(US, dialect) A tailor's female assistant for repairing garments.
bushwoman
bushwoman
noun
(Australia) A woman who lives or has lived in the Australian outback.
businesswoman
businesswoman
noun
A woman involved in business.
businesswomen
businesswomen
noun
plural of businesswoman
butterwoman
butterwoman
noun
(dated) A woman who makes or sells butter.
buttwoman
buttwomen
clubwoman
clubwoman
noun
(dated) A woman who is a member of a club.
clubwomen
clubwomen
noun
plural of clubwoman
counterembowed
counterembowed
adj
(heraldry) Bent, curved or arched in two directions, both to the left and to the right, or both upwards and downwards.
cumberworld
cumberworld
noun
(derogatory, obsolete) Someone who, or something which, is an encumbrance on the world; a useless person or thing.
dumbcow
dumbcow
verb
(India, archaic, transitive) To browbeat; to intimidate or cow.
dumbwaiter
dumbwaiter
noun
(obsolete) A lazy Susan.
(obsolete) A table or set of trays on rollers used for serving food.
A small elevator used to move food etc. from one floor of a building to another.
dumbwaiters
dumbwaiters
noun
plural of dumbwaiter
grubworm
grubworm
noun
A grub.
grubworms
grubworms
noun
plural of grubworm
mawbound
meadowbur
mouseweb
mowburn
mowburn
noun
(agriculture, obsolete) Damage caused to hay in this manner.
verb
(agriculture, obsolete, transitive) To stack (hay) before it is sufficiently dry, leading to excessive fermentation and sometimes toxicity.
mowburnt
mowburnt
adj
(obsolete) Of hay: stacked before it is sufficiently dry, leading to excessive fermentation and sometimes toxicity.
rumbelow
rumbowline
rumbowline
noun
Alternative form of rombowline
rumbowling
scrubwoman
scrubwoman
noun
(US) A woman employed to do general housework, such as cleaning a house or office.
scrubwomen
scrubwomen
noun
plural of scrubwoman
semiburrowing
semiburrowing
adj
(zoology) That sometimes burrows.
shukulumbwe
stewbum
stewbum
noun
(US, slang) A homeless alcoholic.
stewbums
stewbums
noun
plural of stewbum
subworkman
subworkman
noun
A subordinate workman.
subworkmen
subworkmen
noun
plural of subworkman
sumbawa
sumbawa
Proper noun
A volcanic island of Indonesia, home to Mount Tambora
swashbucklerdom
thumbscrew
thumbscrew
noun
(figuratively) A weakness that can be taken advantage of.
A screw that can be turned with the thumb and fingers.
An instrument of torture used to crush the fingers.
thumbscrews
thumbscrews
noun
plural of thumbscrew
thumbwheels
thumbwheels
noun
plural of thumbwheel
tubwoman
tumbledown
tumbledown
adj
in disrepair; poorly maintained
tumblerwise
tumbleweed
tumbleweed
noun
(attributive) Describing unwanted silence and inactivity. Often used of a situation when one makes a statement that is ignored or ill-received by one's audience, as the resultant silence is likened to that of a desolate desert with rolling tumbleweeds.
A tan colour, like that of a tumbleweed.
Any plant which habitually breaks away from its roots in the autumn, and is driven by the wind, as a light, rolling mass, over the fields and prairies; as Russian thistle, witch grass, wild indigo, Amaranthus albus, etc.
tumbleweeds
tumbleweeds
noun
plural of tumbleweed
umbelwort
umbelwort
noun
Any plant of the Umbelliferae (Apiaceae).
umbrellawise
umbrellawise
adv
In the manner of an expanding umbrella; spreading out radially.
umbrellawort
umbrellawort
noun
Any of various plants in the genus Mirabilis.
Any of various plants in the genus Tauschia.
unblameworthiness
unblameworthy
unblameworthy
Adjective
Not blameworthy.
unbowsome
unbowsome
adj
Unbending, not bending, not shifting.
Uncompliant, disobedient, steadfast
unemboweled
unembowelled
unembowered
unembowered
adj
Not embowered.
unimbowed
unimbowered
unimbrowned
unwarmable
unwarmable
adj
Impossible to warm.
unwomb
unwomb
verb
(poetic) to remove from the womb
wabuma
waggumbura
wambuba
wambugu
wambutti
wavenumber
wavenumber
noun
(mathematics, physics) A measure of the number of waves in unit distance; inversely proportional to its wavelength.