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3-Letter Words (86)

AWA (6) AWE (6) [noun] A feeling of fear and reverence. | [noun] A feeling of amazement. | [noun] Power to inspire awe. AWL (6) [noun] A pointed instrument for piercing small holes, as in leather or wood; used by shoemakers, saddlers, cabinetmakers, etc. The blade is differently shaped and pointed for different uses, as in the brad awl, saddler's awl, shoemaker's awl, etc. | [noun] Any of various hesperiid butterflies. AWN (6) [noun] The bristle or beard of barley, oats, grasses, etc., or any similar bristlelike appendage; arista. BOW (8) [noun] A weapon made of a curved piece of wood or other flexible material whose ends are connected by a string, used for shooting arrows. | [noun] A curved bend in a rod or planar surface, or in a linear formation such as a river (see oxbow). | [noun] A rod with horsehair (or an artificial substitute) stretched between the ends, used for playing various stringed musical instruments. | [noun] A gesture, usually showing respect, made by inclining the head or bending forward at the waist; a reverence | [noun] The front of a boat or ship. | [noun] A firm branch of a tree. CAW (8) [noun] The harsh cry of a crow. | [verb] To make the harsh cry of a crow, rook, or raven. | [interjection] Cry of a crow. COW (8) [noun] (properly) An adult female of the species Bos taurus, especially one that has calved. | [noun] (formerly inexact but now common) Any member of the species Bos taurus regardless of sex or age, including bulls and calves. | [noun] Beef: the meat of cattle as food. | [verb] (chiefly in the passive voice) To intimidate; to daunt the spirits or courage of. | [noun] A chimney cowl. CWM (10) [noun] A valley head created through glacial erosion and with a shape similar to an amphitheatre. DAW (7) [noun] A western jackdaw, Coloeus monedula, a passerine bird in the crow family (Corvidae), more commonly called jackdaw. | [noun] An idiot, a simpleton; fool. | [verb] (obsolete outside Scotland) To dawn. DEW (7) [noun] Any moisture from the atmosphere condensed by cool bodies upon their surfaces. | [noun] Moisture in the air that settles on plants, etc in the morning, resulting in drops. | [noun] (but see usage notes) An instance of such moisture settling on plants, etc. | [verb] To wet with, or as if with, dew; to moisten. DOW (7) EWE (6) [noun] A female sheep, as opposed to a ram. FEW (9) [pronoun] Few people, few things. HAW (9) [verb] To stop, in speaking, with a sound like haw; to speak with interruption and hesitation. | [interjection] An imitation of laughter, often used to express scorn or disbelief. Often doubled or tripled (haw haw or haw haw haw). | [interjection] An intermission or hesitation of speech, with a sound somewhat like "haw"; the sound so made. | [noun] Fruit of the hawthorn. | [verb] (of an animal) To turn towards the driver, typically to the left. | [noun] The third eyelid, or nictitating membrane. HEW (9) [verb] To chop away at; to whittle down; to mow down. | [verb] To shape; to form. | [verb] To act according to, to conform to; usually construed with to. | [noun] Hue; colour HOW (9) [noun] The means by which something is accomplished. | [adverb] To what degree. | [adverb] In what manner. | [noun] An artificial barrow or tumulus. | [interjection] A greeting, used in representations of Native American speech. JAW (13) [noun] One of the bones, usually bearing teeth, which form the framework of the mouth. | [noun] The part of the face below the mouth. | [noun] Anything resembling the jaw of an animal in form or action; especially plural, the mouth or way of entrance. | [adjective] (used in certain set phrases like jaw harp, jaw harpist and jaw's-trump) JEW (13) [noun] The jewfish. | [verb] To bargain, to attempt to gain an unfair price in a business deal; to defraud. JOW (13) LAW (6) [noun] The body of binding rules and regulations, customs and standards established in a community by its legislative and judicial authorities. | [noun] A binding regulation or custom established in a community in this way. | [noun] (more generally) A rule, such as: | [noun] A tumulus of stones. | [interjection] An exclamation of mild surprise; lawks. LOW (6) [noun] Something that is low; a low point. | [noun] The minimum value attained by some quantity within a specified period. | [noun] A depressed mood or situation. | [verb] To show mirth, satisfaction, or derision, by peculiar movement of the muscles of the face, particularly of the mouth, causing a lighting up of the face and eyes, and usually accompanied by the emission of explosive or chuckling sounds from the chest and throat; to indulge in laughter. | [verb] To moo. | [noun] A flame; fire; blaze. | [noun] Barrow, mound, tumulus. MAW (8) [noun] The stomach, especially of an animal. | [noun] The upper digestive tract (where food enters the body), especially the mouth and jaws of a fearsome and ravenous creature. | [noun] Any large, insatiable or perilous opening. | [noun] Mother. | [noun] A gull. MEW (8) [noun] A gull, seagull. | [noun] A prison, or other place of confinement. | [noun] A hiding place; a secret store or den. | [noun] The crying sound of a cat; a meow, especially of a kitten. | [verb] To flatten the tongue against the roof of the mouth for supposed health benefits. MOW (8) [noun] The act of mowing (a garden, grass etc.) | [noun] A shot played with a sweeping or scythe-like motion. | [verb] To cut down grass or crops. | [noun] A scornful grimace; a wry face. | [noun] A stack of hay, corn, beans or a barn for the storage of hay, corn, beans. | [noun] A gull, seagull. NAW (6) [interjection] Pronunciation spelling of no. | [interjection] (1990s) Used to indicate that the previous phrase was meant sarcastically or ironically. NEW (6) [noun] Things that are new. | [noun] A kind of light beer. | [noun] A naval cadet who has just embarked on training. NOW (6) [noun] The present time. | [noun] (often with "the") The state of not paying attention to the future or the past. | [noun] (chiefly in phenomenology) A particular instant in time, as perceived at that instant. OWE (6) [verb] To be under an obligation to give something back to someone or to perform some action for someone. | [verb] To have debt; to be in debt. OWL (6) [noun] Any of various birds of prey of the order Strigiformes that are primarily nocturnal and have forward-looking, binocular vision, limited eye movement, and good hearing. | [noun] (by extension) A person seen as having owl-like characteristics, especially appearing wise or serious, or being nocturnally active. | [noun] The owl pigeon. OWN (6) [adjective] Belonging to; possessed; proper to. Often marks a possessive determiner as reflexive, referring back to the subject of the clause or sentence. | [adjective] Not shared | [adjective] Peculiar, domestic. | [verb] To have rightful possession of (property, goods or capital); to have legal title to. | [verb] To grant; give. PAW (8) [noun] The soft foot of a mammal or other animal, generally a quadruped, that has claws or nails; comparable to a human hand or foot. | [noun] A hand. | [verb] (of an animal) To go through something (such as a garbage can) with paws. | [noun] Father; pa. PEW (8) [noun] One of the long benches in a church, seating several persons, usually fixed to the floor and facing the chancel. | [noun] An enclosed compartment in a church which provides seating for a group of people, often a prominent family. | [noun] Any structure shaped like a church pew, such as a stall, formerly used by money lenders, etc.; a box in a theatre; or a pen or sheepfold. | [interjection] An expression of disgust in response to an unpleasant odor. | [interjection] Representative of the sound made by the firing of a gun. POW (8) [noun] A survey of people, usually statistically analyzed to gauge wider public opinion. | [noun] A formal election. | [noun] A polling place (usually as plural, polling places) RAW (6) [noun] (sugar refining, sugar trade) An unprocessed sugar; a batch of such. | [noun] A galled place; an inveterate sore. | [noun] (by extension) A point about which a person is particularly sensitive. ROW (6) [noun] A line of objects, often regularly spaced, such as seats in a theatre, vegetable plants in a garden etc. | [noun] A line of entries in a table, etc., going from left to right, as opposed to a column going from top to bottom. | [noun] An act or instance of rowing. | [noun] A noisy argument. SAW (6) [noun] A tool with a toothed blade used for cutting hard substances, in particular wood or metal | [noun] A musical saw. | [noun] A sawtooth wave. | [noun] Something spoken; speech, discourse. | [interjection] What's up (either as a greeting or actual question). SEW (6) [verb] To use a needle to pass thread repeatedly through (pieces of fabric) in order to join them together. | [verb] To use a needle to pass thread repeatedly through pieces of fabric in order to join them together. | [verb] Followed by into: to enclose by sewing. | [verb] To drain the water from. SOW (6) [noun] A female pig. | [noun] A female bear, she-bear. | [noun] A female guinea pig. | [verb] To scatter, disperse, or plant (seeds). TAW (6) [noun] Tawed leather. | [verb] To prepare or dress, as hemp, by beating; to tew. | [verb] (by extension) To beat; to scourge. | [noun] A favorite marble in the game of marbles. | [noun] The 22nd and last letter of many Semitic alphabets/abjads, including Phoenician, Aramaic, Hebrew, Syriac and Arabic. | [verb] To push; to tug; to tow. TEW (6) TOW (6) TWA (6) TWO (6) [noun] The digit/figure 2. | [noun] A two-dollar bill. | [noun] A child aged two. VAW (9) VOW (9) [noun] 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. | [noun] A declaration or assertion. | [noun] A votive offering. WAB (8) WAD (7) [noun] An amorphous, compact mass. | [noun] A substantial pile (normally of money). | [noun] 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. | [noun] Plumbago, graphite. WAE (6) WAG (7) [noun] An oscillating movement. | [noun] A witty person. | [verb] To swing from side to side, such as of an animal's tail, or someone's head, to express disagreement or disbelief. WAN (6) [noun] The quality of being wan; wanness. | [adjective] Pale, sickly-looking. | [adjective] Dim, faint. | [noun] The digit or figure 1. | [verb] To conquer, defeat. WAP (8) [noun] A blow or beating; a whap. | [noun] A breast. | [noun] A bundle. WAR (6) [noun] Organized, large-scale, armed conflict between countries or between national, ethnic, or other sizeable groups, usually involving the engagement of military forces. | [noun] A particular conflict of this kind. | [noun] (by extension) Any conflict, or anything resembling a conflict. WAS (6) WAT (6) [noun] A Buddhist temple in Southeast Asia. | [noun] A kind of stew or curry eaten in Ethiopia and Eritrea. | [adverb] (Singlish) Used to contradict an underlying assumption held by the interlocutor. | [adverb] (Singlish) Used to contradict an underlying assumption held by the interlocutor. WAW (9) WAX (13) [noun] Beeswax. | [noun] Earwax. | [noun] Any oily, water-resistant substance; normally long-chain hydrocarbons, alcohols or esters. | [verb] To apply wax to (something, such as a shoe, a floor, a car, or an apple), usually to make it shiny. | [noun] The process of growing. | [noun] An outburst of anger. WAY (9) [noun] (heading) To do with a place or places. | [noun] A method or manner of doing something; a mannerism. | [noun] A state or condition | [adverb] (with comparative or modified adjective) Much. | [noun] The letter for the w sound in Pitman shorthand. WEB (8) [proper noun] The World Wide Web. | [noun] The silken structure which a spider builds using silk secreted from the spinnerets at the caudal tip of its abdomen; a spiderweb. | [noun] (by extension) Any interconnected set of persons, places, or things, which when diagrammed resembles a spider's web. WED (7) [verb] To perform the marriage ceremony for; to join in matrimony. | [verb] To take as one's spouse. | [verb] To take a spouse. WEE (6) [noun] A short time or short distance. | [adjective] Small, little. | [noun] Urine. | [pronoun] (personal) The speakers/writers, or the speaker/writer and at least one other person (not the person being addressed). (This is the exclusive we.) WEN (6) [noun] A cyst on the skin. | [noun] A runic letter later replaced by w | [noun] The time at which something happens. WET (6) [noun] Liquid or moisture. | [noun] Rainy weather. | [noun] Rainy season. (often capitalized) WHA (9) WHO (9) [noun] A person under discussion; a question of which person. | [pronoun] (interrogative) What person or people; which person or people; asks for the identity of someone. (used in a direct or indirect question) | [pronoun] (interrogative) What is one's position; asks whether someone deserves to say or do something. WHY (12) [noun] Reason | [adverb] For what cause, reason, or purpose (interrogative adverb). | [adverb] For which cause, reason, or purpose (relative adverb). | [noun] A young heifer. WIG (7) [noun] 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. | [noun] (among fishermen) An old seal. | [verb] To put on a wig; to provide with a wig (especially of an actor etc.). WIN (6) [verb] To conquer, defeat. | [verb] To reach some destination or object, despite difficulty or toil (now usually intransitive, with preposition or locative adverb). | [verb] To triumph or achieve victory in (a game, a war, etc.). | [noun] An individual victory. | [noun] Pleasure; joy; delight. | [verb] To dry by exposure to the wind. WIS (6) [adjective] Certain | [adjective] Sure | [adverb] Certainly, surely | [verb] To know. WIT (6) [noun] (now usually in the plural) Sanity. | [noun] (obsolete usually in the plural) The senses. | [noun] Intellectual ability; faculty of thinking, reasoning. | [verb] Know, be aware of (constructed with of when used intransitively). | [preposition] Against. WIZ (15) [noun] A person who is exceptionally clever, gifted or skilled in a particular area. | [noun] A wizard; an administrator of a multi-user dungeon. | [noun] A whirring or hissing sound (as above). | [preposition] Against. WOE (6) [noun] Great sadness or distress; a misfortune causing such sadness. | [noun] Calamity, trouble. | [noun] A curse; a malediction. WOG (7) [noun] Any dark-skinned person. It originally referred specifically to Indians, but later also applied to people of North African, Mediterranean, or Middle Eastern ancestry. | [noun] A person of Southern European, Mediterranean, Middle Eastern, or Southeastern European ancestry. | [verb] (WWII slang) (Of soldiers stationed abroad) to sell something, especially illicit or stolen goods, to the local inhabitants. | [noun] A tadpole. | [noun] A bug, an insect. | [noun] A person who is not a Scientologist. WOK (10) [noun] A large, oriental, round-bottomed cooking pan. | [verb] To prepare oriental cuisine using a wok. WON (6) [verb] To conquer, defeat. | [verb] To reach some destination or object, despite difficulty or toil (now usually intransitive, with preposition or locative adverb). | [verb] To triumph or achieve victory in (a game, a war, etc.). | [verb] To live, remain. | [noun] The currency of Korea, worth 100 jun in North Korea and 100 jeon in South Korea. WOO (6) [verb] To endeavor to gain someone's support. | [verb] (often of a man) To try to persuade (someone) to be in an amorous relationship with | [verb] To court solicitously; to invite with importunity. | [interjection] Expressing joy or mirth; woohoo, yahoo. | [noun] A person readily accepting supernatural, paranormal, occult, or pseudoscientific phenomena, or emotion-based beliefs and explanations. WOP (8) [noun] A person of Italian descent. WOS (6) WOT (6) [verb] To know. | [interjection] An expression of surprise or disbelief. | [interjection] What do you want? An abrupt, usually unfriendly enquiry as to what a person desires. | [adverb] (Singlish) Used to contradict an underlying assumption held by the interlocutor. WOW (9) [noun] Anything exceptionally surprising, unbelievable, outstanding, etc. | [verb] To amaze or awe. | [interjection] An indication of excitement, surprise, astonishment, or pleasure. | [noun] (audio) A relatively slow form of flutter (pitch variation) which can affect both gramophone records and tape recorders. WRY (9) [noun] Distortion. | [verb] To turn (away); to swerve or deviate. | [verb] To divert; to cause to turn away. | [verb] To cover; clothe; cover up; cloak; hide. WUD (7) WYE (9) [noun] The name of the Latin-script letter Y. | [noun] A Y-shaped object: a wye level, wye-connected. Especially a Y-shaped connection of three sections of road or railroad track. | [noun] A warrior or fighter. WYN (9) [noun] A letter of the Old English alphabet, borrowed from the futhark and used to represent the sound of w; replaced in Middle English times by the digraph uu, which later developed into the letter w. | [noun] A kind of timber truck, or carriage. YAW (9) [noun] 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. | [noun] 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. | [noun] A vessel's motion rotating about the vertical axis, so the bow yaws from side to side; a characteristic of unsteadiness. | [noun] A single tumor in the disease called yaws. YEW (9) [noun] 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. | [noun] (by extension) Any tree or shrub of the genus Taxus. | [noun] Other conifers resembling plants in genus Taxus YOW (9) [noun] A ewe; a female sheep. | [interjection] Expression of pain; ouch. | [interjection] Expression of humorous surprise or emphasis.

4-Letter Words (345)

ALOW (7) [adverb] Low down. | [adverb] Towards the lower part of a vessel; towards the lower rigging or the decks. | [preposition] Below. | [adjective] Alight; ablaze ANEW (7) [adverb] Again, once more; afresh, in a new way, newly. AVOW (10) [noun] Avowal | [verb] To declare openly and boldly, as something believed to be right; to own, acknowledge or confess frankly. | [verb] To bind or devote by a vow. AWAY (10) [verb] To depart; to go to another place. | [adjective] Not here, gone, absent, unavailable, traveling; on vacation. | [adjective] At a specified distance in space, time, or figuratively. AWED (8) [verb] To inspire fear and reverence in. | [verb] To control by inspiring dread. | [adjective] Filled with awe. AWEE (7) AWES (7) [verb] To inspire fear and reverence in. | [verb] To control by inspiring dread. AWLS (7) [noun] A pointed instrument for piercing small holes, as in leather or wood; used by shoemakers, saddlers, cabinetmakers, etc. The blade is differently shaped and pointed for different uses, as in the brad awl, saddler's awl, shoemaker's awl, etc. | [noun] Any of various hesperiid butterflies. AWNS (7) [noun] The bristle or beard of barley, oats, grasses, etc., or any similar bristlelike appendage; arista. AWNY (10) AWOL (7) [noun] Absence without proper authority from the properly appointed place of duty, or from unit, organization, or other place of duty at which one is required to be at the time prescribed. | [noun] A person who holds AWOL status. | [noun] (generic) Somebody who is absent without permission. AWRY (10) [adjective] Turned or twisted toward one side; crooked, distorted, out of place; wry. | [adjective] Wrong or distorted; perverse, amiss. | [adverb] Obliquely, crookedly; askew. BAWD (10) [noun] A person who keeps a house of prostitution, or procures women for prostitution; a procurer, a madame. | [noun] A lewd person. | [verb] To procure women for lewd purposes. BAWL (9) [noun] A loud, intense shouting or wailing. | [verb] To shout or utter in a loud and intense manner. | [verb] To wail; to give out a blaring cry. BLAW (9) BLEW (9) [verb] To produce an air current. | [verb] To propel by an air current. | [verb] To be propelled by an air current. BLOW (9) [noun] A strong wind. | [noun] A chance to catch one’s breath. | [noun] Cocaine. | [adjective] Blue. | [noun] The act of striking or hitting. | [noun] A mass or display of flowers; a yield. BOWL (9) [noun] A roughly hemispherical container used to hold, mix or present food, such as salad, fruit or soup, or other items. | [noun] As much as is held by a bowl. | [noun] A dish comprising a mix of different foods, not all of which need be cooked, served in a bowl. | [noun] The ball rolled by players in the game of lawn bowls. BOWS (9) [noun] A firm branch of a tree. | [noun] The gallows. | [noun] A weapon made of a curved piece of wood or other flexible material whose ends are connected by a string, used for shooting arrows. BRAW (9) [adjective] Fine or good; excellent (Scottish English). BREW (9) [noun] The mixture formed by brewing; that which is brewed; a brewage, such as a cup of tea or a brewed beer. | [noun] A beer. | [verb] To make tea or coffee by mixing tea leaves or coffee beans with hot water. | [noun] A hill or overhanging cliff. BROW (9) [noun] The ridge over the eyes; the eyebrow. | [noun] The first tine of an antler's beam. | [noun] The forehead. CAWS (9) [noun] The harsh cry of a crow. | [verb] To make the harsh cry of a crow, rook, or raven. CHAW (12) [noun] Chewing tobacco. | [noun] A plug or wad of chewing tobacco. | [noun] The jaw. CHEW (12) [noun] The act of chewing; mastication with the mouth. | [noun] Level of chewiness. | [noun] A small sweet, such as a taffy, that is eaten by chewing. CHOW (12) [noun] Food, especially snacks. | [noun] A Chow Chow. | [noun] A Chinese person. | [noun] A prefecture or district of the second rank in China, or the chief city of such a district. | [noun] A run of three consecutive tiles of the same suit. CLAW (9) [noun] A curved, pointed horny nail on each digit of the foot of a mammal, reptile, or bird. | [noun] A foot equipped with such. | [noun] The pincer (chela) of a crustacean or other arthropod. | [verb] To scratch or to tear at. CLEW (9) [noun] A roughly spherical mass or body. | [noun] A ball of thread or yarn. | [noun] Yarn or thread as used to guide one's way through a maze or labyrinth; a guide, a clue. COWL (9) [noun] A monk's hood that can be pulled forward to cover the face; a robe with such a hood attached to it. | [noun] A mask that covers the majority of the head. | [noun] A thin protective covering over all or part of an engine; also cowling. | [noun] A vessel carried on a pole, a soe. | [noun] A caul (the amnion which encloses the foetus before birth, especially that part of it which sometimes shrouds a baby’s head at birth). COWS (9) [noun] (properly) An adult female of the species Bos taurus, especially one that has calved. | [noun] (formerly inexact but now common) Any member of the species Bos taurus regardless of sex or age, including bulls and calves. | [noun] Beef: the meat of cattle as food. | [verb] (chiefly in the passive voice) To intimidate; to daunt the spirits or courage of. | [noun] A plant or herb with edible roots, in the genus Lomatium, used in traditional Native American foods and medicines. COWY (12) CRAW (9) [noun] The stomach of an animal. | [noun] The crop of a bird. | [verb] To caw, crow. CREW (9) [verb] To make the shrill sound characteristic of a rooster; to make a sound in this manner, either in gaiety, joy, pleasure, or defiance. | [verb] To shout in exultation or defiance; to brag. | [verb] To test the reed of a double reed instrument by placing the reed alone in the mouth and blowing it. | [noun] A pen for livestock such as chickens or pigs | [noun] The Manx shearwater. CROW (9) [noun] A bird, usually black, of the genus Corvus, having a strong conical beak, with projecting bristles; it has a harsh, croaking call. | [noun] The cry of the rooster. | [noun] Any of various dark-coloured nymphalid butterflies of the genus Euploea. | [verb] To make the shrill sound characteristic of a rooster; to make a sound in this manner, either in gaiety, joy, pleasure, or defiance. CWMS (11) [noun] A valley head created through glacial erosion and with a shape similar to an amphitheatre. DAWK (12) DAWN (8) [noun] The morning twilight period immediately before sunrise. | [noun] The rising of the sun. | [noun] The time when the sun rises. DAWS (8) [noun] A western jackdaw, Coloeus monedula, a passerine bird in the crow family (Corvidae), more commonly called jackdaw. | [noun] An idiot, a simpleton; fool. DAWT (8) DEWS (8) [noun] Any moisture from the atmosphere condensed by cool bodies upon their surfaces. | [noun] Moisture in the air that settles on plants, etc in the morning, resulting in drops. | [noun] (but see usage notes) An instance of such moisture settling on plants, etc. DEWY (11) [adjective] Covered by dew. | [adjective] Having the quality of bearing droplets of water. | [adjective] Fresh and innocent. DHOW (11) [noun] A traditional sailing vessel used along the coasts of Arabia, East Africa, and the Indian Ocean, generally having a single mast and a lateen sail. DOWN (8) [noun] A negative aspect; a downer. | [noun] A grudge (on someone). | [noun] An act of swallowing an entire drink at once. | [noun] (especially southern England) A hill, especially a chalk hill; rolling grassland | [noun] Soft, fluffy immature feathers which grow on young birds. Used as insulating material in duvets, sleeping bags and jackets. DOWS (8) DRAW (8) [noun] The result of a contest that neither side has won; a tie. | [noun] The procedure by which the result of a lottery is determined. | [noun] Something that attracts e.g. a crowd. DREW (8) [verb] To move or develop something. | [verb] To exert or experience force. | [verb] (fluidic) To remove or separate or displace. ENOW (7) EWER (7) [noun] A kind of widemouthed pitcher or jug with a shape like a vase and a handle. EWES (7) [noun] A female sheep, as opposed to a ram. FAWN (10) [noun] A young deer. | [noun] A pale brown colour tinted with yellow, like that of a fawn. | [noun] The young of an animal; a whelp. | [noun] A servile cringe or bow. FLAW (10) [noun] A flake, fragment, or shiver. | [noun] A thin cake, as of ice. | [noun] A crack or breach, a gap or fissure; a defect of continuity or cohesion. | [noun] A sudden burst or gust of wind of short duration; windflaw. FLEW (10) [noun] (chiefly plural) The thick, dangling upper lip of certain breeds of dog, or the canine equivalent of the upper lip. | [verb] To travel through the air, another gas or a vacuum, without being in contact with a grounded surface. | [verb] To flee, to escape (from). | [adjective] Shallow; flat FLOW (10) [noun] A movement in people or things with a particular way in large numbers or amounts | [noun] The movement of a real or figurative fluid. | [noun] A formalization of the idea of the motion of particles in a fluid, as a group action of the real numbers on a set. | [noun] A morass or marsh. FOWL (10) [noun] A bird. | [noun] A bird of the order Galliformes, including chickens, turkeys, pheasant, partridges and quail. | [noun] Birds which are hunted or kept for food, including Galliformes and also waterfowl of the order Anseriformes such as ducks, geese and swans. | [adjective] Foul FROW (10) [noun] A woman; a wife, especially a Dutch or German one. | [noun] A slovenly woman; a wench; a lusty woman. | [noun] A big, fat woman; a slovenly, coarse, or untidy woman; a woman of low character. | [noun] A cleaving tool for splitting cask staves and shingles from the block. | [adjective] Brittle; tender; crisp | [noun] A cleaving tool with handle at right angles to the blade, for splitting cask staves and shingles from the block; a frower. GAWK (12) [noun] A cuckoo. | [noun] A fool; a simpleton; a stupid or clumsy person. | [verb] To stare or gape stupidly. GAWP (10) [verb] To stare stupidly or rudely; to gawk. GLOW (8) [noun] The state of a glowing object. | [noun] The condition of being passionate or having warm feelings. | [noun] The brilliance or warmth of color in an environment or on a person (especially one's face). GNAW (8) [verb] To bite something persistently, especially something tough. | [verb] To produce excessive anxiety or worry. | [verb] To corrode; to fret away; to waste. GOWD (9) GOWK (12) [noun] A cuckoo. | [noun] A fool. | [verb] To make foolish; to stupefy. GOWN (8) [noun] A loose, flowing upper garment. | [noun] A woman's ordinary outer dress, such as a calico or silk gown. | [noun] The official robe of certain professional men and scholars, such as university students and officers, barristers, judges, etc. GREW (8) [verb] To become larger, to increase in magnitude. | [verb] To appear or sprout. | [verb] To develop, to mature. | [verb] To be frightened; to shudder with fear. GROW (8) [verb] To become larger, to increase in magnitude. | [verb] To appear or sprout. | [verb] To develop, to mature. HAWK (14) [noun] A diurnal predatory bird of the family Accipitridae, smaller than an eagle. | [noun] Any diurnal predatory terrestrial bird of similar size and appearance to the accipitrid hawks, such as a falcon | [noun] An advocate of aggressive political positions and actions. | [noun] A plasterer's tool, made of a flat surface with a handle below, used to hold an amount of plaster prior to application to the wall or ceiling being worked on: a mortarboard. | [verb] To sell; to offer for sale by outcry in the street; to carry (merchandise) about from place to place for sale; to peddle. | [noun] A noisy effort to force up phlegm from the throat. HAWS (10) [verb] To stop, in speaking, with a sound like haw; to speak with interruption and hesitation. | [noun] Fruit of the hawthorn. | [noun] A hedge. HEWN (10) [verb] To chop away at; to whittle down; to mow down. | [verb] To shape; to form. | [verb] To act according to, to conform to; usually construed with to. HEWS (10) [verb] To chop away at; to whittle down; to mow down. | [verb] To shape; to form. | [verb] To act according to, to conform to; usually construed with to. HOWE (10) [noun] The means by which something is accomplished. | [noun] An artificial barrow or tumulus. | [noun] A small hill in northern England. (Usage preserved mainly in place names.) HOWF (13) HOWK (14) HOWL (10) [noun] The protracted, mournful cry of a dog or a wolf, or other like sound. | [noun] A prolonged cry of distress or anguish; a wail. | [verb] To utter a loud, protracted, mournful sound or cry, as dogs and wolves often do. HOWS (10) HWAN (10) IWIS (7) JAWS (14) [noun] One of the bones, usually bearing teeth, which form the framework of the mouth. | [noun] The part of the face below the mouth. | [noun] Anything resembling the jaw of an animal in form or action; especially plural, the mouth or way of entrance. JEWS (14) [noun] The jewfish. | [verb] To bargain, to attempt to gain an unfair price in a business deal; to defraud. JOWL (14) [noun] The jaw, jawbone; especially one of the lateral parts of the mandible. | [verb] To throw, dash, or knock. | [noun] A fold of fatty flesh under the chin, around the cheeks, or lower jaw (as a dewlap, wattle, crop, or double chin). JOWS (14) KIWI (11) [noun] A New Zealander. | [noun] A flightless bird of the genus Apteryx native to New Zealand. | [noun] A New Zealand dollar. KNEW (11) [verb] To perceive the truth or factuality of; to be certain of or that. | [verb] To be aware of; to be cognizant of. | [verb] To be acquainted or familiar with; to have encountered. KNOW (11) [noun] Knowledge; the state of knowing. | [verb] To perceive the truth or factuality of; to be certain of or that. | [verb] To be aware of; to be cognizant of. LAWN (7) [noun] An open space between woods. | [noun] Ground (generally in front of or around a house) covered with grass kept closely mown. | [noun] An overgrown agar culture, such that no separation between single colonies exists. | [noun] A type of thin linen or cotton. LAWS (7) [noun] The body of binding rules and regulations, customs and standards established in a community by its legislative and judicial authorities. | [noun] A binding regulation or custom established in a community in this way. | [noun] (more generally) A rule, such as: LEWD (8) [verb] To get high on quaalude. | [verb] To express lust; to behave in a lewd manner. | [adjective] Lascivious, sexually promiscuous, rude. LOWE (7) [noun] A flame; fire; blaze. LOWN (7) LOWS (7) [noun] Something that is low; a low point. | [noun] The minimum value attained by some quantity within a specified period. | [noun] A depressed mood or situation. LWEI (7) [noun] A monetary unit of Angola used from 1975-1990, one hundredth of a kwanza. MAWN (9) MAWS (9) [noun] The stomach, especially of an animal. | [noun] The upper digestive tract (where food enters the body), especially the mouth and jaws of a fearsome and ravenous creature. | [noun] Any large, insatiable or perilous opening. MEOW (9) [noun] The cry of a cat. | [noun] The drug mephedrone. | [verb] Of a cat, to make its cry. MEWL (9) [noun] A soft cry or whimper; an act of mewling. | [verb] To cry weakly with a soft, high-pitched sound; to whimper; to whine. MEWS (9) [noun] An alley where there are stables; a narrow passage; a confined place. | [noun] A place where birds of prey are housed. | [noun] A gull, seagull. | [verb] To shut away, confine, lock up. MOWN (9) [verb] To cut down grass or crops. | [verb] To cut down or slaughter in great numbers. MOWS (9) [noun] A gull, seagull. | [noun] A prison, or other place of confinement. | [noun] A hiding place; a secret store or den. NEWS (7) [noun] New information of interest. | [noun] Information about current events disseminated via media. | [noun] Posts published on newsgroups NEWT (7) [noun] A small lizard-like amphibian in the family Salamandridae that lives in the water as an adult. NOWS (7) NOWT (7) [noun] Naught, nothing. | [adverb] Naught, nothing. | [pronoun] Naught, nothing. | [noun] An ox. OWED (8) [verb] To be under an obligation to give something back to someone or to perform some action for someone. | [verb] To have debt; to be in debt. | [adjective] That owes. OWES (7) [verb] To be under an obligation to give something back to someone or to perform some action for someone. | [verb] To have debt; to be in debt. OWLS (7) [noun] Any of various birds of prey of the order Strigiformes that are primarily nocturnal and have forward-looking, binocular vision, limited eye movement, and good hearing. | [noun] (by extension) A person seen as having owl-like characteristics, especially appearing wise or serious, or being nocturnally active. | [noun] The owl pigeon. OWNS (7) [verb] To have rightful possession of (property, goods or capital); to have legal title to. | [verb] To have recognized political sovereignty over a place, territory, as distinct from the ordinary connotation of property ownership. | [verb] To defeat or embarrass; to overwhelm. OWSE (7) PAWL (9) [noun] A pivoted catch designed to fall into a notch on a ratchet wheel so as to allow movement in only one direction (e.g. on a windlass or in a clock mechanism), or alternatively to move the wheel in one direction. | [noun] A similar device to prevent motion in other mechanisms besides ratchets. | [verb] To stop with a pawl. PAWN (9) [noun] The most common chess piece, or a similar piece in a similar game. In chess each side has eight; moves are only forward, and attacks are only forward diagonally or en passant. | [noun] Someone who is being manipulated or used to some end. | [noun] The state of being held as security for a loan, or as a pledge. | [noun] A psychoactive preparation of betel leaf combined with areca nut and/or cured tobacco, chewed recreationally in Asia; such a preparation served wrapped in the leaf. | [noun] A gallery. | [verb] (originally leet) To own, to defeat or dominate (someone or something, especially a game or someone playing a game). PAWS (9) [noun] The soft foot of a mammal or other animal, generally a quadruped, that has claws or nails; comparable to a human hand or foot. | [noun] A hand. | [verb] (of an animal) To go through something (such as a garbage can) with paws. PEWS (9) [noun] One of the long benches in a church, seating several persons, usually fixed to the floor and facing the chancel. | [noun] An enclosed compartment in a church which provides seating for a group of people, often a prominent family. | [noun] Any structure shaped like a church pew, such as a stall, formerly used by money lenders, etc.; a box in a theatre; or a pen or sheepfold. PHEW (12) [interjection] Used to express relief of tension, fatigue, or surprise. | [interjection] Used to show disgust. PLEW (9) [noun] Beaver pelt PLOW (9) [noun] The notional area of land able to be farmed in a year by a team of 8 oxen pulling a carruca plow, usually reckoned at 120 acres. | [noun] A device pulled through the ground in order to break it open into furrows for planting. | [noun] The use of a plough; tillage. POWS (9) [noun] A survey of people, usually statistically analyzed to gauge wider public opinion. | [noun] A formal election. | [noun] A polling place (usually as plural, polling places) PROW (9) [noun] The front part of a vessel | [noun] A vessel | [adjective] Brave, valiant, gallant. | [noun] A sailing vessel found in the waters of Micronesia and Indonesia; it has a single, large outrigger and a triangular sail. RAWS (7) ROWS (7) [noun] A line of objects, often regularly spaced, such as seats in a theatre, vegetable plants in a garden etc. | [noun] A line of entries in a table, etc., going from left to right, as opposed to a column going from top to bottom. | [noun] An act or instance of rowing. SAWN (7) [verb] To cut (something) with a saw. | [verb] To make a motion back and forth similar to cutting something with a saw. | [verb] To be cut with a saw. SAWS (7) [noun] A tool with a toothed blade used for cutting hard substances, in particular wood or metal | [noun] A musical saw. | [noun] A sawtooth wave. SCOW (9) [noun] A large flat-bottomed boat, having broad, square ends. | [verb] To transport in a scow. SEWN (7) [verb] To use a needle to pass thread repeatedly through (pieces of fabric) in order to join them together. | [verb] To use a needle to pass thread repeatedly through pieces of fabric in order to join them together. | [verb] Followed by into: to enclose by sewing. SEWS (7) [verb] To use a needle to pass thread repeatedly through (pieces of fabric) in order to join them together. | [verb] To use a needle to pass thread repeatedly through pieces of fabric in order to join them together. | [verb] Followed by into: to enclose by sewing. SHAW (10) [noun] A thicket; a small wood or grove. | [noun] The leaves and tops of vegetables, especially potatoes and turnips. SHEW (10) [noun] A play, dance, or other entertainment. | [noun] An exhibition of items. | [noun] A broadcast program/programme. | [verb] To display, to have somebody see (something). SHOW (10) [noun] A play, dance, or other entertainment. | [noun] An exhibition of items. | [noun] A broadcast program/programme. SKEW (11) [noun] Something that has an oblique or slanted position. | [noun] An oblique or sideways movement. | [noun] A bias or distortion in a particular direction. | [noun] 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. SLAW (7) [noun] Coleslaw. SLEW (7) [noun] The act, or process of slewing. | [noun] A device used for slewing. | [noun] A change of position. | [noun] A wet place; a river inlet. | [verb] To kill, murder. | [noun] A large amount. SLOW (7) [noun] Someone who is slow; a sluggard. | [noun] A slow song. | [verb] To make (something) run, move, etc. less quickly; to reduce the speed of. SMEW (9) [noun] 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 (7) SNOW (7) [noun] The frozen, crystalline state of water that falls as precipitation. | [noun] Any similar frozen form of a gas or liquid. | [noun] A snowfall; a blanket of frozen, crystalline water. | [noun] 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. SOWN (7) [verb] To scatter, disperse, or plant (seeds). | [verb] To spread abroad; to propagate. | [verb] To scatter over; to besprinkle. SOWS (7) [noun] A female pig. | [noun] A female bear, she-bear. | [noun] A female guinea pig. SPEW (9) [noun] Vomit | [noun] Ejaculate or ejaculation. | [noun] Nonsense or lies. STAW (7) STEW (7) [noun] A cooking-dish used for boiling; a cauldron. | [noun] A heated bath-room or steam-room; also, a hot bath. | [noun] A brothel. | [noun] A steward or stewardess on an airplane. STOW (7) [noun] A place, stead. | [verb] To put something away in a compact and tidy manner, in its proper place, or in a suitable place. | [verb] To store or pack something in a space-saving manner and over a long time. SWAB (9) [noun] 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. | [noun] A sample taken with a swab (piece of absorbent material). | [noun] A piece of material used for cleaning or sampling other items like musical instruments or guns. SWAG (8) [noun] (window coverings) A loop of draped fabric. | [noun] A low point or depression in land; especially, a place where water collects. | [verb] To (cause to) sway. | [noun] Style; fashionable appearance or manner. | [noun] (thieves' cant) A shop and its goods; any quantity of goods. | [noun] Initialism of scientific/speculative/sophisticated/stupid wild-ass guess. SWAM (9) [verb] To move through the water, without touching the bottom; to propel oneself in water by natural means. | [verb] To become immersed in, or as if in, or flooded with, or as if with, a liquid | [verb] To move around freely because of excess space. SWAN (7) [noun] Any of various species of large, long-necked waterfowl, of genus Cygnus (bird family: Anatidae), most of which have white plumage. | [noun] One whose grace etc. suggests a swan. | [noun] This bird used as a heraldic charge, sometimes with a crown around its neck (e. g. the arms of Buckinghamshire). | [verb] To declare (chiefly in first-person present constructions). SWAP (9) [verb] To exchange or give (something) in an exchange (for something else). | [verb] To hit, to strike. | [verb] To beat the air, or ply the wings, with a sweeping motion or noise; to flap. | [noun] An exchange of two comparable things. | [noun] A blow; a stroke. SWAT (7) [noun] A hard stroke, hit or blow, e.g., as part of a spanking. | [noun] Alternate spelling of swot: vigorous study at an educational institution. | [verb] To beat off, as insects; to bat, strike, or hit. | [verb] To illegitimately provoke a SWAT assault upon (someone). SWAY (10) [noun] The act of swaying; a swaying motion; a swing or sweep of a weapon. | [noun] A rocking or swinging motion. | [noun] Influence, weight, or authority that inclines to one side SWIG (8) [noun] Drink, liquor. | [noun] (by extension) A long draught from a drink. | [noun] A person who drinks deeply. SWIM (9) [noun] An act or instance of swimming. | [noun] The sound, or air bladder, of a fish. | [noun] A part of a stream much frequented by fish. | [noun] A dizziness; swoon. | [noun] Abbreviation of someone who isn't me. used as a way to avoid self-designation or self-incrimination, especially in online drug forums SWOB (9) [noun] 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. | [noun] A sample taken with a swab (piece of absorbent material). | [noun] A piece of material used for cleaning or sampling other items like musical instruments or guns. SWOP (9) [verb] To exchange or give (something) in an exchange (for something else). | [verb] To hit, to strike. | [verb] To beat the air, or ply the wings, with a sweeping motion or noise; to flap. | [noun] A fusion of swing and hip-hop dance styles. SWOT (7) [noun] One who swots. | [noun] Work. | [noun] Vigorous study at an educational institution. SWUM (9) [verb] To move through the water, without touching the bottom; to propel oneself in water by natural means. | [verb] To become immersed in, or as if in, or flooded with, or as if with, a liquid | [verb] To move around freely because of excess space. TAWS (7) [verb] To prepare or dress, as hemp, by beating; to tew. | [verb] (by extension) To beat; to scourge. | [verb] 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. TEWS (7) THAW (10) [noun] The melting of ice, snow, or other congealed matter; the resolution of ice, or the like, into the state of a fluid; liquefaction by heat of anything congealed by frost | [noun] A warmth of weather sufficient to melt that which is frozen | [verb] To gradually melt, dissolve, or become fluid; to soften from frozen THEW (10) [noun] A bondman; a slave. | [adjective] Bond; servile. | [verb] To oppress; enslave. | [noun] Muscle or sinew. TOWN (7) [noun] A settlement; an area with residential districts, shops and amenities, and its own local government; especially one larger than a village and smaller than a city. | [noun] Any more urbanized center than the place of reference. | [noun] A rural settlement in which a market was held at least once a week. TOWS (7) TOWY (10) TROW (7) [noun] Trust or faith. | [verb] To trust or believe. | [verb] To have confidence in, or to give credence to. | [noun] Any of several flat-bottomed sailing boats used for fishing or for carrying bulk goods. TWAE (7) TWAS (7) TWAT (7) [noun] The vagina or vulva. | [noun] A contemptible and stupid person, idiot. | [verb] To hit, slap. TWEE (7) [adjective] Overly quaint, dainty, cute or nice. TWIG (8) [noun] A small thin branch of a tree or bush. | [verb] To beat with twigs. | [verb] To realise something; to catch on; to recognize someone or something. | [verb] To twitch; to pull; to tweak. TWIN (7) [noun] Either of two people (or, less commonly, animals) who shared the same uterus at the same time; one who was born at the same birth as a sibling. | [noun] Either of two similar or closely related objects, entities etc. | [noun] A room in a hotel, guesthouse, etc. with two beds; a twin room. | [adjective] Double; dual; occurring as a matching pair TWIT (7) [noun] A reproach, gibe or taunt. | [noun] A foolish or annoying person. | [noun] A euphemism for "twat", a contemptible or stupid person. TWOS (7) [noun] The digit/figure 2. | [noun] A two-dollar bill. | [noun] A child aged two. VAWS (10) VIEW (10) [noun] (physical) Visual perception. | [noun] A picture, drawn or painted; a sketch. | [noun] (psychological) Opinion, judgement, imagination. VOWS (10) [noun] 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. | [noun] A declaration or assertion. | [noun] A votive offering. VROW (10) WABS (9) WACK (13) [noun] An eccentric; an oddball; a weirdo. | [adjective] Egregious. | [adjective] Bad (not good), inauthentic, of an inferior quality, contemptible, lacking integrity, lame, or strange. WADE (8) [noun] An act of wading. | [noun] A ford; a place to cross a river. | [verb] To walk through water or something that impedes progress. | [noun] The plant Isatis tinctoria. WADI (8) [noun] A valley, gully, or stream bed in northern Africa and southwest Asia that remains dry except during the rainy season. WADS (8) [noun] An amorphous, compact mass. | [noun] A substantial pile (normally of money). | [noun] 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. WADY (11) [noun] A valley, gully, or stream bed in northern Africa and southwest Asia that remains dry except during the rainy season. WAES (7) WAFF (13) WAFT (10) [noun] A light breeze. | [noun] Something (such as an odor or scent like a perfume) that is carried through the air. | [noun] A flag used to indicate wind direction or, with a knot tied in the center, as a signal; a waif, a wheft. WAGE (8) [noun] (often in plural) An amount of money paid to a worker for a specified quantity of work, usually calculated on an hourly basis and expressed in an amount of money per hour. | [verb] To wager, bet. | [verb] To expose oneself to, as a risk; to incur, as a danger; to venture; to hazard. WAGS (8) [noun] An oscillating movement. | [noun] A witty person. | [verb] To swing from side to side, such as of an animal's tail, or someone's head, to express disagreement or disbelief. WAIF (10) [noun] A castaway; a homeless child. | [noun] (of a plant outside its native range) A plant that has been introduced but is not persistently naturalized. | [noun] Goods found of which the owner is not known; originally, such goods as a pursued thief threw away to prevent being apprehended, which belonged to the king unless the owner made pursuit of the felon, took him, and brought him to justice. WAIL (7) [noun] A prolonged cry, usually high-pitched, especially as of grief or anguish. | [noun] Any similar sound as of lamentation; a howl. | [noun] A sound made by emergency vehicle sirens, contrasted with "yelp" which is higher-pitched and faster. | [verb] To strike the skin in such a way as to produce a wale or welt. WAIN (7) [noun] A wagon; a four-wheeled cart for hauling loads, usually pulled by horses or oxen. | [verb] To carry. | [noun] (Derry) A collective word usually for children. WAIR (7) WAIT (7) [noun] A delay. | [noun] An ambush. | [noun] One who watches; a watchman. WAKE (11) [noun] The act of waking, or state of being awake. | [noun] The state of forbearing sleep, especially for solemn or festive purposes; a vigil. | [verb] (often followed by up) To stop sleeping. | [noun] A period after a person's death before or after the body is buried, cremated, etc.; in some cultures accompanied by a party and/or collectively sorting through the deceased's personal effects. | [noun] The path left behind a ship on the surface of the water. WALE (7) [noun] A ridge or low barrier. | [noun] A raised rib in knit goods or fabric, especially corduroy. (As opposed to course). | [noun] The texture of a piece of fabric. | [noun] Something selected as being the best, preference; choice. WALK (11) [verb] To move on the feet by alternately setting each foot (or pair or group of feet, in the case of animals with four or more feet) forward, with at least one foot on the ground at all times. Compare run. | [verb] To "walk free", i.e. to win, or avoid, a criminal court case, particularly when actually guilty. | [verb] Of an object, to go missing or be stolen. | [noun] A trip made by walking. WALL (7) [noun] A rampart of earth, stones etc. built up for defensive purposes. | [noun] A structure built for defense surrounding a city, castle etc. | [noun] Each of the substantial structures acting either as the exterior of or divisions within a structure. | [verb] To boil. | [noun] A spring of water. | [noun] A kind of knot often used at the end of a rope; a wall knot or wale. | [interjection] Used to acknowledge a statement or situation. WALY (10) WAME (9) WAND (8) [noun] A hand-held narrow rod, usually used for pointing or instructing, or as a traditional emblem of authority. | [noun] (by extension) An instrument shaped like a wand, such as a curling wand. | [noun] A magic wand. WANE (7) [noun] A gradual diminution in power, value, intensity etc. | [noun] The lunar phase during which the sun seems to illuminate less of the moon as its sunlit area becomes progressively smaller as visible from Earth. | [noun] The end of a period. | [noun] A child. | [noun] A house or dwelling. WANS (7) [noun] The digit or figure 1. | [noun] The neutral element with respect to multiplication in a ring. | [noun] A one-dollar bill. WANT (7) [noun] A desire, wish, longing. | [noun] (often followed by of) Lack, absence. | [noun] Poverty. WANY (10) WAPS (9) WARD (8) [noun] A warden; a guard; a guardian or watchman. | [noun] Protection, defence. | [noun] A protected place, and by extension, a type of subdivision. | [verb] To keep in safety, to watch over, to guard. WARE (7) [noun] The state of being aware; heed. | [adjective] Aware. | [noun] (usually in combination) Goods or a type of goods offered for sale or use. | [verb] To be ware or mindful of something. | [noun] Seaweed. | [verb] To wear, or veer. WARK (11) WARM (9) [adjective] Having a temperature slightly higher than usual, but still pleasant; mildly hot. | [adjective] Caring and friendly, of relations to another person. | [adjective] Having a color in the red-orange-yellow part of the visible electromagnetic spectrum. | [noun] The act of warming, or the state of being warmed; a heating. WARN (7) [verb] To make (someone) aware of (something impending); especially: | [verb] To caution or admonish (someone) against unwise or unacceptable behaviour. | [verb] (chiefly with "off", "away", and similar words) To advise or order to go or stay away. WARP (9) [noun] The state, quality, or condition of being twisted, physically or mentally: | [noun] A distortion: | [noun] The threads that run lengthwise in a woven fabric; crossed by the woof or weft. | [verb] To twist or become twisted, physically or mentally: WARS (7) [noun] Organized, large-scale, armed conflict between countries or between national, ethnic, or other sizeable groups, usually involving the engagement of military forces. | [noun] A particular conflict of this kind. | [noun] (by extension) Any conflict, or anything resembling a conflict. WART (7) [noun] A type of deformed growth occurring on the skin caused by the human papillomavirus (HPV). | [noun] Any similar growth occurring in plants or animals, such as the parotoid glands in the back of toads. | [noun] Any of the prefixes used in Hungarian notation. WARY (10) [adjective] Cautious of danger; carefully watching and guarding against deception, trickery, and dangers; suspiciously prudent | [adjective] Characterized by caution; guarded; careful; on one's guard | [adjective] Thrifty, provident WASH (10) [noun] The process or an instance of washing or being washed by water or other liquid. | [noun] A liquid used for washing. | [noun] A lotion or other liquid with medicinal or hygienic properties. WASP (9) [noun] Any of many types of stinging flying insect resembling a hornet. | [noun] Any of the members of suborder Apocrita, excepting the ants (family Formicidae) and bees (clade Anthophila). | [noun] A person who behaves in an angry or insolent way, hence waspish. | [noun] A member of the dominant American upper-class culture: a white Anglo-Saxon Protestant. WAST (7) [noun] The part of the body between the pelvis and the stomach. | [noun] A part of a piece of clothing that covers the waist. | [noun] The narrow connection between the thorax and abdomen in certain insects (e.g., bees, ants and wasps). WATS (7) [noun] A Buddhist temple in Southeast Asia. WATT (7) [noun] In the International System of Units, the derived unit of power; the power of a system in which one joule of energy is transferred per second. Symbol: W WAUK (11) WAUL (7) [verb] To wail, to cry plaintively. WAUR (7) WAVE (10) [verb] To move back and forth repeatedly and somewhat loosely. | [verb] To move one’s hand back and forth (generally above the shoulders) in greeting or departure. | [verb] (metonymic) To call attention to, or give a direction or command to, by a waving motion, as of the hand; to signify by waving; to beckon; to signal; to indicate. | [noun] A moving disturbance in the level of a body of liquid; an undulation. | [verb] To relinquish (a right etc.); to give up claim to; to forego. WAVY (13) [adjective] Rising or swelling in waves. | [adjective] Full of waves. | [adjective] Moving to and fro; undulating. | [noun] The snow goose (Chen caerulescens) WAWL (10) WAWS (10) WAXY (17) [adjective] Resembling wax in texture or appearance. | [adjective] Angry. WAYS (10) [noun] (heading) To do with a place or places. | [noun] A method or manner of doing something; a mannerism. | [noun] A state or condition WEAK (11) [adjective] Lacking in force (usually strength) or ability. | [adjective] Unable to sustain a great weight, pressure, or strain. | [adjective] Unable to withstand temptation, urgency, persuasion, etc.; easily impressed, moved, or overcome; accessible; vulnerable. WEAL (7) [noun] Wealth, riches. | [noun] Welfare, prosperity. | [noun] (by extension) Boon, benefit. | [noun] A raised, longitudinal wound, usually purple, on the surface of flesh caused by a stroke of a rod or whip; a welt. WEAN (7) WEAR (7) [noun] (in combination) clothing | [noun] Damage to the appearance and/or strength of an item caused by use over time | [noun] Fashion | [verb] To guard; watch; keep watch, especially from entry or invasion. | [noun] An adjustable dam placed across a river to regulate the flow of water downstream. WEBS (9) [noun] The silken structure which a spider builds using silk secreted from the spinnerets at the caudal tip of its abdomen; a spiderweb. | [noun] (by extension) Any interconnected set of persons, places, or things, which when diagrammed resembles a spider's web. | [noun] (sometimes capitalized) Specifically, the World Wide Web. WEDS (8) [verb] To perform the marriage ceremony for; to join in matrimony. | [verb] To take as one's spouse. | [verb] To take a spouse. WEED (8) [noun] Any plant regarded as unwanted at the place where, and at the time when it is growing. | [noun] Short for duckweed. | [noun] Underbrush; low shrubs. | [verb] To remove unwanted vegetation from a cultivated area. | [noun] A garment or piece of clothing. | [noun] A sudden illness or relapse, often attended with fever, which befalls those who are about to give birth, are giving birth, or have recently given birth or miscarried or aborted. | [verb] To urinate. WEEK (11) [noun] Any period of seven consecutive days. | [noun] A period of seven days beginning with Sunday or Monday. | [noun] A period of five days beginning with Monday. WEEL (7) [noun] A whirlpool. | [noun] A kind of trap for catching fish; a weely. | [verb] (now uncommon or literary) To wish, desire (something). WEEN (7) [noun] Doubt; conjecture. | [verb] To suppose, imagine; to think, believe. | [verb] To expect, hope or wish. | [verb] To weep or cry. WEEP (9) [noun] A session of crying. | [verb] To cry; shed tears. | [verb] To lament; to complain. | [noun] A lapwing; wipe, especially, a northern lapwing (Vanellus vanellus). WEER (7) [adjective] Small, little. WEES (7) [verb] To urinate. WEET (7) WEFT (10) [noun] The horizontal threads that are interlaced through the warp in a woven fabric. | [noun] The yarn used for the weft; the fill. | [noun] (hairdressing) A hair extension that is glued directly to a person′s natural hair. | [noun] Something cast away; a waif. WEIR (7) [noun] An adjustable dam placed across a river to regulate the flow of water downstream. | [noun] A fence placed across a river to catch fish. WEKA (11) [noun] The woodhen, a flightless bird of New Zealand. WELD (8) [noun] A herb (Reseda luteola) related to mignonette, growing in Europe, and to some extent in America, used to make a yellow dye. | [noun] The yellow coloring matter or dye extracted from this plant. | [noun] The joint made by welding. | [verb] To wield. WELL (7) [adjective] In good health. | [adjective] Good, content. | [adjective] Prudent; good; well-advised. | [noun] A hole sunk into the ground as a source of water, oil, natural gas or other fluids. | [verb] To issue forth, as water from the earth; to flow; to spring. WELT (7) [verb] To roll; revolve | [noun] A ridge or lump on the skin, as caused by a