(derogatory, slang) A contemptible, often fat woman.
(military) A kind of covered shed, formerly used by besiegers in filling up and passing the ditch of a besieged place, sapping and mining the wall, etc.
A channel that conducts molten metal to molds.
A female bear, she-bear.
A female guinea pig.
A female pig.
A mass of metal solidified in a mold.
A sowbug.
verb
(figurative) To scatter over; to besprinkle.
(figurative) To spread abroad; to propagate.
(transitive, intransitive) To scatter, disperse, or plant (seeds).
Obsolete spelling of sew
ssw
swa
swb
swb
Proper noun
of, a regiment in the British Army.
swf
swg
swm
swo
sws
swy
swy
noun
(Australia, games) Two-up.
(Australia, obsolete) A two-shilling coin.
(Australia, slang) A two-year prison sentence.
taw
taw
noun
(obsolete) Tawed leather.
(square dancing) A dance partner.
A favorite marble in the game of marbles.
A favorite person; beloved, partner, spouse.
A line or mark from which the players begin a game of marbles.
The 22nd and last letter of many Semitic alphabets/abjads, including Phoenician, Aramaic, Hebrew, Syriac, and Arabic.
verb
(transitive) To dress and prepare, as the skins of sheep, lambs, goats, and kids, for gloves, etc., by imbuing them with alum, salt, and other agents, for softening and bleaching them.
(transitive) To turn (animals' hide) into leather, usually by soaking it in a certain solution.
(transitive, by extension) To beat; to scourge.
(transitive, obsolete) To prepare or dress, as hemp, by beating; to tew.
To push; to tug; to tow.
To shoot a marble.
tew
tew
noun
(obsolete, UK, dialect) A cord; a string.
(obsolete, UK, dialect) A rope or chain for towing a boat.
(obsolete, UK, dialect) Trouble; worry.
verb
(UK, Scotland, obsolete, dialect) To tease; to vex or worry.
(by extension) To beat; to scourge.
To harangue or argue with.
To muddle; to mix up.
To prepare (leather, hemp, etc.) by beating or working; to taw.
To tow along, as a vessel.
To work at or worry.
To work hard; to strive.
tiw
tow
tow
noun
(motor racing) A speed increase given by driving in front of another car on a straight, which causes a slipstream for the car behind.
(specifically) The short, coarse, less desirable fibres separated by hackling from the finer longer fibres (line).
A rope or cable used in towing.
An untwisted bundle of fibres such as cellulose acetate, flax, hemp or jute.
Something, such as a barge, that is towed.
Something, such as a tugboat, that tows.
The act of towing and the condition of being towed.
verb
(running, cycling, motor racing, etc.) To aid someone behind by shielding them from wind resistance.
(transitive) To pull something behind one using a line or chain; to haul.
trw
twa
twg
twi
twm
two
two
noun
(US, informal) A two-dollar bill.
A child aged two.
A playing card featuring two pips.
The digit/figure 2.
Two o'clock, either a.m. or p.m.
num
A numerical value equal to 2; this many dots (••).
Describing a set or group with two elements.
twp
twp
adj
(Wales) Foolish.
noun
(Wales) A fool.
Abbreviation of township.
tws
twt
twt
name
Abbreviation of Twitter.
noun
(countable) Abbreviation of tweet.
(countable, uncountable) Abbreviation of Twitter.
verb
Abbreviation of tweet.
twx
uaw
umw
usw
uws
vaw
vaw
noun
Alternative form of vav
vfw
vow
vow
noun
(obsolete) A votive offering.
A declaration or assertion.
A solemn promise to perform some act, or behave in a specified manner, especially a promise to live and act in accordance with the rules of a religious order.
verb
(transitive) To make a vow regarding (something).
(transitive, intransitive) To make a vow; to promise.
To declare publicly that one has made a vow, usually to show one's determination or to announce an act of retaliation.
vws
wab
wac
wad
wad
noun
(dialect) Plumbago, graphite.
(mineralogy) Any black manganese oxide or hydroxide mineral rich rock in the oxidized zone of various ore deposits.
(slang) A sandwich.
(slang, vulgar) An ejaculation of semen.
