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amsw

awes

awes

verb

  1. Third-person singular simple present indicative form of awe

awls

awls

noun

  1. plural of awl

awns

awns

noun

  1. plural of awn

awst

bcws

bows

bows

noun

  1. plural of bow

verb

  1. Third-person singular simple present indicative form of bow

bwts

caws

caws

noun

  1. plural of caw

verb

  1. Third-person singular simple present indicative form of caw

ccws

cows

cows

noun

  1. Alternative form of kouse
  2. plural of cow

verb

  1. Third-person singular simple present indicative form of cow

cwms

cwms

noun

  1. plural of cwm

daws

daws

noun

  1. plural of daw

dews

dews

noun

  1. (archaic or poetic) plural of dew

verb

  1. Third-person singular simple present indicative form of dew

dows

dows

noun

  1. plural of dow

verb

  1. Third-person singular simple present indicative form of dow

ewes

ewes

noun

  1. plural of ewe

ewos

haws

haws

noun

  1. plural of haw

verb

  1. Third-person singular simple present indicative form of haw

hews

hews

verb

  1. Third-person singular simple present indicative form of hew

hows

hows

noun

  1. plural of how

iwis

iwis

adv

  1. (poetic, archaic) Certainly, surely, indeed.

jaws

jaws

noun

  1. (colloquial, eastern Ohio) a contrarian.
  2. (plural only) the borders of anything which has a mouthlike aspect.
  3. (plural only) the mouth
  4. plural of jaw

verb

  1. Third-person singular simple present indicative form of jaw

jews

jews

noun

  1. Nonstandard spelling of Jews.
  2. plural of jew

verb

  1. Third-person singular simple present indicative form of jew

jows

jows

noun

  1. plural of jow

laws

laws

noun

  1. plural of law

verb

  1. Third-person singular simple present indicative form of law

lows

lows

noun

  1. plural of low

verb

  1. Third-person singular simple present indicative form of low

lwsp

maws

maws

noun

  1. plural of maw

mews

mews

noun

  1. (Britain) An alley where there are stables; a narrow passage; a confined place.
  2. (falconry) A place where birds of prey are housed.
  3. plural of mew

verb

  1. Third-person singular simple present indicative form of mew

mows

mows

noun

  1. plural of mow

verb

  1. Third-person singular simple present indicative form of mow

news

news

noun

  1. (computing, Internet) Posts published on newsgroups
  2. Information about current events disseminated via media.
  3. New information of interest.

verb

  1. (transitive, archaic) To report; to make known.

nows

nows

noun

  1. plural of now

nswc

owes

owes

verb

  1. Third-person singular simple present indicative form of owe

owls

owls

noun

  1. plural of owl

owns

owns

verb

  1. Third-person singular simple present indicative form of own

owse

paws

paws

noun

  1. plural of paw

verb

  1. Third-person singular simple present indicative form of paw

pews

pews

noun

  1. plural of pew

verb

  1. Third-person singular simple present indicative form of pew

pows

pows

noun

  1. plural of pow

pswm

raws

raws

noun

  1. plural of raw

rows

rows

noun

  1. plural of row

verb

  1. Third-person singular simple present indicative form of row

rswc

sawn

sawn

verb

  1. (nonstandard, dialectal) past participle of see; seen
  2. past participle of saw

saws

saws

noun

  1. plural of saw

verb

  1. Third-person singular simple present indicative form of saw

sawt

sawt

noun

  1. (music) A style of urban popular music associated mainly with Kuwait and Bahrain.

sbwr

scaw

scaw

noun

  1. (dialectal) A wood or forest; a shaw.
  2. Alternative form of skaw (“promontory”)

scow

scow

noun

  1. A large flat-bottomed boat, having broad, square ends.

verb

  1. (transitive) To transport in a scow.

seow

sewn

sewn

verb

  1. past participle of sew

sews

sews

verb

  1. Third-person singular simple present indicative form of sew

shaw

shaw

noun

  1. (Scotland) The leaves and tops of vegetables, especially potatoes and turnips.
  2. (dated, dialectal) A thicket; a small wood or grove.

shew

shew

verb

  1. (East Anglia) simple past tense of show
  2. Archaic spelling of show.
  3. Nonstandard spelling of shoo.

