Third-person singular simple present indicative form of awe
awls
awls
noun
plural of awl
awns
awns
noun
plural of awn
awst
caws
caws
noun
plural of caw
verb
Third-person singular simple present indicative form of caw
daws
daws
noun
plural of daw
haws
haws
noun
plural of haw
verb
Third-person singular simple present indicative form of haw
jaws
jaws
noun
(colloquial, eastern Ohio) a contrarian.
(plural only) the borders of anything which has a mouthlike aspect.
(plural only) the mouth
plural of jaw
verb
Third-person singular simple present indicative form of jaw
laws
laws
noun
plural of law
verb
Third-person singular simple present indicative form of law
maws
maws
noun
plural of maw
paws
paws
noun
plural of paw
verb
Third-person singular simple present indicative form of paw
raws
raws
noun
plural of raw
sawn
sawn
verb
(nonstandard, dialectal) past participle of see; seen
past participle of saw
saws
saws
noun
plural of saw
verb
Third-person singular simple present indicative form of saw
sawt
sawt
noun
(music) A style of urban popular music associated mainly with Kuwait and Bahrain.
scaw
scaw
noun
(dialectal) A wood or forest; a shaw.
Alternative form of skaw (“promontory”)
shaw
shaw
noun
(Scotland) The leaves and tops of vegetables, especially potatoes and turnips.
(dated, dialectal) A thicket; a small wood or grove.
shwa
shwa
noun
Alternative form of schwa
skaw
skaw
noun
A promontory.
slaw
slaw
noun
(US, Canada) Coleslaw.
snaw
staw
staw
verb
(UK, dialect, intransitive) To be fixed or set; to stay.
swab
swab
noun
(medicine) A small piece of soft, absorbent material, such as gauze, used to clean wounds, apply medicine, or take samples of body fluids. Often attached to a stick or wire to aid access.
(slang) A naval officer's epaulet.
(slang) A sailor; a swabby.
A mop, especially on a ship.
A piece of material used for cleaning or sampling other items like musical instruments or guns.
A sample taken with a swab (piece of absorbent material).
verb
(transitive) To use a swab on something, or clean something with a swab.
swad
swad
noun
(UK, dialect, obsolete, Northern) A cod, or pod, as of beans or peas.
(mining) A thin layer of refuse at the bottom of a seam.
(obsolete) A boor, lout.
(obsolete, slang) A crowd; a group of people.
A bunch, clump, mass
swag
swag
noun
(countable, Australia, New Zealand) A large quantity (of something).
(countable, Australia, by extension) A small single-person tent, usually foldable into an integral backpack.
(countable, Australia, dated) The possessions of a bushman or itinerant worker, tied up in a blanket and carried over the shoulder, sometimes attached to a stick.
(obsolete, thieves' cant) A shop and its goods; any quantity of goods.
(slang) Style; fashionable appearance or manner.
(uncountable, informal) Handouts, freebies, or giveaways, often distributed at conventions; merchandise.
(uncountable, thieves' cant) Stolen goods; the booty of a burglar or thief; boodle.
(window coverings) A loop of draped fabric.
A low point or depression in land; especially, a place where water collects.
Alternative letter-case form of SWAG; a wild guess or ballpark estimate.
verb
(Australia, transitive, intransitive) To travel on foot carrying a swag (possessions tied in a blanket).
(intransitive) To droop; to sag.
(transitive) To decorate (something) with loops of draped fabric.
(transitive) To install (a ceiling fan or light fixture) by means of a long cord running from the ceiling to an outlet, and suspended by hooks or similar.
(transitive, intransitive) To (cause to) sway.
To transport stolen goods.
swak
swam
swam
verb
simple past tense of swim
swan
swan
noun
(figuratively) One whose grace etc. suggests a swan.
(heraldry) This bird used as a heraldic charge, sometimes with a crown around its neck (e. g. the arms of Buckinghamshire).
Any of various species of large, long-necked waterfowl, of genus Cygnus (bird family: Anatidae), most of which have white plumage.
verb
(US, dialectal or colloquial) To declare (chiefly in first-person present constructions).
(intransitive) To travel or move about in an aimless, idle, or pretentiously casual way.
swap
swap
noun
(Cambridge University slang) A social meal at a restaurant between two university societies, usually involving drinking and banter; commonly associated with fining and pennying; equivalent to a crewdate at Oxford University.
(computing, informal, uncountable) Space available in a swap file for use as auxiliary memory.
(finance) A financial derivative in which two parties agree to exchange one stream of cashflow against another stream.
(obsolete, UK, dialect) A blow; a stroke.
An exchange of two comparable things.
verb
(intransitive, obsolete) To descend or fall; to rush hastily or violently.
(transitive) To exchange or give (something) in an exchange (for something else).
(transitive, obsolete) To beat the air, or ply the wings, with a sweeping motion or noise; to flap.
(transitive, obsolete) To hit, to strike.
swas
swat
swat
noun
A hard stroke, hit or blow, e.g., as part of a spanking.
Alternate spelling of swot: vigorous study at an educational institution.
verb
(US, slang, transitive) To illegitimately provoke a SWAT assault upon (someone).
(transitive) To beat off, as insects; to bat, strike, or hit.
sway
sway
noun
A rocking or swinging motion.
A switch or rod used by thatchers to bind their work.
Influence, weight, or authority that inclines to one side
Preponderance; turn or cast of balance.
Rule; dominion; control; power.