blow; a wheal or weal. | [noun] (shoemaking) A strip of leather set into the seam between the outsole of a shoe and the upper, through which these parts are joined by stitching or stapling. | [verb] To decay. WEND (8) [noun] A large extent of ground; a perambulation; a circuit. | [verb] To turn; change. | [verb] To direct (one's way or course); pursue one's way; proceed upon some course or way. WENS (7) [noun] A cyst on the skin. | [noun] A runic letter later replaced by w WENT (7) [verb] To move: | [verb] (chiefly of a machine) To work or function (properly); to move or perform (as required). | [verb] To start; to begin (an action or process). WEPT (9) [verb] To cry; shed tears. | [verb] To lament; to complain. | [verb] (of a wound or sore) To produce secretions. WERE (7) [noun] A man, a husband | [noun] A fine for slaying a man; weregild. | [noun] The collective name for any kind of person that changes into another form under certain conditions, including the werewolf. WERT (7) WEST (7) [noun] 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, abbreviated as W. | [verb] To move to the west; (of the sun) to set. | [adjective] Situated or lying in or toward the west; westward. WETS (7) [noun] Liquid or moisture. | [noun] Rainy weather. | [noun] Rainy season. (often capitalized) WHAM (12) [noun] A forceful blow | [noun] The sound of such a blow; a thud | [verb] To strike or smash (into) something with great force or impact WHAP (12) [noun] A blow; a hit; a variation of whop. | [noun] The curlew. | [verb] To strike hard and suddenly. WHAT (10) [adverb] (Singlish) Used to contradict an underlying assumption held by the interlocutor. | [noun] Something; thing; stuff. | [noun] The identity of a thing, as an answer to a question of what. WHEE (10) [interjection] An expression of pleasure or enjoyment, mostly from rapid physical motion. WHEN (10) [noun] The time at which something happens. | [adverb] (interrogative) At what time? At which time? Upon which occasion or circumstance? Used to introduce direct or indirect questions about time. | [adverb] At an earlier time and under different, usually less favorable, circumstances. WHET (10) [noun] The act of whetting something. | [noun] That which whets or sharpens; especially, an appetizer. | [verb] To hone or rub on with some substance, as a piece of stone, for the purpose of sharpening – see whetstone. WHEW (13) [verb] To whistle with a shrill pipe, like a plover. | [interjection] An expressive sound made indicating the release of one's inner tension; the release of breath; an expression of relief. | [interjection] An expression of amazement or surprise. | [verb] To bustle about. WHEY (13) [noun] The liquid remaining after milk has been curdled and strained in the process of making cheese. WHID (11) WHIG (11) [noun] Acidulated whey, sometimes mixed with buttermilk and sweet herbs, used as a cooling beverage. | [noun] Buttermilk | [verb] Urge forward; drive briskly. WHIM (12) [noun] A fanciful impulse, or whimsical idea | [noun] A large capstan or vertical drum turned by horse power or steam power, for raising ore or water, etc., from mines, or for other purposes | [verb] To be seized with a whim; to be capricious. | [noun] A bird, the Eurasian wigeon. WHIN (10) [noun] Gorse; furze (Ulex spp.). | [noun] The plant woad-waxen (Genista tinctoria). | [noun] Whinstone. WHIP (12) [noun] A lash; a pliant, flexible instrument, such as a rod (commonly of cane or rattan) or a plaited or braided rope or thong (commonly of leather) used to create a sharp "crack" sound for directing or herding animals. | [noun] A blow administered with a whip. | [noun] A whipper-in. WHIR (10) [noun] A sibilant buzz or vibration; the sound of something in rapid motion. | [noun] A bustle of noise and excitement. | [verb] To move or vibrate (something) with a buzzing sound. WHIT (10) [noun] The smallest part or particle imaginable; an iota. | [preposition] Against. | [preposition] In the company of; alongside, close to; near to. WHIZ (19) [noun] A whirring or hissing sound (as above). | [noun] Someone who is remarkably skilled at something. | [noun] (especially with the verb "take") An act of urination. | [preposition] Against. WHOA (10) [verb] To attempt to slow (an animal) by crying "whoa". | [interjection] Stop (especially when commanding a horse or imitative thereof); calm down; slow down. | [interjection] An expression of surprise. WHOM (12) [pronoun] (interrogative) What person or people; which person or people. | [pronoun] (relative) Used to refer to a previously mentioned person or people. | [pronoun] (fused relative, archaic outside set patterns) The person(s) whom; whomever. WHOP (12) [noun] A blow or strike. | [verb] To throw or move (something) quickly, usually with an impact. | [verb] To administer corporal punishment WHYS (13) [noun] Reason WICH (12) WICK (13) [noun] A bundle, twist, braid, or woven strip of cord, fabric, fibre/fiber, or other porous material in a candle, oil lamp, kerosene heater, or the like, that draws up liquid fuel, such as melted tallow, wax, or the oil, delivering it to the base of the flame for conversion to gases and burning; any other length of material burned for illumination in small successive portions. | [noun] Any piece of porous material that conveys liquid by capillary action, such as a strip of gauze placed in a wound to serve as a drain. | [noun] A narrow opening in the field, flanked by other players' stones. | [noun] A village; hamlet; castle; dwelling; street; creek; bay; harbour; a place of work, jurisdiction, or exercise of authority. | [noun] Liveliness; life. | [noun] A corner of the mouth or eye. WIDE (8) [noun] A ball that passes so far from the batsman that the umpire deems it unplayable; the arm signal used by an umpire to signal a wide; the extra run added to the batting side's score | [adjective] Having a large physical extent from side to side. | [adjective] Large in scope. WIFE (10) [noun] A married woman, especially in relation to her spouse. | [noun] The female of a pair of mated animals. | [verb] (said of men) to marry WIGS (8) [noun] 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. | [noun] (among fishermen) An old seal. WILD (8) [noun] The undomesticated state of a wild animal | [noun] (chiefly in the plural) a wilderness | [verb] To commit random acts of assault, robbery, and rape in an urban setting, especially as a gang. | [noun] A wood or forest WILE (7) [verb] To pass (time) idly. | [verb] To occupy or entertain (someone) in order to let time pass. | [verb] To loiter. WILL (7) [verb] (now uncommon or literary) To wish, desire (something). | [verb] (nowadays rare) To wish or desire (that something happen); to intend (that). | [verb] (auxiliary) To habitually do (a given action). | [noun] One's independent faculty of choice; the ability to be able to exercise one's choice or intention. | [verb] To wish, desire. WILT (7) [noun] The act of wilting or the state of being wilted. | [noun] Any of various plant diseases characterized by wilting. | [verb] To droop or become limp and flaccid (as a dying leaf or flower). | [verb] (now uncommon or literary) To wish, desire (something). WILY (10) [adjective] Sly, cunning, full of tricks WIMP (11) [noun] Acronym of window, icon, menu, pointer. (a graphical interface paradigm) | [noun] Acronym of window-icon-mouse program. | [noun] A hypothetical class of particle, proposed to explain the dark matter problem. WIND (8) [noun] Real or perceived movement of atmospheric air usually caused by convection or differences in air pressure. | [noun] Air artificially put in motion by any force or action. | [noun] The ability to breathe easily. | [noun] The act of winding or turning; a turn; a bend; a twist. WINE (7) [noun] An alcoholic beverage made by fermenting the juice of grapes. | [noun] An alcoholic beverage made by fermenting the juice of fruits or vegetables other than grapes, usually preceded by the type of the fruit or vegetable; for example, "dandelion wine". | [noun] A serving of wine. | [noun] Wind. WING (8) [noun] An appendage of an animal's (bird, bat, insect) body that enables it to fly; a similar fin at the side of a ray or similar fish | [noun] Human arm. | [noun] Part of an aircraft that produces the lift for rising into the air. WINK (11) [noun] An act of winking (a blinking of only one eye), or a message sent by winking. | [noun] A brief period of sleep; especially forty winks. | [noun] A brief time; an instant. | [noun] A disc used in the game of tiddlywinks. | [noun] (Chiefly British) Periwinkle. WINO (7) [noun] A chronic or heavy drinker of cheap wine or other alcohol; a drunk or drunkard. | [noun] A wine enthusiast; an oenophile. | [noun] A hypothetical particle that is the superpartner of the W boson. WINS (7) [verb] To conquer, defeat. | [verb] To reach some destination or object, despite difficulty or toil (now usually intransitive, with preposition or locative adverb). | [verb] To triumph or achieve victory in (a game, a war, etc.). WINY (10) WIPE (9) [noun] The act of wiping something. | [noun] A soft piece of cloth or cloth-like material used for wiping. | [noun] A kind of film transition where one shot replaces another by travelling from one side of the frame to another or with a special shape. | [noun] A lapwing, especially a northern lapwing (Vanellus vanellus). | [noun] An instance of all members of a party dying in a single campaign, event, or battle; a wipeout. WIRE (7) [noun] Metal formed into a thin, even thread, now usually by being drawn through a hole in a steel die. | [noun] A piece of such material; a thread or slender rod of metal, a cable. | [noun] A metal conductor that carries electricity. WIRY (10) [adjective] Thin, muscular and flexible. WISE (7) [verb] To become wise. | [verb] Usually with "up", to inform or learn. | [adjective] Showing good judgement or the benefit of experience. | [noun] Way, manner, method. | [verb] To instruct. WISH (10) [noun] A desire, hope, or longing for something or for something to happen. | [noun] An expression of such a desire, often connected with ideas of magic and supernatural power. | [noun] The thing desired or longed for. WISP (9) [noun] A small bundle, as of straw or other like substance; any slender, flexible structure or group. | [noun] A whisk, or small broom. | [noun] A will o' the wisp, or ignis fatuus. WISS (7) WIST (7) [verb] Know, be aware of (constructed with of when used intransitively). | [verb] To know, be aware of. WITE (7) WITH (10) [adverb] Along, together with others, in a group, etc. | [preposition] Against. | [preposition] In the company of; alongside, close to; near to. | [noun] A flexible, slender twig or shoot, especially when used as a band or for binding; a withy. WITS (7) [noun] (now usually in the plural) Sanity. | [noun] (obsolete usually in the plural) The senses. | [noun] Intellectual ability; faculty of thinking, reasoning. WIVE (10) [verb] To marry (a woman). | [verb] To provide (someone) with a wife. WOAD (8) [noun] The plant Isatis tinctoria. | [noun] The blue dye made from the leaves of the plant. | [verb] To plant or cultivate woad. WOES (7) [noun] Great sadness or distress; a misfortune causing such sadness. | [noun] Calamity, trouble. | [noun] A curse; a malediction. WOGS (8) [noun] A tadpole. | [noun] Any dark-skinned person. It originally referred specifically to Indians, but later also applied to people of North African, Mediterranean, or Middle Eastern ancestry. | [noun] A person of Southern European, Mediterranean, Middle Eastern, or Southeastern European ancestry. WOKE (11) [adjective] Awake: conscious and not asleep. | [adjective] Alert and aware of what is going on, especially in social justice contexts. Well-informed. | [verb] (often followed by up) To stop sleeping. WOKS (11) [noun] A large, oriental, round-bottomed cooking pan. WOLD (8) [noun] An unforested or deforested plain, a grassland, a moor. | [noun] A wood or forest, especially a wooded upland. | [adjective] Old. WOLF (10) [noun] The gray wolf, specifically all subspecies of the gray wolf (Canis lupus) that are not dingoes or dogs. | [noun] A man who makes amorous advances to many women. | [noun] A wolf tone or wolf note. WOMB (11) [noun] In female mammals, the organ in which the young are conceived and grow until birth; the uterus. | [noun] The abdomen or stomach. | [noun] The stomach of a person or creature. WONK (11) [noun] An overly studious person, particularly student. | [noun] (by extension) A policy wonk or other intellectual expert. WONS (7) WONT (7) [noun] One's habitual way of doing things; custom, habit, practice. | [verb] To make (someone) used to; to accustom. | [verb] To be accustomed (to something), to be in the habit (of doing something). WOOD (8) [noun] The substance making up the central part of the trunk and branches of a tree. Used as a material for construction, to manufacture various items, etc. or as fuel. | [noun] The wood of a particular species of tree. | [noun] A forested or wooded area. | [adjective] Mad, insane, crazed. | [noun] (sometimes offensive, of a person) A peckerwood. WOOF (10) [noun] The set of yarns placed crosswise in a loom, interlaced with the warp, carried by the shuttle; weft. | [noun] A fabric; the texture of a fabric. | [noun] The sound a dog makes when barking. | [noun] Initialism of well-off older folks. WOOL (7) [noun] The hair of the sheep, llama and some other ruminants. | [noun] A cloth or yarn made from the wool of sheep. | [noun] Anything with a texture like that of wool. WOOS (7) [verb] To endeavor to gain someone's support. | [verb] (often of a man) To try to persuade (someone) to be in an amorous relationship with | [verb] To court solicitously; to invite with importunity. WOPS (9) [noun] A person of Italian descent. WORD (8) [noun] The smallest unit of language that has a particular meaning and can be expressed by itself; the smallest discrete, meaningful unit of language. (contrast morpheme.) | [noun] Something like such a unit of language: | [noun] The fact or act of speaking, as opposed to taking action. . | [verb] (except in set phrases) To be, become, betide. WORE (7) [verb] To carry or have equipped on or about one's body, as an item of clothing, equipment, decoration, etc. | [verb] To have or carry on one's person habitually, consistently; or, to maintain in a particular fashion or manner. | [verb] To bear or display in one's aspect or appearance. WORK (11) [noun] (heading) Employment. | [noun] (heading) Effort. | [noun] Sustained effort to achieve a goal or result, especially overcoming obstacles. | [verb] To do a specific task by employing physical or mental powers. WORM (9) [noun] A generally tubular invertebrate of the annelid phylum; an earthworm. | [noun] More loosely, any of various tubular invertebrates resembling annelids but not closely related to them, such as velvet worms, acorn worms, flatworms, or roundworms. | [noun] A type of wingless "dragon", especially a gigantic sea serpent. WORN (7) [verb] To carry or have equipped on or about one's body, as an item of clothing, equipment, decoration, etc. | [verb] To have or carry on one's person habitually, consistently; or, to maintain in a particular fashion or manner. | [verb] To bear or display in one's aspect or appearance. WORT (7) [noun] A plant; herb; vegetable. | [noun] Any of various plants or herbs, used in combination to refer to specific plants such as St. John's wort, or on its own as a generic term. | [noun] Liquid extract from the ground malt and grain soaked in hot water, the mash, as one of the steps in making beer. WOST (7) WOTS (7) WOVE (10) [verb] To form something by passing lengths or strands of material over and under one another. | [verb] To spin a cocoon or a web. | [verb] To unite by close connection or intermixture. WOWS (10) [noun] Anything exceptionally surprising, unbelievable, outstanding, etc. | [verb] To amaze or awe. | [noun] (audio) A relatively slow form of flutter (pitch variation) which can affect both gramophone records and tape recorders. WRAP (9) [verb] To enclose (an object) completely in any flexible, thin material such as fabric or paper. | [verb] To enclose or coil around an object or organism, as a form of grasping. | [verb] To conceal by enveloping or enfolding; to hide. | [noun] A garment that one wraps around the body to keep oneself warm. | [noun] A sharp blow with something hard. WREN (7) [noun] Any member of a mainly New World passerine bird family Troglodytidae; true wren. | [noun] Small bird of similar appearance to a true wren. WRIT (7) [noun] A written order, issued by a court, ordering someone to do (or stop doing) something. | [noun] Authority, power to enforce compliance. | [noun] That which is written; writing. WUSS (7) [noun] A weak, ineffectual, cowardly, or timid person. WYCH (15) WYES (10) [noun] The name of the letter Y. | [noun] The name of the Latin-script letter Y. | [noun] A Y-shaped object: a wye level, wye-connected. Especially a Y-shaped connection of three sections of road or railroad track. WYLE (10) WYND (11) [noun] A narrow lane, alley or path, especially one between houses. | [noun] A stack of hay. WYNN (10) [noun] A letter of the Old English alphabet, borrowed from the futhark and used to represent the sound of w; replaced in Middle English times by the digraph uu, which later developed into the letter w. | [noun] A kind of timber truck, or carriage. WYNS (10) [noun] A letter of the Old English alphabet, borrowed from the futhark and used to represent the sound of w; replaced in Middle English times by the digraph uu, which later developed into the letter w. | [noun] A kind of timber truck, or carriage. WYTE (10) YAWL (10) [noun] A small ship's boat, usually rowed by four or six oars. | [noun] A fore-and-aft rigged sailing vessel with two masts, main and mizzen, the mizzen stepped abaft the rudder post. | [verb] To cry out; to howl. YAWN (10) [noun] The action of yawning; opening the mouth widely and taking a long, rather deep breath, often because one is tired or bored. | [noun] A particularly boring event. | [verb] To open the mouth widely and take a long, rather deep breath, often because one is tired or bored, and sometimes accompanied by pandiculation. YAWP (12) [noun] A yelp or bark | [noun] Loud or coarse talk | [verb] To yelp, or utter a sharp cry, as in intense pain, or another raucous noise YAWS (10) [noun] A contagious tropical disease, caused by the spirochete Treponema pertenue, characterized by yellowish or reddish tumors, which often resemble currants, strawberries, or raspberries. | [noun] 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. | [noun] 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. YEWS (10) [noun] 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. | [noun] (by extension) Any tree or shrub of the genus Taxus. | [noun] Other conifers resembling plants in genus Taxus YOWE (10) YOWL (10) [noun] A prolonged, loud cry, like the sound of an animal; a wail; a howl. | [verb] Utter a yowl. | [verb] Express by yowling; utter with a yowl. YOWS (10) YWIS (10)

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ADOWN (9) [adverb] Down or in a downward direction; archaic or poetic form of "down." AGLOW (9) [adjective] (sometimes figurative) glowing; radiant ALLOW (8) [verb] To grant, give, admit, accord, afford, or yield; to let one have. | [verb] To acknowledge; to accept as true; to concede; to accede to an opinion. | [verb] To grant (something) as a deduction or an addition; especially to abate or deduct. ALWAY (11) [adverb] At all times; throughout all time; since the beginning. | [adverb] Constantly during a certain period, or regularly at stated intervals (opposed to sometimes or occasionally). | [adverb] In any event. ARROW (8) [noun] A projectile consisting of a shaft, a point and a tail with stabilizing fins that is shot from a bow. | [noun] A sign or symbol used to indicate a direction (e.g. →). | [noun] A directed edge. ASKEW (12) [adjective] Turned or twisted to one side. | [adjective] Untoward, unfavourable. | [adverb] Tilted to one side. AVOWS (11) [verb] To declare openly and boldly, as something believed to be right; to own, acknowledge or confess frankly. | [verb] To bind or devote by a vow. | [verb] To acknowledge and justify, as an act done. See avowry. AWAIT (8) [noun] A waiting for; ambush. | [noun] Watching, watchfulness, suspicious observation. | [verb] To wait for. AWAKE (12) [adjective] Not asleep; conscious. | [adjective] (by extension) Alert, aware. | [verb] To become conscious after having slept. AWARD (9) [noun] A judgment, sentence, or final decision. Specifically: The decision of arbitrators in a case submitted. | [noun] The paper containing the decision of arbitrators; that which is warded. | [noun] A trophy or medal; something that denotes an accomplishment, especially in a competition. A prize or honor based on merit. AWARE (8) [adjective] Vigilant or on one's guard against danger or difficulty. | [adjective] Conscious or having knowledge of something. AWASH (11) [adjective] 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. | [adjective] (by extension) Covered, overspread (with or in something). AWFUL (11) [adjective] Very bad. | [adjective] Exceedingly great; usually applied intensively. | [adjective] Causing fear or horror; appalling, terrible. AWING (9) [adverb] On the wing; flying; fluttering. | [verb] To inspire fear and reverence in. | [verb] To control by inspiring dread. AWNED (9) [adjective] Having awns; furnished with awns (bristle-like appendages on grain or grass). AWOKE (12) [verb] To become conscious after having slept. | [verb] To cause (somebody) to stop sleeping. | [verb] To excite or to stir up something latent. AWOLS (8) [noun] Plural of AWOL; instances of absence without leave from military duty or obligation. BAWDS (11) [noun] A person who keeps a house of prostitution, or procures women for prostitution; a procurer, a madame. | [noun] A lewd person. BAWDY (14) [adjective] Soiled, dirty. | [adjective] Obscene; filthy; unchaste. | [adjective] (of language) Sexual in nature and usually meant to be humorous but considered rude. BAWLS (10) [verb] To shout or utter in a loud and intense manner. | [verb] To wail; to give out a blaring cry. BAWTY (13) BEDEW (11) [verb] To make wet with or as if with dew. BELOW (10) [adverb] In a lower place. | [adverb] On a lower storey. | [adverb] Further down. BEWIG (11) [verb] To put a wig on; to cover with a wig. BLAWN (10) [verb] Past participle of blow, especially in Scottish or dialectal English. | [adjective] Blown or swollen. BLAWS (10) [noun] Plural of blaw, a Scottish word meaning to blow or blast. | [verb] Third person singular of blaw, meaning to blow or blast in Scottish dialect. BLOWN (10) [verb] To produce an air current. | [verb] To propel by an air current. | [verb] To be propelled by an air current. BLOWS (10) [noun] A strong wind. | [noun] A chance to catch one’s breath. | [noun] Cocaine. BLOWY (13) [noun] (sex) A blow job. | [noun] A blowfly, Lucilia cuprina. | [noun] The common toadfish, Tetractenos hamiltoni. BOWED (11) [verb] To play music on (a stringed) instrument using a bow. | [verb] To become bent or curved. | [verb] To make something bend or curve. | [verb] To play music on (a stringed) instrument using a bow. BOWEL (10) [noun] A part or division of the intestines, usually the large intestine. | [noun] (in the plural) The entrails or intestines; the internal organs of the stomach. | [noun] (in the plural) The (deep) interior of something. BOWER (10) [noun] A bedroom or private apartments, especially for a woman in a medieval castle. | [noun] A dwelling; a picturesque country cottage, especially one that is used as a retreat. | [noun] A shady, leafy shelter or recess in a garden or woods. | [noun] A peasant; a farmer. | [noun] Either of the two highest trumps in euchre. | [noun] A type of ship's anchor, carried at the bow. | [noun] One who bows or bends. | [noun] One who plays any of several bow instruments, such as the musical bow or diddley bow. | [noun] A young hawk, when it begins to leave the nest. BOWLS (10) [noun] A roughly hemispherical container used to hold, mix or present food, such as salad, fruit or soup, or other items. | [noun] As much as is held by a bowl. | [noun] A dish comprising a mix of different foods, not all of which need be cooked, served in a bowl. BOWSE (10) [verb] To haul or pull with a rope, especially in nautical contexts. | [verb] To drink heavily or carouse. BRAWL (10) [noun] A disorderly argument or fight, usually with a large number of people involved. | [verb] To engage in a brawl; to fight or quarrel. | [verb] To create a disturbance; to complain loudly. | [verb] To move to and fro, to quiver, to shake. | [noun] A dance of French origin dating from the 16th century, performed by couples in a circle or a line; the music for this dance. BRAWN (10) [noun] Strong muscles or lean flesh, especially of the arm, leg or thumb. | [noun] Physical strength; muscularity. | [noun] Head cheese; a terrine made from the head of a pig or calf; originally boar's meat. BRAWS (10) [noun] Plural of braw, a Scottish word meaning fine, good, or excellent. | [noun] Plural of braw, Scottish dialect for braws meaning clothes or trousers. BREWS (10) [noun] The mixture formed by brewing; that which is brewed; a brewage, such as a cup of tea or a brewed beer. | [noun] A beer. | [verb] To make tea or coffee by mixing tea leaves or coffee beans with hot water. BROWN (10) [noun] A colour like that of chocolate or coffee. | [noun] One of the colour balls used in snooker, with a value of 4 points. | [noun] Black tar heroin. BROWS (10) [noun] The ridge over the eyes; the eyebrow. | [noun] The first tine of an antler's beam. | [noun] The forehead. BWANA (10) [noun] Big boss, important person. BYLAW (13) [noun] A local custom or law of a settlement or district. | [noun] A rule made by a local authority to regulate its own affairs. | [noun] A law or rule governing the internal affairs of an organization (e.g., corporation or business). BYWAY (16) [noun] A road that is not frequently travelled | [noun] (by extension) an unpopular or arcane field of study CAHOW (13) [noun] An endangered nocturnal burrowing bird, Pterodroma cahow, from Bermuda; the Bermuda petrel. CAWED (11) [verb] To make the harsh cry of a crow, rook, or raven. CHAWS (13) [noun] Chewing tobacco. | [noun] A plug or wad of chewing tobacco. | [noun] The jaw. CHEWS (13) [noun] The act of chewing; mastication with the mouth. | [noun] Level of chewiness. | [noun] A small sweet, such as a taffy, that is eaten by chewing. CHEWY (16) [noun] Chewing gum. | [adjective] Having a pliable or springy texture when chewed. CHOWS (13) [noun] Food, especially snacks. | [noun] A Chow Chow. | [noun] A Chinese person. CLAWS (10) [noun] A curved, pointed horny nail on each digit of the foot of a mammal, reptile, or bird. | [noun] A foot equipped with such. | [noun] The pincer (chela) of a crustacean or other arthropod. CLEWS (10) [noun] A roughly spherical mass or body. | [noun] A ball of thread or yarn. | [noun] Yarn or thread as used to guide one's way through a maze or labyrinth; a guide, a clue. CLOWN (10) [noun] A slapstick performance artist often associated with a circus and usually characterized by bright, oversized clothing, a red nose, face paint, and a brightly colored wig. | [noun] A person who acts in a silly fashion. | [noun] A stupid person. COWED (11) [verb] (chiefly in the passive voice) To intimidate; to daunt the spirits or courage of. | [adjective] Frightened into submission. COWER (10) [verb] To crouch or cringe, or to avoid or shy away from something, in fear. | [verb] To crouch in general. | [verb] To cause to cower; to frighten into submission. | [verb] To cherish with care. COWLS (10) [noun] A monk's hood that can be pulled forward to cover the face; a robe with such a hood attached to it. | [noun] A mask that covers the majority of the head. | [noun] A thin protective covering over all or part of an engine; also cowling. COWRY (13) [noun] A small gastropod (Monetaria moneta, syn. Cypraea moneta) common in the Indian Ocean; its shell. | [noun] (by extension) Any gastropod of the genus Cypraea; its shell. | [noun] (by extension) Any gastropod of the family Cypraeidae; its shell. CRAWL (10) [noun] The act of moving slowly on hands and knees etc, or with frequent stops. | [noun] A rapid swimming stroke with alternate overarm strokes and a fluttering kick. | [noun] A very slow pace. | [noun] A pen or enclosure of stakes and hurdles for holding fish. CRAWS (10) [noun] The stomach of an animal. | [noun] The crop of a bird. CREWS (10) [noun] A pen for livestock such as chickens or pigs | [noun] The Manx shearwater. CROWD (11) [noun] A group of people congregated or collected into a close body without order. | [noun] Several things collected or closely pressed together; also, some things adjacent to each other. | [noun] (with definite article) The so-called lower orders of people; the populace, vulgar. | [noun] (now dialectal) A fiddle. CROWN (10) [noun] A royal, imperial or princely headdress; a diadem. | [noun] A wreath or band for the head, especially one given as reward of victory or a mark of honor. | [noun] (by extension) Any reward of victory or mark of honor. | [verb] To make the shrill sound characteristic of a rooster; to make a sound in this manner, either in gaiety, joy, pleasure, or defiance. CROWS (10) [noun] A bird, usually black, of the genus Corvus, having a strong conical beak, with projecting bristles; it has a harsh, croaking call. | [noun] The cry of the rooster. | [noun] Any of various dark-coloured nymphalid butterflies of the genus Euploea. CRWTH (13) DAWED (10) DAWEN (9) DAWKS (13) DAWNS (9) [noun] The morning twilight period immediately before sunrise. | [noun] The rising of the sun. | [noun] The time when the sun rises. DAWTS (9) DEWAN (9) [noun] A holder of any of various offices in various (usually Islamic) countries, usually some sort of councillor. DEWAR (9) [noun] A vacuum flask; a vessel which keeps its contents hotter or cooler than their environment without the need to modify the pressure, by interposing an evacuated region to provide thermal insulation between the contents and the environment. DEWAX (16) [verb] To remove wax from a material or from a surface. DEWED (10) [verb] To wet with, or as if with, dew; to moisten. DHOWS (12) [noun] A traditional sailing vessel used along the coasts of Arabia, East Africa, and the Indian Ocean, generally having a single mast and a lateen sail. DIWAN (9) [noun] A holder of any of various offices in various (usually Islamic) countries, usually some sort of councillor. DOWDY (13) [noun] A plain or shabby person | [adjective] Plain and unfashionable in style or dress. | [adjective] Lacking stylishness or neatness; shabby. DOWED (10) DOWEL (9) [noun] A pin, or block, of wood or metal, fitting into holes in the abutting portions of two pieces, and being partly in one piece and partly in the other, to keep them in their proper relative position. | [noun] A wooden rod, as one to make short pins from. | [noun] A piece of wood or similar material fitted into a surface not suitable for fastening so that other pieces may be fastened to it. DOWER (9) [noun] The part of or interest in a deceased husband's property provided to his widow, usually in the form of a life estate. | [noun] Property given by a groom directly to his bride at or before their wedding in order to legitimize the marriage; dowry. | [noun] That with which one is gifted or endowed; endowment; gift. DOWIE (9) DOWNS (9) [noun] A negative aspect; a downer. | [noun] A grudge (on someone). | [noun] An act of swallowing an entire drink at once. DOWNY (12) [adjective] Having down, covered with a soft fuzzy coating as of small feathers or hair. | [adjective] Sharp-witted, perceptive. | [noun] A blanket filled with down; a duvet. DOWRY (12) [noun] Payment, such as property or money, paid by the bride's family to the groom or his family at the time of marriage. | [noun] Payment by the groom or his family to the bride's family: bride price. | [noun] Dower. DOWSE (9) [verb] To plunge suddenly into water; to duck; to immerse. | [verb] To fall suddenly into water. | [verb] To put out; to extinguish. | [noun] A sudden plunging into water. | [verb] To use the dipping or divining rod, as in search of water, ore, etc. DRAWL (9) [noun] A way of speaking slowly while lengthening vowel sounds and running words together. Characteristic of some southern US accents, as well as Scots. | [verb] To drag on slowly and heavily; to while or dawdle away time indolently. | [verb] To utter or pronounce in a dull, spiritless tone, as if by dragging out the utterance. DRAWN (9) [verb] To move or develop something. | [verb] To exert or experience force. | [verb] (fluidic) To remove or separate or displace. DRAWS (9) [noun] The result of a contest that neither side has won; a tie. | [noun] The procedure by which the result of a lottery is determined. | [noun] Something that attracts e.g. a crowd. DROWN (9) [verb] To die from suffocation while immersed in water or other fluid. | [verb] To kill by suffocating in water or another liquid. | [verb] To be flooded: to be inundated with or submerged in (literally) water or (figuratively) other things; to be overwhelmed. DWARF (12) [noun] Any member of a race of beings from (especially Scandinavian and other Germanic) folklore, usually depicted as having some sort of supernatural powers and being skilled in crafting and metalworking, often as short with long beards, and sometimes as clashing with elves. | [noun] A person of short stature, often one whose limbs are disproportionately small in relation to the body as compared with normal adults, usually as the result of a genetic condition. | [noun] An animal, plant or other thing much smaller than the usual of its sort. DWEEB (11) [noun] (originally college slang) A boring, studious, or socially inept person. DWELL (9) [noun] A period of time in which a system or component remains in a given state. | [noun] A brief pause in the motion of part of a mechanism to allow an operation to be completed. | [noun] A planned delay in a timed control program. DWELT (9) [verb] To live; to reside. | [verb] To linger (on) a particular thought, idea etc.; to remain fixated (on). | [verb] To be in a given state. DWINE (9) ELBOW (10) [noun] The joint between the upper arm and the forearm. | [noun] (by extension) Any turn or bend like that of the elbow, in a wall, building, coastline, etc.; an angular or jointed part of any structure, such as the raised arm of a chair or sofa, or a short pipe fitting, turning at an angle or bent. | [noun] A detective. EMBOW (12) ENDOW (9) [verb] To provide with a dower or a dowry. | [verb] To give property to (someone) as a gift; specifically, to provide (a person or institution) with support in the form of a permanent fund of money or other benefits. | [verb] Followed by with, or rarely by of: to enrich or furnish with some faculty or quality. ENOWS (8) ETWEE (8) EWERS (8) [noun] A kind of widemouthed pitcher or jug with a shape like a vase and a handle. FATWA (11) [noun] A legal opinion, decree or ruling issued by a mufti or other Islamic lawyer. | [verb] To make somebody the subject of a fatwa, especially a ban or death sentence. FAWNS (11) [noun] A young deer. | [noun] A pale brown colour tinted with yellow, like that of a fawn. | [noun] The young of an animal; a whelp. FAWNY (14) FEWER (11) FLAWS (11) [noun] A flake, fragment, or shiver. | [noun] A thin cake, as of ice. | [noun] A crack or breach, a gap or fissure; a defect of continuity or cohesion. FLAWY (14) FLEWS (11) [noun] (chiefly plural) The thick, dangling upper lip of certain breeds of dog, or the canine equivalent of the upper lip. FLOWN (11) [adjective] Suspended in the flies. | [verb] To travel through the air, another gas or a vacuum, without being in contact with a grounded surface. | [verb] To flee, to escape (from). FLOWS (11) [noun] A movement in people or things with a particular way in large numbers or amounts | [noun] The movement of a real or figurative fluid. | [noun] A formalization of the idea of the motion of particles in a fluid, as a group action of the real numbers on a set. FOWLS (11) [noun] A bird. | [noun] A bird of the order Galliformes, including chickens, turkeys, pheasant, partridges and quail. | [noun] Birds which are hunted or kept for food, including Galliformes and also waterfowl of the order Anseriformes such as ducks, geese and swans. FROWN (11) [noun] A facial expression in which the eyebrows are brought together, and the forehead is wrinkled, usually indicating displeasure, sadness or worry, or less often confusion or concentration. | [noun] A facial expression in which the corners of the mouth are pointed down. | [verb] To have a frown on one's face. FROWS (11) [noun] A cleaving tool for splitting cask staves and shingles from the block. | [noun] A dirty woman; a slattern; a frow. | [noun] A woman; a wife, especially a Dutch or German one. GAWKS (13) [verb] To stare or gape stupidly. | [verb] To stare conspicuously. GAWKY (16) [noun] An awkward, ungainly person. | [adjective] Awkward, ungainly; lacking grace or dexterity in movement GAWPS (11) [verb] To stare stupidly or rudely; to gawk. GAWSY (12) GLOWS (9) [noun] The state of a glowing object. | [noun] The condition of being passionate or having warm feelings. | [noun] The brilliance or warmth of color in an environment or on a person (especially one's face). GNAWN (9) GNAWS (9) [verb] To bite something persistently, especially something tough. | [verb] To produce excessive anxiety or worry. | [verb] To corrode; to fret away; to waste. GOWAN (9) [noun] The common daisy. | [noun] Decomposed granite. GOWDS (10) GOWKS (13) [noun] A cuckoo. | [noun] A fool. GOWNS (9) [noun] A loose, flowing upper garment. | [noun] A woman's ordinary outer dress, such as a calico or silk gown. | [noun] The official robe of certain professional men and scholars, such as university students and officers, barristers, judges, etc. GROWL (9) [noun] A deep, rumbling, threatening sound made in the throat by an animal. | [noun] (by extension) The rumbling sound made by a person's stomach when hungry. | [noun] (by extension) An aggressive grumbling. GROWN (9) [verb] To become larger, to increase in magnitude. | [verb] To appear or sprout. | [verb] To develop, to mature. GROWS (9) [verb] To become larger, to increase in magnitude. | [verb] To appear or sprout. | [verb] To develop, to mature. HAWED (12) HAWKS (15) [noun] A diurnal predatory bird of the family Accipitridae, smaller than an eagle. | [noun] Any diurnal predatory terrestrial bird of similar size and appearance to the accipitrid hawks, such as a falcon | [noun] An advocate of aggressive political positions and actions. HAWSE (11) [noun] The part of the bow containing the hawseholes. | [noun] A hawsehole or hawsepipe. | [noun] The horizontal distance or area between an anchored vessel's bows and the actual position of her anchor(s). HEWED (12) [verb] To chop away at; to whittle down; to mow down. | [verb] To shape; to form. | [verb] To act according to, to conform to; usually construed with to. HEWER (11) [noun] One who hews. HOWDY (15) [noun] A wife, a midwife. | [verb] To greet informally, especially by saying "howdy" | [interjection] An informal greeting used in the South of the USA. HOWES (11) [noun] The means by which something is accomplished. | [noun] An artificial barrow or tumulus. | [noun] A small hill in northern England. (Usage preserved mainly in place names.) HOWFF (17) [noun] Tavern; public house HOWFS (14) HOWKS (15) HOWLS (11) [noun] The protracted, mournful cry of a dog or a wolf, or other like sound. | [noun] A prolonged cry of distress or anguish; a wail. | [verb] To utter a loud, protracted, mournful sound or cry, as dogs and wolves often do. INDOW (9) JAWAN (15) [noun] An infantryman; a soldier. JAWED (16) [verb] To assail or abuse by scolding. | [verb] To scold; to clamor. | [verb] To talk; to converse. JEWED (16) JEWEL (15) [noun] A precious or semi-precious stone; gem, gemstone. | [noun] A valuable object used for personal ornamentation, especially one made of precious metals and stones; a piece of jewellery. | [noun] Anything precious or valuable. JOWAR (15) [noun] Sorghum JOWED (16) JOWLS (15) [noun] The jaw, jawbone; especially one of the lateral parts of the mandible. | [noun] A fold of fatty flesh under the chin, around the cheeks, or lower jaw (as a dewlap, wattle, crop, or double chin). | [noun] The cheek; especially the cheek meat of a hog. JOWLY (18) KIWIS (12) [noun] A New Zealander. | [noun] A flightless bird of the genus Apteryx native to New Zealand. | [noun] A New Zealand dollar. KNOWN (12) [verb] To perceive the truth or factuality of; to be certain of or that. | [verb] To be aware of; to be cognizant of. | [verb] To be acquainted or familiar with; to have encountered. KNOWS (12) [noun] Knowledge; the state of knowing. | [verb] To perceive the truth or factuality of; to be certain of or that. | [verb] To be aware of; to be cognizant of. KOTOW (12) LAWED (9) LAWNS (8) [noun] An open space between woods. | [noun] Ground (generally in front of or around a house) covered with grass kept closely mown. | [noun] An overgrown agar culture, such that no separation between single colonies exists. LAWNY (11) LEWIS (8) [noun] A cramp iron inserted into a cavity in order to lift heavy stones; used as a symbol of strength in Freemasonry. | [noun] (by extension) The son of a Freemason, envisaged as assisting his father in heavy work or in old age. | [noun] A kind of shears used in cropping woollen cloth. LOWED (9) [verb] To depress; to lower. | [verb] To moo. | [verb] To burn; to blaze. LOWER (8) [adjective] Situated close to, or even below, the ground or another normal reference plane; not high or lofty. | [adjective] Of less than normal height; below the average or normal level from which elevation is measured. | [adjective] Not high in status, esteem or rank, dignity, or quality. (Compare vulgar.) | [verb] To frown; to look sullen. LOWES (8) [noun] A flame; fire; blaze. LOWLY (11) [adjective] Not high; not elevated in place; low. | [adjective] Low in rank or social importance. | [adjective] Not lofty or sublime; humble. LOWSE (8) LWEIS (8) MACAW (12) [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. MAWED (11) MEOWS (10) [noun] The cry of a cat. | [noun] The drug mephedrone. | [verb] Of a cat, to make its cry. MEWED (11) [verb] To shut away, confine, lock up. | [verb] (of a bird) To moult. | [verb] (of a bird) To cause to moult. MEWLS (10) [noun] A soft cry or whimper; an act of mewling. | [verb] To cry weakly with a soft, high-pitched sound; to whimper; to whine. MIAOW (10) [noun] The cry of a cat. | [noun] The drug mephedrone. | [verb] Of a cat, to make its cry. MOWED (11) [verb] To cut down grass or crops. | [verb] To cut down or slaughter in great numbers. | [verb] To make grimaces, mock. MOWER (10) [noun] A lawnmower, a machine used to cut grass. | [noun] A person who cuts grass. NAWAB (10) [noun] A Muslim official in South Asia acting as a provincial deputy ruler under the Mughal empire; a local governor. | [noun] Any of various nymphalid butterflies of the genus Polyura. NEWEL (8) [noun] A central pillar around which a staircase spirals. | [noun] A sturdy pillar at the top or bottom of a flight of stairs, supporting the handrail. | [noun] A novelty; a new thing. NEWER (8) [adjective] Recently made, or created. | [adjective] Additional; recently discovered. | [adjective] Current or later, as opposed to former. NEWIE (8) [noun] Something newly released, such as a song or film. NEWLY (11) [adverb] Very recently; in the immediate past. NEWSY (11) [noun] A distributor of news; a newsagent. | [noun] A journalist. | [adjective] Containing lots of news; informative. NEWTS (8) [noun] A small lizard-like amphibian in the family Salamandridae that lives in the water as an adult. NGWEE (9) [noun] A currency of Zambia, one hundredth of a kwacha. NOHOW (11) [adverb] In no way; not at all; by no available means. NOWAY (11) [adverb] In no manner or degree; not at all; nowise; no way. NOWTS (8) OWING (9) [verb] To be under an obligation to give something back to someone or to perform some action for someone. | [verb] To have debt; to be in debt. | [adjective] Still to be paid; owed as a debt. OWLET (8) [noun] Any of various birds of prey of the order Strigiformes that are primarily nocturnal and have forward-looking, binocular vision, limited eye movement, and good hearing. | [noun] (by extension) A person seen as having owl-like characteristics, especially appearing wise or serious, or being nocturnally active. | [noun] The owl pigeon. OWNED (9) [verb] To have rightful possession of (property, goods or capital); to have legal title to. | [verb] To have recognized political sovereignty over a place, territory, as distinct from the ordinary connotation of property ownership. | [verb] To defeat or embarrass; to overwhelm. OWNER (8) [noun] One who owns something. | [noun] The captain of a ship. OWSEN (8) OXBOW (17) [noun] A U-shaped piece of wood used as a collar for an ox, the upper parts fastened to its yoke | [noun] A meander in a river; the land enclosed by such a loop PAPAW (12) [noun] A tree, Carica papaya, of tropical America, belonging to the order Brassicales, and producing dull orange-colored, melon-shaped fruit. | [noun] (less commonly) A father. | [noun] Grandfather. PAWED (11) [verb] (of an animal) To go through something (such as a garbage can) with paws. | [verb] (of an animal) To gently push on something with a paw. | [verb] (of an animal) To draw the forefoot along the ground; to beat or scrape with the forefoot. PAWER (10) PAWKY (17) [adjective] Shrewd, sly; often also characterised by a sarcastic sense of humour. PAWLS (10) [noun] A pivoted catch designed to fall into a notch on a ratchet wheel so as to allow movement in only one direction (e.g. on a windlass or in a clock mechanism), or alternatively to move the wheel in one direction. | [noun] A similar device to prevent motion in other mechanisms besides ratchets. PAWNS (10) [noun] A psychoactive preparation of betel leaf combined with areca nut and/or cured tobacco, chewed recreationally in Asia; such a preparation served wrapped in the leaf. | [noun] The most common chess piece, or a similar piece in a similar game. In chess each side has eight; moves are only forward, and attacks are only forward diagonally or en passant. | [noun] Someone who is being manipulated or used to some end. PEWEE (10) [noun] The common American tyrant flycatcher (of the genus Contopus). | [noun] A woodcock. | [noun] An American version of the children's game gilli-danda. PEWIT (10) [noun] Any of several birds PILAW (10) PLEWS (10) [noun] Beaver pelt PLOWS (10) [noun] The notional area of land able to be farmed in a year by a team of 8 oxen pulling a carruca plow, usually reckoned at 120 acres. | [noun] A device pulled through the ground in order to break it open into furrows for planting. | [noun] The use of a plough; tillage. POWER (10) [noun] Ability to do or undergo something. | [noun] (social) Ability to coerce, influence or control. | [noun] (physical) Effectiveness. PRAWN (10) [noun] A crustacean of the suborder Dendrobranchiata. | [noun] A crustacean sometimes confused with shrimp. | [noun] A woman with a very toned body, but an unattractive face. | [noun] Pornography. PROWL (10) [noun] The act of prowling. | [verb] To rove over, through, or about in a stealthy manner; especially, to search in, as for prey or booty. | [verb] To idle; to go about aimlessly. PROWS (10) [noun] A sailing vessel found in the waters of Micronesia and Indonesia; it has a single, large outrigger and a triangular sail. | [noun] The front part of a vessel | [noun] A vessel PSHAW (13) [verb] To express disgust or contempt. | [interjection] Indicating disapproval, scoffery, irritation, impatience or disbelief. RAWER (8) [adjective] (of food) Not cooked. | [adjective] (of materials, products, etc.) Not treated or processed; in a natural state, unrefined, unprocessed. | [adjective] Having had the skin removed or abraded; chafed, tender; exposed, lacerated. RAWIN (8) RAWLY (11) RENEW (8) [verb] To make (something) new again; to restore to freshness or original condition. | [verb] To replace (something which has broken etc.); to replenish (something which has been exhausted), to keep up a required supply of. | [verb] To make new spiritually; to regenerate. RESAW (8) RESEW (8) RESOW (8) REWAN (8) REWAX (15) REWED (9) REWET (8) REWIN (8) REWON (8) ROWAN (8) [noun] Sorbus aucuparia, the European rowan. | [noun] Any of various small deciduous trees or shrubs of genus Sorbus, belonging to the rose family, with pinnate leaves, corymbs of white flowers, and usually with orange-red berries. | [noun] A second crop of hay; aftermath. ROWDY (12) [noun] A boisterous person; a brawler. | [adjective] Loud and disorderly; riotous; boisterous. ROWED (9) [verb] To propel (a boat or other craft) over water using oars. | [verb] To transport in a boat propelled with oars. | [verb] To be moved by oars. | [adjective] Formed into a row, or rows; having a specified number of rows. ROWEL (8) [noun] The small spiked wheel on the end of a spur. | [noun] A little flat ring or wheel on a horse's bit. | [noun] A roll of hair, silk, etc., passed through the flesh of a horse in the manner of a seton in human surgery. ROWEN (8) [noun] A second crop of hay; aftermath. | [noun] A stubble field left unploughed until late in the autumn, so that it can be cropped by cattle. ROWER (8) [noun] One who rows. | [noun] A rowing machine. ROWTH (11) SAWED (9) [verb] To cut (something) with a saw. | [verb] To make a motion back and forth similar to cutting something with a saw. | [verb] To be cut with a saw. SAWER (8) SCHWA (13) [noun] An indeterminate central vowel sound as the "a" in "about", represented as /ə/ in IPA. | [noun] The character ə. SCOWL (10) [noun] The wrinkling of the brows or face in frowning; the expression of displeasure, sullenness, or discontent in the countenance; an angry frown. | [noun] (by extension) Gloom; dark or threatening aspect. | [verb] To wrinkle the brows, as in frowning or displeasure; to put on a frowning look; to look sour, sullen, severe, or angry. | [noun] Old workings of iron ore. SCOWS (10) [noun] A large flat-bottomed boat, having broad, square ends. | [verb] To transport in a scow. SCREW (10) [noun] A device that has a helical function. | [noun] The motion of screwing something; a turn or twist to one side. | [noun] A prison guard. SEROW (8) [noun] Any of several species of Asian ungulates of the genus Capricornis. SEWAN (8) SEWAR (8) SEWED (9) [verb] To use a needle to pass thread repeatedly through (pieces of fabric) in order to join them together. | [verb] To use a needle to pass thread repeatedly through pieces of fabric in order to join them together. | [verb] Followed by into: to enclose by sewing. SEWER (8) [noun] A pipe or system of pipes used to remove human waste and to provide drainage. | [verb] To provide (a place) with a system of sewers. | [noun] A servant attending at a meal who is responsible for seating arrangements, serving dishes, etc. | [noun] One who sews. SHAWL (11) [noun] A square or rectangular piece of cloth worn as a covering for the head, neck, and shoulders, typically by women. | [noun] A fold of wrinkled flesh under the lips and neck of a bloodhound, used in scenting. | [verb] To wrap in a shawl. SHAWM (13) [noun] A mediaeval double-reed wind instrument with a conical wooden body. SHAWN (11) SHAWS (11) [noun] A thicket; a small wood or grove. | [noun] The leaves and tops of vegetables, especially potatoes and turnips. SHEWN (11) SHEWS (11) [noun] A play, dance, or other entertainment. | [noun] An exhibition of items. | [noun] A broadcast program/programme. SHOWN (11) [verb] To display, to have somebody see (something). | [verb] To bestow; to confer. | [verb] To indicate (a fact) to be true; to demonstrate. SHOWS (11) [noun] A play, dance, or other entertainment. | [noun] An exhibition of items. | [noun] A broadcast program/programme. SHOWY (14) [adjective] (sometimes derogatory) calling attention; flashy; standing out to the eye SHREW (11) [noun] Any of numerous small, mouselike, chiefly nocturnal, mammals of the family Soricidae (order Soricomorpha). | [noun] Certain other small mammals that resemble true shrews (order Soricomorpha). | [noun] An ill-tempered, nagging woman: a scold. | [verb] To beshrew; to curse. SINEW (8) [noun] A cord or tendon of the body. | [noun] A cord or string, particularly as of a musical instrument. | [noun] Muscular power, muscle; nerve, nervous energy; vigor, vigorous strength. SKEWS (12) [noun] Something that has an oblique or slanted position. | [noun] An oblique or sideways movement. | [noun] A bias or distortion in a particular direction. SLAWS (8) SLEWS (8) [verb] To rotate or turn something about its axis. | [verb] To veer a vehicle. | [verb] To insert extra ticks or skip some ticks of a clock to slowly correct its time. SLOWS (8) [verb] To make (something) run, move, etc. less quickly; to reduce the speed of. | [verb] To keep from going quickly; to hinder the progress of. | [verb] To become slow; to slacken in speed; to decelerate. SMEWS (10) [noun] 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. SNAWS (8) SNOWS (8) [noun] The frozen, crystalline state of water that falls as precipitation. | [noun] Any similar frozen form of a gas or liquid. | [noun] A snowfall; a blanket of frozen, crystalline water. SNOWY (11) [adjective] Marked by snow, characterized by snow. | [adjective] Covered with snow, snow-covered, besnowed. | [adjective] Snow-white in color, white as snow. SOWAR (8) SOWED (9) [verb] To scatter, disperse, or plant (seeds). | [verb] To spread abroad; to propagate. | [verb] To scatter over; to besprinkle. SOWER (8) SPAWN (10) [verb] To produce or deposit (eggs) in water. | [verb] To generate, bring into being, especially non-mammalian beings in very large numbers. | [verb] To bring forth in general. | [noun] The numerous eggs of an aquatic organism. SPEWS (10) [verb] To eject forcibly and in a stream | [verb] To speak or write quickly and voluminously, especially words that are not worth listening to or reading. | [verb] To vomit SQUAW (17) [noun] A woman, wife; especially a Native American woman. STEWS (8) [noun] A cooking-dish used for boiling; a cauldron. | [noun] A heated bath-room or steam-room; also, a hot bath. | [noun] A brothel. STOWP (10) STOWS (8) [verb] To put something away in a compact and tidy manner, in its proper place, or in a suitable place. | [verb] To store or pack something in a space-saving manner and over a long time. | [verb] To arrange, pack, or fill something tightly or closely. STRAW (8) [noun] A dried stalk of a cereal plant. | [noun] Such dried stalks considered collectively. | [noun] A drinking straw. STREW (8) [verb] (archaic except strewn) To distribute objects or pieces of something over an area, especially in a random manner. | [verb] (archaic except strewn) To cover, or lie upon, by having been scattered. | [verb] To spread abroad; to disseminate. STROW (8) [verb] (archaic except strewn) To distribute objects or pieces of something over an area, especially in a random manner. | [verb] (archaic except strewn) To cover, or lie upon, by having been scattered. | [verb] To spread abroad; to disseminate. SWABS (10) [noun] 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. | [noun] A sample taken with a swab (piece of absorbent material). | [noun] A piece of material used for cleaning or sampling other items like musical instruments or guns. SWAGE (9) [noun] A tool, used by blacksmiths and other metalworkers, for cold shaping of a metal item. | [verb] To bend or shape through use of a swage. | [verb] To lessen the intensity of, to mitigate or relieve (hunger, emotion, pain etc.). SWAGS (9) [noun] Initialism of scientific/speculative/sophisticated/stupid wild-ass guess. | [noun] (window coverings) A loop of draped fabric. | [noun] A low point or depression in land; especially, a place where water collects. SWAIL (8) SWAIN (8) [noun] A young man or boy in service; a servant. | [noun] A knight's servant; an attendant. | [noun] A country labourer; a countryman, a rustic. SWALE (8) [noun] A low tract of moist or marshy land. | [noun] A long narrow and shallow trough between ridges on a beach, running parallel to the coastline. | [noun] A shallow troughlike depression that's created to carry water during rainstorms or snow melts; a drainage ditch. | [noun] A gutter in a candle. SWAMI (10) [noun] (used as a title) A Hindu ascetic or religious teacher. SWAMP (12) [noun] 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. | [noun] A type of wetland that stretches for vast distances, and is home to many creatures which have adapted specifically to that environment. | [noun] A place or situation that is foul or where progress is difficult. SWAMY (13) SWANG (9) SWANK (12) [noun] A fashionably elegant person. | [noun] Ostentation; bravado. | [verb] To swagger, to show off. SWANS (8) [noun] Any of various species of large, long-necked waterfowl, of genus Cygnus (bird family: Anatidae), most of which have white plumage. | [noun] One whose grace etc. suggests a swan. | [noun] This bird used as a heraldic charge, sometimes with a crown around its neck (e. g. the arms of Buckinghamshire). SWAPS (10) [verb] To exchange or give (something) in an exchange (for something else). | [verb] To hit, to strike. | [verb] To beat the air, or ply the wings, with a sweeping motion or noise; to flap. SWARD (9) [noun] A layer of earth into which grass has grown; turf; sod. | [noun] An expanse of land covered in grass; a lawn or meadow. | [noun] Skin; covering. | [noun] A homosexual man. SWARE (8) [verb] To take an oath, to promise. | [verb] To use offensive, profane, or obscene language. | [noun] A swear word. SWARF (11) [noun] The waste chips or shavings from an abrasive activity, such as metalworking, a saw cutting wood, or the use of a grindstone or whetstone. | [noun] A particular waste chip or shaving. | [verb] To grind down. | [noun] A faint or swoon. SWARM (10) [noun] A large number of insects, especially when in motion or (for bees) migrating to a new colony. | [noun] A mass of people, animals or things in motion or turmoil. | [noun] A group of nodes sharing the same torrent in a BitTorrent network. SWART (8) [noun] Black or dark dyestuff; something of a certain swart; something of a certain ocker. | [adjective] Of a dark hue; moderately black; swarthy; tawny. | [adjective] Black. | [verb] To make swart or tawny; blacken; tan. | [noun] A layer of earth into which grass has grown; turf; sod. SWASH (11) [noun] The