An Anglo-Saxon personal name, usually with reference to the hero of an Old English epic poem, or to the poem itself.
blowfly
blowfly
noun
Any of various flies of the family Calliphoridae that lay their eggs in rotting meat, dung, or open wounds.
blowoff
blowoff
noun
(UK, slang) A fart.
(colloquial) An outburst of temper or excitement.
A blowing off of steam, water, etc.
Something that is blown off.
The explosive separation of part of a rocket etc in order to prevent its destruction and allow for retrieval
bowlful
bowlful
Noun
As much as is held by a bowl.
conflow
conflow
verb
to flow together into one stream, to converge
cowflap
cowflap
noun
Alternative form of cowflop (“a cowpat”)
cowflop
cowflop
noun
A cowpat.
crawful
crawful
noun
As much (of something one dislikes) as one can accept.
Enough to fill the craw.
cynwulf
dewfall
dewfall
noun
The forming of dew.
The time when dew begins to form.
elfwife
elfwort
fallows
fallows
noun
plural of fallow (uncultivated land)
verb
Third-person singular simple present indicative form of fallow
fallway
fallway
noun
(US) A well or opening, through the successive floors of a factory or warehouse or the decks of a ship, providing access for goods, material, or people.
A hydraulic canal, as for a water-powered mill.
farwell
farwell
Proper noun
an unincorporated community in California, USA.
a village in Michigan, USA.
a tiny city in Minnesota, USA.
a village in Nebraska, USA.
a small city in Texas, USA
fellows
fellows
noun
plural of fellow
verb
Third-person singular simple present indicative form of fellow
felwort
felwort
noun
A European herb, Swertia perennis (star swertia), of the gentian family.
Any member of any species in genus Swertia.
Any member of any species in the tribe Gentianeae
flamfew
flamfew
noun
(Scotland, obsolete) A worthless thing; a trifle or bauble.
flatway
flawful
flawful
adj
Full of flaws; flawed
flawier
flawing
flawing
verb
present participle of flaw
flowage
flowage
noun
A flowing or overflowing of liquid.
flowers
flowers
noun
plural of flower
verb
Third-person singular simple present indicative form of flower
flowery
flowery
adj
(not comparable) Pertaining to flowers.
(of a speech or piece of writing) overly complicated or elaborate; with grandiloquent expressions; marked by rhetorical elegance
Decorated with or abundant in flowers.
flowing
flowing
adj
Moving, proceeding or shaped smoothly, gracefully, or continuously.
Tending to flow.
noun
The action of the verb to flow
verb
present participle of flow
flowoff
flowoff
noun
A channel for conveying such liquid.
Liquid that flows off or out of something.
flyaway
flyaway
adj
(of hair) Soft, light, unruly, and difficult to set into a style.
Disposed to fly away; unrestrained; light and free.
Flighty; frivolous
noun
(gymnastics) A kind of dismount from bars that incorporates one or more flips or twists.
(television) A portable satellite television antenna.
A stray hair that is difficult to style.
Anything that is difficult to capture or restrain.
flyblew
flyblew
verb
simple past tense of flyblow
flyblow
flyblow
noun
The larva of the blowfly, especially when found on rotten meat.
verb
(transitive) To deposit eggs upon, as a blowfly does on meat; to cause to be maggoty.
(transitive, by extension) To taint or contaminate.
flyswat
flyswat
noun
flyswatter
flyways
flyways
noun
plural of flyway
flywire
flywire
noun
(chiefly Australia) A type of screening used to exclude flies and other insects.
flywort
folkway
folkway
noun
Often plural: a belief or custom common to members of a culture or society.
follows
follows
noun
plural of follow
verb
Third-person singular simple present indicative form of follow
forblow
forslow
forslow
verb
(intransitive, obsolete) To be slow or dilatory; loiter.
(transitive, obsolete) To be dilatory about; put off; postpone; neglect; omit.