The act of swaying; a swaying motion; a swing or sweep of a weapon.
The maximum amplitude of a vehicle's lateral motion.
verb
(nautical) To hoist (a mast or yard) into position.
To be drawn to one side by weight or influence; to lean; to incline.
To bear sway; to rule; to govern.
To cause to incline or swing to one side, or backward and forward; to bias; to turn; to bend; warp.
To have weight or influence.
To influence or direct by power, authority, persuasion, or by moral force; to rule; to govern; to guide. Compare persuade.
To move or swing from side to side; or backward and forward; to rock.
To move or wield with the hand; to swing; to wield.
taws
taws
noun
Alternative spelling of tawse
plural of taw
verb
Third-person singular simple present indicative form of taw
twas
twas
abbrev
Misspelling of 'twas.
Obsolete spelling of 'twas
vaws
vaws
noun
plural of vaw
wabs
wabs
noun
(UK, slang) Breasts.
wacs
wads
wads
noun
plural of wad
waes
waes
noun
plural of wae
wafs
wags
wags
noun
plural of wag
verb
Third-person singular simple present indicative form of wag
wais
wais
noun
plural of wai
wams
wans
wans
noun
plural of wan
waps
waps
noun
(UK, rural dialect) wasp
plural of wap
verb
Third-person singular simple present indicative form of wap
wars
wars
noun
plural of war
verb
Third-person singular simple present indicative form of war
wase
wase
noun
(UK, dialect) A bundle of straw, or other material, to relieve the pressure of burdens carried upon the head.
wash
wash
noun
(architecture) The upper surface of a member or material when given a slope to shed water; hence, a structure or receptacle shaped so as to receive and carry off water.
(art) A smooth and translucent painting created using a paintbrush holding a large amount of solvent and a small amount of paint.
(finance, slang) A fictitious kind of sale of stock or other securities between parties of one interest, or by a broker who is both buyer and seller, and who minds his own interest rather than that of his clients.
(nautical) The blade of an oar.
(stagecraft) A lighting fixture that can cast a wide beam of light to evenly fill an area with light, as opposed to a spotlight.
(television) A lighting effect that fills a scene with a chosen colour.
A liquid used for washing.
A lotion or other liquid with medicinal or hygienic properties.
A mixture of dunder, molasses, water, and scummings, used in the West Indies for distillation.
A piece of ground washed by the action of water, or sometimes covered and sometimes left dry; the shallowest part of a river, or arm of the sea; also, a bog; a marsh.
A shallow body of water.
A situation in which losses and gains or advantages and disadvantages are equivalent; a situation in which there is no net change.
A thin coat of paint or metal laid on anything for beauty or preservation.
Ground washed away to the sea or a river.
In arid and semi-arid regions, the normally dry bed of an intermittent or ephemeral stream; an arroyo or wadi.
In distilling, the fermented wort before the spirit is extracted.
Ten strikes, or bushels, of oysters.
The backward current or disturbed water caused by the action of oars, or of a steamer's screw or paddles, etc.
The bow wave or wake of a moving ship, or the vortex from its screws.
The breaking of waves on the shore; the onwards rush of shallow water towards a beach.
The process or an instance of washing or being washed by water or other liquid.
The quantity of clothes washed at a time.
The turbulence left in the air by a moving airplane.
Waste liquid, the refuse of food, the collection from washed dishes, etc., from a kitchen, often used as food for pigs; pigwash.
verb
(intransitive) To be eroded or carried away by the action of water.
(intransitive) To be wasted or worn away by the action of water, as by a running or overflowing stream, or by the dashing of the sea; said of road, a beach, etc.
(intransitive) To bear without injury the operation of being washed.
(intransitive) To clean oneself with water.
(intransitive) To move with a lapping or swashing sound; to lap or splash.
(intransitive, figuratively) To be cogent, convincing; to withstand critique.
(mining) To separate valuable material (such as gold) from worthless material by the action of flowing water.
(transitive) To cause dephosphorization of (molten pig iron) by adding substances containing iron oxide, and sometimes manganese oxide.
(transitive) To cover with water or any liquid; to wet; to fall on and moisten.
(transitive) To move or erode by the force of water in motion.
(transitive) To pass (a gas or gaseous mixture) through or over a liquid for the purpose of purifying it, especially by removing soluble constituents.
To clean with water.
To cover with a thin or watery coat of colour; to tint lightly and thinly.
To overlay with a thin coat of metal.
wasn
wasp
wasp
noun
(entomology) Any of the members of suborder Apocrita, excepting the ants (family Formicidae) and bees (clade Anthophila).
A person who behaves in an angry or insolent way, hence waspish.
Alternative letter-case form of WASP (“white Anglo-Saxon Protestant”)
Any of many types of stinging flying insect resembling a hornet.
Any of the members of the family Vespidae.
verb
To move like a wasp; to buzz
wast
wast
noun
Obsolete form of waist.
verb
(archaic) second-person singular simple past form of be; wert.
wats
wats
noun
plural of wat
waws
waws
noun
plural of waw
verb
Third-person singular simple present indicative form of waw
ways
ways
noun
(informal, US, sometimes figurative, usually preceded by a) A distance.
plural of way
wesa
wsan
yaws
yaws
noun
(pathology) A contagious tropical disease, caused by the spirochete Treponema pertenue, characterized by yellowish or reddish tumors, which often resemble berries.
plural of yaw
verb
Third-person singular simple present indicative form of yaw