An endangered nocturnal burrowing bird, Pterodroma cahow, from Bermuda; the Bermuda petrel.
carew
cawed
cawed
verb
simple past tense and past participle of caw
cawky
cawky
adj
Resembling or relating to cawk.
cawny
cawny
noun
Alternative form of cawnie
chawk
chawl
chawl
noun
A type of residential tenement building found in India, typically for poor working-class people.
chawn
chaws
chaws
noun
plural of chaw
verb
Third-person singular simple present indicative form of chaw
chewa
chews
chews
noun
plural of chew
verb
Third-person singular simple present indicative form of chew
chewy
chewy
adj
Having a pliable or springy texture when chewed.
noun
(Australia, informal) Alternative form of chewie (“chewing gum”)
(US, informal) A type of soft and sticky cookie.
chivw
chowk
chowk
noun
(India, Pakistan) A courtyard.
(India, Pakistan) A marketplace or open area in a city or village.
(India, Pakistan) An intersection or roundabout, where tracks or roads cross (often used in place names).
chows
chows
noun
plural of chow
verb
Third-person singular simple present indicative form of chow
chwas
clawk
claws
claws
noun
plural of claw
verb
Third-person singular simple present indicative form of claw
clews
clews
noun
plural of clew
clown
clown
noun
(obsolete) A man of coarse nature and manners; an awkward fellow; an illbred person; a boor.
(obsolete) One who works upon the soil; a rustic; a churl; a yokel.
A clownfish.
A person who acts in a silly fashion.
A slapstick performance artist often associated with a circus and usually characterized by bright, oversized clothing, a red nose, face paint, and a brightly colored wig.
A stupid or badly-behaved person.
verb
(intransitive) To act in a silly or playful fashion.
(transitive, African-American Vernacular) To ridicule.
clwyd
clywd
cohow
cowal
cowal
noun
(Australia) A billabong, or stagnant pool.
cowan
cowan
noun
(Freemasonry) A person who attempts to pass himself off as a Freemason without having experienced the rituals or going through the degrees.
(Scotland, obsolete, rare) A fishing-boat.
(in attributive use) Uninitiated, outside, “profane”.
(slang) A sneak; an inquisitive or prying person.
A worker in unmortared stone; a stonemason who has not served an apprenticeship.
cowed
cowed
adj
For quotations using this term, see Citations:cowed.
Frightened into submission.
verb
simple past tense and past participle of cow
cowen
cowen
noun
Obsolete spelling of cowan (one uninitiated in the secrets of Freemasonry).
cower
cower
verb
(intransitive) To crouch or cringe, or to avoid or shy away from something, in fear.
(intransitive, archaic) To crouch in general.
(obsolete, transitive) To cherish with care.
(transitive) To cause to cower; to frighten into submission.
cowes
cowes
Proper noun
A town on the north coast of the Isle of Wight, England.
cowey
cowie
cowie
noun
(Britain, Northumbria) A left-handed person.
(Britain, Northumbria) A pill, especially of the drug ecstasy.
cowle
cowls
cowls
noun
plural of cowl
verb
Third-person singular simple present indicative form of cowl
cowry
cowry
noun
Alternative spelling of cowrie.
crawl
crawl
noun
(figurative) A very slow pace.
(television, film) A piece of horizontally or vertically scrolling text overlaid on the main image.
A pen or enclosure of stakes and hurdles for holding fish.
A rapid swimming stroke with alternate overarm strokes and a fluttering kick.
The act of moving slowly on hands and knees, etc.
The act of sequentially visiting a series of similar establishments (i.e., a bar crawl).
verb
(intransitive) Followed by with: see crawl with.
(intransitive) To act in a servile manner.
(intransitive) To creep; to move slowly on hands and knees, or by dragging the body along the ground.
(intransitive) To feel a swarming sensation.
(intransitive) To move forward slowly, with frequent stops.
(intransitive, transitive) To swim using the crawl stroke.
(transitive) To move over (an area) on hands and knees.
(transitive) To move over (an area) slowly, with frequent stops.