show

show

noun

  1. (Australia, New Zealand, countable) An agricultural show.
  2. (archaic) Pretence.
  3. (archaic) Sign, token, or indication.
  4. (baseball, with "the") The major leagues.
  5. (countable) A broadcast program, especially a light entertainment program.
  6. (countable) A demonstration.
  7. (countable) A movie.
  8. (countable) A play, dance, or other entertainment.
  9. (countable) An exhibition of items.
  10. (medicine) A discharge, from the vagina, of mucus streaked with blood, occurring a short time before labor.
  11. (military, slang) A battle; local conflict.
  12. (mining, obsolete) A pale blue flame at the top of a candle flame, indicating the presence of firedamp.
  13. (obsolete) Plausibility.
  14. (obsolete) Semblance; likeness; appearance.
  15. (uncountable) Mere display or pomp with no substance. (Usually seen in the phrases "all show" and "for show".)
  16. A project or presentation.
  17. Outward appearance; wileful or deceptive appearance.

verb

  1. (intransitive) To be visible; to be seen; to appear.
  2. (intransitive, card games) To reveal one's hand of cards.
  3. (intransitive, informal) To have an enlarged belly and thus be recognizable as pregnant.
  4. (intransitive, informal) To put in an appearance; show up.
  5. (intransitive, racing) To finish third, especially of horses or dogs.
  6. (obsolete) To have a certain appearance, such as well or ill, fit or unfit; to become or suit; to appear.
  7. (transitive) To bestow; to confer.
  8. (transitive) To display, to have somebody see (something).
  9. (transitive) To guide or escort.
  10. (transitive) To indicate (a fact) to be true; to demonstrate.

shwa

shwa

noun

  1. Alternative form of schwa

skaw

skaw

noun

  1. A promontory.

skew

skew

adj

  1. (comparable, statistics) Of a distribution: asymmetrical about its mean.
  2. (not comparable) Neither parallel nor perpendicular to a certain line; askew.
  3. (not comparable, geometry) Of two lines in three-dimensional space: neither intersecting nor parallel.

adv

  1. (rare) Askew, obliquely; awry.

noun

  1. (architecture) A stone at the foot of the slope of a gable, the offset of a buttress, etc., cut with a sloping surface and with a check to receive the coping stones and retain them in place; a skew-corbel.
  2. (architecture, obsolete) One of the stones placed over the end of a gable, or forming the coping of a gable.
  3. (chiefly Scotland, architecture) The coping of a gable.
  4. (electronics) A phenomenon in synchronous digital circuit systems (such as computers) in which the same sourced clock signal arrives at different components at different times.
  5. (statistics) A state of asymmetry in a distribution; skewness.
  6. A bias or distortion in a particular direction.
  7. A kind of wooden vane or cowl in a chimney which revolves according to the direction of the wind and prevents smoking.
  8. A piece of rock lying in a slanting position and tapering upwards which overhangs a working-place in a mine and is liable to fall.
  9. A squint or sidelong glance.
  10. An oblique or sideways movement.
  11. Something that has an oblique or slanted position.

verb

  1. (intransitive) To jump back or sideways in fear or surprise; to shy, as a horse.
  2. (intransitive) To look at obliquely; to squint; hence, to look slightingly or suspiciously.
  3. (intransitive) To move obliquely; to move sideways, to sidle; to lie obliquely.
  4. (statistics) To cause (a distribution) to be asymmetrical.
  5. (transitive) To bias or distort in a particular direction.
  6. (transitive) To form or shape in an oblique way; to cause to take an oblique position.
  7. (transitive, Northumbria, Yorkshire) To hurl or throw.

slaw

slaw

noun

  1. (US, Canada) Coleslaw.

slew

slew

noun

  1. (US) A large amount.
  2. A change of position.
  3. A device used for slewing.
  4. A wet place; a river inlet.
  5. The act, or process of slewing.

verb

  1. (intransitive) To pivot.
  2. (intransitive) To skid.
  3. (transitive) To insert extra ticks or skip some ticks of a clock to slowly correct its time.
  4. (transitive) To veer a vehicle.
  5. (transitive, Britain, slang) To make a public mockery of someone through insult or wit.
  6. (transitive, nautical) To rotate or turn something about its axis.
  7. (transitive, rail transport) To move something (usually a railway line) sideways.
  8. simple past tense of slay

slow

slow

adj

  1. (of a clock or the like) Behind in time; indicating a time earlier than the true time.
  2. (of a period of time) Not busy; lacking activity.
  3. Lacking spirit; deficient in liveliness or briskness.
  4. Not happening in a short time; spread over a comparatively long time.
  5. Not hasty; not tending to hurry; acting with deliberation or caution.
  6. Of reduced intellectual capacity; not quick to comprehend.
  7. Taking a long time to move or go a short distance, or to perform an action; not quick in motion; proceeding at a low speed.