(transitive, obsolete) To delay; hinder; impede; obstruct.
forwalk
forwalk
verb
(transitive) To walk (someone) excessively; weary with walking.
forwelk
forwelk
verb
(intransitive, obsolete) To wither; decay; fade.
fowells
fowlers
fowlers
noun
plural of fowler
fowlery
fowlery
noun
A place where fowl are raised.
fowling
fowling
noun
A session of hunting fowl.
verb
present participle of fowl
fowlkes
fowlpox
fowlpox
noun
A disease of poultry caused by viruses of the family Poxviridae and the genus Avipoxvirus.
frowzly
glowfly
halfway
halfway
adv
Half of the way between two points; midway.
Moderately; somewhat.
halfwit
halfwit
noun
(informal) Someone lacking in intelligence.
inflows
inflows
noun
plural of inflow
jawfall
jawfall
noun
(archaic, Caribbean) trismus
lawford
lifeway
lifeway
noun
(now chiefly Canada, US) One's path through life; a lifestyle or behaviour, now especially when seen as traditional.
lowlife
lowlife
noun
(derogatory) An untrustworthy, despicable, or disreputable person, especially one suspected of being a criminal.
mayfowl
mudflow
mudflow
noun
A type of landslide characterized by large flows of mud and water.
The dried-out product of such a flow.
newfeld
newsful
newsful
adj
Full of news; supplying news.
oatfowl
oidwlfe
oldwife
oldwife
noun
Alternative form of old wife (“various types of fish”)
outflew
outflew
verb
simple past tense of outfly
outflow
outflow
noun
(astronomy) A stream of gaseous material emanating from an active galactic nucleus.
(sewage) Something that flows out of a sewage treatment plant.
A fluid that flows out.
Any outward movement.
The part of a system that allows material to flow out.
verb
(intransitive) To flow outward.
ownself
ownself
pron
(now chiefly regional, especially Southern US, Caribbean, Singlish) (One's) self; used with a preceding possessive adjective to form a pronominal phrase.
peafowl
peafowl
noun
A pheasant of the genus Pavo or Afropavo, notable for the extravagant tails of the males; a peacock (unspecified sex).
reflown
reflown
verb
past participle of refly
reflows
reflows
verb
Third-person singular simple present indicative form of reflow
safflow
safflow
noun
Obsolete form of safflower.
sawflom
seafowl
seafowl
Noun
Any bird that spends most of its time in coastal waters or over the oceans.
showful
showful
adj
(archaic) showy; gaudy
noun
Enough to fill a show.
slowful
swayful
swayful
adj
Able to sway; swaying.
Full of sway or influence; influential; powerful.
swiftly
swiftly
adv
In a swift manner; quickly; with quick motion or velocity; fleetly.
townful
townful
noun
As many people as a town can hold.
twelfth
twelfth
adj
The ordinal form of the number twelve, describing a person or thing in position number 12 of a sequence.
noun
(music) An interval equal to an octave plus a fifth.
One of twelve equal parts of a whole.
twifoil
twifoil
noun
(heraldry) A head of two leaves growing out of a stem.
twifold
twifold
adv
(archaic) In a twofold manner or measure.
twigful
twigful
noun
As much as a twig will hold.
twofold
twofold
adj
Double; duplicate; multiplied by two.
Having two parts, especially two different parts.
adv
In a double degree; doubly.
unaflow
unaflow
adj
Alternative form of uniflow
unawful
undflow
unflown
unflown
adj
not flown
uniflow
uniflow
adj
(of a steam engine) In which steam flows in one direction only in each half of the cylinder.
(of an engine) In which the gas mixture enters at one end of the cylinder controlled by the piston and the exhaust exits at the other.
unwoful
upflows
upflows
verb
Third-person singular simple present indicative form of upflow
waffled
waffled
adj
Having a waffle-like pattern of intersecting creases.
verb
simple past tense and past participle of waffle
waffles
waffles
noun
plural of waffle
wailful
wailful
adj
(chiefly poetic) Sorrowful; mournful.
wainful
wainful
noun
A quantity that fills a wain; wagonful.
wakeful
wakeful
adj
Awake; not sleeping.
