An endangered nocturnal burrowing bird, Pterodroma cahow, from Bermuda; the Bermuda petrel.
carew
cawed
cawed
verb
simple past tense and past participle of caw
cawky
cawky
adj
Resembling or relating to cawk.
cawny
cawny
noun
Alternative form of cawnie
chawk
chawl
chawl
noun
A type of residential tenement building found in India, typically for poor working-class people.
chawn
chaws
chaws
noun
plural of chaw
verb
Third-person singular simple present indicative form of chaw
chewa
chwas
clawk
claws
claws
noun
plural of claw
verb
Third-person singular simple present indicative form of claw
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.
crawl
crawl
noun
(figurative) A very slow pace.
(television, film) A piece of horizontally or vertically scrolling text overlaid on the main image.
A pen or enclosure of stakes and hurdles for holding fish.
A rapid swimming stroke with alternate overarm strokes and a fluttering kick.
The act of moving slowly on hands and knees, etc.
The act of sequentially visiting a series of similar establishments (i.e., a bar crawl).
verb
(intransitive) Followed by with: see crawl with.
(intransitive) To act in a servile manner.
(intransitive) To creep; to move slowly on hands and knees, or by dragging the body along the ground.
(intransitive) To feel a swarming sensation.
(intransitive) To move forward slowly, with frequent stops.
(intransitive, transitive) To swim using the crawl stroke.
(transitive) To move over (an area) on hands and knees.
(transitive) To move over (an area) slowly, with frequent stops.
(transitive, Internet) To visit files or web sites in order to index them for searching.
crawm
craws
craws
noun
plural of craw
macaw
macaw
noun
Any of various parrots of the genera Ara, Anodorhynchus, Cyanopsitta, Orthopsittaca, Primolius and Diopsittaca of Central and South America, including the largest parrots and characterized by long sabre-shaped tails, curved powerful bills, and usually brilliant plumage.
mcgaw
scawd
scawl
schwa
schwa
noun
(phonetics) An indeterminate central vowel sound as the "a" in "about", represented as /ə/ in IPA.
Alternative form of shva
The character ə.
verb
(phonetics, of a vowel sound, rare) To be reduced to schwa.
sclaw
scraw
scraw
noun
A sod of grass-grown turf from the surface of a bog or from a field.
A turf covering the roof of a cottage beneath the thatch.
swack
swack
adj
(Scotland) Lithe; nimble.
adv
With a swack, to the point of touching.
noun
(slang) A large number or amount of something.
A bum or petty thief.
A gulp or hearty swallow.
A sharp blow.
A single attempt or instance of taking action; a crack; a go.
A striking stimulus.
A wet sound such as a loud kiss.
An attack, a swipe.
The sound of a sharp blow.
clout; influence.
verb
To consume with hearty enjoyment.
To labour; to exert an effort.
To make a swack (sound).
To slap or hit.
tcawi
uwcsa
waacs
wacke
wacke
noun
(geology) A soft, earthy, dark-coloured rock or clay derived from the alteration of basalt.
wacko
wacko
adj
(informal) Amusingly eccentric or irrational.
intj
(Britain, dated) hurrah!
noun
(informal) An amusingly eccentric or irrational person.
wacks
wacks
noun
plural of wack
wacky
wacky
adj
Zany; eccentric.
noun
Alternative form of wacke
warch
wasco
watch
watch
noun
(nautical) A group of sailors and officers aboard a ship or shore station with a common period of duty: starboard watch, port watch.
(nautical) A period of time on duty, usually four hours in length; the officers and crew who tend the working of a vessel during the same watch. (FM 55–501).
A particular time period when guarding is kept.
A period of wakefulness between the two sleeps of a biphasic sleep pattern (the dead sleep or first sleep and morning sleep or second sleep): the first waking.
A person or group of people who guard.
A portable or wearable timepiece.
The act of guarding and observing someone or something.
The act of seeing, or viewing, for a period of time.
The post or office of a watchman; also, the place where a watchman is posted, or where a guard is kept.
verb
(intransitive) To act as a lookout.
(intransitive) To be vigilant or on one's guard.
(intransitive) To remain awake with a sick or dying person; to maintain a vigil.
(nautical, of a buoy) To serve the purpose of a watchman by floating properly in its place.
(obsolete, intransitive) To be awake.
(transitive) To attend to dangers to or regarding.
(transitive) To be wary or cautious of.
(transitive) To mind, attend, or guard.
(transitive) To observe over a period of time; to notice or pay attention.
(transitive, intransitive) To look at, see, or view for a period of time.
(transitive, obsolete) To be on the lookout for; to wait for expectantly.
wauch
whack
whack
adj
Alternative form of wack (“crazy”)
noun
(US, obsolete) A deal, an agreement.
(US, slang) An attempt, a chance, a turn, a go, originally an attempt to beat someone or something.
(dated, disco-era drug slang) PCP, phencyclidine (as also wack).
(obsolete) A whack-up: a division of an amount into separate whacks, a divvying up.
(originally UK cant, somewhat dated) A share, a portion, especially a full share or large portion.
(typography, computing, slang) The backslash, ⟨ \ ⟩.
The sound of a heavy strike.
The strike itself.
The stroke itself, regardless of its successful impact.
verb
(UK, chiefly in the negative) To surpass; to better.
(slang) To kill, bump off.
(sports) To beat convincingly; to thrash.
(transitive, slang) To share or parcel out (often with up).
To hit, slap or strike.
wicca
wocas
wocas
noun
Alternative form of wokas
wraac
wrack
wrack
noun
(archaic) Remnant from a shipwreck as washed ashore, or the right to claim such items.
(archaic, dialectal or literary) Vengeance; revenge; persecution; punishment; consequence; trouble.
(archaic, except in dialects) Ruin; destruction.
A high flying cloud; a rack.
Any marine vegetation cast up on shore, especially seaweed of the family Fucaceae.
The remains; a wreck.
Weeds, vegetation or rubbish floating on a river or pond.
verb
(UK dialectal, transitive) To execute vengeance; avenge.
(UK dialectal, transitive) To worry; tease; torment.
(transitive, usually passive) To wreck, especially a ship.
Alternative form of rack (“to cause to suffer pain, etc.”)