adv

  1. Slowly.

noun

  1. (music) A slow song.
  2. Someone who is slow; a sluggard.

verb

  1. (intransitive) To become slow; to slacken in speed; to decelerate.
  2. (transitive) To keep from going quickly; to hinder the progress of.
  3. (transitive) To make (something) run, move, etc. less quickly; to reduce the speed of.

smew

smew

noun

  1. A small compact diving duck, Mergus albellus, that breeds in the northern taiga of Europe and Asia and winters on sheltered coasts or inland lakes.

snaw

snew

snew

verb

  1. (dialectal) simple past tense of snow
  2. (intransitive, obsolete) To abound.
  3. (intransitive, obsolete) To snow.

snow

snow

noun

  1. (countable) A snowfall; a blanket of frozen, crystalline water.
  2. (nautical) A square-rigged vessel, differing from a brig only in that she has a trysail mast close abaft the mainmast, on which a large trysail is hoisted.
  3. (uncountable) A shade of the color white.
  4. (uncountable) Any similar frozen form of a gas or liquid.
  5. (uncountable) The frozen, crystalline state of water that falls as precipitation.
  6. (uncountable) The moving pattern of random dots displayed on a television, etc., when no transmission signal is being received.
  7. (uncountable, slang) Cocaine.
  8. marine snow

verb

  1. (colloquial) To hoodwink someone, especially by presenting confusing information.
  2. (impersonal) To have snow fall from the sky.
  3. (poker) To bluff in draw poker by refusing to draw any cards.

sowf

sowl

sowl

noun

  1. (Britain, dialectal) A dainty; a relish; a sauce; anything eaten with bread.
  2. Archaic spelling of soul.

verb

  1. (obsolete) To soil or stain; to dirty.
  2. (transitive) To pull (especially an animal) by the ears; to drag about.

sown

sown

noun

  1. (especially historiography) Cultivated land inhabited by sedentary agriculturalists, in contrast to the nomad pastoralists of the steppe or desert.

verb

  1. past participle of sow

sows

sows

noun

  1. plural of sow

verb

  1. Third-person singular simple present indicative form of sow

sowt

spew

spew

noun

  1. (slang) Ejaculate or ejaculation.
  2. A white powder or dark crystals that appear on the surface of improperly tanned leather.
  3. Adhesive that is squeezed from a joint under pressure and held across the joint by a fillet, thereby strengthening the joint.
  4. Material that has been ejected in a stream, or the act of spewing.
  5. Nonsense or lies.

verb

  1. (intransitive) To be forcibly ejected.
  2. (intransitive) To be written or spoken voluminously.
  3. (intransitive) To ejaculate.
  4. (intransitive, informal) To vomit.
  5. (intransitive, leather-working) To develop a white powder or dark crystals on the surface of finished leather, as a result from improper tanning.
  6. (transitive) To eject forcibly and in a stream,
  7. (transitive) To speak or write quickly and voluminously, especially words that are not worth listening to or reading.

staw

staw

verb

  1. (UK, dialect, intransitive) To be fixed or set; to stay.

stew

stew

noun

  1. (Sussex) A pool in which fish are kept in preparation for eating.
  2. (US, regional) An artificial bed of oysters.
  3. (archaic) A brothel.
  4. (informal) A steward or stewardess on an airplane or boat.
  5. (now historical) A heated bath-room or steam-room; also, a hot bath.
  6. (obsolete) A cooking-dish used for boiling; a cauldron.
  7. (slang) A state of agitated excitement, worry, and/or confusion.
  8. (uncountable, countable) A dish cooked by stewing.

verb

  1. (intransitive, figuratively) To be in a state of elevated anxiety or anger.
  2. (intransitive, figuratively) To suffer under uncomfortably hot conditions.
  3. (transitive or intransitive or ergative) To cook (food) by slowly boiling or simmering.
  4. (transitive) To brew (tea) for too long, so that the flavour becomes too strong.

stow

stow

intj

  1. (obsolete) A cry used by falconers to call their birds back down to hand.

noun

  1. (rare) A place, stead.

