(nautical) On or to a lower deck, especially as relative to the main deck.
(of a temperature) Below zero.
In or to a lower place.
Later in the same text.
On or to a lower storey.
prep
(stage directions) Downstage of.
Downstream of.
Lower in spatial position than.
Lower than in value, price, rank, concentration, etc.
South of.
Unsuitable to the rank or dignity of; beneath.
blaew
bowel
bowel
noun
(chiefly medicine) A part or division of the intestines, usually the large intestine.
(in the plural) The entrails or intestines; the internal organs of the stomach.
(in the plural, archaic) The seat of pity or the gentler emotions; pity or mercy.
(in the plural, figuratively) The (deep) interior of something.
(obsolete, in the plural) offspring
verb
(now rare) To disembowel.
bowle
bowle
noun
Obsolete form of bowl.
clews
clews
noun
plural of clew
cowle
delaw
dewal
dowel
dowel
noun
(construction) A piece of wood or similar material fitted into a surface not suitable for fastening so that other pieces may be fastened to it.
A pin, or block, of wood or metal, fitting into holes in the abutting portions of two pieces, and being partly in one piece and partly in the other, to keep them in their proper relative position.
A wooden rod, as one to make short pins from.
verb
(transitive) To fasten together with dowels.
(transitive) To furnish with dowels.
dwale
dwale
noun
(archaic) A sleeping-potion, especially one made from belladonna.
(dialect) A torpor.
(heraldry) Sable or black (when the colors are blazoned as plants).
A bugbear.
Belladonna or a similar soporific plant.
verb
(dialectal) To mutter deliriously
dwell
dwell
noun
(automotive) In a petrol engine, the period of time the ignition points are closed to let current flow through the ignition coil in between each spark. This is measured as an angle in degrees around the camshaft in the distributor which controls the points, for example in a 4-cylinder engine it might be 55° (spark at 90° intervals, points closed for 55° between each).
(electrical engineering) A planned delay in a timed control program.
(engineering) A brief pause in the motion of part of a mechanism to allow an operation to be completed.
(engineering) A period of time in which a system or component remains in a given state.
verb
(intransitive) To abide; to remain; to continue.
(intransitive, engineering) To be in a given state.
(intransitive, now literary) To live; to reside.
(transitive with on) To linger on a particular thought, idea, etc.; to remain fixated on something.
dwelt
dwelt
verb
simple past tense and past participle of dwell
elbow
elbow
noun
(US, dated, early 20th-century slang) A detective.
(anatomy) The joint between the upper arm and the forearm.
(basketball) Part of a basketball court located at the intersection of the free-throw line and the free-throw lane.
(by extension) Any turn or bend like that of the elbow, in a wall, building, coastline, etc.; an angular or jointed part of any structure, such as the raised arm of a chair or sofa, or a short pipe fitting, turning at an angle or bent.
(knots) Two nearby crossings of a rope.
A hit with the elbow.
verb
(transitive) To push with the elbow or elbows; to forge ahead using the elbows to assist.
(transitive, by extension) To nudge, jostle or push.
(transitive, with "out" or "aside") To make someone quit or lose their job so that someone else can get it.
elwee
elwin
elwyn
ewald
ewall
ewell
ewold
flews
flews
noun
plural of flew
flowe
flowe
verb
Obsolete form of flow.
fowle
fowle
noun
Obsolete spelling of fowl
gwelo
gwely
halwe
hewel
howel
howel
noun
A tool used by coopers for smoothing and chamfering their work, especially the inside of casks.
verb
(transitive) To smooth; to plane.
jewel
jewel
noun
(figuratively) Anything precious or valuable.
(horology) A bearing for a pivot in a watch, formed of a crystal or precious stone.
A precious or semi-precious stone; gem, gemstone.
A valuable object used for personal ornamentation, especially one made of precious metals and stones; a piece of jewellery.
Any of various lycaenid butterflies of the genus Hypochrysops.
verb
To bejewel; to decorate or bedeck with jewels or gems.
jowel
kwela
kwela
noun
(South Africa, music) A style of music, first played in the townships, whose principal instrument is the penny whistle.
ladew
lawed
lawed
verb
simple past tense and past participle of law
simple past tense and past participle of lawe
lawen
lawes
lawes
noun
plural of lawe
verb
Third-person singular simple present indicative form of lawe
lerwa
lewak
lewan
lewes
lewes
noun
(obsolete) plural of lew
lewie
lewin
lewis
lewis
noun
(by extension, figurative) The son of a Freemason, envisaged as assisting his father in heavy work or in old age.
