(figuratively, often in the plural) That which gives strength or in which strength consists; a supporting factor or member; mainstay.
A cord or string, particularly (music) as of a musical instrument.
verb
(transitive) To knit together or make strong with, or as if with, sinews.
swile
swine
swine
noun
(archaic) plural of sow
(derogatory) A contemptible person (plural swines).
(plural swine) A pig (the animal).
(slang, derogatory) A police officer; a "pig".
(slang, derogatory) Something difficult or awkward; a pain.
swipe
swipe
noun
(countable) A quick grab, bat, or other motion with the hand or paw; a sweep.
(countable) A strong blow given with a sweeping motion, as with a bat or club.
(countable) An act of passing a swipecard through a card reader.
(countable, graphical user interface) An act of interacting with a touch screen by drawing the finger rapidly across it.
(countable, informal) A rough guess; an estimate or swag.
(countable, informal) An attack, insult or critical remark.
(uncountable) Poor, weak beer or other inferior alcoholic beverage; rotgut.
verb
(intransitive) To grab or bat quickly.
(transitive) To scan or register by sliding (a swipecard etc.) through a reader.
(transitive) To strike with a strong blow in a sweeping motion.
(transitive, informal) To steal or snatch.
(transitive, intransitive, graphical user interface) To interact with a touch screen by drawing one's finger rapidly across it.
swire
swire
noun
(obsolete) The neck.
A hollow between two hills or peaks, especially with a road running through it; a vale.
swive
swive
verb
(archaic, transitive) To copulate with (a woman).
(archaic, transitive, dialectal) To cut a crop in a sweeping or rambling manner, hence to reap; cut for harvest.
tawie
tawie
adj
(Scotland, of an animal) Docile or tractable to the extent of allowing itself to be handled without complaint.
tewit
tewit
noun
(Northern England, Scotland) A northern lapwing, Vanellus vanellus.
towie
towie
Proper noun
, a television reality show based in Essex, England.
tweil
twice
twice
adv
(usually with "as", of a specified quality) Doubled in quantity, intensity, or degree.
Two times.
twier
twier
noun
Alternative spelling of tuyere
twine
twine
noun
A strong thread composed of two or three smaller threads or strands twisted together, and used for various purposes, as for binding small parcels, making nets, and the like; a small cord or string.
A twist; a convolution.
Intimate and suggestive dance gyrations.
The act of twining or winding round.
verb
(intransitive) To ascend in spiral lines about a support; to climb spirally.
(intransitive) To mutually twist together; to become mutually involved; to intertwine.
(intransitive) To wind; to bend; to make turns; to meander.
(obsolete) To change the direction of.
(obsolete) To mingle; to mix.
(obsolete) To turn round; to revolve.
(transitive) To weave together.
(transitive) To wind about; to embrace; to entwine.
(transitive) To wind, as one thread around another, or as any flexible substance around another body.
Alternative form of twin (“to separate”)
twire
twire
noun
A sly glance; a leer.
A twisted filament; a thread.
verb
(intransitive) To glance shyly or slyly; look askance; make eyes; leer; peer; pry.
(intransitive) To twinkle; sparkle; wink.
(transitive) To twist; twirl.
twite
twite
noun
A small passerine bird, Linaria flavirostris (syn. Carduelis flavirostris), that breeds in northern Europe and across central Asia.
views
views
noun
plural of view
verb
Third-person singular simple present indicative form of view
viewy
viewy
adj
(colloquial, now rare) Superficially attractive; showy.
(now rare) Having strong views or opinions.
vinew
vinew
noun
(obsolete) Moldiness, mould.
verb
(obsolete) To become musty or mouldy.
waine
waise
waite
waite
verb
Archaic spelling of wait.
waive
waive
noun
(obsolete) A waif; a castaway.
(obsolete, law) A woman put out of the protection of the law; an outlawed woman.
verb
(intransitive, obsolete) To stray, wander.
(now rare) To put aside, avoid.
(obsolete) To abandon, give up (someone or something).
(obsolete) To move from side to side; to sway.
(obsolete) To outlaw (someone).
(particularly) To relinquish claim on a payment or fee which would otherwise be due.
(transitive, law) To relinquish (a right etc.); to give up claim to; to forgo.
weide
weigh
weigh
verb
(intransitive) To be considered as important; to have weight in the intellectual balance.
(intransitive) To have weight; to be heavy; to press down.
(intransitive, figuratively, obsolete) To judge; to estimate.
(intransitive, nautical) To weigh anchor.
(obsolete) To consider as worthy of notice; to regard.
(transitive) Often with "out", to measure a certain amount of something by its weight, e.g. for sale.
(transitive) To consider a subject.
(transitive) To determine the weight of an object.
(transitive, figuratively) To determine the intrinsic value or merit of an object, to evaluate.
(transitive, nautical) To raise an anchor free of the seabed.
(transitive, stative) To have a certain weight.