verb

  1. (obsolete, slang, transitive) To cease; to stop doing something.
  2. To arrange, pack, or fill something tightly or closely.
  3. To dispose of, lodge, or hide somebody somewhere.
  4. To put something away in a compact and tidy manner, in its proper place, or in a suitable place.
  5. To store or pack something in a space-saving manner and over a long time.

suwe

swab

swab

noun

  1. (medicine) A small piece of soft, absorbent material, such as gauze, used to clean wounds, apply medicine, or take samples of body fluids. Often attached to a stick or wire to aid access.
  2. (slang) A naval officer's epaulet.
  3. (slang) A sailor; a swabby.
  4. A mop, especially on a ship.
  5. A piece of material used for cleaning or sampling other items like musical instruments or guns.
  6. A sample taken with a swab (piece of absorbent material).

verb

  1. (transitive) To use a swab on something, or clean something with a swab.

swad

swad

noun

  1. (UK, dialect, obsolete, Northern) A cod, or pod, as of beans or peas.
  2. (mining) A thin layer of refuse at the bottom of a seam.
  3. (obsolete) A boor, lout.
  4. (obsolete, slang) A crowd; a group of people.
  5. A bunch, clump, mass

swag

swag

noun

  1. (countable, Australia, New Zealand) A large quantity (of something).
  2. (countable, Australia, by extension) A small single-person tent, usually foldable into an integral backpack.
  3. (countable, Australia, dated) The possessions of a bushman or itinerant worker, tied up in a blanket and carried over the shoulder, sometimes attached to a stick.
  4. (obsolete, thieves' cant) A shop and its goods; any quantity of goods.
  5. (slang) Style; fashionable appearance or manner.
  6. (uncountable, informal) Handouts, freebies, or giveaways, often distributed at conventions; merchandise.
  7. (uncountable, thieves' cant) Stolen goods; the booty of a burglar or thief; boodle.
  8. (window coverings) A loop of draped fabric.
  9. A low point or depression in land; especially, a place where water collects.
  10. Alternative letter-case form of SWAG; a wild guess or ballpark estimate.

verb

  1. (Australia, transitive, intransitive) To travel on foot carrying a swag (possessions tied in a blanket).
  2. (intransitive) To droop; to sag.
  3. (transitive) To decorate (something) with loops of draped fabric.
  4. (transitive) To install (a ceiling fan or light fixture) by means of a long cord running from the ceiling to an outlet, and suspended by hooks or similar.
  5. (transitive, intransitive) To (cause to) sway.
  6. To transport stolen goods.

swak

swam

swam

verb

  1. simple past tense of swim

swan

swan

noun

  1. (figuratively) One whose grace etc. suggests a swan.
  2. (heraldry) This bird used as a heraldic charge, sometimes with a crown around its neck (e. g. the arms of Buckinghamshire).
  3. Any of various species of large, long-necked waterfowl, of genus Cygnus (bird family: Anatidae), most of which have white plumage.

verb

  1. (US, dialectal or colloquial) To declare (chiefly in first-person present constructions).
  2. (intransitive) To travel or move about in an aimless, idle, or pretentiously casual way.

swap

swap

noun

  1. (Cambridge University slang) A social meal at a restaurant between two university societies, usually involving drinking and banter; commonly associated with fining and pennying; equivalent to a crewdate at Oxford University.
  2. (computing, informal, uncountable) Space available in a swap file for use as auxiliary memory.
  3. (finance) A financial derivative in which two parties agree to exchange one stream of cashflow against another stream.
  4. (obsolete, UK, dialect) A blow; a stroke.
  5. An exchange of two comparable things.

verb

  1. (intransitive, obsolete) To descend or fall; to rush hastily or violently.
  2. (transitive) To exchange or give (something) in an exchange (for something else).
  3. (transitive, obsolete) To beat the air, or ply the wings, with a sweeping motion or noise; to flap.
  4. (transitive, obsolete) To hit, to strike.

swas

swat

swat

noun

  1. A hard stroke, hit or blow, e.g., as part of a spanking.
  2. Alternate spelling of swot: vigorous study at an educational institution.

verb

  1. (US, slang, transitive) To illegitimately provoke a SWAT assault upon (someone).
  2. (transitive) To beat off, as insects; to bat, strike, or hit.

