An act of backing down; a retraction or withdrawal.
backward
backward
adj
(chess) Of a pawn, further behind than pawns of the same colour on adjacent files and unable to be moved forward safely.
(cricket) Further behind the batsman's popping crease than something else.
(cricket) On that part of the field behind the batsman's popping crease.
(figuratively) Acting or moving oppositely to the desired direction of progress.
(figuratively) Of a culture, country, practice etc., undeveloped or unsophisticated.
(figuratively) Slow to apprehend; having difficulties in learning.
(obsolete) Already past or gone; bygone.
(obsolete) Unwilling; averse; reluctant.
Acting or moving in the direction opposite to that in which someone or something is facing.
Acting or moving in the direction opposite to the usual direction of movement.
Lacking progressive or enlightened thought; outdated.
Late or behindhand.
Reluctant or unable to advance or act.
Reversed in order or sequence.
Situated toward or at the rear of something.
adv
(figuratively) Oppositely to the desired direction of progress, or from a better to a worse state.
(obsolete) In the past.
At, near or towards the rear of something.
By way of reflection; reflexively.
In a direction opposite to the usual direction of movement.
In a reversed order or sequence.
In a reversed orientation; back to front.
Toward or into the past;
noun
The state behind or past.
backwind
backwind
noun
(nautical) The flow of air so deflected
verb
(nautical) To deflect air into the back of a sail or of a vessel
(transitive) To wind backwards.
backwood
backwood
adj
Native to or located in a remote rural location.
Rustic, unsophisticated, countrified.
backword
backword
noun
A contention, retort, or reply.
A contradiction or answer to put off an engagement; a countermand.
A section of commentary at the end of a book.
bawdrick
bawdrics
bawdrics
noun
plural of bawdric
becoward
becrowds
becrowds
verb
Third-person singular simple present indicative form of becrowd
bedscrew
bowditch
buchwald
caldwell
caldwell
Proper noun
A locality in Alberta, Canada
A city in Arkansas
A ghost town in California
One of two villages in England
A city in Idaho
A city in Kansas
A town in Liberia
A community in New Brunswick, Canada
A borough in New Jersey
A town in New South Wales
A village in Ohio
A city in Texas
campward
campward
adv
Toward a camp, campwards
campwood
capeweed
capeweed
noun
The plant Arctotheca calendula
cardwell
caseweed
caseweed
noun
The plant shepherd's purse
casewood
chadwick
chatwood
chatwood
noun
Little sticks; twigs for burning; firewood.
chawdron
chawdron
noun
(now historical) A sauce made from chopped entrails.
(obsolete) Entrails, intestines (of animals as food)
cheswold
chindwin
chinwood
chipwood
chlodwig
chowders
chowders
noun
plural of chowder
cityward
cityward
adj
Directed toward cities
adv
Toward a city or cities
citywide
citywide
adj
Throughout a city.
noun
(slang, chiefly Philadelphia) A combined order of a shot of distilled spirit (especially bourbon) and an order of beer
clayweed
clogwood
clogwood
noun
The wood (typically alder) used for making clogs.
clotweed
clotweed
noun
cocklebur
clowders
clowders
noun
plural of clowder
clownade
clubweed
clubwood
coalwood
cockweed
cockweed
noun
(slang, vulgar) An obnoxious fool.
(uncountable) peppergrass
cocowood
cocowood
noun
A hard wood of the Indian tree Aporosa octandra
codeword
codeword
noun
(cryptography) A string representing an encoded piece of text.
A type of crossword puzzle where the letters of the alphabet are represented by numbers and the solver must identify them by their position and frequency.
A word or phrase (or by extension a concept) used to make a (concealed) reference to another word or concept.
cohdwell
cokewold
coldslaw
coldslaw
noun
Archaic form of coleslaw.
coltwood
comedown
comedown
noun
A calm, mellow period experienced after the initial high from taking drugs.
A sudden drop to a lower status, condition or level; a disappointment or letdown.
coolweed
cordwain
cordwain
noun
A kind of leather from Córdoba, originally of tanned goatskin, later of horsehide.
cordwood
cordwood
noun
Split and cut wood as an economic commodity.
Wood suitable for use as firewood; firewood cut and split into conveniently sized pieces for easy stacking into cords.
corkwood
corkwood
noun
Annona glabra, a plant found in the West Indies.
Caldcluvia paniculosa, a soft barked corkwood from Australia in the coachwood family.
Commiphora angolensis or sand corkwood, a shrub species growing mainly in Angola and Namibia.
