(dated, postpositive) Blowing or being blown; windy.
(obsolete, postpositive) Blossoming, blooming, in blossom.
adowa
adown
adown
adv
(archaic) Down, downward; to or in a lower place.
prep
(archaic) Down.
aflow
aflow
Adverb
flowing
aglow
aglow
adj
(sometimes figurative) glowing; radiant
aknow
aknow
verb
Obsolete form of acknow.
allow
allow
verb
(law, transitive) To decide (a request) in favour of the party who raised it; to grant victory to a party regarding (a request).
(obsolete) To sanction; to invest; to entrust.
(transitive) To acknowledge; to accept as true; to concede; to accede to an opinion.
(transitive) To grant (something) as a deduction or an addition; especially to abate or deduct.
(transitive) To grant license to; to permit; to consent to.
(transitive) To grant, give, admit, accord, afford, or yield; to let one have.
(transitive) To render physically possible.
(transitive) To take into account by making an allowance.
(transitive, obsolete) To like; to be suited or pleased with.
(transitive, obsolete) To praise; to approve of; hence, to sanction.
To not bar or obstruct.
alowe
amowt
arrow
arrow
abbrev
(obsolete) Contraction of ever a (sometimes used with a redundant a or an).
noun
(botany) The inflorescence or tassel of a mature sugar cane plant.
(colloquial, darts) A dart.
(computing) The -> symbol, which has specific meanings in various programming languages.
(graph theory) A directed edge.
A projectile consisting of a shaft, a point and a tail with stabilizing fins that is shot from a bow.
A sign or symbol used to indicate a direction (e.g. →).
verb
(computing, intransitive) To navigate using the arrow keys.
(intransitive) To move swiftly and directly (like an arrow).
(intransitive, botany, of a sugar cane plant) To develop an inflorescence.
(transitive) To let fly swiftly and directly.
avowe
avows
avows
verb
Third-person singular simple present indicative form of avow
aweto
aweto
noun
(New Zealand) A parasitic fungus of the genus Ophiocordyceps.
awoke
awoke
verb
(rare) past participle of awake
simple past tense of awake
awols
awols
noun
plural of awol
awork
awork
Adverb
At work; in action.
balow
below
below
adv
(nautical) On or to a lower deck, especially as relative to the main deck.
(of a temperature) Below zero.
In or to a lower place.
Later in the same text.
On or to a lower storey.
prep
(stage directions) Downstage of.
Downstream of.
Lower in spatial position than.
Lower than in value, price, rank, concentration, etc.
South of.
Unsuitable to the rank or dignity of; beneath.
bilow
blown
blown
adj
(automotive) Given a hot rod blower.
(obsolete) Stale; worthless.
(of glass) Formed by blowing.
Covered with the eggs and larvae of flies; flyblown.
Distended, swollen, or inflated.
Having failed.
Panting and out of breath.
Under the influence of drugs, especially marijuana.
verb
past participle of blow
blows
blows
noun
plural of blow
verb
Third-person singular simple present indicative form of blow
blowy
blowy
adj
(of fabric, hair, etc.) Billowy, blowing or waving in the wind.
(of soil) Susceptible to drifting.
Windy or breezy.
noun
Alternative spelling of blowie
bowed
bowed
adj
Having a bow (rod for playing stringed instruments).
verb
simple past tense and past participle of bow
bowel
bowel
noun
(chiefly medicine) A part or division of the intestines, usually the large intestine.
(in the plural) The entrails or intestines; the internal organs of the stomach.
(in the plural, archaic) The seat of pity or the gentler emotions; pity or mercy.
(in the plural, figuratively) The (deep) interior of something.
(obsolete, in the plural) offspring
verb
(now rare) To disembowel.
bowen
bower
bower
noun
(literary) A dwelling; a picturesque country cottage, especially one that is used as a retreat.
(nautical) A type of ship's anchor, carried at the bow.
(obsolete, falconry) A young hawk, when it begins to leave the nest.
(ornithology) A large structure made of grass, twigs, etc., and decorated with bright objects, used by male bower birds during courtship displays.
A bedroom or private apartments, especially for a woman in a medieval castle.
A muscle that bends a limb, especially the arm.
A peasant; a farmer.
A shady, leafy shelter or recess in a garden or woods.
Either of the two highest trumps in euchre.
One who bows or bends.
One who plays any of several bow instruments, such as the musical bow or diddley bow.
verb
(obsolete) To lodge.
To embower; to enclose.
bowes
bowes
noun
plural of bowe
verb
Obsolete form of bow.
bowet
bowge
bowge
verb
(intransitive) To bulge or swell out.