To bear up; to raise; to lift into the air; to swing up.
weihs
weill
weird
weird
adj
(archaic) Connected with fate or destiny; able to influence fate.
(archaic) Having supernatural or preternatural power.
(archaic) Of or pertaining to the Fates.
(archaic) Of or pertaining to witches or witchcraft; supernatural; unearthly; suggestive of witches, witchcraft, or unearthliness; wild; uncanny.
Deviating from the normal; bizarre.
Having an unusually strange character or behaviour.
adv
(nonstandard) In a strange manner.
noun
(archaic) Fate; destiny; luck.
(archaic, in the plural) The Fates (personified).
(informal) Weirdness.
(obsolete, Scotland) A spell or charm.
A prediction.
That which comes to pass; a fact.
verb
(transitive) To destine; doom; change by witchcraft or sorcery.
(transitive) To warn solemnly; adjure.
weirs
weirs
noun
plural of weir
weism
weism
noun
wegotism
weiss
wendi
whein
wheki
wheki
noun
Dicksonia squarrosa, a fast-growing tree fern endemic to New Zealand.
while
while
conj
(Northern England, Scotland) Until.
(media, public policy) Used to denote an individual experiencing racial profiling when performing a seemingly benign activity.
Although.
As long as.
During the same time that.
noun
(Philippines) an uncertain short moment
(US) an uncertain long period of time
An uncertain duration of time, a period of time.
verb
(intransitive, archaic) To elapse, to pass.
(transitive) To occupy or entertain (someone) in order to let time pass.
(transitive, now only in combination with away; see also while away) To pass (time) idly.
Alternative spelling or misspelling of wile.
whine
whine
noun
A complaint or criticism.
A long-drawn, high-pitched complaining cry or sound.
verb
(intransitive) To complain or protest with a whine or as if with a whine.
(intransitive) To make a sound resembling such a cry.
(intransitive) To move with a whining sound.
(intransitive) To utter a high-pitched cry.
(transitive) To utter with the sound of a whine.
white
white
adj
(archaic) Characterized by freedom from that which disturbs, and the like; fortunate; happy; favourable.
(board games, chess) The standard denomination of the playing pieces of a board game deemed to belong to the white set, no matter what the actual colour.
(chiefly historical) Designated for use by Caucasians.
(obsolete) Regarded with especial favour; favourite; darling.
(of a person or skin) Lacking coloration (tan) from ultraviolet light; not tanned.
(of a set of armor) Alwhite, pertaining to white armor.
(of an animal) Affected by leucism.
(of coffee or tea) Containing cream, milk, or creamer.
(of tea) Made from immature leaves and shoots.
(politics) Pertaining to constitutional or anti-revolutionary political parties or movements.
(sometimes capitalized) Of or relating to Caucasians, people of European descent with light-coloured skin.
(typography) Not containing characters; see white space.
(typography) Said of a symbol or character outline, not solid, not filled with color. Compare black (“said of a character or symbol filled with color”).
Bright and colourless; reflecting equal quantities of all frequencies of visible light.
Characterised by the presence of snow.
Grey, as from old age; having silvery hair; hoary.
Honourable, fair; decent.
Pale or pallid, as from fear, illness, etc.
Pertaining to an ecclesiastical order whose adherents dress in white habits; Cistercian.
Relatively light or pale in colour.
noun
(anatomy) The sclera, white of the eye.
(archery) The central part of the butt, which was formerly painted white; the centre of a mark at which a missile is shot.
(countable and uncountable) White coffee
(countable and uncountable) White wine.
(slang, US, UK) Cocaine
(sports, billiards, snooker, pool) The cue ball in cue games.
A feather, from the wing of the cock ostrich, that is of the palest possible shade.
A person of European descent with light-coloured skin.
A white bean
A white pigment.
Any butterfly of the subfamily Pierinae in the family Pieridae.
The albumen of bird eggs (egg white).
The color/colour of snow or milk; the colour of light containing equal amounts of all visible wavelengths.
The enclosed part of a letter of the alphabet, especially when handwritten.
The snow- or ice-covered "green" in snow golf.
verb
(transitive) To make white; to whiten; to bleach.
widen
widen
verb
(intransitive) To become wide or wider.
(transitive) To broaden or extend in scope or range.
(transitive) To let out clothes to a larger size.
(transitive) To make wide or wider.
(transitive, programming) To convert to a data type that can hold a larger number of distinct values.
wider
wider
adj
comparative form of wide: more wide
wides
wides
noun
plural of wide
wield
wield
verb
(obsolete) To carry out, to bring about.
(obsolete) To command, rule over; to possess or own.
(obsolete) To control, to guide or manage.
To exercise (authority or influence) effectively.
To handle with skill and ease, especially a weapon or tool.
wierd
wierd
adj
Misspelling of weird.
Obsolete spelling of weird
wiese
wifed
wifed
verb
simple past tense and past participle of wife
wifes
wifes
noun
(nonstandard) plural of wife
verb
Third-person singular simple present indicative form of wife
wifie
wifie
noun
(Tyneside, derogatory) A woman, especially older woman.