A soft plug or seal, particularly as used between the powder and pellets in a shotgun cartridge, or earlier on the charge of a muzzleloader or cannon.
A substantial pile (normally of money).
An amorphous, compact mass.
verb
(Ulster) To wager.
To crumple or crush into a compact, amorphous shape or ball.
To insert or force a wad into.
To stuff or line with some soft substance, or wadding, like cotton.
wae
wae
noun
(Scotland) woe
waf
wag
wag
noun
A witty person.
An oscillating movement.
verb
(UK, Australia, slang) To play truant from school.
(obsolete) To be in action or motion; to move; progress.
(obsolete) To go; to depart.
To swing from side to side, such as of an animal's tail, or someone's head, to express disagreement or disbelief.
wah
wah
intj
A cry of amazement, delight, etc.
A cry of fright, distress, etc.
noun
(archaic) The red panda.
(music) wah-wah.
wal
wam
wan
wan
adj
Bland, uninterested.
Dim, faint.
Pale, sickly-looking.
noun
(Ireland) A girl or woman.
Pronunciation spelling of one, representing Ireland English.
The quality of being wan; wanness.
verb
(obsolete) simple past tense of win.
wap
wap
noun
(MLE, slang) A weapon, gun.
(UK, dialect) A blow or beating; a whap.
(colloquial) A breast.
A bundle.
verb
(UK, dialect) To beat; to whap.
(obsolete, UK, thieves' cant) To engage in sexual intercourse.
(obsolete, transitive) To wrap or bind.
war
war
noun
(Internet) An argument between two or more people with opposing opinions on a topic or issue.
(business) A protracted instance of fierce competition in trade.
(chiefly US) Campaigns against various social problems.
(countable) A particular conflict of this kind.
(countable, sometimes proscribed) Protracted armed conflict against irregular forces, particularly groups considered terrorists.
(crime) A prolonged conflict between two groups of organized criminals, usually over organizational or territorial control.
(obsolete) Armed forces.
(obsolete, uncountable) An assembly of weapons; instruments of war.
(uncountable) Organized, large-scale, armed conflict between countries or between national, ethnic, or other sizeable groups, usually but not always involving active engagement of military forces.
(uncountable, card games) Any of a family of card games where all cards are dealt at the beginning of play and players attempt to capture them all, typically involving no skill and only serving to kill time.
verb
(intransitive) To engage in conflict (may be followed by "with" to specify the foe).
(transitive) To carry on, as a contest; to wage.
was
was
verb
(colloquial, nonstandard) first-person plural simple past indicative of be
(colloquial, nonstandard) third-person plural simple past indicative of be
(now colloquial or nonstandard) second-person singular simple past indicative of be.
(now colloquial) Used in phrases with existential there when the semantic subject is (usually third-person) plural.
first-person singular simple past indicative of be.
third-person singular simple past indicative of be.
wat
wat
noun
(cooking) A kind of stew or curry eaten in Ethiopia and Eritrea.
A Buddhist temple in Southeast Asia, especially those in Thailand, Laos and Cambodia.
pron
(informal, Internet, text messaging) Alternative spelling of what
waw
waw
noun
(Northern England, Scotland, dialectal) A wall.
(obsolete, water) A wave.
Alternative spelling of vav
The twenty-seventh letter of the Arabic alphabet: و.
verb
(transitive, obsolete) To stir; move; wave.
wax
wax
adj
Made of wax.
noun
(US, dialect) A thick syrup made by boiling down the sap of the sugar maple and then cooling it.
(US, slang) A type of drugs with as main ingredients weed oil and butane; hash oil.
(dated, colloquial) An outburst of anger, a loss of temper, a fit of rage.
(rare) The process of growing.
(uncountable, music, informal) The phonograph record format for music.
Any oily, water-resistant, solid or semisolid substance; normally long-chain hydrocarbons, alcohols or esters.
Any preparation containing wax, used as a polish.
Beeswax.
Earwax.
verb
(intransitive, copulative, literary) To increasingly assume the specified characteristic.
(intransitive, literary) To grow.
(intransitive, of the moon) To appear larger each night as a progression from a new moon to a full moon.