(transitive) To cause to leak.
bowie
bowie
noun
A Bowie knife
bowla
bowle
bowle
noun
Obsolete form of bowl.
bowls
bowls
noun
A ball used in the game of bowls
A precision sport where the goal is to roll biased balls (weighted on one side, and called bowls) closer to a smaller white ball (the jack or kitty) than one's opponent is able to do.
plural of bowl
verb
Third-person singular simple present indicative form of bowl
bowly
bowne
bowne
verb
(transitive, obsolete) Alternative form of boun
bowra
bowse
bowse
noun
A carouse; a drinking bout; a booze.
verb
(archaic) To drink excessively and socially; to carouse.
(nautical) To haul or hoist (something) with a tackle.
browd
brown
brown
adj
(US) Latino
(obsolete) Gloomy.
(of Asians) South Asian
(of East Asians) Southeast Asian
Having a brown colour.
noun
(countable and uncountable) A colour like that of chocolate or coffee.
(entomology) Any of certain species of nymphalid butterflies of subfamily Satyrinae, such as those of the genera Heteronympha and Melanitis.
(entomology) Any of various nymphalid butterflies of subfamily Satyrinae (formerly the family Satyridae).
(hunting, as "the brown") A mass of birds or animals that may be indiscriminately fired at.
(informal) A brown trout (Salmo trutta).
(slang, archaic, countable) A copper coin.
(snooker, countable) One of the colour balls used in snooker, with a value of 4 points.
(sometimes capitalised, countable, informal) A person of Latino, Middle Eastern or South Asian descent; a brown-skinned person; someone of mulatto or biracial appearance.
(uncountable) Black tar heroin.
A brown horse or other animal.
verb
(cooking, transitive) To cook something until it becomes brown.
(demography, transitive, intransitive, slang, ethnic slur, usually derogatory, offensive) To turn progressively more Hispanic or Latino, in the context of the population of a geographic region.
(intransitive) To become brown.
(intransitive, transitive) To tan.
(transitive) To give a bright brown colour to, as to gun barrels, by forming a thin coating of oxide on their surface.
(transitive) To make brown or dusky.
brows
brows
noun
plural of brow
bulow
bunow
cahow
cahow
noun
An endangered nocturnal burrowing bird, Pterodroma cahow, from Bermuda; the Bermuda petrel.
chowk
chowk
noun
(India, Pakistan) A courtyard.
(India, Pakistan) A marketplace or open area in a city or village.
(India, Pakistan) An intersection or roundabout, where tracks or roads cross (often used in place names).
chows
chows
noun
plural of chow
verb
Third-person singular simple present indicative form of chow
clown
clown
noun
(obsolete) A man of coarse nature and manners; an awkward fellow; an illbred person; a boor.
(obsolete) One who works upon the soil; a rustic; a churl; a yokel.
A clownfish.
A person who acts in a silly fashion.
A slapstick performance artist often associated with a circus and usually characterized by bright, oversized clothing, a red nose, face paint, and a brightly colored wig.
A stupid or badly-behaved person.
verb
(intransitive) To act in a silly or playful fashion.
(transitive, African-American Vernacular) To ridicule.
cohow
cowal
cowal
noun
(Australia) A billabong, or stagnant pool.
cowan
cowan
noun
(Freemasonry) A person who attempts to pass himself off as a Freemason without having experienced the rituals or going through the degrees.
(Scotland, obsolete, rare) A fishing-boat.
(in attributive use) Uninitiated, outside, “profane”.
(slang) A sneak; an inquisitive or prying person.
A worker in unmortared stone; a stonemason who has not served an apprenticeship.
cowed
cowed
adj
For quotations using this term, see Citations:cowed.
Frightened into submission.
verb
simple past tense and past participle of cow
cowen
cowen
noun
Obsolete spelling of cowan (one uninitiated in the secrets of Freemasonry).
cower
cower
verb
(intransitive) To crouch or cringe, or to avoid or shy away from something, in fear.
(intransitive, archaic) To crouch in general.
(obsolete, transitive) To cherish with care.
(transitive) To cause to cower; to frighten into submission.
cowes
cowes
Proper noun
A town on the north coast of the Isle of Wight, England.
cowey
cowie
cowie
noun
(Britain, Northumbria) A left-handed person.
(Britain, Northumbria) A pill, especially of the drug ecstasy.
cowle
cowls
cowls
noun
plural of cowl
verb
Third-person singular simple present indicative form of cowl
cowry
cowry
noun
Alternative spelling of cowrie.
crowd
crowd
noun
(now dialectal) A fiddle.
