(nautical) The planking or plating along the sides of a nautical vessel above her gunwale that reduces the likelihood of seas washing over the gunwales and people being washed overboard.
A breakwater.
A defense or safeguard.
A defensive wall or rampart.
verb
(transitive) To fortify something with a wall or rampart.
(transitive) To provide protection of defense for something.
crawful
crawful
noun
As much (of something one dislikes) as one can accept.
Enough to fill the craw.
flawful
flawful
adj
Full of flaws; flawed
gunwale
gunwale
noun
The top edge of the hull of a nautical vessel, where it meets the deck.
kwazulu
kwazulu
Proper noun
A former bantustan in South Africa, intended by the apartheid government to be a homeland for the Zulu people.
lauwine
lauwine
noun
(poetic, dated) avalanche
laweour
lawsuit
lawsuit
noun
(law) In civil law, a case where two or more people disagree and one or more of the parties take the case to a court for resolution.
luteway
mwalimu
mwalimu
noun
A teacher in parts of Africa.
outbawl
outbawl
verb
(transitive) To bawl louder or longer than.
outlaws
outlaws
noun
plural of outlaw
verb
Third-person singular simple present indicative form of outlaw
outwale
outwalk
outwalk
verb
To walk further than another
outwall
outwall
noun
(obsolete, figurative) External appearance.
An exterior wall.
pauwles
shulwar
siuslaw
swayful
swayful
adj
Able to sway; swaying.
Full of sway or influence; influential; powerful.
tulwaur
tulwaur
noun
Archaic form of tulwar.
unaflow
unaflow
adj
Alternative form of uniflow
unallow
unawful
unlawed
unlawed
adj
Not having been lawed.
verb
simple past tense and past participle of unlaw
unlawly
unshawl
unshawl
verb
(intransitive) To remove one's shawl.
(transitive) To remove a shawl from.
upcrawl
upcrawl
verb
(intransitive, poetic, archaic) To crawl upward.
valouwe
wagshul
wahlund
waialua
waiguli
wailful
wailful
adj
(chiefly poetic) Sorrowful; mournful.
wailuku
wailuku
Proper noun
a CDP on the island of Hawaii, USA, which is the county seat of
wainful
wainful
noun
A quantity that fills a wain; wagonful.
wakeful
wakeful
adj
Awake; not sleeping.
Sleepless.
Vigilant and alert; watchful.
wakulla
walburg
walkout
walkout
noun
A similar mass action of people leaving a place as a form of protest.
A sudden stoppage of work.
verb
Misspelling of walk out.
walkups
walkups
noun
plural of walkup
wallful
wallful
noun
As much as (the surface of) a wall will hold
wallula
walnuts
walnuts
noun
plural of walnut
wameful
wameful
noun
(Scotland, Northern England) A bellyful.
wanruly
wantful
wantful
adj
Full of want or desire; desirous.
Full of want or lack; lacking; poor.
wareful
wareful
adj
(obsolete) wary; watchful; cautious
warluck
warluck
noun
(uncommon, obsolete outside dialects) Alternative form of warlock
warmful
warmful
adj
(archaic) Full of warmth; warming.
wauchle
wauling
wauling
noun
A plaintive cry or howl, as of a cat.
verb
present participle of waul
wealful
wealful
adj
Happy; joyful; felicitous.
Successful; prosperous.
wlatful
wourali
wourali
noun
(dated) curare
wrayful
wulfila
wullcat
wulliwa
wulliwa
noun
Alternative form of williwaw (“strong gust of wind”)