water that washes up on shore after an incoming wave has broken | [noun] A long, protruding ornamental line or pen stroke found in some typefaces and styles of calligraphy. | [noun] 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. SWATH (11) [noun] The track cut out by a scythe in mowing. | [noun] A broad sweep or expanse, such as of land or of people. SWATS (8) [noun] A hard stroke, hit or blow, e.g., as part of a spanking. | [noun] Alternate spelling of swot: vigorous study at an educational institution. | [verb] To beat off, as insects; to bat, strike, or hit. SWAYS (11) [noun] The act of swaying; a swaying motion; a swing or sweep of a weapon. | [noun] A rocking or swinging motion. | [noun] Influence, weight, or authority that inclines to one side SWEAR (8) [verb] To take an oath, to promise. | [verb] To use offensive, profane, or obscene language. | [noun] A swear word. | [verb] To be lazy; rest for a short while during working hours. SWEAT (8) [noun] 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. | [noun] The state of one who sweats; diaphoresis. | [noun] (especially WWI) A soldier (especially one who is old or experienced). | [verb] To emit sweat. SWEDE (9) [noun] The fleshy yellow root of a variety of rape, Brassica napus var. napobrassica, resembling a large turnip, grown as a vegetable. | [noun] The plant from which this is obtained. | [noun] The turnip. | [verb] To produce a low-budget remake of a film without the use of professional actors or filming techniques. SWEEP (10) [noun] A single action of sweeping. | [noun] The person who steers a dragon boat. | [noun] A person who stands at the stern of a surf boat, steering with a steering oar and commanding the crew. SWEER (8) SWEET (8) [noun] The basic taste sensation induced by sugar. | [noun] A confection made from sugar, or high in sugar content; a candy. | [noun] A food eaten for dessert. SWELL (8) [verb] To become bigger, especially due to being engorged. | [verb] To cause to become bigger. | [verb] To grow gradually in force or loudness. | [noun] The act of swelling; increase in size. | [adjective] Fashionable, like a swell or dandy. SWEPT (10) [verb] To clean (a surface) by means of a stroking motion of a broom or brush. | [verb] To move through a (horizontal) arc or similar long stroke. | [verb] To search (a place) methodically. SWIFT (11) [noun] A small plain-colored bird of the family Apodidae that resembles a swallow and is noted for its rapid flight. | [noun] Any of certain lizards of the genus Sceloporus. | [noun] A moth of the family Hepialidae, swift moth, ghost moth. SWIGS (9) [noun] Drink, liquor. | [noun] (by extension) A long draught from a drink. | [noun] A person who drinks deeply. SWILL (8) [noun] (collective) A mixture of solid and liquid food scraps fed to pigs etc; especially kitchen waste for this purpose. | [noun] (by extension) Any disgusting or distasteful liquid. | [noun] (by extension) Anything disgusting or worthless. SWIMS (10) [noun] An act or instance of swimming. | [noun] The sound, or air bladder, of a fish. | [noun] A part of a stream much frequented by fish. SWINE (8) [noun] (plural swine) A pig (the animal). | [noun] A contemptible person (plural swines). | [noun] A police officer; a "pig". | [noun] A female pig. SWING (9) [noun] The manner in which something is swung. | [noun] The sweep or compass of a swinging body. | [noun] A line, cord, or other thing suspended and hanging loose, upon which anything may swing. SWINK (12) SWIPE (10) [noun] A quick grab, bat, or other motion with the hand or paw; a sweep. | [noun] A strong blow given with a sweeping motion, as with a bat or club. | [noun] An act of interacting with a touch screen by drawing the finger rapidly across it. SWIRL (8) [noun] A whirling eddy. | [noun] A twist or coil of something. | [noun] The upward rushing of a fish through the water to take the bait. SWISH (11) [noun] A short rustling, hissing or whistling sound, often made by friction. | [noun] A hissing, sweeping movement through the air, as of an animal's tail. | [noun] A sound of liquid flowing inside a container. SWISS (8) [verb] To prepare (meat, fabric, etc.) by rolling or pounding in order to soften it. SWITH (11) SWIVE (11) [verb] To copulate with (a woman). | [verb] To cut a crop in a sweeping or rambling manner, hence to reap; cut for harvest. SWOBS (10) [noun] 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. | [noun] A sample taken with a swab (piece of absorbent material). | [noun] A piece of material used for cleaning or sampling other items like musical instruments or guns. SWOON (8) [noun] A faint. | [noun] An infatuation. | [verb] To faint, to lose consciousness. SWOOP (10) [noun] An instance, or the act of suddenly plunging downward. | [noun] A sudden act of seizing. | [noun] A quick passage from one note to the next. SWOPS (10) [verb] To exchange or give (something) in an exchange (for something else). | [verb] To hit, to strike. | [verb] To beat the air, or ply the wings, with a sweeping motion or noise; to flap. SWORD (9) [noun] A long-bladed weapon with a hilt, and usually a pommel and cross-guard, which is designed to stab, slash, and/or hack. | [noun] A suit in the minor arcana in tarot. | [noun] A card of this suit. SWORE (8) [verb] To take an oath, to promise. | [verb] To use offensive, profane, or obscene language. SWORN (8) [verb] To take an oath, to promise. | [verb] To use offensive, profane, or obscene language. | [adjective] Given or declared under oath. SWOTS (8) [noun] One who swots. | [noun] Work. | [noun] Vigorous study at an educational institution. SWOUN (8) SWUNG (9) [verb] To rotate about an off-centre fixed point. | [verb] To dance. | [verb] To ride on a swing. TAWED (9) [verb] To prepare or dress, as hemp, by beating; to tew. | [verb] (by extension) To beat; to scourge. | [verb] 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. TAWER (8) TAWIE (8) TAWNY (11) [noun] A light brown to brownish orange colour. | [adjective] Of a light brown to brownish orange color. | [adjective] A sweet, fortified wine which is blended and matured in wood. TAWSE (8) [noun] 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] To beat with a tawse. TEWED (9) THAWS (11) [noun] The melting of ice, snow, or other congealed matter; the resolution of ice, or the like, into the state of a fluid; liquefaction by heat of anything congealed by frost | [noun] A warmth of weather sufficient to melt that which is frozen | [verb] To gradually melt, dissolve, or become fluid; to soften from frozen THEWS (11) [noun] A bondman; a slave. | [verb] To oppress; enslave. | [noun] Muscle or sinew. THEWY (14) THRAW (11) THREW (11) [verb] To change place. | [verb] To change in state or status | [verb] To move through time. THROW (11) [verb] To change place. | [verb] To change in state or status | [verb] To move through time. | [noun] Pain, especially pain associated with childbirth; throe. | [noun] A moment, time, occasion. TOWED (9) TOWEL (8) [noun] A cloth used for wiping, especially one used for drying anything wet, as a person after a bath. | [verb] To hit with a towel. | [verb] To dry by using a towel. TOWER (8) [noun] A very tall iron-framed structure, usually painted red and white, on which microwave, radio, satellite, or other communication antennas are installed; mast. | [noun] A similarly framed structure with a platform or enclosed area on top, used as a lookout for spotting fires, plane crashes, fugitives, etc. | [noun] A water tower. | [verb] To be very tall. | [noun] One who tows. TOWIE (8) TOWNS (8) [noun] A settlement; an area with residential districts, shops and amenities, and its own local government; especially one larger than a village and smaller than a city. | [noun] Any more urbanized center than the place of reference. | [noun] A rural settlement in which a market was held at least once a week. TOWNY (11) [noun] A person living in a university area who is not associated with the university. | [noun] A person born and raised in an area of Massachusetts who is proud of his or her Irish-American community, culture, and heritage. | [noun] A person who has moved from a town or city to a rural area. Especially, one who is perceived not to have adopted rural ways. TRAWL (8) [noun] A net or dragnet used for trawling. | [noun] A long fishing line having many short lines bearing hooks attached to it; a setline. | [verb] To take (fish or other marine animals) with a trawl. TREWS (8) [noun] Trousers, especially if close fitting and tartan. TROWS (8) [noun] Trust or faith. | [noun] Any of several flat-bottomed sailing boats used for fishing or for carrying bulk goods. | [noun] Troll. TWAES (8) TWAIN (8) [noun] Pair, couple | [adjective] Twofold | [numeral] Two | [verb] To part in twain; divide; sunder. TWANG (9) [noun] The sharp, quick sound of a vibrating tight string, for example, of a bow or a musical instrument. | [noun] A particular sharp vibrating sound characteristic of electric guitars. | [noun] A trace of a regional or foreign accent in someone's voice. TWATS (8) [noun] The vagina or vulva. | [noun] A contemptible and stupid person, idiot. | [verb] To hit, slap. TWEAK (12) [noun] A sharp pinch or jerk; a twist or twitch. | [noun] A slight adjustment or modification. | [noun] Trouble; distress; tweag. TWEED (9) [noun] A coarse woolen fabric used for clothing. TWEEN (8) [noun] An action of tweening (inserting frames for continuity); a sequence of frames generated by tweening. | [verb] To generate intermediate frames in an animated sequence so as to give the appearance of smooth movement. | [noun] A person in their twenties, between 20 and 29 years old. Possibly including 30-32. | [noun] A child, usually a girl, in the age range between young childhood and adolescence, normally between eight and thirteen years of age. TWEET (8) [noun] The sound of a bird; any short high-pitched sound or whistle. | [noun] An entry posted on the microblogging service Twitter. | [verb] To make a short high-pitched sound, like that of certain birds. TWERP (10) [noun] A fool, a twit. | [noun] A small or puny person; one regarded as insignificant, contemptible. | [noun] A person who can be bullied playfully, or easily teased. Sometimes used as a pet-name (often for a younger sibling). TWICE (10) [adverb] Two times. | [adverb] (usually with "as", of a specified quality) Doubled in quantity, intensity, or degree. TWIER (8) TWIGS (9) [noun] A small thin branch of a tree or bush. | [verb] To beat with twigs. | [verb] To realise something; to catch on; to recognize someone or something. TWILL (8) [noun] A pattern, characterised by diagonal ridges, created by the regular interlacing of threads of the warp and weft during weaving. | [noun] A cloth or portion of cloth woven in such a pattern. | [verb] To weave (cloth, etc.) so as to produce the appearance of diagonal lines or ribs on the surface. TWINE (8) [noun] A twist; a convolution. | [noun] A strong thread composed of two or three smaller threads or strands twisted together, and used for various purposes, as for binding small parcels, making nets, and the like; a small cord or string. | [noun] The act of twining or winding round. | [verb] To weave together. | [verb] (obsolete outside Scotland) To separate, divide. TWINS (8) [noun] Either of two people (or, less commonly, animals) who shared the same uterus at the same time; one who was born at the same birth as a sibling. | [noun] Either of two similar or closely related objects, entities etc. | [noun] A room in a hotel, guesthouse, etc. with two beds; a twin room. TWINY (11) [adjective] Tending to twine; twisting around. | [adjective] Made of twine; having the appearance of twine. | [adjective] (North Country) fretful; uneasy TWIRL (8) [noun] A movement where a person spins round elegantly; a pirouette. | [noun] Any rotating movement; a spin. | [noun] A little twist of some substance; a swirl. TWIRP (10) [interjection] An imitation of the sound of a bird or a horn. | [noun] A fool, a twit. | [noun] A small or puny person; one regarded as insignificant, contemptible. TWIST (8) [noun] A twisting force. | [noun] Anything twisted, or the act of twisting. | [noun] The form given in twisting. TWITS (8) [noun] A reproach, gibe or taunt. | [noun] A foolish or annoying person. | [noun] A euphemism for "twat", a contemptible or stupid person. TWIXT (15) [preposition] Betwixt, between TWYER (11) [noun] A nozzle or similar fixture through which the blast is delivered to the interior of a blast furnace, or to the fire of a forge UNMEW (10) UNSEW (8) UNWED (9) [noun] One who is not married; a bachelor or a spinster. | [verb] To annul the marriage of. | [verb] To separate. UNWIT (8) UNWON (8) UPBOW (12) VIEWS (11) [noun] (physical) Visual perception. | [noun] A picture, drawn or painted; a sketch. | [noun] (psychological) Opinion, judgement, imagination. VIEWY (14) VOWED (12) [verb] To make a vow; to promise. | [verb] To make a vow regarding (something). | [verb] To declare publicly that one has made a vow, usually to show one's determination or to announce an act of retaliation. VOWEL (11) [noun] A sound produced by the vocal cords with relatively little restriction of the oral cavity, forming the prominent sound of a syllable. | [noun] A letter representing the sound of vowel; in English, the vowels are a, e, i, o, u, and sometimes y. | [verb] To add vowel points to a consonantal script (e.g. niqqud in Hebrew or harakat in Arabic) VOWER (11) VROUW (11) [noun] A Dutchwoman. VROWS (11) WACKE (14) [noun] A soft, earthy, dark-coloured rock or clay derived from the alteration of basalt. WACKO (14) [noun] An amusingly eccentric or irrational person. | [adjective] Amusingly eccentric or irrational. | [interjection] Hurrah! WACKS (14) [noun] An eccentric; an oddball; a weirdo. WACKY (17) [adjective] Zany; eccentric | [noun] A soft, earthy, dark-coloured rock or clay derived from the alteration of basalt. WADDY (13) [noun] A cowboy. | [noun] A war club used by Aboriginal Australians; a nulla nulla. | [noun] A piece of wood; a stick or peg; also, a walking stick. WADED (10) [verb] To walk through water or something that impedes progress. | [verb] To progress with difficulty | [verb] To walk through (water or similar impediment); to pass through by wading WADER (9) [noun] One who wades. | [noun] (chiefly in the plural) A waterproof boot that comes up to the hip, used by fishermen, etc. | [noun] A long-legged bird associated with wetland or coastal environments. WADES (9) [noun] An act of wading. | [noun] A ford; a place to cross a river. | [verb] To walk through water or something that impedes progress. WADIS (9) [noun] A valley, gully, or stream bed in northern Africa and southwest Asia that remains dry except during the rainy season. WAFER (11) [noun] A light, thin, flat biscuit/cookie. | [noun] (christianity) A thin disk of consecrated unleavened bread used in communion. | [noun] A soft disk originally made of flour, and later of gelatin or a similar substance, used to seal letters, attach papers etc. WAFFS (14) WAFTS (11) [verb] To (cause to) float easily or gently through the air. | [verb] To be moved, or to pass, on a buoyant medium; to float. | [verb] To give notice to by waving something; to wave the hand to; to beckon. WAGED (10) [verb] To wager, bet. | [verb] To expose oneself to, as a risk; to incur, as a danger; to venture; to hazard. | [verb] To employ for wages; to hire. WAGER (9) [noun] Something deposited, laid, or hazarded on the event of a contest or an unsettled question; a bet; a stake; a pledge. | [noun] That on which bets are laid; the subject of a bet. | [noun] A contract by which two parties or more agree that a certain sum of money, or other thing, shall be paid or delivered to one of them, on the happening or not happening of an uncertain event. | [noun] Agent noun of wage; one who wages. WAGES (9) [noun] (often in plural) An amount of money paid to a worker for a specified quantity of work, usually calculated on an hourly basis and expressed in an amount of money per hour. | [verb] To wager, bet. | [verb] To expose oneself to, as a risk; to incur, as a danger; to venture; to hazard. WAGON (9) [noun] A four-wheeled cart for hauling loads. | [noun] A four-wheeled child's riding toy, pulled or steered by a long handle attached to the front. | [noun] An enclosed vehicle for carrying goods or people; (by extension) a lorry, a truck. WAHOO (11) [noun] Acanthocybium solandri, a tropical and subtropical game fish. | [noun] The winged elm, Ulmus alata. | [noun] Euonymus atropurpureus, an eastern burning bush. WAIFS (11) [noun] A castaway; a homeless child. | [noun] (of a plant outside its native range) A plant that has been introduced but is not persistently naturalized. | [noun] Goods found of which the owner is not known; originally, such goods as a pursued thief threw away to prevent being apprehended, which belonged to the king unless the owner made pursuit of the felon, took him, and brought him to justice. WAILS (8) [noun] A prolonged cry, usually high-pitched, especially as of grief or anguish. | [noun] Any similar sound as of lamentation; a howl. | [noun] A sound made by emergency vehicle sirens, contrasted with "yelp" which is higher-pitched and faster. WAINS (8) [noun] A wagon; a four-wheeled cart for hauling loads, usually pulled by horses or oxen. | [noun] (Derry) A collective word usually for children. WAIRS (8) WAIST (8) [noun] The part of the body between the pelvis and the stomach. | [noun] A part of a piece of clothing that covers the waist. | [noun] The narrow connection between the thorax and abdomen in certain insects (e.g., bees, ants and wasps). WAITS (8) [noun] A delay. | [noun] An ambush. | [noun] One who watches; a watchman. WAIVE (11) [verb] To relinquish (a right etc.); to give up claim to; to forego. | [verb] To put aside, avoid. | [verb] To outlaw (someone). | [verb] To move from side to side; to sway. | [noun] A woman put out of the protection of the law; an outlawed woman. WAKED (13) [verb] (often followed by up) To stop sleeping. | [verb] (often followed by up) To make somebody stop sleeping; to rouse from sleep. | [verb] To put in motion or action; to arouse; to excite. WAKEN (12) [verb] To wake or rouse from sleep. | [verb] To awaken; to cease to sleep; to be awakened; to stir. WAKER (12) WAKES (12) [noun] The act of waking, or state of being awake. | [noun] The state of forbearing sleep, especially for solemn or festive purposes; a vigil. | [verb] (often followed by up) To stop sleeping. WALED (9) WALER (8) [noun] A breed of light saddle horse from Australia, once favoured as a warhorse. | [noun] (structural engineering) A plank of wood, block of concrete, etc., used for support or to maintain required separation between components in order to help maintain the form of a construction under stress. WALES (8) [noun] A ridge or low barrier. | [noun] A raised rib in knit goods or fabric, especially corduroy. (As opposed to course). | [noun] The texture of a piece of fabric. WALKS (12) [verb] To move on the feet by alternately setting each foot (or pair or group of feet, in the case of animals with four or more feet) forward, with at least one foot on the ground at all times. Compare run. | [verb] To "walk free", i.e. to win, or avoid, a criminal court case, particularly when actually guilty. | [verb] Of an object, to go missing or be stolen. WALLA (8) WALLS (8) [noun] A rampart of earth, stones etc. built up for defensive purposes. | [noun] A structure built for defense surrounding a city, castle etc. | [noun] Each of the substantial structures acting either as the exterior of or divisions within a structure. WALLY (11) [verb] To estimate the value of; judge the worth of something. | [verb] To fix or determine the value of; assign a value to, as of jewelry or art work. | [verb] To regard highly; think much of; place importance upon. WALTZ (17) [noun] A ballroom dance in 3/4 time. | [noun] A piece of music for this dance (or in triple time). | [noun] A simple task. WAMES (10) WAMUS (10) WANDS (9) [noun] A hand-held narrow rod, usually used for pointing or instructing, or as a traditional emblem of authority. | [noun] (by extension) An instrument shaped like a wand, such as a curling wand. | [noun] A magic wand. WANED (9) [verb] To progressively lose its splendor, value, ardor, power, intensity etc.; to decline. | [verb] Said of light that dims or diminishes in strength. | [verb] Said of the Moon as it passes through the phases of its monthly cycle where its surface is less and less visible. WANES (8) [noun] A gradual diminution in power, value, intensity etc. | [noun] The lunar phase during which the sun seems to illuminate less of the moon as its sunlit area becomes progressively smaller as visible from Earth. | [noun] The end of a period. WANEY (11) WANLY (11) WANTS (8) [noun] A desire, wish, longing. | [noun] (often followed by of) Lack, absence. | [noun] Poverty. WARDS (9) [noun] A warden; a guard; a guardian or watchman. | [noun] Protection, defence. | [noun] A protected place, and by extension, a type of subdivision. WARED (9) [verb] To be ware or mindful of something. | [verb] To protect or guard (especially oneself); to be on guard, be wary. | [verb] To wear, or veer. WARES (8) [noun] (usually in combination) Goods or a type of goods offered for sale or use. | [noun] (in the plural) See wares. | [noun] Pottery or metal goods. WARKS (12) [noun] Pain; ache. | [noun] A building. WARMS (10) [noun] The act of warming, or the state of being warmed; a heating. | [verb] To make or keep warm. | [verb] To become warm, to heat up. WARNS (8) [verb] To make (someone) aware of (something impending); especially: | [verb] To caution or admonish (someone) against unwise or unacceptable behaviour. | [verb] (chiefly with "off", "away", and similar words) To advise or order to go or stay away. WARPS (10) [verb] To twist or become twisted, physically or mentally: | [verb] (ropemaking) To run (yarn) off the reel into hauls to be tarred. | [verb] To arrange (strands of thread, etc) so that they run lengthwise in weaving. WARTS (8) [noun] A type of deformed growth occurring on the skin caused by the human papillomavirus (HPV). | [noun] Any similar growth occurring in plants or animals, such as the parotoid glands in the back of toads. | [noun] Any of the prefixes used in Hungarian notation. WARTY (11) WASHY (14) [noun] A wash, an act of washing. | [adjective] Watery; damp; soft. | [adjective] Lacking substance or strength; weak; thin; dilute; feeble. WASPS (10) [noun] A member of the dominant American upper-class culture: a white Anglo-Saxon Protestant. | [noun] A member of the Women Airforce Service Pilots. | [noun] Any of many types of stinging flying insect resembling a hornet. WASPY (13) [adjective] Resembling or characteristic of a wasp; wasplike. | [adjective] Infested with wasps. | [adjective] Like a wasp (white Anglo-Saxon Protestant), a member of the dominant American upper-class culture. WASTE (8) [noun] Excess of material, useless by-products or damaged, unsaleable products; garbage; rubbish. | [noun] Excrement or urine. | [noun] A waste land; an uninhabited desolate region; a wilderness or desert. | [adjective] Uncultivated, uninhabited. | [verb] To devastate, destroy WASTS (8) WATAP (10) WATCH (13) [noun] A portable or wearable timepiece. | [noun] The act of guarding and observing someone or something. | [noun] A particular time period when guarding is kept. | [verb] To look at, see, or view for a period of time. WATER (8) [noun] A substance (of molecular formula H₂O) found at room temperature and pressure as a clear liquid; it is present naturally as rain, and found in rivers, lakes and seas; its solid form is ice and its gaseous form is steam. | [noun] The aforementioned liquid, considered one of the Classical elements or basic elements of alchemy. | [noun] Water in a body; an area of open water. | [verb] To pour water into the soil surrounding (plants). WATTS (8) [noun] In the International System of Units, the derived unit of power; the power of a system in which one joule of energy is transferred per second. Symbol: W WAUGH (12) WAUKS (12) WAULS (8) [verb] To wail, to cry plaintively. WAVED (12) [verb] To relinquish (a right etc.); to give up claim to; to forego. | [verb] To put aside, avoid. | [verb] To outlaw (someone). WAVER (11) [noun] An act of wavering, vacillating, etc. | [noun] Someone who waves, enjoys waving, etc. | [noun] Someone who specializes in waving (hair treatment). WAVES (11) [verb] To relinquish (a right etc.); to give up claim to; to forego. | [verb] To put aside, avoid. | [verb] To outlaw (someone). WAVEY (14) WAWLS (11) WAXED (16) [verb] To apply wax to (something, such as a shoe, a floor, a car, or an apple), usually to make it shiny. | [verb] 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. | [verb] To defeat utterly. WAXEN (15) [adjective] Grown. | [verb] To apply wax to (something, such as a shoe, a floor, a car, or an apple), usually to make it shiny. | [verb] 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. | [adjective] Made of wax; covered with wax. WAXER (15) WAXES (15) [noun] Beeswax. | [noun] Earwax. | [noun] Any oily, water-resistant substance; normally long-chain hydrocarbons, alcohols or esters. WEALD (9) WEALS (8) [noun] A raised, longitudinal wound, usually purple, on the surface of flesh caused by a stroke of a rod or whip; a welt. WEANS (8) WEARS (8) [verb] To carry or have equipped on or about one's body, as an item of clothing, equipment, decoration, etc. | [verb] To have or carry on one's person habitually, consistently; or, to maintain in a particular fashion or manner. | [verb] To bear or display in one's aspect or appearance. WEARY (11) [verb] To make or to become weary. | [adjective] Having the strength exhausted by toil or exertion; tired; fatigued. | [adjective] Having one's patience, relish, or contentment exhausted; tired; sick. WEAVE (11) [noun] A type or way of weaving. | [noun] Human or artificial hair worn to alter one's appearance, either to supplement or to cover the natural hair. | [verb] To form something by passing lengths or strands of material over and under one another. | [verb] To move by turning and twisting. WEBBY (15) WEBER (10) [noun] In the International System of Units, the derived unit of magnetic flux; the flux linking a circuit of one turn that produces an electromotive force of one volt when reduced uniformly to zero in one second. Symbol: Wb. WECHT (13) WEDEL (9) WEDGE (10) [noun] One of the simple machines; a piece of material, such as metal or wood, thick at one edge and tapered to a thin edge at the other for insertion in a narrow crevice, used for splitting, tightening, securing, or levering. | [noun] A piece (of food, metal, wood etc.) having this shape. | [noun] A five-sided polyhedron with a rectangular base, two rectangular or trapezoidal sides meeting in an edge, and two triangular ends. | [noun] (Cambridge University slang) The person whose name stands lowest on the list of the classical tripos. WEDGY (13) WEEDS (9) [noun] Any plant regarded as unwanted at the place where, and at the time when it is growing. | [noun] Short for duckweed. | [noun] Underbrush; low shrubs. | [noun] Clothes. WEEDY (12) [adjective] Abounding with weeds. | [adjective] Of, relating to or resembling weeds. | [adjective] Consisting of weeds. WEEKS (12) [noun] Any period of seven consecutive days. | [noun] A period of seven days beginning with Sunday or Monday. | [noun] A period of five days beginning with Monday. WEENS (8) [verb] To suppose, imagine; to think, believe. | [verb] To expect, hope or wish. | [verb] To weep or cry. WEENY (11) [adjective] Minuscule. | [noun] A wiener, a hot dog. | [noun] A penis, from the resemblance to a wiener, sometimes thought of as small by influence from teeny weeny WEEPS (10) [verb] To cry; shed tears. | [verb] To lament; to complain. | [verb] (of a wound or sore) To produce secretions. WEEPY (13) [noun] A sad or sentimental film, often portraying troubled romance, designed to elicit a tearfully emotional response from its audience. | [adjective] Inclined to weep; tearful or lachrymose. WEEST (8) [verb] To waste. | [adjective] Small, little. WEETS (8) WEFTS (11) [noun] The horizontal threads that are interlaced through the warp in a woven fabric. | [noun] The yarn used for the weft; the fill. | [noun] (hairdressing) A hair extension that is glued directly to a person′s natural hair. WEIGH (12) [verb] To determine the weight of an object. | [verb] Often with "out", to measure a certain amount of something by its weight, e.g. for sale. | [verb] To determine the intrinsic value or merit of an object, to evaluate. WEIRD (9) [noun] Fate; destiny; luck. | [noun] A prediction. | [noun] A spell or charm. WEIRS (8) [noun] An adjustable dam placed across a river to regulate the flow of water downstream. | [noun] A fence placed across a river to catch fish. WEKAS (12) [noun] The woodhen, a flightless bird of New Zealand. WELCH (13) [noun] A person who defaults on an obligation, especially a small one. | [verb] To fail to repay a small debt. | [verb] To fail to fulfill an obligation. WELDS (9) [noun] The joint made by welding. | [verb] To join two materials (especially two metals) together by applying heat, pressure and filler, either separately or in any combination. | [verb] To bind together inseparably; to unite closely or intimately. WELLS (8) [noun] A hole sunk into the ground as a source of water, oil, natural gas or other fluids. | [noun] A place where a liquid such as water surfaces naturally; a spring. | [noun] A small depression suitable for holding liquid or other objects. WELLY (11) [noun] Wellington boot. | [noun] Force on a pedal or increase to any fuel or power for an engine or motor. | [noun] Force or effort. | [adverb] Almost; nearly. WELSH (11) [verb] To swindle someone by not paying a debt, especially a gambling debt. WELTS (8) [verb] To roll; revolve | [noun] A ridge or lump on the skin, as caused by a blow; a wheal or weal. | [noun] (shoemaking) A strip of leather set into the seam between the outsole of a shoe and the upper, through which these parts are joined by stitching or stapling. WENCH (13) [noun] (possibly offensive) A girl or young woman, especially a buxom or lively one. | [noun] Used as a term of endearment for a female person, especially a wife, daughter, or girlfriend: darling, sweetheart. | [noun] A woman servant; a maidservant. WENDS (9) [verb] To turn; change. | [verb] To direct (one's way or course); pursue one's way; proceed upon some course or way. | [verb] To turn; make a turn; go round; veer. WENNY (11) WESTS (8) WETLY (11) WHACK (17) [adjective] Egregious. | [adjective] Bad (not good), inauthentic, of an inferior quality, contemptible, lacking integrity, lame, or strange. | [adjective] Crazy, mad, insane. WHALE (11) [noun] Any of several species of large sea mammals of the infraorder Cetacea. | [noun] Something, or someone, that is very large. | [noun] Something, or someone, that is excellent. | [verb] To thrash, to flog, to beat vigorously or soundly. WHAMO (13) WHAMS (13) [noun] A forceful blow | [noun] The sound of such a blow; a thud | [verb] To strike or smash (into) something with great force or impact WHANG (12) [noun] A blow; a whack. | [noun] A large piece or slice; a chunk. | [noun] A house-cleaning party. WHAPS (13) [noun] A blow; a hit; a variation of whop. | [noun] The curlew. WHARF (14) [noun] A man-made landing place for ships on a shore or river bank. | [noun] The bank of a river, or the shore of the sea. | [verb] To secure by a wharf. WHATS (11) WHAUP (13) [noun] Curlew WHEAL (11) [verb] To strike the skin in such a way as to produce a wale or welt. | [verb] To give a surface a texture of wales or welts. | [verb] To choose, select. | [noun] A mine. WHEAT (11) [noun] Any of several cereal grains, of the genus Triticum, that yields flour as used in bakery. | [noun] A light brown colour, like that of wheat. | [adjective] Wheaten, of a light brown colour, like that of wheat. WHEEL (11) [noun] A circular device capable of rotating on its axis, facilitating movement or transportation or performing labour in machines. | [noun] The breaking wheel, an old instrument of torture. | [noun] A person with a great deal of power or influence; a big wheel. WHEEN (11) [noun] A little; a small number. | [noun] A quantity; a goodly number. WHEEP (13) WHELK (15) [noun] Certain edible sea snails, especially, any one of numerous species of large marine gastropods belonging to Buccinidae, much used as food in Europe. | [noun] Pimple | [noun] A stripe or mark; a ridge; a wale. WHELM (13) [noun] A surge of water. | [verb] To bury, to cover; to engulf, to submerge. | [verb] To throw (something) over a thing so as to cover it. WHELP (13) [noun] A young offspring of a canid (ursid, felid, pinniped), especially of a dog or a wolf, the young of a bear or similar mammal (lion, tiger, seal); a pup, wolf cub. | [noun] An insolent youth; a mere child. | [noun] A kind of ship. | [verb] (of she-dog, she-wolf, vixen, etc.) To give birth. | [interjection] Well, typically used in exasperation. WHENS (11) WHERE (11) [noun] The place in which something happens. | [adverb] Interrogative adverb, used in either a direct or indirect question: at what place; to what place; what place. | [adverb] In what situation. WHETS (11) [verb] To hone or rub on with some substance, as a piece of stone, for the purpose of sharpening – see whetstone. | [verb] To stimulate or make more keen. | [verb] To preen. WHEWS (14) WHEYS (14) WHICH (16) [pronoun] (interrogative) What one or ones (of those mentioned or implied). | [pronoun] The/Any ones that; whichever. | [pronoun] (relative) Introduces a relative clause giving further information about something previously mentioned. WHIDS (12) WHIFF (17) [noun] A waft; a brief, gentle breeze; a light gust of air | [noun] An odour carried briefly through the air | [noun] A short inhalation or exhalation of breath, especially of smoke from a cigarette or pipe. | [verb] To fish with a handline. WHIGS (12) [noun] Acidulated whey, sometimes mixed with buttermilk and sweet herbs, used as a cooling beverage. | [noun] Buttermilk | [verb] Urge forward; drive briskly. WHILE (11) [noun] An uncertain duration of time, a period of time. | [verb] To pass (time) idly. | [verb] To occupy or entertain (someone) in order to let time pass. WHIMS (13) [noun] A fanciful impulse, or whimsical idea | [noun] A large capstan or vertical drum turned by horse power or steam power, for raising ore or water, etc., from mines, or for other purposes | [noun] A bird, the Eurasian wigeon. WHINE (11) [noun] A long-drawn, high-pitched complaining cry or sound | [noun] A complaint or criticism | [verb] To utter a high-pitched cry. WHINS (11) [noun] Gorse; furze (Ulex spp.). | [noun] The plant woad-waxen (Genista tinctoria). WHINY (14) [adjective] Whining; tending to whine or complain. WHIPS (13) [noun] A lash; a pliant, flexible instrument, such as a rod (commonly of cane or rattan) or a plaited or braided rope or thong (commonly of leather) used to create a sharp "crack" sound for directing or herding animals. | [noun] A blow administered with a whip. | [noun] A whipper-in. WHIPT (13) WHIRL (11) [noun] An act of whirling. | [noun] Something that whirls. | [noun] A confused tumult. WHIRR (11) [noun] A sibilant buzz or vibration; the sound of something in rapid motion. | [noun] A bustle of noise and excitement. | [verb] To move or vibrate (something) with a buzzing sound. WHIRS (11) [noun] A sibilant buzz or vibration; the sound of something in rapid motion. | [noun] A bustle of noise and excitement. WHISH (14) WHISK (15) [noun] A quick, light sweeping motion. | [noun] A kitchen utensil, made from stiff wire loops fixed to a handle, used for whipping (or a mechanical device with the same function). | [noun] A bunch of twigs or hair etc, used as a brush. | [noun] The card game whist. WHIST (11) [noun] Any of several four-player card games, similar to bridge. | [noun] A session of playing this card game. | [interjection] (Irish and British) Shush, silence, be quiet! WHITE (11) [noun] The color/colour of snow or milk; the colour of light containing equal amounts of all visible wavelengths. | [noun] A person of European descent with light-coloured skin. | [noun] Any butterfly of the family Pieridae. WHITS (11) [noun] The smallest part or particle imaginable; an iota. WHITY (14) [noun] A white person, a person of European descent. | [noun] A state or bout of sickness, especially induced by cannabis use. | [adjective] Close to white in colour. WHIZZ (29) [noun] A whirring or hissing sound (as above). | [noun] Someone who is remarkably skilled at something. | [noun] (especially with the verb "take") An act of urination. WHOLE (11) [noun] Something complete, without any parts missing. | [noun] An entirety. | [adjective] Entire, undivided. WHOMP (15) [verb] Hit extremely hard. WHOOF (14) WHOOP (13) [noun] A loud, eager cry, usually of joy. | [noun] A gasp, characteristic of whooping cough. | [noun] A bump on a racetrack. | [verb] To beat, to strike. WHOPS (13) [noun] A blow or strike. | [verb] To throw or move (something) quickly, usually with an impact. | [verb] To administer corporal punishment WHORE (11) [noun] Any person (especially a woman) who has sexual intercourse or engages in other sexual activity for payment, especially as a means of livelihood. | [noun] A person who does, or offers to do, a demeaning or dishonourable activity for money or personal gain; someone who acts in a dishonourable way for personal advantage. | [noun] A person who is sexually promiscuous; a slut. WHORL (11) [noun] A pattern of concentric circles. | [noun] A circle of three or more leaves, flowers, or other organs, about the same part or joint of a stem. | [noun] A volution, or turn, of the spire of a univalve shell. WHORT (11) WHOSE (11) [pronoun] (interrogative) That or those of whom or belonging to whom. | [pronoun] (relative) That or those of whom or belonging to whom. WHOSO (11) [pronoun] Whosoever, whatever person WHUMP (15) [noun] A thumping sound. | [noun] A genre of fan fiction in which a character endures injury, torture, or other forms of physical and mental suffering. | [verb] To strike something with a whump. WICKS (14) [noun] A bundle, twist, braid, or woven strip of cord, fabric, fibre/fiber, or other porous material in a candle, oil lamp, kerosene heater, or the like, that draws up liquid fuel, such as melted tallow, wax, or the oil, delivering it to the base of the flame for conversion to gases and burning; any other length of material burned for illumination in small successive portions. | [noun] Any piece of porous material that conveys liquid by capillary action, such as a strip of gauze placed in a wound to serve as a drain. | [noun] A narrow opening in the field, flanked by other players' stones. WIDDY (13) WIDEN (9) [verb] To become wide or wider. | [verb] To make wide or wider. | [verb] To let out clothes to a larger size. WIDER (9) [adjective] Having a large physical extent from side to side. | [adjective] Large in scope. | [adjective] Operating at the side of the playing area. WIDES (9) [noun] A ball that passes so far from the batsman that the umpire deems it unplayable; the arm signal used by an umpire to signal a wide; the extra run added to the batting side's score WIDOW (12) [noun] A woman whose spouse has died (and who has not remarried); feminine of widower. | [noun] A person whose spouse has died (and who has not remarried). | [noun] (in combination) A woman whose husband is often away pursuing a sport, etc. WIDTH (12) [noun] The state of being wide. | [noun] The measurement of the extent of something from side to side. | [noun] A piece of material measured along its smaller dimension, especially fabric. WIELD (9) [verb] To command, rule over; to possess or own. | [verb] To control, to guide or manage. | [verb] To handle with skill and ease, especially a weapon or tool. WIFED (12) WIFES (11) WIFTY (14) WIGAN (9) WIGGY (13) [adjective] Crazy. | [adjective] Uninhibited. | [adjective] Wiglike. WIGHT (12) [noun] A living creature, especially a human being. | [noun] A being of one of the Nine Worlds of Heathen belief, especially a nature spirit, elf or ancestor. | [noun] A ghost, deity or other supernatural entity. | [adjective] (except in dialects) Brave, valorous, strong. WILCO (10) [interjection] (radio communications) Used to indicate agreement and compliance. | [noun] A species of South American tree, Anadenanthera colubrina. WILDS (9) [noun] A wood or forest | [noun] An open country | [noun] The undomesticated state of a wild animal WILED (9) [verb] To pass (time) idly. | [verb] To occupy or entertain (someone) in order to let time pass. | [verb] To loiter. WILES (8) [noun] (usually in the plural) A trick or stratagem practiced for ensnaring or deception; a sly, insidious artifice WILLS (8) [noun] One's independent faculty of choice; the ability to be able to exercise one's choice or intention. | [noun] One's intention or decision; someone's orders or commands. | [noun] The act of choosing to do something; a person’s conscious intent or volition. WILLY (11) [adjective] Willing; favourable; ready; eager. | [adjective] Self-willed; willful. | [noun] Any of various deciduous trees or shrubs in the genus Salix, in the willow family Salicaceae, found primarily on moist soils in cooler zones in the northern hemisphere. | [noun] A willow basket. | [noun] (hypocoristic) the penis. | [noun] A person who is manipulated into serving as a useful agent without knowing it. WILTS (8) [noun] The act of wilting or the state of being wilted. | [noun] Any of various plant diseases characterized by wilting. | [verb] To droop or become limp and flaccid (as a dying leaf or flower). WIMPS (12) [noun] Acronym of window, icon, menu, pointer. (a graphical interface paradigm) | [noun] Acronym of window-icon-mouse program. | [noun] A hypothetical class of particle, proposed to explain the dark matter problem. WIMPY (15) [adjective] Having the characteristics of a wimp; feeble, indecisive, cowardly. WINCE (10) [noun] A sudden movement or gesture of shrinking away. | [noun] A reel used in dyeing, steeping, or washing cloth; a winch. It is placed over the division wall between two wince pits so as to allow the cloth to descend into either compartment at will. | [verb] To flinch as if in pain or distress. WINCH (13) [noun] A machine consisting of a drum on an axle, a friction brake or ratchet and pawl, and a crank handle or prime mover (often an electric or hydraulic motor), with or without gearing, to give increased mechanical advantage when hauling on a rope or cable. | [noun] A hoisting machine used for loading or discharging cargo, or for hauling in lines. (FM 55-501). | [noun] A wince (machine used in dyeing or steeping cloth). | [verb] To wince; to shrink WINDS (9) [noun] Real or perceived movement of atmospheric air usually caused by convection or differences in air pressure. | [noun] Air artificially put in motion by any force or action. | [noun] The ability to breathe easily. | [verb] To blow air through a wind instrument or horn to make a sound. WINDY (12) [noun] Fart | [adjective] Accompanied by wind. | [adjective] Unsheltered and open to the wind. | [adjective] (of a path etc) Having many bends; winding, twisting or tortuous. WINED (9) [verb] To entertain with wine. | [verb] To drink wine. WINES (8) [noun] An alcoholic beverage made by fermenting the juice of grapes. | [noun] An alcoholic beverage made by fermenting the juice of fruits or vegetables other than grapes, usually preceded by the type of the fruit or vegetable; for example, "dandelion wine". | [noun] A serving of wine. WINEY (11) WINGS (9) [noun] An appendage of an animal's (bird, bat, insect) body that enables it to fly; a similar fin at the side of a ray or similar fish | [noun] Human arm. | [noun] Part of an aircraft that produces the lift for rising into the air. WINGY (12) WINKS (12) [noun] An act of winking (a blinking of only one eye), or a message sent by winking. | [noun] A brief period of sleep; especially forty winks. | [noun] A brief time; an instant. WINOS (8) [noun] A chronic or heavy drinker of cheap wine or other alcohol; a drunk or drunkard. | [noun] A wine enthusiast; an oenophile. | [noun] A hypothetical particle that is the superpartner of the W boson. WINZE (17) [noun] A steep shaft in a mine which joins two levels. WIPED (11) [verb] To move an object over, maintaining contact, with the intention of removing some substance from the surface. (Compare rub.) | [verb] To remove by rubbing; to rub off; to obliterate; usually followed by away, off, or out. | [verb] To cheat; to defraud; to trick; usually followed by out. WIPER (10) [noun] Someone who wipes. | [noun] Something, such as a towel, that is used for wiping. | [noun] Something, such as a windscreen wiper, that is designed for wiping. WIPES (10) [noun] The act of wiping something. | [noun] A soft piece of cloth or cloth-like material used for wiping. | [noun] A kind of film transition where one shot replaces another by travelling from one side of the frame to another or with a special shape. WIRED (9) [verb] To fasten with wire, especially with reference to wine bottles, corks, or fencing. | [verb] To string on a wire. | [verb] To equip with wires for use with electricity. WIRER (8) WIRES (8) [noun] Metal formed into a thin, even thread, now usually by being drawn through a hole in a steel die. | [noun] A piece of such material; a thread or slender rod of metal, a cable. | [noun] A metal conductor that carries electricity. WIRRA (8) [interjection] Exclamation of dismay. WISED (9) [verb] To become wise. | [verb] Usually with "up", to inform or learn. | [verb] To instruct. WISER (8) [adjective] Showing good judgement or the benefit of experience. | [adjective] Disrespectful. | [adjective] Aware, informed. WISES (8) [noun] Way, manner, method. WISHA (11) WISPS (10) [noun] A small bundle, as of straw or other like substance; any slender, flexible structure or group. | [noun] A whisk, or small broom. | [noun] A will o' the wisp, or ignis fatuus. WISPY (13) [adjective] Consisting of or resembling a wisp; like a slender, flexible strand or bundle. WISTS (8) WITAN (8) [noun] The Anglo-Saxon national council or witenagemot. WITCH (13) [noun] A person who practices witchcraft; a woman or man who practices witchcraft. | [noun] An ugly or unpleasant woman. | [noun] One who exercises more-than-common power of attraction; a charming or bewitching person. | [noun] A cone of paper which is placed in a vessel of lard or other fat and used as a taper. WITED (9) WITES (8) WITHE (11) [noun] A flexible, slender twig or shoot, especially when used as a band or for binding; a withy. | [noun] A band of twisted twigs. | [noun] An elastic handle to a tool to save the hand from the shock of blows. WITHY (14) [noun] The osier (Salix viminalis), a type of willow. | [noun] A long flexible twig of the osier; a withe. | [adjective] Flexible, like a withe. WITTY (11) [adjective] Wise, having good judgement. | [adjective] Possessing a strong intellect or intellectual capacity; intelligent, skilful, ingenious. | [adjective] Clever; amusingly ingenious. WIVED (12) [verb] To marry (a woman). | [verb] To provide (someone) with a wife. WIVER (11) WIVES (11) [noun] A married woman, especially in relation to her spouse. | [noun] The female of a pair of mated animals. | [noun] An adult female human. WIZEN (17) [verb] To wither; to become, or make, lean and wrinkled by shrinkage, as from age or illness. | [adjective] Wizened; withered; lean and wrinkled by shrinkage as from age or illness. WIZES (17) WOADS (9) WOALD (9) WODGE (10) [noun] A bulk quantity, usually of small items, particularly money; a wad. WOFUL (11) WOKEN (12) [verb] (often followed by up) To stop sleeping. | [verb] (often followed by up) To make somebody stop sleeping; to rouse from sleep. | [verb] To put in motion or action; to arouse; to excite. WOLDS (9) [noun] An unforested or deforested plain, a grassland, a moor. | [noun] A wood or forest, especially a wooded upland. WOLFS (11) [verb] To devour; to gobble; to eat (something) voraciously. | [verb] To make amorous advances to many women; to hit on women; to cruise for sex. | [verb] To hunt for wolves. WOMAN (10) [noun] An adult female human. | [noun] (collective) All females collectively; womankind. | [noun] A female person, usually an adult; a (generally adult) female sentient being, whether human, supernatural, elf, alien, etc. WOMBS (12) [noun] In female mammals, the organ in which the young are conceived and grow until birth; the uterus. | [noun] The abdomen or stomach. | [noun] The stomach of a person or creature. WOMBY (15) WOMEN (10) [noun] An adult female human. | [noun] (collective) All females collectively; womankind. | [noun] A female person, usually an adult; a (generally adult) female sentient being, whether human, supernatural, elf, alien, etc. WONKS (12) [noun] An overly studious person, particularly student. | [noun] (by extension) A policy wonk or other intellectual expert. WONKY (15) [noun] A subgenre of electronic music employing unstable rhythms, complex time signatures, and mid-range synths. | [adjective] Lopsided, misaligned or off-centre. | [adjective] Feeble, shaky or rickety. | [adjective] Technically worded, in the style of jargon. WONTS (8) [verb] To make (someone) used to; to accustom. | [verb] To be accustomed (to something), to be in the habit (of doing something). WOODS (9) [noun] The substance making up the central part of the trunk and branches of a tree. Used as a material for construction, to manufacture various items, etc. or as fuel. | [noun] The wood of a particular species of tree. | [noun] A forested or wooded area. WOODY (12) [noun] An early station wagon or estate car in which the rear portion of the car's bodywork is made of wood, often associated with Southern California surfing culture. | [noun] A wooden rollercoaster; an amusement ride whose rails are overlaid upon a wooden track. | [noun] An erection of the penis. WOOED (9) [verb] To endeavor to gain someone's support. | [verb] (often of a man) To try to persuade (someone) to be in an amorous relationship with | [verb] To court solicitously; to invite with importunity. WOOER (8) WOOFS (11) [verb] To make a woofing sound. WOOLS (8) [noun] The hair of the sheep, llama and some other ruminants. | [noun] A cloth or yarn made from the wool of sheep. | [noun] Anything with a texture like that of wool. WOOLY (11) [noun] A sweater or similar garment made of wool. | [noun] A sheep not yet shorn. | [noun] A piece of woolwork. WOOPS (10) WOOSH (11) [noun] A breathy sound like that of an object passing at high speed. | [verb] To make a breathy sound like a whoosh. WOOZY (20) [adjective] Queasy, dizzy, or disoriented | [adjective] Intoxicated by drink or drugs WORDS (9) [noun] The smallest unit of language that has a particular meaning and can be expressed by itself; the smallest discrete, meaningful unit of language. (contrast morpheme.) | [noun] Something like such a unit of language: | [noun] The fact or act of speaking, as opposed to taking action. . WORDY (12) [adjective] Using an excessive number of words. WORKS (12) [noun] (heading) Employment. | [noun] (heading) Effort. | [noun] Sustained effort to achieve a goal or result, especially overcoming obstacles. WORLD (9) [noun] (with "the") Human collective existence; existence in general. | [noun] The Universe. | [noun] (with "the") The Earth. WORMS (10) [noun] A generally tubular invertebrate of the annelid phylum; an earthworm. | [noun] More loosely, any of various tubular invertebrates resembling annelids but not closely related to them, such as velvet worms, acorn worms, flatworms, or roundworms. | [noun] A type of wingless "dragon", especially a gigantic sea serpent. WORMY (13) [adjective] Of or like a worm or worms; shaped like a worm or worms. | [adjective] Infested with worms. WORRY (11) [noun] A strong feeling of anxiety. | [noun] An instance or cause of such a feeling. | [verb] To be troubled; to give way to mental anxiety or doubt. WORSE (8) [adjective] Unfavorable; negative; not good. | [adjective] Not suitable or fitting. | [adjective] Not appropriate, of manners etc. WORST (8) [adjective] Unfavorable; negative; not good. | [adjective] Not suitable or fitting. | [adjective] Not appropriate, of manners etc. WORTH (11) [noun] Value. | [noun] Merit, excellence. | [noun] Wealth, fortune, riches, property, possessions. | [verb] (except in set phrases) To be, become, betide. WORTS (8) [noun] A plant; herb; vegetable. | [noun] Any of various plants or herbs, used in combination to refer to specific plants such as St. John's wort, or on its own as a generic term. WOULD (9) [noun] Something that would happen, or would be the case, under different circumstances; a potentiality. WOUND (9) [noun] An injury, such as a cut, stab, or tear, to a (usually external) part of the body. | [noun] A hurt to a person's feelings, reputation, prospects, etc. | [noun] An injury to a person by which the skin is divided or its continuity broken. | [verb] To blow air through a wind instrument or horn to make a sound. WOVEN (11) [verb] To form something by passing lengths or strands of material over and under one another. | [verb] To spin a cocoon or a web. | [verb] To unite by close connection or intermixture. WOWED (12) [verb] To amaze or awe. WRACK (14) [noun] Vengeance; revenge; persecution; punishment; consequence; trouble. | [noun] (except in dialects) Ruin; destruction. | [noun] The remains; a wreck. | [verb] To place in or hang on a rack. WRANG (9) WRAPS (10) [noun] A sharp blow with something hard. | [noun] Blame for something. | [noun] A charge, whether or not it results in a conviction. WRAPT (10) [verb] To enclose (an object) completely in any flexible, thin material such as fabric or paper. | [verb] To enclose or coil around an object or organism, as a form of grasping. | [verb] To conceal by enveloping or enfolding; to hide. WRATH (11) [noun] Great anger. | [noun] Punishment. | [verb] To anger; to enrage. WREAK (12) [verb] To cause something harmful; to afflict; to inflict; to harm or injury; to let out something harmful; . | [verb] To chasten, or chastise/chastize, or castigate, or punish, or smite. | [verb] To inflict or take vengeance on. | [noun] Revenge; vengeance; furious passion; resentment. WRECK (14) [noun] Something or someone that has been ruined. | [noun] The remains of something that has been severely damaged or worn down. | [noun] An event in which something is damaged through collision. WRENS (8) [noun] Any member of a mainly New World passerine bird family Troglodytidae; true wren. | [noun] Small bird of similar appearance to a true wren. WREST (8) [noun] The act of wresting; a wrench or twist; distortion. | [noun] A key to tune a stringed instrument. | [noun] Active or motive power. | [noun] A partition in a water wheel by which the form of the buckets is determined. | [noun] A metal (formerly wooden) piece of some ploughs attached under the mouldboard (the curved blade that turns over the furrow) for clearing out the furrow; the mouldboard itself. WRICK (14) WRIED (9) WRIER (8) [adjective] Turned away, contorted (of the face or body). | [adjective] Dryly humorous; sardonic or bitterly ironic. | [adjective] Twisted, bent, crooked. WRIES (8) WRING (9) [noun] A powerful squeezing or twisting action. | [noun] Pain or distress. | [verb] To squeeze or twist (something) tightly so that liquid is forced out. See also wring out. | [noun] A device for pressing or compressing, especially for cider. WRIST (8) [noun] The complex joint between forearm bones, carpus, and metacarpals where the hand is attached to the arm; the carpus in a narrow sense. | [noun] A stud or pin which forms a journal. | [verb] To hit a wrist shot WRITE (8) [noun] The act or style of writing. | [noun] The operation of storing data, as in memory or onto disk. | [verb] To form letters, words or symbols on a surface in order to communicate. WRITS (8) [noun] A written order, issued by a court, ordering someone to do (or stop doing) something. | [noun] Authority, power to enforce compliance. | [noun] That which is written; writing. WRONG (9) [noun] Something that is immoral or not good. | [noun] An instance of wronging someone (sometimes with possessive to indicate the wrongdoer). | [noun] The incorrect or unjust position or opinion. WROTE (8) [verb] To form letters, words or symbols on a surface in order to communicate. | [verb] To be the author of (a book, article, poem, etc.). | [verb] To send written information to. WROTH (11) [adjective] Full of anger; wrathful. WRUNG (9) [verb] To squeeze or twist (something) tightly so that liquid is forced out. See also wring out. | [verb] To extract (a liquid) from something wet, especially cloth, by squeezing and twisting it. | [verb] To obtain (something from or out of someone or something) by force. WRYER (11) [adjective] Turned away, contorted (of the face or body). | [adjective] Dryly humorous; sardonic or bitterly ironic. | [adjective] Twisted, bent, crooked. WRYLY (14) [adverb] In a wry manner. WURST (8) [noun] A German- or Austrian-style sausage. WUSSY (11) WYLED (12) WYLES (11) WYNDS (12) [noun] A narrow lane, alley or path, especially one between houses. | [noun] A stack of hay. WYNNS (11) [noun] A letter of the Old English alphabet, borrowed from the futhark and used to represent the sound of w; replaced in Middle English times by the digraph uu, which later developed into the letter w. | [noun] A kind of timber truck, or carriage. WYTED (12) WYTES (11) YAWED (12) [verb] To turn about the vertical axis while maintaining course. | [verb] To swerve off course to port or starboard. | [verb] To steer badly, zigzagging back and forth across the intended course of a boat; to go out of the line of course. YAWLS (11) [noun] A small ship's boat, usually rowed by four or six oars. | [noun] A fore-and-aft rigged sailing vessel with two masts, main and mizzen, the mizzen stepped abaft the rudder post. YAWNS (11) [noun] The action of yawning; opening the mouth widely and taking a long, rather deep breath, often because one is tired or bored. | [noun] A particularly boring event. | [verb] To open the mouth widely and take a long, rather deep breath, often because one is tired or bored, and sometimes accompanied by pandiculation. YAWPS (13) [noun] A yelp or bark | [noun] Loud or coarse talk | [verb] To yelp, or utter a sharp cry, as in intense pain, or another raucous noise YOWED (12) YOWES (11) YOWIE (11) YOWLS (11) [noun] A prolonged, loud cry, like the sound of an animal; a wail; a howl. | [verb] Utter a yowl. | [verb] Express by yowling; utter with a yowl. ZOWIE (17) [interjection] An indication of astonishment or admiration.

