Third-person singular simple present indicative form of avow
awacs
awash
awash
adj
(by extension) Covered, overspread (with or in something).
Washed by the waves or tide (of a rock or strip of shore, or of an anchor, etc., when flush with the surface of the water, so that the waves break over it); covered with water.
aways
aways
adv
Alternative spelling of a ways
awest
awest
verb
(archaic) second-person singular simple present form of awe
awols
awols
noun
plural of awol
bawds
bawds
noun
plural of bawd
bawls
bawls
verb
Third-person singular simple present indicative form of bawl
blaws
braws
chaws
chaws
noun
plural of chaw
verb
Third-person singular simple present indicative form of chaw
chwas
claws
claws
noun
plural of claw
verb
Third-person singular simple present indicative form of claw
craws
craws
noun
plural of craw
datsw
dawes
dawks
dawks
noun
plural of dawk
dawns
dawns
noun
plural of dawn
verb
Third-person singular simple present indicative form of dawn
dawts
dawts
verb
Third-person singular simple present indicative form of dawt
draws
draws
noun
plural of draw
verb
Third-person singular simple present indicative form of draw
dwaps
etwas
fawns
fawns
noun
plural of fawn
verb
Third-person singular simple present indicative form of fawn
flaws
flaws
noun
plural of flaw
gawks
gawks
verb
Third-person singular simple present indicative form of gawk
gawps
gawps
noun
plural of gawp
verb
Third-person singular simple present indicative form of gawp
gawsy
gnaws
gnaws
verb
Third-person singular simple present indicative form of gnaw
hawks
hawks
noun
plural of hawk
verb
Third-person singular simple present indicative form of hawk
hawse
hawse
adj
(nautical) In a position relative to the course and position of a vessel, somewhat forward of the stem.
adv
(nautical, of a vessel) Lying to two anchors, streamed from either bow.
noun
(nautical) A hawsehole or hawsepipe.
(nautical) The horizontal distance or area between an anchored vessel's bows and the actual position of her anchor(s).
(nautical) The part of the bow containing the hawseholes.
verb
(intransitive, nautical, of a vessel) To lie uneasily to an anchor, typically due to a weather tide.
iowas
isawa
kiswa
kiswa
noun
Alternative form of kiswah
kwasi
lawes
lawes
noun
plural of lawe
verb
Third-person singular simple present indicative form of lawe
lawks
lawks
intj
(UK, dialectal) Lord! (especially as an expression of surprise)
lawns
lawns
noun
plural of lawn
mawks
mawks
noun
(UK, dialect) A slattern; a mawk.
hands
plural of mawk
oswal
pawls
pawls
noun
plural of pawl
pawns
pawns
noun
plural of pawn
verb
Third-person singular simple present indicative form of pawn
pshaw
pshaw
intj
Indicating disapproval, scoffery, irritation, impatience or disbelief.
verb
(intransitive) To express disgust or contempt by saying "pshaw".
resaw
resaw
verb
(transitive) To saw again or anew, as with, especially, recutting (remilling) lumber by remaking boards into thinner boards.
simple past tense of resee
sawah
sawah
noun
A rice paddy.
sawan
sawed
sawed
verb
(dialectal, often humorous) simple past tense of see
simple past tense and past participle of saw
sawer
sawer
noun
One who saws; a sawyer.
sawny
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.
seraw
sewan
sewan
noun
Alternative form of seawan
sewar
sewar
noun
(India, historical) A native trooper.
shawl
shawl
noun
A fold of wrinkled flesh under the lips and neck of a bloodhound, used in scenting.
A square or rectangular piece of cloth worn as a covering for the head, neck, and shoulders, typically by women.
verb
(transitive) To wrap in a shawl.
shawm
shawm
noun
A mediaeval double-reed wind instrument with a conical wooden body.
shawn
shawn
Proper noun
name, popular in the US in the 1970s.
name, transferred from the male name.
shaws
shaws
noun
plural of shaw
stalks or leaves of root vegetables.
shawy
shewa
showa
siwan
slaws
slaws
noun
plural of slaw
sliwa
snaws
sowan
sowar
sowar
noun
(historical, India) A soldier on horseback, especially one during the British Raj.
spawl
spawl
noun
Alternative form of spall
Scattered or ejected spittle.
verb
(obsolete, transitive) To say in a rough manner.