sway

sway

noun

  1. A rocking or swinging motion.
  2. A switch or rod used by thatchers to bind their work.
  3. Influence, weight, or authority that inclines to one side
  4. Preponderance; turn or cast of balance.
  5. Rule; dominion; control; power.
  6. The act of swaying; a swaying motion; a swing or sweep of a weapon.
  7. The maximum amplitude of a vehicle's lateral motion.

verb

  1. (nautical) To hoist (a mast or yard) into position.
  2. To be drawn to one side by weight or influence; to lean; to incline.
  3. To bear sway; to rule; to govern.
  4. To cause to incline or swing to one side, or backward and forward; to bias; to turn; to bend; warp.
  5. To have weight or influence.
  6. To influence or direct by power, authority, persuasion, or by moral force; to rule; to govern; to guide. Compare persuade.
  7. To move or swing from side to side; or backward and forward; to rock.
  8. To move or wield with the hand; to swing; to wield.

swbs

swbw

swec

swed

swee

swee

noun

  1. A species of finch, Coccopygia melanotis, found in sub-Saharan Africa.

swen

swep

swig

swig

noun

  1. (by extension) A long draught from a drink.
  2. (nautical) A tackle with ropes which are not parallel.
  3. (obsolete) A person who drinks deeply.
  4. (obsolete) Drink, liquor.
  5. Warm beer flavoured with spices, lemon, etc.

verb

  1. (nautical) To take up the last bit of slack in rigging by taking a single turn around a cleat, then hauling on the line above and below the cleat while keeping tension on the line.
  2. (obsolete) To suck.
  3. To drink (usually by gulping or in a greedy or unrefined manner); to quaff.

swim

swim

noun

  1. (Internet slang, text messaging) Abbreviation of someone who isn't me. used as a way to avoid self-designation or self-incrimination, especially in online drug forums
  2. (UK) A part of a stream much frequented by fish.
  3. A dance move of the 1960s in which the arms are moved in a freestyle swimming manner.
  4. A dizziness; swoon.
  5. An act or instance of swimming.
  6. The sound, or air bladder, of a fish.

verb

  1. (intransitive) To be dizzy or vertiginous; have a giddy sensation; to have, or appear to have, a whirling motion.
  2. (intransitive) To be overflowed or drenched.
  3. (intransitive) To become immersed in, or as if in, or flooded with, or as if with, a liquid
  4. (intransitive) To glide along with a waving motion.
  5. (intransitive) To move around freely because of excess space.
  6. (intransitive) To move through the water, without touching the bottom; to propel oneself in water by natural means.
  7. (intransitive, archaic) To float.
  8. (transitive) To immerse in water to make the lighter parts float.
  9. (transitive) To traverse (a specific body of water, or a specific distance) by swimming; or, to utilize a specific swimming stroke; or, to compete in a specific swimming event.
  10. (transitive, historical) To test (a suspected witch) by throwing into a river; those who floated rather than sinking were deemed to be witches.
  11. (transitive, uncommon) To cause to swim.
  12. My head was swimming after drinking two bottles of cheap wine.

swiz

swiz

noun

  1. Alternative form of swizz

swob

swob

noun

  1. Alternative form of swab

swom

swop

swop

noun

  1. A fusion of swing and hip-hop dance styles.
  2. Alternative spelling of swap

swor

swot

swot

noun

  1. (slang, Britain) By extension, analogous to boffin, nerd, smart aleck. Often pejorative.
  2. (slang, Britain) One who swots.
  3. (slang, Britain) Vigorous study at an educational institution.
  4. (slang, Britain) Work.

verb

  1. (intransitive, slang, Britain) To study with effort or determination (object of study indicated by "up on").

swow

swtz

swum

swum

verb

  1. (archaic, dialectal) simple past tense of swim
  2. past participle of swim

taws

taws

noun

  1. Alternative spelling of tawse
  2. plural of taw

verb

  1. Third-person singular simple present indicative form of taw

tews

tews

noun

  1. plural of tew

verb

  1. Third-person singular simple present indicative form of tew

tows

tows

noun

  1. plural of tow

verb

  1. Third-person singular simple present indicative form of tow

twas

twas

abbrev

  1. Misspelling of 'twas.
  2. Obsolete spelling of 'twas

twos

twos

noun

  1. (UK, prison slang) The cells located on the first floor.
  2. (sports) A reserves team.
  3. The age of two; two years old.
  4. plural of two.

verb

  1. (transitive, MLE) To share a cigarette with someone after smoking half of it.