(intransitive, of the tide) To move from low tide to high tide.
(transitive) To apply wax to (something, such as a shoe, a floor, a car, or an apple), usually to make it shiny.
(transitive) To remove hair at the roots from (a part of the body) by coating the skin with a film of wax that is then pulled away sharply.
(transitive, archaic, usually of a musical or oral performance) To record.
(transitive, informal) To defeat utterly.
(transitive, slang) To kill, especially to murder a person.
way
way
adv
(informal) Far.
(informal, with comparative or modified adjective) Much.
(slang, with positive adjective) Very.
intj
(only in reply to no way) yes; it is true; it is possible
noun
(Germanic paganism) A tradition within the modern pagan faith of Heathenry, dedication to a specific deity or craft, Way of wyrd, Way of runes, Way of Thor etc.
(US, As the head of an interjectory clause, followed by an infinitive starting with “to”) Acknowledges that a task has been done well, chiefly in expressions of sarcastic congratulation.
(plural only) The longitudinal guiding surfaces on the bed of a planer, lathe, etc. along which a table or carriage moves.
(plural only) The timbers of shipyard stocks that slope into the water and along which a ship or large boat is launched.
A degree, an amount, a sense.
A means to enter or leave a place.
A method or manner of doing something; a mannerism.
A road, a direction, a (physical or conceptual) path from one place to another.
A roughly-defined geographical area.
A state or condition
Determined course; resolved mode of action or conduct.
Possibility (usually in the phrases 'any way' and 'no way').
The letter for the w sound in Pitman shorthand.
verb
(obsolete) To travel.
wbc
wbc
Proper noun
of, one of several sanctioning bodies in professional boxing.
of, a tournament for national teams jointly organized by the International Baseball Federation and Major League Baseball.
of, an unaffiliated Baptist church known for its hate speech.
wbn
wbs
wcc
wcl
wcs
wdc
wdm
wdt
wea
web
web
name
Alternative letter-case form of Web: the World Wide Web.
noun
(architecture) A section of a groin vault, separated by ribs.
(baseball) The part of a baseball mitt between the forefinger and thumb, the webbing.
(by extension) Any interconnected set of persons, places, or things, which, when diagrammed, resembles a spider's web.
(dated) A band of webbing used to regulate the extension of the hood of a carriage.
(dated, US, radio, television) A major broadcasting network.
(lithography) A long sheet of paper which is fed from a roll into a printing press, as opposed to individual sheets of paper.
(manufacturing) A continuous strip of material carried by rollers during processing.
(rail transport) The thinner vertical section of a railway rail between the top (head) and bottom (foot) of the rail.
(usually with "spin", "weave", or similar verbs) A tall tale with more complexity than a myth or legend.
A fold of tissue connecting the toes of certain birds, or of other animals.
A latticed or woven structure.
A plot or scheme.
A thin metal sheet, plate, or strip, as of lead.
The bit of a key.
The blade of a saw.
The blade of a sword.
The interconnection between flanges in structural members, increasing the effective lever arm and so the load capacity of the member.
The series of barbs implanted on each side of the shaft of a feather, whether stiff and united together by barbules, as in ordinary feathers, or soft and separate, as in downy feathers.
The silken structure which a spider builds using silk secreted from the spinnerets at the caudal tip of its abdomen; a spiderweb.
The thin, sharp part of a colter.
verb
(intransitive) To construct or form a web.
(transitive) To cover with a web or network.
(transitive) To ensnare or entangle.
(transitive) To provide with a web.
(transitive, obsolete) To weave.
wed
wed
verb
(Northern England, Scotland) To wager, stake, bet, place a bet, make a wager.
(figurative, intransitive) To take to oneself and support; to espouse.
(figuratively, transitive) To join or commit to, more or less permanently, as if in marriage.
(intransitive) To take a spouse.
(reciprocal) To take each other as a spouse.
(transitive) To perform the marriage ceremony for; to join in matrimony.
(transitive) To take as one's spouse.
wee
wee
adj
(Scotland, Ireland, Northern England, New Zealand) Small, little.
You looked a little cold, so I lit a wee fire.
noun
(colloquial, countable) An act of urination.