(UK, informal, endearing) A woman, who is a best friend of another woman.
(US, informal, endearing) One's wife.
wilde
wiled
wiled
verb
simple past tense and past participle of wile
wilek
wilen
wiles
wiles
noun
plural of wile
wiley
wiley
Proper noun
A male given name.
wilie
wince
wince
noun
A reel used in dyeing, steeping, or washing cloth; a winch. It is placed over the division wall between two wince pits so as to allow the cloth to descend into either compartment at will.
A sudden movement or gesture of shrinking away.
verb
(intransitive) To flinch as if in pain or distress.
(transitive) To wash (cloth), dip it in dye, etc., with the use of a wince.
To kick or flounce when unsteady or impatient.
wined
wined
verb
simple past tense and past participle of wine
winer
winer
noun
A person who habitually drinks wine
wines
wines
noun
plural of wine
verb
Third-person singular simple present indicative form of wine
winey
winey
adj
Alternative spelling of winy
winne
winne
adj
(obsolete) Enjoyable; delightful.
noun
(obsolete) Joy; delight; pleasure.
winze
winze
noun
A steep shaft in a mine which joins two levels.
wiped
wiped
verb
simple past tense and past participle of wipe
wiper
wiper
noun
(nautical) A junior role in the engine room of a ship, someone who wipes down machinery and generally keeps it clean.
A hybrid fish variety artificially bred from eggs of striped bass (Morone saxatilis) fertilized with white bass (Morone chrysops) sperm, or the opposite combination.
A movable electric contact in some devices.
Someone who wipes.
Something, such as a towel, that is used for wiping.
Something, such as a windscreen wiper, that is designed for wiping.
wipes
wipes
noun
plural of wipe
verb
Third-person singular simple present indicative form of wipe
wired
wired
adj
(informal, of people or communities) Connected to the Internet; online.
(poker slang) Being a pair in seven card stud with one face up and one face down.
(poker slang) Being three of a kind as the first three cards in seven card stud.
(slang) Very excited, overstimulated; high-strung.
(zoology) Having wiry feathers.
Equipped with hidden electronic eavesdropping devices.
Equipped with wires, so as to connect to a power source or to other electric or electronic equipment; connected by wires.
Reinforced, supported, tied or bound with wire.
verb
simple past tense and past participle of wire
wirer
wirer
noun
A person who installs wiring.
A tool to assist in installing wire.
One who sets a wire, or snare.
wires
wires
noun
plural of wire
verb
Third-person singular simple present indicative form of wire
wised
wised
verb
simple past tense and past participle of wise
wisen
wisen
verb
(intransitive) To become wise or wiser.
(transitive) To make wise or wiser.
wiser
wiser
adj
comparative form of wise: more wise
wises
wises
noun
plural of wise
wisse
wisse
verb
(archaic) To show, teach, inform, guide, direct.
wiste
wited
wited
verb
simple past tense and past participle of wite
witen
wites
wites
noun
plural of wite
verb
Third-person singular simple present indicative form of wite
withe
withe
noun
(architecture) A partition between flues in a chimney.
(nautical) An iron attachment on one end of a mast or boom, with a ring, through which another mast or boom is rigged out and secured.
A band of twisted twigs.
A flexible, slender twig or shoot, especially when used as a band or for binding; a withy.
An elastic handle to a tool to save the hand from the shock of blows.
verb
To beat with withes.
To bind with withes.
witte
wived
wived
verb
simple past tense and past participle of wive
wiver
wiver
noun
Obsolete form of wyvern.
wives
wives
noun
plural of wife
wizen
wizen
adj
Wizened; withered; lean and wrinkled by shrinkage as from age or illness.
verb
(transitive, intransitive) To wither; to become, or make, lean and wrinkled by shrinkage, as from age or illness.
wizes
woibe
wride
wride
noun
(dialectal) A bush having multiple stalks proceeding from a single root.
wried
wried
verb
simple past tense and past participle of wry
wrier
wries
wries
verb
Third-person singular simple present indicative form of wry
write
write
noun
(computing) The operation of storing data, as in memory or onto disk.
The act or style of writing.
verb
(computing, intransitive, with to) To record data mechanically or electronically.
(ditransitive with relative clause) To convey a fact to someone via writing.
(finance) To sell (an option or other derivative).
(intransitive) To be an author.
(transitive) To be the author of (a book, article, poem, etc.).
(transitive) To send written information to.
(transitive) To show (information, etc) in written form.
(transitive, South Africa, Canada, of an exam, a document, etc.) To fill in, to complete using words.
(transitive, intransitive) To form letters, words or symbols on a surface in order to communicate.
To impress durably; to imprint; to engrave.
To make known by writing; to record; to prove by one's own written testimony; often used reflexively.
wrive
wylie
wylie
Proper noun
A system of romanization for Tibetan, devised by
xview
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.