(obsolete) Alternative form of crwth
(with definite article) The so-called lower orders of people; the populace, vulgar.
A group of people congregated or collected into a close body without order.
A group of people united or at least characterised by a common interest.
Several things collected or closely pressed together; also, some things adjacent to each other.
verb
(intransitive) To press forward; to advance by pushing.
(intransitive) To press together or collect in numbers
(nautical) To approach another ship too closely when it has right of way.
(nautical, of a square-rigged ship, transitive) To carry excessive sail in the hope of moving faster.
(obsolete, intransitive) To play on a crowd; to fiddle.
(transitive) To fill by pressing or thronging together
(transitive) To press by solicitation; to urge; to dun; hence, to treat discourteously or unreasonably.
(transitive) To press or drive together, especially into a small space; to cram.
(transitive, often used with "out of" or "off") To push, to press, to shove.
crowe
crowl
crowl
verb
(obsolete, intransitive) To make a growling noise, as the stomach.
crown
crown
adj
Of, related to, or pertaining to a crown.
Of, related to, pertaining to the top of a tree or trees.
noun
(African-American Vernacular, colloquial) A formal hat worn by women to Sunday church services; a church crown.
(anatomy, dentistry) The part of a tooth above the gums.
(architecture) A kind of spire or lantern formed by converging flying buttresses.
(botany) The part of a plant where the root and stem meet.
(by extension) Any reward of victory or mark of honor.
(by extension, especially in law) The state, the government (headed by a monarch).
(chemistry) A monocyclic ligand having three or more binding sites, capable of holding a guest in a central location
(dentistry) A prosthetic covering for a tooth.
(firearms) A rounding or smoothing of the barrel opening
(forestry) The top of a tree.
(geometry) The area enclosed between two concentric perimeters.
(historical) A former pre-decimalization British coin worth five shillings.
(medicine) During childbirth, the appearance of the baby's head from the mother's vagina
(metonymically) The sovereign (in a monarchy), as head of state.
(nautical) A knot formed in the end of a rope by tucking in the strands to prevent them from unravelling
(nautical) The part of an anchor where the arms and the shank meet
(nautical) The rounding, or rounded part, of the deck from a level line.
(paper) In American, a standard size of writing paper measuring 19 × 15 inches.
(paper) In England, a standard size of printing paper measuring 20 × 15 inches.
(religion) A round spot shaved clean on the top of the head, as a mark of the clerical state; the tonsure.
A royal, imperial or princely headdress; a diadem.
A whole bird with the legs and wings removed to produce a joint of white meat.
A wreath or band for the head, especially one given as reward of victory or a mark of honor.
Any currency (originally) issued by the crown (regal power) and often bearing a crown (headdress); (translation) various currencies known by similar names in their native languages, such as the koruna, kruna, krone, korona.
Imperial or regal power, or those who wield it.
Splendor; culmination; acme.
The dome of a furnace.
The highest part of a hill.
The highest part of an arch.
The knurled knob or dial, on the outside of a watch case, used to wind it or adjust the hands.
The raised centre of a road.
The top section of a hat, above the brim.
The topmost part of the head.
The upper part of certain fruits, as the pineapple or strawberry, that is removed before eating.
The upper range of facets in a rose diamond.
verb
(archaic) past participle of crow
(board games) In checkers, to stack two checkers to indicate that the piece has become a king.
(firearms) To widen the opening of the barrel.
(medicine) Of a baby, during the birthing process; for the surface of the baby's head to appear in the vaginal opening.
(military) To effect a lodgment upon, as upon the crest of the glacis, or the summit of the breach.
(nautical) To lay the ends of the strands of (a knot) over and under each other.
(slang) being about to take a poop (usually trying to hold it in, derived from obstetric use: metaphor of "giving birth" to solid poo)
(transitive) To cause to round upward; to make anything higher at the middle than at the edges, such as the face of a machine pulley.
(video games) To shoot an opponent in the back of the head with a shotgun in a first-person shooter video game.
To bestow something upon as a mark of honour, dignity, or recompense; to adorn; to dignify.
To declare (someone) a winner.
To form the topmost or finishing part of; to complete; to consummate; to perfect.
To formally declare (someone) a king, queen, emperor, etc.
To hit on the head.
To place a crown on the head of.
crows
crows
noun
plural of crow
verb
Third-person singular simple present indicative form of crow
dekow
devow
devow
verb
(obsolete) To disavow; to disclaim.
(obsolete) To give up; to devote.
dhows
dhows
noun
plural of dhow
dowdy
dowdy
adj
Lacking stylishness or neatness; shabby.