A cramp iron inserted into a cavity in order to lift heavy stones; used as a symbol of strength in Freemasonry.
A kind of shears used in cropping woollen cloth.
lewls
lewse
lewth
lewth
noun
(now rare, dialectal) Shelter.
lewty
loewe
loewi
loewy
lowed
lowed
verb
simple past tense and past participle of low
lower
lower
adj
(geology, of strata or geological time periods) older
Situated on lower ground, nearer a coast, or more southerly.
bottom; more towards the bottom than the middle of an object
comparative form of low: more low
verb
(computing, transitive) To reduce operations to single machine instructions, as part of compilation of a program.
(intransitive) To decrease in value, amount, etc.
(intransitive) To fall; to sink; to grow less; to diminish; to decrease
(reflexive) (lower oneself) To humble oneself; to do something one considers to be beneath one's dignity.
(transitive) To bring down; to humble
(transitive) To depress as to direction
(transitive) To let descend by its own weight, as something suspended; to let down
(transitive) To make less elevated
(transitive) To reduce (something) in value, amount, etc.
(transitive) To reduce the degree, intensity, strength, etc., of
(transitive) To reduce the height of
(transitive) to pull down
Alternative spelling of lour
lowes
lowes
noun
plural of lowe
lowse
lweis
lweis
noun
plural of lwei
mewls
mewls
noun
plural of mewl
verb
Third-person singular simple present indicative form of mewl
nawle
newel
newel
noun
(architecture) A central pillar around which a staircase spirals.
(architecture) A sturdy pillar at the top or bottom of a flight of stairs, supporting the handrail.
(obsolete) A novelty; a new thing.
newly
newly
adv
Very recently/lately; in the immediate past.
nowel
nowel
noun
Alternative spelling of noel
olwen
olwen
Proper noun
name from Welsh legend, specifically The Mabinogion.
owler
owler
noun
(Lancashire, Northern English dialectal) The alder tree.
(dated) A smuggler
owlet
owlet
noun
A young owl; owling.
An owlet moth.
Diminutive of owl
One of a species of small owls, such as Athene noctua.
palew
pelew
plews
plews
noun
plural of plew
powel
rowel
rowel
noun
A little flat ring or wheel on a horse's bit.
A roll of hair, silk, etc., passed through the flesh of a horse in the manner of a seton in human surgery.
The small spiked wheel on the end of a spur.
verb
(transitive) To apply the spur to.
(transitive) To fit with spurs.
(transitive) To use a rowel on (something), especially to drain fluid.
(transitive, figurative) To incite; to goad.
seqwl
sewel
sewel
noun
A scarecrow, generally made of feathers tied to a string, hung up to prevent deer from breaking into a place.
skewl
slews
slews
verb
Third-person singular simple present indicative form of slew
sowel
sowle
swale
swale
noun
(UK, dialectal) A gutter in a candle.
A long narrow and shallow trough between ridges on a beach, running parallel to the coastline.
A low tract of moist or marshy land.
A shallow troughlike depression that's created to carry water during rainstorms or snow melts; a drainage ditch.
A shallow, usually grassy depression sloping downward from a plains upland meadow or level vegetated ridgetop.
Bioswale, a shallow trough dug into the land on contour (horizontally with no slope), whose purpose is to allow water time to percolate into the soil.
verb
Alternative form of sweal (melt and waste away, or singe)
sweal
sweal
verb
(intransitive) To burn slowly.
(intransitive) To melt and run down, as the tallow of a candle; waste away without feeding the flame.
(transitive) To singe; scorch; dress (as a hog) with burning or singeing.
(transitive, dialectal) To consume with fire; burn.
(transitive, dialectal) To make disappear; cause to waste away; diminish; reduce.
swell
swell
adj
(Canada, US, dated slang) Excellent.
(dated) Fashionable, like a swell or dandy.
adv
(Canada, US, informal) Very well.
noun
(geology) An upward protrusion of strata from whose central region the beds dip quaquaversally at a low angle.
(informal) A person of high social standing; an important person.
(informal, dated) A person who is stylish, fancy, or elegant.
