(nautical) A crude sort of quadrant formerly used for taking the sun's altitude at sea.
(nautical) The front of a boat or ship.
(rowing) The rower that sits in the seat closest to the bow of the boat.
(saddlery) Two pieces of wood which form the arched forward part of a saddletree.
A curved bend in a rod or planar surface, or in a linear formation such as a river (see oxbow).
A gesture, usually showing respect, made by inclining the head or bending forward at the waist; a reverence
A rod with horsehair (or an artificial substitute) stretched between the ends, used for playing various stringed musical instruments.
A stringed instrument (chordophone), consisting of a stick with a single taut cord stretched between the ends, most often played by plucking.
A type of knot with two loops, used to tie together two cords such as shoelaces or apron strings, and frequently used as decoration, such as in gift-wrapping.
A weapon made of a curved piece of wood or other flexible material whose ends are connected by a string, used for shooting arrows.
Alternative form of bao; any of several Chinese buns and breads
Any instrument consisting of an elastic rod, with ends connected by a string, employed for giving reciprocating motion to a drill, or for preparing and arranging hair, fur, etc., used by hatters.
Anything bent or curved, such as a rainbow.
Either of the arms of a pair of spectacles, running from the side of the lens to behind the wearer's ear.
Obsolete spelling of bough
The U-shaped piece which goes around the neck of an ox and fastens it to the yoke.
The part of a key that is not inserted into the lock and that is used to turn the key.
verb
(intransitive) To become bent or curved.
(intransitive) To bend oneself as a gesture of respect or deference.
(intransitive) To defer (to something).
(transitive and intransitive) To debut.
(transitive) To give a direction, indication, or command to by bowing.
(transitive) To make something bend or curve.
(transitive, figurative) To exercise powerful or controlling influence over; to bend, figuratively; to turn; to incline.
To play music on (a stringed) instrument using a bow.
cow
cow
noun
(UK, dialect) A chimney cowl.
(biology) A female member of other large species of mammal, including the bovines, moose, whales, seals, hippos, rhinos, manatees, and elephants.
(derogatory, UK, Australia, informal) A woman considered unpleasant in some way, particularly one considered nasty, stupid, fat, lazy, or difficult.
(formerly inexact but now common) Any member of the species Bos taurus regardless of sex or age, including bulls and calves.
(mining) A chock: a wedge or brake used to stop a machine or car.
(strictly) An adult female of the species Bos taurus, especially one that has calved.
(uncommon) Any bovines or bovids generally, including yaks, buffalo, etc.
(uncommon) Beef: the meat of cattle as food.
verb
(transitive, chiefly in the passive voice) To intimidate; to daunt the spirits or courage of.
cwo
dow
dow
noun
Alternative form of dhow (“sailing vessel”)
Obsolete form of dove (“pigeon”).
verb
(obsolete) To be of use, have value.
(obsolete) To be worth.
(obsolete) To have the strength for, to be able to.
(obsolete) To thrive, prosper.
To furnish with a dower; to endow.
ewo
fow
gow
gow
noun
(colloquial, dated) opium
Alternative form of jow (“pre-metric unit of length in India”)
how
how
adv
(interrogative) In what manner:
(interrogative) In what state or condition.
(interrogative) To what degree or extent.
At what price, for what amount (of money).
By what means.
By what title or what name.
In what form, shape, measure, quantity, etc.
Used as a modifier to indicate surprise, delight, or other strong feelings in an exclamation.
With overtones of why, for what reason.
With what meaning or effect.
conj
In any way in which; in whatever way; however.
She told me how her father was a doctor.
That, the fact that.
The manner or way in which.
intj
A greeting, used in representations of Native American speech.
noun
(dialectal) A small hill in northern England. (Usage preserved mainly in place names.)
(dialectal) An artificial barrow or tumulus.
The means by which something is accomplished.
iow
iwo
jow
jow
noun
(historical) A pre-metric unit of length in India, equal to approximately a quarter of an inch
Alternative form of jhow (“kind of tamarisk”)
low
low
adj
(acoustics) Grave in pitch, due to being produced by relatively slow vibrations (wave oscillations); flat.
