(Hawaii) Zingiber zerumbet, a plant in the ginger family.
blowups
blowups
noun
plural of blowup
grownup
grownup
noun
Alternative form of grown-up
mugwump
mugwump
noun
(by extension) A person who purports to stay aloof from party politics.
(by extension) One who switches from supporting one political party to another, especially for personal benefit.
(by extension, colloquial, somewhat derogatory) A person who stays neutral or non-committal; a fence sitter; also, a person who maintains an aloof and often self-important demeanour.
(chiefly humorous) A (male) leader; an important (male) person.
(historical) A member of the Republican Party who declined to support the party's nominee James G. Blaine (1830–1893) during the 1884 United States presidential election, believing him to be corrupt, and instead supported the Democratic Party's candidate Grover Cleveland (1837–1908).
verb
(intransitive) To behave like a mugwump.
(intransitive) To purport to stay aloof and independent, especially from party politics.
outweep
outweep
verb
(transitive) To weep more than.
outwept
outwept
verb
simple past tense and past participle of outweep
pauwles
puffwig
pukwana
purview
purview
noun
(law) The enacting part of a statute.
(law) The scope of a statute.
Range of understanding.
Scope or range of interest or control.
putdown
screwup
screwup
noun
(colloquial) A person who is mentally or emotionally damaged.
(colloquial) A person who often makes substantial mistakes; a bungler.
(colloquial) A substantial mistake, usually causing problems for more people than just the person or group who made it.
shuswap
shuswap
Noun
A member of a First Nations people residing in the Canadian province of British Columbia.
Proper noun
The traditional language of these people.
The tribe which this people constitutes.
spreeuw
spreeuw
noun
(South Africa) A starling.
spurway
subplow
sweepup
unpawed
unpawed
adj
Not pawed.
unpower
unpower
noun
Lack of power; weakness.
verb
(transitive) To remove the power from; power down or power off
unswept
unswept
adj
Not swept
unwhipt
unwhipt
adj
Archaic spelling of unwhipped.
unwiped
unwiped
adj
Not wiped.
unwraps
unwraps
verb
Third-person singular simple present indicative form of unwrap
upcrawl
upcrawl
verb
(intransitive, poetic, archaic) To crawl upward.
upcrowd
upflows
upflows
verb
Third-person singular simple present indicative form of upflow
upgrown
upgrown
verb
past participle of upgrow
upgrows
upgrows
verb
Third-person singular simple present indicative form of upgrow
uppowoc
uppowoc
noun
(obsolete) tobacco
upscrew
upswarm
upswarm
verb
(intransitive) To cause to rise in a swarm.
(transitive) To rise in a swarm.
upsweep
upsweep
noun
(oceanography) The unidentified sound detected on the American NOAA's equatorial autonomous hydrophone arrays, consisting of a long train of narrow-band upsweeping sounds of several seconds in duration.
(swimming) The upward motion of a swimmer's arm.
A hairstyle where most of the hair is fastened into place at the top of the head.
An upward sweep or curve.
verb
To sweep or curve upwards.
upswell
upswell
noun
A rising swell.
verb
(intransitive) To swell upward.
upswept
upswept
adj
curved or swept upwards
upswing
upswing
noun
(by extension) an upward trend or an increase in activity
an upward swing
verb
To swing upward.
upswung
upswung
verb
simple past tense and past participle of upswing
upthrew
upthrew
verb
simple past tense of upthrow
upthrow
upthrow
noun
(geology) A fault in which a mass of material has been thrown up from below.
verb
(archaic, poetic) To throw or cast upwards.
(geology, intransitive, of a mass of material) To be thrown up from below, causing a fault.
(geology, transitive) To throw up (a mass of material) from below, causing a fault.
uptower
uptower
verb
(transitive, poetic) To tower above; to loom.
uptowns
uptowns
noun
plural of uptown
uptwist
upwafts
upwafts
verb
Third-person singular simple present indicative form of upwaft
upwards
upwards
adv
Backwards in time, into the past.
To a higher figure or amount.
To or into later life.
Towards a higher place; towards what is above.
Towards something which is higher in order, larger, superior etc.
upwells
upwells
verb
Third-person singular simple present indicative form of upwell
upwheel
upwheel
verb
(intransitive, poetic) To wheel upward.
upwhelm
upwhirl
upwhirl
verb
(intransitive) To rise upward in a whirl.
(transitive) To raise upward with a whirling motion.
upwinds
upwinds
verb
Third-person singular simple present indicative form of upwind
upwound
upwound
verb
simple past tense and past participle of upwind
upwring
wacapou
waipahu
walkups
walkups
noun
plural of walkup
wampums
wampums
noun
plural of wampum
wanapum
wapacut
warmups
warmups
noun
plural of warmup
washups
washups
noun
plural of washup
waupaca
waupaca
Proper noun
a city and a town in Wisconsin, USA, the city is the county seat of
a river in Wisconsin.
weepful
weepful
adj
(obsolete) Full of weeping or lamentation.
whapuka
whapuku
whereup
whereup
adv
(archaic, poetic) Up which.
whumped
whumped
verb
simple past tense and past participle of whump
wickiup
wickiup
noun
A domed hut, similar to a wigwam, used by some semi-nomadic Native American tribes, particularly in the southwestern and western United States.
wickyup
wikieup
wikiups
wikiups
noun
plural of wikiup
windups
windups
noun
plural of windup
wipeout
wipeout
noun
(surfing) The act of falling off one's surfboard
The act of colliding or crashing.
Total destruction or elimination.
wistrup
workups
workups
noun
plural of workup
writeup
writeup
noun
Alternative spelling of write-up
yawnups
yawnups
noun
(UK, Yorkshire, dialect, obsolete) A stupid person.