(music) A device for controlling the volume of a pipe organ.
(music) A division in a pipe organ, usually the largest enclosed division.
(music) A gradual crescendo followed by diminuendo.
A bulge or protuberance.
A hillock or similar raised area of terrain.
A long series of ocean waves, generally produced by wind, and lasting after the wind has ceased.
Increase of power in style, or of rhetorical force.
The act of swelling; increase in size.
The front brow of a saddle bow, connected in the tree by the two saddle bars to the cantle on the other end.
verb
(intransitive) To be raised to arrogance.
(intransitive) To become bigger, especially due to being engorged.
(intransitive) To grow gradually in force or loudness.
(transitive) To cause to become bigger.
(transitive) To cause to grow gradually in force or loudness.
(transitive) To raise to arrogance; to puff up; to inflate.
To be elated; to rise arrogantly.
To be turgid, bombastic, or extravagant.
To protuberate; to bulge out.
swelp
swelp
verb
Pronunciation spelling of so help.
swelt
swelt
verb
(obsolete outside dialects) To die.
(obsolete outside dialects) To succumb or be overcome with emotion, heat, etc.; to faint or swelter
(obsolete) simple past tense of swell
swile
tewel
tewel
noun
(now rare) A vent or chimney or pipe, especially one leading into a furnace or bellows.
(obsolete) The anus, rectum or posterior.
tewly
towel
towel
noun
A cloth used for wiping, especially one used for drying anything wet, such as a person after a bath.
verb
(UK, dialect, obsolete, transitive) To beat with a stick, or "oaken towel".
(transitive) To block up (a door, etc.) with a towel, to conceal the fumes of a recreational drug.
(transitive) To dry by using a towel.
(transitive) To hit with a towel.
twale
tweel
tweel
noun
(Scotland) Alternative form of twill
tweil
valew
vowel
vowel
noun
(orthography) A letter representing the sound of vowel; in English, the vowels are a, e, i, o, u, and y.
(phonetics) A sound produced by the vocal cords with relatively little restriction of the oral cavity, forming the prominent sound of a syllable.
verb
(linguistics) To add vowel points to a consonantal script (e.g. niqqud in Hebrew or harakat in Arabic).
waled
waled
verb
simple past tense and past participle of wale
waler
waler
noun
(Australia, India) A breed of light saddle horse from Australia, once favoured as a warhorse.
(structural engineering) A plank of wood, block of concrete, etc., used for support or to maintain required separation between components in order to help maintain the form of a construction under stress.
wales
wales
noun
plural of wale
verb
Third-person singular simple present indicative form of wale
waley
walke
walke
verb
Obsolete spelling of walk
wamel
wanle
wasel
weald
weald
noun
(archaic) A forest or wood.
(archaic) An open country.
weals
weals
noun
plural of weal
wedel
wedel
noun
(skiing) Alternative form of wedeln
weill
welby
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
welda
welds
welds
noun
plural of weld
verb
Third-person singular simple present indicative form of weld
wells
wells
noun
plural of well
verb
Third-person singular simple present indicative form of well
welly
welly
adv
(obsolete, UK, dialect) Almost; nearly.
noun
(countable, informal) Wellington boot.
(uncountable, informal) Force on a pedal or increase to any fuel or power for an engine or motor.
(uncountable, informal) Force or effort.
welsh
welsh
verb
(derogatory, sometimes offensive) To cheat or swindle someone, often by not paying a debt, especially a gambling debt.
(derogatory, sometimes offensive) To go back on one's word.
welts
welts
noun
plural of welt
verb
Third-person singular simple present indicative form of welt
welty
wesla
wesle
wetly
wetly
adv
(UK, informal) Ineffectually, feebly, showing no strength of character.
In a wet manner.
whale
whale
noun
(by extension) Any species of Cetacea.
(figuratively) Something, or someone, that is very large.
(figuratively, as "whale of a ___") Something, or someone, that is excellent.
(finance, informal) An investor who deals with very large amounts of money.
(gambling) In a casino, a person who routinely bets at the maximum limit allowable.
(marketing, by extension) A person who spends large amounts of money on things that are marketed to them.
Any one of numerous large marine mammals comprising an informal group within infraorder Cetacea that usually excludes dolphins and porpoises.
verb
(intransitive) To hunt for whales.