vaws

vaws

noun

  1. plural of vaw

vows

vows

noun

  1. plural of vow

verb

  1. Third-person singular simple present indicative form of vow

wabs

wabs

noun

  1. (UK, slang) Breasts.

wacs

wads

wads

noun

  1. plural of wad

waes

waes

noun

  1. plural of wae

wafs

wags

wags

noun

  1. plural of wag

verb

  1. Third-person singular simple present indicative form of wag

wais

wais

noun

  1. plural of wai

wams

wans

wans

noun

  1. plural of wan

waps

waps

noun

  1. (UK, rural dialect) wasp
  2. plural of wap

verb

  1. Third-person singular simple present indicative form of wap

wars

wars

noun

  1. plural of war

verb

  1. Third-person singular simple present indicative form of war

wase

wase

noun

  1. (UK, dialect) A bundle of straw, or other material, to relieve the pressure of burdens carried upon the head.

wash

wash

noun

  1. (architecture) The upper surface of a member or material when given a slope to shed water; hence, a structure or receptacle shaped so as to receive and carry off water.
  2. (art) A smooth and translucent painting created using a paintbrush holding a large amount of solvent and a small amount of paint.
  3. (finance, slang) A fictitious kind of sale of stock or other securities between parties of one interest, or by a broker who is both buyer and seller, and who minds his own interest rather than that of his clients.
  4. (nautical) The blade of an oar.
  5. (stagecraft) A lighting fixture that can cast a wide beam of light to evenly fill an area with light, as opposed to a spotlight.
  6. (television) A lighting effect that fills a scene with a chosen colour.
  7. A liquid used for washing.
  8. A lotion or other liquid with medicinal or hygienic properties.
  9. A mixture of dunder, molasses, water, and scummings, used in the West Indies for distillation.
  10. A piece of ground washed by the action of water, or sometimes covered and sometimes left dry; the shallowest part of a river, or arm of the sea; also, a bog; a marsh.
  11. A shallow body of water.
  12. A situation in which losses and gains or advantages and disadvantages are equivalent; a situation in which there is no net change.
  13. A thin coat of paint or metal laid on anything for beauty or preservation.
  14. Ground washed away to the sea or a river.
  15. In arid and semi-arid regions, the normally dry bed of an intermittent or ephemeral stream; an arroyo or wadi.
  16. In distilling, the fermented wort before the spirit is extracted.
  17. Ten strikes, or bushels, of oysters.
  18. The backward current or disturbed water caused by the action of oars, or of a steamer's screw or paddles, etc.
  19. The bow wave or wake of a moving ship, or the vortex from its screws.
  20. The breaking of waves on the shore; the onwards rush of shallow water towards a beach.
  21. The process or an instance of washing or being washed by water or other liquid.
  22. The quantity of clothes washed at a time.
  23. The turbulence left in the air by a moving airplane.
  24. Waste liquid, the refuse of food, the collection from washed dishes, etc., from a kitchen, often used as food for pigs; pigwash.

verb

  1. (intransitive) To be eroded or carried away by the action of water.
  2. (intransitive) To be wasted or worn away by the action of water, as by a running or overflowing stream, or by the dashing of the sea; said of road, a beach, etc.
  3. (intransitive) To bear without injury the operation of being washed.
  4. (intransitive) To clean oneself with water.
  5. (intransitive) To move with a lapping or swashing sound; to lap or splash.
  6. (intransitive, figuratively) To be cogent, convincing; to withstand critique.
  7. (mining) To separate valuable material (such as gold) from worthless material by the action of flowing water.
  8. (transitive) To cause dephosphorization of (molten pig iron) by adding substances containing iron oxide, and sometimes manganese oxide.
  9. (transitive) To cover with water or any liquid; to wet; to fall on and moisten.
  10. (transitive) To move or erode by the force of water in motion.
  11. (transitive) To pass (a gas or gaseous mixture) through or over a liquid for the purpose of purifying it, especially by removing soluble constituents.
  12. To clean with water.
  13. To cover with a thin or watery coat of colour; to tint lightly and thinly.
  14. To overlay with a thin coat of metal.

wasn

wasp

wasp

noun

  1. (entomology) Any of the members of suborder Apocrita, excepting the ants (family Formicidae) and bees (clade Anthophila).
  2. A person who behaves in an angry or insolent way, hence waspish.
  3. Alternative letter-case form of WASP (“white Anglo-Saxon Protestant”)
  4. Any of many types of stinging flying insect resembling a hornet.
  5. Any of the members of the family Vespidae.