(baseball, of a ball) Below the batter's knees.
(card games) Lesser in value than other cards, denominations, suits, etc.
(chiefly in several set phrases) Favoring simplicity (see e.g. low church, Low Tory).
(especially in biology) Simple in complexity or development.
(in several set phrases) Being near the equator.
(now rare) Not rich or seasoned; offering the minimum of nutritional requirements; plain, simple.
(of an automobile, gear, etc) Designed for a slow (or the slowest) speed.
(phonetics) Made with a relatively large opening between the tongue and the palate; made with (part of) the tongue positioned low in the mouth, relative to the palate.
Being a nadir, a bottom.
Dead. (Compare lay low.)
Depleted, or nearing deletion; lacking in supply.
Depressed in mood, dejected, sad.
Disparaging; assigning little value or excellence.
Having a small or comparatively smaller concentration of (a substance, which is often but not always linked by "in" when predicative).
Humble, meek, not haughty.
Lacking health or vitality, strength or vivacity; feeble; weak.
Low-cut.
Not high in status, esteem, or rank, dignity, or quality. (Compare vulgar.)
Of less than normal height or upward extent or growth, or of greater than normal depth or recession; below the average or normal level from which elevation is measured.
Pertaining to (or, especially of a language: spoken in) in an area which is at a lesser elevation, closer to sea level (especially near the sea), than other regions.
Quiet; soft; not loud.
Situated close to, or even below, the ground or another normal reference plane; not high or lofty.
Small, not high (in amount or quantity, value, force, energy, etc).
adv
(astronomy) In a path near the equator, so that the declination is small, or near the horizon, so that the altitude is small; said of the heavenly bodies with reference to the diurnal revolution.
Close to the ground.
In a low mean condition; humbly; meanly.
In a time approaching our own.
Of a pitch, at a lower frequency.
Under the usual price; at a moderate price; cheaply.
With a low voice or sound; not loudly; gently.
noun
(Scottish dialectal, archaic) A hill.
(archaic or obsolete) Barrow, mound, tumulus.
(card games) The lowest trump, usually the deuce; the lowest trump dealt or drawn.
(countable, UK, Scotland, dialect) A flame; fire; blaze.
(meteorology, informal) An area of low pressure; a depression.
(slang, usually accompanied by "the") A cheap, cost-efficient, or advantageous price.
A low point or position, literally (as, a depth) or or figuratively (as, a nadir, a time when things are at their worst, least, minimum, etc).
A period of depression; a depressed mood or situation.
The lowest-speed gearing of a power-transmission system, especially of an automotive vehicle.
The minimum atmospheric temperature recorded at a particular location, especially during one 24-hour period.
verb
(UK, Scotland, dialect) To burn; to blaze.
(intransitive) To moo.
(obsolete) simple past of laugh.
(obsolete, transitive) To lower; to make low.
lwo
mow
mow
noun
(cricket) A shot played with a sweeping or scythe-like motion.
(now only dialectal) A scornful grimace; a wry face.
(now regional) A stack of hay, corn, beans or a barn for the storage of hay, corn, beans.
Alternative form of mew (a seagull)
The act of mowing (a garden, grass, etc.).
The place in a barn where hay or grain in the sheaf is stowed.
verb
(agriculture) To put into mows.
(transitive) To cut down grass or crops.
(transitive, often with through) To cut down or slaughter in great numbers.
To make grimaces, mock.
now
now
adj
(archaic, law) At the time the will is written. Used in order to prevent any inheritance from being transferred to a person of a future marriage. Does not indicate the existence of a previous marriage.
(informal) Fashionable; popular; up to date; current.
Present; current.
adv
(obsolete) As 'but now': Very recently; not long ago; up to the present.
(sentential) Used to introduce a point, a qualification of what has previously been said, a remonstration or a rebuke.
At the present time.
At the time reached within a narration.
Differently from the immediate past; differently from a more remote past or a possible future; differently from all other times.
Sometimes; occasionally.