(transitive, Internet) To visit files or web sites in order to index them for searching.
crawm
craws
craws
noun
plural of craw
crewe
crewe
noun
A group of people, especially in Louisiana, who support a Mardi Gras float in parades, as well as other charity work.
crews
crews
noun
plural of crew
verb
Third-person singular simple present indicative form of crew
crowd
crowd
noun
(now dialectal) A fiddle.
(obsolete) Alternative form of crwth
(with definite article) The so-called lower orders of people; the populace, vulgar.
A group of people congregated or collected into a close body without order.
A group of people united or at least characterised by a common interest.
Several things collected or closely pressed together; also, some things adjacent to each other.
verb
(intransitive) To press forward; to advance by pushing.
(intransitive) To press together or collect in numbers
(nautical) To approach another ship too closely when it has right of way.
(nautical, of a square-rigged ship, transitive) To carry excessive sail in the hope of moving faster.
(obsolete, intransitive) To play on a crowd; to fiddle.
(transitive) To fill by pressing or thronging together
(transitive) To press by solicitation; to urge; to dun; hence, to treat discourteously or unreasonably.
(transitive) To press or drive together, especially into a small space; to cram.
(transitive, often used with "out of" or "off") To push, to press, to shove.
crowe
crowl
crowl
verb
(obsolete, intransitive) To make a growling noise, as the stomach.
crown
crown
adj
Of, related to, or pertaining to a crown.
Of, related to, pertaining to the top of a tree or trees.
noun
(African-American Vernacular, colloquial) A formal hat worn by women to Sunday church services; a church crown.
(anatomy, dentistry) The part of a tooth above the gums.
(architecture) A kind of spire or lantern formed by converging flying buttresses.
(botany) The part of a plant where the root and stem meet.
(by extension) Any reward of victory or mark of honor.
(by extension, especially in law) The state, the government (headed by a monarch).
(chemistry) A monocyclic ligand having three or more binding sites, capable of holding a guest in a central location
(dentistry) A prosthetic covering for a tooth.
(firearms) A rounding or smoothing of the barrel opening
(forestry) The top of a tree.
(geometry) The area enclosed between two concentric perimeters.
(historical) A former pre-decimalization British coin worth five shillings.
(medicine) During childbirth, the appearance of the baby's head from the mother's vagina
(metonymically) The sovereign (in a monarchy), as head of state.
(nautical) A knot formed in the end of a rope by tucking in the strands to prevent them from unravelling
(nautical) The part of an anchor where the arms and the shank meet
(nautical) The rounding, or rounded part, of the deck from a level line.
(paper) In American, a standard size of writing paper measuring 19 × 15 inches.
(paper) In England, a standard size of printing paper measuring 20 × 15 inches.
(religion) A round spot shaved clean on the top of the head, as a mark of the clerical state; the tonsure.
A royal, imperial or princely headdress; a diadem.
A whole bird with the legs and wings removed to produce a joint of white meat.
A wreath or band for the head, especially one given as reward of victory or a mark of honor.
Any currency (originally) issued by the crown (regal power) and often bearing a crown (headdress); (translation) various currencies known by similar names in their native languages, such as the koruna, kruna, krone, korona.
Imperial or regal power, or those who wield it.
Splendor; culmination; acme.
The dome of a furnace.
The highest part of a hill.
The highest part of an arch.
The knurled knob or dial, on the outside of a watch case, used to wind it or adjust the hands.
The raised centre of a road.
The top section of a hat, above the brim.
The topmost part of the head.
The upper part of certain fruits, as the pineapple or strawberry, that is removed before eating.
The upper range of facets in a rose diamond.
verb
(archaic) past participle of crow
(board games) In checkers, to stack two checkers to indicate that the piece has become a king.
(firearms) To widen the opening of the barrel.
(medicine) Of a baby, during the birthing process; for the surface of the baby's head to appear in the vaginal opening.
(military) To effect a lodgment upon, as upon the crest of the glacis, or the summit of the breach.
(nautical) To lay the ends of the strands of (a knot) over and under each other.
(slang) being about to take a poop (usually trying to hold it in, derived from obstetric use: metaphor of "giving birth" to solid poo)
(transitive) To cause to round upward; to make anything higher at the middle than at the edges, such as the face of a machine pulley.