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ABWATT (11) [noun] A unit of electrical power equal to one billionth of a watt, used in measuring very small amounts of power. AIRWAY (12) [noun] The trachea. | [noun] A flight path used by aeroplanes. AJOWAN (16) [noun] A plant in the family Apiaceae (Trachyspermum ammi), and its seed, which is used (especially in South Asian cooking) for its thyme-like flavor. ALLOWS (9) [verb] To grant, give, admit, accord, afford, or yield; to let one have. | [verb] To acknowledge; to accept as true; to concede; to accede to an opinion. | [verb] To grant (something) as a deduction or an addition; especially to abate or deduct. ALWAYS (12) [adverb] At all times; throughout all time; since the beginning. | [adverb] Constantly during a certain period, or regularly at stated intervals (opposed to sometimes or occasionally). | [adverb] In any event. ANSWER (9) [noun] A response or reply; something said or done in reaction to a statement or question. | [noun] A solution to a problem. | [noun] A document filed in response to a complaint, responding to each point raised in the complaint and raising counterpoints. | [verb] To make a reply or response to. ANYHOW (15) [adverb] (manner) In any way or manner whatever. | [adverb] In any case. Used to indicate that a statement explains or supports a previous statement. ANYWAY (15) [adverb] Regardless; anyhow. | [adverb] Used to indicate that a statement explains or supports a previous statement. See anyhow and at least. | [adverb] Used to indicate a change of subject. ARROWS (9) [noun] A projectile consisting of a shaft, a point and a tail with stabilizing fins that is shot from a bow. | [noun] A sign or symbol used to indicate a direction (e.g. →). | [noun] A directed edge. ARROWY (12) [adjective] Resembling or having the characteristics of an arrow; moving swiftly and directly like an arrow. ASWARM (11) [adjective] Filled or overrun (with moving objects or beings). ASWIRL (9) [adverb] Swirling; in a swirl; full of or surrounded by something swirling. ASWOON (9) [adjective] In a swoon; fainting or swooning. ATWAIN (9) [adverb] In two; into two parts. | [adjective] Separated into two parts; divided. ATWEEN (9) [preposition] Between; in the space separating two things or people. AVOWAL (12) [noun] A declaration or assertion of something; an open acknowledgment or admission. AVOWED (13) [verb] To declare openly and boldly, as something believed to be right; to own, acknowledge or confess frankly. | [verb] To bind or devote by a vow. | [verb] To acknowledge and justify, as an act done. See avowry. AVOWER (12) [noun] One who avows; a person who makes a solemn declaration or assertion. AWAITS (9) [noun] A waiting for; ambush. | [noun] Watching, watchfulness, suspicious observation. | [verb] To wait for. AWAKED (14) [verb] Past tense of awake; to wake up or become conscious. | [verb] To rouse from sleep or inactivity. AWAKEN (13) [verb] To become conscious after having slept. | [verb] To cause (somebody) to stop sleeping. | [verb] To excite or to stir up something latent. AWAKES (13) [verb] To become conscious after having slept. | [verb] To cause (somebody) to stop sleeping. | [verb] To excite or to stir up something latent. AWARDS (10) [noun] A judgment, sentence, or final decision. Specifically: The decision of arbitrators in a case submitted. | [noun] The paper containing the decision of arbitrators; that which is warded. | [noun] A trophy or medal; something that denotes an accomplishment, especially in a competition. A prize or honor based on merit. AWEARY (12) [adjective] Weary, tired. AWEIGH (13) [adjective] Just drawn out of the ground, and hanging perpendicularly; atrip; said of the anchor. AWEING (10) [verb] Present participle of "awe," meaning to inspire wonder, astonishment, or reverence in someone. AWHILE (12) [adverb] For some time; for a short time. | [adverb] (Pennsylvania Dutch English, US) In the meantime; during an implicit ongoing process. AWHIRL (12) [adjective] Whirling. AWLESS (9) [adjective] Lacking awe or inspiring no awe; not awesome. | [adjective] Proceeding without awe or reverence. AWMOUS (11) AWNING (10) [noun] A rooflike cover, usually of canvas, extended over or before any place as a shelter from the sun, rain, or wind. | [noun] That part of the poop deck which is continued forward beyond the bulkhead of the cabin. AWOKEN (13) [verb] To become conscious after having slept. | [verb] To cause (somebody) to stop sleeping. | [verb] To excite or to stir up something latent. BAGWIG (13) [noun] A type of wig with the back hair gathered into a bag or pouch, popular in the 18th century. BARLOW (11) BARROW (11) [noun] A mountain. | [noun] A hill. | [noun] A mound of earth and stones raised over a grave or graves. | [noun] A small vehicle used to carry a load and pulled or pushed by hand. | [noun] A castrated boar. | [noun] A long sleeveless flannel garment for infants. BASHAW (14) [noun] A Turkish title of high rank; a pasha. | [noun] A man of great power or importance; a person of consequence. BAWBEE (13) [noun] A coin originally worth six pennies Scots, and later three; held equivalent to an English halfpenny. | [noun] A copper; a small amount of money. BAWDRY (15) [noun] The practice of procuring women for the gratification of lust. | [noun] Illicit intercourse; fornication. | [noun] Obscenity; filthy, unchaste language. BAWLED (12) [verb] To shout or utter in a loud and intense manner. | [verb] To wail; to give out a blaring cry. BAWLER (11) [noun] One who bawls; a person who cries loudly or wails. | [noun] A loud speaker or announcer. BAWTIE (11) BEDEWS (12) [verb] To make wet with or as if with dew. BEHOWL (14) BELLOW (11) [noun] The deep roar of a large animal, or any similar loud noise. | [verb] To make a loud, deep, hollow noise like the roar of an angry bull. | [verb] To shout in a deep voice. BELOWS (11) [verb] Third person singular present of "below," meaning to shout or call out loudly. | [noun] Plural of "below," referring to the lower deck or compartment of a ship. BESNOW (11) [verb] To cover with snow. BESTOW (11) [verb] To lay up in store; deposit for safe keeping; to stow or place; to put something somewhere. | [verb] To lodge, or find quarters for; provide with accommodation. | [verb] To dispose of. BEWAIL (11) [verb] To wail over; to feel or express deep sorrow for BEWARE (11) [verb] (defective) To use caution, pay attention to (used both with and without of). BEWEEP (13) [verb] To weep over or lament; to cry for or bewail. BEWEPT (13) [verb] Past tense and past participle of "beweep," meaning to weep over or lament. BEWIGS (12) [verb] Third person singular of "bewig," meaning to put a wig on someone or to cover with a wig. BEWORM (13) BEWRAP (13) [verb] To wrap up or cover completely with wrapping material. BEWRAY (14) [verb] To reveal or expose (someone's guilt or secrets). | [verb] To betray or be unfaithful to. BIGWIG (13) [noun] A person of importance to a group or organization. BILLOW (11) [noun] A large wave, swell, surge, or undulating mass of something, such as water, smoke, fabric or sound | [verb] To surge or roll in billows. | [verb] To swell out or bulge. BLAWED (12) [verb] Past tense of "blaw," a Scottish dialect word meaning to blow. BLOWBY (16) [noun] The escape of gases past a seal or piston in an engine, particularly past piston rings into the crankcase. | [noun] In sports, a play that goes past a defender or goalkeeper. BLOWED (12) [verb] Past tense and past participle of blow, used in some dialects or informal speech (non-standard form of "blew"). BLOWER (11) [noun] A person who blows. | [noun] Any device that blows. | [noun] (usually preceded by the) Telephone. BLOWSY (14) [adjective] Having a reddish, coarse complexion, especially with a pudgy face. | [adjective] (chiefly of a woman's hair or dress) Slovenly or unkempt, in the manner of a beggar or slattern. | [adjective] Unrefined, countrified. BLOWUP (13) [noun] An explosion, or violent outburst | [noun] An enlargement BLOWZY (23) [adjective] Having a reddish, coarse complexion, especially with a pudgy face. | [adjective] (chiefly of a woman's hair or dress) Slovenly or unkempt, in the manner of a beggar or slattern. | [adjective] Unrefined, countrified. BORROW (11) [noun] Deviation of the path of a rolling ball from a straight line; slope; slant. | [noun] A borrow pit. | [noun] In the Rust programming language, the situation where the ownership of a value is temporarily transferred to another region of code. | [noun] A ransom; a pledge or guarantee. BOWELS (11) [noun] A part or division of the intestines, usually the large intestine. | [noun] (in the plural) The entrails or intestines; the internal organs of the stomach. | [noun] (in the plural) The (deep) interior of something. BOWERS (11) [noun] A bedroom or private apartments, especially for a woman in a medieval castle. | [noun] A dwelling; a picturesque country cottage, especially one that is used as a retreat. | [noun] A shady, leafy shelter or recess in a garden or woods. BOWERY (14) [noun] A street lined with shops and taverns; historically, a street in New York City known for its bars and lodging houses. | [noun] A region of shops and entertainment establishments. BOWFIN (14) [noun] A voracious ganoid fish, Amia calva, the last survivor of the order Amiiformes, found in the fresh waters of the United States. BOWING (12) [verb] To play music on (a stringed) instrument using a bow. | [verb] To become bent or curved. | [verb] To make something bend or curve. BOWLED (12) [verb] To roll or throw (a ball) in the correct manner in cricket and similar games and sports. | [verb] To throw the ball (in cricket and similar games and sports). | [verb] To roll or carry smoothly on, or as on, wheels. BOWLEG (12) [noun] A leg that curves outward at the knee, causing the feet to be wide apart when standing with the legs together. | [verb] To have or develop bowlegs. BOWLER (11) [noun] One who engages in the sport of bowling. | [noun] The player currently bowling. | [noun] A player selected mainly for his bowling ability. | [noun] A bowler hat; a round black hat formerly popular among British businessmen. BOWMAN (13) [noun] A man who uses a bow; an archer. | [noun] The person, in a team or among oarsmen, positioned nearest the bow. BOWMEN (13) [noun] A man who uses a bow; an archer. | [noun] The person, in a team or among oarsmen, positioned nearest the bow. BOWPOT (13) [noun] A decorative container or vase for displaying flowers or plants. BOWSED (12) [verb] Past tense of bowse, meaning to haul or pull with a rope, especially in nautical contexts. | [adjective] Drunk or intoxicated (archaic slang). BOWSES (11) [verb] Third-person singular simple present indicative form of "bowse," which means to haul or pull with a rope, especially in nautical contexts. | [verb] To drink heavily or excessively. BOWWOW (17) [noun] The sound a dog makes; a bark. | [noun] A dog, especially used as a term of address or reference. BOWYER (14) [noun] A person who makes or sells bows (for use with arrows). | [noun] A person who uses the bow, an archer. BRAWER (11) BRAWLS (11) [noun] A dance of French origin dating from the 16th century, performed by couples in a circle or a line; the music for this dance. | [noun] A disorderly argument or fight, usually with a large number of people involved. | [verb] To engage in a brawl; to fight or quarrel. BRAWLY (14) BRAWNS (11) [noun] Muscular strength or physical power. | [noun] Plural of brawn, a jellied loaf of seasoned meat. BRAWNY (14) [adjective] Characterized by brawn; muscular, thewy; strong. | [adjective] Calloused; hardened. BREWED (12) [verb] To make tea or coffee by mixing tea leaves or coffee beans with hot water. | [verb] To heat wine, infusing it with spices; to mull. | [verb] To make a hot soup by combining ingredients and boiling them in water. BREWER (11) [noun] Someone who brews, or whose occupation is to prepare malt liquors. BREWIS (11) [noun] A dish made of bread soaked in broth or other liquid, sometimes with meat or fish added. BROWED (12) [adjective] (in combination) Having a brow. BROWNS (11) [noun] A colour like that of chocolate or coffee. | [noun] One of the colour balls used in snooker, with a value of 4 points. | [noun] Black tar heroin. BROWNY (14) BROWSE (11) [noun] Young shoots and twigs. | [noun] Fodder for cattle and other animals. | [verb] To scan, to casually look through in order to find items of interest, especially without knowledge of what to look for beforehand. BURROW (11) [noun] A mountain. | [noun] A hill. | [noun] A mound of earth and stones raised over a grave or graves. BUSHWA (14) [noun] Nonsense. BWANAS (11) [noun] Big boss, important person. BYELAW (14) [noun] A rule or law established by a company, society, or other organization to control its internal affairs. | [noun] A local law or regulation made by a local authority. BYLAWS (14) [noun] A local custom or law of a settlement or district. | [noun] A rule made by a local authority to regulate its own affairs. | [noun] A law or rule governing the internal affairs of an organization (e.g., corporation or business). BYWAYS (17) [noun] A road that is not frequently travelled | [noun] (by extension) an unpopular or arcane field of study BYWORD (15) [noun] A proverb or proverbial expression, common saying; a frequently used word or phrase. | [noun] A characteristic word or expression; a word or phrase associated with a person or group. | [noun] Someone or something that stands as an example (i.e. metonymically) for something else, by having some of that something's characteristic traits. BYWORK (18) CAHOWS (14) [noun] An endangered nocturnal burrowing bird, Pterodroma cahow, from Bermuda; the Bermuda petrel. CALLOW (11) [noun] A callow young bird. | [noun] A callow or teneral phase of an insect or other arthropod, typically shortly after ecdysis, while the skin still is hardening, the colours have not yet become stable, and as a rule, before the animal is able to move effectively. | [noun] An alluvial flat. CASHAW (14) [noun] A variant spelling of cashew, a tropical tree or its kidney-shaped nut. CASHEW (14) [noun] A tree, Anacardium occidentale, native to northeastern Brazil, now widely grown in tropical climates for its cashew nuts and cashew apples. | [noun] A cashew nut. CAWING (12) [verb] To make the harsh cry of a crow, rook, or raven. | [noun] The act of producing a caw sound. CHAWED (15) [verb] To chew; to grind with one's teeth; to masticate (food, or the cud) | [verb] To ruminate (about) in thought; to ponder; to consider | [verb] To steal. CHAWER (14) CHEWED (15) [verb] To crush with the teeth by repeated closing and opening of the jaws; done to food to soften it and break it down by the action of saliva before it is swallowed. | [verb] To grind, tear, or otherwise degrade or demolish something with teeth or as with teeth. | [verb] To think about something; to ponder; to chew over. CHEWER (14) [noun] One who chews. | [noun] Something suitable for chewing. CHOWED (15) [verb] To eat. | [verb] To call a discarded tile to produce a chow. CHOWSE (14) CLAWED (12) [verb] To scratch or to tear at. | [verb] To use the claws to seize, to grip. | [verb] To use the claws to climb. CLAWER (11) [noun] One who claws; a person or animal that claws. | [noun] A tool or device used for clawing or grasping. CLEWED (12) [verb] To roll into a ball | [verb] (transitive and intransitive) to raise the lower corner(s) of (a sail) CLOWNS (11) [noun] A slapstick performance artist often associated with a circus and usually characterized by bright, oversized clothing, a red nose, face paint, and a brightly colored wig. | [noun] A person who acts in a silly fashion. | [noun] A stupid person. COBWEB (15) [noun] A spiderweb, or the remains of one, especially an asymmetrical one that is woven with an irregular pattern of threads. | [noun] One of its filaments; gossamer | [noun] Something thin and unsubstantial, or flimsy and worthless; valueless remainder. COGWAY (15) COWAGE (12) COWARD (12) [noun] A person who lacks courage. | [verb] To intimidate. | [adjective] Cowardly. COWBOY (16) [noun] A man who tends free-range cattle, especially in the American West. | [noun] A man who identifies with cowboy culture, including wearing a cowboy hat and being a fan of country and western music. | [noun] A person who engages in reckless behavior, especially for the purpose of showing off. COWERS (11) [verb] To crouch or cringe, or to avoid or shy away from something, in fear. | [verb] To crouch in general. | [verb] To cause to cower; to frighten into submission. COWIER (11) COWING (12) [verb] (chiefly in the passive voice) To intimidate; to daunt the spirits or courage of. COWLED (12) COWMAN (13) [noun] Cattle rancher | [noun] Cattleman COWMEN (13) [noun] Cattle rancher | [noun] Cattleman COWPAT (13) [noun] A dropping of cow dung. COWPEA (13) [noun] Any of the plants in the species Vigna unguiculata, including the black-eyed pea. COWPIE (13) COWPOX (20) [noun] A pustular, eruptive skin disease of cattle caused by an Orthopoxvirus, with lesions occurring principally on the udder and teats. Human infection may occur from touching cows, and gives immunity to smallpox. COWRIE (11) [noun] A small gastropod (Monetaria moneta, syn. Cypraea moneta) common in the Indian Ocean; its shell. | [noun] (by extension) Any gastropod of the genus Cypraea; its shell. | [noun] (by extension) Any gastropod of the family Cypraeidae; its shell. CRAWLS (11) [noun] The act of moving slowly on hands and knees etc, or with frequent stops. | [noun] A rapid swimming stroke with alternate overarm strokes and a fluttering kick. | [noun] A very slow pace. CRAWLY (14) [adjective] Crawling around. | [adjective] As if covered in moving things such as insects. CREWED (12) [adjective] Having a crew; manned; piloted. CREWEL (11) [noun] Worsted yarn, slackly twisted, used for embroidery. | [verb] To make (embroidery) using the crewel method. CROWDS (12) [noun] A group of people congregated or collected into a close body without order. | [noun] Several things collected or closely pressed together; also, some things adjacent to each other. | [noun] (with definite article) The so-called lower orders of people; the populace, vulgar. CROWDY (15) [noun] A thick gruel of oatmeal and milk or water. | [adjective] Crowded CROWED (12) [verb] To make the shrill sound characteristic of a rooster; to make a sound in this manner, either in gaiety, joy, pleasure, or defiance. | [verb] To shout in exultation or defiance; to brag. | [verb] To test the reed of a double reed instrument by placing the reed alone in the mouth and blowing it. CROWER (11) CROWNS (11) [noun] A royal, imperial or princely headdress; a diadem. | [noun] A wreath or band for the head, especially one given as reward of victory or a mark of honor. | [noun] (by extension) Any reward of victory or mark of honor. CRWTHS (14) CURFEW (14) [noun] Any regulation requiring people to be off the streets and in their homes by a certain time. | [noun] The time when such restriction begins. | [noun] A signal indicating this time. CURLEW (11) [noun] Any of several migratory wading birds in the genus Numenius of the family Scolopacidae, remarkable for their long, slender, downcurved bills. | [noun] A stone curlew. CUSHAW (14) [noun] Any of certain cultivars of Cucurbita argyrosperma (Cucurbita mixta), one of the species of winter squash. DAWDLE (11) [noun] A dawdler. | [noun] A slow walk, journey. | [noun] An easily accomplished task; a doddle. DAWING (11) DAWNED (11) [verb] To begin to brighten with daylight. | [verb] To start to appear or be realized. | [verb] To begin to give promise; to begin to appear or to expand. DAWTED (11) DAWTIE (10) DECLAW (12) [verb] To surgically remove a cats claws; onychectomy. | [verb] To make harmless. DEEWAN (10) DEWANS (10) [noun] A holder of any of various offices in various (usually Islamic) countries, usually some sort of councillor. DEWARS (10) [noun] A vacuum flask; a vessel which keeps its contents hotter or cooler than their environment without the need to modify the pressure, by interposing an evacuated region to provide thermal insulation between the contents and the environment. DEWIER (10) [adjective] Covered by dew. | [adjective] Having the quality of bearing droplets of water. | [adjective] Fresh and innocent. DEWILY (13) DEWING (11) [verb] To wet with, or as if with, dew; to moisten. | [noun] A contributor to corrosion? DEWLAP (12) [noun] The pendulous skin under the neck of an ox, or a similar feature on any other animal. | [noun] The sagging flesh on the human throat of an old person. DEWOOL (10) DEWORM (12) [verb] To cause an animal to excrete any worms in the digestive tract by the administration of drugs. DIMWIT (12) [noun] A person who is deficient in intelligence. DISOWN (10) [verb] To refuse to own, or to refuse to acknowledge one’s own. | [verb] To repudiate any connection to; to renounce. | [verb] To detach (a job or process) so that it can continue to run even when the user who launched it ends his/her login session. DIWANS (10) [noun] A holder of any of various offices in various (usually Islamic) countries, usually some sort of councillor. DOWELS (10) [noun] A pin, or block, of wood or metal, fitting into holes in the abutting portions of two pieces, and being partly in one piece and partly in the other, to keep them in their proper relative position. | [noun] A wooden rod, as one to make short pins from. | [noun] A piece of wood or similar material fitted into a surface not suitable for fastening so that other pieces may be fastened to it. DOWERS (10) [noun] The part of or interest in a deceased husband's property provided to his widow, usually in the form of a life estate. | [noun] Property given by a groom directly to his bride at or before their wedding in order to legitimize the marriage; dowry. | [noun] That with which one is gifted or endowed; endowment; gift. DOWERY (13) DOWING (11) DOWNED (11) [verb] To knock (someone or something) down; to cause to come down, to fell. | [verb] To lower; to put (something) down. | [verb] To defeat; to overpower. DOWNER (10) [noun] A negative drug trip. | [noun] A drug that has depressant qualities. | [noun] Something or someone disagreeable, dispiriting or depressing; a killjoy. DOWSED (11) [verb] To plunge suddenly into water; to duck; to immerse. | [verb] To fall suddenly into water. | [verb] To put out; to extinguish. DOWSER (10) DOWSES (10) [noun] A sudden plunging into water. | [verb] To plunge suddenly into water; to duck; to immerse. | [verb] To fall suddenly into water. DRAWEE (10) [noun] The party directed to pay the amount of a draft or cheque. DRAWER (10) [noun] An open-topped box that can be slid in and out of the cabinet that contains it, used for storing clothing or other articles. | [noun] A side panel containing supplementary content. | [noun] Agent noun of draw; one who draws. DRAWLS (10) [noun] A way of speaking slowly while lengthening vowel sounds and running words together. Characteristic of some southern US accents, as well as Scots. | [verb] To drag on slowly and heavily; to while or dawdle away time indolently. | [verb] To utter or pronounce in a dull, spiritless tone, as if by dragging out the utterance. DRAWLY (13) DROWND (11) DROWNS (10) [verb] To die from suffocation while immersed in water or other fluid. | [verb] To kill by suffocating in water or another liquid. | [verb] To be flooded: to be inundated with or submerged in (literally) water or (figuratively) other things; to be overwhelmed. DROWSE (10) [noun] The state of being sleepy and inactive. | [verb] To be sleepy and inactive. | [verb] To nod off; to fall asleep. DROWSY (13) [adjective] Inclined to drowse; heavy with sleepiness | [adjective] Causing someone to fall sleep or feel sleepy; lulling; soporific. | [adjective] Boring. DWARFS (13) [noun] Any member of a race of beings from (especially Scandinavian and other Germanic) folklore, usually depicted as having some sort of supernatural powers and being skilled in crafting and metalworking, often as short with long beards, and sometimes as clashing with elves. | [noun] A person of short stature, often one whose limbs are disproportionately small in relation to the body as compared with normal adults, usually as the result of a genetic condition. | [noun] An animal, plant or other thing much smaller than the usual of its sort. DWEEBS (12) [noun] (originally college slang) A boring, studious, or socially inept person. DWELLS (10) [noun] A period of time in which a system or component remains in a given state. | [noun] A brief pause in the motion of part of a mechanism to allow an operation to be completed. | [noun] A planned delay in a timed control program. DWINED (11) DWINES (10) EARWAX (16) [noun] A waxy substance secreted by the ear. EARWIG (10) [noun] Any of various insects of the order Dermaptera that have elongated bodies, large membranous wings folded underneath short leathery forewings and a pair of large pincers protruding from the rear of the abdomen. | [noun] One who whispers insinuations; a secret counsellor. | [noun] A flatterer. ELBOWS (11) [noun] The joint between the upper arm and the forearm. | [noun] (by extension) Any turn or bend like that of the elbow, in a wall, building, coastline, etc.; an angular or jointed part of any structure, such as the raised arm of a chair or sofa, or a short pipe fitting, turning at an angle or bent. | [noun] A detective. EMBOWS (13) ENDOWS (10) [verb] To provide with a dower or a dowry. | [verb] To give property to (someone) as a gift; specifically, to provide (a person or institution) with support in the form of a permanent fund of money or other benefits. | [verb] Followed by with, or rarely by of: to enrich or furnish with some faculty or quality. ENWIND (10) ENWOMB (13) ENWRAP (11) [verb] To wrap around, surround; to envelop | [verb] To absorb completely or engross ERENOW (9) ESCHEW (14) [verb] To avoid; to shun, to shy away from. ESCROW (11) [noun] A written instrument, such as a deed, temporarily deposited with a neutral third party (the escrow agent), by the agreement of two parties to a valid contract. The escrow agent will deliver the document to the benefited party when the conditions of the contract have been met. The depositor has no control over the instrument in escrow. | [noun] In common law, escrow applied to the deposits only of instruments for conveyance of land, but it now applies to all instruments so deposited. | [noun] Money or other property so deposited is also loosely referred to as escrow. ETWEES (9) FALLOW (12) [noun] Ground ploughed and harrowed but left unseeded for one year. | [noun] Uncultivated land. | [noun] The ploughing or tilling of land, without sowing it for a season. | [verb] To make land fallow for agricultural purposes. | [adjective] (color) Of a pale red or yellow, light brown; dun. FARROW (12) [noun] A litter of piglets. | [verb] To give birth to a (litter of piglets). | [adjective] (of cows) Not pregnant; not producing young (not calving) in a given season or year; barren. FATWAS (12) [noun] A legal opinion, decree or ruling issued by a mufti or other Islamic lawyer. FAWNED (13) [verb] To give birth to a fawn. | [verb] To exhibit affection or attempt to please. | [verb] To seek favour by flattery and obsequious behaviour (with on or upon). FAWNER (12) [noun] One who fawns; a sycophant. FELLOW (12) [noun] A colleague or partner. | [noun] A companion; a comrade. | [noun] A man without good breeding or worth; an ignoble or mean man. FEWEST (12) FLAWED (13) [adjective] Having a flaw or imperfection. FLOWED (13) [verb] To move as a fluid from one position to another. | [verb] To proceed; to issue forth. | [verb] To move or match smoothly, gracefully, or continuously. FLOWER (12) [noun] A colorful, conspicuous structure associated with angiosperms, frequently scented and attracting various insects, and which may or may not be used for sexual reproduction. | [noun] A reproductive structure in angiosperms (flowering plants), often conspicuously colourful and typically including sepals, petals, and either or both stamens and/or a pistil. | [noun] A plant that bears flowers, especially a plant that is small and lacks wood. | [noun] Something that flows, such as a river. FLYWAY (18) [noun] A migratory route used by birds between breeding areas. FOGBOW (15) [noun] A white arc or circle, similar to a rainbow, which can appear in the sky in foggy conditions as sunlight passes through small airborne water droplets. FOLLOW (12) [noun] (sometimes attributive) In billiards and similar games, a stroke causing a ball to follow another ball after hitting it. | [noun] The act of following another user's online activity. | [verb] To go after; to pursue; to move behind in the same path or direction. FORWHY (18) FOWLED (13) FOWLER (12) FROWNS (12) [noun] A facial expression in which the eyebrows are brought together, and the forehead is wrinkled, usually indicating displeasure, sadness or worry, or less often confusion or concentration. | [noun] A facial expression in which the corners of the mouth are pointed down. | [verb] To have a frown on one's face. FROWST (12) [noun] Stuffiness; stifling warmth in a room. | [verb] To enjoy being in a warm, close, stuffy place. FROWSY (15) [adjective] Having a dingy, neglected, and scruffy appearance. FROWZY (24) [adjective] Having a dingy, neglected, and scruffy appearance. FURROW (12) [noun] A trench cut in the soil, as when plowed in order to plant a crop. | [noun] Any trench, channel, or groove, as in wood or metal. | [noun] A deep wrinkle in the skin of the face, especially on the forehead. GAWKED (15) [verb] To stare or gape stupidly. | [verb] To stare conspicuously. GAWKER (14) GAWPED (13) [verb] To stare stupidly or rudely; to gawk. GAWPER (12) GAWSIE (10) GEEGAW (11) [noun] A showy trifle, a toy; a showy trinket, ornament or decoration. GEWGAW (14) [noun] A showy trifle, a toy; a showy trinket, ornament or decoration. | [adjective] Showy; unreal; pretentious. GLOWED (11) [verb] To give off light from heat or to emit light as if heated. | [verb] To radiate some emotional quality like light. | [verb] To gaze especially passionately at something. GLOWER (10) [noun] An angry glare or stare. | [verb] To look or stare with anger. | [noun] That which glows or emits light. GNAWED (11) [verb] To bite something persistently, especially something tough. | [verb] To produce excessive anxiety or worry. | [verb] To corrode; to fret away; to waste. GNAWER (10) GODOWN (11) [noun] A warehouse. GODWIT (11) [noun] Any of four species of long-billed, migratory wading birds in the genus Limosa, of the family Scolopacidae. GOWANS (10) [noun] The common daisy. | [noun] Decomposed granite. GOWANY (13) GOWNED (11) [verb] To dress in a gown, to don or garb with a gown. GROWER (10) [noun] A farmer; one who grows things. | [noun] Something that grows. | [noun] Someone or something who becomes more likeable over time GROWLS (10) [noun] A deep, rumbling, threatening sound made in the throat by an animal. | [noun] (by extension) The rumbling sound made by a person's stomach when hungry. | [noun] (by extension) An aggressive grumbling. GROWLY (13) [adjective] Resembling the sound of a growl; throaty GROWTH (13) [noun] An increase in size, number, value, or strength. | [noun] The act of growing, getting bigger or higher. | [noun] Something that grows or has grown. GUFFAW (16) [noun] A boisterous laugh. | [verb] To laugh boisterously. GWEDUC (13) HALLOW (12) [noun] (obsolete outside set phrases) A saint; a holy person; an apostle. | [verb] To make holy, to sanctify. | [noun] A shout, cry; a hulloo. | [adjective] (of something solid) Having an empty space or cavity inside. HANIWA (12) HARROW (12) [noun] A device consisting of a heavy framework having several disks or teeth in a row, which is dragged across ploughed land to smooth or break up the soil, to remove weeds or cover seeds; a harrow plow. | [noun] An obstacle formed by turning an ordinary harrow upside down, the frame being buried. | [verb] To drag a harrow over; to break up with a harrow. | [interjection] A call for help, or of distress, alarm etc. HAWING (13) HAWKED (17) [verb] To hunt with a hawk. | [verb] To make an attack while on the wing; to soar and strike like a hawk. | [verb] To sell; to offer for sale by outcry in the street; to carry (merchandise) about from place to place for sale; to peddle. HAWKER (16) [noun] A peddler, huckster, who travels about to sell easily transportable goods. | [noun] Any dragonfly of the family Aeshnidae; a darner. | [noun] Someone who breeds and trains hawks and other falcons; a falconer. HAWKEY (19) HAWKIE (16) HAWSER (12) [noun] A cable or heavy rope used to tow or moor a ship HAWSES (12) [noun] The part of the bow containing the hawseholes. | [noun] A hawsehole or hawsepipe. | [noun] The horizontal distance or area between an anchored vessel's bows and the actual position of her anchor(s). HAYMOW (17) [noun] A pile of hay stored in a barn. | [noun] The place in a barn where hay is deposited. HEEHAW (15) [noun] The cry of an ass or donkey. | [noun] Nothing. | [verb] To utter the cry of an ass or donkey. HEWERS (12) [noun] One who hews. HEWING (13) [verb] To chop away at; to whittle down; to mow down. | [verb] To shape; to form. | [verb] To act according to, to conform to; usually construed with to. HOLLOW (12) [noun] A small valley between mountains. | [noun] A sunken area or unfilled space in something solid; a cavity, natural or artificial. | [noun] A sunken area. | [adjective] (of something solid) Having an empty space or cavity inside. | [interjection] Hey, hello HOWDAH (16) [noun] A seat, usually with a canopy, carried on the back of an elephant or camel. | [noun] An ornate carriage which is positioned on the back of elephants or occasionally other animals, used most often in the past for rich people who travelled in India via elephant. HOWDIE (13) HOWFFS (18) [noun] Tavern; public house HOWKED (17) HOWLED (13) [verb] To utter a loud, protracted, mournful sound or cry, as dogs and wolves often do. | [verb] To utter a sound expressive of pain or distress; to cry aloud and mournfully; to lament; to wail. | [verb] To make a noise resembling the cry of a wild beast. HOWLER (12) [noun] That which howls, especially an animal such as a wolf or a howler monkey. | [noun] A person hired to howl at a funeral. | [noun] A painfully obvious mistake. HOWLET (12) [noun] An owl; an owlet. IMPAWN (13) INDOWS (10) INFLOW (12) [noun] The act or process of flowing in or into | [noun] Anything which flows in or into | [noun] Influence from outside. INTOWN (9) INWALL (9) INWARD (10) [noun] (chiefly in the plural) That which is inward or within; the inner parts or organs of the body; the viscera. | [noun] (chiefly in the plural) The mental faculties. | [noun] A familiar friend or acquaintance. INWIND (10) INWOVE (12) INWRAP (11) [verb] To wrap around, surround; to envelop | [verb] To absorb completely or engross JAWANS (16) [noun] An infantryman; a soldier. JAWING (17) [verb] To assail or abuse by scolding. | [verb] To scold; to clamor. | [verb] To talk; to converse. JEWELS (16) [noun] A precious or semi-precious stone; gem, gemstone. | [noun] A valuable object used for personal ornamentation, especially one made of precious metals and stones; a piece of jewellery. | [noun] Anything precious or valuable. JEWING (17) JIGSAW (17) [noun] A saw with fine teeth and a narrow blade which can cut curves in wood or metal. | [noun] A jigsaw puzzle. | [verb] To cut something using a jigsaw. JOWARS (16) JOWING (17) JOWLED (17) KEYWAY (19) [noun] A slot into which a precision attachment (a key) is fitted. KNAWEL (13) [noun] A low, spreading weed of the genus Scleranthus, especially KNOWER (13) KNOWNS (13) KOTOWS (13) KOWTOW (16) [noun] The act of kowtowing. | [verb] To grovel, act in a very submissive manner. | [verb] To kneel and bow low enough to touch one’s forehead to the ground. KWACHA (18) [noun] Malawi's major currency unit; 100 tambala = 1 kwacha. | [noun] Zambia's major currency unit; 100 ngwee = 1 kwacha. KWANZA (22) [noun] The currency of Angola, divided into a hundred cêntimos. LAWFUL (12) [noun] A character having a lawful alignment. | [adjective] Conforming to, or recognised by the laws of society. | [adjective] Operating according to some law or fundamental principle. LAWINE (9) LAWING (10) LAWMAN (11) [noun] A lawspeaker: a declarer of the law. | [noun] One of 12 magistrates in certain Danish boroughs of England empowered with soc and sac over their own households. | [noun] The presiding justice of the supreme court. LAWMEN (11) [noun] A lawspeaker: a declarer of the law. | [noun] One of 12 magistrates in certain Danish boroughs of England empowered with soc and sac over their own households. | [noun] The presiding justice of the supreme court. LAWYER (12) [noun] A professional person qualified (as by a law degree or bar exam) and authorized to practice law, i.e. represent parties in lawsuits or trials and give legal advice. | [noun] (by extension) A legal layman who argues points of law. | [noun] The burbot. LECHWE (14) [noun] Kobus leche, an African antelope that inhabits marshy regions. LEEWAY (12) [noun] The drift of a ship or airplane in a leeward direction. | [noun] A varying degree or amount of freedom or flexibility; margin, latitude, elbowroom. | [noun] An adverse discrepancy or variation in a cumulative process, usually in the phrase make up leeway. LEWDER (10) [adjective] Lascivious, sexually promiscuous, rude. | [adjective] Lay; not clerical. | [adjective] Uneducated. LEWDLY (13) LOGWAY (13) LOWBOY (14) [noun] A low chest of drawers. | [noun] Trucking A semi-trailer designed for hauling vehicles and other mobile equipment, with two drops in deck height: one right after the gooseneck and one right before the wheels; so named because the trailer's main deck is situated close to the ground for easy loading and unloading of vehicles and equipment. LOWERS (9) [verb] To frown; to look sullen. | [verb] To be dark, gloomy, and threatening, as clouds; of the sky: to be covered with dark and threatening clouds; to show threatening signs of approach, as a tempest. | [verb] To let descend by its own weight, as something suspended; to let down LOWERY (12) LOWEST (9) [adjective] Situated close to, or even below, the ground or another normal reference plane; not high or lofty. | [adjective] Of less than normal height; below the average or normal level from which elevation is measured. | [adjective] Not high in status, esteem or rank, dignity, or quality. (Compare vulgar.) LOWING (10) [verb] To depress; to lower. | [verb] To moo. | [verb] To burn; to blaze. LOWISH (12) MACAWS (13) [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. MALLOW (11) [noun] Any of a group of flowering plants in several genera of the taxonomic family Malvaceae, especially of the genus Malva. Several species are edible by humans. MARROW (11) [noun] The substance inside bones which produces blood cells. | [noun] A kind of vegetable like a large courgette/zucchini or squash. | [noun] The pith of certain plants. | [noun] A friend, pal, buddy, mate. MAWING (12) MEADOW (12) [noun] A field or pasture; a piece of land covered or cultivated with grass, usually intended to be mown for hay. | [noun] Low land covered with coarse grass or rank herbage near rivers and in marshy places by the sea. MELLOW (11) [noun] A relaxed mood. | [verb] To make mellow; to relax or soften. | [verb] To become mellow. MEOWED (12) [verb] Of a cat, to make its cry. MEWING (12) [verb] To shut away, confine, lock up. | [verb] (of a bird) To moult. | [verb] (of a bird) To cause to moult. MEWLED (12) [verb] To cry weakly with a soft, high-pitched sound; to whimper; to whine. MEWLER (11) MIAOWS (11) [noun] The cry of a cat. | [noun] The drug mephedrone. | [verb] Of a cat, to make its cry. MIDWAY (15) [noun] The middle; the midst. | [noun] A middle way or manner; a mean or middle course between extremes. | [noun] The part of a fair or circus where rides, entertainments, and booths are concentrated. MILDEW (12) [noun] A growth of minute powdery or webby fungi, whitish or of different colors, found on various diseased or decaying substances. | [verb] To taint with mildew. | [verb] To become tainted with mildew. MINNOW (11) [noun] A small freshwater fish of the carp family, Phoxinus phoxinus. | [noun] Any small fish. | [noun] A relatively small and insignificant person or organization. MORROW (11) [noun] The next or following day. | [noun] Morning. | [verb] To dawn MOWERS (11) [noun] A lawnmower, a machine used to cut grass. | [noun] A person who cuts grass. MOWING (12) [verb] To cut down grass or crops. | [verb] To cut down or slaughter in great numbers. | [verb] To make grimaces, mock. NARROW (9) [noun] (chiefly in the plural) A narrow passage, especially a contracted part of a stream, lake, or sea; a strait connecting two bodies of water. | [adjective] Having a small width; not wide; having opposite edges or sides that are close, especially by comparison to length or depth. | [adjective] Of little extent; very limited; circumscribed. | [verb] To reduce in width or extent; to contract. NARWAL (9) NAWABS (11) [noun] A Muslim official in South Asia acting as a provincial deputy ruler under the Mughal empire; a local governor. | [noun] Any of various nymphalid butterflies of the genus Polyura. NEPHEW (14) [noun] A son of one's sibling, brother-in-law, or sister-in-law; either a son of one's brother (fraternal nephew) or a son of one's sister (sororal nephew). | [noun] A son of one's child. NEWELS (9) [noun] A central pillar around which a staircase spirals. | [noun] A sturdy pillar at the top or bottom of a flight of stairs, supporting the handrail. | [noun] A novelty; a new thing. NEWEST (9) [adjective] Recently made, or created. | [adjective] Additional; recently discovered. | [adjective] Current or later, as opposed to former. NEWIES (9) [noun] Something newly released, such as a song or film. NEWISH (12) NEWSIE (9) [noun] A distributor of news; a newsagent. | [noun] A journalist. NEWTON (9) [noun] In the International System of Units, the derived unit of force; the force required to accelerate a mass of one kilogram by one metre per second per second. Symbol: N. NITWIT (9) [noun] A scatterbrained or stupid person. NONWAR (9) NOWAYS (12) [adverb] In no manner or degree; not at all; nowise; no way. NOWISE (9) [adverb] (In) no way, (in) no manner, definitely not. OILWAY (12) ONWARD (10) [verb] To keep going; to progress or persevere. | [adjective] Moving forward. | [adjective] Advanced in a forward direction or toward an end. OUTLAW (9) [noun] A fugitive from the law. | [noun] (history) A criminal who is excluded from normal legal rights; one who can be killed at will without legal penalty. | [noun] A person who operates outside established norms. OUTROW (9) OUTSAW (9) OUTWAR (9) OUTWIT (9) [verb] To get the better of; to outsmart, to beat in a competition of wits. OWLETS (9) [noun] Any of various birds of prey of the order Strigiformes that are primarily nocturnal and have forward-looking, binocular vision, limited eye movement, and good hearing. | [noun] (by extension) A person seen as having owl-like characteristics, especially appearing wise or serious, or being nocturnally active. | [noun] The owl pigeon. OWLISH (12) [adjective] Resembling or characteristic of an owl. | [adjective] Wise and solemn. | [adjective] Stupid; dull-looking. OWNERS (9) [noun] One who owns something. | [noun] The captain of a ship. OWNING (10) [verb] To have rightful possession of (property, goods or capital); to have legal title to. | [verb] To have recognized political sovereignty over a place, territory, as distinct from the ordinary connotation of property ownership. | [verb] To defeat or embarrass; to overwhelm. OXBOWS (18) [noun] A U-shaped piece of wood used as a collar for an ox, the upper parts fastened to its yoke | [noun] A meander in a river; the land enclosed by such a loop PAPAWS (13) [noun] A tree, Carica papaya, of tropical America, belonging to the order Brassicales, and producing dull orange-colored, melon-shaped fruit. | [noun] (less commonly) A father. | [noun] Grandfather. PAWERS (11) PAWING (12) [verb] (of an animal) To go through something (such as a garbage can) with paws. | [verb] (of an animal) To gently push on something with a paw. | [verb] (of an animal) To draw the forefoot along the ground; to beat or scrape with the forefoot. PAWNED (12) [verb] To pledge; to stake or wager. | [verb] To give as security on a loan of money; especially, to deposit (something) at a pawn shop. | [verb] (originally leet) To own, to defeat or dominate (someone or something, especially a game or someone playing a game). PAWNEE (11) [noun] One or two whom a pledge is delivered as security; one who takes anything in pawn. PAWNER (11) PAWNOR (11) PAWPAW (16) [noun] Any of several types of trees having edible fruit: | [noun] The fruit of these trees. | [noun] Grandfather. PAXWAX (25) PEEWEE (11) [noun] A short or small person; a small object. | [noun] A kind of small marble in children's games. | [noun] A player in a sports league for very young children. | [noun] (New South Wales and Queensland) A magpie-lark or mudlark, Grallina cyanoleuca. PEEWIT (11) [noun] Any of several birds PESEWA (11) [noun] In the currency of Ghana, one hundredth of a cedi. PEWEES (11) [noun] The common American tyrant flycatcher (of the genus Contopus). | [noun] A woodcock. | [noun] An American version of the children's game gilli-danda. PEWITS (11) [noun] Any of several birds PEWTER (11) [noun] An alloy of approximately 93–98% tin, 1–2% copper, and the balance of antimony. | [noun] An alloy of tin and lead. | [noun] Items made of pewter; pewterware. PILAWS (11) PILLOW (11) [noun] A soft cushion used to support the head in bed. | [noun] A pillow lava. | [noun] A piece of metal or wood, forming a support to equalize pressure; a brass; a pillow block. PITSAW (11) [noun] A saw worked by two people, one standing on the log and the other beneath it, often in a pit. PLOWED (12) [verb] To use a plough on to prepare for planting. | [verb] To use a plough. | [verb] To have sex with, penetrate. PLOWER (11) POWDER (12) [noun] The fine particles which are the result of reducing dry substance by pounding, grinding, or triturating, or the result of decay; dust. | [noun] A mixture of fine dry, sweet-smelling particles applied to the face or other body parts, to reduce shine or to alleviate chaffing. | [noun] An explosive mixture used in gunnery, blasting, etc.; gunpowder. POWERS (11) [noun] Ability to do or undergo something. | [noun] (social) Ability to coerce, influence or control. | [noun] (physical) Effectiveness. POWTER (11) POWWOW (17) [noun] A ritual conducted by a Native American shaman. | [noun] A Native American shaman. | [noun] A Native American council or meeting. PRAWNS (11) [noun] Pornography. | [noun] (chiefly in the plural) A pornographic work. | [noun] Material, usually visual, presenting something desirable in a sensational manner. PREWAR (11) [adjective] Before a war. PROWAR (11) PROWER (11) PROWLS (11) [verb] To rove over, through, or about in a stealthy manner; especially, to search in, as for prey or booty. | [verb] To idle; to go about aimlessly. | [verb] To collect by plunder. PSHAWS (14) [verb] To express disgust or contempt. PSYWAR (14) [noun] Psychological warfare QWERTY (21) [adjective] Denoting a standard layout of keys on a keyboard for typing, in which the leftmost keys of the top lettered row are Q-W-E-R-T-Y. RAWEST (9) [adjective] (of food) Not cooked. | [adjective] (of materials, products, etc.) Not treated or processed; in a natural state, unrefined, unprocessed. | [adjective] Having had the skin removed or abraded; chafed, tender; exposed, lacerated. RAWINS (9) RAWISH (12) REAVOW (12) RECHEW (14) REDOWA (10) REDRAW (10) [noun] An update to the screen display. | [verb] To draw again. REDREW (10) [verb] To draw again. REFLEW (12) REFLOW (12) [noun] A flowing back again. | [noun] The process of recreating the layout of a document when some of its component elements have changed. | [verb] To flow back again. REGLOW (10) REGREW (10) [verb] To grow again a part that has been lost, shed or destroyed. REGROW (10) [verb] To grow again a part that has been lost, shed or destroyed. RENEWS (9) [verb] To make (something) new again; to restore to freshness or original condition. | [verb] To replace (something which has broken etc.); to replenish (something which has been exhausted), to keep up a required supply of. | [verb] To make new spiritually; to regenerate. RENOWN (9) [noun] Fame; celebrity; wide recognition. | [noun] Reports of nobleness or exploits; praise. | [verb] To make famous. RESAWN (9) RESAWS (9) RESEWN (9) RESEWS (9) RESHOW (12) [verb] To show again. RESOWN (9) RESOWS (9) REVIEW (12) [noun] A second or subsequent reading of a text or artifact in an attempt to gain new insights. | [noun] An account intended as a critical evaluation of a text or a piece of work. | [noun] A judicial reassessment of a case or an event. REWAKE (13) REWARD (10) [noun] Something of value given in return for an act. | [noun] A prize promised for a certain deed or catch | [noun] The result of an action, whether good or bad. | [verb] To give a reward to or for. REWARM (11) REWASH (12) [noun] The act of washing something again | [verb] Wash again REWEDS (10) REWELD (10) REWETS (9) REWIND (10) [noun] The act of rewinding. | [noun] A button or other mechanism for rewinding. | [verb] To wind (something) again. REWINS (9) REWIRE (9) [verb] To replace or reconnect the wires of a device or installation. | [verb] To change the functionality of something by altering the parameters or logic. REWOKE (13) REWORD (10) [verb] To change the wording of; to restate using different words. REWORK (13) REWOVE (12) REWRAP (11) [verb] To wrap again. RIPSAW (11) [noun] A saw that is designed to cut wood along its grain, i.e. to rip, to execute a rip cut. | [noun] A genre of music played with a ripsaw and other instruments, originally associated mainly with Turks and Caicos Islands. | [verb] To cut with a ripsaw. ROWANS (9) [noun] Sorbus aucuparia, the European rowan. | [noun] Any of various small deciduous trees or shrubs of genus Sorbus, belonging to the rose family, with pinnate leaves, corymbs of white flowers, and usually with orange-red berries. | [noun] A second crop of hay; aftermath. ROWELS (9) [noun] The small spiked wheel on the end of a spur. | [noun] A little flat ring or wheel on a horse's bit. | [noun] A roll of hair, silk, etc., passed through the flesh of a horse in the manner of a seton in human surgery. ROWENS (9) [noun] A second crop of hay; aftermath. | [noun] A stubble field left unploughed until late in the autumn, so that it can be cropped by cattle. ROWERS (9) [noun] One who rows. | [noun] A rowing machine. ROWING (10) [verb] To propel (a boat or other craft) over water using oars. | [verb] To transport in a boat propelled with oars. | [verb] To be moved by oars. ROWTHS (12) RUNWAY (12) [noun] A defined, narrow section of land or an artificial structure used for access. | [noun] The usual path taken by deer or other wild animals, such as from a forest to a water source. | [noun] A narrow walkway (often on a platform) extending from a stage on which people walk, especially one used by models during fashion shows. SALLOW (9) [verb] To become sallow. | [verb] To cause (someone or something) to become sallow. | [adjective] (of skin) Yellowish. | [noun] A European willow, Salix caprea, that has broad leaves, large catkins and tough wood. SAWERS (9) SAWFLY (15) [noun] Any of various flying insects of the suborder Symphyta whose ovipositor is long and often serrated and is used to cut into plants to lay eggs. SAWING (10) [verb] To cut (something) with a saw. | [verb] To make a motion back and forth similar to cutting something with a saw. | [verb] To be cut with a saw. SAWLOG (10) [noun] The part of a tree stem that will be processed at a sawmill, rather than becoming pulpwood. SAWNEY (12) SAWYER (12) [noun] One who saws timber, especially in a sawpit. | [noun] A large trunk of a tree brought down by the force of a river's current | [noun] A beetle, mostly in the genus Monochamus, that lives and feeds on trees, including timber. SCHWAS (14) [noun] An indeterminate central vowel sound as the "a" in "about", represented as /ə/ in IPA. | [noun] The character ə. SCOWED (12) SCOWLS (11) [noun] The wrinkling of the brows or face in frowning; the expression of displeasure, sullenness, or discontent in the countenance; an angry frown. | [noun] (by extension) Gloom; dark or threatening aspect. | [verb] To wrinkle the brows, as in frowning or displeasure; to put on a frowning look; to look sour, sullen, severe, or angry. SCRAWL (11) [noun] Irregular, possibly illegible handwriting. | [noun] A hastily or carelessly written note etc. | [noun] Writing that lacks literary merit. | [verb] To creep; crawl; (by extension) to swarm with crawling things SCREWS (11) [noun] A device that has a helical function. | [noun] The motion of screwing something; a turn or twist to one side. | [noun] A prison guard. SCREWY (14) [adjective] Crazy; silly; ridiculous | [adjective] Tipsy; slightly drunk. | [adjective] Exacting; extortionate; close. SEAWAN (9) SEAWAY (12) [noun] A lane or route at sea that is regularly used by ships; a sea lane or trade route | [noun] An inland waterway used by seagoing shipping | [noun] The headway of a vessel SEESAW (9) [noun] A structure composed of a plank, balanced in the middle, used as a game in which one person goes up as the other goes down. | [noun] A series of up-and-down movements. | [noun] A series of alternating movements or feelings. SEROWS (9) [noun] Any of several species of Asian ungulates of the genus Capricornis. SEWAGE (10) [noun] A suspension of water and solid waste, transported by sewers to be disposed of or processed. | [noun] Sewerage. SEWANS (9) SEWARS (9) SEWERS (9) [noun] A pipe or system of pipes used to remove human waste and to provide drainage. | [noun] A servant attending at a meal who is responsible for seating arrangements, serving dishes, etc. | [noun] One who sews. SEWING (10) [verb] To use a needle to pass thread repeatedly through (pieces of fabric) in order to join them together. | [verb] To use a needle to pass thread repeatedly through pieces of fabric in order to join them together. | [verb] Followed by into: to enclose by sewing. | [noun] The action of the verb to sew. SHADOW (13) [noun] A dark image projected onto a surface where light (or other radiation) is blocked by the shade of an object. | [noun] Relative darkness, especially as caused by the interruption of light; gloom, obscurity. | [noun] A area protected by an obstacle (likened to an object blocking out sunlight). SHAWED (13) SHAWLS (12) [noun] A square or rectangular piece of cloth worn as a covering for the head, neck, and shoulders, typically by women. | [noun] A fold of wrinkled flesh under the lips and neck of a bloodhound, used in scenting. SHAWMS (14) [noun] A mediaeval double-reed wind instrument with a conical wooden body. SHEWED (13) [verb] To display, to have somebody see (something). | [verb] To bestow; to confer. | [verb] To indicate (a fact) to be true; to demonstrate. SHEWER (12) SHOWED (13) [verb] To display, to have somebody see (something). | [verb] To bestow; to confer. | [verb] To indicate (a fact) to be true; to demonstrate. SHOWER (12) [noun] A brief fall of precipitation (spell of rain, or a similar fall of snow, sleet, or cascade). | [noun] A device for bathing by which water is made to fall on the body from a height, either from a tank or by the action of a pump. | [noun] An instance of using of this device in order to bathe oneself. | [noun] One who shows. SHREWD (13) [adjective] Showing clever resourcefulness in practical matters. | [adjective] Artful, tricky or cunning. | [adjective] Streetwise. SHREWS (12) [noun] Any of numerous small, mouselike, chiefly nocturnal, mammals of the family Soricidae (order Soricomorpha). | [noun] Certain other small mammals that resemble true shrews (order Soricomorpha). | [noun] An ill-tempered, nagging woman: a scold. SINEWS (9) [noun] A cord or tendon of the body. | [noun] A cord or string, particularly as of a musical instrument. | [noun] Muscular power, muscle; nerve, nervous energy; vigor, vigorous strength. SINEWY (12) [adjective] Tough; having strong sinews. | [adjective] Having or showing nervous strength. | [adjective] (of a person or animal) Possessing physical strength and weight; rugged and powerful. SKEWED (14) [verb] To form or shape in an oblique way; to cause to take an oblique position. | [verb] To bias or distort in a particular direction. | [verb] To hurl or throw. SKEWER (13) [noun] A long pin, normally made of metal or wood, used to secure food during cooking. | [noun] Food served on a skewer | [noun] A scenario in which a piece attacks a more valuable piece which, if it moves aside, reveals a less valuable piece. Compare pin.W | [adjective] Neither parallel nor at right angles to a certain line; askew. SKYWAY (19) [noun] A walkway connecting buildings at a significant height above ground level. | [noun] An airplane route. | [noun] An elevated road. SLEWED (10) [verb] To rotate or turn something about its axis. | [verb] To veer a vehicle. | [verb] To insert extra ticks or skip some ticks of a clock to slowly correct its time. SLOWED (10) [verb] To make (something) run, move, etc. less quickly; to reduce the speed of. | [verb] To keep from going quickly; to hinder the progress of. | [verb] To become slow; to slacken in speed; to decelerate. SLOWER (9) [adjective] 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. | [adjective] Not happening in a short time; spread over a comparatively long time. | [adjective] Of reduced intellectual capacity; not quick to comprehend. | [noun] That which slows. SLOWLY (12) [adverb] (manner) At a slow pace. SNAWED (10) SNOWED (10) [verb] To have snow fall from the sky. | [verb] To hoodwink someone, especially by presenting confusing information. | [verb] To bluff in draw poker by refusing to draw any cards. SORROW (9) [noun] Unhappiness, woe | [noun] (usually in plural) An instance or cause of unhappiness. | [verb] To feel or express grief. SOWANS (9) SOWARS (9) SOWCAR (11) SOWENS (9) SOWERS (9) SOWING (10) [verb] To scatter, disperse, or plant (seeds). | [verb] To spread abroad; to propagate. | [verb] To scatter over; to besprinkle. SPAWNS (11) [verb] To produce or deposit (eggs) in water. | [verb] To generate, bring into being, especially non-mammalian beings in very large numbers. | [verb] To bring forth in general. SPEWED (12) [verb] To eject forcibly and in a stream | [verb] To speak or write quickly and voluminously, especially words that are not worth listening to or reading. | [verb] To vomit SPEWER (11) SPRAWL (11) [noun] An ungainly sprawling posture. | [noun] A straggling, haphazard growth, especially of housing on the edge of a city. | [verb] To sit with the limbs spread out. SQUAWK (22) [noun] A shrill noise, especially made by a voice or bird; a yell, scream, or call. | [noun] A four-digit transponder code used by aircraft for identification or transmission of emergency signals. | [noun] An issue or complaint related to aircraft maintenance. SQUAWS (18) [noun] A woman, wife; especially a Native American woman. STEWED (10) [verb] To cook (food) by slowly boiling or simmering. | [verb] To brew (tea) for too long, so that the flavour becomes too strong. | [verb] To suffer under uncomfortably hot conditions. STOWED (10) [verb] To put something away in a compact and tidy manner, in its proper place, or in a suitable place. | [verb] To store or pack something in a space-saving manner and over a long time. | [verb] To arrange, pack, or fill something tightly or closely. STOWPS (11) STRAWS (9) [noun] A dried stalk of a cereal plant. | [noun] Such dried stalks considered collectively. | [noun] A drinking straw. STRAWY (12) STREWN (9) [verb] (archaic except strewn) To distribute objects or pieces of something over an area, especially in a random manner. | [verb] (archaic except strewn) To cover, or lie upon, by having been scattered. | [verb] To spread abroad; to disseminate. STREWS (9) [verb] (archaic except strewn) To distribute objects or pieces of something over an area, especially in a random manner. | [verb] (archaic except strewn) To cover, or lie upon, by having been scattered. | [verb] To spread abroad; to disseminate. STROWN (9) [verb] (archaic except strewn) To distribute objects or pieces of something over an area, especially in a random manner. | [verb] (archaic except strewn) To cover, or lie upon, by having been scattered. | [verb] To spread abroad; to disseminate. STROWS (9) [verb] (archaic except strewn) To distribute objects or pieces of something over an area, especially in a random manner. | [verb] (archaic except strewn) To cover, or lie upon, by having been scattered. | [verb] To spread abroad; to disseminate. SUBWAY (14) [noun] An underground railway, especially for mass transit of people in urban areas. | [noun] A train that runs on such an underground railway. | [noun] A rapid transit system, regardless of the elevation of its right of way. SUNBOW (11) [noun] A bow or arc of prismatic colors like a rainbow, caused by refraction through a spray of water from a cataract, waterfall, fountain, etc., rather than through droplets of rain. SUNDEW (10) [noun] Any of a group of insectivorous plants in the genus Drosera that catch insects by sticky droplets ("dew") at the end of hairs on the leafs and grow in boggy ground all over the world. SWABBY (16) [noun] A sailor. SWAGED (11) [verb] To lessen the intensity of, to mitigate or relieve (hunger, emotion, pain etc.). | [verb] To pacify or soothe (someone). | [verb] To calm down, become less violent (of passion, hunger etc.); to subside, to abate. SWAGER (10) SWAGES (10) [verb] To lessen the intensity of, to mitigate or relieve (hunger, emotion, pain etc.). | [verb] To pacify or soothe (someone). | [verb] To calm down, become less violent (of passion, hunger etc.); to subside, to abate. SWAILS (9) SWAINS (9) [noun] A young man or boy in service; a servant. | [noun] A knight's servant; an attendant. | [noun] A country labourer; a countryman, a rustic. SWALES (9) [noun] A low tract of moist or marshy land. | [noun] A long narrow and shallow trough between ridges on a beach, running parallel to the coastline. | [noun] A shallow troughlike depression that's created to carry water during rainstorms or snow melts; a drainage ditch. SWAMIS (11) [noun] (used as a title) A Hindu ascetic or religious teacher. SWAMPS (13) [noun] 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. | [noun] A type of wetland that stretches for vast distances, and is home to many creatures which have adapted specifically to that environment. | [noun] A place or situation that is foul or where progress is difficult. SWAMPY (16) [adjective] Soggy and marshy; wet like a swamp. | [adjective] Flowing smoothly with no harsh tones but possibly including muddy tones. SWANKS (13) [verb] To swagger, to show off. SWANKY (16) [noun] An active and clever young fellow. | [noun] Poor thin beer or any sloppy drink, even sweetened water and vinegar. | [adjective] Rather posh, elegant, ritzy. SWARAJ (16) [noun] Self-rule SWARDS (10) [noun] A layer of earth into which grass has grown; turf; sod. | [noun] An expanse of land covered in grass; a lawn or meadow. | [noun] Skin; covering. SWARFS (12) SWARMS (11) [noun] A large number of insects, especially when in motion or (for bees) migrating to a new colony. | [noun] A mass of people, animals or things in motion or turmoil. | [noun] A group of nodes sharing the same torrent in a BitTorrent network. SWARTH (12) SWARTY (12) SWATCH (14) [noun] A piece, pattern, or sample, generally of cloth or a similar material. | [noun] A selection of such samples bound together. | [noun] A clump or portion of something. | [noun] A channel or passage of water between sandbanks, or between a sandbank and a seashore. SWATHE (12) [noun] A bandage; a band | [verb] To bind with a swathe, band, bandage, or rollers | [noun] The track cut out by a scythe in mowing. SWATHS (12) [noun] The track cut out by a scythe in mowing. | [noun] A broad sweep or expanse, such as of land or of people. SWAYED (13) [verb] To move or swing from side to side; or backward and forward; to rock. | [verb] To move or wield with the hand; to swing; to wield. | [verb] To influence or direct by power, authority, persuasion, or by moral force; to rule; to govern; to guide. Compare persuade. SWAYER (12) SWEARS (9) [verb] To take an oath, to promise. | [verb] To use offensive, profane, or obscene language. | [noun] A swear word. SWEATS (9) [noun] 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. | [noun] The state of one who sweats; diaphoresis. | [noun] (especially WWI) A soldier (especially one who is old or experienced). SWEATY (12) [noun] One who is sweaty. | [adjective] Covered in sweat. | [adjective] Having a tendency to sweat. | [noun] (sometimes humorous) A term of familiar address. SWEDES (10) [noun] The fleshy yellow root of a variety of rape, Brassica napus var. napobrassica, resembling a large turnip, grown as a vegetable. | [noun] The plant from which this is obtained. | [noun] The turnip. SWEENY (12) SWEEPS (11) [noun] A single action of sweeping. | [noun] The person who steers a dragon boat. | [noun] A person who stands at the stern of a surf boat, steering with a steering oar and commanding the crew. SWEEPY (14) SWEETS (9) [noun] The basic taste sensation induced by sugar. | [noun] A confection made from sugar, or high in sugar content; a candy. | [noun] A food eaten for dessert. SWELLS (9) [verb] To become bigger, especially due to being engorged. | [verb] To cause to become bigger. | [verb] To grow gradually in force or loudness. | [noun] The act of swelling; increase in size. SWERVE (12) [noun] A sudden movement out of a straight line, for example to avoid a collision. | [noun] A deviation from duty or custom. | [verb] To stray; to wander; to rove. SWEVEN (12) SWIFTS (12) [noun] A small plain-colored bird of the family Apodidae that resembles a swallow and is noted for its rapid flight. | [noun] Any of certain lizards of the genus Sceloporus. | [noun] A moth of the family Hepialidae, swift moth, ghost moth. SWILLS (9) [noun] (collective) A