Used to address a switching side, or sharp change in attitude from before. (In this usage, now is usually emphasized).
Used to indicate a context of urgency.
conj
Since, because, in light of the fact; often with that.
intj
Indicates a signal to begin.
noun
(countable, chiefly in phenomenology) A particular instant in time, as perceived at that instant.
(often with "the") The state of not paying attention to the future or the past.
(uncountable) The present time.
verb
Misspelling of know.
oiw
owd
owd
verb
(archaic) simple past tense and past participle of owe
owe
owe
verb
(ditransitive) To be under an obligation to give something back to someone or to perform some action for someone.
(intransitive) To have debt; to be in debt.
(transitive) To have as a cause; used with to.
owi
owk
owl
owl
noun
(by extension) A person seen as having owl-like characteristics, especially appearing wise or serious, or being nocturnally active.
(politics, uncommon) A politician with moderate views that are neither hawkish nor dovish.
Any of various birds of prey of the order Strigiformes that are primarily nocturnal and have forward-looking, binocular vision, limited eye movement, and good hearing.
Any of various nymphalid butterflies, especially in the genus Caligo, having large eyespots on the wings.
The owl pigeon.
verb
(archaic, intransitive) To smuggle contraband goods.
own
own
adj
(obsolete) Not foreign.
(obsolete) Peculiar, domestic.
Belonging to; possessed; acquired; proper to; property of; titled to; held in one's name; under/using the name of. Often marks a possessive determiner as reflexive, referring back to the subject of the clause or sentence.
Not shared.
verb
(intransitive) To admit, concede, grant, allow, acknowledge, confess; not to deny.
(intransitive, UK dialectal) To confess.
(intransitive, slang) To be very good.
(online gaming, slang) To defeat, dominate, or be above, also spelled pwn.
(transitive) To admit; concede; acknowledge.
(transitive) To claim as one's own.
(transitive) To defeat or embarrass; to overwhelm.
(transitive) To have recognized political sovereignty over a place, territory, as distinct from the ordinary connotation of property ownership.
(transitive) To have rightful possession of (property, goods or capital); to have legal title to; to acquire a property or asset.
(transitive) To proudly acknowledge; to not be ashamed or embarrassed of.
(transitive) To recognise; acknowledge.
(transitive) To take responsibility for.
(transitive) To virtually or figuratively enslave.
(transitive, computing, slang) To illicitly obtain superuser or root access to a computer system, thereby having access to all of the user files on that system; pwn.
owt
owt
noun
(Northern England) anything
pron
(Northern England) aught, anything
pow
pow
intj
The sound of a violent impact, such as a punch.
noun
(Scotland, Ireland, Northern England) Alternative form of poll
(skiing slang) Clipping of powder (“powder snow”).
The sound of a violent impact.
row
row
noun
(weightlifting) An exercise performed with a pulling motion of the arms towards the back.
A continual loud noise.
A horizontal line of entries in a table, etc., going from left to right, as opposed to a column going from top to bottom.
A line of objects, often regularly spaced, such as seats in a theatre, vegetable plants in a garden etc.
A noisy argument.
An act or instance of rowing.
verb
(intransitive) To argue noisily.
(intransitive) To be moved by oars.
(transitive or intransitive, nautical) To propel (a boat or other craft) over water using oars.
(transitive) To transport in a boat propelled with oars.
sow
sow
noun
(derogatory, slang) A contemptible, often fat woman.
(military) A kind of covered shed, formerly used by besiegers in filling up and passing the ditch of a besieged place, sapping and mining the wall, etc.
A channel that conducts molten metal to molds.
A female bear, she-bear.
A female guinea pig.
A female pig.
A mass of metal solidified in a mold.
A sowbug.
verb
(figurative) To scatter over; to besprinkle.
(figurative) To spread abroad; to propagate.
(transitive, intransitive) To scatter, disperse, or plant (seeds).
Obsolete spelling of sew
swo
tow
tow
noun
(motor racing) A speed increase given by driving in front of another car on a straight, which causes a slipstream for the car behind.