(video games) To shoot an opponent in the back of the head with a shotgun in a first-person shooter video game.
To bestow something upon as a mark of honour, dignity, or recompense; to adorn; to dignify.
To declare (someone) a winner.
To form the topmost or finishing part of; to complete; to consummate; to perfect.
To formally declare (someone) a king, queen, emperor, etc.
To hit on the head.
To place a crown on the head of.
crows
crows
noun
plural of crow
verb
Third-person singular simple present indicative form of crow
crwth
crwth
noun
(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.
cwlth
dweck
macaw
macaw
noun
Any of various parrots of the genera Ara, Anodorhynchus, Cyanopsitta, Orthopsittaca, Primolius and Diopsittaca of Central and South America, including the largest parrots and characterized by long sabre-shaped tails, curved powerful bills, and usually brilliant plumage.
mcgaw
mowch
nowch
nowch
noun
Obsolete form of nouch.
osfcw
scawd
scawl
schow
schwa
schwa
noun
(phonetics) An indeterminate central vowel sound as the "a" in "about", represented as /ə/ in IPA.
Alternative form of shva
The character ə.
verb
(phonetics, of a vowel sound, rare) To be reduced to schwa.
sclaw
scowl
scowl
noun
(UK, dialect, obsolete) Old workings of iron ore.
(by extension) Gloom; dark or threatening aspect.
The wrinkling of the brows or face in frowning; the expression of displeasure, sullenness, or discontent in the countenance; an angry frown.
verb
(intransitive) To wrinkle the brows, as in frowning or displeasure; to put on a frowning look; to look sour, sullen, severe, or angry.
(intransitive, by extension) To look gloomy, dark, or threatening; to lower.
(transitive) To express by a scowl.
(transitive) To look at or repel with a scowl or a frown.
scows
scows
noun
plural of scow
verb
Third-person singular simple present indicative form of scow
scraw
scraw
noun
A sod of grass-grown turf from the surface of a bog or from a field.
A turf covering the roof of a cottage beneath the thatch.
screw
screw
noun
(US, slang, dated) An instructor who examines with great or unnecessary severity; also, a searching or strict examination of a student by an instructor.
(billiards) Backspin.
(dated) An old, worn-out, unsound and worthless horse.
(informal, in the plural, with "the") Rheumatism.
(mathematics) A straight line in space with which a definite linear magnitude termed the pitch is associated. It is used to express the displacement of a rigid body, which may always be made to consist of a rotation about an axis combined with a translation parallel to that axis.
(nautical) A ship's propeller.
(slang) A small packet of tobacco.
(slang) Salary, wages.
(slang, derogatory) A prison guard.
(slang, derogatory) An extortioner; a sharp bargainer; a skinflint.
(vulgar, slang) A casual sexual partner.
(vulgar, slang) Sexual intercourse; the act of screwing.
A (usually) metal fastener consisting of a partially or completely threaded shank, sometimes with a threaded point, and a head used to both hold the top material and to drive the screw either directly into a soft material or into a prepared hole.
A simple machine, a helical inclined plane.
A steam vessel propelled by a screw instead of wheels.
An Archimedes screw.
An amphipod crustacean.
The motion of screwing something; a turn or twist to one side.
verb
(US, slang, dated) To examine (a student) rigidly; to subject to a severe examination.
(billiards, snooker, pool) To screw back.
(intransitive, US, slang, often imperative, dated) To leave; to go away; to scram.
(soccer, transitive) To miskick (a ball) by hitting it with the wrong part of the foot.
(transitive) To connect or assemble pieces using a screw.
(transitive) To contort.
(transitive) To extort or practice extortion upon; to oppress by unreasonable or extortionate exactions; to put the screws on.
(transitive, intransitive, vulgar, slang) To have sexual intercourse with.
(transitive, slang) To cheat someone or ruin their chances in a game or other situation.
scrow
scrow
noun
(obsolete) A clipping from skins; a currier's cuttings.
(obsolete) A scroll.
swack
swack
adj
(Scotland) Lithe; nimble.
adv
With a swack, to the point of touching.
noun
(slang) A large number or amount of something.
A bum or petty thief.
A gulp or hearty swallow.
A sharp blow.