mixture of solid and liquid food scraps fed to pigs etc; especially kitchen waste for this purpose. | [noun] (by extension) Any disgusting or distasteful liquid. | [noun] (by extension) Anything disgusting or worthless. SWIMMY (16) SWINGE (10) [noun] A swinging blow. | [noun] Power; sway; influence. | [verb] To singe. SWINGS (10) [noun] The manner in which something is swung. | [noun] The sweep or compass of a swinging body. | [noun] A line, cord, or other thing suspended and hanging loose, upon which anything may swing. SWINGY (13) [adjective] Having a swinging motion. | [adjective] Characteristic of swing music. | [adjective] Having many swing voters. SWINKS (13) SWIPED (12) [verb] To grab or bat quickly. | [verb] To strike with a strong blow in a sweeping motion. | [verb] To scan or register by sliding (a swipecard etc.) through a reader. SWIPES (11) [noun] A quick grab, bat, or other motion with the hand or paw; a sweep. | [noun] A strong blow given with a sweeping motion, as with a bat or club. | [noun] An act of interacting with a touch screen by drawing the finger rapidly across it. SWIPLE (11) SWIRLS (9) [noun] A whirling eddy. | [noun] A twist or coil of something. | [noun] The upward rushing of a fish through the water to take the bait. SWIRLY (12) [noun] A school prank involving holding a person upside down over a toilet bowl, submerging their head, then flushing water. | [adjective] Having swirls; swirling. SWISHY (15) [adjective] Producing a swishing sound. | [adjective] Swish; fancy, posh, impressive. | [adjective] (of a man) Effeminate; gay SWITCH (14) [noun] A bundle of thin sticks, typically made of wood, sometimes bond in such a way that binding can be moved so that it varies the tightness of the binding. | [noun] A device to turn electric current on and off or direct its flow. | [noun] A change or exchange. SWITHE (12) SWIVED (13) [verb] To copulate with (a woman). | [verb] To cut a crop in a sweeping or rambling manner, hence to reap; cut for harvest. SWIVEL (12) [noun] A piece, as a ring or hook, attached to another piece by a pin, in such a manner as to permit rotation about the pin as an axis. | [noun] A small piece of ordnance, turning on a point or swivel; called also swivel gun. | [noun] Strength of mind or character that enables one to overcome adversity; confidence; force of will. SWIVES (12) SWIVET (12) [noun] A state or condition of haste, flutter; extreme discomposure or distress; irritation, exasperation, annoyance. SWOONS (9) [verb] To faint, to lose consciousness. | [verb] (by extension) To be overwhelmed by emotion, especially infatuation. | [verb] To make a moan, sigh, or some other sound expressing infatuation or affection. SWOOPS (11) [noun] An instance, or the act of suddenly plunging downward. | [noun] A sudden act of seizing. | [noun] A quick passage from one note to the next. SWOOSH (12) [noun] A swooshing movement or sound | [noun] A pattern or logo suggesting a swooshing movement. | [verb] To move with a rushing or swirling sound SWORDS (10) [noun] A long-bladed weapon with a hilt, and usually a pommel and cross-guard, which is designed to stab, slash, and/or hack. | [noun] A suit in the minor arcana in tarot. | [noun] A card of this suit. SWOUND (10) SWOUNS (9) TALLOW (9) [noun] A hard animal fat obtained from suet, etc.; used in cooking as well as to make candles, soap and lubricants | [verb] To grease or smear with tallow. | [verb] To cause to have a large quantity of tallow; to fatten. TAWDRY (13) [noun] Tawdry lace. | [noun] Anything gaudy and cheap; pretentious finery. | [adjective] (of clothing, appearance, etc.) Cheap and gaudy; showy. TAWERS (9) TAWING (10) [verb] To prepare or dress, as hemp, by beating; to tew. | [verb] (by extension) To beat; to scourge. | [verb] 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. TAWNEY (12) TAWPIE (11) TAWSED (10) TAWSES (9) [noun] 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. TEWING (10) THAWED (13) [verb] To gradually melt, dissolve, or become fluid; to soften from frozen | [verb] To become so warm as to melt ice and snow — said in reference to the weather, and used impersonally. | [verb] To grow gentle or genial. THAWER (12) THRAWN (12) THRAWS (12) THROWN (12) [verb] To change place. | [verb] To change in state or status | [verb] To move through time. THROWS (12) [verb] To change place. | [verb] To change in state or status | [verb] To move through time. THWACK (18) [noun] The act of thwacking; a strike or blow, especially with a flat implement. | [noun] A heavy slapping sound. | [verb] To hit with a flat implement. THWART (12) [noun] A seat across a boat on which a rower may sit. | [noun] A brace, perpendicular to the keel, that helps maintain the beam of a marine vessel against external water pressure and that may serve to support the rail. | [noun] An act of thwarting; something which thwarts; a hindrance, an obstacle. TOWAGE (10) [noun] The act of towing. | [noun] A charge for towing. TOWARD (10) [adjective] Yielding, pliant; docile; ready or apt to learn; not froward. | [adjective] Future; to-come. | [adjective] Approaching, coming near; impending; present, at hand. TOWELS (9) [noun] A cloth used for wiping, especially one used for drying anything wet, as a person after a bath. | [verb] To hit with a towel. | [verb] To dry by using a towel. TOWERS (9) [noun] A very tall iron-framed structure, usually painted red and white, on which microwave, radio, satellite, or other communication antennas are installed; mast. | [noun] A similarly framed structure with a platform or enclosed area on top, used as a lookout for spotting fires, plane crashes, fugitives, etc. | [noun] A water tower. TOWERY (12) [adjective] Which has the characteristics of a tower. TOWHEE (12) [noun] Any of several species of birds of the genera Pipilo and Melozone. TOWIES (9) TOWING (10) [noun] The act by which something is towed. TOWNEE (9) [noun] A person living in a university area who is not associated with the university. | [noun] A person born and raised in an area of Massachusetts who is proud of his or her Irish-American community, culture, and heritage. | [noun] A person who has moved from a town or city to a rural area. Especially, one who is perceived not to have adopted rural ways. TOWNIE (9) [noun] A person living in a university area who is not associated with the university. | [noun] A person born and raised in an area of Massachusetts who is proud of his or her Irish-American community, culture, and heritage. | [noun] A person who has moved from a town or city to a rural area. Especially, one who is perceived not to have adopted rural ways. TRAWLS (9) [verb] To take (fish or other marine animals) with a trawl. | [verb] To fish from a slow-moving boat. | [verb] To make an exhaustive search for something within a defined area. TROWED (10) [verb] To trust or believe. | [verb] To have confidence in, or to give credence to. TROWEL (9) [noun] A mason’s tool, used in spreading and dressing mortar, and breaking bricks to shape them. | [noun] A gardener’s tool, shaped like a scoop, used in taking up plants, stirring soil etc. | [noun] A tool used for smoothing a mold. TROWTH (12) TWAINS (9) TWANGS (10) [noun] The sharp, quick sound of a vibrating tight string, for example, of a bow or a musical instrument. | [noun] A particular sharp vibrating sound characteristic of electric guitars. | [noun] A trace of a regional or foreign accent in someone's voice. TWANGY (13) TWANKY (16) TWEAKS (13) [noun] A sharp pinch or jerk; a twist or twitch. | [noun] A slight adjustment or modification. | [noun] Trouble; distress; tweag. TWEAKY (16) TWEEDS (10) [noun] A coarse woolen fabric used for clothing. TWEEDY (13) [adjective] (of clothing) made of tweed, or having a similar rough texture | [adjective] (of a person) wearing tweed clothing | [adjective] (of a person) preppy TWEENY (12) [noun] A shot played between the legs; a tweener. | [noun] A between-maid, or maidservant who helps the cook as well as the housemaid. | [adjective] Characteristic of a typical tween (a child not quite old enough to be a teenager). TWEETS (9) [noun] The sound of a bird; any short high-pitched sound or whistle. | [noun] An entry posted on the microblogging service Twitter. | [verb] To make a short high-pitched sound, like that of certain birds. TWEEZE (18) [verb] To pluck or grasp using tweezers. | [verb] To shape by plucking out hairs with tweezers. | [verb] To pluck out hairs using tweezers. TWELVE (12) [noun] A group of twelve items. | [noun] A twelve-bore gun. | [noun] A jury (normally composed of twelve persons). TWENTY (12) [noun] A banknote with a denomination of 20. | [noun] 10-20 (location). | [noun] An old English division of infantry. TWERPS (11) [noun] A fool, a twit. | [noun] A small or puny person; one regarded as insignificant, contemptible. | [noun] A person who can be bullied playfully, or easily teased. Sometimes used as a pet-name (often for a younger sibling). TWIBIL (11) TWIERS (9) TWIGGY (14) TWILIT (9) [verb] To illuminate faintly. | [adjective] Illuminated by or as if by twilight. TWILLS (9) [noun] A pattern, characterised by diagonal ridges, created by the regular interlacing of threads of the warp and weft during weaving. | [noun] A cloth or portion of cloth woven in such a pattern. TWINED (10) [verb] (obsolete outside Scotland) To separate, divide. | [verb] (obsolete outside Scotland) To split, part; to go away, depart. | [verb] (usually in the passive) To join, unite; to form links between (now especially of two places in different countries). TWINER (9) TWINES (9) [verb] (obsolete outside Scotland) To separate, divide. | [verb] (obsolete outside Scotland) To split, part; to go away, depart. | [verb] (usually in the passive) To join, unite; to form links between (now especially of two places in different countries). TWINGE (10) [noun] A pinch; a tweak; a twitch. | [noun] A sudden sharp pain. | [verb] To pull with a twitch; to pinch; to tweak. TWIRLS (9) [noun] A movement where a person spins round elegantly; a pirouette. | [noun] Any rotating movement; a spin. | [noun] A little twist of some substance; a swirl. TWIRLY (12) TWIRPS (11) [noun] A fool, a twit. | [noun] A small or puny person; one regarded as insignificant, contemptible. | [noun] A person who can be bullied playfully, or easily teased. Sometimes used as a pet-name (often for a younger sibling). TWISTS (9) [noun] A twisting force. | [noun] Anything twisted, or the act of twisting. | [noun] The form given in twisting. TWISTY (12) [noun] Something that is twisty, such as a road | [noun] A strand of hair twisted together in a braid-like fashion | [adjective] Characterised by a twist, or that which twists. TWITCH (14) [noun] Couch grass (Elymus repens; a species of grass, often considered as a weed) TWOFER (12) [noun] Something that yields a substantial additional benefit; something that figuratively kills two birds with one stone. | [noun] The fashion of wearing long sleeves outside a short-sleeved shirt. | [noun] A cabling device used in theatre, allowing two stage lighting instruments to be connected to one dimmer. TWYERS (12) [noun] A nozzle or similar fixture through which the blast is delivered to the interior of a blast furnace, or to the fire of a forge UNAWED (10) [adjective] Not awed; not afraid, impressed or in awe. UNDRAW (10) UNDREW (10) UNHEWN (12) UNMEWS (11) UNMOWN (11) [adjective] Not mown; unmowed. UNSAWN (9) UNSEWN (9) [adjective] Not sewn. UNSEWS (9) UNSOWN (9) [adjective] Not sown. UNWARY (12) [adjective] Lacking caution as a result of naïveté or inexperience | [adjective] Unprepared; not watchful UNWELL (9) [adjective] Not in good health; not feeling well; somewhat ill | [adjective] Specifically, ill from menstruation; affected with, or having, catamenial; menstruant. UNWEPT (11) [adjective] Not wept. | [adjective] Unmourned. UNWIND (10) [noun] Any mechanism or operation that unwinds something. | [verb] To separate (something that is wound up) | [verb] To disentangle UNWISE (9) [adjective] Not wise; lacking wisdom UNWISH (12) UNWITS (9) UNWORN (9) [adjective] Not having been worn, as clothing. | [adjective] Not worn away or eroded. UNWOVE (12) UNWRAP (11) [verb] To open or undo, as what is wrapped or folded. | [verb] To become unwrapped. | [verb] To remove word wrap from. 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VOWELS (12) [noun] A sound produced by the vocal cords with relatively little restriction of the oral cavity, forming the prominent sound of a syllable. | [noun] A letter representing the sound of vowel; in English, the vowels are a, e, i, o, u, and sometimes y. VOWERS (12) VOWING (13) [verb] To make a vow; to promise. | [verb] To make a vow regarding (something). | [verb] To declare publicly that one has made a vow, usually to show one's determination or to announce an act of retaliation. VROUWS (12) [noun] A Dutchwoman. WABBLE (13) WABBLY (16) WACKES (15) [noun] A soft, earthy, dark-coloured rock or clay derived from the alteration of basalt. WACKOS (15) [noun] An amusingly eccentric or irrational person. WADDED (12) [verb] To crumple or crush into a compact, amorphous shape or ball. | [verb] To wager. | [verb] To insert or force a wad into. WADDER (11) WADDIE (11) WADDLE (11) [noun] A squat, swaying gait. | [verb] To walk with short steps, tilting the body from side to side. WADDLY (14) WADERS (10) [noun] One who wades. | [noun] (chiefly in the plural) A waterproof boot that comes up to the hip, used by fishermen, etc. | [noun] A long-legged bird associated with wetland or coastal environments. WADIES (10) [noun] A valley, gully, or stream bed in northern Africa and southwest Asia that remains dry except during the rainy season. WADING (11) [verb] To walk through water or something that impedes progress. | [verb] To progress with difficulty | [verb] To walk through (water or similar impediment); to pass through by wading WADMAL (12) WADMEL (12) WADMOL (12) WADSET (10) WAEFUL (12) WAFERS (12) [noun] A light, thin, flat biscuit/cookie. | [noun] (christianity) A thin disk of consecrated unleavened bread used in communion. | [noun] A soft disk originally made of flour, and later of gelatin or a similar substance, used to seal letters, attach papers etc. WAFERY (15) WAFFED (16) WAFFIE (15) WAFFLE (15) [noun] A flat pastry pressed with a grid pattern. | [noun] A potato waffle, a savoury flat potato cake with the same kind of grid pattern. | [verb] To smash. | [noun] Speech or writing that is vague, pretentious or evasive. WAFTED (13) [verb] To (cause to) float easily or gently through the air. | [verb] To be moved, or to pass, on a buoyant medium; to float. | [verb] To give notice to by waving something; to wave the hand to; to beckon. WAFTER (12) WAGERS (10) [noun] Something deposited, laid, or hazarded on the event of a contest or an unsettled question; a bet; a stake; a pledge. | [noun] That on which bets are laid; the subject of a bet. | [noun] A contract by which two parties or more agree that a certain sum of money, or other thing, shall be paid or delivered to one of them, on the happening or not happening of an uncertain event. WAGGED (12) [verb] To swing from side to side, such as of an animal's tail, or someone's head, to express disagreement or disbelief. | [verb] To play truant from school. | [verb] To be in action or motion; to move; progress. WAGGER (11) WAGGLE (11) [noun] A wobbling motion. | [noun] The preliminary swinging of the club head back and forth over the ball in the line of the proposed stroke. | [verb] To move (something) with short, quick motions; to wobble. WAGGLY (14) [adjective] Frequently waggling. WAGGON (11) [noun] A four-wheeled cart for hauling loads. | [noun] A four-wheeled child's riding toy, pulled or steered by a long handle attached to the front. | [noun] An enclosed vehicle for carrying goods or people; (by extension) a lorry, a truck. WAGING (11) [verb] To wager, bet. | [verb] To expose oneself to, as a risk; to incur, as a danger; to venture; to hazard. | [verb] To employ for wages; to hire. WAGONS (10) [noun] A four-wheeled cart for hauling loads. | [noun] A four-wheeled child's riding toy, pulled or steered by a long handle attached to the front. | [noun] An enclosed vehicle for carrying goods or people; (by extension) a lorry, a truck. WAHINE (12) [noun] A Polynesian or Maori woman. | [noun] A female surfer. WAHOOS (12) [noun] Acanthocybium solandri, a tropical and subtropical game fish. | [noun] The winged elm, Ulmus alata. | [noun] Euonymus atropurpureus, an eastern burning bush. WAIFED (13) WAILED (10) [verb] To cry out, as in sorrow or anguish. | [verb] To weep, lament persistently or bitterly. | [verb] To make a noise like mourning or crying. WAILER (9) WAIRED (10) WAISTS (9) [noun] The part of the body between the pelvis and the stomach. | [noun] A part of a piece of clothing that covers the waist. | [noun] The narrow connection between the thorax and abdomen in certain insects (e.g., bees, ants and wasps). WAITED (10) [verb] To delay movement or action until the arrival or occurrence of; to await. (Now generally superseded by “wait for”.) | [verb] To delay movement or action until some event or time; to remain neglected or in readiness. | [verb] To wait tables; to serve customers in a restaurant or other eating establishment. WAITER (9) [noun] A male or female attendant who serves customers at their tables in a restaurant, café or similar. | [noun] Someone who waits for somebody or something; a person who is waiting. | [noun] A person working as an attendant at the London Stock Exchange. WAIVED (13) [verb] To relinquish (a right etc.); to give up claim to; to forego. | [verb] To put aside, avoid. | [verb] To outlaw (someone). WAIVER (12) [noun] The act of waiving, or not insisting on, some right, claim, or privilege. | [noun] A legal document removing some requirement, such as waiving a right (giving it up) or a waiver of liability (agreeing to hold someone blameless). | [noun] Something that releases a person from a requirement. WAIVES (12) [verb] To relinquish (a right etc.); to give up claim to; to forego. | [verb] To put aside, avoid. | [verb] To outlaw (someone). WAKENS (13) [verb] To wake or rouse from sleep. | [verb] To awaken; to cease to sleep; to be awakened; to stir. WAKERS (13) WAKIKI (17) WAKING (14) [verb] (often followed by up) To stop sleeping. | [verb] (often followed by up) To make somebody stop sleeping; to rouse from sleep. | [verb] To put in motion or action; to arouse; to excite. WALERS (9) [noun] A breed of light saddle horse from Australia, once favoured as a warhorse. | [noun] (structural engineering) A plank of wood, block of concrete, etc., used for support or to maintain required separation between components in order to help maintain the form of a construction under stress. WALIES (9) WALING (10) WALKED (14) [verb] To move on the feet by alternately setting each foot (or pair or group of feet, in the case of animals with four or more feet) forward, with at least one foot on the ground at all times. Compare run. | [verb] To "walk free", i.e. to win, or avoid, a criminal court case, particularly when actually guilty. | [verb] Of an object, to go missing or be stolen. WALKER (13) [noun] The agent noun of to walk: a person who walks or a thing which walks, especially a pedestrian or a participant in a walking race. | [noun] A walking frame. | [noun] (often in the plural) A shoe designed for comfortable walking. | [noun] A person who fulls cloth. WALKUP (15) [noun] An apartment or block with stairs rather than an elevator. | [noun] An informal visit to a control tower by a pilot, typically used as part of pilot training. | [noun] A mountain that can be climbed without specialist equipment. WALLAH (12) [noun] A servant or other person responsible for something, often specified before it, for example kitchen wallah. | [noun] A guy or bloke. | [adverb] By God (Allah); may God be my witness used in making a solemn oath WALLAS (9) WALLED (10) [verb] To enclose with, or as if with, a wall or walls. | [verb] To boil. | [verb] To well, as water; spring. WALLET (9) [noun] A small case, often flat and often made of leather, for keeping money (especially paper money), credit cards, etc. | [noun] (by extension) A person's bank account or assets. | [noun] A thick case or folder with plastic sleeves in which compact discs may be stored. WALLIE (9) WALLOP (11) [noun] A heavy blow, punch. | [noun] A person's ability to throw such punches. | [noun] An emotional impact, psychological force. | [verb] To send a message to all operators on an Internet Relay Chat server. WALLOW (12) [noun] An instance of wallowing. | [noun] A pool of water or mud in which animals wallow, or the depression left by them in the ground. | [noun] A kind of rolling walk. | [adjective] Tasteless, flat. WALNUT (9) [noun] A hardwood tree of the genus Juglans. | [noun] A nut of the walnut tree. | [noun] Wood of the walnut tree. WALRUS (9) [noun] A large Arctic marine mammal related to seals and having long tusks, tough, wrinkled skin, and four flippers, Odobenus rosmarus. WAMBLE (13) WAMBLY (16) WAMMUS (13) WAMPUM (15) [noun] Small beads made from polished shells, especially white ones, formerly used as money and jewelry by certain Native American peoples. | [noun] A string of such beads. | [noun] Money. WAMPUS (13) WANDER (10) [noun] The act or instance of wandering. | [noun] The situation where a value or signal etc. deviates from the correct or normal value. | [verb] To move without purpose or specified destination; often in search of livelihood. WANDLE (10) WANGAN (10) WANGLE (10) [noun] The act of wangling | [verb] To obtain through manipulative or deceitful methods. | [verb] To falsify, as records. WANGUN (10) WANIER (9) WANING (10) [verb] To progressively lose its splendor, value, ardor, power, intensity etc.; to decline. | [verb] Said of light that dims or diminishes in strength. | [verb] Said of the Moon as it passes through the phases of its monthly cycle where its surface is less and less visible. | [noun] The fact or act of becoming less or less intense. WANION (9) WANNED (10) WANNER (9) [adjective] Pale, sickly-looking. | [adjective] Dim, faint. | [adjective] Bland, uninterested. WANTED (10) [verb] To wish for or desire (something); to feel a need or desire for; to crave or demand. | [verb] (in particular) To wish, desire or demand to see, have the presence of or do business with. | [verb] To desire (to experience desire); to wish. WANTER (9) WANTON (9) [noun] A pampered or coddled person. | [noun] An overly playful person; a trifler. | [noun] A self-indulgent person, fond of excess. WAPITI (11) [noun] The American elk (Cervus elaphus canadensis or Cervus canadensis). It was formerly considered to be in the same species as the European red deer, which it somewhat exceeds in size. WAPPED (14) WARBLE (11) [noun] The sound of one who warbles; singing with trills or modulations. | [noun] In naval mine warfare, the process of varying the frequency of sound produced by a narrowband noisemaker to ensure that the frequency to which the mine will respond is covered. | [verb] To modulate a tone's frequency. | [noun] A lesion under the skin of cattle, caused by the larva of a bot fly of genus Hypoderma. WARDED (11) [verb] To keep in safety, to watch over, to guard. | [verb] To defend, to protect. | [verb] To fend off, to repel, to turn aside, as anything mischievous that approaches; -- usually followed by off. WARDEN (10) [noun] A guard or watchman. | [noun] A chief administrative officer of a prison. | [noun] An official charged with supervisory duties or with the enforcement of specific laws or regulations; such as a game warden or air-raid warden WARDER (10) [noun] A guard, especially in a prison. | [noun] A truncheon or staff carried by a king or commander, used to signal commands. WARIER (9) [adjective] Cautious of danger; carefully watching and guarding against deception, trickery, and dangers; suspiciously prudent | [adjective] Characterized by caution; guarded; careful; on one's guard | [adjective] Thrifty, provident WARILY (12) [adverb] In a wary manner: WARING (10) [verb] To be ware or mindful of something. | [verb] To protect or guard (especially oneself); to be on guard, be wary. | [verb] To wear, or veer. WARKED (14) WARMED (12) [verb] To make or keep warm. | [verb] To become warm, to heat up. | [verb] To favour increasingly. WARMER (11) [adjective] Having a temperature slightly higher than usual, but still pleasant; mildly hot. | [adjective] Caring and friendly, of relations to another person. | [adjective] Having a color in the red-orange-yellow part of the visible electromagnetic spectrum. WARMLY (14) [adverb] In a manner that maintains warm temperature. | [adverb] In a warm, friendly manner. WARMTH (14) [noun] A moderate degree of heat; the sensation of being warm. | [noun] Friendliness, kindness or affection. | [noun] Fervor, intensity of emotion or expression. WARMUP (13) [noun] The act of exercising or stretching in preparation for strenuous activity | [noun] Any act of preparation for a performance | [noun] A period of time allocated for performing warm-ups. WARNED (10) [verb] To make (someone) aware of (something impending); especially: | [verb] To caution or admonish (someone) against unwise or unacceptable behaviour. | [verb] (chiefly with "off", "away", and similar words) To advise or order to go or stay away. WARNER (9) WARPED (12) [verb] To twist or become twisted, physically or mentally: | [verb] (ropemaking) To run (yarn) off the reel into hauls to be tarred. | [verb] To arrange (strands of thread, etc) so that they run lengthwise in weaving. WARPER (11) WARRED (10) [verb] To engage in conflict (may be followed by "with" to specify the foe). | [verb] To carry on, as a contest; to wage. WARREN (9) [noun] The system of burrows where rabbits live. | [noun] An enclosed piece of land set aside for breeding game, especially rabbits. | [noun] A mazelike place of dark alleys etc in which it's easy to lose oneself; especially one that may be overcrowded. WARSAW (12) WARSLE (9) WARTED (10) WASABI (11) [noun] A pungent green Japanese condiment made from the plant Eutrema japonicum (formerly Wasabia japonica). | [noun] An imitation of this condiment made from horseradish with green dye. WASHED (13) [verb] To clean with water. | [verb] To move or erode by the force of water in motion. | [verb] To separate valuable material (such as gold) from worthless material by the action of flowing water. WASHER (12) [noun] Something that washes; especially an appliance such as a washing machine or dishwasher. | [noun] A person who washes (especially clothes) for a living; a washerman or washerwoman. | [noun] A flat disk, placed beneath a nut or at some joint, to distribute pressure, alleviate friction or prevent leakage. WASHES (12) [noun] The process or an instance of washing or being washed by water or other liquid. | [noun] A liquid used for washing. | [noun] A lotion or other liquid with medicinal or hygienic properties. WASHUP (14) [noun] The act by which something is washed. | [noun] Something or somebody that is washed up; a has-been. | [noun] A meeting to gauge the success or failure of an operation or war game. WASTED (10) [verb] To devastate, destroy | [verb] To squander (money or resources) uselessly; to spend (time) idly. | [verb] To kill; to murder. WASTER (9) [noun] Someone or something that wastes; someone who squanders or spends extravagantly. | [noun] An imperfection in the wick of a candle, causing it to waste. | [noun] A destroyer. | [noun] A kind of cudgel; also, a blunt-edged sword used as a foil. WASTES (9) [noun] Excess of material, useless by-products or damaged, unsaleable products; garbage; rubbish. | [noun] Excrement or urine. | [noun] A waste land; an uninhabited desolate region; a wilderness or desert. WASTRY (12) WATAPE (11) WATAPS (11) WATERS (9) [noun] A substance (of molecular formula H₂O) found at room temperature and pressure as a clear liquid; it is present naturally as rain, and found in rivers, lakes and seas; its solid form is ice and its gaseous form is steam. | [noun] The aforementioned liquid, considered one of the Classical elements or basic elements of alchemy. | [noun] Water in a body; an area of open water. WATERY (12) [adjective] Resembling or characteristic of water. | [adjective] Wet, soggy or soaked with water. | [adjective] Diluted or having too much water. WATTER (9) WATTLE (9) [noun] A construction of branches and twigs woven together to form a wall, barrier, fence, or roof. | [noun] A single twig or rod laid on a roof to support the thatch. | [noun] A wrinkled fold of skin, sometimes brightly coloured, hanging from the neck of birds (such as chicken and turkey) and some lizards. WAUCHT (14) WAUGHT (13) WAUKED (14) WAULED (10) [verb] To wail, to cry plaintively. WAVERS (12) [noun] An act of wavering, vacillating, etc. | [noun] Someone who waves, enjoys waving, etc. | [noun] Someone who specializes in waving (hair treatment). WAVERY (15) [adjective] Tending to waver; uncertain or hesitant. WAVEYS (15) WAVIER (12) [adjective] Rising or swelling in waves. | [adjective] Full of waves. | [adjective] Moving to and fro; undulating. WAVIES (12) WAVILY (15) WAVING (13) [verb] To relinquish (a right etc.); to give up claim to; to forego. | [verb] To put aside, avoid. | [verb] To outlaw (someone). WAWLED (13) WAXERS (16) WAXIER (16) [adjective] Resembling wax in texture or appearance. WAXILY (19) WAXING (17) [verb] To apply wax to (something, such as a shoe, a floor, a car, or an apple), usually to make it shiny. | [verb] 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. | [verb] To defeat utterly. WAYLAY (15) [verb] To lie in wait for and attack from ambush. | [verb] To accost or intercept unexpectedly. WEAKEN (13) [verb] To make weaker or less strong. | [verb] To become weaker or less strong. WEAKER (13) [adjective] Lacking in force (usually strength) or ability. | [adjective] Unable to sustain a great weight, pressure, or strain. | [adjective] Unable to withstand temptation, urgency, persuasion, etc.; easily impressed, moved, or overcome; accessible; vulnerable. WEAKLY (16) [adjective] Frail, sickly or of a delicate constitution; weak. | [adverb] With little strength or force WEALDS (10) WEALTH (12) [noun] Riches; valuable material possessions. | [noun] A great amount; an abundance or plenty. | [noun] Prosperity; well-being; happiness. WEANED (10) WEANER (9) [noun] An animal that has been recently weaned. | [noun] A device used to help wean a young animal by keeping it from suckling. WEAPON (11) [noun] An instrument of attack or defense in combat or hunting, e.g. most guns, missiles, or swords. | [noun] An instrument or other means of harming or exerting control over another. | [noun] A tool of any kind. WEARER (9) [noun] One who wears. WEASEL (9) [noun] The least weasel, Mustela nivalis. | [noun] Any of the carnivorous mammals of the genus Mustela, having a slender body, a long tail and usually a light brown upper coat and light-coloured belly. | [noun] The taxonomic family Mustelidae is also called the weasel family. WEASON (9) WEAVED (13) [verb] To form something by passing lengths or strands of material over and under one another. | [verb] To spin a cocoon or a web. | [verb] To unite by close connection or intermixture. WEAVER (12) [noun] One who weaves. | [noun] A strand of material used in weaving. | [noun] A weaverbird. WEAVES (12) [noun] A type or way of weaving. | [noun] Human or artificial hair worn to alter one's appearance, either to supplement or to cover the natural hair. | [verb] To form something by passing lengths or strands of material over and under one another. WEBBED (14) [verb] To construct or form a web. | [verb] To cover with a web or network. | [verb] To ensnare or entangle. WEBERS (11) [noun] In the International System of Units, the derived unit of magnetic flux; the flux linking a circuit of one turn that produces an electromotive force of one volt when reduced uniformly to zero in one second. Symbol: Wb. WEBFED (15) WECHTS (14) WEDDED (12) [verb] To perform the marriage ceremony for; to join in matrimony. | [verb] To take as one's spouse. | [verb] To take a spouse. WEDDER (11) WEDELN (10) WEDELS (10) WEDGED (12) [verb] To support or secure using a wedge. | [verb] To force into a narrow gap. | [verb] To work wet clay by cutting or kneading for the purpose of homogenizing the mass and expelling air bubbles. WEDGES (11) [noun] One of the simple machines; a piece of material, such as metal or wood, thick at one edge and tapered to a thin edge at the other for insertion in a narrow crevice, used for splitting, tightening, securing, or levering. | [noun] A piece (of food, metal, wood etc.) having this shape. | [noun] A five-sided polyhedron with a rectangular base, two rectangular or trapezoidal sides meeting in an edge, and two triangular ends. WEDGIE (11) [noun] A wedge-heeled shoe. | [noun] A prank in which a person's underpants are pulled up sharply from behind in order to wedge the clothing uncomfortably between the person's buttocks. | [noun] A situation where a person's underpants are stuck uncomfortably between their buttocks. WEEDED (11) [verb] To remove unwanted vegetation from a cultivated area. WEEDER (10) WEEKLY (16) [noun] A publication that is published once a week. | [adjective] Of or relating to a week. | [adjective] Happening once a week, or every week. WEENED (10) [verb] To suppose, imagine; to think, believe. | [verb] To expect, hope or wish. | [verb] To weep or cry. WEENIE (9) [noun] Someone weak and unimportant. | [noun] A geek or nerd, especially a computer user with a deficient social life. | [noun] (collectible card games) A small creature which has a low cost to put into play, often used in a swarm with other such creatures. WEENSY (12) WEEPER (11) [noun] A person who weeps. | [noun] A hired mourner. | [noun] A pleurant. WEEPIE (11) [noun] A sad or sentimental film, often portraying troubled romance, designed to elicit a tearfully emotional response from its audience. WEETED (10) WEEVER (12) [noun] Any of the usually brown fish in family Trachinidae, which catch prey by burying themselves in the sand and snatching them as they go past. WEEVIL (12) [noun] Any of several small herbivorous beetles in the superfamily Curculionoidea, many having a distinctive snout. | [noun] Any of several small herbivorous beetles in the family Curculionidae belonging to the superfamily Curculionoidea. | [noun] Any of several similar but more distantly related beetles such as the biscuit weevil (Stegobium paniceum). WEEWEE (12) WEIGHS (13) [verb] To determine the weight of an object. | [verb] Often with "out", to measure a certain amount of something by its weight, e.g. for sale. | [verb] To determine the intrinsic value or merit of an object, to evaluate. WEIGHT (13) [noun] (physical) Matter, material. | [noun] A large quantity; a sum. | [noun] The Eucharist, now especially in Roman Catholicism. WEINER (9) WEIRDO (10) [noun] A strange, odd, eccentric person. | [noun] An insane, possibly dangerous person. WEIRDS (10) [noun] Fate; destiny; luck. | [noun] A prediction. | [noun] A spell or charm. WEIRDY (13) [adjective] Somewhat weird, quite weird. WELDED (11) [verb] To join two materials (especially two metals) together by applying heat, pressure and filler, either separately or in any combination. | [verb] To bind together inseparably; to unite closely or intimately. | [verb] To wield. WELDER (10) [noun] One who welds, or unites pieces of iron, etc., by welding. | [noun] One who welds, or wields. | [noun] An item of equipment for welding with: an electric welder. | [noun] A manager; an actual occupant; a land-tenant holding under the farmer or middleman. WELDOR (10) WELKIN (13) [noun] The sky, the region of clouds; the upper air; aether; the heavens. WELLED (10) [verb] To issue forth, as water from the earth; to flow; to spring. | [verb] To have something seep out of the surface. WELLIE (9) [noun] Wellington boot. | [noun] Force on a pedal or increase to any fuel or power for an engine or motor. | [noun] Force or effort. WELTED (10) [verb] To roll; revolve | [verb] To cause to have welts, to beat. | [verb] To install welt (a welt or welts) to reinforce. WELTER (9) [noun] A general confusion or muddle. | [noun] A tossing or rolling about. | [verb] To roll around; to wallow. | [adjective] (of horsemen) Heavyweight. | [verb] To wither; to wilt. WENDED (11) [verb] To turn; change. | [verb] To direct (one's way or course); pursue one's way; proceed upon some course or way. | [verb] To turn; make a turn; go round; veer. WESKIT (13) WESTER (9) WETHER (12) [noun] A castrated buck goat. | [noun] A castrated ram. | [verb] To castrate a male sheep or goat. | [noun] The short term state of the atmosphere at a specific time and place, including the temperature, relative humidity, cloud cover, precipitation, wind, etc. WETTED (10) [verb] To cover or impregnate with liquid. | [verb] To accidentally urinate in or on. | [verb] To make or become wet. WETTER (9) [adjective] Made up of liquid or moisture, usually (but not always) water. | [adjective] Of an object, etc.: covered or impregnated with liquid, usually (but not always) water. | [adjective] Of a burrito, sandwich, or other food: covered in a sauce. WHACKO (18) [noun] An amusingly eccentric or irrational person. | [adjective] Amusingly eccentric or irrational. WHACKS (18) [noun] The sound of a heavy strike. | [noun] The strike itself. | [noun] The stroke itself, regardless of its successful impact. WHACKY (21) [adjective] Zany; eccentric WHALED (13) [verb] To hunt for whales. | [verb] To thrash, to flog, to beat vigorously or soundly. WHALER (12) [noun] One who hunts whales; a person employed in the whaling industry. | [noun] A seagoing vessel used for hunting whales. | [noun] One who whales (flogs or beats). WHALES (12) [noun] Any of several species of large sea mammals of the infraorder Cetacea. | [noun] Something, or someone, that is very large. | [noun] Something, or someone, that is excellent. WHAMMO (16) [noun] An action-packed scene in a film, etc. | [interjection] Used to emphasis the suddenness of an event. WHAMMY (19) [noun] A serious or devastating setback | [noun] An evil spell; a curse or hex | [noun] The vibrato system of an electric guitar, or just its lever (whammy bar) WHANGS (13) [verb] (chiefly of an object) To make a noise like something moving quickly through the air. | [verb] To throw with a rapid slamming motion. | [verb] To whack or beat. WHARFS (15) [noun] A man-made landing place for ships on a shore or river bank. | [noun] The bank of a river, or the shore of the sea. WHARVE (15) WHAUPS (14) [noun] Curlew WHEALS (12) [noun] A small raised swelling on the skin, often itchy, caused by a blow from a whip or an insect bite etc. | [noun] A mine. WHEATS (12) [noun] Any of several cereal grains, of the genus Triticum, that yields flour as used in bakery. | [noun] A light brown colour, like that of wheat. WHEELS (12) [noun] A circular device capable of rotating on its axis, facilitating movement or transportation or performing labour in machines. | [noun] The breaking wheel, an old instrument of torture. | [noun] A person with a great deal of power or influence; a big wheel. WHEENS (12) WHEEPS (14) WHEEZE (21) [noun] A piping or whistling sound caused by difficult respiration. | [noun] An ordinary whisper exaggerated so as to produce the hoarse sound known as the "stage whisper"; a forcible whisper with some admixture of tone. | [noun] (British, Irish) An ulterior scheme or plan WHEEZY (24) [adjective] That wheezes. WHELKS (16) [noun] Certain edible sea snails, especially, any one of numerous species of large marine gastropods belonging to Buccinidae, much used as food in Europe. | [noun] Pimple | [noun] A stripe or mark; a ridge; a wale. WHELKY (19) WHELMS (14) [verb] To bury, to cover; to engulf, to submerge. | [verb] To throw (something) over a thing so as to cover it. | [verb] To ruin or destroy. WHELPS (14) [noun] A young offspring of a canid (ursid, felid, pinniped), especially of a dog or a wolf, the young of a bear or similar mammal (lion, tiger, seal); a pup, wolf cub. | [noun] An insolent youth; a mere child. | [noun] A kind of ship. WHENAS (12) WHENCE (14) [adverb] From where; from which place or source. | [conjunction] Used for introducing the result of a fact that has just been stated. WHERES (12) WHERRY (15) [noun] A light ship used to navigate inland waterways. | [noun] A flat-bottomed vessel once employed by British merchants, notably in East Anglia, sometimes converted into pleasure boats. | [noun] A liquor made from the pulp of crab apples after the verjuice is extracted. WHERVE (15) WHEYEY (18) WHIDAH (16) [noun] Any of various black and white African weaverbirds with distinctive drooping long tailfeathers on males in mating season, suitable as cage birds. WHIFFS (18) [noun] A waft; a brief, gentle breeze; a light gust of air | [noun] An odour carried briefly through the air | [noun] A short inhalation or exhalation of breath, especially of smoke from a cigarette or pipe. WHILED (13) [verb] To pass (time) idly. | [verb] To occupy or entertain (someone) in order to let time pass. | [verb] To loiter. WHILES (12) [noun] An uncertain duration of time, a period of time. | [verb] To pass (time) idly. | [verb] To occupy or entertain (someone) in order to let time pass. WHILOM (14) [adjective] Former, sometime. | [adverb] While. | [adverb] Once upon a time, formerly. WHILST (12) [conjunction] (rare or literary in North America) While, at the same time. WHIMSY (17) [noun] A quaint and fanciful idea; a whim; playfully odd behaviour. | [noun] An impulsive, illogical or capricious character. | [noun] A whim (capstan or vertical drum). WHINED (13) [verb] To utter a high-pitched cry. | [verb] To make a sound resembling such a cry. | [verb] To complain or protest with a whine or as if with a whine. WHINER (12) WHINES (12) [noun] A long-drawn, high-pitched complaining cry or sound | [noun] A complaint or criticism WHINEY (15) [adjective] Whining; tending to whine or complain. WHINGE (13) [noun] A cry. | [noun] A peevish complaint. | [verb] To complain, especially in an annoying or persistent manner. WHINNY (15) [noun] A gentle neigh. | [verb] (of a horse) To make a gentle neigh. WHIPPY (19) [adjective] Whiplike; thin and pliant. | [adjective] Active, nimble WHIRLS (12) [verb] To rotate, revolve, spin or turn rapidly. | [verb] To have a sensation of spinning or reeling. | [verb] To make something or someone whirl. WHIRLY (15) WHIRRS (12) [noun] A sibilant buzz or vibration; the sound of something in rapid motion. | [noun] A bustle of noise and excitement. | [verb] To move or vibrate (something) with a buzzing sound. WHIRRY (15) WHISHT (15) [interjection] (Irish and British) Shush, silence, be quiet! | [interjection] A sound often used to calm livestock, cattle, sheep etc. WHISKS (16) [noun] A quick, light sweeping motion. | [noun] A kitchen utensil, made from stiff wire loops fixed to a handle, used for whipping (or a mechanical device with the same function). | [noun] A bunch of twigs or hair etc, used as a brush. WHISKY (19) [noun] An alcoholic liquor distilled from fermented grain and usually aged in oak barrels. | [noun] A drink of this liquor. | [noun] A light gig or carriage. WHISTS (12) WHITED (13) [verb] To make white; to whiten; to bleach. WHITEN (12) [verb] (To cause) to become white or whiter; to bleach or blanch. WHITER (12) [adjective] Bright and colourless; reflecting equal quantities of all frequencies of visible light. | [adjective] (sometimes capitalized) Of or relating to Caucasians, people of European descent with light-coloured skin. | [adjective] Designated for use by Caucasians. WHITES (12) [noun] The color/colour of snow or milk; the colour of light containing equal amounts of all visible wavelengths. | [noun] A person of European descent with light-coloured skin. | [noun] Any butterfly of the family Pieridae. WHITEY (15) [noun] A white person, a person of European descent. | [noun] A state or bout of sickness, especially induced by cannabis use. | [adjective] Close to white in colour. WHOLES (12) [noun] Something complete, without any parts missing. | [noun] An entirety. WHOLLY (15) [adverb] Completely and entirely; to the fullest extent. | [adverb] Exclusively and solely. WHOMPS (16) [verb] Hit extremely hard. WHOMSO (14) [pronoun] Whichever person, whomever WHOOFS (15) WHOOPS (14) [interjection] Oops. | [noun] A loud, eager cry, usually of joy. | [noun] A gasp, characteristic of whooping cough. WHOOSH (15) [noun] A breathy sound like that of an object passing at high speed. | [verb] To make a breathy sound like a whoosh. WHORED (13) [verb] To prostitute oneself. | [verb] To engage the services of a prostitute. | [verb] To pimp; to pander. WHORES (12) [noun] Any person (especially a woman) who has sexual intercourse or engages in other sexual activity for payment, especially as a means of livelihood. | [noun] A person who does, or offers to do, a demeaning or dishonourable activity for money or personal gain; someone who acts in a dishonourable way for personal advantage. | [noun] A person who is sexually promiscuous; a slut. WHORLS (12) [noun] A pattern of concentric circles. | [noun] A circle of three or more leaves, flowers, or other organs, about the same part or joint of a stem. | [noun] A volution, or turn, of the spire of a univalve shell. WHORTS (12) WHOSIS (12) WHUMPS (16) [noun] A thumping sound. | [noun] A genre of fan fiction in which a character endures injury, torture, or other forms of physical and mental suffering. | [verb] To strike something with a whump. WHYDAH (19) [noun] Any of various black and white African weaverbirds with distinctive drooping long tailfeathers on males in mating season, suitable as cage birds. WICHES (14) WICKED (16) [noun] People who are wicked. | [adjective] Evil or mischievous by nature. | [adjective] Excellent; awesome; masterful. | [verb] To convey or draw off (liquid) by capillary action. | [adjective] Active; brisk. WICKER (15) [noun] A flexible branch or twig of a plant such as willow, used in weaving baskets and furniture | [noun] Wickerwork. | [adjective] Made of wickerwork. WICKET (15) [noun] A small door or gate, especially one beside a larger one. | [noun] A small window or other opening, sometimes fitted with a grating. | [noun] A service window, as in a bank or train station, where a customer conducts transactions with a teller; a ticket barrier at a rail station, box office at a cinema, etc. WICOPY (16) WIDDER (11) WIDDIE (11) WIDDLE (11) [noun] Urine. | [noun] An act of urination. | [verb] To urinate. WIDELY (13) [adverb] In a wide manner; across a wide area. | [adverb] Commonly; generally; to a great degree. WIDENS (10) [verb] To become wide or wider. | [verb] To make wide or wider. | [verb] To let out clothes to a larger size. WIDEST (10) [adjective] Having a large physical extent from side to side. | [adjective] Large in scope. | [adjective] Operating at the side of the playing area. WIDGET (11) [noun] A placeholder name for an unnamed, unspecified, or hypothetical manufactured good or product. | [noun] Portable code that can be easily installed and executed by an end user. | [noun] A floating device inside a beer can, meant to create foam when opened. | [noun] Any one of the components of a computer application's graphical user interface, such as a Cancel button or text input box that a user interacts with. WIDISH (13) WIDOWS (13) [noun] A woman whose spouse has died (and who has not remarried); feminine of widower. | [noun] A person whose spouse has died (and who has not remarried). | [noun] (in combination) A woman whose husband is often away pursuing a sport, etc. WIDTHS (13) [noun] The state of being wide. | [noun] The measurement of the extent of something from side to side. | [noun] A piece of material measured along its smaller dimension, especially fabric. WIELDS (10) [verb] To command, rule over; to possess or own. | [verb] To control, to guide or manage. | [verb] To handle with skill and ease, especially a weapon or tool. WIELDY (13) [adjective] (obsolete except Britain) Able to wield one's body well; active, dexterous. | [adjective] Capable of being easily wielded or managed; handy. WIENER (9) [noun] A sausage made from beef, chicken or pork. | [noun] A frankfurter, a hot dog. | [noun] A penis. WIENIE (9) [noun] A wiener. | [noun] The penis. WIFELY (15) [adjective] Of, befitting, pertaining to, or characteristic of a wife. WIFING (13) WIGANS (10) WIGEON (10) [noun] Any of three freshwater dabbling ducks. | [noun] A fool. WIGGED (12) [verb] To put on a wig; to provide with a wig (especially of an actor etc.). | [verb] To upbraid, reprimand. | [verb] To become extremely emotional or excitable; to lose control of one's emotions. WIGGLE (11) [noun] A rapid movement in alternating opposite directions, not necessarily regular. | [noun] An alternating state or characteristic. | [noun] (in the plural) See wiggles. WIGGLY (14) WIGHTS (13) [noun] A living creature, especially a human being. | [noun] A being of one of the Nine Worlds of Heathen belief, especially a nature spirit, elf or ancestor. | [noun] A ghost, deity or other supernatural entity. WIGLET (10) WIGWAG (14) [noun] An act of wigwagging. | [noun] Any of a number of mechanical or electrical devices which cause a component to oscillate between two states. | [noun] A signal sent by waving a flag to and fro. WIGWAM (15) [noun] A dwelling having an arched framework overlaid with bark, hides, or mats, used by Native Americans in the northeastern United States. | [noun] (possibly obsolete) Any more or less similar dwelling used by indigenous people in other parts of the world. | [verb] To dry (flax or straw) by standing it outside in the shape of a wigwam. WIKIUP (15) WILDER (10) [verb] To bewilder, perplex | [adjective] Untamed; not domesticated; specifically, in an unbroken line of undomesticated animals (as opposed to feral, referring to undomesticated animals whose ancestors were domesticated). | [adjective] From or relating to wild creatures. WILDLY (13) [adverb] In a wild, uncontrolled manner. WILFUL (12) [adjective] Intentional; deliberate. | [adjective] Stubborn and determined. WILIER (9) [adjective] Sly, cunning, full of tricks WILILY (12) WILING (10) [verb] To pass (time) idly. | [verb] To occupy or entertain (someone) in order to let time pass. | [verb] To loiter. WILLED (10) [adjective] Having a document specifying inheritance. | [adjective] (chiefly in combination) Having a will (of a specified kind). | [adjective] Brought under the will of another person. | [verb] To wish, desire. WILLER (9) WILLET (9) [noun] Tringa semipalmata or Catoptrophorus semipalmatus, a large shorebird. WILLOW (12) [noun] Any of various deciduous trees or shrubs in the genus Salix, in the willow family Salicaceae, found primarily on moist soils in cooler zones in the northern hemisphere. | [noun] The wood of these trees. | [noun] A cricket bat. WILTED (10) [verb] To droop or become limp and flaccid (as a dying leaf or flower). | [verb] To fatigue; to lose strength. | [verb] To cause to droop or become limp and flaccid (as a flower). WIMBLE (13) WIMPLE (13) [noun] A cloth which usually covers the head and is worn around the neck and chin. It was worn by women in medieval Europe and is still worn by nuns in certain orders. | [noun] A fold or pleat in cloth. | [noun] A ripple, as on the surface of water. | [verb] To cover with a wimple. WINCED (12) [verb] To flinch as if in pain or distress. | [verb] To wash (cloth), dip it in dye, etc., with the use of a wince. | [verb] To kick or flounce when unsteady or impatient. WINCER (11) WINCES (11) [noun] A sudden movement or gesture of shrinking away. | [noun] A reel used in dyeing, steeping, or washing cloth; a winch. It is placed over the division wall between two wince pits so as to allow the cloth to descend into either compartment at will. WINCEY (14) [noun] Linsey-woolsey WINDED (11) [verb] To blow air through a wind instrument or horn to make a sound. | [verb] To cause (someone) to become breathless, as by a blow to the abdomen, or by physical exertion, running, etc. | [verb] To cause a baby to bring up wind by patting its back after being fed. WINDER (10) [noun] A winding plant. | [noun] A textile worker, or machine, that winds cloth | [noun] A spool around which something is wound | [noun] A blow that winds somebody, or takes away their breath. | [verb] To fan; to clean grain with a fan. | [noun] The inedible parts of a grain-producing plant. WINDLE (10) WINDOW (13) [noun] The inedible parts of a grain-producing plant. | [noun] Straw or hay cut up fine for the food of cattle. | [noun] Any excess or unwanted material, resource, or person; anything worthless. WINDUP (12) [noun] The act of ending or concluding something. | [noun] The last part of something; a conclusion. | [noun] A practical joke or tease. WINERY (12) [noun] A place where wine is made, or a company that makes wine. WINGED (11) [adjective] Having wings. | [adjective] Flying or soaring as if on wings. | [adjective] Swift. | [verb] To injure slightly (as with a gunshot), especially in the wing or arm. | [verb] To complain, especially in an annoying or persistent manner. WINGER (10) [noun] One of the casks stowed in the wings of a vessel's hold, being smaller than such as are stowed more amidships. | [noun] An offensive player who plays on either side of the center. WINIER (9) WINING (10) [verb] To entertain with wine. | [verb] To drink wine. | [noun] A session of drinking wine socially. WINISH (12) WINKED (14) [verb] To close one's eyes in sleep. | [verb] To close one's eyes. | [verb] Usually followed by at: to look the other way, to turn a blind eye. WINKER (13) WINKLE (13) [noun] A periwinkle or its shell, of family Littorinidae. | [noun] Any one of various marine spiral gastropods, especially, in the United States, either of two species Busycotypus canaliculata and Busycon carica. | [noun] The penis, especially that of a boy rather than that of a man. WINNED (10) WINNER (9) [noun] One who has won or often wins. | [noun] A point or goal that wins a competition. WINNOW (12) [noun] That which winnows or which is used in winnowing; a contrivance for fanning or winnowing grain. | [verb] To subject (granular material, especially food grain) to a current of air separating heavier and lighter components, as grain from chaff. | [verb] To separate, sift, analyze, or test by separating items having different values. WINOES (9) WINTER (9) [noun] Traditionally the fourth of the four seasons, typically regarded as being from December 23 to March 20 in continental regions of the Northern Hemisphere or the months of June, July and August in the Southern Hemisphere. It is the time when the sun is lowest in the sky, resulting in short days, and the time of year with the lowest atmospheric temperatures for the region. | [noun] The period of decay, old age, death, or the like. | [noun] Someone with dark skin, eyes and hair, seen as best suited to certain colors of clothing. WINTLE (9) WINTRY (12) [adjective] Suggestive or characteristic of winter; cold, stormy. | [adjective] Of precipitation, containing sleet or snow. | [adjective] Aged, white-haired. WINZES (18) [noun] A steep shaft in a mine which joins two levels. WIPERS (11) [noun] Someone who wipes. | [noun] Something, such as a towel, that is used for wiping. | [noun] Something, such as a windscreen wiper, that is designed for wiping. WIPING (12) [verb] To move an object over, maintaining contact, with the intention of removing some substance from the surface. (Compare rub.) | [verb] To remove by rubbing; to rub off; to obliterate; usually followed by away, off, or out. | [verb] To cheat; to defraud; to trick; usually followed by out. WIRERS (9) WIRIER (9) [adjective] Thin, muscular and flexible. WIRILY (12) WIRING (10) [verb] To fasten with wire, especially with reference to wine bottles, corks, or fencing. | [verb] To string on a wire. | [verb] To equip with wires for use with electricity. WISDOM (12) [noun] An element of personal character that enables one to distinguish the wise from the unwise. | [noun] A piece of wise advice. | [noun] The discretionary use of knowledge for the greatest good. WISELY (12) [adverb] In a wise manner; using good judgement. WISENT (9) [noun] The European bison, Bison bonasus. WISEST (9) [adjective] Showing good judgement or the benefit of experience. | [adjective] Disrespectful. | [adjective] Aware, informed. WISHED (13) [verb] To desire; to want. | [verb] To hope (+ object clause with may or in present subjunctive). | [verb] (followed by for) To hope (for a particular outcome). WISHER (12) WISHES (12) [noun] A desire, hope, or longing for something or for something to happen. | [noun] An expression of such a desire, often connected with ideas of magic and supernatural power. | [noun] The thing desired or longed for. WISING (10) [verb] To become wise. | [verb] Usually with "up", to inform or learn. | [verb] To instruct. WISPED (12) WISSED (10) [verb] To know; to understand. | [verb] To show, teach, inform, guide, direct. WISSES (9) [verb] To know; to understand. WISTED (10) WITCHY (17) [adjective] Of, pertaining to, or characteristic of witches; witchlike. WITHAL (12) [adverb] All things considered; nevertheless; besides | [adverb] With this; with that. WITHED (13) WITHER (12) [verb] To shrivel, droop or dry up, especially from lack of water. | [verb] To cause to shrivel or dry up. | [verb] To lose vigour or power; to languish; to pass away. | [adverb] Against, in opposition to. | [verb] To go against, resist; oppose. WITHES (12) [noun] A flexible, slender twig or shoot, especially when used as a band or for binding; a withy. | [noun] A band of twisted twigs. | [noun] An elastic handle to a tool to save the hand from the shock of blows. WITHIN (12) [adjective] In the context of which the present document or ruling is made. | [adverb] In or into the interior; inside. | [preposition] In the inner part, spatially; physically inside. WITING (10) WITNEY (12) WITTED (10) WITTOL (9) [noun] A man who knows and tolerates his wife's infidelity with another man or men; a cuckold. | [noun] A bird, the wheatear. WIVERN (12) [noun] A draconian creature possessing wings, only two legs and usually a barbed tail. WIVERS (12) WIVING (13) [verb] To marry (a woman). | [verb] To provide (someone) with a wife. WIZARD (19) [noun] Someone, usually male, who uses (or has skill with) magic, mystic items, and magical and mystical practices. | [noun] One who is especially skilled or unusually talented in a particular field. | [noun] A computer program or script used to simplify complex operations, often for an inexperienced user. WIZENS (18) WIZZEN (27) WOADED (11) WOALDS (10) WOBBLE (13) [noun] An unsteady motion. | [noun] A tremulous sound. | [noun] A low-frequency oscillation sometimes used in dubstep WOBBLY (16) [noun] A member of the Industrial Workers of the World, a militant, radical labor union. | [noun] A wobbler; a fit of rage. | [adjective] Unsteady and tending to wobble. WODGES (11) [noun] A bulk quantity, usually of small items, particularly money; a wad. WOEFUL (12) [adjective] Full of woe; sorrowful; distressed with grief or calamity. | [adjective] Bringing calamity, distress, or affliction. | [adjective] Lamentable, deplorable. WOLFED (13) [verb] To devour; to gobble; to eat (something) voraciously. | [verb] To make amorous advances to many women; to hit on women; to cruise for sex. | [verb] To hunt for wolves. WOLFER (12) WOLVER (12) WOLVES (12) [noun] The gray wolf, specifically all subspecies of the gray wolf (Canis lupus) that are not dingoes or dogs. | [noun] A man who makes amorous advances to many women. | [noun] A wolf tone or wolf note. WOMANS (11) WOMBAT (13) [noun] Any of several herbivorous, burrowing marsupials, of the family Vombatidae, mainly found in southern and eastern Australia. WOMBED (14) WOMERA (11) WONDER (10) [noun] Something that causes amazement or awe; a marvel. | [noun] Something astonishing and seemingly inexplicable. | [noun] Someone very talented at something, a genius. WONNED (10) WONNER (9) WONTED (10) [adjective] Usual, customary, habitual, or accustomed. WONTON (9) [noun] A Chinese dumpling, often stuffed with varieties of meat or seafood and vegetables. | [noun] Ovary. WOODED (11) [adjective] Covered with trees. | [adjective] (of wine) Aged in wooden casks. | [verb] To cover or plant with trees. WOODEN (10) [adjective] Made of wood. | [adjective] As if made of wood; moving awkwardly, or speaking with dull lack of emotion. WOODIE (10) [noun] An early station wagon or estate car in which the rear portion of the car's bodywork is made of wood, often associated with Southern California surfing culture. | [noun] A wooden rollercoaster; an amusement ride whose rails are overlaid upon a wooden track. | [noun] An erection of the penis. WOODSY (13) [adjective] Of, relating to, or suggestive of woods. | [adjective] Having many trees. WOOERS (9) WOOFED (13) [verb] To make a woofing sound. WOOFER (12) [noun] An electronic speaker that produces low-frequency sound. | [noun] A dog. WOOING (10) [verb] To endeavor to gain someone's support. | [verb] (often of a man) To try to persuade (someone) to be in an amorous relationship with | [verb] To court solicitously; to invite with importunity. WOOLED (10) WOOLEN (9) [noun] An item of clothing made from wool | [adjective] Made of wool. | [adjective] Of or relating to wool or woolen cloths. WOOLER (9) WOOLIE (9) WOOLLY (12) [noun] A sweater or similar garment made of wool. | [noun] A sheep not yet shorn. | [noun] A piece of woolwork. | [noun] A woolly back; someone from the area around Liverpool, not from Liverpool itself. WORDED (11) [verb] To say or write (something) using particular words; to phrase (something). | [verb] To flatter with words, to cajole. | [verb] To ply or overpower with words. WORKED (14) [verb] To do a specific task by employing physical or mental powers. | [verb] To effect by gradual degrees. | [verb] To embroider with thread. WORKER (13) [noun] A person who performs labor for a living, especially manual labor. | [noun] A nonreproductive social insect, such as ant, bee, termite, or wasp. | [noun] A thread performing one instance of a particular task within a program. WORKUP (15) [noun] A general medical examination to assess a person's health and fitness. | [noun] All the additional procedures and reactions carried out after the main chemical reaction to obtain the desired product. | [noun] A period of training or preparation, typically for a specific operation. WORLDS (10) [noun] (with "the") Human collective existence; existence in general. | [noun] The Universe. | [noun] (with "the") The Earth. WORMED (12) [verb] To make (one's way) with a crawling motion. | [verb] To move with one's body dragging the ground. | [verb] To work one's way by artful or devious means. WORMER (11) [noun] Dewormer, medicine used in deworming an animal. | [noun] Vermicide, any substance used to kill worms. WORMIL (11) WORRIT (9) [noun] Worry; anxiety. | [noun] One who worries excessively or unnecessarily. | [verb] To worry; to be anxious. WORSEN (9) [verb] To make worse; to impair. | [verb] To become worse; to get worse. | [verb] To get the better of; to worst. WORSER (9) WORSES (9) WORSET (9) WORSTS (9) [noun] Something or someone that is the worst | [verb] To make worse. | [verb] To grow worse; to deteriorate. WORTHS (12) WORTHY (15) [noun] A distinguished or eminent person | [adjective] Having worth, merit or value | [adjective] Honourable or admirable | [verb] To render or treat as worthy; exalt; revere; honour; esteem; respect; value; reward; adore. WOTTED (10) WOUNDS (10) [noun] An injury, such as a cut, stab, or tear, to a (usually external) part of the body. | [noun] A hurt to a person's feelings, reputation, prospects, etc. | [noun] An injury to a person by which the skin is divided or its continuity broken. WOVENS (12) WOWING (13) [verb] To amaze or awe. WOWSER (12) [noun] A lout or similar disruptive person. | [noun] One with strong moral views against excessive consumption of alcohol, gambling, pornography, etc., who seeks to promulgate those views. | [interjection] An indication of excitement, surprise, astonishment, or pleasure. WRACKS (15) [verb] To place in or hang on a rack. | [verb] To torture (someone) on the rack. | [verb] To cause (someone) to suffer pain. WRAITH (12) [noun] A ghost or specter, especially a person's likeness seen just after their death. WRANGS (10) WRASSE (9) [noun] Any one of numerous edible, marine, spiny-finned fishes of the family Labridae, of which several species are found in the Mediterranean and on the Atlantic coast of Europe. Many of the species are brightly colored. WRATHS (12) [noun] Great anger. | [noun] Punishment. WRATHY (15) [adjective] Feeling wrath; very angry, furious. WREAKS (13) [verb] To cause something harmful; to afflict; to inflict; to harm or injury; to let out something harmful; . | [verb] To chasten, or chastise/chastize, or castigate, or punish, or smite. | [verb] To inflict or take vengeance on. WREATH (12) [noun] Something twisted, intertwined, or curled. | [noun] An ornamental circular band made, for example, of plaited flowers and leaves, and used as decoration; a garland or chaplet, especially one given to a victor. | [noun] An appendage to the shield, placed above it, and supporting the crest; an orle, a torse. It generally represents a twist of two cords of silk, one tinctured like the principal metal, the other like the principal color in the coat of arms. WRECKS (15) [noun] Something or someone that has been ruined. | [noun] The remains of something that has been severely damaged or worn down. | [noun] An event in which something is damaged through collision. WRENCH (14) [noun] A movement that twists or pulls violently; a tug. | [noun] An injury caused by a violent twisting or pulling of a limb; strain, sprain. | [noun] A trick or artifice. | [verb] To violently move in a turn or writhe. WRESTS (9) [verb] To pull or twist violently. | [verb] To obtain by pulling or violent force. | [verb] To seize. WRETCH (14) [noun] An unhappy, unfortunate, or miserable person. | [noun] An unpleasant, annoying, worthless, or despicable person. | [noun] An exile. WRICKS (15) WRIEST (9) [adjective] Turned away, contorted (of the face or body). | [adjective] Dryly humorous; sardonic or bitterly ironic. | [adjective] Twisted, bent, crooked. WRIGHT (13) [noun] A builder or maker of something. WRINGS (10) [noun] A powerful squeezing or twisting action. | [noun] Pain or distress. | [verb] To squeeze or twist (something) tightly so that liquid is forced out. See also wring out. WRISTS (9) [noun] The complex joint between forearm bones, carpus, and metacarpals where the hand is attached to the arm; the carpus in a narrow sense. | [noun] A stud or pin which forms a journal. WRISTY (12) [adjective] Characterised by marked or exaggerated movement of the wrist; involving deft wrist movements. WRITER (9) [noun] A person who writes, or produces literary work. | [noun] Anything that writes or produces output. | [noun] The seller of an option. WRITES (9) [noun] The act or style of writing. | [noun] The operation of storing data, as in memory or onto disk. | [verb] To form letters, words or symbols on a surface in order to communicate. WRITHE (12) [noun] A contortion. | [noun] (knot theory) The number of negative crossings subtracted from the number of positive crossings in a knot | [verb] To twist, to wring (something). WRONGS (10) [noun] Something that is immoral or not good. | [noun] An instance of wronging someone (sometimes with possessive to indicate the wrongdoer). | [noun] The incorrect or unjust position or opinion. WRYEST (12) [adjective] Turned away, contorted (of the face or body). | [adjective] Dryly humorous; sardonic or bitterly ironic. | [adjective] Twisted, bent, crooked. WRYING (13) WURSTS (9) [noun] A German- or Austrian-style sausage. WURZEL (18) WUSSES (9) [noun] A weak, ineffectual, cowardly, or timid person. WUTHER (12) WYCHES (17) WYLING (13) WYTING (13) WYVERN (15) [noun] A draconian creature possessing wings, only two legs and usually a barbed tail. YARROW (12) [noun] Any of several pungent Eurasian and North American herbs, of the genus Achillea, used in traditional herbal medicine. | [noun] Common yarrow, Achillea millefolium, the type species of the genus. | [noun] The green woodpecker, Picus viridis. YAWING (13) [verb] To turn about the vertical axis while maintaining course. | [verb] To swerve off course to port or starboard. | [verb] To steer badly, zigzagging back and forth across the intended course of a boat; to go out of the line of course. YAWLED (13) YAWNED (13) [verb] To open the mouth widely and take a long, rather deep breath, often because one is tired or bored, and sometimes accompanied by pandiculation. | [verb] To say while yawning. | [verb] To present a wide opening. YAWNER (12) [noun] A person who yawns. | [noun] (entertainment) Something unexciting or boring that causes yawns, as a book, sporting event, or performance. YAWPED (15) [verb] To yelp, or utter a sharp cry, as in intense pain, or another raucous noise | [verb] To talk loudly and coarsely | [verb] Clamor, utter loud complaints YAWPER (14) YELLOW (12) [noun] The colour of gold, butter, or a lemon; the colour obtained by mixing green and red light, or by subtracting blue from white light. | [noun] The intermediate light in a set of three traffic lights, the illumination of which indicates that drivers should stop short of the intersection if it is safe to do so. | [noun] One of the colour balls used in snooker, with a value of 2 points. YOWIES (12) YOWING (13) YOWLED (13) [verb] Utter a yowl. | [verb] Express by yowling; utter with a yowl. YOWLER (12)