(specifically) The short, coarse, less desirable fibres separated by hackling from the finer longer fibres (line).
A rope or cable used in towing.
An untwisted bundle of fibres such as cellulose acetate, flax, hemp or jute.
Something, such as a barge, that is towed.
Something, such as a tugboat, that tows.
The act of towing and the condition of being towed.
verb
(running, cycling, motor racing, etc.) To aid someone behind by shielding them from wind resistance.
(transitive) To pull something behind one using a line or chain; to haul.
two
two
noun
(US, informal) A two-dollar bill.
A child aged two.
A playing card featuring two pips.
The digit/figure 2.
Two o'clock, either a.m. or p.m.
num
A numerical value equal to 2; this many dots (••).
Describing a set or group with two elements.
vow
vow
noun
(obsolete) A votive offering.
A declaration or assertion.
A solemn promise to perform some act, or behave in a specified manner, especially a promise to live and act in accordance with the rules of a religious order.
verb
(transitive) To make a vow regarding (something).
(transitive, intransitive) To make a vow; to promise.
To declare publicly that one has made a vow, usually to show one's determination or to announce an act of retaliation.
A person under discussion; a question of which person.
pron
(fused relative, archaic or marginal) Whoever, he who, they who.
(interrogative) What person or people; which person or people; asks for the identity of someone; used in a direct or indirect question.
(non-formal) With antecedent as object: whom.
With antecedent as subject.
wmo
woa
wob
wod
woe
woe
adj
(obsolete) Woeful; sorrowful
noun
A curse; a malediction.
Calamity, trouble.
Great sadness or distress; a misfortune causing such sadness.
wog
wog
noun
(Australia slang) A bug, an insect.
(Australia slang) A minor illness caused by bacteria, virus, intestinal parasite, etc.
(Australia slang, obsolete) A toy insect in parts that can be assembled, used in fund-raising games.
(Australia, slang, derogatory, ethnic slur) A person of Southern European, Mediterranean, Middle Eastern, or Southeastern European ancestry.
(Britain, slang, derogatory, ethnic slur) Any dark-skinned person. It originally referred specifically to Indians, but later also applied to people of North African, Mediterranean, or Middle Eastern ancestry.
(Scientology) A person who is not a Scientologist.
(nautical, slang) A pollywog, or sailor who has never crossed the Equator.
Abbreviation of polliwog.
verb
(Australia, UK, dated) To steal.
(Australia, WWII slang, obsolete) (Of soldiers stationed abroad) to sell something, especially illicit or stolen goods, to the local inhabitants.
wok
wok
noun
A large, round-bottomed cooking pan used in East Asian cooking.
verb
To prepare oriental cuisine using a wok.
won
won
noun
The currency of Korea, worth 100 jun in North Korea and 100 jeon in South Korea.
verb
(archaic or obsolete, regional) To be accustomed to do something.
(archaic or obsolete, regional) To live, remain.
simple past tense and past participle of win
woo
woo
adj
Alternative form of woo woo
intj
(slang) Expressing joy or mirth; woohoo, yahoo.
verb
(transitive) (often of a man) To try to persuade (someone) to be in an amorous relationship with
(transitive) To court solicitously; to invite with importunity.
(transitive) To endeavor to gain someone's support.
wop
wop
noun
(UK, US, slang, derogatory, ethnic slur) A person of Italian descent.
verb
Alternative form of whop (“to hit or strike”)
wos
wot
wot
adv
(Singlish) Alternative form of wat (used to contradict an assumption)
intj
Eye dialect spelling of what.
verb
(archaic) To know (in the sense of knowing a fact).
Third-person singular simple present indicative form of wit
first-person singular present indicative of wit
wow
wow
intj
An expression of amazement, awe, or admiration.
An indication of excitement, surprise, astonishment, or pleasure.
Used sarcastically to express disapproval of something.
noun
(audio) A relatively slow form of flutter (pitch variation) which can affect both gramophone records and tape recorders.
(informal) Anything exceptionally surprising, unbelievable, outstanding, etc.