trows
trows
noun
plural of trow
twere
twerp
twerp
noun
(UK, colloquial) A fool, a twit.
(US, colloquial, childish) A person who can be bullied playfully, or easily teased. Sometimes used as a pet-name (often for a younger sibling).
(US, colloquial, childish) A small or puny person; one regarded as insignificant, contemptible.
twier
twier
noun
Alternative spelling of tuyere
twire
twire
noun
A sly glance; a leer.
A twisted filament; a thread.
verb
(intransitive) To glance shyly or slyly; look askance; make eyes; leer; peer; pry.
(intransitive) To twinkle; sparkle; wink.
(transitive) To twist; twirl.
twirk
twirk
noun
Alternative form of twerk (“a twitch”)
twirl
twirl
noun
(slang) A prison guard.
A little twist of some substance; a swirl.
A movement where a person spins round elegantly; a pirouette.
Any rotating movement; a spin.
verb
(intransitive) To perform a twirl.
(transitive) To rotate rapidly.
(transitive) To twist round.
twirp
twirp
intj
An imitation of the sound of a bird or a horn.
noun
Alternative spelling of twerp
twyer
warnt
warnt
verb
Alternative form of warn't
warst
warta
warth
warth
noun
(UK, dialect) A ford.
warts
warts
noun
plural of wart
warty
warty
adj
Having warts.
Similar to a wart.
water
water
noun
(alchemy, philosophy) The aforementioned liquid, considered one of the Classical elements or basic elements of alchemy.
(colloquial, figuratively) A person's intuition.
(colloquial, medicine) Fluids in the body, especially when causing swelling.
(countable) A serving of liquid water.
(countable, often in the plural) Spa water.
(figuratively, in the plural or in the singular) A state of affairs; conditions; usually with an adjective indicating an adverse condition.
(pharmacy) A solution in water of a gaseous or readily volatile substance.
(poetic, archaic or dialectal) A body of water, almost always a river.
(sometimes countable) Mineral water.
(uncountable or in the plural) Water in a body; an area of open water.
(uncountable) A substance (of molecular formula H₂O) found at room temperature and pressure as a clear liquid; it is present naturally as rain, and found in rivers, lakes and seas; its solid form is ice and its gaseous form is steam.
(uncountable, dated, finance) Excess valuation of securities.
(uncountable, in particular) The liquid form of this substance: liquid H₂O.
A wavy, lustrous pattern or decoration such as is imparted to linen, silk, metals, etc.
Amniotic fluid or the amniotic sac containing it. (Used only in the plural in the UK but often also in the singular in North America.)
The limpidity and lustre of a precious stone, especially a diamond.
Urine.
verb
(intransitive) To fill with or secrete water.
(intransitive) To get or take in water.
(transitive) To dilute.
(transitive) To pour water into the soil surrounding (plants).
(transitive) To provide (animals) with water for drinking.
(transitive) To wet and calender, as cloth, so as to impart to it a lustrous appearance in wavy lines; to diversify with wavelike lines.
(transitive) To wet or supply with water; to moisten; to overflow with water; to irrigate.
(transitive, colloquial) To urinate onto.
(transitive, dated, finance) To overvalue (securities), especially through deceptive accounting.
wertz
whart
whort
whort
noun
(botany) The whortleberry, or bilberry.
wirth
wirtz
worst
worst
adj
Most harmful or severe.
Most inferior; doing the least good.
Most unfavorable.
Used with the definite article and an implied noun: something that is worst.
superlative form of ill: most ill
adv
superlative form of badly: most badly
noun
Something or someone that is the worst.
verb
(archaic, transitive) To make worse.
(dated, intransitive) To grow worse; to deteriorate.
(rare) To outdo or defeat, especially in battle.
worth
worth
adj
(obsolete, except in Scots) Valuable, worthwhile.
Deserving of.
Having a value of; proper to be exchanged for.
Making a fair equivalent of, repaying or compensating.
noun
(countable) Value.
(uncountable) An amount that could be achieved or produced in a specified time.
(uncountable, obsolete) High social standing, noble rank.
verb
(obsolete, except in set phrases or dialectal) To be, become, betide.
worts
worts
noun
plural of wort
wrapt
wrapt
verb
(obsolete) simple past tense and past participle of wrap
wrast
wrath
wrath
adj
Wrathful; wroth; very angry.
noun
(formal or old-fashioned) Great anger.
(rare) Punishment.
verb
(obsolete) To anger; to enrage.
wreat
wrest
wrest
noun
(agriculture, dated, dialectal) A metal (formerly wooden) piece of some ploughs attached under the mouldboard (the curved blade that turns over the furrow) for clearing out the furrow; the mouldboard itself.
(music) A key to tune a stringed instrument.
(obsolete) Active or motive power.
(obsolete, rare) Short for saw wrest (“a hand tool for setting the teeth of a saw, determining the width of the kerf”); a saw set.
A partition in a water wheel by which the form of the buckets is determined.
The act of wresting; a wrench or twist; distortion.
verb
(transitive) To obtain by pulling or violent force.
(transitive, figuratively) To distort, to pervert, to twist.
(transitive, figuratively) To seize.
(transitive, music) To tune with a wrest, or key.
wrist
wrist
noun
(anatomy) The complex joint between forearm bones, carpus, and metacarpals where the hand is attached to the arm; the carpus in a narrow sense.
(engineering) A stud or pin which forms a journal.
verb
(ice hockey) to hit a wrist shot
write
write
noun
(computing) The operation of storing data, as in memory or onto disk.
The act or style of writing.
verb
(computing, intransitive, with to) To record data mechanically or electronically.
(ditransitive with relative clause) To convey a fact to someone via writing.
(finance) To sell (an option or other derivative).
(intransitive) To be an author.
(transitive) To be the author of (a book, article, poem, etc.).
(transitive) To send written information to.
(transitive) To show (information, etc) in written form.
(transitive, South Africa, Canada, of an exam, a document, etc.) To fill in, to complete using words.
(transitive, intransitive) To form letters, words or symbols on a surface in order to communicate.
To impress durably; to imprint; to engrave.
To make known by writing; to record; to prove by one's own written testimony; often used reflexively.
writh
writh
verb
Pronunciation spelling of writhe.
writs
writs
noun
plural of writ
wroot
wrote
wrote
verb
(now colloquial and nonstandard) past participle of write