(obsolete, transitive, intransitive) To scatter spittle from the mouth; to spit.
spawn
spawn
noun
(by extension, sometimes derogatory) Any germ or seed, even a figurative source; offspring.
(horticulture) The buds or branches produced from underground stems.
(video games) The location in a game where characters or objects spontaneously appear.
Mushroom mycelium prepared for (aided) propagation.
The numerous eggs of an aquatic organism.
verb
(ergative, video games, of a character or object) (To cause) to appear spontaneously in a game at a certain point and time.
(intransitive) To deposit (numerous) eggs in water.
(intransitive) To reproduce, especially in large numbers.
(transitive) To bring forth in general.
(transitive) To generate, bring into being, especially non-mammalian beings in very large numbers.
(transitive) To induce (aquatic organisms) to spawn.
(transitive) To plant with fungal spawn.
(transitive) To produce or deposit (eggs) in water.
squaw
squaw
noun
(now offensive, ethnic slur) A woman, wife; especially a Native American woman.
starw
stawn
straw
straw
adj
(figurative) Imaginary, but presented as real.
Made of straw.
Of a pale, yellowish beige colour, like that of a dried straw.
noun
(countable) A dried stalk of a cereal plant.
(countable) A drinking straw.
(figurative) Anything proverbially worthless; the least possible thing.
(uncommon) A pale, yellowish beige colour, like that of a dried straw.
(uncountable) Such dried stalks considered collectively; this bulk matter may be a chief salable product, a by-product, fodder, bedding, or green manure, depending on region and on current market conditions.
verb
(obsolete, slang) To sell straws on the streets in order to cover the giving to the purchaser of things usually banned, such as pornography.
To lay straw around plants to protect them from frost.
swabs
swabs
noun
plural of swab
verb
Third-person singular simple present indicative form of swab
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.
swage
swage
noun
A tool, used by blacksmiths and other metalworkers, for shaping of a metal item.
verb
(transitive) To bend or shape through use of a swage.
Obsolete form of assuage.
swags
swags
noun
plural of swag
verb
Third-person singular simple present indicative form of swag
swail
swain
swain
noun
(archaic) A country labourer; a countryman, a rustic.
(obsolete) A knight's servant; an attendant.
(obsolete) A young man or boy in service; a servant.
(poetic) A rural lover; a male sweetheart in a pastoral setting.
swale
swale
noun
(UK, dialectal) A gutter in a candle.
A long narrow and shallow trough between ridges on a beach, running parallel to the coastline.
A low tract of moist or marshy land.
A shallow troughlike depression that's created to carry water during rainstorms or snow melts; a drainage ditch.
A shallow, usually grassy depression sloping downward from a plains upland meadow or level vegetated ridgetop.
Bioswale, a shallow trough dug into the land on contour (horizontally with no slope), whose purpose is to allow water time to percolate into the soil.
verb
Alternative form of sweal (melt and waste away, or singe)
swami
swami
noun
(used as a title) A Hindu ascetic or religious teacher.
swamp
swamp
noun
(figurative) A place or situation that is foul or where progress is difficult.
A piece of wet, spongy land; low ground saturated with water; soft, wet ground which may have a growth of certain kinds of trees, but is unfit for agricultural or pastoral purposes.
A type of wetland that stretches for vast distances, and is home to many creatures which have adapted specifically to that environment.
verb
(figurative) To overwhelm; to make too busy, or overrun the capacity of.
(figurative) To plunge into difficulties and perils; to overwhelm; to ruin; to wreck.
To drench or fill with water.
swamy
swane
swang
swang
noun
A swamp.
verb
(African-American Vernacular, slang) To steer one's vehicle from side to side while driving.
(archaic and dialectal) simple past tense of swing. Now largely replaced by swung.
swank
swank
adj
Fashionably elegant, posh.
noun
A fashionably elegant person.
Ostentation; bravado.
verb
To swagger, to show off.
swann
swans
swans
noun
plural of swan
verb
Third-person singular simple present indicative form of swan
swape
swape
noun
A bar or pole used as a lever, swivel handle e.g. on the end of a shaft.
A kind of mechanical scoop for water.
A sconce for holding a light.
A steering oar use by Tyne keelmen.
verb
To place aslant.
To sweep.
swaps
swaps
noun
plural of swap
verb
Third-person singular simple present indicative form of swap
sward
sward
noun
(Philippines) A homosexual man.
(countable) An expanse of land covered in grass; a lawn or meadow.