Duboisia, a genus with species found in Australia.
Endiandra sieberi, a corkwood from Australia in the laurel family.
Entelea arborescens, a species found in New Zealand.
Erythrina vespertilio (grey corkwood), a species from Australia.
Hakea suberea, a species found in Australia.
Leitneria floridana, a species found in southeastern North America.
Melicope, a genus with species in Australia.
Musanga cecropioides or African corkwood, a species found in Africa.
Sesbania grandiflora, a species found in southeast Asia and northern Australia, with edible flowers.
The wood of Quercus suber, the cork oak.
cotswold
cotswold
Adjective
Of or pertaining to the Cotswolds range of hills.
A style of traditional Morris dancing originating from the Cotswolds area of England.
Noun
A sheep of a certain breed with long wool, formerly common in the English counties of Gloucester, Hereford, and Worcester.
Proper noun
a local government district in Gloucestershire, England.
cowardly
cowardly
adj
Showing cowardice; lacking in courage; weakly fearful.
adv
(archaic) In the manner of a coward, cowardlily.
cowbinds
cowbirds
cowbirds
noun
plural of cowbird
cowhands
cowhands
noun
plural of cowhand
cowherds
cowherds
noun
plural of cowherd
cowhided
cowhided
verb
simple past tense and past participle of cowhide
cowhides
cowhides
noun
plural of cowhide
cowshard
cowsheds
cowsheds
noun
plural of cowshed
crabweed
crabwood
crabwood
noun
A flowering plant of the genus Carapa in the mahogany family, Meliaceae.
crawdads
crawdads
noun
plural of crawdad
crawford
crawford
Proper noun
derived from several different placenames.
cropweed
crowders
crowders
noun
plural of crowder
crowdies
crowdies
noun
plural of crowdie
plural of crowdy
crowding
crowding
noun
The act by which somebody is crowded.
verb
present participle of crowd
crudwort
cudweeds
cudweeds
noun
plural of cudweed
curdwort
curfewed
curfewed
adj
Subject to a curfew
cussword
cussword
noun
Alternative form of cuss word
cutdowns
cutdowns
noun
plural of cutdown
decrowns
decrowns
verb
Third-person singular simple present indicative form of decrown
democraw
dewclaws
dewclaws
noun
plural of dewclaw
discrown
discrown
verb
(transitive) To remove the crown from; thus, to deprive of royal status.
diswench
dogwatch
dogwatch
noun
(by extension) A night shift, or other very late or early period of duty.
(nautical) A very brief period of naval service.
(nautical) Aboard a ship, either of the two short two-hour watches that take place between 4 p.m. and 8 p.m.
dowagiac
dowhacky
downcast
downcast
adj
(of a person) Feeling despondent.
(of eyes) Looking downwards.
noun
(computing) A cast from supertype to subtype.
(mining) A ventilating shaft down which the air passes in circulating through a mine.
(obsolete) A melancholy look.
verb
(transitive, computing) To cast from supertype to subtype.
(transitive, obsolete) To cast or throw down; to turn downward.
downcome
downcome
noun
A downpour of rain.
A tumbling or falling down; a sudden or heavy fall; an overthrow; ruin; destruction.
In ironmaking, a pipe that leads combustible gases downward from the top of the blast furnace to the hot-blast stoves, boilers, etc., where they are burned.
verb
To come down; fall down; come or fall apart.
downface
downface
adj
Having or on a downward oriented face.
adv
Further down the face
noun
(dogs) A profile characterized by a downward sloping muzzle.
The face that is oriented downward.
verb
(transitive) To disparage; to cause to lose face.
(transitive, archaic, rare) to persist in an assertion in the face of opposition.
downtick
downtick
noun
(finance) A stock market transaction or quote at a price below a preceding one.
A small decrease or downward change in something that has been steady or rising.
drawback
drawback
noun
A disadvantage; something that detracts or takes away.
A partial refund of an import fee, as when goods are re-exported from the country that collected the fee.
The inhalation of a lungful of smoke from a cigarette.
drawcard
drawcard
noun
(UK) Something that attracts customers, visitors, spectators, etc. to a place or an event.
ducktown
duckwalk
duckwalk
noun
Alternative spelling of duck walk
verb
(intransitive) To jump on one leg while moving the other back and forth, a motion sometimes employed by guitar players in popular music.
