(New Zealand) A parasitic fungus of the genus Ophiocordyceps.
awoke
awoke
verb
(rare) past participle of awake
simple past tense of awake
below
below
adv
(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.
bowed
bowed
adj
Having a bow (rod for playing stringed instruments).
verb
simple past tense and past participle of bow
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.
bowen
bower
bower
noun
(literary) A dwelling; a picturesque country cottage, especially one that is used as a retreat.
(nautical) A type of ship's anchor, carried at the bow.
(obsolete, falconry) A young hawk, when it begins to leave the nest.
(ornithology) A large structure made of grass, twigs, etc., and decorated with bright objects, used by male bower birds during courtship displays.
A bedroom or private apartments, especially for a woman in a medieval castle.
A muscle that bends a limb, especially the arm.
A peasant; a farmer.
A shady, leafy shelter or recess in a garden or woods.
Either of the two highest trumps in euchre.
One who bows or bends.
One who plays any of several bow instruments, such as the musical bow or diddley bow.
verb
(obsolete) To lodge.
To embower; to enclose.
bowes
bowes
noun
plural of bowe
verb
Obsolete form of bow.
bowet
bowge
bowge
verb
(intransitive) To bulge or swell out.
(transitive) To cause to leak.
bowie
bowie
noun
A Bowie knife
bowle
bowle
noun
Obsolete form of bowl.
bowne
bowne
verb
(transitive, obsolete) Alternative form of boun
bowse
bowse
noun
A carouse; a drinking bout; a booze.
verb
(archaic) To drink excessively and socially; to carouse.
(nautical) To haul or hoist (something) with a tackle.
cowed
cowed
adj
For quotations using this term, see Citations:cowed.
Frightened into submission.
verb
simple past tense and past participle of cow
cowen
cowen
noun
Obsolete spelling of cowan (one uninitiated in the secrets of Freemasonry).
cower
cower
verb
(intransitive) To crouch or cringe, or to avoid or shy away from something, in fear.
(intransitive, archaic) To crouch in general.
(obsolete, transitive) To cherish with care.
(transitive) To cause to cower; to frighten into submission.
cowes
cowes
Proper noun
A town on the north coast of the Isle of Wight, England.
cowey
cowie
cowie
noun
(Britain, Northumbria) A left-handed person.
(Britain, Northumbria) A pill, especially of the drug ecstasy.
cowle
crowe
dekow
devow
devow
verb
(obsolete) To disavow; to disclaim.
(obsolete) To give up; to devote.
dowed
dowed
verb
simple past tense and past participle of dow
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.
dower
dower
noun
(law) Property given by a groom directly to his bride at or before their wedding in order to legitimize the marriage; dowry.
(law) The part of or interest in a deceased husband's property provided to his widow, usually in the form of a life estate.
(obsolete) That with which one is gifted or endowed; endowment; gift.
verb
(transitive) To endow.
(transitive) To give a dower or dowry to.
dowie
downe
downe
adv
Obsolete spelling of down
dowse
dowse
noun
Alternative form of douse (“strike”)
verb
(intransitive) To use the dipping or divining rod, as in search of water, ore, etc.
Alternative form of douse (“to plunge into water”)
Alternative form of douse (“to strike”)
dowve
ekwok
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.
embow
embow
verb
(archaic, transitive, intransitive) To bend like a bow; to curve.
endow
endow
verb
(transitive) Followed by with, or rarely by of: to enrich or furnish with some faculty or quality.
(transitive) To give property to (someone) as a gift; specifically, to provide (a person or institution) with support in the form of a permanent fund of money or other benefits.
(transitive) Usually in the passive: to naturally furnish (with something).
(transitive, archaic or obsolete) To provide with a dower (“the portion that a widow receives from her deceased husband's property”) or a dowry (“property given to a bride”).
enows
ewhow
ewold
flowe
flowe
verb
Obsolete form of flow.
fowey
fowey
Proper noun
a small town and port on the south coast of Cornwall, England.
a river in Cornwall which flows from Bodmin Moor to the English Channel at the town of Fowey.
fowle
fowle
noun
Obsolete spelling of fowl
gowen
gower
gower
Proper noun
A peninsula in southern Wales.
gwelo
howea
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.
howes
howes
noun
plural of howe
howey
howie
jowed
jowel
jower
knowe
knowe
noun
(chiefly Scotland and Ulster) A small hill; a knoll.
verb
Obsolete spelling of know
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
maewo
menow
menow
noun
Obsolete form of minnow.
meows
meows
noun
plural of meow
verb
Third-person singular simple present indicative form of meow
merow
mowed
mowed
verb
simple past tense and past participle of mow
mower
mower
noun
A farm machine used in hay production (sickle mower, finger-bar mower).