7-Letter Words (1813)

ABWATTS (12) AIRCREW (12) [noun] A group of two or more trained individuals, formed as a team that operates an aircraft. AIRFLOW (13) [noun] Any flow of air, especially the motion of air around a moving aircraft or aerofoil. AIRGLOW (11) [noun] A faint illumination in the sky due to photochemical luminescence in the upper atmosphere, now rarely observed by earthbound humans without the assistance of instruments. AIRWARD (11) AIRWAVE (13) AIRWAYS (13) [noun] The trachea. | [noun] A flight path used by aeroplanes. AIRWISE (10) AJOWANS (17) [noun] The plural of ajowan, a plant native to India whose seeds are used as a spice, also known as bishop's weed or carom seeds. ALEWIFE (13) [noun] A woman who keeps an alehouse. | [noun] A migrating North American fish, Alosa pseudoharengus. | [noun] Any of several species similar in appearance. ALLOWED (11) [verb] To grant, give, admit, accord, afford, or yield; to let one have. | [verb] To acknowledge; to accept as true; to concede; to accede to an opinion. | [verb] To grant (something) as a deduction or an addition; especially to abate or deduct. ANSWERS (10) [noun] A response or reply; something said or done in reaction to a statement or question. | [noun] A solution to a problem. | [noun] A document filed in response to a complaint, responding to each point raised in the complaint and raising counterpoints. ANTIWAR (10) [adjective] Opposed to war, or to a specific war ANYWAYS (16) [adverb] In any way. | [adverb] Anyway, anyhow, in any case. ANYWISE (13) [adverb] In any case. ARCHWAY (18) [noun] A passageway covered by an arch, particularly one made of masonry. | [noun] A doorway with a semilunar-shaped top. AREAWAY (13) [noun] An outdoor passage offering access to a basement. ARROWED (11) [verb] To move swiftly and directly (like an arrow) | [verb] To let fly swiftly and directly | [verb] (of a sugar cane plant) To develop an inflorescence. ARTWORK (14) [noun] A painting, drawing, sculpture or other piece of creative, visual art | [noun] Artistic work. | [noun] (reprographics) The graphical elements to be included in a reproduced work. ASSWAGE (11) [verb] To calm or pacify; to ease or mitigate (pain, anger, or distress). | [verb] To satisfy or appease (hunger or thirst). ATHWART (13) [adverb] From side to side; across. | [adverb] Across the path (of something). | [adverb] Wrongly; perplexingly. AVOWALS (13) [noun] Plural of avowal; explicit declarations or assertions of something, typically made earnestly or solemnly. AVOWERS (13) [noun] Plural of avower; people who avow or openly declare something. | [verb] Third person singular present of avow; declares or asserts openly. AVOWING (14) [verb] To declare openly and boldly, as something believed to be right; to own, acknowledge or confess frankly. | [verb] To bind or devote by a vow. | [verb] To acknowledge and justify, as an act done. See avowry. AWAITED (11) [verb] To wait for. | [verb] To expect. | [verb] To be in store for; to be ready or in waiting for. AWAITER (10) [noun] One who awaits or waits for something or someone. AWAKENS (14) [verb] To cause to become awake. | [verb] To stop sleeping; awake. | [verb] To bring into action (something previously dormant); to stimulate. AWAKING (15) [verb] To become conscious after having slept. | [verb] To cause (somebody) to stop sleeping. | [verb] To excite or to stir up something latent. AWARDED (12) [verb] To give by sentence or judicial determination; to assign or apportion, after careful regard to the nature of the case; to adjudge | [verb] To determine; to make or grant an award. | [verb] To give (an award). AWARDEE (11) [noun] The recipient of an award or special honor. AWARDER (11) [noun] One who awards; a person or entity that grants or bestows awards, prizes, or honors. AWELESS (10) [adjective] Lacking awe; not inspiring awe or wonder. | [adjective] Not feeling or showing awe. AWESOME (12) [noun] Short for awesomeness: the quality, state, or essence of being awesome. | [adjective] Causing awe or terror; inspiring wonder or excitement. | [adjective] Excellent, exciting, remarkable. AWFULLY (16) [adverb] Badly, terribly. | [adverb] Very; exceedingly; extremely; excessively. | [adverb] In a manner inspiring awe. AWKWARD (18) [noun] Someone or something that is awkward. | [adjective] Lacking dexterity in the use of the hands, or of instruments. | [adjective] Not easily managed or effected; embarrassing. AWLWORT (13) [noun] A small aquatic plant of the genus Subularia, having narrow awl-shaped leaves and found in shallow water or wet ground. AWNINGS (11) [noun] A rooflike cover, usually of canvas, extended over or before any place as a shelter from the sun, rain, or wind. | [noun] That part of the poop deck which is continued forward beyond the bulkhead of the cabin. AWNLESS (10) [adjective] Having no awns (bristle-like appendages on grain or grass). BACKSAW (18) [noun] A saw with a blade held rigid by a metal or wooden backing strip, used for making precise cuts in woodworking. BAGWIGS (14) [noun] Plural of bagwig, a type of long curled wig with the back hair enclosed in a bag or sack, worn especially in the 18th century. BAGWORM (15) [noun] A member of the family Psychidae of the Lepidoptera. | [noun] Eastern tent caterpillar. | [noun] Fall webworm. BAKLAWA (16) [noun] A Middle Eastern pastry made of phyllo dough layered with nuts and honey or syrup. BARLOWS (12) BARROWS (12) [noun] A mountain. | [noun] A hill. | [noun] A mound of earth and stones raised over a grave or graves. BARWARE (12) [noun] Equipment and utensils used in bars for mixing and serving drinks, such as shakers, jiggers, and strainers. BASHAWS (15) [noun] Plural of bashaw, a Turkish title of high rank; a pasha. BATFOWL (15) [verb] To catch birds at night by blinding them with light and knocking them down with a stick or bat. | [verb] To trick or swindle someone. BATWING (13) [noun] The wing of a bat, or its shape. | [noun] Several South or Southeast Asian species of tailless dark swallowtail butterflies in the genus Atrophaneura. | [noun] An area of flabby fat under a person's arms. BAWBEES (14) [noun] A coin originally worth six pennies Scots, and later three; held equivalent to an English halfpenny. | [noun] A copper; a small amount of money. BAWCOCK (20) [noun] A fine fellow; a good friend or companion (archaic term of endearment). BAWDIER (13) [adjective] Soiled, dirty. | [adjective] Obscene; filthy; unchaste. | [adjective] (of language) Sexual in nature and usually meant to be humorous but considered rude. BAWDIES (13) [noun] Plural of bawdy; lewd or obscene jokes, stories, or behavior. | [noun] Plural of bawdy house; brothels or disreputable establishments. BAWDILY (16) [adverb] In a bawdy manner; with obscene or indecent language or behavior. BAWDRIC (15) [noun] A belt or sash worn across the body to support a sword or other weapon. BAWLERS (12) [noun] People who cry or weep loudly. | [noun] People who shout or yell. BAWLING (13) [verb] To shout or utter in a loud and intense manner. | [verb] To wail; to give out a blaring cry. | [noun] The act of one who bawls or shouts. BAWSUNT (12) [noun] A warrant officer on a ship responsible for the ship's equipment and crew; also spelled bosun or boatswain. BAWTIES (12) BAYWOOD (16) BECLOWN (14) [verb] To make a fool of; to cause to appear ridiculous or absurd. BECRAWL (14) BECROWD (15) BEDEWED (14) [verb] To make wet with or as if with dew. | [adjective] Covered with or as if with dew. BEDGOWN (14) [noun] A loose gown worn in bed; a nightgown or dressing gown. BEDWARD (14) [adverb] Toward bed or in the direction of bed. BEDWARF (16) [verb] To make to appear small or insignificant by comparison; to dwarf. BEESWAX (19) [noun] A wax secreted by bees from which they make honeycomb; or, the processed form of this wax used in the manufacture of various goods. | [noun] (mildly) “Business”, as in such phrases as mind your own beeswax and none of your beeswax. | [verb] To polish with beeswax. BEHOWLS (15) [verb] To howl at or make loud cries toward something or someone. BEJEWEL (19) [verb] To decorate or bedeck with jewels or gems. BELLOWS (12) [noun] A device for delivering pressurized air in a controlled quantity to a controlled location. At its most simple terms a bellows is a container which is deformable in such a way as to alter its volume which has an outlet or outlets where one wishes to blow air. | [noun] Any flexible container or enclosure, as one used to cover a moving joint. | [noun] The lungs. | [noun] The deep roar of a large animal, or any similar loud noise. BELTWAY (15) [noun] A freeway that encircles a city. BESHREW (15) [verb] To curse or wish evil upon; to call down a curse on. BESNOWS (12) [verb] To cover with snow. BESTOWS (12) [verb] To lay up in store; deposit for safe keeping; to stow or place; to put something somewhere. | [verb] To lodge, or find quarters for; provide with accommodation. | [verb] To dispose of. BESTREW (12) [verb] To strew or scatter about; throw or drop here and there. | [verb] To strew anything upon; strew over or about; cover or partially cover with things strewn; cover with straw or strewing. BESTROW (12) BESWARM (14) [verb] To swarm around or over something in large numbers. BETWEEN (12) [noun] A kind of needle, shorter than a sharp, with a small rounded eye, used for making fine stitches on heavy fabrics. | [preposition] In the position or interval that separates (two things), or intermediate in quantity or degree. (See Usage notes below.) | [preposition] Done together or reciprocally. BETWIXT (19) [preposition] Between. BEWAILS (12) [verb] To wail over; to feel or express deep sorrow for BEWARED (13) BEWARES (12) [verb] Third person singular present of "beware," meaning to be cautious or wary of something or someone. BEWEARY (15) BEWEEPS (14) [verb] Third person singular present tense of "beweep," meaning to weep over or lament something. BEWITCH (17) [verb] To cast a spell upon. | [verb] To fascinate or charm. | [verb] To astonish, amaze. BEWORMS (14) [verb] To infest or fill with worms. BEWORRY (15) BEWRAPS (14) [verb] Third-person singular present tense of bewrap; to wrap up or cover completely. BEWRAPT (14) [verb] Past tense of bewrap; to wrap up or cover completely. BEWRAYS (15) [verb] To reveal, expose, or betray (someone or something). BIGWIGS (14) [noun] A person of importance to a group or organization. BIKEWAY (19) [noun] A bicycle lane or path. BILLOWS (12) [noun] A large wave, swell, surge, or undulating mass of something, such as water, smoke, fabric or sound | [verb] To surge or roll in billows. | [verb] To swell out or bulge. BILLOWY (15) [adjective] Rising and falling in waves or billows; undulating or swelling like waves. | [adjective] Soft, puffy, and flowing in appearance. BLAWING (13) BLOWBYS (17) [noun] Plural of blowby; the leakage of gas past piston rings in an internal combustion engine. | [noun] Instances of air or fluid escaping past a seal or valve. BLOWERS (12) [noun] A person who blows. | [noun] Any device that blows. | [noun] (usually preceded by the) Telephone. BLOWFLY (18) [noun] Any of various flies of the family Calliphoridae that lay their eggs in rotting meat, dung, or open wounds. BLOWGUN (13) [noun] A hollow tube through which a dart or similar missile may be blown. BLOWIER (12) [adjective] Windy or breezy. | [adjective] (of fabric, hair, etc.) Billowy, blowing or waving in the wind. | [adjective] (of soil) Susceptible to drifting. BLOWING (13) [verb] To produce an air current. | [verb] To propel by an air current. | [verb] To be propelled by an air current. | [noun] The act of one who blows, or that which blows. BLOWJOB (21) [noun] (sex) An act of fellatio, or sucking a penis or other phallic object (such as a dildo). Stimulation of a somebody's penis or testicles with a person's lips, tongue or mouth with the purpose of giving the receiver sexual pleasure. It may or may not result in orgasm. | [noun] Excessive praise. BLOWOFF (18) [noun] Something that is blown off. | [noun] The explosive separation of part of a rocket etc in order to prevent its destruction and allow for retrieval | [noun] A blowing off of steam, water, etc. BLOWOUT (12) [noun] A sudden puncturing of a pneumatic tyre/tire. | [noun] A sudden release of oil and gas from a well. | [noun] A social function, especially one with large quantities of food. BLOWSED (13) [adjective] Having a coarse, ruddy, or bloated appearance, typically from excessive drinking or lack of care. | [adjective] Disheveled or unkempt in appearance. BLOWUPS (14) [noun] An explosion, or violent outburst | [noun] An enlargement BLOWZED (22) [adjective] Red-faced and coarse-looking, typically from exposure to weather or excessive drinking. | [adjective] Untidy or slovenly in appearance. BOGWOOD (14) [noun] Wood that has been preserved in a bog, typically darkened and hardened by the acidic conditions and long burial in peat. BORROWS (12) [noun] Deviation of the path of a rolling ball from a straight line; slope; slant. | [noun] A borrow pit. | [noun] In the Rust programming language, the situation where the ownership of a value is temporarily transferred to another region of code. BOWELED (13) [verb] Past tense of bowel, meaning to remove the bowels or intestines from something; to disembowel. BOWERED (13) [adjective] Furnished with a bower. BOWFINS (15) [noun] A voracious ganoid fish, Amia calva, the last survivor of the order Amiiformes, found in the fresh waters of the United States. BOWHEAD (16) [noun] A large whale, Balaena mysticetus, having a large, rounded head, that inhabits Arctic waters. BOWINGS (13) [noun] The plural of bowing, referring to multiple instances of bending the body as a sign of respect or greeting. | [noun] In music, the techniques and motions used when playing a stringed instrument with a bow. BOWKNOT (16) [noun] A knot that has two loops and two loose ends, either used decoratively, or to tie shoelaces. BOWLDER (13) [noun] A large rounded rock or stone, especially one that has been worn smooth by water or glacial action; an alternative spelling of "boulder." BOWLEGS (13) [noun] A leg that curves outward at the knee. It might refer to the leg of a human, animal or even a piece of furniture. BOWLERS (12) [noun] One who engages in the sport of bowling. | [noun] The player currently bowling. | [noun] A player selected mainly for his bowling ability. BOWLESS (12) [adjective] Without a bow or bows; not having a bow. BOWLFUL (15) [noun] The amount that a bowl can hold; the quantity contained in a bowl. BOWLIKE (16) [adjective] Resembling or having the shape of a bow; curved like a bow. BOWLINE (12) [noun] A knot tied so as to produce an eye or loop in the end of a rope; it will not slip or jam BOWLING (13) [verb] To roll or throw (a ball) in the correct manner in cricket and similar games and sports. | [verb] To throw the ball (in cricket and similar games and sports). | [verb] To roll or carry smoothly on, or as on, wheels. BOWPOTS (14) [noun] Decorative vases or pots used for holding flowers, typically placed on the ledge of a window or shelf. BOWSHOT (15) [noun] The act of firing an arrow from a bow. | [noun] The distance that the arrow of an average archer can effectively travel. BOWSING (13) [verb] To drink excessively or carouse. | [verb] In nautical terms, to haul or pull on a rope. BOWWOWS (18) [noun] Plural of bowwow, an imitation of the sound a dog makes; dogs or the sound of barking. BOWYERS (15) [noun] A person who makes or sells bows (for use with arrows). | [noun] A person who uses the bow, an archer. BOXWOOD (20) [noun] The box tree, Buxus sempervirens. | [noun] The hard, close-grained wood of this tree, used in delicate woodwork and in making inlays. | [noun] Any tree of genus Buxus. BRADAWL (13) [noun] An awl with a blade similar to a small, straight screwdriver; used for making holes, especially in wood to take screws. BRAWEST (12) [adjective] Superlative form of "braw," a Scottish word meaning fine, good, or excellent. BRAWLED (13) [verb] To engage in a brawl; to fight or quarrel. | [verb] To create a disturbance; to complain loudly. | [verb] Especially of a rapid stream running over stones: to make a loud, confused noise. BRAWLER (12) [noun] One who brawls, engages in noisy, unseemly fights. | [noun] A beat 'em up game. BRAWLIE (12) BREWAGE (13) [noun] A brewed beverage or the act of brewing. | [noun] A mixture or blend of ingredients. BREWERS (12) [noun] Someone who brews, or whose occupation is to prepare malt liquors. BREWERY (15) [noun] A building where beer is produced. | [noun] A company that brews beer. BREWING (13) [verb] To make tea or coffee by mixing tea leaves or coffee beans with hot water. | [verb] To heat wine, infusing it with spices; to mull. | [verb] To make a hot soup by combining ingredients and boiling them in water. BROWNED (13) [verb] To become brown. | [verb] To cook something until it becomes brown. | [verb] To tan. BROWNER (12) [adjective] Having a brown colour. | [adjective] Gloomy. | [adjective] (sometimes capitalized) Of or relating to any of various ethnic groups having dark pigmentation of the skin. BROWNIE (12) [noun] A small square piece of rich cake, usually made with chocolate. | [noun] A mythical creature, a helpful elf who would secretly do people's housework for them. | [noun] A household spirit or revered ancestor. BROWSED (13) [verb] To scan, to casually look through in order to find items of interest, especially without knowledge of what to look for beforehand. | [verb] To move about while sampling, such as with food or products on display. | [verb] To navigate through hyperlinked documents on a computer, usually with a browser. BROWSER (12) [noun] A person or animal who browses. | [noun] A person who examines goods for sale but purchases nothing. | [noun] A web browser. BROWSES (12) [noun] Young shoots and twigs. | [noun] Fodder for cattle and other animals. | [verb] To scan, to casually look through in order to find items of interest, especially without knowledge of what to look for beforehand. BUCKSAW (18) [noun] A saw set in an H-shaped frame with a handle, used for cutting wood by hand. BUDWORM (15) [noun] Any of various moth caterpillars. BULWARK (16) [noun] A defensive wall or rampart. | [noun] A defense or safeguard. | [noun] A breakwater. BURROWS (12) [noun] A mountain. | [noun] A hill. | [noun] A mound of earth and stones raised over a grave or graves. BURWEED (13) [noun] A prickly weed with burr-like seed pods, particularly any plant of the genus Ambrosia or similar plants that produce adhesive fruits. BUSHWAH (18) [noun] Nonsense. BUSHWAS (15) BUZZWIG (31) BYELAWS (15) [noun] Rules or regulations established by an organization, company, or society to govern its internal affairs and procedures. BYWORDS (16) [noun] A proverb or proverbial expression, common saying; a frequently used word or phrase. | [noun] A characteristic word or expression; a word or phrase associated with a person or group. | [noun] Someone or something that stands as an example (i.e. metonymically) for something else, by having some of that something's characteristic traits. BYWORKS (19) CARAWAY (15) [noun] A biennial plant, Carum carvi, native to Europe and Asia, mainly grown for its seed to be used as a culinary spice. | [noun] The seed-like fruit of the caraway plant. | [noun] A cake or sweetmeat containing caraway seeds. CARWASH (15) [noun] An event at which people (often children) wash cars, often for a small fee or donation | [noun] A place at which a car is washed, usually for a fee and often mechanically by driving the car through a tunnel. | [noun] An instance of washing a car, especially such a place. CASHAWS (15) [noun] Plural of cashaw, a variant spelling of cashew, a tropical nut-bearing tree or its edible kidney-shaped seed. CASHEWS (15) [noun] A tree, Anacardium occidentale, native to northeastern Brazil, now widely grown in tropical climates for its cashew nuts and cashew apples. | [noun] A cashew nut. CATAWBA (14) [noun] The catawba grape, a cultivar of North American Vitis labrusca. | [noun] A light sparkling wine made from this kind of grape. | [noun] Any of various species of catalpa trees Catalpa. CATCLAW (14) [noun] A climbing plant with curved thorns or claws, native to tropical regions. | [noun] A device or tool with curved prongs resembling a cat's claws. CATSPAW (14) [noun] A person used by another to accomplish their purposes; a tool or dupe. | [noun] A loop or grommet in a rope used for fastening. CATWALK (16) [noun] An elevated enclosed passage providing access fore and aft from the bridge of a merchant vessel. | [noun] Any similar elevated walkway. | [noun] A narrow elevated stage on which models parade; a runway CHAWERS (15) [noun] Plural of chawer; one who chaws (chews, especially tobacco). | [noun] People who chew or masticate. CHAWING (16) [verb] To chew; to grind with one's teeth; to masticate (food, or the cud) | [verb] To ruminate (about) in thought; to ponder; to consider | [verb] To steal. CHEWERS (15) [noun] Plural of chewer; things or animals that chew. | [noun] People who chew something habitually, such as tobacco chewers. CHEWIER (15) [adjective] Having a pliable or springy texture when chewed. CHEWING (16) [verb] To crush with the teeth by repeated closing and opening of the jaws; done to food to soften it and break it down by the action of saliva before it is swallowed. | [verb] To grind, tear, or otherwise degrade or demolish something with teeth or as with teeth. | [verb] To think about something; to ponder; to chew over. | [noun] The act by which something is chewed on; mastication. CHEWINK (19) [noun] A towhee, a type of North American songbird with a distinctive call that sounds like its name. CHOWDER (16) [noun] A thick, creamy soup or stew. | [noun] A stew, particularly fish or seafood, not necessarily thickened. | [noun] A seller of fish. CHOWING (16) [verb] To eat. | [verb] To call a discarded tile to produce a chow. CHOWSED (16) CHOWSES (15) [verb] Third person singular of "chowse," an archaic or dialectal word meaning to cheat or swindle. CLAWERS (12) [noun] Plural of clawer; animals or creatures that claw. | [noun] Things that claw or scratch. CLAWING (13) [verb] To scratch or to tear at. | [verb] To use the claws to seize, to grip. | [verb] To use the claws to climb. CLEWING (13) [verb] To roll into a ball | [verb] (transitive and intransitive) to raise the lower corner(s) of (a sail) CLOWDER (13) [noun] A group of cats or other small felines. CLOWNED (13) [verb] To act in a silly or playful fashion. | [verb] To ridicule. COBWEBS (16) [noun] A spiderweb, or the remains of one, especially an asymmetrical one that is woven with an irregular pattern of threads. | [noun] One of its filaments; gossamer | [noun] Something thin and unsubstantial, or flimsy and worthless; valueless remainder. COGWAYS (16) CORNROW (12) [noun] A hairstyle, of African origin, having rows of tightly braided hair close to the scalp | [verb] To braid the hair in this fashion. COWAGES (13) COWARDS (13) [noun] A person who lacks courage. COWBANE (14) [noun] Any of several related poisonous plants of the genus Cicuta | [noun] Cicuta virosa, the name species of this genus. COWBELL (14) [noun] The lead cow in a herd. | [noun] A leader; an influencer. | [noun] A bell worn by cows; sometimes with an ornate strap. COWBIND (15) COWBIRD (15) [noun] Any bird of the genus Molothrus. The cowbirds are brood parasites. COWBOYS (17) [noun] A man who tends free-range cattle, especially in the American West. | [noun] A man who identifies with cowboy culture, including wearing a cowboy hat and being a fan of country and western music. | [noun] A person who engages in reckless behavior, especially for the purpose of showing off. COWEDLY (16) COWERED (13) [verb] To crouch or cringe, or to avoid or shy away from something, in fear. | [verb] To crouch in general. | [verb] To cause to cower; to frighten into submission. COWFISH (18) [noun] Any of genera Acanthostracion and Lactoria, of the boxfish family Ostraciidae. | [noun] The grampus, Grampus griseus, Risso's dolphin. | [noun] A common bottlenose dolphin of California, Tursiops truncatus gillii. COWFLAP (17) COWFLOP (17) COWGIRL (13) [noun] A woman who tends free-range cattle, especially in the American West. | [noun] A woman who identifies with cowboy culture, including clothing such as the cowboy hat. | [noun] A playing card of queen rank. COWHAGE (16) COWHAND (16) [noun] One who tends free-range cattle, especially in the American West. COWHERB (17) COWHERD (16) [noun] A person who herds cattle; a cowboy. COWHIDE (16) [noun] A hide of a cow. | [noun] Any quantity of hides of cows. | [noun] Leather made from the hide of cows. COWIEST (12) COWLICK (18) [noun] An unruly lock or section of hair that sticks straight out from the skull or lies at an angle at odds with the rest of an individual's hair, like a whorl or vortex. COWLING (13) [noun] A young or little cow; calf. | [verb] To cover with, or as if with, a cowl (hood). | [verb] To wrap or form (something made of fabric) like a cowl. COWPATS (14) [noun] A dropping of cow dung. COWPEAS (14) [noun] Any of the plants in the species Vigna unguiculata, including the black-eyed pea. COWPIES (14) COWPLOP (16) COWPOKE (18) [noun] A cowhand (one who tends free-range cattle) | [noun] A 19th-century device used around the necks of cows and other livestock to prevent them from challenging fencing. The action of the device was to poke the cow when the device came into contact with the fence. COWRIES (12) [noun] A small gastropod (Monetaria moneta, syn. Cypraea moneta) common in the Indian Ocean; its shell. | [noun] (by extension) Any gastropod of the genus Cypraea; its shell. | [noun] (by extension) Any gastropod of the family Cypraeidae; its shell. COWRITE (12) [verb] To write in collaboration with another person COWROTE (12) [verb] To write in collaboration with another person COWSHED (16) [noun] A small barn for keeping cows. COWSKIN (16) COWSLIP (14) [noun] A low-growing plant, Primula veris, with yellow flowers. | [noun] Any of several other plants related or similar in appearance | [noun] Short for cowslip tea: a kind of green tea; an herbal tea made with cowslip flowers. CRAWDAD (14) [noun] The crayfish. CRAWLED (13) [verb] To creep; to move slowly on hands and knees, or by dragging the body along the ground. | [verb] To move forward slowly, with frequent stops. | [verb] To act in a servile manner. CRAWLER (12) [noun] A person who is abused, physically or verbally, and returns to the abuser a supplicant. | [noun] A sycophant. | [noun] A child who is able to creep using his hands and knees but is not able to walk. CREWELS (12) [noun] Worsted yarn, slackly twisted, used for embroidery. | [noun] Glandular scrofulous swellings in the neck. CREWING (13) CREWMAN (14) [noun] A member of a crew, especially the crew of a ship. | [noun] Synonym of armoured crewman CREWMEN (14) [noun] A member of a crew, especially the crew of a ship. | [noun] Synonym of armoured crewman CROWBAR (14) [noun] An iron or steel bar, often with a flattened end which may also be hook-shaped, to be used as a lever to manually force things apart. | [noun] An electrical circuit that prevents an overvoltage from causing damage. | [noun] A type of cocktail made with only Crown Royal whiskey and lemon lime soda. CROWDED (14) [verb] To press forward; to advance by pushing. | [verb] To press together or collect in numbers | [verb] To press or drive together, especially into a small space; to cram. CROWDER (13) CROWDIE (13) [noun] Gruel or thin porridge. | [noun] A Scottish form of cottage cheese. CROWERS (12) CROWING (13) [verb] To make the shrill sound characteristic of a rooster; to make a sound in this manner, either in gaiety, joy, pleasure, or defiance. | [verb] To shout in exultation or defiance; to brag. | [verb] To test the reed of a double reed instrument by placing the reed alone in the mouth and blowing it. CROWNED (13) [verb] To place a crown on the head of. | [verb] To formally declare (someone) a king, queen, emperor, etc. | [verb] To bestow something upon as a mark of honour, dignity, or recompense; to adorn; to dignify. CROWNER (12) CROWNET (12) CUDWEED (14) [noun] Any of many of species of flowering plants in family Asteraceae: | [noun] Cudbear (Lecanora tartarea) CUMSHAW (17) CURFEWS (15) [noun] Any regulation requiring people to be off the streets and in their homes by a certain time. | [noun] The time when such restriction begins. | [noun] A signal indicating this time. CURLEWS (12) [noun] Any of several migratory wading birds in the genus Numenius of the family Scolopacidae, remarkable for their long, slender, downcurved bills. | [noun] A stone curlew. CUSHAWS (15) [noun] Any of certain cultivars of Cucurbita argyrosperma (Cucurbita mixta), one of the species of winter squash. CUTAWAY (15) [noun] A cut to a shot of person listening to a speaker so that the audience can see the listener's reaction. | [noun] The interruption of a continuously filmed action by inserting a view of something else. | [noun] A coat with a tapered frontline. CUTDOWN (13) [noun] An emergency medical procedure in which the vein is exposed and a cannula is inserted into it. | [noun] A customized scooter with parts of the bodywork removed or cut away. CUTWORK (16) [noun] A form of embroidery in which intervening fabric is cut away CUTWORM (14) [noun] The larva of any of many moths of the family Noctuidae; it is an agricultural pest. DAGWOOD (13) [noun] A multi-layered sandwich containing cold cuts, cheese, lettuce and any of several other fillings DAWDLED (13) [verb] To spend time idly and unfruitfully, to waste time. | [verb] To spend (time) without haste or purpose. | [verb] To move or walk lackadaisically. DAWDLER (12) DAWDLES (12) [verb] To spend time idly and unfruitfully, to waste time. | [verb] To spend (time) without haste or purpose. | [verb] To move or walk lackadaisically. DAWNING (12) [verb] To begin to brighten with daylight. | [verb] To start to appear or be realized. | [verb] To begin to give promise; to begin to appear or to expand. DAWTIES (11) DAWTING (12) DAYGLOW (15) DAYWORK (18) [noun] The work done in a day; a day's work. | [noun] The amount of land that can be worked in a day. | [noun] Work carried out or paid for on a daily basis; day labour. DECLAWS (13) [verb] To surgically remove a cats claws; onychectomy. | [verb] To make harmless. DECROWN (13) DEEWANS (11) DEWATER (11) [verb] To remove water from. DEWAXED (19) [verb] To remove wax from a material or from a surface. | [adjective] That has been treated by a dewaxing process DEWAXES (18) [verb] To remove wax from a material or from a surface. DEWCLAW (16) [noun] A vestigial digit, hoof or claw that does not reach the ground. DEWDROP (14) [noun] A droplet of water formed as dew. | [noun] (1800s) A slow pitch. DEWFALL (14) [noun] The forming of dew. | [noun] The time when dew begins to form. DEWIEST (11) [adjective] Covered by dew. | [adjective] Having the quality of bearing droplets of water. | [adjective] Fresh and innocent. DEWLAPS (13) [noun] The pendulous skin under the neck of an ox, or a similar feature on any other animal. | [noun] The sagging flesh on the human throat of an old person. DEWLESS (11) DEWOOLS (11) DEWORMS (13) [verb] To cause an animal to excrete any worms in the digestive tract by the administration of drugs. DIMWITS (13) [noun] A person who is deficient in intelligence. DISAVOW (14) [verb] To strongly and solemnly refuse to own or acknowledge; to deny responsibility for, approbation of, and the like. | [verb] To deny; to show the contrary of; to deny legitimacy or achievement of any kind. DISOWNS (11) [verb] To refuse to own, or to refuse to acknowledge one’s own. | [verb] To repudiate any connection to; to renounce. | [verb] To detach (a job or process) so that it can continue to run even when the user who launched it ends his/her login session. DOGWOOD (13) [noun] Any of various small trees of the genus Cornus, especially the wild cornel and the flowering cornel | [noun] The wood of such trees and shrubs. | [noun] A wood or tree similar to this genus, used in different parts of the world. DOORWAY (14) [noun] The passage of a door; a door-shaped entrance into a house or a room. DORHAWK (18) DOWABLE (13) DOWAGER (12) [noun] A widow holding property or title derived from her late husband | [noun] Any lady of dignified bearing DOWDIER (12) [adjective] Plain and unfashionable in style or dress. | [adjective] Lacking stylishness or neatness; shabby. DOWDIES (12) DOWDILY (15) DOWELED (12) [verb] To fasten together with dowels. | [verb] To furnish with dowels. DOWERED (12) [verb] To give a dower or dowry. | [verb] To endow. DOWNERS (11) [noun] A negative drug trip. | [noun] A drug that has depressant qualities. | [noun] Something or someone disagreeable, dispiriting or depressing; a killjoy. DOWNIER (11) [adjective] Having down, covered with a soft fuzzy coating as of small feathers or hair. | [adjective] Sharp-witted, perceptive. DOWNING (12) [verb] To knock (someone or something) down; to cause to come down, to fell. | [verb] To lower; to put (something) down. | [verb] To defeat; to overpower. DOWRIES (11) [noun] Payment, such as property or money, paid by the bride's family to the groom or his family at the time of marriage. | [noun] Payment by the groom or his family to the bride's family: bride price. | [noun] Dower. DOWSERS (11) DOWSING (12) [verb] To plunge suddenly into water; to duck; to immerse. | [verb] To fall suddenly into water. | [verb] To put out; to extinguish. DRAWBAR (13) [noun] An open-mouthed bar at the end of a car, which receives a coupling link and pin by which the car is drawn. It is usually provided with a spring to give elasticity to the connection between the cars of a train. | [noun] A bar of iron with an eye at each end, or a heavy link, for coupling a locomotive to a tender or car. | [noun] A device to couple a powered road vehicle to a load to transfer tractive effort to the load, either as a push or as a pull. DRAWEES (11) [noun] The party directed to pay the amount of a draft or cheque. DRAWERS (11) [noun] An open-topped box that can be slid in and out of the cabinet that contains it, used for storing clothing or other articles. | [noun] A side panel containing supplementary content. | [noun] Agent noun of draw; one who draws. | [noun] Clothing worn on the legs, especially that worn next to the skin, such as hose or breeches. DRAWING (12) [verb] To move or develop something. | [verb] To exert or experience force. | [verb] (fluidic) To remove or separate or displace. | [noun] A picture, likeness, diagram or representation, usually drawn on paper. DRAWLED (12) [verb] To drag on slowly and heavily; to while or dawdle away time indolently. | [verb] To utter or pronounce in a dull, spiritless tone, as if by dragging out the utterance. | [verb] To move slowly and heavily; move in a dull, slow, lazy manner. DRAWLER (11) DROWNDS (12) DROWNED (12) [verb] To die from suffocation while immersed in water or other fluid. | [verb] To kill by suffocating in water or another liquid. | [verb] To be flooded: to be inundated with or submerged in (literally) water or (figuratively) other things; to be overwhelmed. DROWNER (11) DROWSED (12) [verb] To be sleepy and inactive. | [verb] To nod off; to fall asleep. | [verb] To advance drowsily. (Used especially in the phrase "drowse one's way" ⇒ sleepily make one's way.) DROWSES (11) [verb] To be sleepy and inactive. | [verb] To nod off; to fall asleep. | [verb] To advance drowsily. (Used especially in the phrase "drowse one's way" ⇒ sleepily make one's way.) DRYWALL (14) [noun] A building material comprising a sheet of gypsum sandwiched between two pieces of heavy paper, used mainly for interior walls and ceilings. | [noun] A wall made of this. | [noun] A stone wall constructed without mortar or cement. DWARFED (15) [verb] To render (much) smaller, turn into a dwarf (version). | [verb] To make appear (much) smaller, puny, tiny. | [verb] To make appear insignificant. DWARFER (14) DWARVES (14) [noun] Any member of a race of beings from (especially Scandinavian and other Germanic) folklore, usually depicted as having some sort of supernatural powers and being skilled in crafting and metalworking, often as short with long beards, and sometimes as clashing with elves. | [noun] A person of short stature, often one whose limbs are disproportionately small in relation to the body as compared with normal adults, usually as the result of a genetic condition. | [noun] An animal, plant or other thing much smaller than the usual of its sort. DWELLED (12) [verb] To live; to reside. | [verb] To linger (on) a particular thought, idea etc.; to remain fixated (on). | [verb] To be in a given state. DWELLER (11) [noun] An inhabitant of a specific place; an inhabitant or denizen. DWINDLE (12) [verb] To decrease, shrink, diminish, reduce in size or intensity. | [verb] To fall away in quality; degenerate, sink. | [verb] To lessen; to bring low. DWINING (12) DYEWEED (15) DYEWOOD (15) EARWIGS (11) [noun] Any of various insects of the order Dermaptera that have elongated bodies, large membranous wings folded underneath short leathery forewings and a pair of large pincers protruding from the rear of the abdomen. | [noun] One who whispers insinuations; a secret counsellor. | [noun] A flatterer. EARWORM (12) [noun] A tune that keeps replaying in one's head or that one keeps thinking about, especially if unwanted. | [noun] (originally United States) Short for corn earworm (“larva of the moths Helicoverpa zea (syn. Heliothis zea) and Helicoverpa armigera, which are agricultural pests”). | [noun] An earwig. EELWORM (12) [noun] A nematode, or roundworm, especially any that resemble small eels. EISWEIN (10) [noun] Ice wine EKPWELE (16) ELBOWED (13) [verb] To push with the elbow. | [verb] (by extension) To nudge, jostle or push. | [adjective] Having bends or corners. EMBOWED (15) [verb] To bend like a bow; to curve. | [adjective] Bent, curved or arched like a bow. EMBOWEL (14) [verb] To enclose or bury. | [verb] To remove the bowels; disembowel. EMBOWER (14) [verb] To enclose something or someone as if in a bower; shelter with foliage. | [verb] To lodge or rest in or as in a bower. | [verb] To form a bower. EMBROWN (14) EMPOWER (14) [verb] To give permission, power, or the legal right to do something. | [verb] To give someone more confidence and/or strength to do something, often by enabling them to increase their control over their own life or situation. ENDOWED (12) [verb] To provide with a dower or a dowry. | [verb] To give property to (someone) as a gift; specifically, to provide (a person or institution) with support in the form of a permanent fund of money or other benefits. | [verb] Followed by with, or rarely by of: to enrich or furnish with some faculty or quality. ENDOWER (11) ENDWAYS (14) [adverb] Endwise ENDWISE (11) [adjective] On-end; upright; pertaining or relating to the end. | [adverb] Upright, or standing on end | [adverb] With the end towards the front or towards the observer ENTWINE (10) [verb] To twist or twine around something (or one another). ENTWIST (10) ENWHEEL (13) ENWINDS (11) ENWOMBS (14) ENWOUND (11) ENWRAPS (12) [verb] To wrap around, surround; to envelop | [verb] To absorb completely or engross ESCHEWS (15) [verb] To avoid; to shun, to shy away from. ESCROWS (12) [noun] A written instrument, such as a deed, temporarily deposited with a neutral third party (the escrow agent), by the agreement of two parties to a valid contract. The escrow agent will deliver the document to the benefited party when the conditions of the contract have been met. The depositor has no control over the instrument in escrow. | [noun] In common law, escrow applied to the deposits only of instruments for conveyance of land, but it now applies to all instruments so deposited. | [noun] Money or other property so deposited is also loosely referred to as escrow. EYEBROW (15) [noun] The hair that grows over the bone ridge above the eye socket. | [noun] A dormer, usually of small size, whose roof line over the upright face is typically an arched curve, turning into a reverse curve to meet the horizontal line at either end. | [noun] A clump of waste fibres that builds up in a roller machine. EYEWASH (16) [noun] A soothing medicated lotion for the eyes | [noun] Nonsense; flattery; pretentiousness. | [verb] To fool with nonsense or flattery. EYEWEAR (13) [noun] A vision aid or similar device worn over the eyes, such as eyeglasses, contact lenses, or protective goggles. EYEWINK (17) FAIRWAY (16) [noun] The area between the tee and the green, where the grass is cut short. | [noun] Any tract of land free from obstacles. | [noun] (Military) A channel either from offshore, in a river, or in a harbor that has enough depth to accommodate the draft of large vessels. (JP 4-01.6) FALLOWS (13) [noun] Ground ploughed and harrowed but left unseeded for one year. | [noun] Uncultivated land. | [noun] The ploughing or tilling of land, without sowing it for a season. FANWISE (13) FANWORT (13) FARAWAY (16) [adjective] Distant. | [adjective] Not mentally present, as when daydreaming. FARROWS (13) [noun] A litter of piglets. | [verb] To give birth to a (litter of piglets). FATWOOD (14) FAWNERS (13) [noun] One who fawns; a sycophant. FAWNIER (13) FAWNING (14) [verb] To give birth to a fawn. | [verb] To exhibit affection or attempt to please. | [verb] To seek favour by flattery and obsequious behaviour (with on or upon). FELLOWS (13) [noun] A colleague or partner. | [noun] A companion; a comrade. | [noun] A man without good breeding or worth; an ignoble or mean man. FELWORT (13) [noun] A European herb, Swertia perennis (star swertia), of the gentian family. | [noun] Any member of any species in genus Swertia. | [noun] Any member of any species in the tribe Gentianeae FEWNESS (13) FIGWORT (14) [noun] Any of various woodland herbs and shrubs of the genus Scrophularia. | [noun] Ficaria verna, formerly Ranunculus ficaria. FISHWAY (19) [noun] A structure built on or around dams or locks to facilitate the migration of fish. FITCHEW (18) [noun] Polecat FLAWIER (13) FLAWING (14) [verb] To add a flaw to, to make imperfect or defective. | [verb] To become imperfect or defective; to crack or break. FLOWAGE (14) FLOWERS (13) [noun] A colorful, conspicuous structure associated with angiosperms, frequently scented and attracting various insects, and which may or may not be used for sexual reproduction. | [noun] A reproductive structure in angiosperms (flowering plants), often conspicuously colourful and typically including sepals, petals, and either or both stamens and/or a pistil. | [noun] A plant that bears flowers, especially a plant that is small and lacks wood. FLOWERY (16) [adjective] Pertaining to flowers. | [adjective] Decorated with or abundant in flowers. | [adjective] (of a speech or piece of writing) overly complicated or elaborate; with grandiloquent expressions FLOWING (14) [verb] To move as a fluid from one position to another. | [verb] To proceed; to issue forth. | [verb] To move or match smoothly, gracefully, or continuously. FLYAWAY (19) [noun] A stray hair that is difficult to style. | [noun] Anything that is difficult to capture or restrain. | [noun] A kind of dismount from bars that incorporates one or more flips or twists. FLYBLEW (18) FLYBLOW (18) [noun] The larva of the blowfly, especially when found on rotten meat. | [verb] To deposit eggs upon, as a blowfly does on meat; to cause to be maggoty. | [verb] (by extension) To taint or contaminate. FLYWAYS (19) [noun] A migratory route used by birds between breeding areas. FOGBOWS (16) [noun] A white arc or circle, similar to a rainbow, which can appear in the sky in foggy conditions as sunlight passes through small airborne water droplets. FOLKWAY (20) [noun] Often plural: a belief or custom common to members of a culture or society. FOLLOWS (13) [noun] (sometimes attributive) In billiards and similar games, a stroke causing a ball to follow another ball after hitting it. | [noun] The act of following another user's online activity. | [verb] To go after; to pursue; to move behind in the same path or direction. FOOTWAY (16) [noun] A passage for pedestrians only. FOREPAW (15) [noun] Either of the paws of an animal's foreleg, homologous to the hand in humans. FORESAW (13) [verb] To be able to see beforehand: to anticipate; predict. | [verb] To provide. FORWARD (14) [noun] One of the eight players (comprising two props, one hooker, two locks, two flankers and one number eight, collectively known as the pack) whose primary task is to gain and maintain possession of the ball (compare back). | [noun] A player on a team in football (soccer) in the row nearest to the opposing team's goal, who are therefore principally responsible for scoring goals. | [noun] An umbrella term for a centre or winger in ice hockey. | [noun] An introductory section preceding the main text of a book or other document; a preface or introduction. FORWENT (13) [verb] To let pass, to leave alone, to let go. | [verb] To do without, to abandon, to renounce. | [verb] To refrain from, to abstain from, to pass up, to withgo. FORWORN (13) FOWLERS (13) FOWLING (14) [verb] To hunt fowl. | [noun] A session of hunting fowl. FOWLPOX (22) FREEWAY (16) [noun] A road designed for safe, high-speed operation of motor vehicles through the elimination of at-grade intersections, usually divided and having at least two lanes in each direction; a dual carriageway with no at-grade crossings, a motorway. | [noun] A toll-free highway. FRETSAW (13) [noun] A saw consisting of a metal frame having a fine-toothed narrow blade held under tension, used in making curved cuts. | [verb] To cut with a fretsaw. FROWARD (14) [adjective] Disobedient, contrary, unmanageable; difficult to deal with; with an evil disposition. | [preposition] Away from. FROWNED (14) [verb] To have a frown on one's face. | [verb] To manifest displeasure or disapprobation; to look with disfavour or threateningly. | [verb] To repress or repel by expressing displeasure or disapproval; to rebuke with a look. FROWNER (13) FROWSTS (13) [noun] Stuffiness; stifling warmth in a room. | [verb] To enjoy being in a warm, close, stuffy place. FROWSTY (16) [adjective] Musty; stuffy (atmosphere) FURROWS (13) [noun] A trench cut in the soil, as when plowed in order to plant a crop. | [noun] Any trench, channel, or groove, as in wood or metal. | [noun] A deep wrinkle in the skin of the face, especially on the forehead. FURROWY (16) GADWALL (12) [noun] A common, widespread dabbling duck which breeds in the northern hemisphere (Mareca strepera, syn. Anas strepera). GALLOWS (11) [noun] Wooden framework on which persons are put to death by hanging. | [noun] A wretch who deserves to be hanged. | [noun] The rest for the tympan when raised. | [verb] To frighten or terrify. GANGWAY (15) [noun] A passageway through which to enter or leave, such as one between seating areas in an auditorium, or between two buildings. | [noun] An articulating bridge or ramp, such as from land to a dock or a ship. | [noun] A temporary passageway, such as one made of planks. GATEWAY (14) [noun] An entrance capable of being blocked by use of a gate. | [noun] Any point that represents the beginning of a transition from one place or phase to another. | [noun] A point at which freight moving from one territory to another is interchanged between transportation lines. GAWKERS (15) GAWKIER (15) [adjective] Awkward, ungainly; lacking grace or dexterity in movement GAWKIES (15) GAWKILY (18) GAWKING (16) [verb] To stare or gape stupidly. | [verb] To stare conspicuously. GAWKISH (18) GAWPERS (13) GAWPING (14) [verb] To stare stupidly or rudely; to gawk. | [noun] The action of the verb gawp. | [adjective] That gawps or gawp. GEEGAWS (12) [noun] A showy trifle, a toy; a showy trinket, ornament or decoration. GETAWAY (14) [noun] A means of escape. | [noun] The effecting of an escape. | [noun] A vacation or holiday, or the destination for one. GEWGAWS (15) [noun] A showy trifle, a toy; a showy trinket, ornament or decoration. GLOWERS (11) [noun] An angry glare or stare. | [verb] To look or stare with anger. | [noun] That which glows or emits light. GLOWFLY (17) GLOWING (12) [verb] To give off light from heat or to emit light as if heated. | [verb] To radiate some emotional quality like light. | [verb] To gaze especially passionately at something. GNAWERS (11) GNAWING (12) [verb] To bite something persistently, especially something tough. | [verb] To produce excessive anxiety or worry. | [verb] To corrode; to fret away; to waste. GODOWNS (12) [noun] A warehouse. GODWITS (12) [noun] Any of four species of long-billed, migratory wading birds in the genus Limosa, of the family Scolopacidae. GOSHAWK (18) [noun] Any of several birds of prey, principally in the genus Accipiter. GOWANED (12) GOWNING (12) [verb] To dress in a gown, to don or garb with a gown. GROWERS (11) [noun] A farmer; one who grows things. | [noun] Something that grows. | [noun] Someone or something who becomes more likeable over time GROWING (12) [verb] To become larger, to increase in magnitude. | [verb] To appear or sprout. | [verb] To develop, to mature. GROWLED (12) [verb] To utter a deep guttural sound, as an angry animal; to give forth an angry, grumbling sound. | [verb] Of a wind instrument: to produce a low-pitched rumbling sound. | [verb] To send a user a message via the Growl software library. GROWLER (11) [noun] A person, creature or thing that growls. | [noun] A horse-drawn cab with four wheels. | [noun] A small iceberg or ice floe which is barely visible over the surface of the water. GROWNUP (13) [noun] An adult (used especially by children). | [adjective] Of, pertaining to, or suitable for adults. | [adjective] Adult; fully developed; mature. GROWTHS (14) [noun] An increase in size, number, value, or strength. | [noun] The act of growing, getting bigger or higher. | [noun] Something that grows or has grown. GROWTHY (17) GUFFAWS (17) [noun] A boisterous laugh. | [verb] To laugh boisterously. GUMWEED (14) GUMWOOD (14) GUNWALE (11) [noun] The top edge of the hull of a nautical vessel, where it meets the deck. GWEDUCK (18) GWEDUCS (14) HACKSAW (19) [noun] A saw, with a blade that is put under tension, for cutting metal | [verb] To cut with a hacksaw. HALFWAY (19) [adverb] Half of the way between two points; midway. | [adverb] Moderately; somewhat. HALLOWS (13) [noun] (obsolete outside set phrases) A saint; a holy person; an apostle. | [verb] To make holy, to sanctify. | [noun] A shout, cry; a hulloo. HALLWAY (16) [noun] A corridor in a building that connects rooms. HANDSAW (14) [noun] A saw small enough to be used by one hand. | [noun] A heron. HARROWS (13) [noun] A device consisting of a heavy framework having several disks or teeth in a row, which is dragged across ploughed land to smooth or break up the soil, to remove weeds or cover seeds; a harrow plow. | [noun] An obstacle formed by turning an ordinary harrow upside down, the frame being buried. | [verb] To drag a harrow over; to break up with a harrow. HAWKERS (17) [noun] A peddler, huckster, who travels about to sell easily transportable goods. | [noun] Any dragonfly of the family Aeshnidae; a darner. | [noun] Someone who breeds and trains hawks and other falcons; a falconer. HAWKEYS (20) HAWKIES (17) HAWKING (18) [verb] To hunt with a hawk. | [verb] To make an attack while on the wing; to soar and strike like a hawk. | [verb] To sell; to offer for sale by outcry in the street; to carry (merchandise) about from place to place for sale; to peddle. HAWKISH (20) [adjective] Supportive of warlike foreign policy; bellicose; inclined toward military action. | [adjective] Favouring increasing interest rates; inclined towards increasing interest rates. HAWSERS (13) [noun] A cable or heavy rope used to tow or moor a ship HAYMOWS (18) [noun] A pile of hay stored in a barn. | [noun] The place in a barn where hay is deposited. HAYWARD (17) HAYWIRE (16) [noun] Wire used to bind bales of hay. | [adjective] Roughly-made, unsophisticated, decrepit (from the use of haywire for temporary repairs). | [adjective] Behaving erratically or uncontrollably, especially of a machine or mechanical process; usually used with the verb "go". HEADWAY (17) [noun] Movement ahead or forward. | [noun] Forward motion, or its rate. | [noun] The interval of time or distance between the fronts of two vehicles (e.g. buses) moving in succession in the same direction, especially along the same pre-determined route. HEEHAWS (16) [noun] The cry of an ass or donkey. | [noun] Nothing. | [verb] To utter the cry of an ass or donkey. HEWABLE (15) HIGHWAY (20) [noun] A motor vehicle for transporting large numbers of people along roads. | [noun] An electrical conductor or interface serving as a common connection for two or more circuits or components. | [noun] (medical industry) An ambulance. HOEDOWN (14) [noun] A type of American folk or square dance. | [noun] The type of music typically played for such a dance | [noun] A gathering at which such dances take place. HOGWASH (17) [noun] Foolish talk or writing; nonsense. | [noun] A mixture of solid and liquid food scraps fed to pigs; swill. HOGWEED (15) [noun] Any coarse weedy herb. | [noun] An umbelliferous plant, of genus Heracleum, most species of which are phototoxic. | [noun] Certain plants from the genera Ambrosia, Erigeron, or Heracleum. HOLLOWS (13) [noun] A small valley between mountains. | [noun] A sunken area or unfilled space in something solid; a cavity, natural or artificial. | [noun] A sunken area. HOOSGOW (14) HOWBEIT (15) [adverb] Be that as it may; nevertheless. | [conjunction] Although. HOWDAHS (17) [noun] A seat, usually with a canopy, carried on the back of an elephant or camel. | [noun] An ornate carriage which is positioned on the back of elephants or occasionally other animals, used most often in the past for rich people who travelled in India via elephant. HOWDIED (15) HOWDIES (14) [noun] A wife, a midwife. HOWEVER (16) [adverb] Nevertheless; yet, still; in spite of (that). | [adverb] (degree) To whatever degree or extent | [adverb] (manner) In whatever way or manner. HOWKING (18) HOWLERS (13) [noun] That which howls, especially an animal such as a wolf or a howler monkey. | [noun] A person hired to howl at a funeral. | [noun] A painfully obvious mistake. HOWLETS (13) [noun] An owl; an owlet. HOWLING (14) [noun] The act of producing howls. | [verb] To utter a loud, protracted, mournful sound or cry, as dogs and wolves often do. | [verb] To utter a sound expressive of pain or distress; to cry aloud and mournfully; to lament; to wail. HUSWIFE (16) IMBOWER (14) IMBROWN (14) IMPAWNS (14) IMPOWER (14) INDOWED (12) INDRAWN (11) [adjective] Having been drawn in or inward. | [adjective] Mentally withdrawn; introspective. INDWELL (11) [verb] To exist within, especially as a spirit or driving force. INDWELT (11) [verb] To exist within, especially as a spirit or driving force. INFLOWS (13) [noun] The act or process of flowing in or into | [noun] Anything which flows in or into | [noun] Influence from outside. INGROWN (11) [adjective] That has grown inwards or abnormally towards (a part of the body) INKWELL (14) [noun] A container for ink, designed and usually positioned so that a person may conveniently dip a pen into it whenever a refill is needed. INKWOOD (15) INSWEPT (12) INTWINE (10) [verb] To twist or twine around something (or one another). INTWIST (10) INWALLS (10) INWARDS (11) [adverb] Towards the inside. INWEAVE (13) INWINDS (11) INWOUND (11) INWOVEN (13) INWRAPS (12) [verb] To wrap around, surround; to envelop | [verb] To absorb completely or engross JACKDAW (24) [noun] A European bird (Coloeus monedula) of the crow family, often nesting in church towers and ruins. | [noun] A Daurian jackdaw, a closely related Asian bird (Coloeus dauuricus). JAWBONE (19) [noun] The bone of the lower jaw; the mandible. | [noun] Any of the bones in the lower or upper jaw. | [noun] (singular or plural) A shaken musical instrument (an idiophone) made from the jawbone of an animal and shaken such that the teeth vibrate in their sockets to produce sound. JAWLIKE (21) JAWLINE (17) [noun] The lower edge of the side of the face (below the cheek), defined by the jawbone. JAYWALK (24) [verb] To behave as a jaywalker; to violate pedestrian traffic regulations by crossing a street away from a designated crossing or to walk in the part of the street intended for vehicles rather than on the sidewalk. JEWELED (18) [verb] To bejewel; to decorate or bedeck with jewels or gems. | [adjective] Set with jewels JEWELER (17) [noun] A person whose job is making, repairing or selling jewelry. JEWELRY (20) [noun] Collectively, personal ornamentation such as rings, necklaces, brooches and bracelets, made of precious metals and sometimes set with gemstones. JEWFISH (23) [noun] Any of several fish species, principally groupers and similar-appearing fish JIGSAWN (18) JIGSAWS (18) [noun] A saw with fine teeth and a narrow blade which can cut curves in wood or metal. | [noun] A jigsaw puzzle. JOWLIER (17) KEYWAYS (20) [noun] A slot into which a precision attachment (a key) is fitted. KEYWORD (18) [noun] Any word used as the key to a code. | [noun] Any word used in a reference work to link to other words or other information. | [noun] A reserved word used to identify a specific command, function etc. KNAWELS (14) [noun] A low, spreading weed of the genus Scleranthus, especially KNOWERS (14) KNOWING (15) [verb] To perceive the truth or factuality of; to be certain of or that. | [verb] To be aware of; to be cognizant of. | [verb] To be acquainted or familiar with; to have encountered. KOTOWED (15) KOTOWER (14) KOWTOWS (17) [noun] The act of kowtowing. KWANZAS (23) [noun] The currency of Angola, divided into a hundred cêntimos. LANEWAY (13) [noun] A narrow roadway; a lane LAPWING (13) [noun] Any of several medium-sized wading birds belonging to the subfamily Vanellinae within family Charadriidae. | [noun] The tewit (Vanellus cristatus) (which is a type of lapwing in the first sense). | [noun] A silly man. LAUWINE (10) LAWBOOK (16) LAWINES (10) LAWINGS (11) LAWLESS (10) [adjective] Not governed by any law. | [adjective] Prohibited by law; unlawful, illegal. | [adjective] Not restrained by the law or by discipline; disorderly, unruly. LAWLIKE (14) LAWSUIT (10) [noun] In civil law, a case where two or more people disagree and one or more of the parties take the case to a court for resolution. LAWYERS (13) [noun] A professional person qualified (as by a law degree or bar exam) and authorized to practice law, i.e. represent parties in lawsuits or trials and give legal advice. | [noun] (by extension) A legal layman who argues points of law. | [noun] The burbot. LAYAWAY (16) [noun] Things which have had a deposit placed on them and which the owner (generally a store) has agreed to hold for the customer and accept full payment at a later time. | [noun] The system of accepting a deposit and holding for a customer to complete purchase. | [verb] To place items on hold with a deposit at a merchant's. LECHWES (15) LEEWARD (11) [adjective] On the side sheltered from the wind; in that direction. | [adverb] Away from the direction from which the wind is blowing; downwind. LEEWAYS (13) LEGWORK (15) [noun] Work, especially research or preparation, that involves significant walking, travel, or similar effort. | [noun] Skillful or vigorous use of the legs, as in dance or sports. LETDOWN (11) [noun] A disappointment or anticlimax. | [noun] The neurohormonal release of milk in dairy cows or in breastfeeding human mothers. LEWDEST (11) [adjective] Lascivious, sexually promiscuous, rude. | [adjective] Lay; not clerical. | [adjective] Uneducated. LEWISES (10) [noun] A cramp iron inserted into a cavity in order to lift heavy stones; used as a symbol of strength in Freemasonry. | [noun] (by extension) The son of a Freemason, envisaged as assisting his father in heavy work or in old age. | [noun] A kind of shears used in cropping woollen cloth. LIFEWAY (16) LOBWORM (14) [noun] The lugworm. LOCKJAW (23) [noun] A spasmodic, nervous system disease brought on by the tetanus bacteria. It causes muscles to seize up and may cause death by suffocation. LOGWAYS (14) LOGWOOD (12) [noun] A tree, Haematoxylum campechianum, in the legume family, of great economic importance and growing throughout Central America. | [noun] Any of various trees of the genus Xylosma in the willow family. LONGBOW (13) [noun] A large bow that has a strong tension, and is usually more than 3 feet tall. The most famous longbows in history were the English longbows, which were crafted of yew. LOWBALL (12) [noun] The position of the ball on an American railroad ball signal that indicated Stop. | [noun] A form of poker in which the lowest-ranking poker hand wins the pot. Usually the ace is the lowest-ranking card, straights and flushes do not count making the best possible hand being A, 2, 3, 4, 5 regardless of suits (in contrast to deuce-to-seven lowball.) | [noun] A form of cribbage in which the first to score 121 (or 61) is the loser. LOWBORN (12) [adjective] Born in a family of low status. LOWBOYS (15) [noun] A low chest of drawers. | [noun] Trucking A semi-trailer designed for hauling vehicles and other mobile equipment, with two drops in deck height: one right after the gooseneck and one right before the wheels; so named because the trailer's main deck is situated close to the ground for easy loading and unloading of vehicles and equipment. LOWBRED (13) LOWBROW (15) [noun] Someone or something of low education or culture. | [adjective] Unsophisticated, not intended for an audience of intelligence, education or culture. LOWDOWN (14) [noun] The story or truth. | [adjective] Unfair; shameful. LOWERED (11) [verb] To frown; to look sullen. | [verb] To be dark, gloomy, and threatening, as clouds; of the sky: to be covered with dark and threatening clouds; to show threatening signs of approach, as a tempest. | [verb] To let descend by its own weight, as something suspended; to let down LOWINGS (11) LOWLAND (11) [noun] Area which is lower than surrounding areas. LOWLIER (10) [adjective] Not high; not elevated in place; low. | [adjective] Low in rank or social importance. | [adjective] Not lofty or sublime; humble. LOWLIFE (13) [noun] An untrustworthy, despicable, or disreputable person, especially one suspected of being a criminal. LOWNESS (10) LUGWORM (13) [noun] Any of several species of large marine annelid worm of the genus Arenicola MADWORT (13) MALLOWS (12) [noun] Any of a group of flowering plants in several genera of the taxonomic family Malvaceae, especially of the genus Malva. Several species are edible by humans. MANWARD (13) MANWISE (12) MARROWS (12) [noun] The substance inside bones which produces blood cells. | [noun] A kind of vegetable like a large courgette/zucchini or squash. | [noun] The pith of certain plants. MARROWY (15) MAWKISH (19) [adjective] Feeling sick, queasy. | [adjective] Sickening or insipid in taste or smell. | [adjective] Excessively or falsely sentimental; showing a sickly excess of sentiment; maudlin. MAXWELL (19) [noun] A unit of magnetic flux that produces one abvolt per turn per second. MAYWEED (16) [noun] Stinking chamomile, Anthemis cotula. | [noun] Corn chamomile, field chamomile, Anthemis arvensis. | [noun] Plants of the genera Matricaria and Tripleurospermum. MEADOWS (13) [noun] A field or pasture; a piece of land covered or cultivated with grass, usually intended to be mown for hay. | [noun] Low land covered with coarse grass or rank herbage near rivers and in marshy places by the sea. MEADOWY (16) MELLOWS (12) [verb] To make mellow; to relax or soften. | [verb] To become mellow. MEOWING (13) [verb] Of a cat, to make its cry. | [noun] The act of uttering a meow. MEWLERS (12) MEWLING (13) [noun] A sound that mewls. | [verb] To cry weakly with a soft, high-pitched sound; to whimper; to whine. MIAOWED (13) [verb] Of a cat, to make its cry. MIDTOWN (13) [noun] The part of a city between uptown and downtown MIDWAYS (16) [noun] The middle; the midst. | [noun] A middle way or manner; a mean or middle course between extremes. | [noun] The part of a fair or circus where rides, entertainments, and booths are concentrated. MIDWEEK (17) [noun] The middle of the week. | [adjective] That happens in the middle of the week | [adverb] In the middle of the week. MIDWIFE (16) [noun] A person, usually a woman, who is trained to assist women in childbirth, but who is not a physician. | [noun] Someone who assists in bringing about some result or project. | [verb] To act as a midwife MILDEWS (13) [verb] To taint with mildew. | [verb] To become tainted with mildew. MILDEWY (16) [adjective] Of, pertaining to, or affected with mildew MINNOWS (12) [noun] A small freshwater fish of the carp family, Phoxinus phoxinus. | [noun] Any small fish. | [noun] A relatively small and insignificant person or organization. MISDRAW (13) MISDREW (13) MISGREW (13) MISGROW (13) MISKNEW (16) MISKNOW (16) MISTBOW (14) MISWORD (13) MISWRIT (12) MOONBOW (14) MORROWS (12) MOWINGS (13) [noun] The activity by which something is mown. | [noun] Land from which grass is cut. MUDFLOW (16) [noun] A type of landslide characterized by large flows of mud and water. | [noun] The dried-out product of such a flow. MUGWORT (13) [noun] Any of several aromatic plants of the genus Artemisia native to Europe and Asia. | [noun] Artemisia vulgaris, traditionally used medicinally. MUGWUMP (17) [noun] An independent neutral politician, especially in reference to the 1884 U.S. presidential election. | [noun] An aloof or self-important but inconsequential person. NARROWS (10) [verb] To reduce in width or extent; to contract. | [verb] To get narrower. | [verb] (of a person or eyes) To partially lower one's eyelids in a way usually taken to suggest a defensive, aggressive or penetrating look. NARWALS (10) NARWHAL (13) [noun] Monodon monoceros, an Arctic cetacean that grows to about 20 feet (6 meters) long, the male having a single horn-like tusk, a twisted, pointed canine tooth that projects forward. NEPHEWS (15) [noun] A son of one's sibling, brother-in-law, or sister-in-law; either a son of one's brother (fraternal nephew) or a son of one's sister (sororal nephew). | [noun] A son of one's child. NETWORK (14) [noun] A fabric or structure of fibrous elements attached to each other at regular intervals. | [noun] Any interconnected group or system | [noun] A directory of people maintained for their advancement NEWBORN (12) [noun] A recently born baby. | [adjective] Recently born. | [adjective] Born anew, reborn. NEWMOWN (15) NEWNESS (10) [noun] The property of being new; novelty; recency. NEWSBOY (15) [noun] A boy, or by extension a man, who delivers and/or sells newspapers. NEWSIER (10) [adjective] Containing lots of news; informative. | [adjective] Chatty, gossipy. NEWSIES (10) [noun] A distributor of news; a newsagent. | [noun] A journalist. NEWSMAN (12) [noun] A reporter; a person in the profession of providing news. NEWSMEN (12) [noun] A reporter; a person in the profession of providing news. NEWTONS (10) [noun] In the International System of Units, the derived unit of force; the force required to accelerate a mass of one kilogram by one metre per second per second. Symbol: N. NITWITS (10) [noun] A scatterbrained or stupid person. NONNEWS (10) NONWARS (10) NONWORD (11) [noun] Any sequence of sounds or letters which is not considered to be a word. NONWORK (14) NOWHERE (13) [noun] No particular place, noplace. | [adjective] Unimportant; unworthy of notice. | [adverb] In no place. NOWNESS (10) NUTWOOD (11) OILWAYS (13) OLDWIFE (14) ONWARDS (11) [verb] To keep going; to progress or persevere. | [adverb] Onward OUTBAWL (12) OUTCROW (12) OUTDRAW (11) [verb] To extract or draw out. | [verb] (Wild West) To remove a gun from its holster, and fire it, faster than another. | [verb] To attract a larger crowd than. OUTDREW (11) [verb] To extract or draw out. | [verb] (Wild West) To remove a gun from its holster, and fire it, faster than another. | [verb] To attract a larger crowd than. OUTFAWN (13) OUTFLEW (13) [verb] To fly better, faster, or further than. OUTFLOW (13) [noun] The process of flowing out | [verb] To flow outward. OUTGLOW (11) OUTGNAW (11) OUTGREW (11) [verb] To become too big in size or too mature in age or outlook to continue to want, need, use, experience, or accept some object, practice, condition, belief, etc. | [verb] To grow faster or larger than. OUTGROW (11) [verb] To become too big in size or too mature in age or outlook to continue to want, need, use, experience, or accept some object, practice, condition, belief, etc. | [verb] To grow faster or larger than. OUTHOWL (13) OUTLAWS (10) [noun] A fugitive from the law. | [noun] (history) A criminal who is excluded from normal legal rights; one who can be killed at will without legal penalty. | [noun] A person who operates outside established norms. OUTROWS (10) OUTSWAM (12) OUTSWIM (12) OUTSWUM (12) OUTWAIT (10) [verb] To wait for something to end | [verb] To gain an advantage by simply waiting OUTWALK (14) [verb] To walk further than another OUTWARD (11) [adjective] Outer; located towards the outside | [adjective] Visible, noticeable | [adjective] Tending to the exterior or outside. | [verb] To ward off; to keep out. | [noun] A ward in a detached building connected with a hospital. OUTWARS (10) OUTWASH (13) [noun] The sediment (mostly sand and gravel) deposited by water flowing from a melting glacier OUTWEAR (10) [verb] To wear out. | [verb] To outlast; to survive or outlive longer than. 