verb

  1. To move like a wasp; to buzz

wast

wast

noun

  1. Obsolete form of waist.

verb

  1. (archaic) second-person singular simple past form of be; wert.

wats

wats

noun

  1. plural of wat

waws

waws

noun

  1. plural of waw

verb

  1. Third-person singular simple present indicative form of waw

ways

ways

noun

  1. (informal, US, sometimes figurative, usually preceded by a) A distance.
  2. plural of way

webs

webs

noun

  1. plural of web

verb

  1. Third-person singular simple present indicative form of web

weds

weds

verb

  1. Third-person singular simple present indicative form of wed

wees

wees

noun

  1. plural of wee

verb

  1. Third-person singular simple present indicative form of wee

wels

wels

noun

  1. The wels catfish (Silurus glanis)

wens

wens

noun

  1. plural of wen

wesa

wese

west

west

adj

  1. (ecclesiastial) Designating, or situated in, the liturgical west, that part of a church which is opposite to, and farthest from, the part containing the chancel.
  2. (meteorology) Of wind: from the west.
  3. From the West; occidental.
  4. Of or pertaining to the west; western.
  5. Situated or lying in or toward the west; westward.

adv

  1. Towards the west; westwards.

noun

  1. (ecclesiastical) In a church: the direction of the gallery, opposite to the altar, and opposite to the direction faced by the priest when celebrating ad orientem.
  2. One of the four principal compass points, specifically 270°, conventionally directed to the left on maps; the direction of the setting sun at an equinox.
  3. The western region or area; the inhabitants thereof.

verb

  1. To move to the west; (of the sun) to set.

wets

wets

noun

  1. plural of wet

verb

  1. Third-person singular simple present indicative form of wet

weys

weys

noun

  1. plural of wey

whse

whys

whys

noun

  1. plural of why

wigs

wigs

noun

  1. plural of wig

wins

wins

noun

  1. plural of win

verb

  1. Third-person singular simple present indicative form of win

wips

wisc

wisd

wise

wise

adj

  1. (colloquial) Aware, informed.
  2. (colloquial, ironic, sarcastic) Disrespectful.
  3. Showing good judgement or the benefit of experience.

noun

  1. (archaic) Way, manner, or method.

verb

  1. (dialectal) To advise; induce.
  2. (dialectal) To cause to turn.
  3. (dialectal) To direct the course of, pilot.
  4. (dialectal) To instruct.
  5. (dialectal) To show the way, guide.
  6. (ergative, slang) Usually with "up", to inform or learn.
  7. To become wise.

wish

wish

noun

  1. (Sussex) A water meadow.
  2. A desire, hope, or longing for something or for something to happen.
  3. An expression of such a desire, often connected with ideas of magic and supernatural power.
  4. The thing desired or longed for.

verb

  1. (ditransitive) To bestow (a thought or gesture) towards (someone or something).
  2. (intransitive, followed by for) To hope (for a particular outcome), even if that outcome is unlikely to occur or cannot occur.
  3. (intransitive, followed by to and an infinitive) To request or desire to do an activity.
  4. (transitive) To desire; to want.
  5. (transitive) To recommend; to seek confidence or favour on behalf of.
  6. (transitive, now rare) To hope (+ object clause with may or in present subjunctive).
  7. I wish I could go back in time and teach myself what I know now.

wisp

wisp

noun

  1. (uncountable) A disease affecting the feet of cattle.
  2. A flock of snipe.
  3. A small bundle, as of straw or other like substance; any slender, flexible structure or group.
  4. A whisk, or small broom.
  5. A will o' the wisp, or ignis fatuus.
  6. An immeasurable, indefinable essence of life; soul.

verb

  1. (UK, dialect, obsolete) To rumple.
  2. (intransitive) To produce a wisp, as of smoke.
  3. (transitive) To brush or dress, as with a wisp.
  4. (transitive) To emit in wisps.

wiss

wiss

verb

  1. (archaic) To know; to understand.

wist

wist

verb

  1. (archaic) simple past tense and past participle of wit.
  2. (nonstandard, pseudo-archaic) To know, be aware of.

wits

wits

noun

  1. (plural only) Senses.
  2. (plural only) sanity
  3. plural of wit

woes

woes

noun

  1. plural of woe

wogs

wogs

noun

  1. plural of wog

woks

woks

noun

  1. plural of wok