(slang, transitive) To thrash, to flog, to beat vigorously or soundly.
wheal
wheal
noun
(UK, dialect, Cornwall, mining) A mine.
A small raised swelling on the skin, often itchy, caused by a blow from a whip or an insect bite etc.
verb
(uncommon) Synonym of wale.
wheel
wheel
noun
(UK, slang, archaic) A crown coin; a "cartwheel".
(archaic, informal) A bicycle or tricycle.
(automotive) A wheelrim.
(computing, dated) A superuser on certain systems.
(figurative) A recurring or cyclical course of events.
(informal, with "the") A steering wheel and its implied control of a vehicle.
(nautical) The instrument attached to the rudder by which a vessel is steered.
(obsolete) A rolling or revolving body; anything of a circular form; a disk; an orb.
(poker slang) The lowest straight in poker: ace, 2, 3, 4, 5.
(slang) A person with a great deal of power or influence; a big wheel.
(slang, archaic) A dollar.
A Catherine wheel firework.
A circular device capable of rotating on its axis, facilitating movement or transportation or performing labour in machines.
A manoeuvre in marching in which the marchers turn in a curving fashion to right or left so that the order of marchers does not change.
A potter's wheel.
A round portion of cheese.
A spinning wheel.
A turn or revolution; rotation; compass.
The breaking wheel, an old instrument of torture.
verb
(intransitive) To change direction quickly, turn, pivot, whirl, wheel around.
(intransitive) To travel around in large circles, particularly in the air.
(intransitive, dated) To ride a bicycle or tricycle.
(transitive) To cause to change direction quickly, turn.
(transitive) To put into a rotatory motion; to cause to turn or revolve; to make or perform in a circle.
(transitive) To roll along on wheels.
(transitive) To transport something or someone using any wheeled mechanism, such as a wheelchair.
whelk
whelk
noun
(archaic) Pimple
A stripe or mark; a ridge; a wale.
Certain edible sea snails, especially, any one of numerous species of large marine gastropods belonging to Buccinidae, much used as food in Europe.
whelm
whelm
noun
(poetic, also figuratively) A surge of water.
verb
(intransitive, archaic) To overcome with emotion; to overwhelm.
(transitive, archaic) To bury, to cover; to engulf, to submerge.
(transitive, obsolete) To ruin or destroy.
(transitive, obsolete) To throw (something) over a thing so as to cover it.
whelp
whelp
intj
Alternative form of welp (“well”)
noun
(derogatory) An insolent youth; a mere child.
(obsolete) A kind of ship.
A tooth on a sprocket wheel (compare sprocket and cog).
A young offspring of a canid (ursid, felid, pinniped), especially of a dog or a wolf, the young of a bear or similar mammal (lion, tiger, seal); a pup, wolf cub.
One of several wooden strips to prevent wear on a windlass on a clipper-era ship.
verb
(transitive, intransitive, of she-dog, she-wolf, vixen, etc.) To give birth.
whewl
while
while
conj
(Northern England, Scotland) Until.
(media, public policy) Used to denote an individual experiencing racial profiling when performing a seemingly benign activity.
Although.
As long as.
During the same time that.
noun
(Philippines) an uncertain short moment
(US) an uncertain long period of time
An uncertain duration of time, a period of time.
verb
(intransitive, archaic) To elapse, to pass.
(transitive) To occupy or entertain (someone) in order to let time pass.
(transitive, now only in combination with away; see also while away) To pass (time) idly.
Alternative spelling or misspelling of wile.
whole
whole
adj
(mining) As yet unworked.
(of food) From which none of its constituents has been removed.
Entire, undivided.
Sound, uninjured, healthy.
adv
(colloquial) In entirety; entirely; wholly.
noun
An entirety.
Something complete, without any parts missing.
whsle
wield
wield
verb
(obsolete) To carry out, to bring about.
(obsolete) To command, rule over; to possess or own.
(obsolete) To control, to guide or manage.
To exercise (authority or influence) effectively.
To handle with skill and ease, especially a weapon or tool.
wilde
wiled
wiled
verb
simple past tense and past participle of wile
wilek
wilen
wiles
wiles
noun
plural of wile
wiley
wiley
Proper noun
A male given name.
wilie
wolfe
wolfe
noun
Obsolete spelling of wolf
wolve
wolve
verb
Of an organ, to make a hollow whining sound like that of a wolf.