(colloquial, uncountable) Urine.
A short time or short distance.
pron
obsolete emphatic of we
verb
(UK, colloquial) To urinate.
wef
wei
wem
wem
noun
(UK dialectal) A spot, stain, or mark; (by extension) a (moral) blemish or fault.
wen
wen
adv
(eye dialect) Alternative spelling of when
noun
A cyst on the skin.
a runic letter later replaced by w
wer
wer
noun
(obsolete or historical) A fine for slaying a man; wergeld.
(obsolete or historical) A man; a male; a husband
verb
Eye dialect spelling of were.
wes
wet
wet
adj
(Britain, slang) Ineffectual, feeble, showing no strength of character.
(aviation) Using afterburners or water injection for increased engine thrust.
(biology, chemistry) Of a scientist or laboratory: working with biological or chemical matter.
(chemistry) Employing, or done by means of, water or some other liquid.
(dated or obsolete, colloquial) Of a Quaker: liberal with respect to religious observance.
(retronym) Permitting alcoholic beverages.
(slang) Of a person: inexperienced in a profession or task; having the characteristics of a rookie.
(slang, archaic) Refreshed with liquor; drunk.
(slang, euphemistic) Involving assassination or "wet work".
(slang, vulgar) (of a female) Sexually aroused and thus having the vulva moistened with vaginal secretions.
Made up of liquid or moisture, usually (but not always) water.
Of a burrito, sandwich, or other food: covered in a sauce.
Of a sound recording: having had audio effects applied.
Of an object, etc.: covered or impregnated with liquid, usually (but not always) water.
Of calligraphy and fountain pens: depositing a large amount of ink from the nib or the feed.
Of weather or a time period: rainy.
noun
(Australia) Rainy season. (often capitalized)
(Britain, UK politics, derogatory) A moderate Conservative; especially, one who opposed the hard-line policies of British Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher in the 1980s.
(US, colloquial) One who supports the consumption of alcohol and thus opposes Prohibition.
(colloquial) An alcoholic drink.
(colloquial, derogatory) A weak or sentimental person; a wimp or softie.
(motor racing, in the plural) A tyre for use in wet weather.
Liquid or moisture.
Rainy weather.
verb
(US, MLE, MTE, slang) To kill or seriously injure.
(intransitive) To make or become wet.
(transitive) To cover or impregnate with liquid.
(transitive) To make (oneself, clothing, a bed, etc.) wet by accidental urination.
(transitive, informal) To celebrate by drinking alcohol.
(transitive, soldering) To form an intermetallic bond between a solder and a metal substrate.
Misspelling of whet.
to wet the baby's head
weu
wey
wey
noun
(uncommon, archaic) An old English measure of weight containing 224 pounds; equivalent to 2 hundredweight.
A person under discussion; a question of which person.
pron
(fused relative, archaic or marginal) Whoever, he who, they who.
(interrogative) What person or people; which person or people; asks for the identity of someone; used in a direct or indirect question.
(non-formal) With antecedent as object: whom.
With antecedent as subject.
whr
whs
why
why
adv
(fused relative) The cause, reason, or purpose for which.
(relative) For which cause, reason, or purpose.
Introducing a complete question.
Introducing a noun or other phrase.
Introducing a verb phrase (bare infinitive clause).
With a negative, used rhetorically to make a suggestion.
intj
(dated or literary) An exclamation used to express pleasant or unpleasant mild surprise, indignation, or impatience.
noun
(UK, dialect, archaic) A young heifer.
Reason.
wid
wid
prep
(regional) Pronunciation spelling of with.
wie
wig
wig
noun
(dated, among fishermen) An old seal.
A bigwig
A head of real or synthetic hair worn on the head to disguise baldness, for cultural or religious reasons, for fashion, or by actors to help them better resemble the character they are portraying.
verb
(intransitive, colloquial, slang) To act in an extremely emotional way; to be overly excited, irritable, nervous, or fearful; behave erratically.
(transitive, MLE, slang) To shoot in the head.
(transitive, colloquial) To upbraid, reprimand.