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OVERNEW (13) OVERSAW (13) [verb] To survey, look at something in a wide angle. | [verb] To supervise, guide, review or direct the actions of a person or group. | [verb] To inspect, examine OVERSEW (13) [verb] To sew together the edges of two pieces of fabric, with every stitch passing over the join. OVERWET (13) OWLLIKE (14) OWNABLE (12) PACKWAX (25) PARKWAY (19) [noun] A road; a thoroughfare. | [noun] A scenic freeway. | [noun] A divided highway with a landscaped median. | [noun] A railway station built on the edge of a town, typically with a large car park to function as a park and ride interchange. PARTWAY (15) [adverb] To some extent. | [adverb] In part. PATHWAY (18) [noun] A footpath or other path or track. | [noun] A sequence of biochemical compounds, and the reactions linking them, that describe a process in metabolism or catabolism. | [noun] A course of action. PAWKIER (16) [adjective] Shrewd, sly; often also characterised by a sarcastic sense of humour. PAWKILY (19) PAWNAGE (13) PAWNEES (12) [noun] One or two whom a pledge is delivered as security; one who takes anything in pawn. PAWNERS (12) PAWNING (13) [verb] To pledge; to stake or wager. | [verb] To give as security on a loan of money; especially, to deposit (something) at a pawn shop. | [noun] The act by which something is pawned. PAWNORS (12) PAWPAWS (17) [noun] Any of several types of trees having edible fruit: | [noun] The fruit of these trees. | [noun] Grandfather. PEAFOWL (15) [noun] A pheasant of the genus Pavo or Afropavo, notable for the extravagant tails of the males; a peacock (unspecified sex). PEEWEES (12) [noun] A short or small person; a small object. | [noun] A kind of small marble in children's games. | [noun] A player in a sports league for very young children. PEEWITS (12) [noun] Any of several birds PERIWIG (13) [noun] A wig, especially any kind of stylised wig as formerly worn by men and women. | [verb] To dress with a periwig, or with false hair; to bewig. PESEWAS (12) [noun] In the currency of Ghana, one hundredth of a cedi. PEWTERS (12) PIGWEED (14) [noun] Any of various weedy plants sometimes used as pig fodder PILLOWS (12) [noun] A soft cushion used to support the head in bed. | [noun] A pillow lava. | [noun] A piece of metal or wood, forming a support to equalize pressure; a brass; a pillow block. PILLOWY (15) PINWALE (12) [noun] A corduroy fabric having narrow ribs. PINWEED (13) PINWORK (16) PINWORM (14) [noun] Any of several nematode worms, of the family Oxyuridae, that are parasitic to mammals PITSAWS (12) [noun] A saw worked by two people, one standing on the log and the other beneath it, often in a pit. PLOWBOY (17) PLOWERS (12) PLOWING (13) [noun] The breaking of the ground into furrows (with a plough) for planting. PLOWMAN (14) [noun] A man who plows land with a plough. PLOWMEN (14) [noun] A man who plows land with a plough. PLYWOOD (16) [noun] Construction material supplied in sheets, and made of three or more layers of wood veneer glued together, laid up with alternating layers having their grain perpendicular to each other. | [noun] A specific grade or type of this construction material. | [verb] To fit or block up with plywood. POSTWAR (12) [adjective] Pertaining to a period of time immediately following the end of a war; where there is a cessation of conflict. POWDERS (13) [noun] The fine particles which are the result of reducing dry substance by pounding, grinding, or triturating, or the result of decay; dust. | [noun] A mixture of fine dry, sweet-smelling particles applied to the face or other body parts, to reduce shine or to alleviate chaffing. | [noun] An explosive mixture used in gunnery, blasting, etc.; gunpowder. POWDERY (16) [adjective] Of or pertaining to powder. POWERED (13) [verb] To provide power for (a mechanical or electronic device). | [verb] To hit or kick something forcefully. | [verb] To enable or provide the impetus for. POWTERS (12) POWWOWS (18) [noun] A ritual conducted by a Native American shaman. | [noun] A Native American shaman. | [noun] A Native American council or meeting. PRAWNED (13) PRAWNER (12) [noun] Someone who fishes for prawns. | [noun] A boat used for prawn fishing. PREDAWN (13) [noun] The period immediately preceding dawn. PRESHOW (15) PREVIEW (15) [noun] An experience of something in advance. | [noun] An advance showing of a film, exhibition etc. | [noun] Something seen in advance. PREWARM (14) PREWARN (12) [verb] To warn beforehand; to forewarn. PREWASH (15) [noun] A quick rinse given to objects before they are washed properly. | [verb] To rinse something before washing it properly. PREWORK (16) PREWRAP (14) PROWESS (12) [noun] Skillfulness and manual ability; adroitness or dexterity. | [noun] Distinguished bravery or courage, especially in battle; heroism. | [noun] An act of prowess. PROWEST (12) PROWLED (13) [verb] To rove over, through, or about in a stealthy manner; especially, to search in, as for prey or booty. | [verb] To idle; to go about aimlessly. | [verb] To collect by plunder. PROWLER (12) [noun] One who roves about for prey; one who prowls. PSHAWED (16) [verb] To express disgust or contempt. PSYWARS (15) PURVIEW (15) [noun] The enacting part of a statute. | [noun] The scope of a statute. | [noun] Scope or range of interest or control. QWERTYS (22) RACEWAY (15) [noun] A place where races are held; a racetrack. | [noun] An easily-accessible conduit or tray for organizing runs of data or power cabling. | [noun] The canal for the current that drives a water wheel. RAGWEED (12) [noun] A plant of the genus Ambrosia. These weeds are particularly noted for producing pollen which people with hay fever are allergic to. RAGWORT (11) [noun] Any of a number of wild flowering plants with yellow flowers in the family Asteraceae, mostly belonging to Senecio and related genera. RAILWAY (13) [noun] A transport system using rails used to move passengers or goods. | [noun] A track, consisting of parallel rails, over which wheeled vehicles such as trains may travel. RAINBOW (12) [noun] A multicoloured arch in the sky, produced by prismatic refraction of light within droplets of rain in the air. | [noun] Any prismatic refraction of light showing a spectrum of colours. | [noun] (often used with “of”) A wide assortment; a varied multitude. RAWHIDE (14) [noun] Untanned hide. | [noun] A whip made from twisted untanned leather. | [verb] To clear (a pump) of sediment by starting and stopping it repeatedly. RAWNESS (10) REAVOWS (13) REAWAKE (14) REAWOKE (14) RECHEWS (15) RECROWN (12) REDOWAS (11) REDRAWN (11) [verb] To draw again. REDRAWS (11) [verb] To draw again. REDWARE (11) REDWING (12) [noun] A small thrush, Turdus iliacus, native to Eurasia, with a white eye stripe and red under-wing feathers. REDWOOD (12) [noun] (USDA-preferred term) The species Sequoia sempervirens. | [noun] Any of the evergreen conifers belonging to the genus Sequoia in the wide sense. | [noun] The wood of the species Sequoia sempervirens. REENDOW (11) REFLOWN (13) REFLOWS (13) [verb] To flow back again. | [verb] To cause to flow again, to remelt. | [verb] (wordprocessing) To modify the layout of text around other objects in a document. REGLOWS (11) REGROWN (11) [verb] To grow again a part that has been lost, shed or destroyed. | [adjective] That grew, was lost or destroyed, and regrew. REGROWS (11) [verb] To grow again a part that has been lost, shed or destroyed. RENEWAL (10) [noun] The act of renewing. | [noun] An offensive action made immediately after a parried one. RENEWED (11) [verb] To make (something) new again; to restore to freshness or original condition. | [verb] To replace (something which has broken etc.); to replenish (something which has been exhausted), to keep up a required supply of. | [verb] To make new spiritually; to regenerate. RENEWER (10) RENOWNS (10) REPOWER (12) RESAWED (11) RESEWED (11) RESHOWN (13) [verb] To show again. RESHOWS (13) [verb] To show again. RESOWED (11) RETWIST (10) REVIEWS (13) [noun] A second or subsequent reading of a text or artifact in an attempt to gain new insights. | [noun] An account intended as a critical evaluation of a text or a piece of work. | [noun] A judicial reassessment of a case or an event. REWAKED (15) REWAKEN (14) REWAKES (14) REWARDS (11) [noun] Something of value given in return for an act. | [noun] A prize promised for a certain deed or catch | [noun] The result of an action, whether good or bad. REWARMS (12) REWAXED (18) REWAXES (17) REWEAVE (13) REWEIGH (14) [verb] To weigh again; to weigh something that has already been weighed. REWELDS (11) REWIDEN (11) REWINDS (11) [noun] The act of rewinding. | [noun] A button or other mechanism for rewinding. | [verb] To wind (something) again. REWIRED (11) [verb] To replace or reconnect the wires of a device or installation. | [verb] To change the functionality of something by altering the parameters or logic. REWIRES (10) [verb] To replace or reconnect the wires of a device or installation. | [verb] To change the functionality of something by altering the parameters or logic. REWOKEN (14) REWORDS (11) [verb] To change the wording of; to restate using different words. REWORKS (14) REWOUND (11) [verb] To wind (something) again. | [verb] To wind (something) back, now especially of cassette or video tape, CD, DVD etc.; to go back on a video or audio recording. | [verb] To go back or think back to a previous moment or place, or a previous point in a discourse. REWOVEN (13) REWRAPS (12) [verb] To wrap again. REWRAPT (12) REWRITE (10) [noun] The act of writing again or anew. | [noun] Something that has been written again. | [verb] To write again, differently; to modify (a piece of writing or music, etc.). REWROTE (10) [verb] To write again, differently; to modify (a piece of writing or music, etc.). | [verb] To write out again (without changes). RIBWORT (12) [noun] Ribgrass; Old World plantain, Plantago lanceolata. RIKSHAW (17) RINGTAW (11) RIPSAWS (12) [noun] A saw that is designed to cut wood along its grain, i.e. to rip, to execute a rip cut. | [noun] A genre of music played with a ripsaw and other instruments, originally associated mainly with Turks and Caicos Islands. | [verb] To cut with a ripsaw. ROADWAY (14) [noun] A way used as a road. | [noun] The main or central portion of a road, used by the vehicles. | [noun] The portion of a bridge or railway used by traffic. ROLLWAY (13) ROPEWAY (15) [noun] A system of cables, slung from towers, from which carriers are suspended to transport materials. ROWABLE (12) ROWBOAT (12) [noun] A small open boat propelled by oars (by rowing). ROWDIER (11) [adjective] Loud and disorderly; riotous; boisterous. ROWDIES (11) [noun] A boisterous person; a brawler. ROWDILY (14) ROWELED (11) [verb] To use a rowel on (something), especially to drain fluid. | [verb] To fit with spurs. | [verb] To apply the spur to. ROWINGS (11) ROWLOCK (16) [noun] A pivot attached to the gunwale (outrigger in a sport boat) of a boat that supports and guides an oar, and provides a fulcrum for rowing; an oarlock (mostly US). RUBDOWN (13) [noun] A quick, energetic massage. RUNAWAY (13) [noun] A person or animal that runs away or has run away; a person, animal, or organization that escapes captivity or restrictions. | [noun] A vehicle (especially, a train) that is out of control. | [noun] (usually attributive) An object or process that is out of control or out of equilibrium. RUNDOWN (11) [adjective] (of a person) Tired and exhausted. | [adjective] (of a place) Decrepit. | [adjective] (of a clockwork mechanism) Having the spring unwound. RUNWAYS (13) [noun] A defined, narrow section of land or an artificial structure used for access. | [noun] The usual path taken by deer or other wild animals, such as from a forest to a water source. | [noun] A narrow walkway (often on a platform) extending from a stage on which people walk, especially one used by models during fashion shows. SAHIWAL (13) SALCHOW (15) [noun] A figure skating jump with a takeoff from a back inside edge and landing on the back outside edge of the opposite foot after one or more rotations in the air. SALLOWS (10) [verb] To become sallow. | [verb] To cause (someone or something) to become sallow. | [noun] A European willow, Salix caprea, that has broad leaves, large catkins and tough wood. SALLOWY (13) SAPWOOD (13) [noun] The wood just under the bark of a stem or branch, different in color from the heartwood. SAWBILL (12) [noun] The red-breasted merganser. SAWBUCK (18) [noun] A framework for holding wood so that it can be sawed; a sawhorse | [noun] A ten-dollar bill SAWDUST (11) [noun] The fine particles (dust) of wood created by sawing. | [verb] To sprinkle with sawdust. SAWFISH (16) [noun] Any ray (marine fish with a flat body and wing-like fins) of the family Pristidae, having a snout that resembles a saw. SAWLIKE (14) SAWLOGS (11) [noun] The part of a tree stem that will be processed at a sawmill, rather than becoming pulpwood. SAWMILL (12) [noun] A machine, building or company used for cutting (milling) lumber. | [verb] To process (lumber) in a sawmill. SAWNEYS (13) SAWYERS (13) [noun] One who saws timber, especially in a sawpit. | [noun] A large trunk of a tree brought down by the force of a river's current | [noun] A beetle, mostly in the genus Monochamus, that lives and feeds on trees, including timber. SCOWDER (13) SCOWING (13) SCOWLED (13) [verb] To wrinkle the brows, as in frowning or displeasure; to put on a frowning look; to look sour, sullen, severe, or angry. | [verb] (by extension) To look gloomy, dark, or threatening; to lower. | [verb] To look at or repel with a scowl or a frown. SCOWLER (12) SCRAWLS (12) [noun] Irregular, possibly illegible handwriting. | [noun] A hastily or carelessly written note etc. | [noun] Writing that lacks literary merit. SCRAWLY (15) SCRAWNY (15) [adjective] Thin, malnourished and weak. SCREWED (13) [verb] To connect or assemble pieces using a screw. | [verb] To have sexual intercourse with. | [verb] To cheat someone or ruin their chances in a game or other situation. SCREWER (12) SCREWUP (14) [noun] A substantial mistake, usually causing problems for more people than just the person or group who made it. | [noun] A person who often makes substantial mistakes; a bungler. | [noun] A person who is mentally or emotionally damaged. SEAFOWL (13) SEAWALL (10) [noun] A coastal defence in the form of a wall or an embankment. SEAWANS (10) SEAWANT (10) SEAWARD (11) [adjective] Being in or facing towards the sea, as opposed to the land. | [adverb] In the direction of the sea, toward the sea. SEAWARE (10) SEAWAYS (13) [noun] A lane or route at sea that is regularly used by ships; a sea lane or trade route | [noun] An inland waterway used by seagoing shipping | [noun] The headway of a vessel SEAWEED (11) [noun] Any of numerous marine plants and algae, such as a kelp. SEESAWS (10) [verb] To use a seesaw. | [verb] (by extension) To fluctuate. | [verb] To cause to move backward and forward in seesaw fashion. SEMIRAW (12) SEWABLE (12) SEWAGES (11) SEWERED (11) SEWINGS (11) SHADOWS (14) [noun] A dark image projected onto a surface where light (or other radiation) is blocked by the shade of an object. | [noun] Relative darkness, especially as caused by the interruption of light; gloom, obscurity. | [noun] A area protected by an obstacle (likened to an object blocking out sunlight). SHADOWY (17) [adjective] In shadow; darkened by shadows. | [adjective] (of character) Dark, obscure. | [adjective] Indulging in fancies; daydreaming. SHALLOW (13) [noun] A shallow portion of an otherwise deep body of water. | [noun] A fish, the rudd. | [noun] A costermonger's barrow. SHAWING (14) SHAWLED (14) SHEWERS (13) SHEWING (14) [verb] To display, to have somebody see (something). | [verb] To bestow; to confer. | [verb] To indicate (a fact) to be true; to demonstrate. SHIPWAY (18) [noun] The sloping dry dock in which a ship is built and from where it is launched. | [noun] A navigable canal. SHOWBIZ (24) [noun] Showbusiness SHOWERS (13) [noun] A brief fall of precipitation (spell of rain, or a similar fall of snow, sleet, or cascade). | [noun] A device for bathing by which water is made to fall on the body from a height, either from a tank or by the action of a pump. | [noun] An instance of using of this device in order to bathe oneself. SHOWERY (16) [adjective] Given to showers; having frequent rainfall. | [adjective] Of or relating to a shower or showers. SHOWIER (13) [adjective] (sometimes derogatory) calling attention; flashy; standing out to the eye SHOWILY (16) SHOWING (14) [verb] To display, to have somebody see (something). | [verb] To bestow; to confer. | [verb] To indicate (a fact) to be true; to demonstrate. SHOWMAN (15) [noun] A person who produces or presents shows as a profession, especially the proprietor, manager, or MC of a circus or variety show. | [noun] A person skilled in dramatic or entertaining presentation, performance, or publicity. SHOWMEN (15) [noun] A person who produces or presents shows as a profession, especially the proprietor, manager, or MC of a circus or variety show. | [noun] A person skilled in dramatic or entertaining presentation, performance, or publicity. SHOWOFF (19) [noun] A person given to egotistically attempting to demonstrate prowess or ability. SHREWED (14) SIDEWAY (14) SINEWED (11) [adjective] Furnished with sinews. | [adjective] Equipped; strengthened. SKEWERS (14) [noun] A long pin, normally made of metal or wood, used to secure food during cooking. | [noun] Food served on a skewer | [noun] A scenario in which a piece attacks a more valuable piece which, if it moves aside, reveals a less valuable piece. Compare pin.W SKEWING (15) [verb] To form or shape in an oblique way; to cause to take an oblique position. | [verb] To bias or distort in a particular direction. | [verb] To hurl or throw. SKIDWAY (18) SKIWEAR (14) [noun] Clothing to be worn while skiing. SKYWALK (21) [noun] Skyway SKYWARD (18) [adjective] Pointing or facing at or moving toward the sky. | [adverb] At or toward the sky. SKYWAYS (20) [noun] A walkway connecting buildings at a significant height above ground level. | [noun] An airplane route. | [noun] An elevated road. SLEWING (11) [verb] To rotate or turn something about its axis. | [verb] To veer a vehicle. | [verb] To insert extra ticks or skip some ticks of a clock to slowly correct its time. SLIPWAY (15) [noun] A sloping surface, leading down to the shore or to a river, on which ships are built, repaired or stored and from which they are launched. SLOWEST (10) [adjective] 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. | [adjective] Not happening in a short time; spread over a comparatively long time. | [adjective] Of reduced intellectual capacity; not quick to comprehend. SLOWING (11) [verb] To make (something) run, move, etc. less quickly; to reduce the speed of. | [verb] To keep from going quickly; to hinder the progress of. | [verb] To become slow; to slacken in speed; to decelerate. SLOWISH (13) SNAWING (11) SNOWCAP (14) [noun] A layer of snow covering a mountain top. | [noun] A small hummingbird, Microchera albocoronata, which is a resident breeder in Honduras, Nicaragua, Costa Rica and western Panama. SNOWIER (10) [adjective] Marked by snow, characterized by snow. | [adjective] Covered with snow, snow-covered, besnowed. | [adjective] Snow-white in color, white as snow. SNOWILY (13) SNOWING (11) [verb] To have snow fall from the sky. | [verb] To hoodwink someone, especially by presenting confusing information. | [verb] To bluff in draw poker by refusing to draw any cards. SNOWMAN (12) [noun] A humanoid figure made with large snowballs stacked on each other. Human traits like a face and arms may be fashioned with sticks (arms), a carrot (nose), and stones or coal (eyes, mouth). | [noun] A score of eight, especially within one inning (in baseball) or on one hole (in golf, where it is also known as dogballs). | [noun] A playing card with the rank of eight. SNOWMEN (12) [noun] A humanoid figure made with large snowballs stacked on each other. Human traits like a face and arms may be fashioned with sticks (arms), a carrot (nose), and stones or coal (eyes, mouth). | [noun] A score of eight, especially within one inning (in baseball) or on one hole (in golf, where it is also known as dogballs). | [noun] A playing card with the rank of eight. SOMEHOW (15) [adverb] In one way or another; in a way not yet known or explained; by some means SOMEWAY (15) [adverb] Somehow. SORROWS (10) [noun] Unhappiness, woe | [noun] (usually in plural) An instance or cause of unhappiness. | [verb] To feel or express grief. SOWABLE (12) SOWCARS (12) SPARROW (12) [noun] The house sparrow, Passer domesticus; a small bird with a short bill, and brown, white and gray feathers. | [noun] A member of the family Passeridae, comprising small Old World songbirds. | [noun] A member of the family Emberizidae, comprising small New World songbirds. SPAWNED (13) [verb] To produce or deposit (eggs) in water. | [verb] To generate, bring into being, especially non-mammalian beings in very large numbers. | [verb] To bring forth in general. SPAWNER (12) SPEWERS (12) SPEWING (13) [verb] To eject forcibly and in a stream | [verb] To speak or write quickly and voluminously, especially words that are not worth listening to or reading. | [verb] To vomit SPRAWLS (12) [noun] An ungainly sprawling posture. | [noun] A straggling, haphazard growth, especially of housing on the edge of a city. | [verb] To sit with the limbs spread out. SPRAWLY (15) SQUAWKS (23) [noun] A shrill noise, especially made by a voice or bird; a yell, scream, or call. | [noun] A four-digit transponder code used by aircraft for identification or transmission of emergency signals. | [noun] An issue or complaint related to aircraft maintenance. STEWARD (11) [noun] A person who manages the property or affairs for another entity, particularly the chief administrator of a medieval manor. | [noun] A ship's officer who is in charge of making dining arrangements and provisions. | [noun] A flight attendant, a male flight attendant. STEWBUM (14) [noun] A homeless alcoholic. STEWING (11) [verb] To cook (food) by slowly boiling or simmering. | [verb] To brew (tea) for too long, so that the flavour becomes too strong. | [verb] To suffer under uncomfortably hot conditions. STEWPAN (12) STOWAGE (11) [noun] The act or practice of stowing. | [noun] A place where things are stowed. | [noun] Things that are stowed. STOWING (11) [verb] To put something away in a compact and tidy manner, in its proper place, or in a suitable place. | [verb] To store or pack something in a space-saving manner and over a long time. | [verb] To arrange, pack, or fill something tightly or closely. STRAWED (11) STREWED (11) [verb] (archaic except strewn) To distribute objects or pieces of something over an area, especially in a random manner. | [verb] (archaic except strewn) To cover, or lie upon, by having been scattered. | [verb] To spread abroad; to disseminate. STREWER (10) STROWED (11) [verb] (archaic except strewn) To distribute objects or pieces of something over an area, especially in a random manner. | [verb] (archaic except strewn) To cover, or lie upon, by having been scattered. | [verb] To spread abroad; to disseminate. SUBWAYS (15) [noun] An underground railway, especially for mass transit of people in urban areas. | [noun] A train that runs on such an underground railway. | [noun] A rapid transit system, regardless of the elevation of its right of way. SUNBOWS (12) [noun] A bow or arc of prismatic colors like a rainbow, caused by refraction through a spray of water from a cataract, waterfall, fountain, etc., rather than through droplets of rain. SUNDEWS (11) [noun] Any of a group of insectivorous plants in the genus Drosera that catch insects by sticky droplets ("dew") at the end of hairs on the leafs and grow in boggy ground all over the world. SUNDOWN (11) [noun] Sunset. | [noun] A hat with a wide brim to shade the eyes from sunlight. | [verb] To experience an episode or an onset of some detrimental mental condition like agitation, anxiety, hallucination or dementia, daily at nightfall. SUNGLOW (11) SUNWARD (11) [adjective] Directed or turned toward the sun. | [adverb] In the direction of the sun. SUNWISE (10) SWABBED (15) [verb] To use a swab on something, or clean something with a swab. SWABBER (14) SWABBIE (14) [noun] A sailor. SWACKED (17) [adjective] Drunk. SWADDLE (12) [noun] Anything used to swaddle with, such as a cloth or band. | [verb] To bind (a baby) with long narrow strips of cloth. | [verb] To beat; cudgel. SWAGERS (11) SWAGGED (13) [verb] To (cause to) sway. | [verb] To droop; to sag. | [verb] To decorate (something) with loops of draped fabric. SWAGGER (12) [noun] Confidence, pride. | [noun] A bold or arrogant strut. | [noun] A prideful boasting or bragging. | [noun] An itinerant person who walks from farm to farm carrying a swag and seeking work, often in exchange for food and lodging. SWAGGIE (12) [noun] A swagman. SWAGING (12) [verb] To lessen the intensity of, to mitigate or relieve (hunger, emotion, pain etc.). | [verb] To pacify or soothe (someone). | [verb] To calm down, become less violent (of passion, hunger etc.); to subside, to abate. SWAGMAN (13) [noun] An itinerant person who walks from farm to farm carrying a swag and seeking work, often in exchange for food and lodging. | [noun] A fence, a middleman for transactions of stolen goods. SWAGMEN (13) [noun] An itinerant person who walks from farm to farm carrying a swag and seeking work, often in exchange for food and lodging. | [noun] A fence, a middleman for transactions of stolen goods. SWALLOW (13) [noun] A deep chasm or abyss in the earth. | [noun] The amount swallowed in one gulp; the act of swallowing. | [noun] Any of various carbohydrate-based dishes that are swallowed without much chewing. | [noun] A small, migratory bird of the Hirundinidae family with long, pointed, moon-shaped wings and a forked tail which feeds on the wing by catching insects. SWAMIES (12) SWAMPED (15) [verb] To drench or fill with water. | [verb] To overwhelm; to make too busy, or overrun the capacity of. | [verb] To plunge into difficulties and perils; to overwhelm; to ruin; to wreck. SWAMPER (14) [noun] A person who lives in a swampy area. | [noun] A person who clears a road for lumberers in a forest or swamp. | [noun] Someone or something that swamps or overwhelms. SWANKED (15) [verb] To swagger, to show off. SWANKER (14) SWANNED (11) [verb] To travel or move about in an aimless, idle, or pretentiously casual way. | [verb] To declare (chiefly in first-person present constructions). SWANPAN (12) SWAPPED (15) [verb] To exchange or give (something) in an exchange (for something else). | [verb] To hit, to strike. | [verb] To beat the air, or ply the wings, with a sweeping motion or noise; to flap. SWAPPER (14) SWARDED (12) SWARMED (13) [verb] To move as a swarm. | [verb] To teem, or be overrun with insects, people, etc. | [verb] To fill a place as a swarm. SWARMER (12) [noun] Something that swarms. SWARTHS (13) SWARTHY (16) [noun] A swarthy person. | [adjective] Tawny, dusky, dark. | [adjective] Dark-skinned. SWASHED (14) [verb] To swagger; to bluster and brag. | [verb] To dash or flow noisily; to splash. | [verb] To fall violently or noisily. SWASHER (13) SWASHES (13) [verb] To swagger; to bluster and brag. | [verb] To dash or flow noisily; to splash. | [verb] To fall violently or noisily. SWATHED (14) [verb] To bind with a swathe, band, bandage, or rollers SWATHER (13) [noun] A device on a mowing machine or combine harvester that raises uncut grain and marks the edge of the swath SWATHES (13) [noun] The track cut out by a scythe in mowing. | [noun] A broad sweep or expanse, such as of land or of people. | [noun] A bandage; a band SWATTED (11) [verb] To beat off, as insects; to bat, strike, or hit. | [verb] To illegitimately provoke a SWAT assault upon (someone). SWATTER (10) SWAYERS (13) SWAYFUL (16) SWAYING (14) [verb] To move or swing from side to side; or backward and forward; to rock. | [verb] To move or wield with the hand; to swing; to wield. | [verb] To influence or direct by power, authority, persuasion, or by moral force; to rule; to govern; to guide. Compare persuade. SWEARER (10) SWEATED (11) [verb] To emit sweat. | [verb] To cause to excrete moisture through skin. | [verb] To work hard. SWEATER (10) [noun] A knitted jacket or jersey, usually of thick wool, worn by athletes before or after exercise. | [noun] A similar garment worn for warmth. | [noun] One who sweats (produces sweat). SWEEPER (12) [noun] One who sweeps floors or chimneys. | [noun] A detector (for mines). | [noun] Any of the small, tropical marine perciform fishes of the family Pempheridae, typically with deeply keeled, compressed bodies and large eyes. SWEETEN (10) [verb] To make sweet to the taste. | [verb] To make (more) pleasant or to the mind or feelings. | [verb] To make mild or kind; to soften. SWEETER (10) [adjective] Having a pleasant taste, especially one relating to the basic taste sensation induced by sugar. | [adjective] Having a taste of sugar. | [adjective] Retaining a portion of sugar. SWEETIE (10) [noun] (often as a term of address) A person who is much loved. | [noun] A sweetheart. | [noun] A fruit that is a crossbreed between a grapefruit and a pomelo, originating in Israel. SWEETLY (13) [adverb] In a sweet or pleasant manner. SWELLED (11) [verb] To become bigger, especially due to being engorged. | [verb] To cause to become bigger. | [verb] To grow gradually in force or loudness. SWELLER (10) SWELTER (10) [noun] Intense heat. | [verb] To suffer terribly from intense heat. | [verb] To perspire greatly from heat. SWELTRY (13) SWERVED (14) [verb] To stray; to wander; to rove. | [verb] To go out of a straight line; to deflect. | [verb] To wander from any line prescribed, or from a rule or duty; to depart from what is established by law, duty, custom, or the like; to deviate. SWERVER (13) SWERVES (13) [noun] A sudden movement out of a straight line, for example to avoid a collision. | [noun] A deviation from duty or custom. | [verb] To stray; to wander; to rove. SWEVENS (13) SWIDDEN (12) [noun] An area of land that has been cleared by cutting the vegetation and burning it; slash and burn. | [verb] To clear an area of land by cutting and burning. SWIFTER (13) [adjective] Fast; quick; rapid. | [adjective] Capable of moving at high speeds. | [noun] A rope used to retain the bars of the capstan in their sockets while it is being turned. SWIFTLY (16) [adverb] In a swift manner; quickly; with quick motion or velocity; fleetly. SWIGGED (13) [verb] To drink (usually by gulping or in a greedy or unrefined manner); to quaff. | [verb] To suck. | [verb] 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. SWIGGER (12) SWILLED (11) [verb] To drink (or, rarely, eat) greedily or to excess. | [verb] To wash (something) by flooding with water. | [verb] To move (a liquid or liquid-filled vessel) in a circular motion. SWILLER (10) SWIMMER (14) [noun] One who swims. | [noun] A protuberance on the leg of a horse. | [noun] A webfooted aquatic bird. SWINDLE (11) [noun] An instance of swindling. | [noun] Anything that is deceptively not what it appears to be. | [verb] To defraud. SWINGBY (16) [noun] An interplanetary flight in which the gravitational attraction of a planet is used to provide acceleration and a change in course. SWINGED (12) [verb] To singe. | [verb] To move like a lash; to lash. | [verb] To strike hard. SWINGER (11) [noun] One who swings. | [noun] A person who practices swinging (sex with different partners). | [noun] A bet in which the bettor must correctly pick two runners to finish in any of the places in any order. | [noun] One who swinges. SWINGES (11) [noun] A swinging blow. | [noun] Power; sway; influence. SWINGLE (11) [noun] An implement used to separate the fibres of flax by beating them; a scutch. | [verb] To beat or flog, especially for extracting the fibres from flax stalks; to scutch. | [verb] To beat off the tops of (weeds) without pulling up the roots. | [verb] To dangle; to wave hanging. SWINISH (13) SWINKED (15) SWINNEY (13) SWIPING (13) [verb] To grab or bat quickly. | [verb] To strike with a strong blow in a sweeping motion. | [verb] To scan or register by sliding (a swipecard etc.) through a reader. SWIPLES (12) SWIPPLE (14) [noun] The part of a flail that is free to swing, and which strikes the grain in threshing. SWIRLED (11) [verb] To twist or whirl, as an eddy. | [verb] To be arranged in a twist, spiral or whorl. | [verb] To circulate. SWISHED (14) [verb] To make a rustling sound while moving. | [verb] To flourish with a swishing sound. | [verb] To flog; to lash. SWISHER (13) [adjective] Sophisticated; fashionable; smooth. | [adjective] Attractive, stylish | [adjective] Effeminate. | [noun] The wrapping paper of a cigar for use in making a blunt to smoke marijuana SWISHES (13) [noun] A short rustling, hissing or whistling sound, often made by friction. | [noun] A hissing, sweeping movement through the air, as of an animal's tail. | [noun] A sound of liquid flowing inside a container. SWISSES (10) SWITHER (13) [noun] A state of indecision or confusion. | [verb] To be indecisive or in a state of confusion; to dither. SWITHLY (16) SWIVELS (13) [noun] A piece, as a ring or hook, attached to another piece by a pin, in such a manner as to permit rotation about the pin as an axis. | [noun] A small piece of ordnance, turning on a point or swivel; called also swivel gun. | [noun] Strength of mind or character that enables one to overcome adversity; confidence; force of will. SWIVETS (13) [noun] A state or condition of haste, flutter; extreme discomposure or distress; irritation, exasperation, annoyance. SWIVING (14) [verb] To copulate with (a woman). | [verb] To cut a crop in a sweeping or rambling manner, hence to reap; cut for harvest. | [noun] The act or process of copulating; copulation. SWIZZLE (28) [noun] A beverage of water and vinegar, often seasoned with ginger and sweetened with molasses, honey, or similar. | [noun] Any of various kinds of alcoholic drink. | [verb] To stir or mix. SWOBBED (15) [verb] To use a swab on something, or clean something with a swab. SWOBBER (14) SWOLLEN (10) [verb] To become bigger, especially due to being engorged. | [verb] To cause to become bigger. | [verb] To grow gradually in force or loudness. SWOONED (11) [verb] To faint, to lose consciousness. | [verb] (by extension) To be overwhelmed by emotion, especially infatuation. | [verb] To make a moan, sigh, or some other sound expressing infatuation or affection. SWOONER (10) SWOOPED (13) [verb] To fly or glide downwards suddenly; to plunge (in the air) or nosedive. | [verb] To move swiftly, as if with a sweeping movement, especially to attack something. | [verb] To fall on at once and seize; to catch while on the wing. SWOOPER (12) SWOPPED (15) [verb] To exchange or give (something) in an exchange (for something else). | [verb] To hit, to strike. | [verb] To beat the air, or ply the wings, with a sweeping motion or noise; to flap. SWOTTED (11) [verb] To study with effort or determination (object of study indicated by "up on"). SWOTTER (10) SWOUNDS (11) SWOUNED (11) TALLOWS (10) [verb] To grease or smear with tallow. | [verb] To cause to have a large quantity of tallow; to fatten. TALLOWY (13) TARWEED (11) [noun] Any of various American flowering plants that have sticky leaves. TAWNEYS (13) TAWNIER (10) [adjective] Of a light brown to brownish orange color. | [adjective] A sweet, fortified wine which is blended and matured in wood. TAWNIES (10) TAWNILY (13) TAWPIES (12) TAWSING (11) TAXIWAY (20) [noun] A road or path within an airport designated for the taxiing of aircraft connecting the runways with ramps, hangars, terminals and other facilities. TAXWISE (17) TEABOWL (12) TEAWARE (10) THAWERS (13) THAWING (14) [verb] To gradually melt, dissolve, or become fluid; to soften from frozen | [verb] To become so warm as to melt ice and snow — said in reference to the weather, and used impersonally. | [verb] To grow gentle or genial. THEWIER (13) THRAWED (14) THROWER (13) [noun] Someone who throws. | [noun] Something that throws. | [noun] One who throws or twists silk; a throwster. THRUWAY (16) [noun] A broad highway fit for high-speed traffic; a thoroughfare. THWACKS (19) [noun] The act of thwacking; a strike or blow, especially with a flat implement. | [noun] A heavy slapping sound. | [verb] To hit with a flat implement. THWARTS (13) [noun] A seat across a boat on which a rower may sit. | [noun] A brace, perpendicular to the keel, that helps maintain the beam of a marine vessel against external water pressure and that may serve to support the rail. | [noun] An act of thwarting; something which thwarts; a hindrance, an obstacle. TIDEWAY (14) [noun] A channel in which the tide sets. TINWARE (10) [noun] Household items such as utensils, pots, and pans made from tin, generally before the development of metals with other benefits. TINWORK (14) TOLLWAY (13) [noun] A toll road or toll highway, where a fee is charged in order to travel on it; a turnpike. TOPWORK (16) TOWAGES (11) TOWARDS (11) [preposition] In the direction of. | [preposition] In relation to (someone or something). | [preposition] For the purpose of attaining (an aim). TOWAWAY (16) TOWBOAT (12) TOWELED (11) [verb] To hit with a towel. | [verb] To dry by using a towel. | [verb] To block up (a door, etc.) with a towel, to conceal the fumes of a recreational drug. TOWERED (11) [verb] To be very tall. | [verb] To be high or lofty; to soar. | [verb] To soar into. TOWHEAD (14) [noun] A blond person whose very pale, almost white hair resembles tow; the hair of such a person. | [noun] An alluvial deposit in a river, such as a sandbar, or a small island formed from silt, often permanent enough to have vegetation. TOWHEES (13) [noun] Any of several species of birds of the genera Pipilo and Melozone. TOWLINE (10) [noun] A line or rope used for towing a vehicle. TOWMOND (13) TOWMONT (12) TOWNEES (10) [noun] A person living in a university area who is not associated with the university. | [noun] A person born and raised in an area of Massachusetts who is proud of his or her Irish-American community, culture, and heritage. | [noun] A person who has moved from a town or city to a rural area. Especially, one who is perceived not to have adopted rural ways. TOWNIES (10) [noun] A person living in a university area who is not associated with the university. | [noun] A person born and raised in an area of Massachusetts who is proud of his or her Irish-American community, culture, and heritage. | [noun] A person who has moved from a town or city to a rural area. Especially, one who is perceived not to have adopted rural ways. TOWNISH (13) TOWNLET (10) TOWPATH (15) [noun] A path alongside a canal or river, originally for horses towing barges, now more often used as a footpath TOWROPE (12) [noun] A rope or cable used for towing heavy objects. TRAMWAY (15) [noun] The track on which a tram (streetcar) runs. | [noun] The system of cables that supports a cable car. TRAWLED (11) [verb] To take (fish or other marine animals) with a trawl. | [verb] To fish from a slow-moving boat. | [verb] To make an exhaustive search for something within a defined area. TRAWLER (10) [noun] A fishing boat that uses a trawl net or dragnet to catch fish. | [noun] A fisherman who uses a trawl net. TRAWLEY (13) TRISHAW (13) [noun] A three-wheeled cycle rickshaw. TROWELS (10) [noun] A mason’s tool, used in spreading and dressing mortar, and breaking bricks to shape them. | [noun] A gardener’s tool, shaped like a scoop, used in taking up plants, stirring soil etc. | [noun] A tool used for smoothing a mold. TROWING (11) [verb] To trust or believe. | [verb] To have confidence in, or to give credence to. TROWTHS (13) TWADDLE (12) [noun] Empty or silly idle talk or writing; nonsense, rubbish. | [noun] One who twaddles; a twaddler. | [verb] To talk or write nonsense; to prattle. TWANGED (12) [verb] To produce or cause to produce a sharp vibrating sound, like a tense string pulled and suddenly let go. | [verb] To have a nasal sound. | [verb] To have a trace of a regional or foreign accent. TWANGER (11) TWANGLE (11) TWASOME (12) TWATTLE (10) [noun] Chatter; twaddle. | [verb] To talk in a digressive or long-winded way. | [verb] To make much of, as a domestic animal; to pet. | [noun] A dwarf. TWEAKED (15) [verb] To pinch and pull with a sudden jerk and twist; to twitch. | [verb] To adjust slightly; to fine-tune. | [verb] To twit or tease. TWEEDLE (11) TWEETED (11) [verb] To make a short high-pitched sound, like that of certain birds. | [verb] To post an update to Twitter. TWEETER (10) [noun] An electronic speaker designed to produce high-frequency sound. | [noun] One who posts messages ("tweets") on the social networking site Twitter. TWEEZED (20) [verb] To pluck or grasp using tweezers. | [verb] To shape by plucking out hairs with tweezers. | [verb] To pluck out hairs using tweezers. TWEEZER (19) [noun] A pair of tweezers, tweezers. | [verb] To use tweezers. | [adjective] Tweezers. TWEEZES (19) [verb] To pluck or grasp using tweezers. | [verb] To shape by plucking out hairs with tweezers. | [verb] To pluck out hairs using tweezers. TWELFTH (16) [noun] One of twelve equal parts of a whole. | [noun] An interval equal to an octave plus a fifth | [adjective] The ordinal form of the number twelve, describing a person or thing in position number 12 of a sequence. TWELVES (13) [noun] A group of twelve items. | [noun] A twelve-bore gun. | [noun] A jury (normally composed of twelve persons). TWIBILL (12) [noun] An axe with two cutting blades. | [noun] A mattock. | [noun] A double-bladed tool used in gate-type hurdle-making for cutting out mortices, with a flat chisel and a mortice chisel or hook, similar to the much larger French carpenter's tool, the besaiguë (or bisaiguë). TWIBILS (12) TWIDDLE (12) [noun] A slight twist with the fingers. | [noun] A pimple. | [noun] A small decorative embellishment. TWIDDLY (15) TWIGGED (13) [verb] To beat with twigs. | [verb] To realise something; to catch on; to recognize someone or something. | [verb] To understand the meaning of (a person); to comprehend. TWIGGEN (12) TWILLED (11) [verb] To weave (cloth, etc.) so as to produce the appearance of diagonal lines or ribs on the surface. | [adjective] (of fabric) Having diagonal parallel ribs. | [adjective] A Shakespearean word, perhaps meaning: woven with sticks to hinder erosion. TWINERS (10) TWINGED (12) [verb] To pull with a twitch; to pinch; to tweak. | [verb] To affect with a sharp, sudden pain; to torment with pinching or sharp pains. | [verb] To have a sudden, sharp, local pain, like a twitch; to suffer a keen, darting, or shooting pain. TWINGES (11) [noun] A pinch; a tweak; a twitch. | [noun] A sudden sharp pain. | [verb] To pull with a twitch; to pinch; to tweak. TWINIER (10) TWINING (11) [verb] (obsolete outside Scotland) To separate, divide. | [verb] (obsolete outside Scotland) To split, part; to go away, depart. | [verb] (usually in the passive) To join, unite; to form links between (now especially of two places in different countries). TWINJET (17) [noun] An aircraft powered by two jet engines. | [noun] Two jets of particles from an event or source TWINKLE (14) [noun] A sparkle or glimmer of light | [noun] A sparkle of delight in the eyes. | [noun] A flitting movement TWINKLY (17) TWINNED (11) [verb] (obsolete outside Scotland) To separate, divide. | [verb] (obsolete outside Scotland) To split, part; to go away, depart. | [verb] (usually in the passive) To join, unite; to form links between (now especially of two places in different countries). TWINSET (10) [noun] A combination of a cardigan and a jumper, usually knitted in wool or cashmere. | [noun] A pair of cars or locomotives that are permanently coupled and treated as a single unit. | [noun] A pair of cylinders containing air for the diver to breathe. TWIRLED (11) [verb] To perform a twirl. | [verb] To rotate rapidly. | [verb] To twist round. TWIRLER (10) TWISTED (11) [verb] To turn the ends of something, usually thread, rope etc., in opposite directions, often using force. | [verb] To join together by twining one part around another. | [verb] To contort; to writhe; to complicate; to crook spirally; to convolve. TWISTER (10) [noun] One who twists. | [noun] The instrument used in twisting, or making twists. | [noun] A ball delivered with a twist, as in cricket or billiards. TWITCHY (18) [adjective] Susceptible to twitching a lot. | [adjective] Irritable, cranky TWITTED (11) [verb] To reproach, blame; to ridicule or tease. | [verb] To ignore or killfile (a user on a bulletin board system). TWITTER (10) [verb] (sometimes proscribed) To tweet; to post an update to Twitter. | [noun] The sound of a succession of chirps as uttered by birds. | [noun] A tremulous broken sound. TWOFERS (13) [noun] Something that yields a substantial additional benefit; something that figuratively kills two birds with one stone. | [noun] The fashion of wearing long sleeves outside a short-sleeved shirt. | [noun] A cabling device used in theatre, allowing two stage lighting instruments to be connected to one dimmer. TWOFOLD (14) [adjective] Double; duplicate; multiplied by two. | [adjective] Having two parts, especially two different parts. | [adverb] In a double degree; doubly. TWOSOME (12) [noun] A group of two; a pair; a couple; a group of two distinct individuals or components. | [noun] A dance for two people. | [adjective] Being or constituting a pair; two. UNAWARE (10) [adjective] Not aware or informed; lacking knowledge. | [adjective] Not noticing; paying no heed; thoughtless; inattentive. UNBOWED (13) [adjective] Not bowed; erect or upright. | [adjective] Not subdued or deterred. UNCROWN (12) [verb] To deprive of the monarchy or other authority or status. | [verb] To remove a crown from (often figuratively). UNDRAWN (11) [adjective] Not drawn (in various senses). UNDRAWS (11) UNKNOWN (14) [verb] To undo the process of knowing, to lose knowledge of something. | [noun] A variable (usually x, y or z) whose value is to be found. | [noun] Any thing, place, or situation about which nothing is known; an unknown fact or piece of information. UNMEWED (13) UNOWNED (11) [adjective] Not owned; not having an owner. | [adjective] Not avowed or acknowledged as one's own property or one's own work. UNSAWED (11) UNSCREW (12) [verb] To loosen a screw or thing by turning it. UNSEWED (11) UNSHOWY (16) [adjective] Not showy; plain or unassuming UNSOWED (11) UNSWEAR (10) UNSWEPT (12) [adjective] Not swept UNSWORE (10) UNSWORN (10) [adjective] Not sworn UNTWINE (10) [verb] To untwist the strands of (something entwined). | [verb] To free (one thing that is entwined with another), disentangle, extricate. | [verb] To become untwisted or disentangled. UNTWIST (10) [noun] A twist in the opposite direction. | [verb] To remove a twist from. | [verb] To become untwisted. UNWAXED (18) [adjective] Not waxed. UNWEARY (13) [verb] To refresh (a person) after weariness. | [adjective] Not weary. 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WAFFIES (16) WAFFING (17) WAFFLED (17) [verb] To smash. | [verb] (of birds) To move in a side-to-side motion and descend (lose altitude) before landing. Cf wiffle, whiffle. | [verb] To speak or write vaguely and evasively. WAFFLER (16) WAFFLES (16) [noun] A flat pastry pressed with a grid pattern. | [noun] A potato waffle, a savoury flat potato cake with the same kind of grid pattern. WAFTAGE (14) WAFTERS (13) WAFTING (14) [verb] To (cause to) float easily or gently through the air. | [verb] To be moved, or to pass, on a buoyant medium; to float. | [verb] To give notice to by waving something; to wave the hand to; to beckon. WAFTURE (13) WAGERED (12) [verb] To bet something; to put it up as collateral | [verb] To suppose; to dare say. 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WAGGONS (12) [noun] A four-wheeled cart for hauling loads. | [noun] A four-wheeled child's riding toy, pulled or steered by a long handle attached to the front. | [noun] An enclosed vehicle for carrying goods or people; (by extension) a lorry, a truck. WAGONED (12) WAGONER (11) [noun] Someone who drives a wagon. WAGSOME (13) WAGTAIL (11) [noun] Any of various small passerine birds of the family Motacillidae, of the Old World, notable for their long tails. WAHINES (13) [noun] A Polynesian or Maori woman. | [noun] A female surfer. WAIFING (14) WAILERS (10) WAILFUL (13) [adjective] Sorrowful; mournful. WAILING (11) [verb] To cry out, as in sorrow or anguish. | [verb] To weep, lament persistently or bitterly. | [verb] To make a noise like mourning or crying. WAIRING (11) WAISTED (11) WAISTER (10) WAITERS (10) [noun] A male or female attendant who serves customers at their tables in a restaurant, café or similar. | [noun] Someone who waits for somebody or something; a person who is waiting. | [noun] A person working as an attendant at the London Stock Exchange. WAITING (11) [verb] To delay movement or action until the arrival or occurrence of; to await. (Now generally superseded by “wait for”.) | [verb] To delay movement or action until some event or time; to remain neglected or in readiness. | [verb] To wait tables; to serve customers in a restaurant or other eating establishment. WAIVERS (13) [noun] The act of waiving, or not insisting on, some right, claim, or privilege. | [noun] A legal document removing some requirement, such as waiving a right (giving it up) or a waiver of liability (agreeing to hold someone blameless). | [noun] Something that releases a person from a requirement. WAIVING (14) [verb] To relinquish (a right etc.); to give up claim to; to forego. | [verb] To put aside, avoid. | [verb] To outlaw (someone). WAKANDA (15) WAKEFUL (17) [adjective] Awake; not sleeping. | [adjective] Sleepless. | [adjective] Vigilant and alert; watchful. WAKENED (15) [verb] To wake or rouse from sleep. | [verb] To awaken; to cease to sleep; to be awakened; to stir. WAKENER (14) WAKIKIS (18) WALKERS (14) [noun] A person who fulls cloth. | [noun] A convex, rounded or grooved tool, used by blacksmiths for shaping metal. | [noun] A groove made by such a tool (in the blade of a sword etc.). WALKING (15) [verb] To move on the feet by alternately setting each foot (or pair or group of feet, in the case of animals with four or more feet) forward, with at least one foot on the ground at all times. Compare run. | [verb] To "walk free", i.e. to win, or avoid, a criminal court case, particularly when actually guilty. | [verb] Of an object, to go missing or be stolen. | [noun] Present participle of walk. WALKOUT (14) [noun] A sudden stoppage of work. | [noun] A similar mass action of people leaving a place as a form of protest. WALKUPS (16) [noun] An apartment or block with stairs rather than an elevator. | [noun] An informal visit to a control tower by a pilot, typically used as part of pilot training. | [noun] A mountain that can be climbed without specialist equipment. WALKWAY (20) [noun] A clearly defined path for pedestrians. WALLABY (15) [noun] Any of several species of marsupial; usually smaller and stockier than kangaroos WALLAHS (13) [noun] A servant or other person responsible for something, often specified before it, for example kitchen wallah. | [noun] A guy or bloke. WALLETS (10) [noun] A small case, often flat and often made of leather, for keeping money (especially paper money), credit cards, etc. | [noun] (by extension) A person's bank account or assets. | [noun] A thick case or folder with plastic sleeves in which compact discs may be stored. WALLEYE (13) [noun] (plural "walleyes") One or a pair of sideways-looking misaligned eyes. | [noun] (plural "walleyes") An unusually pale eye. | [noun] (plural "walleye" or "walleyes") A species of gamefish, Sander vitreus, native to the Northern U.S. and Canada with pale, reflective eyes. WALLIES (10) [noun] A fool | [noun] (London and Essex) a large pickled gherkin or cucumber WALLING (11) [verb] To enclose with, or as if with, a wall or walls. | [verb] To boil. | [verb] To well, as water; spring. WALLOPS (12) [noun] A heavy blow, punch. | [noun] A person's ability to throw such punches. | [noun] An emotional impact, psychological force. WALLOWS (13) [noun] An instance of wallowing. | [noun] A pool of water or mud in which animals wallow, or the depression left by them in the ground. | [noun] A kind of rolling walk. WALNUTS (10) [noun] A hardwood tree of the genus Juglans. | [noun] A nut of the walnut tree. | [noun] Wood of the walnut tree. WALTZED (20) [verb] To dance the waltz (with). | [verb] (usually with in, into, around, etc.) To move briskly and unhesitatingly, especially in an inappropriately casual manner, or when unannounced or uninvited. | [verb] To accomplish a task with little effort. WALTZER (19) [noun] One who dances the waltz. | [noun] A fairground ride consisting of a number of cars that spin individually while rotating around a central point like a carousel. WALTZES (19) [noun] A ballroom dance in 3/4 time. | [noun] A piece of music for this dance (or in triple time). | [noun] A simple task. 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WANNING (11) WANTAGE (11) WANTERS (10) WANTING (11) [verb] To wish for or desire (something); to feel a need or desire for; to crave or demand. | [verb] (in particular) To wish, desire or demand to see, have the presence of or do business with. | [verb] To desire (to experience desire); to wish. | [noun] The state of wanting something; desire. WANTONS (10) [noun] A pampered or coddled person. | [noun] An overly playful person; a trifler. | [noun] A self-indulgent person, fond of excess. WAPITIS (12) [noun] The American elk (Cervus elaphus canadensis or Cervus canadensis). It was formerly considered to be in the same species as the European red deer, which it somewhat exceeds in size. WAPPING (15) WARBLED (13) [verb] To modulate a tone's frequency. | [verb] To sing like a bird, especially with trills. | [verb] To cause to quaver or vibrate. WARBLER (12) [noun] Any of various small passerine songbirds, especially of the family Sylviidae (Old World warblers) and Parulidae (New World warblers). | [noun] One who warbles. | [noun] A hissy fit. WARBLES (12) [noun] The sound of one who warbles; singing with trills or modulations. | [noun] In naval mine warfare, the process of varying the frequency of sound produced by a narrowband noisemaker to ensure that the frequency to which the mine will respond is covered. | [noun] A lesion under the skin of cattle, caused by the larva of a bot fly of genus Hypoderma. WARDENS (11) [noun] A guard or watchman. | [noun] A chief administrative officer of a prison. | [noun] An official charged with supervisory duties or with the enforcement of specific laws or regulations; such as a game warden or air-raid warden WARDERS (11) [noun] A guard, especially in a prison. | [noun] A truncheon or staff carried by a king or commander, used to signal commands. WARDING (12) [verb] To keep in safety, to watch over, to guard. | [verb] To defend, to protect. | [verb] To fend off, to repel, to turn aside, as anything mischievous that approaches; -- usually followed by off. WARFARE (13) [noun] The waging of war or armed conflict against an enemy. | [noun] Military operations of some particular kind e.g. guerrilla warfare. | [verb] To lead a military life; to carry on continual wars. WARHEAD (14) [noun] The part of a missile, projectile, torpedo, rocket, or other munition which contains either the nuclear or thermonuclear system, high explosive system, chemical or biological agents, or inert materials intended to inflict damage. | [noun] The glans penis. 