(intransitive) To walk while squatting.
duckweed
duckweed
noun
Any of several reduced floating aquatic plants in the subfamily Lemnoideae of the family Araceae.
duckwife
duckwing
duckwing
noun
Any of various types of chicken noted for their triangular wing patch
ductwork
ductwork
noun
The system of ducts in a particular building.
eschewed
eschewed
verb
simple past tense and past participle of eschew
escrowed
escrowed
verb
simple past tense and past participle of escrow
facedown
facedown
adv
Alternative form of face-down
noun
Alternative form of face-down (“a confrontation”)
gweducks
gweducks
noun
plural of gweduck
hackwood
hardwick
herdwick
herdwick
Noun
A sheep of a Cumbrian breed prized for their robust health and durable wool.
itchweed
itchweed
noun
Veratrum viride, a toxic North American plant.
itchwood
jackdaws
jackdaws
noun
plural of jackdaw
jackweed
jackwood
jackwood
noun
Cryptocarya glaucescens, a rainforest tree of eastern Australia whose bark is dark brown or reddish-brown and often scaly.
kickdown
kickdown
noun
(automotive) In a vehicle with automatic transmission, a downshift triggered by pressing down the throttle pedal.
lacewood
lacewood
noun
Any of several types of wood with a coarse texture, but especially that from several varieties of sycamore.
lockwood
lockwood
Proper noun
An area of Huddersfield named after a local family
locoweed
locoweed
noun
Any of several plants indigenous to the western United States, of genus Oxytropis or Astragalus.
lodowick
ludowici
mcdowell
midwatch
midwatch
noun
(nautical) A watch kept from midnight until four o'clock in the morning.
muckweed
neckward
neckweed
neckweed
noun
(humorous, archaic) The hemp plant, which furnishes ropes for hanging criminals.
An American annual weed (Veronica peregrina), with small white flowers and a roundish pod.
oldwench
outcrowd
outcrowd
verb
(transitive) To crowd out.
packwood
packwood
Proper noun
A ghost town in California.
A city in Iowa.
pockweed
pockwood
pockwood
noun
(archaic) lignum vitae
rechewed
rechewed
verb
simple past tense and past participle of rechew
richweed
richweed
noun
Pilea pumila, a herb of the nettle family with a smooth, juicy, pellucid stem.
richwood
rickwood
rockward
rockweed
rockweed
noun
Ascophyllum nodosum, a seaweed also known as knotted wrack.
Fucus vesiculosus, a similar seaweed also known as bladderwrack.
rockwood
rockwood
noun
(mineralogy) fossil wood
(mineralogy) ligniform asbestos
sandwich
sandwich
adj
(US) Of a meal or serving size that is smaller than a dinner.
noun
(UK) A layer cake or sandwich cake.
(archaic) A sandwichman (one who wears a sandwich board).
(by extension) Any combination formed by layering one type of material between two layers of some other material.
A dish or foodstuff where at least one piece, but typically two or more pieces, of bread serve(s) as the wrapper or container of some other food.
verb
(figuratively) To put or set something between two others, in time.
(sex) To double penetrate
To eat sandwiches.
To feed sandwiches.
To place one item physically between two other, usually flat, items.
schwejda
scowders
scrawled
scrawled
adj
Having been written in a rapid and sloppy manner.
verb
simple past tense and past participle of scrawl
screwpod
scuddawn
sedgwick
sidgwick
switched
switched
verb
simple past tense and past participle of switch
swordick
swordick
noun
(Orkney) The spotted gunnel (Muraenoides gunnellus).
thwacked
thwacked
verb
simple past tense and past participle of thwack
tickweed
twichild
twichild
adj
(obsolete) Being in second childhood.
twitched
twitched
verb
simple past tense and past participle of twitch
unchawed
unchawed
adj
Obsolete form of unchewed.
unchewed
unchewed
adj
That has not been chewed.
unclawed
unclawed
adj
Lacking claws.
unwicked
unwicked
adj
Not wicked (evil or mischievous); innocuous.
Not wicked (fitted with a wick); wickless.
uwchland
wacadash
wacadash
noun
Obsolete form of wakizashi (“Japanese short sword”).
wahconda
waldwick
wardcors
wardency
wardency
noun
The office / position of a warden
watchdog
watchdog
noun
(electronics, computing) Ellipsis of watchdog timer.
(figurative) An individual or group that monitors the activities of another entity (such as an individual, corporation, non-profit group, or governmental organization) on behalf of the public to ensure that entity does not behave illegally or unethically.
A guard dog.
verb
(electronics) To be continuously reset by a watchdog timer.
To perform a function analogous to that of a watchdog; to guard and warn.