(countable, obsolete except Britain, dialectal) The rind of bacon or pork; also, the outer covering or skin of something.
(countable, obsolete) The upper layer of the ground, especially when vegetation is growing on it.
(uncountable) Earth which grass has grown into the upper layer of; greensward, sod, turf; (countable) a portion of such earth.
verb
(intransitive) Of ground, etc.: to be covered with sward; to develop a covering of sward.
(transitive) To cover (ground, etc.) with sward.
sware
sware
noun
(obsolete) Alternative form of swear
verb
(archaic) simple past tense of swear
swarf
swarf
noun
(countable) A particular waste chip or shaving.
(obsolete) A faint or swoon.
(uncountable) The waste chips or shavings from an abrasive activity, such as metalworking, a saw cutting wood, or the use of a grindstone or whetstone.
verb
(intransitive, Scotland, obsolete) To grow languid; to faint.
(transitive) To grind down.
swarm
swarm
noun
(computing) A group of nodes sharing the same torrent in a BitTorrent network.
A large number of insects, especially when in motion or (for bees) migrating to a new colony.
A mass of people, animals or things in motion or turmoil.
verb
(intransitive) To move as a swarm.
(intransitive) To teem, or be overrun with insects, people, etc.
(transitive) To fill a place as a swarm.
(transitive) To overwhelm as by an opposing army.
To breed multitudes.
To climb by gripping with arms and legs alternately.
swart
swart
adj
(UK dialectal) Black.
(obsolete) Gloomy; malignant.
Of a dark hue; moderately black; swarthy; tawny.
noun
(IE dialectal) Variant of swath.
(UK dialectal) Black or dark dyestuff.
Obsolete spelling of sward
verb
(transitive) To make swart or tawny; blacken; tan.
swash
swash
adj
(typography) Having pronounced swashes.
bold; dramatic.
noun
(architecture) An oval figure, whose mouldings are oblique to the axis of the work.
(obsolete) A blustering noise.
(obsolete) A swaggering fellow; a swasher.
(obsolete) Liquid filth; wash; hog mash.
(obsolete) swaggering behaviour.
(typography) A long, protruding ornamental line or pen stroke found in some typefaces and styles of calligraphy.
A narrow sound or channel of water lying within a sand bank, or between a sand bank and the shore, or a bar over which the sea washes.
A smooth stroke; a swish.
A streak or patch.
A swishing noise.
A wet splashing sound.
The water that washes up on shore after an incoming wave has broken.
verb
(intransitive) To fall violently or noisily.
(intransitive) To wade forcefully through liquid.
(transitive, intransitive) To dash or flow noisily; to splash.
(transitive, intransitive) To swagger; to act with boldness or bluster (toward).
(transitive, intransitive) To swipe.
(transitive, intransitive) To swirl through liquid; to swish.
To streak, to color in a swash.
swath
swath
noun
(often figuratively) A broad sweep or expanse, such as of land or of people.
The track cut out by a scythe in mowing.
swati
swats
swats
noun
plural of swat
verb
Third-person singular simple present indicative form of swat
sways
sways
noun
plural of sway
verb
Third-person singular simple present indicative form of sway
swazi
sweal
sweal
verb
(intransitive) To burn slowly.
(intransitive) To melt and run down, as the tallow of a candle; waste away without feeding the flame.
(transitive) To singe; scorch; dress (as a hog) with burning or singeing.
(transitive, dialectal) To consume with fire; burn.
(transitive, dialectal) To make disappear; cause to waste away; diminish; reduce.
(Northern England, Scotland) A lazy time; a short rest during working hours (especially field labour); a siesta.
A swear word.
verb
(Northern England, Scotland) To be lazy; rest for a short while during working hours.
(transitive) To administer an oath to (a person).
(transitive) To promise intensely that something is true; to strongly assert.
(transitive) To take an oath that an assertion is true.
(transitive, intransitive) To take an oath, to promise intensely, solemnly, and/or with legally binding effect.
(transitive, intransitive) To use offensive, profane, or obscene language.
sweat
sweat
noun
(Britain, military slang, especially WWI) A soldier (especially one who is old or experienced).
(figurative) Hard work; toil.
(figurative) Moisture issuing from any substance.
(historical) The sweating sickness.
(video games, slang) An extremely competitive player.
A short run by a racehorse as a form of exercise.