To put on a wig; to provide with a wig (especially of an actor etc.).
wil
wil
verb
Obsolete spelling of will
wim
wim
noun
(astronomy) Initialism of warm ionized medium.
win
win
noun
(Scotland) Pleasure; joy; delight.
(obsolete) Gain; profit; income.
(obsolete) Wealth; goods owned.
(slang) A feat carried out successfully; a victorious achievement.
An individual victory.
verb
(intransitive) To achieve victory.
(intransitive) To have power, coercion or control.
(obsolete, transitive) To conquer, defeat.
(transitive) To cause a victory for someone.
(transitive) To gain (a prize) by succeeding in competition or contest.
(transitive) To obtain (someone) by wooing; to make an ally or friend of (frequently with over).
(transitive) To obtain (something desired).
(transitive) To triumph or achieve victory in (a game, a war, etc.).
(transitive, Scotland) To dry by exposure to the wind.
(transitive, intransitive) To reach some destination or object, despite difficulty or toil (now usually intransitive, with preposition or locative adverb).
(transitive, mining) To extract (ore, coal, etc.).
wip
wir
wis
wis
adj
(rare, obsolete or dialectal) Certain.
(rare, obsolete or dialectal) Sure.
adv
(rare, obsolete or dialectal) Certainly, surely.
(rare, obsolete or dialectal) Indeed.
(rare, obsolete or dialectal) Really, truly.
verb
(obsolete or archaic) To imagine, ween; to deem.
(obsolete or archaic) To know.
(obsolete or archaic) To think, suppose.
wit
wit
noun
(now usually in the plural) Sanity.
(obsolete, usually in the plural) The senses.
A person who tells funny anecdotes or jokes; someone witty.
Humour, especially when clever or quick.
Intellectual ability; faculty of thinking, reasoning.
Intelligence; common sense.
The ability to think quickly; mental cleverness, especially under short time constraints.
prep
(Southern US) Pronunciation spelling of with.
verb
(transitive, intransitive, chiefly archaic) Know, be aware of (constructed with of when used intransitively).
wiz
wiz
noun
(Internet, informal) A wizard; an administrator of a multi-user dungeon.
(vulgar, slang) Alternative spelling of whiz: an act of urination.
A person who is exceptionally clever, gifted or skilled in a particular area.
prep
(slang, especially represents slurred or drunken speech) Pronunciation spelling of with.
wjc
wks
wks
noun
Well known services. An obsolete register superseded by DNS registers.
plural of wk; weeks.
wlm
wmc
wmk
wmk
noun
(philately) Abbreviation of watermark.
wmo
wnn
wnp
wnw
woa
wob
wod
woe
woe
adj
(obsolete) Woeful; sorrowful
noun
A curse; a malediction.
Calamity, trouble.
Great sadness or distress; a misfortune causing such sadness.
wog
wog
noun
(Australia slang) A bug, an insect.
(Australia slang) A minor illness caused by bacteria, virus, intestinal parasite, etc.
(Australia slang, obsolete) A toy insect in parts that can be assembled, used in fund-raising games.
(Australia, slang, derogatory, ethnic slur) A person of Southern European, Mediterranean, Middle Eastern, or Southeastern European ancestry.
(Britain, slang, derogatory, ethnic slur) Any dark-skinned person. It originally referred specifically to Indians, but later also applied to people of North African, Mediterranean, or Middle Eastern ancestry.
(Scientology) A person who is not a Scientologist.
(nautical, slang) A pollywog, or sailor who has never crossed the Equator.
Abbreviation of polliwog.
verb
(Australia, UK, dated) To steal.
(Australia, WWII slang, obsolete) (Of soldiers stationed abroad) to sell something, especially illicit or stolen goods, to the local inhabitants.
wok
wok
noun
A large, round-bottomed cooking pan used in East Asian cooking.
verb
To prepare oriental cuisine using a wok.
won
won
noun
The currency of Korea, worth 100 jun in North Korea and 100 jeon in South Korea.
verb
(archaic or obsolete, regional) To be accustomed to do something.
(archaic or obsolete, regional) To live, remain.
simple past tense and past participle of win
woo
woo
adj
Alternative form of woo woo
intj
(slang) Expressing joy or mirth; woohoo, yahoo.
verb
(transitive) (often of a man) To try to persuade (someone) to be in an amorous relationship with
(transitive) To court solicitously; to invite with importunity.
