A hollow between two hills or peaks, especially with a road running through it; a vale.
swirl
swirl
noun
(fishing) The upward rushing of a fish through the water to take the bait.
A twist or coil of something.
A whirling eddy.
verb
(figuratively) To circulate.
(transitive, intransitive) To twist or whirl, as an eddy.
To be arranged in a twist, spiral or whorl.
twier
twier
noun
Alternative spelling of tuyere
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.
twirk
twirk
noun
Alternative form of twerk (“a twitch”)
twirl
twirl
noun
(slang) A prison guard.
A little twist of some substance; a swirl.
A movement where a person spins round elegantly; a pirouette.
Any rotating movement; a spin.
verb
(intransitive) To perform a twirl.
(transitive) To rotate rapidly.
(transitive) To twist round.
twirp
twirp
intj
An imitation of the sound of a bird or a horn.
noun
Alternative spelling of twerp
waird
wairs
wairs
noun
plural of wair
verb
Third-person singular simple present indicative form of wair
warri
wasir
wasir
noun
Alternative form of vizier
wazir
wazir
noun
Vizier.
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
whirl
whirl
noun
(informal) (usually following “give”) A brief experiment or trial.
A confused tumult.
A rapid series of events.
An act of whirling.
Dizziness or giddiness.
Something that whirls.
verb
(intransitive) To have a sensation of spinning or reeling.
(intransitive) To rotate, revolve, spin or turn rapidly.
(transitive) To make something or someone whirl.
(transitive) To remove or carry quickly with, or as with, a revolving motion; to snatch.
whirr
whirr
noun
A bustle of noise and excitement.
A sibilant buzz or vibration; the sound of something in rapid motion.
verb
(intransitive) To make a sibilant buzzing or droning sound.
(transitive) To cause (something) to make such a sound.
To move or vibrate (something) with a buzzing sound.
whirs
whirs
noun
plural of whir
wider
wider
adj
comparative form of wide: more wide
wierd
wierd
adj
Misspelling of weird.
Obsolete spelling of weird
winer
winer
noun
A person who habitually drinks wine
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.
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
wiros
wirra
wirra
intj
(Ireland) Exclamation of dismay.
wirth
wirtz
wiser
wiser
adj
comparative form of wise: more wise
wiver
wiver
noun
Obsolete form of wyvern.
wrick
wrick
noun
A painful muscular spasm in the neck or back
verb
(dialect) To twist; turn
(dialect) To wrench; strain
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
wring
wring
noun
(archaic) A device for pressing or compressing, especially for cider.
(obsolete) Pain or distress.
A powerful squeezing or twisting action.
verb
(intransitive, obsolete) To twist, as if in pain.
(nautical) To bend or strain out of its position.
(obsolete) To give an incorrect meaning to (words, teachings, etc.).
(obsolete) To subject (someone) to extortion; to afflict or oppress in order to enforce compliance.
To cause pain or distress to (someone / one's heart, soul, etc.).
To draw (something from or out of someone); to generate (something) as a response.
To extract (a liquid) from something wet, especially cloth, by squeezing and twisting it.
To hold (something) tightly and press or twist.
To obtain (something from or out of someone or something) by force.
To slide two ultraflat surfaces together such that their faces bond.
To squeeze or twist (something) tightly so that liquid is forced out. See also wring out.
wrist
wrist
noun
(anatomy) The complex joint between forearm bones, carpus, and metacarpals where the hand is attached to the arm; the carpus in a narrow sense.
(engineering) A stud or pin which forms a journal.
verb
(ice hockey) to hit a wrist shot
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.