Plain and unfashionable in style or dress.
noun
A plain or shabby person.
verb
(cooking, transitive) To press the crust into the filling during baking, to allow the juices to caramelize on top.
dowed
dowed
verb
simple past tense and past participle of dow
dowel
dowel
noun
(construction) A piece of wood or similar material fitted into a surface not suitable for fastening so that other pieces may be fastened to it.
A pin, or block, of wood or metal, fitting into holes in the abutting portions of two pieces, and being partly in one piece and partly in the other, to keep them in their proper relative position.
A wooden rod, as one to make short pins from.
verb
(transitive) To fasten together with dowels.
(transitive) To furnish with dowels.
dower
dower
noun
(law) Property given by a groom directly to his bride at or before their wedding in order to legitimize the marriage; dowry.
(law) The part of or interest in a deceased husband's property provided to his widow, usually in the form of a life estate.
(obsolete) That with which one is gifted or endowed; endowment; gift.
verb
(transitive) To endow.
(transitive) To give a dower or dowry to.
dowie
dowly
downe
downe
adv
Obsolete spelling of down
downs
downs
noun
plural of down
verb
Third-person singular simple present indicative form of down
downy
downy
adj
(UK, Norfolk) Low-spirited; down in the mouth.
Having down, covered with a soft fuzzy coating as of small feathers or hair.
Sharp-witted, perceptive.
noun
A blanket filled with down; a duvet.
dowry
dowry
noun
(less common) Payment by the groom or his family to the bride's family: bride price.
(obsolete) Dower.
A natural gift or talent.
Payment, such as property or money, paid by the bride's family to the groom or his family at the time of marriage.
verb
To bestow a dowry upon.
dowse
dowse
noun
Alternative form of douse (“strike”)
verb
(intransitive) To use the dipping or divining rod, as in search of water, ore, etc.
Alternative form of douse (“to plunge into water”)
Alternative form of douse (“to strike”)
dowve
drown
drown
verb
(intransitive) To be flooded: to be inundated with or submerged in (literally) water or (figuratively) other things; to be overwhelmed.
(intransitive) To die from suffocation while immersed in water or other fluid.
(transitive) To kill by suffocating in water or another liquid.
(transitive, figurative) To inundate, submerge, overwhelm.
(transitive, figurative, usually passive) To obscure, particularly amid an overwhelming volume of other items.
ekwok
elbow
elbow
noun
(US, dated, early 20th-century slang) A detective.
(anatomy) The joint between the upper arm and the forearm.
(basketball) Part of a basketball court located at the intersection of the free-throw line and the free-throw lane.
(by extension) Any turn or bend like that of the elbow, in a wall, building, coastline, etc.; an angular or jointed part of any structure, such as the raised arm of a chair or sofa, or a short pipe fitting, turning at an angle or bent.
(knots) Two nearby crossings of a rope.
A hit with the elbow.
verb
(transitive) To push with the elbow or elbows; to forge ahead using the elbows to assist.
(transitive, by extension) To nudge, jostle or push.
(transitive, with "out" or "aside") To make someone quit or lose their job so that someone else can get it.
embow
embow
verb
(archaic, transitive, intransitive) To bend like a bow; to curve.
endow
endow
verb
(transitive) Followed by with, or rarely by of: to enrich or furnish with some faculty or quality.
(transitive) To give property to (someone) as a gift; specifically, to provide (a person or institution) with support in the form of a permanent fund of money or other benefits.
(transitive) Usually in the passive: to naturally furnish (with something).
(transitive, archaic or obsolete) To provide with a dower (“the portion that a widow receives from her deceased husband's property”) or a dowry (“property given to a bride”).
enows
ewhow
ewold
flowe
flowe
verb
Obsolete form of flow.
flowk
flowk
noun
Archaic form of fluke. (type of worm)
flown
flown
adj
(theater) Suspended in the flies.
verb
(rare, obsolete) past participle of flow
past participle of fly
flows
flows
noun
plural of flow
verb
Third-person singular simple present indicative form of flow
fowey
fowey
Proper noun
a small town and port on the south coast of Cornwall, England.
a river in Cornwall which flows from Bodmin Moor to the English Channel at the town of Fowey.
fowle
fowle
noun
Obsolete spelling of fowl
fowls
fowls
noun
plural of fowl
verb
Third-person singular simple present indicative form of fowl
frowl
frown
frown
noun
(Canada, US) A downturn of the corners of the mouth, typically expressing sadness.
A wrinkling of the forehead with the eyebrows brought together, typically indicating displeasure, severity, or concentration.
verb
(intransitive) To have a frown on one's face.
(intransitive, figurative) To manifest displeasure or disapprobation; to look with disfavour or threateningly.