(transitive) To endeavor to gain someone's support.
wop
wop
noun
(UK, US, slang, derogatory, ethnic slur) A person of Italian descent.
verb
Alternative form of whop (“to hit or strike”)
wos
wot
wot
adv
(Singlish) Alternative form of wat (used to contradict an assumption)
intj
Eye dialect spelling of what.
verb
(archaic) To know (in the sense of knowing a fact).
Third-person singular simple present indicative form of wit
first-person singular present indicative of wit
wow
wow
intj
An expression of amazement, awe, or admiration.
An indication of excitement, surprise, astonishment, or pleasure.
Used sarcastically to express disapproval of something.
noun
(audio) A relatively slow form of flutter (pitch variation) which can affect both gramophone records and tape recorders.
(informal) Anything exceptionally surprising, unbelievable, outstanding, etc.
verb
(transitive, informal) To amaze or awe.
woy
wpa
wpb
wpc
wpm
wpm
noun
Initialism of words per minute (“a measure of speed, as of output, typing, reading, or speech”).
wps
wps
noun
plural of wp
wra
wra
Noun
Weapons release authorization
wro
wrt
wry
wry
adj
Deviating from the right direction; misdirected; out of place.
Dryly humorous; sardonic or bitterly ironic.
Turned away, contorted (of the face or body).
Twisted, bent, crooked.
noun
(regional) Distortion.
verb
(obsolete, intransitive) To turn (away); to swerve or deviate.
(obsolete, transitive) To divert; to cause to turn away.
(transitive) To twist or contort (the body, face, etc.).
(transitive, obsolete) To cover; clothe; cover up; cloak; hide.
wsd
wsi
wsj
wsn
wsp
wsw
wsw
Noun
Women who have sex with women.
wtf
wtf
phrase
Alternative letter-case form of WTF
wtr
wud
wud
adj
(dialectal) Mad.
phrase
Alternative form of wyd
verb
(nonstandard, informal) Alternative form of would
wun
wup
wur
wus
wus
noun
Alternative spelling of wuss
plural of wu
verb
(African-American Vernacular) Eye dialect spelling of was.
wut
wut
intj
(Internet slang, nonstandard, eye dialect) What, both in its standard meaning as an interjection, but especially as a response to an outrageous or unexpected statement.
wva
wvs
wwi
wwi
Proper noun
World War I
wye
wye
noun
(poetic, obsolete) A hero; a man, person.
(poetic, obsolete) A warrior or fighter.
A Y-shaped object: a wye level, wye-connected. Especially a Y-shaped connection of three sections of road or railroad track.
The name of the Latin-script letter Y.
verb
(transitive) To make something into a wye shape.
(transitive, rail transport) To reverse the direction of a train using a wye.
wyn
wyn
noun
Alternative spelling of wynn
wyo
yaw
yaw
noun
(nautical) A vessel's motion rotating about the vertical axis, so the bow yaws from side to side; a characteristic of unsteadiness.
A single tumor in the disease called yaws.
The angle between the longitudinal axis of a projectile at any moment and the tangent to the trajectory in the corresponding point of flight of the projectile.
The extent of yawing; the rotation angle about the vertical axis.
The rotation of an aircraft, ship, or missile about its vertical axis so as to cause the longitudinal axis of the aircraft, ship, or missile to deviate from the flight line or heading in its horizontal plane.
verb
(intransitive) To rise in blisters, breaking in white froth, as cane juice in the clarifiers in sugar works.
(intransitive, aviation) To turn about the vertical axis while maintaining course.
(intransitive, nautical) To steer badly, zigzagging back and forth across the intended course of a boat; to go out of the line of course.
(intransitive, nautical) To swerve off course to port or starboard.
yew
yew
adj
Made from the wood of the yew tree.
noun
(countable) A species of coniferous tree, Taxus baccata, with dark-green flat needle-like leaves and seeds bearing red arils, native to western, central and southern Europe, northwest Africa, northern Iran and southwest Asia.
(countable, by extension) Any tree or shrub of the genus Taxus.