A lawnmower, a machine used to cut grass on lawns.
A person who cuts grass.
mowie
mowse
nowed
nowed
adj
(heraldry) Knotted; tied in a knot.
nowel
nowel
noun
Alternative spelling of noel
olwen
olwen
Proper noun
name from Welsh legend, specifically The Mabinogion.
owego
owego
Proper noun
a village and town in New York, USA; the village is the county seat of Tioga County.
owena
owens
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.
owned
owned
verb
simple past tense and past participle of own
owner
owner
noun
(nautical, slang) The captain of a ship.
One who owns something.
owsen
owsen
noun
(Scotland, Northern England) plural of ox
owser
powel
power
power
adj
(Singapore, colloquial) Impressive.
noun
(biblical, in the plural) In Christian angelology, an intermediate level of angels, ranked above archangels, but exact position varies by classification scheme.
(colloquial, dated) A large amount or number.
(countable) The ability to affect or influence.
(metonymically) An influential nation, company, or other such body.
(metonymically, archaic) An army, a military force.
(metonymically, chiefly in the plural) The people in charge of legal or political power, the government.
(physics, mechanics) A measure of the effectiveness that a force producing a physical effect has over time. If linear, the quotient of: (force multiplied by the displacement of or in an object) ÷ time. If rotational, the quotient of: (force multiplied by the angle of displacement) ÷ time.
(set theory) Cardinality.
(social) The ability to coerce, influence, or control.
(statistics) The probability that a statistical test will reject the null hypothesis when the alternative hypothesis is true.
A measure of the rate of doing work or transferring energy.
A product of equal factors (and generalizations of this notion): xⁿ, read as "x to the power of n" or the like, is called a power and denotes the product x⨯x⨯⋯⨯x, where x appears n times in the product; x is called the base and n the exponent.
Any of the elementary forms or parts of machines: three primary (the lever, inclined plane, and pulley) and three secondary (the wheel-and-axle, wedge, and screw).
Control or coercion, particularly legal or political (jurisdiction).
Electricity or a supply of electricity.
Physical force or strength.
The ability to do or undergo something.
The strength by which a lens or mirror magnifies an optical image.
verb
(transitive) To hit or kick something forcefully.
(transitive) To provide power for (a mechanical or electronic device).
To enable or provide the impetus for.
reown
rerow
resow
resow
verb
To sow again, to plant seed where it has already been planted.
rewon
rewon
verb
simple past tense and past participle of rewin
rowed
rowed
adj
Formed into a row, or rows; having a specified number of rows.
verb
simple past tense and past participle of row
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.
rowen
rowen
noun
A second crop of hay; aftermath.
A stubble field left unploughed until late in the autumn, so that it can be cropped by cattle.
rower
rower
noun
A rowing machine.
One who rows.
rowet
rowte
serow
serow
noun
Any of several species of Asian ungulates of the genus Capricornis.
sowed
sowed
verb
simple past tense and past participle of sow
sowel
sower
sower
adj
Obsolete form of sour.
noun
One who or that which sows.
sowle
sowse
sowse
verb
Obsolete spelling of souse
sowte
stowe
stowe
Proper noun
A civil parish and former village in Buckinghamshire, England
A small village in Shropshire, England, also spelt
A census-designated place in Montgomery County, Pennsylvania, USA.
A town in Lamoille County, Vermont, USA.
An unincorporated community in Logan County, West Virginia, USA.
swego
swope
swore
swore
verb
(dialectal or colloquial) past participle of swear
simple past tense of swear
theow
theow
noun
(historical) A bondman or bondwoman; a slave.
towed
towed
verb
simple past tense and past participle of tow
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.
tower
tower
noun
(cartomancy) The nineteenth Lenormand card, representing structure, bureaucracy, stability and loneliness.