A single attempt or instance of taking action; a crack; a go.
A striking stimulus.
A wet sound such as a loud kiss.
An attack, a swipe.
The sound of a sharp blow.
clout; influence.
verb
To consume with hearty enjoyment.
To labour; to exert an effort.
To make a swack (sound).
To slap or hit.
swick
tcawi
tchwi
twice
twice
adv
(usually with "as", of a specified quality) Doubled in quantity, intensity, or degree.
Two times.
twick
twimc
uncow
uwcsa
waacs
wacke
wacke
noun
(geology) A soft, earthy, dark-coloured rock or clay derived from the alteration of basalt.
wacko
wacko
adj
(informal) Amusingly eccentric or irrational.
intj
(Britain, dated) hurrah!
noun
(informal) An amusingly eccentric or irrational person.
wacks
wacks
noun
plural of wack
wacky
wacky
adj
Zany; eccentric.
noun
Alternative form of wacke
warch
wasco
watch
watch
noun
(nautical) A group of sailors and officers aboard a ship or shore station with a common period of duty: starboard watch, port watch.
(nautical) A period of time on duty, usually four hours in length; the officers and crew who tend the working of a vessel during the same watch. (FM 55–501).
A particular time period when guarding is kept.
A period of wakefulness between the two sleeps of a biphasic sleep pattern (the dead sleep or first sleep and morning sleep or second sleep): the first waking.
A person or group of people who guard.
A portable or wearable timepiece.
The act of guarding and observing someone or something.
The act of seeing, or viewing, for a period of time.
The post or office of a watchman; also, the place where a watchman is posted, or where a guard is kept.
verb
(intransitive) To act as a lookout.
(intransitive) To be vigilant or on one's guard.
(intransitive) To remain awake with a sick or dying person; to maintain a vigil.
(nautical, of a buoy) To serve the purpose of a watchman by floating properly in its place.
(obsolete, intransitive) To be awake.
(transitive) To attend to dangers to or regarding.
(transitive) To be wary or cautious of.
(transitive) To mind, attend, or guard.
(transitive) To observe over a period of time; to notice or pay attention.
(transitive, intransitive) To look at, see, or view for a period of time.
(transitive, obsolete) To be on the lookout for; to wait for expectantly.
wauch
wecht
wecht
noun
(Scotland) A form of sieve used to winnow grain; the weight of its contents.
verb
(Scotland) To winnow grain using such a device.
welch
welch
noun
A person who defaults on an obligation, especially a small one.
verb
To fail to fulfill an obligation.
To fail to repay a small debt.
welcy
wench
wench
noun
(US, archaic or historical) A black woman (of any age), especially if in a condition of servitude.
(archaic or dialectal) Used as a term of endearment for a female person, especially a wife, daughter, or girlfriend: darling, sweetheart.
(archaic) A promiscuous woman; a mistress (“other woman in an extramarital relationship”).
(archaic) A prostitute.
(archaic) A woman servant; a maidservant.
(archaic, now dialectal or humorous, possibly offensive) A girl or young woman, especially a buxom or lively one.
(specifically) A girl or young woman of a lower class.
verb
(intransitive, archaic, now humorous) To frequent prostitutes; to whore; also, to womanize.
wesco
whack
whack
adj
Alternative form of wack (“crazy”)
noun
(US, obsolete) A deal, an agreement.
(US, slang) An attempt, a chance, a turn, a go, originally an attempt to beat someone or something.
(dated, disco-era drug slang) PCP, phencyclidine (as also wack).
(obsolete) A whack-up: a division of an amount into separate whacks, a divvying up.
(originally UK cant, somewhat dated) A share, a portion, especially a full share or large portion.
(typography, computing, slang) The backslash, ⟨ \ ⟩.
The sound of a heavy strike.
The strike itself.
The stroke itself, regardless of its successful impact.
verb
(UK, chiefly in the negative) To surpass; to better.
(slang) To kill, bump off.
(sports) To beat convincingly; to thrash.
(transitive, slang) To share or parcel out (often with up).
To hit, slap or strike.
which
which
det
(interrogative) What, of those mentioned or implied.
(relative, formal outside certain phrases) Designates the one(s) previously mentioned.