(transitive) To communicate by frowning.
(transitive) To repress or repel by expressing displeasure or disapproval; to rebuke with a look.
frows
frows
noun
plural of frow
frowy
frowy
adj
(archaic) musty, rancid
gatow
glows
glows
noun
plural of glow
verb
Third-person singular simple present indicative form of glow
gowan
gowan
noun
(Northumbria) The common daisy.
(mineralogy) Decomposed granite.
gowds
gowdy
gowen
gower
gower
Proper noun
A peninsula in southern Wales.
gowks
gowks
noun
plural of gowk
gowns
gowns
noun
plural of gown
verb
Third-person singular simple present indicative form of gown
gowon
groow
growl
growl
noun
(by extension) A similar sound made by a human.
(by extension) An aggressive grumbling.
(by extension) The rumbling sound made by a human's hungry stomach.
(jazz, by extension) A low-pitched rumbling sound produced with a wind instrument.
A deep, rumbling, threatening sound made in the throat by an animal.
verb
(intransitive) To utter a deep guttural sound, as an angry animal; to give forth an angry, grumbling sound.
(intransitive, jazz) Of a wind instrument: to produce a low-pitched rumbling sound.
(intransitive, software) To send a user a message via the Growl software library.
(transitive) To express (something) by growling.
(transitive, jazz) To play a wind instrument in a way that produces a low-pitched rumbling sound.
grown
grown
adj
(US) Of a person: adult.
Covered by growth; overgrown.
verb
past participle of grow
grows
grows
verb
Third-person singular simple present indicative form of grow
gutow
gwelo
hawok
howdy
howdy
intj
(chiefly US, informal) An informal greeting.
noun
(Scotland) A wife, a midwife.
verb
(transitive) To greet informally, especially by saying "howdy"
howea
howel
howel
noun
A tool used by coopers for smoothing and chamfering their work, especially the inside of casks.
verb
(transitive) To smooth; to plane.
howes
howes
noun
plural of howe
howey
howff
howff
noun
(Scotland) tavern; public house
howfs
howfs
noun
plural of howf
howie
howks
howls
howls
noun
plural of howl
verb
Third-person singular simple present indicative form of howl
howso
howso
adv
However, in whatever manner.
However, to whatever extent.
inbow
indow
indow
verb
Obsolete spelling of endow
iowan
iowan
Adjective
Of, from, or pertaining to Iowa
Noun
A native or resident of the state of Iowa in the United States of America.
iowas
jowar
jowar
noun
Alternative form of jawar
jowed
jowel
jower
jowls
jowls
noun
plural of jowl
jowly
jowly
adj
Having conspicuous jowls.
jowpy
kiowa
kiowa
Noun
A member of an indigenous people of North America, currently in Oklahoma.
Proper noun
A language of the Kiowa-Tanoan language family.
A town in Colorado, USA
A city and a county in Kansas.
A town in Oklahoma.
knowe
knowe
noun
(chiefly Scotland and Ulster) A small hill; a knoll.
verb
Obsolete spelling of know
known
known
adj
Accepted, familiar, researched.
Identified as a specific type; famous, renowned.
noun
(algebra) A constant or variable the value of which is already determined.
Any fact or situation which is known or familiar.
verb
past participle of know
knows
knows
noun
plural of know
verb
(nonstandard) All persons, singular and plural, present form of know.
Third-person singular simple present indicative form of know
korwa
kotow
kotow
noun
Alternative spelling of kowtow
kowal
loewe
loewi
loewy
lowan
lowed
lowed
verb
simple past tense and past participle of low
lower
lower
adj
(geology, of strata or geological time periods) older
Situated on lower ground, nearer a coast, or more southerly.
bottom; more towards the bottom than the middle of an object
comparative form of low: more low
verb
(computing, transitive) To reduce operations to single machine instructions, as part of compilation of a program.
(intransitive) To decrease in value, amount, etc.
(intransitive) To fall; to sink; to grow less; to diminish; to decrease
(reflexive) (lower oneself) To humble oneself; to do something one considers to be beneath one's dignity.
(transitive) To bring down; to humble
(transitive) To depress as to direction
(transitive) To let descend by its own weight, as something suspended; to let down
(transitive) To make less elevated
(transitive) To reduce (something) in value, amount, etc.
(transitive) To reduce the degree, intensity, strength, etc., of
(transitive) To reduce the height of
(transitive) to pull down
Alternative spelling of lour
lowes
lowes
noun
plural of lowe
lowis
lowly
lowly
adj
Having a low esteem of one's own worth; humble; meek; free from pride.