(figurative) A strong refuge; a defence.
(figuratively) Any item, such as a computer case, that is usually higher than it is wide.
(historical) A tall fashionable headdress worn in the time of King William III and Queen Anne.
(informal) An interlocking tower.
(obsolete) High flight; elevation.
A control tower.
A similarly framed structure with a platform or enclosed area on top, used as a lookout for spotting fires, plane crashes, fugitives, etc.
A very tall iron-framed structure, usually painted red and white, on which microwave, radio, satellite, or other communication antennas are installed; mast.
A water tower.
Any very tall building or structure; skyscraper.
One who tows.
The sixteenth trump or Major Arcana card in many Tarot decks, usually deemed an ill omen.
verb
(intransitive) To be high or lofty; to soar.
(intransitive) To be very tall.
(obsolete, transitive) To soar into.
towie
towie
Proper noun
, a television reality show based in Essex, England.
towne
towne
noun
Obsolete form of town.
twoes
vowed
vowed
adj
Undertaken in accordance with a vow; solemnly promised.
verb
past participle of vow
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).
vower
vower
noun
One who makes a vow.
wenoa
weott
wesco
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.
whone
whore
whore
noun
(derogatory) Synonym of prostitute: a person (especially a woman) who offers sexual services for payment.
(vulgar, derogatory) A contemptible person.
(vulgar, derogatory) A person who is sexually promiscuous; a slut.
(vulgar, derogatory) A person who is unscrupulous, especially one who compromises their principles for gain.
(vulgar, derogatory) A person who will violate behavioral standards to achieve something desired.
verb
(intransitive, vulgar) To engage the services of a prostitute.
(intransitive, vulgar) To prostitute oneself.
(intransitive, vulgar) To pursue false goals.
(intransitive, vulgar) To pursue false gods.
(transitive, slang, video games, vulgar, derogatory) To overuse something.
(transitive, vulgar) To pimp; to pander.
(transitive, vulgar) To promote shamelessly.
whose
whose
det
(interrogative) Of whom, belonging to whom; which person's or people's.
(relative) Of which, belonging to which.
(relative) Of whom, belonging to whom.
pron
(interrogative) That or those of whom or belonging to whom.
(relative) That or those of whom or belonging to whom.
woden
woden
Proper noun
The Germanic chief god, distributor of talents and god of wisdom and war.
wodge
wodge
noun
(chiefly UK, Ireland, colloquial) A bulk mass, usually of small items, particularly money; a wad
woibe
woken
woken
verb
past participle of wake
wolfe
wolfe
noun
Obsolete spelling of wolf
wolve
wolve
verb
Of an organ, to make a hollow whining sound like that of a wolf.
To behave like a wolf.
women
women
noun
Misspelling of woman.
plural of woman
wooed
wooed
verb
simple past tense and past participle of woo
wooer
wooer
noun
Someone who woos or courts.
worse
worse
adj
comparative form of bad: more bad
comparative form of ill: more ill
adv
(sentence adverb) Used to start a sentence describing something that is worse.
Less skillfully.
More severely or seriously.
comparative form of badly (adverb): more badly
comparative form of ill: more ill.
noun
(obsolete) Loss; disadvantage; defeat.
That which is worse; something less good.
verb
(obsolete, transitive) To make worse; to put at disadvantage; to discomfit.
woven
woven
adj
Fabricated by weaving.
Interlaced
noun
A cloth formed by weaving. It only stretches in the bias directions (between the warp and weft directions), unless the threads are elastic.
verb
past participle of weave
wowed
wowed
verb
To apply an emoticon with the meaning of "wow"
simple past tense and past participle of wow
wroke
wroke
verb
simple past tense of wreak
wrote
wrote
verb
(now colloquial and nonstandard) past participle of write
simple past tense of write
yowed
yowes
yowes
noun
plural of yowe
yowie
yowie
noun
(Australia, cryptozoology) An ape-like monster or animal said to exist in parts of eastern Australia.
(Australian Aboriginal mythology) A kind of primordial living entity created by Yhi and Bunjil from Baiame's body.
zowie
zowie
intj
(US, slang) An indication of astonishment or admiration.