The/Any ... that; whichever.
pron
(interrogative) What one or ones (of those mentioned or implied).
(relative) Introduces a relative clause giving further information about something previously mentioned.
(relative, archaic) Used of people (now generally who, whom or that).
The/Any ones that; whichever.
whick
wicca
wicht
wicks
wicks
noun
plural of wick
verb
Third-person singular simple present indicative form of wick
wicky
wicky
noun
Alternative form of wicken (“European rowan tree”)
The sheep laurel.
wilco
wilco
intj
(radio communications) Used to indicate agreement and compliance.
noun
A species of South American tree, Anadenanthera colubrina.
wince
wince
noun
A reel used in dyeing, steeping, or washing cloth; a winch. It is placed over the division wall between two wince pits so as to allow the cloth to descend into either compartment at will.
A sudden movement or gesture of shrinking away.
verb
(intransitive) To flinch as if in pain or distress.
(transitive) To wash (cloth), dip it in dye, etc., with the use of a wince.
To kick or flounce when unsteady or impatient.
winch
winch
noun
(Nigeria, slang) Witch.
(nautical) A hoisting machine used for loading or discharging cargo, or for hauling in lines. (FM 55-501).
A kick, as of an animal, from impatience or uneasiness.
A machine consisting of a drum on an axle, a friction brake or ratchet and pawl, and a crank handle or prime mover (often an electric or hydraulic motor), with or without gearing, to give increased mechanical advantage when hauling on a rope or cable.
A wince (machine used in dyeing or steeping cloth).
verb
To kick with impatience or uneasiness.
To use a winch
To wince; to shrink
witch
witch
noun
(figurative, derogatory) An ugly or unpleasant woman.
(geometry) A certain curve of the third order, described by Maria Agnesi under the name versiera.
(now usually particularly) A woman who is learned in and actively practices witchcraft.
A cone of paper which is placed in a vessel of lard or other fat and used as a taper.
A person who practices witchcraft.
Arnoglossus scapha, found near New Zealand.
Glyptocephalus cynoglossus (Torbay sole), found in the North Atlantic.
Lepidorhombus whiffiagonis (megrim), found in the North Atlantic.
One given to mischief, especially a woman or child.
One who exercises more-than-common power of attraction; a charming or bewitching person.
The Indomalayan butterfly Araotes lapithis, of the family Lycaenidae.
The storm petrel.
verb
(intransitive) To dowse for water.
(obsolete, intransitive) To practise witchcraft.
(transitive) To bewitch.
wmscr
wocas
wocas
noun
Alternative form of wokas
wouch
wraac
wrack
wrack
noun
(archaic) Remnant from a shipwreck as washed ashore, or the right to claim such items.
(archaic, dialectal or literary) Vengeance; revenge; persecution; punishment; consequence; trouble.
(archaic, except in dialects) Ruin; destruction.
A high flying cloud; a rack.
Any marine vegetation cast up on shore, especially seaweed of the family Fucaceae.
The remains; a wreck.
Weeds, vegetation or rubbish floating on a river or pond.
verb
(UK dialectal, transitive) To execute vengeance; avenge.
(UK dialectal, transitive) To worry; tease; torment.
(transitive, usually passive) To wreck, especially a ship.
Alternative form of rack (“to cause to suffer pain, etc.”)
wracs
wreck
wreck
noun
(law, not countable) Goods, etc. cast ashore by the sea after a shipwreck.
(ornithology) A large number of birds that have been brought to the ground, injured or dead, by extremely adverse weather.
(specifically, nautical) A shipwreck: an event in which a ship is heavily damaged or destroyed.
An event in which something is damaged through collision.
Something or someone that has been ruined.
The remains of something that has been severely damaged or worn down.
verb
(intransitive) To be involved in a wreck; to be damaged or destroyed.
(transitive) To destroy violently; to cause severe damage to something, to a point where it no longer works, or is useless.
(transitive) To involve in a wreck; hence, to cause to suffer ruin; to balk of success, and bring disaster on.
(transitive) To ruin or dilapidate.
(transitive, Australia) To dismantle wrecked vehicles or other objects, to reclaim any useful parts.