(nautical) A knot tied so as to produce an eye or loop in the end of a rope that will not slip or jam.
(nautical) A rope fastened near the middle of the leech or perpendicular edge of the square sails.
brewing
brewing
noun
The business or occupation of a brewer.
The forming of a storm or the gathering of clouds.
The production of alcoholic beverages, such as beer, by fermentation; the process of being brewed.
The quantity of a brew made in a single batch.
verb
present participle of brew
brownie
brownie
noun
(Australia, New Zealand, colloquial) A tall, long-necked beer bottle, made from brown coloured glass.
(cooking) A small square piece of rich cake, usually made with chocolate.
(ethnic slur, offensive) A person of Arab, Indian or Hispanic descent. Sometimes used for a Native American or Pacific Islander.
(folklore) A mythical creature, a helpful elf who would secretly do people's housework for them.
(informal) The widow rockfish (Sebastes entomelas), a fish in the family Sebastidae.
(paganism) A household spirit or revered ancestor.
A girl in the first level of Girl Guides (US: Girl Scouts).
Any of various lycaenid butterflies of the Eurasian genus Miletus.
Coordinate term: greenie
chewing
chewing
noun
(drugs) The consumption of (the juice from) the khat plant.
(drugs) The consumption of loose leaf tobacco juice from tobacco plants by chewing leaves near the cheek.
The act by which something is chewed on; mastication.
verb
present participle of chew
chewink
chewink
noun
A bird, Pipilo erythrophthalmus, the Eastern towhee.
clewing
clewing
verb
present participle of clew
cowkine
crewing
crewing
verb
present participle of crew
downier
downier
adj
comparative form of downy: more downy
downlie
dwindle
dwindle
verb
(intransitive) To decrease, shrink, diminish, reduce in size or intensity.
(intransitive, figuratively) To fall away in quality; degenerate, sink.
(transitive) To lessen; to bring low.
To break up or disperse.
eadwina
eadwine
eiswein
eiswein
noun
ice wine
elwaine
endwise
endwise
adj
On-end; upright; pertaining or relating to the end.
adv
towards the ends
upright, or standing on end
with the end towards the front or towards the observer
entwine
entwine
verb
To twist or twine around something (or one another).
entwist
entwist
verb
(transitive) To twist or wreathe around; entwine.
entwite
entwite
verb
(transitive) To twit; blame; chide.
enwiden
enwiden
verb
Broaden; diversify.
enwinds
enwinds
verb
Third-person singular simple present indicative form of enwind
enwisen
enwisen
verb
Render wiser; make scient by subtle means.
enwrite
enwrite
verb
To write upon something; inscribe; imprint.
erwinia
erwinna
eyewink
eyewink
noun
(poetic) An instant, a short moment.
The winking of an eye.
fanwise
fanwise
adj
In a radial arrangement resembling a hand-held fan.
adv
In a fanwise manner.
fawnier
fenwick
finewed
glhwein
godwine
gowdnie
gwennie
gwinner
henwife
henwife
noun
A woman in charge of domestic fowl; sometimes used contemptuously about men.
henwile
henwise
inbowed
indowed
indowed
verb
simple past tense and past participle of indow
indwell
indwell
verb
To exist within, especially as a spirit or driving force.
indwelt
ingelow
inkweed
inkwell
inkwell
noun
A container for ink, designed and usually positioned so that a person may conveniently dip a pen into it whenever a refill is needed.
insinew
inswell
inswept
inswept
adj
Narrowed at the forward end; said of an automobile frame when the side members are closer together at the forward end than at the rear.
intower
intwine
intwine
verb
Archaic spelling of entwine.
inweave
inweave
verb
(archaic, literary) To weave in or together; to intermix or intertwine by weaving; to interlace.
inwheel
inwheel
noun
The inner wheel of a mill.
verb
(rare or obsolete) To encircle.
inwoven
inwoven
verb
past participle of inweave
jawline
jawline
noun
The lower edge of the side of the face (below the cheek), defined by the jawbone.
jewling
kerwinn
kewadin
kwaiken
kweilin
lauwine
lauwine
noun
(poetic, dated) avalanche
lawines
lawines
noun
plural of lawine
lewison
lewnite
manwise
manwise
adv
(not comparable) In terms of a man.
In a way befitting a man.
meowing
meowing
noun
The act of uttering a meow.
verb
present participle of meow
mewling
mewling
noun
A sound that mewls.
verb
present participle of mewl
midewin
misknew
misknew
verb
simple past tense of misknow
misween
misween
verb
(obsolete) To believe wrongly; to misconceive.
miswend
miswend
verb
(obsolete) To go wrong; to stray.
miswern
netwise
netwise
adj
(rare) Like a net or lattice; netlike, latticelike.
adv
(rare) In the manner or configuration of a net
newbill
newfish
newings
newings
noun
plural of newing
newkirk
newline
newline
noun
(computing) The character or character sequence that indicates the end of a line of text and transition to the next line; or, a control code or escape sequence used in a programming language to denote this character.
newlins
newsier
newsier
adj
comparative form of newsy: more newsy
newsies
newsies
noun
plural of newsie
plural of newsy
oelwein
overwin
overwin
noun
(UK dialectal) The win or winning of a game.
verb
(transitive, UK dialectal) To overcome; gain one's point; exceed.
owenian
owenian
Adjective
Of or relating to (1771–1858), Welsh social reformer and one of the founders of and the cooperative movement.
owenism
owenism
Noun
The socialist utopian philosophy of
owenist
owenist
Adjective
Relating to Owenism
Noun
A proponent of Owenism
owenite
owenite
Noun
A follower of (1771–1858), Welsh social reformer and one of the founders of utopian socialism.
owenize
panowie
pietown
pinwale
pinwale
noun
A corduroy fabric having narrow ribs.
pinweed
pinweed
noun
Any of the genus Lechea of low North American herbs with branching stems, and very small and abundant leaves and flowers.
redwine
redwing
redwing
noun
A small thrush, Turdus iliacus, native to Eurasia, with a white eye stripe and red under-wing feathers.
renwick
retwine
rewiden
rewiden
verb
To widen again.
rewinds
rewinds
noun
plural of rewind
verb
Third-person singular simple present indicative form of rewind
scewing
sewings
sewings
noun
plural of sewing
sherwin
shewing
shewing
verb
(archaic) present participle of shew
sinewed
sinewed
adj
(figuratively) Equipped; strengthened.