Sleepless.
Vigilant and alert; watchful.
walcoff
waldorf
waldorf
Noun
A Waldorf salad.
Proper noun
A city in Maryland.
A city in Minnesota.
walford
wallful
wallful
noun
As much as (the surface of) a wall will hold
wameful
wameful
noun
(Scotland, Northern England) A bellyful.
wantful
wantful
adj
Full of want or desire; desirous.
Full of want or lack; lacking; poor.
wareful
wareful
adj
(obsolete) wary; watchful; cautious
warfeld
warfold
warmful
warmful
adj
(archaic) Full of warmth; warming.
warwolf
warwolf
noun
Obsolete form of werewolf.
wealful
wealful
adj
Happy; joyful; felicitous.
Successful; prosperous.
weedful
weedful
adj
full of weeds
weepful
weepful
adj
(obsolete) Full of weeping or lamentation.
welfare
welfare
noun
(chiefly US) Such payment.
(uncountable) Health, safety, happiness and prosperity; well-being in any respect.
(uncountable, chiefly US) Various forms of financial aid provided by the government to those who are in need of it (often called welfare assistance in UK English).
verb
(transitive) To provide with welfare or aid.
welford
werwolf
werwolf
noun
Dated spelling of werewolf.
whiffle
whiffle
noun
(obsolete) A fife or small flute.
(obsolete) Something small or insignificant; a trifle.
A short blow or gust.
verb
(UK) To waste time.
(intransitive) To waver, or shake, as if moved by gusts of wind; to shift, turn, or veer about.
(ornithology, of a bird) To descend rapidly from a height once the decision to land has been made, involving fast side-slipping first one way and then the other.
(transitive) To wave or shake quickly; to cause to whiffle.
To blow a short gust.
To change from one opinion or course to another; to use evasions; to prevaricate; to be fickle.
To disperse with, or as with, a whiff, or puff; to scatter.
To travel quickly with an accompanying wind-like sound; whizz, whistle along.
To waffle, talk aimlessly.
whuffle
whuffle
verb
(intransitive) To make a low snuffling or blowing sound.
wifelet
wifelet
noun
(colloquial, endearing) A wife.
(informal, by extension) A long-term girlfriend; a mistress (the “other woman” in an extramarital relationship).
(informal, by extension) A wife who is of small stature.
wileful
wileful
adj
Full of wiles; deceitful.
wilfred
wilfred
Proper noun
name, popular in the U.K. in the early twentieth century.
wilfrid
wilfrid
Proper noun
name, a less common form of Wilfred.
willful
willful
adj
US standard spelling of wilful.
winfall
wishful
wishful
adj
(obsolete) Wished-for; desired, wanted.
Aspiring, or seeking advancement.
Expressing a wish or longing for something.
wistful
wistful
adj
Full of longing or yearning.
Sad and thoughtful.
witloof
witloof
noun
(cooking) Belgian endive, common chicory (Cichorium intybus)
wlatful
woffler
wofully
wofully
adv
Archaic form of woefully.
wolfdom
wolfdom
noun
The world of wolves.
wolfers
wolfers
noun
plural of wolfer
wolffia
wolfian
wolfing
wolfing
noun
The hunting of wolves for their skins.
verb
present participle of wolf
wolfish
wolfish
adj
Fierce; menacing; savage.
Having the characteristics or habits of a wolf.
Pertaining to wolves.
wolfkin
wolfkin
noun
(fantasy) Any of various nonhuman and non-wolf fantasy creatures that have features of a wolf.
A young or small wolf.
wolfman
wolfman
noun
A werewolf or lycanthrope.
wolfmen
wolfmen
noun
plural of wolfman
wolford
wolfort
wolfpen
wolfram
wolfram
noun
(dated) tungsten
wolframite
wolfson
woofell
woofell
noun
The Eurasian blackbird (Turdus merula)
workful
workful
adj
(rare) Full of activity or work; laborious; industrious.