Fluid that exits the body through pores in the skin usually due to physical stress and/or high temperature for the purpose of regulating body temperature and removing certain compounds from the circulation.
The state of one who sweats; diaphoresis.
verb
(intransitive) To emit moisture.
(intransitive) To emit sweat.
(intransitive) To have drops of water form on (something's surface) due to moisture condensation.
(intransitive) To suffer a penalty; to smart for one's misdeeds.
(intransitive, informal) To work hard.
(intransitive, informal) To worry.
(intransitive, plumbing) To solder (a pipe joint) together.
(transitive) To cause to excrete moisture through skin.
(transitive) To emit, in the manner of sweat.
(transitive) To take a racehorse for a short exercise run.
(transitive, archaic) To remove a portion of (a coin), as by shaking it with others in a bag, so that the friction wears off a small quantity of the metal.
(transitive, informal) To extract money, labour, etc. from, by exaction or oppression.
(transitive, informal) To worry about (something).
(transitive, intransitive, cooking) To cook slowly at low heat, in shallow oil and without browning, to reduce moisture content.
(transitive, slang) To stress out.
(video games) To be extremely dedicated to winning a game; to play competitively.
To cause to perspire.
tawse
tawse
noun
(chiefly Scotland) A leather strap or thong which is split into (typically three) tails, used for corporal punishment in schools, applied to the palm of the hands or buttocks.
verb
(transitive, chiefly Scotland) To beat with a tawse.
tawsy
thaws
thaws
noun
plural of thaw
verb
Third-person singular simple present indicative form of thaw
twaes
twats
twats
noun
plural of twat
verb
Third-person singular simple present indicative form of twat
unwas
uwcsa
waacs
waafs
waals
waasi
wacks
wacks
noun
plural of wack
wades
wades
noun
plural of wade
verb
Third-person singular simple present indicative form of wade
wadis
wadis
noun
plural of wadi
waers
waffs
waffs
verb
Third-person singular simple present indicative form of waff
wafts
wafts
verb
Third-person singular simple present indicative form of waft
wages
wages
noun
one's total income for a time period
plural of wage. It may take a singular verb. E.g. 'the wages of sin is death' (Romans 6:23 KJV)
verb
Third-person singular simple present indicative form of wage
waifs
waifs
noun
plural of waif
verb
Third-person singular simple present indicative form of waif
wails
wails
noun
plural of wail
verb
Third-person singular simple present indicative form of wail
wains
wains
noun
plural of wain
wairs
wairs
noun
plural of wair
verb
Third-person singular simple present indicative form of wair
waise
waist
waist
noun
(anatomy) The part of the body between the pelvis and the stomach.
(nautical) That part of the upper deck of a ship between the quarterdeck and the forecastle.
(obsolete) The middle part of anything.
A part of a piece of clothing that covers the waist.
The middle portion of the hull of a ship or the fuselage of an aircraft.
The narrow connection between the thorax and abdomen in certain insects (e.g., bees, ants and wasps).
waits
waits
noun
(Britain) A group of singers or musicians performing in the streets, especially around Christmas.
plural of wait
verb
Third-person singular simple present indicative form of wait
wakas
wakas
noun
plural of waka
wakes
wakes
noun
A community holiday, particularly in northern England.
plural of wake
verb
Third-person singular simple present indicative form of wake
wales
wales
noun
plural of wale
verb
Third-person singular simple present indicative form of wale
walks
walks
noun
plural of walk
verb
Third-person singular simple present indicative form of walk
walls
walls
noun
(US, slang) The vagina.
plural of wall
verb
Third-person singular simple present indicative form of wall
walsh
walsh
Proper noun
Variant of Welsh and Welch.
wames
wames
noun
plural of wame
wamus
wamus
noun
(historical) A ceremonial tunic among the Lakota people.
A warm knitted jacket from the southwest of the USA.
wands
wands
noun
plural of wand
wanes
wanes
noun
plural of wane
verb
Third-person singular simple present indicative form of wane
wants
wants
noun
plural of want
verb
Third-person singular simple present indicative form of want
wards
wards
noun
plural of ward
verb
Third-person singular simple present indicative form of ward
wares
wares
noun
Goods or services that are for sale.
plural of ware
warks
warks
noun
plural of wark
warms
warms
noun
plural of warm
verb
Third-person singular simple present indicative form of warm
warns
warns
verb
Third-person singular simple present indicative form of warn
warps
warps
verb
Third-person singular simple present indicative form of warp