Furnished with sinews.
skewing
skewing
noun
The act of making something skewed; an alteration in a particular direction.
verb
present participle of skew
slewing
slewing
verb
present participle of slew
snowier
snowier
adj
comparative form of snowy: more snowy
spewing
spewing
noun
Material spewed or vomited.
verb
present participle of spew
stewing
stewing
noun
The act by which something is stewed.
verb
present participle of stew
sunview
sunwise
sunwise
adv
(nonstandard) clockwise.
swankie
swankie
noun
(Scotland) An active and clever young fellow.
(obsolete) Poor thin beer or any sloppy drink, even sweetened water and vinegar.
swidden
swidden
noun
An area of land that has been cleared by cutting the vegetation and burning it; slash and burn.
verb
To clear an area of land by cutting and burning.
swiften
swiften
verb
(transitive, intransitive) To make or become swifter or faster; to hasten.
swindle
swindle
noun
(chess) when a player in a losing position plays a clever move that provokes an error from the opponent, thus achieving a win or a draw
An instance of swindling.
Anything that is deceptively not what it appears to be.
verb
(chess) for a player in a losing position to play a clever move that provokes an error from the opponent, thus achieving a win or a draw
(transitive) To defraud.
(transitive, intransitive) To obtain (money or property) by fraudulent or deceitful methods.
swinely
swinery
swinery
noun
A piggery.
swinged
swinged
verb
(nonstandard) simple past tense and past participle of swing
simple past tense and past participle of swinge
swingel
swingel
noun
Alternative form of swingle
swinger
swinger
noun
(obsolete, slang) Anything very large, forcible, or astonishing.
(politics, informal) A swing voter.
A bet in which the bettor must correctly pick two runners to finish in any of the places in any order.
A performer of swing music or whose style is influenced by swing.
A person who practices swinging (sex with different partners).
One who swinges.
One who swings.
swinges
swinges
noun
plural of swinge
swingle
swingle
noun
An implement used to separate the fibres of flax by beating them; a scutch.
The swinging part of a flail, especially that which is used on the grain in threshing; the swiple.
verb
(obsolete, UK, dialect) To swing for pleasure.
(transitive) To beat or flog, especially for extracting the fibres from flax stalks; to scutch.
To dangle; to wave hanging.
swinked
swinked
verb
simple past tense and past participle of swink
swinker
swinker
noun
(archaic or dialectal) A toiler; a labourer.
swinney
swinney
noun
Alternative form of sweeny
swithen
tawnier
tawnier
adj
comparative form of tawny: more tawny
tawnies
tawnies
noun
(obsolete) Clothes made of tawny-coloured fabric.
plural of tawny
verb
(obsolete) Third-person singular simple present indicative form of tawny
tinware
tinware
noun
Household items such as utensils, pots, and pans made from tin, generally before the development of metals with other benefits.
towline
towline
noun
A line or rope used for towing a vehicle.
townies
townies
noun
plural of townie
twiggen
twiggen
adj
(archaic) Made of twigs or osier; wicker.
twindle
twindle
noun
(chiefly dialectal) A twin or twinling.
twiners
twiners
noun
plural of twiner
twinged
twinged
verb
simple past tense and past participle of twinge
twinges
twinges
noun
plural of twinge
verb
Third-person singular simple present indicative form of twinge
twingle
twingle
noun
(automotive) A four-stroke twin-cylinder engine with an altered firing order designed to give power pulses similar to a single-cylinder four-stroke engine.
twinier
twinjet
twinjet
noun
(aviation) An aircraft powered by two jet engines.
(physics) Two jets of particles from an event or source.
twinkle
twinkle
noun
(childish) The female genitalia.
(colloquial) A brief moment; a twinkling.
a flitting movement
a sparkle of delight in the eyes.
a sparkle or glimmer of light
verb
(chiefly of eyes) to be bright with delight
(of a source of light) to shine with a flickering light; to glimmer
to bat, blink or wink the eyes
to flit to and fro
twinned
twinned
adj
Produced at, or as if at, a single birth; united.
verb
simple past tense and past participle of twin
twinner
twinner
noun
(uncommon) One who is identical, is similar, or is a counterpart, to another person, city, etc; a twin.
One who gives birth to twins; a breeder of twins.
twinset
twinset
noun
(railways) A pair of cars or locomotives that are permanently coupled and treated as a single unit.
(underwater diving) A pair of cylinders containing air for the diver to breathe.
A combination of a cardigan and a jumper, usually knitted in wool or cashmere.
twinter
twinter
noun
(UK, dialect, obsolete) An animal two winters old.
twitten
twitten
noun
(Sussex) a narrow path between two walls or hedges, especially on hills. For example, small alleyways leading between two buildings to courtyards, streets, or open areas behind.
uniwear
unsinew
unsinew
verb
(transitive) To deprive of sinews or strength.
untwine
untwine
verb
(intransitive) To become untwisted or disentangled.
(transitive) To free (one thing that is entwined with another), disentangle, extricate.
(transitive) To untwist the strands of (something entwined).