(dated) Causing fear or horror; appalling, terrible.
(now rare) Inspiring awe; filling with profound reverence or respect; profoundly impressive.
(now rare) Struck or filled with awe or reverence.
(obsolete) Terror-stricken.
Exceedingly great; usually applied intensively.
Very bad.
adv
(colloquial) Awfully; dreadfully; terribly.
(colloquial, US, Canada) Very, extremely.
bulow
bunow
dawut
eutaw
fulwa
futwa
gutow
iflwu
ilgwu
lubow
miauw
mweru
mweru
Proper noun
A lake on the border between Zambia and Congo.
nuaaw
nugmw
paauw
paauw
noun
(South Africa) A kind of bustard.
piwut
quawk
quawk
noun
(US) The black-crowned night heron, Nycticorax nycticorax.
The harsh call of this or other birds.
verb
Of birds, to give loud, harsh vocalisations.
squaw
squaw
noun
(now offensive, ethnic slur) A woman, wife; especially a Native American woman.
swoun
swung
swung
verb
simple past tense and past participle of swing
swure
unbow
unbow
verb
(transitive) To unbend (something).
uncow
unfew
unlaw
unlaw
noun
(obsolete) A crime, an illegal action.
(obsolete) A fine exacted from a transgressor of the law.
Absence of law; lawlessness.
verb
(transitive) To deprive of the authority or character of law.
(transitive) To put beyond the protection of the law; to outlaw.
(transitive, obsolete, Scotland, law) To fine.
unmew
unmew
verb
(transitive) To release from confinement or restraint.
unnew
unown
unrow
unrwa
unsew
unsew
verb
(transitive) To undo something sewn or enclosed by sewing; to rip apart; to take out the stitches of.
unwan
unwas
unwax
unwax
verb
(transitive) To remove wax from.
unweb
unweb
verb
To undo a web or webbing.
unwed
unwed
adj
Not married.
noun
One who is not married; a bachelor or a spinster.
Should unweds living together receive the same social benefits as married couples?
verb
(transitive) To annul the marriage of.
(transitive, figurative) To separate.
unwet
unwet
adj
Not wet.
unwig
unwig
verb
(intransitive) To take off one's wig.
(transitive) To remove (someone) from a position marked by the wearing of a wig, such as that of barrister or judge.
(transitive) To remove a wig from.
unwit
unwit
noun
(obsolete) Lack of wit or understanding; ignorance.
verb
To deprive of wit.
unwon
unwon
adj
Not won.
unwry
upbow
upbow
noun
(music) A note performed on a string instrument by drawing the bow upward or to the left across the instrument, moving the point of contact from the bow's tip toward the frog.
verb
(geology) To bend or arc upwards.
upwax
upway
uwcsa
uwton
vrouw
vrouw
noun
A Dutchwoman.
waefu
wamus
wamus
noun
(historical) A ceremonial tunic among the Lakota people.
A warm knitted jacket from the southwest of the USA.
warua
wauch
waugh
waugh
adj
(dialect, Scotland and Northern England) Insipid; tasteless.
verb
Alternative form of waff (“to bark”)
wauks
wauks
verb
Third-person singular simple present indicative form of wauk
wauls
wauls
verb
Third-person singular simple present indicative form of waul
wauna
wauns
waura
wausa
wauve
wauve
noun
(UK, regional, obsolete) The dish of a wheel; the angle at which spokes are fixed in its nave.
wburg
wekau
wekau
noun
(zoology) An extinct small New Zealand owl with short wings and long legs that lived chiefly on the ground, Sceloglaux albifacies.
whauk
whaup
whaup
noun
(Scotland) The curlew, Numenius arquata.
whaur
whuff
whuff
noun
A blowing or puffing noise.
verb
To make a blowing or puffing noise.
whulk
whump
whump
noun
(fandom slang) A genre of fan fiction in which a character endures injury, torture, or other forms of physical and mental suffering.
(informal) A thumping sound.
verb
(informal, transitive) To strike something with a whump.
whush
whute
winou
woful
woful
adj
Obsolete spelling of woeful
wogul
wouch
wough
wough
noun
(obsolete) A wall.
would
would
noun
Something that would happen, or would be the case, under different circumstances; a potentiality.
verb
(archaic) Used with ellipsis of the infinitive verb, or postponement to a relative clause, in various senses.
(archaic) Wanted to.
(chiefly archaic) Might wish (+ verb in past subjunctive); often used in the first person (with or without that) in the sense of "if only".
(chiefly archaic, transitive or control verb) Might desire; wish (something).
(obsolete) Wished, desired (something).
Could naturally have been expected to (given the tendencies of someone's character etc.).
Suggesting conditionality or potentiality in order to express a sense of politeness, tentativeness, indirectness, hesitancy, uncertainty, etc.
Used as the auxiliary of the simple conditional modality, indicating a state or action that is conditional on another.
Used interrogatively to express a polite request; are (you) willing to …?
Used to express the speaker's belief or assumption.
Used to express what the speaker would do in another person's situation, as a means of giving a suggestion or recommendation.
Used to form the "anterior future", or "future in the past", indicating a futurity relative to a past time.
Used to; was or were habitually accustomed to; indicating an action in the past that happened repeatedly or commonly.
Was or were determined to; indicating someone's insistence upon doing something.
Without explicit condition, or with loose or vague implied condition, indicating a hypothetical or imagined state or action.
wound
wound
noun
(criminal law) An injury to a person by which the skin is divided or its continuity broken.
(figuratively) A hurt to a person's feelings, reputation, prospects, etc.
An injury, such as a cut, stab, or tear, to a (usually external) part of the body.
verb
(transitive) To hurt (a person's feelings).
(transitive) To hurt or injure (someone) by cutting, piercing, or tearing the skin.
simple past tense and past participle of wind
wrung
wrung
verb
simple past tense and past participle of wring
wudge
wuhan
wuhan
Proper noun
A sub-provincial city in central China; capital of Hubei Province.
wulfe
wundt
wunna
wunna
pron
(Barbados) You (plural); y'all, you guys, you all.
wuppe
wurly
wurly
adj
(Northern England (Yorkshire), Scotland) Of an object: derisorily small, tiny; of a person: puny, stunted.
(Scotland) gnarled, knotted; wizened, wrinkled.
noun
(chiefly South Australia) Alternative spelling of wurley.