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WARMEST (12) [adjective] Having a temperature slightly higher than usual, but still pleasant; mildly hot. | [adjective] Caring and friendly, of relations to another person. | [adjective] Having a color in the red-orange-yellow part of the visible electromagnetic spectrum. WARMING (13) [verb] To make or keep warm. | [verb] To become warm, to heat up. | [verb] To favour increasingly. | [noun] A small rise in temperature. WARMISH (15) WARMTHS (15) WARMUPS (14) [noun] The act of exercising or stretching in preparation for strenuous activity | [noun] Any act of preparation for a performance | [noun] A period of time allocated for performing warm-ups. WARNERS (10) WARNING (11) [verb] To make (someone) aware of (something impending); especially: | [verb] To caution or admonish (someone) against unwise or unacceptable behaviour. | [verb] (chiefly with "off", "away", and similar words) To advise or order to go or stay away. WARPAGE (13) [noun] The act of warping. | [noun] A charge per ton made on shipping. WARPATH (15) [noun] The route taken by a party of Native Americans going on a warlike expedition. | [noun] A course of action that leads to battle or hostility. WARPERS (12) WARPING (13) [verb] To twist or become twisted, physically or mentally: | [verb] (ropemaking) To run (yarn) off the reel into hauls to be tarred. | [verb] To arrange (strands of thread, etc) so that they run lengthwise in weaving. WARRANT (10) [noun] Authorization or certification; a sanction, as given by a superior. | [noun] Something that provides assurance or confirmation; a guarantee or proof. | [noun] An order that serves as authorization; especially a voucher authorizing payment or receipt of money. WARRENS (10) [noun] The system of burrows where rabbits live. | [noun] An enclosed piece of land set aside for breeding game, especially rabbits. | [noun] A mazelike place of dark alleys etc in which it's easy to lose oneself; especially one that may be overcrowded. WARRING (11) [verb] To engage in conflict (may be followed by "with" to specify the foe). | [verb] To carry on, as a contest; to wage. | [noun] The act of engaging in war or conflict. WARRIOR (10) [noun] A person who is actively engaged in battle, conflict or warfare; a soldier or combatant. | [noun] A person who is aggressively, courageously, or energetically involved in an activity, such as athletics. WARSAWS (13) WARSHIP (15) [noun] Any ship built or armed for naval combat. WARSLED (11) WARSLER (10) WARSLES (10) WARSTLE (10) WARTHOG (14) [noun] A wild pig of the genus Phacochoerus, native to Africa. | [noun] A nickname for the A-10 Thunderbolt II air support warplane WARTIER (10) WARTIME (12) [noun] A period during which a war is in progress in a particular place. WARWORK (17) WARWORN (13) WASABIS (12) WASHDAY (17) [noun] A day when laundry is washed. | [noun] A non-uniform day; a mufti day. WASHERS (13) [noun] Something that washes; especially an appliance such as a washing machine or dishwasher. | [noun] A person who washes (especially clothes) for a living; a washerman or washerwoman. | [noun] A flat disk, placed beneath a nut or at some joint, to distribute pressure, alleviate friction or prevent leakage. WASHIER (13) [adjective] Watery; damp; soft. | [adjective] Lacking substance or strength; weak; thin; dilute; feeble. | [adjective] Not firm or hardy; liable to sweat profusely with labour. WASHING (14) [verb] To clean with water. | [verb] To move or erode by the force of water in motion. | [verb] To separate valuable material (such as gold) from worthless material by the action of flowing water. WASHOUT (13) [noun] An appliance designed to wash something out. | [noun] The cleaning of matter from a physiological system using a fluid. | [noun] A period between clinical treatments in which any medication delivered as the first treatment is allowed to wash out of the person before the second treatment begins. WASHRAG (14) [noun] A square piece of cloth for washing the face and body. WASHTUB (15) [noun] A tub used for washing clothes. WASHUPS (15) [noun] The act by which something is washed. | [noun] Something or somebody that is washed up; a has-been. | [noun] A meeting to gauge the success or failure of an operation or war game. WASPIER (12) [adjective] Resembling or characteristic of a wasp; wasplike. | [adjective] Infested with wasps. WASPILY (15) WASPISH (15) [adjective] Suggestive of the behaviour of a wasp. | [adjective] Spiteful or irascible. WASSAIL (10) [noun] A toast to health, usually on a festive occasion. | [noun] The beverage served during a wassail, especially one made of ale or wine flavoured with spices, sugar, roasted apples, etc. | [noun] Revelry. WASTAGE (11) [noun] The amount or proportion of something that is wasted or lost by deterioration or other natural process. | [noun] The periodical turnover of personnel in an organisation by death, retirement or resignation, as perceived by those aspiring to promotion or appointment in the organisation. | [noun] Anything lost by wear or waste. WASTERS (10) [noun] Someone or something that wastes; someone who squanders or spends extravagantly. | [noun] An imperfection in the wick of a candle, causing it to waste. | [noun] A destroyer. WASTERY (13) WASTING (11) [verb] To devastate, destroy | [verb] To squander (money or resources) uselessly; to spend (time) idly. | [verb] To kill; to murder. WASTREL (10) [noun] One who is profligate, who wastes time or resources extravagantly. | [noun] A neglected child. | [noun] Refuse; rubbish. WASTRIE (10) WATAPES (12) WATCHED (16) [verb] To look at, see, or view for a period of time. | [verb] To observe over a period of time; to notice or pay attention. | [verb] To mind, attend, or guard. WATCHER (15) [noun] Someone who watches or observes. | [noun] Someone who keeps vigil. | [noun] A guard. WATCHES (15) [noun] A portable or wearable timepiece. | [noun] The act of guarding and observing someone or something. | [noun] A particular time period when guarding is kept. WATERED (11) [verb] To pour water into the soil surrounding (plants). | [verb] To wet or supply with water; to moisten; to overflow with water; to irrigate. | [verb] To provide (animals) with water for drinking. | [adjective] Supplied with water. WATERER (10) WATTAGE (11) [noun] An amount or power (especially electric), expressed in watts, kilowatts etc. | [noun] The power requirement of some electric appliance. WATTAPE (12) WATTEST (10) WATTLED (11) [verb] To construct a wattle, or make a construction of wattles. | [verb] To bind with wattles or twigs. | [adjective] Having a wattle WATTLES (10) [noun] A construction of branches and twigs woven together to form a wall, barrier, fence, or roof. | [noun] A single twig or rod laid on a roof to support the thatch. | [noun] A wrinkled fold of skin, sometimes brightly coloured, hanging from the neck of birds (such as chicken and turkey) and some lizards. WAUCHTS (15) WAUGHTS (14) WAUKING (15) WAULING (11) [verb] To wail, to cry plaintively. | [noun] A plaintive cry or howl, as of a cat. WAVELET (13) [noun] A small wave; a ripple. | [noun] A fast-decaying oscillation. WAVEOFF (19) WAVERED (14) [verb] To sway back and forth; to totter or reel. | [verb] To flicker, glimmer, quiver, as a weak light. | [verb] To fluctuate or vary, as commodity prices or a poorly sustained musical pitch. WAVERER (13) WAVIEST (13) [adjective] Rising or swelling in waves. | [adjective] Full of waves. | [adjective] Moving to and fro; undulating. WAWLING (14) WAXBILL (19) [noun] Any bird of the genus Estrilda. WAXIEST (17) [adjective] Resembling wax in texture or appearance. WAXINGS (18) [noun] The action of the verb to wax. | [noun] A cosmetic procedure in which hair is removed from the body by the application and removal of wax. | [noun] A recording intended for a phonograph. WAXLIKE (21) WAXWEED (21) WAXWING (21) [noun] Any of several songbirds of the genus Bombycilla, having crested heads, and red tips to the wings. WAXWORK (24) [noun] A figure made of wax, especially an effigy of a famous person. WAXWORM (22) WAYBILL (15) [noun] A document that lists the final destination (and other details) of each part of a cargo. | [verb] To provide (cargo) with a waybill document. WAYLAID (14) [verb] To lie in wait for and attack from ambush. | [verb] To accost or intercept unexpectedly. WAYLAYS (16) [verb] To lie in wait for and attack from ambush. | [verb] To accost or intercept unexpectedly. WAYLESS (13) WAYSIDE (14) [noun] The side of a road or path. | [noun] A rest area. | [adjective] Situated near the side of a road or path. WAYWARD (17) [adjective] Given to wilful, perverse deviation from the expected norm; tending to stray | [adjective] Obstinate, contrary and unpredictable | [adjective] Not on target WAYWORN (16) [adjective] Weary from travelling. WEAKENS (14) [verb] To make weaker or less strong. | [verb] To become weaker or less strong. WEAKEST (14) [adjective] Lacking in force (usually strength) or ability. | [adjective] Unable to sustain a great weight, pressure, or strain. | [adjective] Unable to withstand temptation, urgency, persuasion, etc.; easily impressed, moved, or overcome; accessible; vulnerable. WEAKISH (17) WEALTHS (13) WEALTHY (16) [noun] A rich person. | [noun] (with "the") Rich people. | [adjective] Possessing financial wealth; rich. WEANERS (10) [noun] An animal that has been recently weaned. | [noun] A device used to help wean a young animal by keeping it from suckling. WEANING (11) [noun] The (passive) process of a child or animal ceasing to be dependent on the mother for nourishment. WEAPONS (12) [noun] An instrument of attack or defense in combat or hunting, e.g. most guns, missiles, or swords. | [noun] An instrument or other means of harming or exerting control over another. | [noun] A tool of any kind. WEARERS (10) [noun] One who wears. WEARIED (11) [verb] To make or to become weary. WEARIER (10) [adjective] Having the strength exhausted by toil or exertion; tired; fatigued. | [adjective] Having one's patience, relish, or contentment exhausted; tired; sick. | [adjective] Expressive of fatigue. WEARIES (10) [verb] To make or to become weary. WEARILY (13) [adverb] In a weary manner WEARING (11) [verb] To carry or have equipped on or about one's body, as an item of clothing, equipment, decoration, etc. | [verb] To have or carry on one's person habitually, consistently; or, to maintain in a particular fashion or manner. | [verb] To bear or display in one's aspect or appearance. WEARISH (13) WEASAND (11) [noun] The oesophagus; the windpipe; the trachea. | [noun] The throat in general. WEASELS (10) [noun] The least weasel, Mustela nivalis. | [noun] Any of the carnivorous mammals of the genus Mustela, having a slender body, a long tail and usually a light brown upper coat and light-coloured belly. | [noun] The taxonomic family Mustelidae is also called the weasel family. WEASELY (13) WEASONS (10) WEATHER (13) [noun] The short term state of the atmosphere at a specific time and place, including the temperature, relative humidity, cloud cover, precipitation, wind, etc. | [noun] Unpleasant or destructive atmospheric conditions, and their effects. | [noun] The direction from which the wind is blowing; used attributively to indicate the windward side. WEAVERS (13) [noun] One who weaves. | [noun] A strand of material used in weaving. | [noun] A weaverbird. WEAVING (14) [verb] To form something by passing lengths or strands of material over and under one another. | [verb] To spin a cocoon or a web. | [verb] To unite by close connection or intermixture. WEAZAND (20) WEBBIER (14) WEBBING (15) [verb] To construct or form a web. | [verb] To cover with a web or network. | [verb] To ensnare or entangle. WEBFEET (15) WEBFOOT (15) WEBLESS (12) WEBLIKE (16) WEBSTER (12) WEBWORK (19) [noun] A net or web; something structured or interlinked in a weblike manner. WEBWORM (17) [noun] Any of various caterpillars, of diverse moth families, that spin a web; the moth species of such a caterpillar. WEDDERS (12) WEDDING (13) [verb] To perform the marriage ceremony for; to join in matrimony. | [verb] To take as one's spouse. | [verb] To take a spouse. | [verb] To participate in a wedding. WEDELED (12) WEDELNS (11) WEDGIER (12) WEDGIES (12) [noun] A wedge-heeled shoe. | [noun] A prank in which a person's underpants are pulled up sharply from behind in order to wedge the clothing uncomfortably between the person's buttocks. | [noun] A situation where a person's underpants are stuck uncomfortably between their buttocks. WEDGING (13) [verb] To support or secure using a wedge. | [verb] To force into a narrow gap. | [verb] To work wet clay by cutting or kneading for the purpose of homogenizing the mass and expelling air bubbles. WEDLOCK (17) [noun] The state of being married. | [noun] A wife; a married woman. WEEDERS (11) WEEDIER (11) [adjective] Abounding with weeds. | [adjective] Of, relating to or resembling weeds. | [adjective] Consisting of weeds. WEEDILY (14) WEEDING (12) [verb] To remove unwanted vegetation from a cultivated area. | [noun] The removal of weeds; the process by which something is weeded. WEEKDAY (18) [noun] A day of the week except those which form the weekend; that is: | [noun] Any day of the week (Monday through Sunday). WEEKEND (15) [noun] The break in the working week, usually two days including the traditional holy or sabbath day. Thus in western countries, Saturday and Sunday. | [verb] To spend the weekend. | [adjective] Of, relating to or for the weekend. WEENIER (10) [adjective] Minuscule. WEENIES (10) [noun] Someone weak and unimportant. | [noun] A geek or nerd, especially a computer user with a deficient social life. | [noun] (collectible card games) A small creature which has a low cost to put into play, often used in a swarm with other such creatures. WEENING (11) [verb] To suppose, imagine; to think, believe. | [verb] To expect, hope or wish. | [verb] To weep or cry. WEEPERS (12) [noun] A person who weeps. | [noun] A hired mourner. | [noun] A pleurant. WEEPIER (12) [adjective] Inclined to weep; tearful or lachrymose. WEEPIES (12) [noun] A sad or sentimental film, often portraying troubled romance, designed to elicit a tearfully emotional response from its audience. WEEPING (13) [verb] To cry; shed tears. | [verb] To lament; to complain. | [verb] (of a wound or sore) To produce secretions. WEETING (11) WEEVERS (13) [noun] Any of the usually brown fish in family Trachinidae, which catch prey by burying themselves in the sand and snatching them as they go past. WEEVILS (13) [noun] Any of several small herbivorous beetles in the superfamily Curculionoidea, many having a distinctive snout. | [noun] Any of several small herbivorous beetles in the family Curculionidae belonging to the superfamily Curculionoidea. | [noun] Any of several similar but more distantly related beetles such as the biscuit weevil (Stegobium paniceum). WEEVILY (16) WEEWEED (14) WEEWEES (13) WEIGELA (11) [noun] Any plant of the genus Weigela. WEIGHED (15) [verb] To determine the weight of an object. | [verb] Often with "out", to measure a certain amount of something by its weight, e.g. for sale. | [verb] To determine the intrinsic value or merit of an object, to evaluate. WEIGHER (14) WEIGHTS (14) [noun] (physical) Matter, material. | [noun] A large quantity; a sum. | [noun] The Eucharist, now especially in Roman Catholicism. WEIGHTY (17) [adjective] Heavy. | [adjective] Important; serious; not trivial or petty. | [adjective] Rigorous; severe; afflictive. WEINERS (10) WEIRDER (11) [adjective] Having an unusually strange character or behaviour. | [adjective] Deviating from the normal; bizarre. | [adjective] Of or pertaining to the Fates. WEIRDIE (11) [noun] Someone or something weird. WEIRDLY (14) [adverb] In a weird manner WEIRDOS (11) [noun] A strange, odd, eccentric person. | [noun] An insane, possibly dangerous person. WELCHED (16) [verb] To fail to repay a small debt. | [verb] To fail to fulfill an obligation. WELCHER (15) WELCHES (15) [noun] A person who defaults on an obligation, especially a small one. | [verb] To fail to repay a small debt. | [verb] To fail to fulfill an obligation. WELCOME (14) [noun] The act of greeting someone’s arrival, especially by saying "Welcome!"; reception. | [noun] The utterance of such a greeting. | [noun] Kind reception of a guest or newcomer. WELDERS (11) [noun] One who welds, or unites pieces of iron, etc., by welding. | [noun] One who welds, or wields. | [noun] An item of equipment for welding with: an electric welder. WELDING (12) [verb] To join two materials (especially two metals) together by applying heat, pressure and filler, either separately or in any combination. | [verb] To bind together inseparably; to unite closely or intimately. | [verb] To wield. WELDORS (11) WELFARE (13) [noun] Health, safety, happiness and prosperity; well-being in any respect. | [noun] Various forms of financial aid provided by the government to those who are in need of it (abbreviated form of welfare assistance). | [noun] Such payment. WELKINS (14) [noun] The sky, the region of clouds; the upper air; aether; the heavens. WELLIES (10) [noun] Wellington boots WELLING (11) [verb] To issue forth, as water from the earth; to flow; to spring. | [verb] To have something seep out of the surface. | [noun] The act of something that wells, or issues forth like water. WELSHED (14) [verb] To swindle someone by not paying a debt, especially a gambling debt. WELSHER (13) WELSHES (13) [verb] To swindle someone by not paying a debt, especially a gambling debt. WELTERS (10) [noun] A general confusion or muddle. | [noun] A tossing or rolling about. WELTING (11) [noun] The act of making reinforcing welts. WENCHED (16) [verb] To frequent prostitutes; to whore; also, to womanize. WENCHER (15) WENCHES (15) [noun] (possibly offensive) A girl or young woman, especially a buxom or lively one. | [noun] Used as a term of endearment for a female person, especially a wife, daughter, or girlfriend: darling, sweetheart. | [noun] A woman servant; a maidservant. WENDIGO (12) [noun] A hybrid fish derived from a male brook trout and a female lake trout | [noun] A malevolent and violent cannibal spirit found in Anishinaabe, Ojibwe, and Cree mythology, which is said to inhabit the body of a living person and possess him or her to commit murder. WENDING (12) [verb] To turn; change. | [verb] To direct (one's way or course); pursue one's way; proceed upon some course or way. | [verb] To turn; make a turn; go round; veer. WENNIER (10) WENNISH (13) WERGELD (12) WERGELT (11) WERGILD (12) WERWOLF (16) [noun] A person who is transformed or can transform into a wolf or a wolflike human, often said to transform during a full moon. WESKITS (14) WESSAND (11) WESTERN (10) [noun] A film, or some other dramatic work, set in, the historic (c. 1850-1910) American West (west of the Mississippi river) focusing on conflict between whites and Indians, lawmen and outlaws, ranchers and farmers, or industry (railroads, mining) and agriculture. | [adjective] Of, facing, situated in, or related to the west. | [adjective] (of a wind) Blowing from the west; westerly. WESTERS (10) WESTING (11) [verb] To move to the west; (of the sun) to set. | [noun] A distance west of a datum line on a map or chart. | [noun] A distance travelled westward. WETBACK (18) [noun] A Mexican or Central American who illegally enters the United States of America from its southern border. | [noun] A person of the mestizo race; a mojado. WETHERS (13) [noun] A castrated buck goat. | [noun] A castrated ram. WETLAND (11) [noun] (usually in the plural) Land that is covered mostly with water, with occasional marshy and soggy areas. WETNESS (10) [noun] The condition of being wet. | [noun] Moisture. | [noun] Rainy or damp weather. WETTERS (10) WETTEST (10) [verb] To cover or impregnate with liquid. | [verb] To accidentally urinate in or on. | [verb] To make or become wet. WETTING (11) [verb] To cover or impregnate with liquid. | [verb] To accidentally urinate in or on. | [verb] To make or become wet. WETTISH (13) WHACKED (20) [verb] To hit, slap or strike. | [verb] To kill, bump off. | [verb] To share or parcel out; often with up. WHACKER (19) [noun] One who, or something which, whacks. | [noun] Anything large; a whopper. WHACKOS (19) [noun] An amusingly eccentric or irrational person. WHALERS (13) [noun] One who hunts whales; a person employed in the whaling industry. | [noun] A seagoing vessel used for hunting whales. | [noun] One who whales (flogs or beats). WHALING (14) [verb] To hunt for whales. | [verb] To thrash, to flog, to beat vigorously or soundly. | [noun] The practice of hunting whales. WHAMMED (18) [verb] To strike or smash (into) something with great force or impact WHANGED (15) [verb] (chiefly of an object) To make a noise like something moving quickly through the air. | [verb] To throw with a rapid slamming motion. | [verb] To whack or beat. WHANGEE (14) WHAPPED (18) [verb] To strike hard and suddenly. | [verb] To throw oneself quickly, or by an abrupt motion; to turn suddenly. WHAPPER (17) WHARFED (17) WHARVES (16) [noun] A man-made landing place for ships on a shore or river bank. | [noun] The bank of a river, or the shore of the sea. WHATNOT (13) [noun] A small unspecified object; bric-a-brac (in plural) | [noun] Other related objects or ideas. | [noun] A freestanding set of shelves on which ornaments are displayed; an etagere. WHATSIS (13) WHATSIT (13) [noun] A thing (used in a vague way to refer to something whose name one cannot recall, or that one is embarrassed to say) WHEATEN (13) [noun] A pale yellow or beige colour, like that of wheat. | [adjective] Of, pertaining to, or made from wheat. | [adjective] Of a pale yellow-beige colour, like that of wheat. WHEEDLE (14) [noun] A coaxing person. | [verb] To cajole or attempt to persuade by flattery. | [verb] To obtain by flattery, guile, or trickery. WHEELED (14) [verb] To roll along on wheels. | [verb] To transport something or someone using any wheeled mechanism, such as a wheelchair. | [verb] To ride a bicycle or tricycle. WHEELER (13) [noun] A wheelwright, a wheelmaker. | [noun] Someone who operates a wheel. | [noun] A wheelhorse (horse near wheel of carriage). WHEELIE (13) [noun] An action or stunt where a bicycle, motorcycle, or other vehicle is ridden for a short period while it is standing only on its rear wheel or wheels. | [noun] A wheelchair user. | [verb] To ride, or perform the stunt of riding, a vehicle on its rear wheel or wheels. WHEEPED (16) WHEEPLE (15) WHEEZED (23) [verb] To breathe hard, and with an audible piping or whistling sound, as persons affected with asthma. WHEEZER (22) WHEEZES (22) [noun] A piping or whistling sound caused by difficult respiration. | [noun] An ordinary whisper exaggerated so as to produce the hoarse sound known as the "stage whisper"; a forcible whisper with some admixture of tone. | [noun] (British, Irish) An ulterior scheme or plan WHELMED (16) [verb] To bury, to cover; to engulf, to submerge. | [verb] To throw (something) over a thing so as to cover it. | [verb] To ruin or destroy. WHELPED (16) [verb] (of she-dog, she-wolf, vixen, etc.) To give birth. WHEREAS (13) [noun] A clause, as in legal documents, stating whereas. | [adverb] Where (that). | [conjunction] In contrast; whilst on the contrary; although. WHEREAT (13) [conjunction] At which, or toward which | [conjunction] Because of which; whereupon WHEREBY (18) [adverb] (interrogative) By what, in which direction; how. | [adverb] By which. | [adverb] Where, wherein, in which. WHEREIN (13) [adverb] How, or in what way. | [conjunction] Where, or in which location. | [conjunction] During which. WHEREOF (16) [adverb] Of what. | [adverb] Of which. | [conjunction] Of what. WHEREON (13) [adverb] On which, on what. WHERETO (13) [adverb] (interrogative) To what; to which place, whither? | [adverb] (interrogative) To what end; wherefore? | [adverb] (relative) To which. WHERVES (16) WHETHER (16) [pronoun] Which of two. | [conjunction] Introducing a direct interrogative question (often with correlative or) which indicates doubt between alternatives. | [conjunction] Used to introduce an indirect interrogative question that consists of multiple alternative possibilities (usually with correlative or). WHETTED (14) [verb] To hone or rub on with some substance, as a piece of stone, for the purpose of sharpening – see whetstone. | [verb] To stimulate or make more keen. | [verb] To preen. WHETTER (13) WHEYISH (19) WHICKER (19) [noun] The soft neigh made by a horse. | [verb] Of a horse, to neigh softly, to make a breathy whinny. WHIDAHS (17) [noun] Any of various black and white African weaverbirds with distinctive drooping long tailfeathers on males in mating season, suitable as cage birds. WHIDDED (16) WHIFFED (20) [verb] To waft. | [verb] To sniff. | [verb] To strike out. WHIFFER (19) WHIFFET (19) WHIFFLE (19) [noun] A short blow or gust. | [noun] Something small or insignificant; a trifle. | [noun] A fife or small flute. WHILING (14) [verb] To pass (time) idly. | [verb] To occupy or entertain (someone) in order to let time pass. | [verb] To loiter. WHIMPER (17) [noun] A low intermittent sob. | [verb] To cry or sob softly and intermittently. | [verb] To cry with a low, whining, broken voice; to whine; to complain. WHIMSEY (18) [noun] A quaint and fanciful idea; a whim; playfully odd behaviour. | [noun] An impulsive, illogical or capricious character. | [noun] A whim (capstan or vertical drum). WHINERS (13) WHINGED (15) [verb] To move with great force or speed. | [verb] To complain, especially in an annoying or persistent manner. | [verb] To whine. WHINGES (14) [noun] A cry. | [noun] A peevish complaint. | [verb] To complain, especially in an annoying or persistent manner. WHINIER (13) [adjective] Whining; tending to whine or complain. WHINING (14) [noun] A long-drawn, high-pitched complaining cry or sound | [noun] A complaint or criticism | [verb] To utter a high-pitched cry. WHIPPED (18) [verb] To hit with a whip. | [verb] (by extension) To hit with any flexible object. | [verb] To defeat, as in a contest or game. WHIPPER (17) WHIPPET (17) [noun] A dog of a certain breed, similar to a small greyhound, originating in Britain and bred for racing. | [noun] A cartridge of nitrous oxide (laughing gas), used as a recreational inhalant drug. WHIPRAY (18) WHIPSAW (18) [noun] A rip saw often operated by two people | [verb] To operate a whipsaw. | [verb] To cause (a trader) to lose potential profit by buying shares just before the price falls, or by selling them just before the price rises. WHIRLED (14) [verb] To rotate, revolve, spin or turn rapidly. | [verb] To have a sensation of spinning or reeling. | [verb] To make something or someone whirl. WHIRLER (13) WHIRRED (14) [verb] To move or vibrate (something) with a buzzing sound. | [verb] To make a sibilant buzzing or droning sound. | [verb] To cause (something) to make such a sound. WHISHED (17) WHISHES (16) WHISHTS (16) WHISKED (18) [verb] To move something with quick light sweeping motions. | [verb] In cooking, to whip e.g. eggs or cream. | [verb] To move something rapidly and with no warning. WHISKER (17) [noun] That part of the beard which grows upon the sides of the face, usually of the male, or upon the chin, or upon both. | [noun] A hair of the beard. | [noun] One of the long, projecting hairs growing at the sides of the mouth of a cat, or other animal. WHISKEY (20) [noun] A liquor distilled from the fermented mash of grain (as rye, corn, or barley). | [noun] A drink of whiskey. | [noun] A light gig or carriage; a tim-whiskey. WHISPER (15) [noun] The act of speaking in a quiet voice, especially, without vibration of the vocal cords. | [noun] (usually in the plural) A rumor. | [noun] A faint trace or hint (of something). WHISTED (14) WHISTLE (13) [noun] A device designed to be placed in the mouth and blown, or driven by steam or some other mechanism, to make a whistling sound. | [noun] An act of whistling. | [noun] A shrill, high-pitched sound made by whistling. WHITELY (16) WHITENS (13) [verb] (To cause) to become white or whiter; to bleach or blanch. WHITEST (13) [adjective] Bright and colourless; reflecting equal quantities of all frequencies of visible light. | [adjective] (sometimes capitalized) Of or relating to Caucasians, people of European descent with light-coloured skin. | [adjective] Designated for use by Caucasians. WHITEYS (16) [noun] A white person, a person of European descent. | [noun] A state or bout of sickness, especially induced by cannabis use. WHITHER (16) [verb] To wuther. | [adverb] To what place. WHITIER (13) WHITIES (13) [noun] A white person, a person of European descent. | [noun] A state or bout of sickness, especially induced by cannabis use. WHITING (14) [verb] To make white; to whiten; to bleach. | [noun] A fine white chalk used in paints, putty, whitewash etc. | [noun] A fish, Merlangius merlangus, similar to cod, found in the North Atlantic; English whiting (US). WHITISH (16) WHITLOW (16) [noun] An infection under the cuticle of a fingernail or toenail. WHITTER (13) WHITTLE (13) [noun] A knife; especially, a pocket knife, sheath knife, or clasp knife. | [verb] To cut or shape wood with a knife. | [verb] To reduce or gradually eliminate something (such as a debt). | [noun] A coarse greyish double blanket worn by countrywomen, in the west of England, over the shoulders, like a cloak or shawl. WHIZZED (32) [verb] To make a whirring or hissing sound, similar to that of an object speeding through the air. | [verb] To rush or move swiftly with such a sound. | [verb] To throw or spin rapidly. WHIZZER (31) WHIZZES (31) [noun] A whirring or hissing sound (as above). | [noun] Someone who is remarkably skilled at something. | [noun] (especially with the verb "take") An act of urination. WHOEVER (16) [pronoun] (interrogative) Who ever: an emphatic form of who. | [pronoun] (fused relative) Any person or persons that. | [pronoun] (fused relative) The person that (no matter who). WHOLISM (15) [noun] A theory or belief that the whole is greater than the sum of the parts. | [noun] A practice based on such a theory or belief. WHOMPED (18) [verb] Hit extremely hard. WHOOFED (17) WHOOPED (16) [verb] To make a whoop. | [verb] To shout, to yell. | [verb] To cough or breathe with a sonorous inspiration, as in whooping cough. | [adjective] (Southern) Flawless. WHOOPEE (15) [verb] To behave exuberantly; to make whoopee. | [interjection] A spontaneous expression of delight or joy. WHOOPER (15) [noun] A person or animal that whoops. | [noun] The whooping crane, Grus americana. | [noun] The whooper swan, Cygnus cygnus. WHOOPLA (15) WHOOSIS (13) WHOPPED (18) [verb] To throw or move (something) quickly, usually with an impact. | [verb] To administer corporal punishment WHOPPER (17) [noun] Something remarkably large. | [noun] An outrageous or blatant lie. WHORING (14) [verb] To prostitute oneself. | [verb] To engage the services of a prostitute. | [verb] To pimp; to pander. WHORISH (16) [adjective] Resembling or befitting a whore. WHORLED (14) [adjective] Formed from whorls; having whorls WHORTLE (13) WHUMPED (18) [verb] To strike something with a whump. WHYDAHS (20) [noun] Any of various black and white African weaverbirds with distinctive drooping long tailfeathers on males in mating season, suitable as cage birds. WICKAPE (18) WICKERS (16) WICKETS (16) [noun] A small door or gate, especially one beside a larger one. | [noun] A small window or other opening, sometimes fitted with a grating. | [noun] A service window, as in a bank or train station, where a customer conducts transactions with a teller; a ticket barrier at a rail station, box office at a cinema, etc. WICKING (17) [verb] To convey or draw off (liquid) by capillary action. | [verb] (of a liquid) To traverse (i.e. be conveyed by capillary action) through a wick or other porous material, as water through a sponge. Usually followed by through. | [verb] To strike (a stone) obliquely; to strike (a stationary stone) just enough that the played stone changes direction. WICKIUP (18) [noun] A domed hut, similar to a wigwam, used by some semi-nomadic Native American tribes, particularly in the southwestern and western United States. WICKYUP (21) WIDDERS (12) WIDDIES (12) WIDDLED (13) [verb] To urinate. | [verb] To play guitar (especially the electric guitar) quickly. WIDDLES (12) [verb] To urinate. | [verb] To play guitar (especially the electric guitar) quickly. WIDENED (12) [verb] To become wide or wider. | [verb] To make wide or wider. | [verb] To let out clothes to a larger size. WIDENER (11) WIDEOUT (11) [noun] A wide receiver. WIDGEON (12) [noun] Any of three freshwater dabbling ducks. | [noun] A fool. WIDGETS (12) [noun] A placeholder name for an unnamed, unspecified, or hypothetical manufactured good or product. | [noun] Portable code that can be easily installed and executed by an end user. | [noun] A floating device inside a beer can, meant to create foam when opened. WIDOWED (15) [verb] To make a widow or widower of someone; to cause the death of the spouse of. | [verb] To strip of anything valued. | [verb] To endow with a widow's right. WIDOWER (14) [noun] A man whose spouse has died (and who has not remarried); masculine of widow. WIELDED (12) [verb] To command, rule over; to possess or own. | [verb] To control, to guide or manage. | [verb] To handle with skill and ease, especially a weapon or tool. WIELDER (11) WIENERS (10) [noun] A sausage made from beef, chicken or pork. | [noun] A frankfurter, a hot dog. | [noun] A penis. WIENIES (10) [noun] A wiener. | [noun] The penis. WIFEDOM (16) WIFTIER (13) WIGEONS (11) [noun] Any of three freshwater dabbling ducks. | [noun] A fool. WIGGERY (15) WIGGIER (12) [adjective] Crazy. | [adjective] Uninhibited. | [adjective] Wiglike. WIGGING (13) [verb] To put on a wig; to provide with a wig (especially of an actor etc.). | [verb] To upbraid, reprimand. | [verb] To become extremely emotional or excitable; to lose control of one's emotions. WIGGLED (13) [verb] To move with irregular, back and forward or side to side motions; To shake or jiggle. WIGGLER (12) [noun] Anything that wiggles. | [noun] The larva of a mosquito. | [noun] An earthworm. WIGGLES (12) [noun] A rapid movement in alternating opposite directions, not necessarily regular. | [noun] An alternating state or characteristic. | [noun] (in the plural) See wiggles. WIGLESS (11) WIGLETS (11) WIGLIKE (15) WIGWAGS (15) [noun] An act of wigwagging. | [noun] Any of a number of mechanical or electrical devices which cause a component to oscillate between two states. | [noun] A signal sent by waving a flag to and fro. WIGWAMS (16) [noun] A dwelling having an arched framework overlaid with bark, hides, or mats, used by Native Americans in the northeastern United States. | [noun] (possibly obsolete) Any more or less similar dwelling used by indigenous people in other parts of the world. WIKIUPS (16) WILDCAT (13) [noun] A cat that lives in the wilderness, specifically | [noun] A person who acts like a wildcat, (usually) a violent and easily-angered person or a sexually vigorous one. | [noun] An offensive formation with an unbalanced line and a snap directly to the running back rather than the quarterback. WILDERS (11) [verb] To bewilder, perplex WILDEST (11) [adjective] Untamed; not domesticated; specifically, in an unbroken line of undomesticated animals (as opposed to feral, referring to undomesticated animals whose ancestors were domesticated). | [adjective] From or relating to wild creatures. | [adjective] Unrestrained or uninhibited. WILDING (12) [noun] A wild apple or apple-tree. | [noun] Any plant that grows wild; a wildflower, etc. | [verb] To commit random acts of assault, robbery, and rape in an urban setting, especially as a gang. WILDISH (14) WILIEST (10) [adjective] Sly, cunning, full of tricks WILLERS (10) WILLETS (10) [noun] Tringa semipalmata or Catoptrophorus semipalmatus, a large shorebird. WILLFUL (13) [adjective] Intentional; deliberate. | [adjective] Stubborn and determined. WILLIED (11) WILLIES (10) [noun] (with "the") A feeling of nervousness or fear. | [noun] Any of various deciduous trees or shrubs in the genus Salix, in the willow family Salicaceae, found primarily on moist soils in cooler zones in the northern hemisphere. | [noun] The wood of these trees. WILLING (11) [verb] To wish, desire. | [verb] To instruct (that something be done) in one's will. | [verb] To try to make (something) happen by using one's will (intention). WILLOWS (13) [noun] Any of various deciduous trees or shrubs in the genus Salix, in the willow family Salicaceae, found primarily on moist soils in cooler zones in the northern hemisphere. | [noun] The wood of these trees. | [noun] A cricket bat. WILLOWY (16) [adjective] Resembling a willow. | [adjective] (of a person) Tall, slender and graceful. | [adjective] (of a place) Having willow trees. WILTING (11) [verb] To droop or become limp and flaccid (as a dying leaf or flower). | [verb] To fatigue; to lose strength. | [verb] To cause to droop or become limp and flaccid (as a flower). WIMBLED (15) WIMBLES (14) WIMPIER (14) [adjective] Having the characteristics of a wimp; feeble, indecisive, cowardly. WIMPISH (17) [adjective] Characteristic of a wimp. WIMPLED (15) WIMPLES (14) [noun] A cloth which usually covers the head and is worn around the neck and chin. It was worn by women in medieval Europe and is still worn by nuns in certain orders. | [noun] A fold or pleat in cloth. | [noun] A ripple, as on the surface of water. WINCERS (12) WINCEYS (15) [noun] Linsey-woolsey WINCHED (16) [verb] To use a winch | [verb] To wince; to shrink | [verb] To kick with impatience or uneasiness. WINCHER (15) WINCHES (15) [noun] A machine consisting of a drum on an axle, a friction brake or ratchet and pawl, and a crank handle or prime mover (often an electric or hydraulic motor), with or without gearing, to give increased mechanical advantage when hauling on a rope or cable. | [noun] A hoisting machine used for loading or discharging cargo, or for hauling in lines. (FM 55-501). | [noun] A wince (machine used in dyeing or steeping cloth). WINCING (13) [verb] To flinch as if in pain or distress. | [verb] To wash (cloth), dip it in dye, etc., with the use of a wince. | [verb] To kick or flounce when unsteady or impatient. WINDAGE (12) [noun] Drag on the crankshaft caused by oil splashing out of the sump when rotating at high speeds. | [noun] The difference in diameter between the bore of a firearm and the shot. | [noun] Horizontal adjustment of the sight of a firearm or bow. WINDBAG (14) [noun] Bellows for an organ. | [noun] (mildly) Someone who talks excessively WINDERS (11) [noun] The inedible parts of a grain-producing plant. | [noun] Straw or hay cut up fine for the food of cattle. | [noun] Any excess or unwanted material, resource, or person; anything worthless. WINDIER (11) [adjective] Accompanied by wind. | [adjective] Unsheltered and open to the wind. | [adjective] Empty and lacking substance. WINDIGO (12) [noun] A hybrid fish derived from a male brook trout and a female lake trout | [noun] A malevolent and violent cannibal spirit found in Anishinaabe, Ojibwe, and Cree mythology, which is said to inhabit the body of a living person and possess him or her to commit murder. WINDILY (14) WINDING (12) [verb] To blow air through a wind instrument or horn to make a sound. | [verb] To cause (someone) to become breathless, as by a blow to the abdomen, or by physical exertion, running, etc. | [verb] To cause a baby to bring up wind by patting its back after being fed. | [verb] To blow air through a wind instrument or horn to make a sound. WINDLED (12) WINDLES (11) WINDOWS (14) [noun] The inedible parts of a grain-producing plant. | [noun] Straw or hay cut up fine for the food of cattle. | [noun] Any excess or unwanted material, resource, or person; anything worthless. WINDROW (14) [noun] A row of cut grain or hay allowed to dry in a field. | [noun] A line of leaves etc heaped up by the wind. | [noun] A similar streak of seaweed etc on the surface of the sea formed by Langmuir circulation. WINDUPS (13) [noun] The act of ending or concluding something. | [noun] The last part of something; a conclusion. | [noun] A practical joke or tease. WINDWAY (17) WINESOP (12) WINGBOW (16) WINGERS (11) [noun] One of the casks stowed in the wings of a vessel's hold, being smaller than such as are stowed more amidships. | [noun] An offensive player who plays on either side of the center. WINGIER (11) WINGING (12) [verb] To injure slightly (as with a gunshot), especially in the wing or arm. | [verb] To fly. | [verb] (of a building) To add a wing (extra part) to. WINGLET (11) [noun] A little wing. | [noun] A winglike structure at a wingtip set at an angle to the plane of the wing designed to reduce drag by its effect on wingtip vortices. | [noun] The bastard wing or alula of a bird. WINGMAN (13) [noun] A pilot partner of another, a pilot who flies in the same wing or squadron. | [noun] (by extension) a friend who accompanies one to offer (or receive) support, especially in flirting with love interests WINGMEN (13) [noun] A pilot partner of another, a pilot who flies in the same wing or squadron. | [noun] (by extension) a friend who accompanies one to offer (or receive) support, especially in flirting with love interests WINGTIP (13) [noun] The extreme tip of the wing of an aircraft, bird, flying insect, etc. | [noun] A part of a shoe, often with brogueing that extends backwards on both sides from the toe WINIEST (10) WINKERS (14) WINKING (15) [verb] To close one's eyes in sleep. | [verb] To close one's eyes. | [verb] Usually followed by at: to look the other way, to turn a blind eye. WINKLED (15) [verb] To extract. WINKLES (14) [noun] A periwinkle or its shell, of family Littorinidae. | [noun] Any one of various marine spiral gastropods, especially, in the United States, either of two species Busycotypus canaliculata and Busycon carica. | [noun] The penis, especially that of a boy rather than that of a man. WINLESS (10) WINNERS (10) [noun] One who has won or often wins. | [noun] A point or goal that wins a competition. WINNING (11) [verb] To conquer, defeat. | [verb] To reach some destination or object, despite difficulty or toil (now usually intransitive, with preposition or locative adverb). | [verb] To triumph or achieve victory in (a game, a war, etc.). WINNOCK (16) WINNOWS (13) [noun] That which winnows or which is used in winnowing; a contrivance for fanning or winnowing grain. | [verb] To subject (granular material, especially food grain) to a current of air separating heavier and lighter components, as grain from chaff. | [verb] To separate, sift, analyze, or test by separating items having different values. WINSOME (12) [adjective] Charming, engaging, winning; inspiring approval and trust, especially if in an innocent manner. WINTERS (10) [noun] Traditionally the fourth of the four seasons, typically regarded as being from December 23 to March 20 in continental regions of the Northern Hemisphere or the months of June, July and August in the Southern Hemisphere. It is the time when the sun is lowest in the sky, resulting in short days, and the time of year with the lowest atmospheric temperatures for the region. | [noun] The period of decay, old age, death, or the like. | [noun] Someone with dark skin, eyes and hair, seen as best suited to certain colors of clothing. WINTERY (13) [adjective] Suggestive or characteristic of winter; cold, stormy. | [adjective] Of precipitation, containing sleet or snow. | [adjective] Aged, white-haired. WINTLED (11) WINTLES (10) WIPEOUT (12) [noun] The act of colliding or crashing. | [noun] Total destruction or elimination. WIRABLE (12) WIREMAN (12) [noun] Someone who works with wire; primarily someone who connects electric wiring. | [noun] A person who sets up electronic surveillance. WIREMEN (12) [noun] Someone who works with wire; primarily someone who connects electric wiring. | [noun] A person who sets up electronic surveillance. WIRETAP (12) [noun] A connection installed on a telephone line or other communications system in order to allow a third party to conduct covert surveillance of conversations. | [verb] To install or to use such a connection. WIREWAY (16) WIRIEST (10) [adjective] Thin, muscular and flexible. WIRINGS (11) WISDOMS (13) [noun] An element of personal character that enables one to distinguish the wise from the unwise. | [noun] A piece of wise advice. | [noun] The discretionary use of knowledge for the greatest good. WISEASS (10) [noun] One who makes wisecracks, particularly in a sassy or cocky fashion. WISENTS (10) [noun] The European bison, Bison bonasus. WISHERS (13) WISHFUL (16) [adjective] Wished-for; desired, wanted. | [adjective] Expressing a wish or longing for something. | [adjective] Aspiring, or seeking advancement. WISHING (14) [verb] To desire; to want. | [verb] To hope (+ object clause with may or in present subjunctive). | [verb] (followed by for) To hope (for a particular outcome). WISPIER (12) [adjective] Consisting of or resembling a wisp; like a slender, flexible strand or bundle. WISPILY (15) WISPING (13) WISPISH (15) WISSING (11) [verb] To know; to understand. WISTFUL (13) [adjective] Full of longing or yearning. | [adjective] Sad and thoughtful. WISTING (11) WITCHED (16) [verb] To practise witchcraft. | [verb] To bewitch. | [verb] To dowse for water. WITCHES (15) [noun] A person who practices witchcraft; a woman or man who practices witchcraft. | [noun] An ugly or unpleasant woman. | [noun] One who exercises more-than-common power of attraction; a charming or bewitching person. WITHERS (13) [verb] To shrivel, droop or dry up, especially from lack of water. | [verb] To cause to shrivel or dry up. | [verb] To lose vigour or power; to languish; to pass away. WITHIER (13) WITHIES (13) [noun] The osier (Salix viminalis), a type of willow. | [noun] A long flexible twig of the osier; a withe. WITHING (14) WITHINS (13) WITHOUT (13) [adverb] Outside, externally. This is still used in the names of some civil parishes in England, e.g. St Cuthbert Without. | [adverb] Lacking something. | [adverb] In prostitution: without a condom being worn. WITLESS (10) [adjective] Lacking wit or understanding | [adjective] Indiscreet; not using clear and sound judgment. WITLING (11) [noun] A person who feigns wit, pretending or aspiring to be witty. | [noun] A person with very little wit. WITLOOF (13) [noun] Belgian endive, common chicory (Cichorium intybus) WITNESS (10) [noun] Attestation of a fact or event; testimony. | [noun] One who sees or has personal knowledge of something. | [noun] Someone called to give evidence in a court. 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WIZENED (20) [verb] To wither; to become, or make, lean and wrinkled by shrinkage, as from age or illness. | [adjective] Withered; lean and wrinkled by shrinkage as from age or illness. WIZZENS (28) WOADWAX (21) WOBBLED (15) [verb] To move with an uneven or rocking motion, or unsteadily to and fro. | [verb] To tremble or quaver. | [verb] To vacillate in one's opinions. WOBBLER (14) [noun] One who or that which wobbles. | [noun] A stone that rocks from side to side as it travels because it is not resting on its running surface. | [noun] A case that could go either way depending on factors that cannot be controlled. WOBBLES (14) [noun] An unsteady motion. | [noun] A tremulous sound. | [noun] A low-frequency oscillation sometimes used in dubstep WOENESS (10) WOESOME (12) WOFULLY (16) WOLFERS (13) WOLFING (14) [verb] To devour; to gobble; to eat (something) voraciously. | [verb] To make amorous advances to many women; to hit on women; to cruise for sex. | [verb] To hunt for wolves. WOLFISH (16) [adjective] Pertaining to wolves. | [adjective] Having the characteristics or habits of a wolf. | [adjective] Fierce; savage; menacing. WOLFRAM (15) [noun] Wolframite | [noun] Tungsten WOLVERS (13) WOMANED (13) WOMANLY (15) [adjective] Having the characteristics of a woman; feminine, female. | [adverb] In the manner of a woman. WOMBATS (14) [noun] Any of several herbivorous, burrowing marsupials, of the family Vombatidae, mainly found in southern and eastern Australia. WOMBIER (14) WOMERAS (12) WOMMERA (14) WONDERS (11) [noun] Something that causes amazement or awe; a marvel. | [noun] Something astonishing and seemingly inexplicable. | [noun] Someone very talented at something, a genius. WONKIER (14) [adjective] Lopsided, misaligned or off-centre. | [adjective] Feeble, shaky or rickety. | [adjective] (especially Usenet) Suffering from intermittent bugs. WONNERS (10) WONNING (11) WONTING (11) [verb] To make (someone) used to; to accustom. | [verb] To be accustomed (to something), to be in the habit (of doing something). WONTONS (10) [noun] A Chinese dumpling, often stuffed with varieties of meat or seafood and vegetables. | [noun] Ovary. WOODBIN (13) WOODBOX (20) WOODCUT (13) [noun] An engraved block of wood, especially one used as a printing form. | [noun] A method of printmaking from such a block. | [noun] A print produced with this method. WOODHEN (14) WOODIER (11) [adjective] Covered in woods; wooded. | [adjective] Belonging to the woods; sylvan. | [adjective] Made of wood, or having wood-like properties. WOODIES (11) [noun] An early station wagon or estate car in which the rear portion of the car's bodywork is made of wood, often associated with Southern California surfing culture. | [noun] A wooden rollercoaster; an amusement ride whose rails are overlaid upon a wooden track. | [noun] An erection of the penis. WOODING (12) WOODLOT (11) WOODMAN (13) [noun] Someone who hunts animals in a wood, hunter, huntsman. | [noun] Someone who cuts down trees or cuts and sells wood, lumberjack, woodcutter. | [noun] Someone who lives in the wood and manages it; a woodsman; (by extension) someone who spends time in the woods and has a strong familiarity with that environment. WOODMEN (13) [noun] Someone who hunts animals in a wood, hunter, huntsman. | [noun] Someone who cuts down trees or cuts and sells wood, lumberjack, woodcutter. | [noun] Someone who lives in the wood and manages it; a woodsman; (by extension) someone who spends time in the woods and has a strong familiarity with that environment. WOODSIA (11) [noun] Any of the fern genus Woodsia. WOODWAX (21) WOOFERS (13) [noun] An electronic speaker that produces low-frequency sound. | [noun] A dog. WOOFING (14) [verb] To make a woofing sound. | [noun] Act of woofing; barking. | [noun] Travelling to places for the purpose of volunteering on an organic farm there. WOOLENS (10) [noun] Woolen clothes collectively WOOLERS (10) WOOLHAT (13) WOOLIER (10) [adjective] Made of wool. | [adjective] Having a thick, soft texture, as if made of wool. | [adjective] (of thinking, principles, etc.) Based on emotions rather than logic. WOOLIES (10) [noun] A type of chaps. | [noun] A sweater or similar garment made of wool. | [noun] A sheep not yet shorn. WOOLLED (11) WOOLLEN (10) [noun] An item of clothing made from wool | [adjective] Made of wool. | [adjective] Of or relating to wool or woolen cloths. WOOLMAN (12) [noun] A man who deals in wool. WOOLMEN (12) [noun] A man who deals in wool. WOOMERA (12) [noun] An Australian spearthrower consisting of a stick with a hooked end. WOOPSED (13) WOOPSES (12) WOORALI (10) WOORARI (10) WOOSHED (14) [verb] To make a breathy sound like a whoosh. WOOSHES (13) [noun] A breathy sound like that of an object passing at high speed. WOOZIER (19) [adjective] Queasy, dizzy, or disoriented | [adjective] Intoxicated by drink or drugs WOOZILY (22) WORDAGE (12) WORDIER (11) [adjective] Using an excessive number of words. WORDILY (14) WORDING (12) [verb] To say or write (something) using particular words; to phrase (something). | [verb] To flatter with words, to cajole. | [verb] To ply or overpower with words. WORKBAG (17) [noun] A bag containing tools or material used for work, especially needlework. WORKBOX (23) [noun] A toolbox; a container for the items needed to carry out a task. | [noun] A set of skills and approaches. WORKDAY (18) [adjective] Suitable for everyday use. | [adjective] Mundane or commonplace. | [noun] Any of the days of a week on which work is done. The five workdays in many countries are usually Monday to Friday (and are defined as such in official and legal usage even though many people work on weekends). WORKERS (14) [noun] A person who performs labor for a living, especially manual labor. | [noun] A nonreproductive social insect, such as ant, bee, termite, or wasp. | [noun] A thread performing one instance of a particular task within a program. WORKING (15) [noun] (usually in the plural) Operation; action. | [noun] Method of operation. | [noun] The incidental or subsidiary calculations performed in solving an overall problem. | [verb] To do a specific task by employing physical or mental powers. WORKMAN (16) [noun] A man who labours for wages. | [noun] An artisan or craftsman. WORKMEN (16) [noun] A man who labours for wages. | [noun] An artisan or craftsman. WORKOUT (14) [noun] An exercise session; a period of physical exercise. | [noun] A schedule or program of specific exercises, especially one intended to achieve a particular goal. | [noun] (by extension) Any activity that requires much physical or mental effort, or produces strain. WORKUPS (16) [noun] A general medical examination to assess a person's health and fitness. | [noun] All the additional procedures and reactions carried out after the main chemical reaction to obtain the desired product. | [noun] A period of training or preparation, typically for a specific operation. WORLDLY (14) [adjective] Concerned with human or earthly matters, physical as opposed to spiritual. | [adjective] Concerned with secular rather than sacred matters. | [adjective] Sophisticated, especially because of surfeit; versed in the ways of the world. WORMERS (12) [noun] Dewormer, medicine used in deworming an animal. | [noun] Vermicide, any substance used to kill worms. WORMIER (12) [adjective] Of or like a worm or worms; shaped like a worm or worms. | [adjective] Infested with worms. WORMILS (12) WORMING (13) [verb] To make (one's way) with a crawling motion. | [verb] To move with one's body dragging the ground. | [verb] To work one's way by artful or devious means. WORMISH (15) WORRIED (11) [adjective] Thinking about unpleasant things that have happened or that might happen; feeling afraid and unhappy. | [verb] To be troubled; to give way to mental anxiety or doubt. | [verb] Disturb the peace of mind of; afflict with mental agitation or distress. WORRIER (10) WORRIES (10) [noun] A strong feeling of anxiety. | [noun] An instance or cause of such a feeling. | [verb] To be troubled; to give way to mental anxiety or doubt. WORRITS (10) [noun] Worry; anxiety. | [noun] One who worries excessively or unnecessarily. WORSENS (10) [verb] To make worse; to impair. | [verb] To become worse; to get worse. | [verb] To get the better of; to worst. WORSETS (10) WORSHIP (15) [noun] The condition of being worthy; honour, distinction. | [noun] The devotion accorded to a deity or to a sacred object. | [noun] The religious ceremonies that express this devotion. WORSTED (11) [noun] Yarn made from long strands of wool. | [noun] The fine, smooth fabric made from such wool yarn. | [verb] To make worse. WORTHED (14) WOTTING (11) WOULDST (11) [verb] (now uncommon or literary) To wish, desire (something). | [verb] (nowadays rare) To wish or desire (that something happen); to intend (that). | [verb] (auxiliary) To habitually do (a given action). WOUNDED (12) [verb] To hurt or injure (someone) by cutting, piercing, or tearing the skin. | [verb] To hurt (a person's feelings). | [adjective] Suffering from a wound, especially one acquired in battle from a weapon, such as a gun or a knife. WOWSERS (13) [interjection] An indication of excitement, surprise, astonishment, or pleasure. | [interjection] An expression of amazement, awe, or admiration. | [interjection] Used sarcastically to express disapproval of something. WRACKED (17) [verb] To place in or hang on a rack. | [verb] To torture (someone) on the rack. | [verb] To cause (someone) to suffer pain. WRAITHS (13) [noun] A ghost or specter, especially a person's likeness seen just after their death. WRANGLE (11) [noun] An act of wrangling. | [noun] An angry dispute. | [verb] To bicker, or quarrel angrily and noisily. WRAPPED (15) [verb] To enclose (an object) completely in any flexible, thin material such as fabric or paper. | [verb] To enclose or coil around an object or organism, as a form of grasping. | [verb] To conceal by enveloping or enfolding; to hide. WRAPPER (14) [noun] Something that is wrapped around something else as a cover or protection: a wrapping. | [noun] An outer garment; a loose robe or dressing gown. | [noun] One who, or that which, wraps. WRASSES (10) [noun] Any one of numerous edible, marine, spiny-finned fishes of the family Labridae, of which several species are found in the Mediterranean and on the Atlantic coast of Europe. Many of the species are brightly colored. WRASSLE (10) WRASTLE (10) WRATHED (14) WREAKED (15) [verb] To cause something harmful; to afflict; to inflict; to harm or injury; to let out something harmful; . | [verb] To chasten, or chastise/chastize, or castigate, or punish, or smite. | [verb] To inflict or take vengeance on. WREAKER (14) WREATHE (13) [verb] To twist, curl or entwine something into a shape similar to a wreath. | [verb] To form a wreathlike shape around something. | [verb] To curl, writhe or spiral in the form of a wreath. WREATHS (13) [noun] Something twisted, intertwined, or curled. | [noun] An ornamental circular band made, for example, of plaited flowers and leaves, and used as decoration; a garland or chaplet, especially one given to a victor. | [noun] An appendage to the shield, placed above it, and supporting the crest; an orle, a torse. It generally represents a twist of two cords of silk, one tinctured like the principal metal, the other like the principal color in the coat of arms. WREATHY (16) WRECKED (17) [verb] To destroy violently; to cause severe damage to something, to a point where it no longer works, or is useless. | [verb] To ruin or dilapidate. | [verb] To dismantle wrecked vehicles or other objects, to reclaim any useful parts. WRECKER (16) [noun] A person or company that dismantles old or wrecked vehicles or other items, to reclaim useful parts. (Australia) | [noun] One who breaks up situations, events. | [noun] A tow truck. WRESTED (11) [verb] To pull or twist violently. | [verb] To obtain by pulling or violent force. | [verb] To seize. WRESTER (10) WRESTLE (10) [noun] A wrestling bout. | [noun] A struggle. | [verb] To contend, with an opponent, by grappling and attempting to throw, immobilize or otherwise defeat him, depending on the specific rules of the contest WRICKED (17) WRIGGLE (12) [noun] A wriggling movement. | [verb] To twist one's body to and fro with short, writhing motions; to squirm. | [verb] To cause to or make something wriggle. WRIGGLY (15) WRIGHTS (14) [noun] A builder or maker of something. WRINGED (12) WRINGER (11) [noun] One who wrings. | [noun] A device for drying laundry consisting of two rollers between which the wet laundry is squeezed (or wrung); a mangle. | [noun] Something that causes pain, hardship, or exertion; an ordeal. WRINKLE (14) [noun] A small furrow, ridge or crease in an otherwise smooth surface. | [noun] A line or crease in the skin, especially when caused by age or fatigue. | [noun] A fault, imperfection or bug especially in a new system or product; typically, they will need to be ironed out. | [noun] A winkle WRINKLY (17) [noun] An old person. | [adjective] Having wrinkles. WRITERS (10) [noun] A person who writes, or produces literary work. | [noun] Anything that writes or produces output. | [noun] The seller of an option. WRITHED (14) [verb] To twist, to wring (something). | [verb] To contort (a part of the body). | [verb] To twist or contort the body; to be distorted. WRITHEN (13) [verb] To twist, to wring (something). | [verb] To contort (a part of the body). | [verb] To twist or contort the body; to be distorted. WRITHER (13) WRITHES (13) [noun] A contortion. | [noun] (knot theory) The number of negative crossings subtracted from the number of positive crossings in a knot | [verb] To twist, to wring (something). WRITING (11) [noun] Graphism of symbols such as letters that express some meaning. | [noun] Something written, such as a document, article or book. | [noun] The process of representing a language with symbols or letters. | [verb] To form letters, words or symbols on a surface in order to communicate. WRITTEN (10) [verb] To form letters, words or symbols on a surface in order to communicate. | [verb] To be the author of (a book, article, poem, etc.). | [verb] To send written information to. WRONGED (12) [verb] To treat unjustly; to injure or harm. | [verb] To deprive of some right, or to withhold some act of justice. | [verb] To slander; to impute evil to unjustly. WRONGER (11) WRONGLY (14) [adverb] In an unfair or immoral manner; unjustly. | [adverb] Incorrectly; by error. WROUGHT (14) [verb] To do a specific task by employing physical or mental powers. | [verb] To effect by gradual degrees. | [verb] To embroider with thread. WRYNECK (19) [noun] Either of two small woodpeckers, Jynx torquilla and Jynx ruficollis, of the Old World, that turn their heads almost 180 degrees when foraging. | [noun] A twisted or distorted neck; a deformity in which the neck is drawn to one side by a rigid contraction of one of the muscles; torticollis. WRYNESS (13) WURZELS (19) WUSSIER (10) WUSSIES (10) WUTHERS (13) WYVERNS (16) [noun] A draconian creature possessing wings, only two legs and usually a barbed tail. YARROWS (13) [noun] Any of several pungent Eurasian and North American herbs, of the genus Achillea, used in traditional herbal medicine. | [noun] Common yarrow, Achillea millefolium, the type species of the genus. | [noun] The green woodpecker, Picus viridis. YAWLING (14) YAWNERS (13) [noun] A person who yawns. | [noun] (entertainment) Something unexciting or boring that causes yawns, as a book, sporting event, or performance. YAWNING (14) [verb] To open the mouth widely and take a long, rather deep breath, often because one is tired or bored, and sometimes accompanied by pandiculation. | [verb] To say while yawning. | [verb] To present a wide opening. YAWPERS (15) YAWPING (16) [verb] To yelp, or utter a sharp cry, as in intense pain, or another raucous noise | [verb] To talk loudly and coarsely | [verb] Clamor, utter loud complaints YELLOWS (13) [noun] The colour of gold, butter, or a lemon; the colour obtained by mixing green and red light, or by subtracting blue from white light. | [noun] The intermediate light in a set of three traffic lights, the illumination of which indicates that drivers should stop short of the intersection if it is safe to do so. | [noun] One of the colour balls used in snooker, with a value of 2 points. YELLOWY (16) YOWLERS (13) YOWLING (14) [verb] Utter a yowl. | [verb] Express by yowling; utter with a yowl. | [noun] A sound that yowls.

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AARDWOLF (15) [noun] The nocturnal, insectivorous, mammal, Proteles cristatus, of southern and eastern Africa, related to and resembling the hyena. ADVOWSON (15) [noun] (ecclesiastical law) The right to present a nominee to a vacant ecclesiastical benefice or church office. AGALWOOD (13) [noun] A fragrant resinous wood from an Asian tree, used in perfumes and incense; also called agarwood or eaglewood. AGUEWEED (13) [noun] A plant of the aster family, also known as boneset, used traditionally to treat fevers and ague. AIRCREWS (13) [noun] A group of two or more trained individuals, formed as a team that operates an aircraft. AIRFLOWS (14) [noun] Any flow of air, especially the motion of air around a moving aircraft or aerofoil. AIRGLOWS (12) [noun] A faint emission of light from the upper atmosphere, typically visible at night in low-light conditions. | [verb] Third person singular present tense of airglow, meaning to emit such light. AIRPOWER (13) [noun] Airborne military power; an air force AIRSCREW (13) [noun] The propeller of an aircraft; the prop. | [noun] Any actuator disk whose working fluid is air. AIRWAVES (14) [noun] Radio-frequency electromagnetic waves, usually used in the context of wireless communication; radio waves. | [noun] Radio or television broadcasts. AIRWOMAN (13) [noun] A woman who flies in an aircraft; a female aviator. AIRWOMEN (13) [noun] A woman who flies in an aircraft; a female aviator. AISLEWAY (14) [noun] A passage between rows of seats or shelves, typically in a theater, store, or aircraft. ALEWIVES (14) [noun] A woman who keeps an alehouse. | [noun] A migrating North American fish, Alosa pseudoharengus. | [noun] Any of several species similar in appearance. ALLEYWAY (17) [noun] A narrow street formed by the proximity of adjacent buildings. | [noun] A passage between two rows of cabins in a ship. ALLOWING (12) [verb] To grant, give, admit, accord, afford, or yield; to let one have. | [verb] To acknowledge; to accept as true; to concede; to accede to an opinion. | [verb] To grant (something) as a deduction or an addition; especially to abate or deduct. ANSWERED (12) [verb] To make a reply or response to. | [verb] To speak in defence against; to reply to in defence. | [verb] To respond to a call by someone at a door or telephone, or other similar piece of equipment. ANSWERER (11) [noun] One who answers; a person who responds to a question or challenge. | [noun] In law, a defendant in a lawsuit. ANTIWEAR (11) [adjective] Designed to resist or reduce wear and tear; protective against wear. ANTIWEED (12) ANYWHERE (17) [adverb] In or at any location or an unknown location. | [adverb] To (in the direction of) any location or an unknown location. | [pronoun] Any location or an unknown location. ARCHWAYS (19) [noun] A passageway covered by an arch, particularly one made of masonry. | [noun] A doorway with a semilunar-shaped top. AREAWAYS (14) [noun] An outdoor passage offering access to a basement. ARMYWORM (18) [noun] The larva of any of the Spodoptera and Mythimna genera of noctuid moths, which typically feed in large, destructive groups. ARROWING (12) [verb] To move swiftly and directly (like an arrow) | [verb] To let fly swiftly and directly | [verb] (of a sugar cane plant) To develop an inflorescence. ARTWORKS (15) [noun] A painting, drawing, sculpture or other piece of creative, visual art | [noun] Artistic work. | [noun] (reprographics) The graphical elements to be included in a reproduced work. ASSWAGED (13) [verb] Past tense of assuage; to calm, pacify, or reduce the intensity of something such as pain, anger, or thirst. ASSWAGES (12) [verb] Third person singular present tense of "assuage," meaning to calm, pacify, or satisfy (a desire, emotion, or pain). ATWITTER (11) [adjective] Twittering | [adjective] Nervously excited AVOWABLE (16) [adjective] Capable of being avowed or openly declared; able to be acknowledged or admitted. AVOWABLY (19) [adverb] In a manner that is avowed or openly declared; admittedly. AVOWEDLY (18) [adverb] With open acknowledgment, declaration or verification. AWAITERS (11) [noun] Plural of awaiter; those who wait for something or someone. AWAITING (12) [verb] To wait for. | [verb] To expect. | [verb] To be in store for; to be ready or in waiting for. AWAKENED (16) [verb] To cause to become awake. | [verb] To stop sleeping; awake. | [verb] To bring into action (something previously dormant); to stimulate. AWAKENER (15) [noun] One who awakens or rouses someone from sleep. | [noun] One who brings about a spiritual or intellectual awakening. AWARDEES (12) [noun] The recipient of an award or special honor. AWARDERS (12) [noun] Plural of awarder; people who give or grant awards. AWARDING (13) [verb] To give by sentence or judicial determination; to assign or apportion, after careful regard to the nature of the case; to adjudge | [verb] To determine; to make or grant an award. | [verb] To give (an award). AWAYNESS (14) AWEATHER (14) [adverb] On or toward the weather side of a ship; on the windward side. AWFULLER (14) [adjective] Comparative form of awful; more awful. AWLWORTS (14) [noun] Plural of awlwort, a small aquatic or semi-aquatic plant of the genus Subularia, characterized by narrow awl-shaped leaves. AWNINGED (13) [adjective] Equipped with or having an awning; covered by an awning. BACKFLOW (22) [noun] The flow of a fluid (through a pipe etc) in a direction opposite to that which is normal or intended. BACKSAWS (19) [noun] Plural of backsaw, a fine-toothed saw with a stiffening metal or wooden back, used for precise cutting in woodworking. BACKWARD (20) [noun] The state behind or past. | [adjective] (of motion) In the direction towards the back. | [adjective] (of motion) In the direction reverse of normal. BACKWASH (22) [noun] The backward flow of water from oars or propeller or breaking waves. | [noun] The similar flow of air from an aircraft engine. | [noun] The result or consequence of an event; an aftermath. BACKWOOD (20) [adjective] Native to or located in a remote rural location. | [adjective] Rustic, unsophisticated, countrified. BACKWRAP (21) BAGWORMS (16) [noun] A member of the family Psychidae of the Lepidoptera. | [noun] Eastern tent caterpillar. | [noun] Fall webworm. BAKLAWAS (17) [noun] A Middle Eastern pastry made of layers of phyllo dough filled with chopped nuts and sweetened with honey or syrup. BALLHAWK (20) [noun] A player who handles the ball skilfully | [noun] (chiefly in Chicago) A person who specializes in catching home-run and foul balls. BARBWIRE (15) [noun] Twisted strands of steel wire, often coated with zinc, having barbs evenly spaced along them; used to construct agricultural and military fences. BARWARES (13) BASSWOOD (14) [noun] Any of several trees of the genus Tilia; the lindens, especially Tilia americana, the American basswood. BATFOWLS (16) [verb] To catch birds at night by blinding them with light and then netting them. | [verb] To trick or trap someone through deception. BAWCOCKS (21) [noun] Plural of bawcock, an archaic term of endearment or friendly address for a man or boy. | [noun] In some contexts, a term used to address someone in a familiar or affectionate manner. BAWDIEST (14) [adjective] Soiled, dirty. | [adjective] Obscene; filthy; unchaste. | [adjective] (of language) Sexual in nature and usually meant to be humorous but considered rude. BAWDRICS (16) [noun] Plural of bawdric, which is a variant spelling of baldric; a belt or sash worn across the chest, often used to carry a sword or other item. BAWDRIES (14) [noun] Plural of bawdry; obscene or indecent language, jokes, or behavior. | [noun] Cheap or tasteless ornaments or trinkets. BAYWOODS (17) BEADWORK (18) [noun] Decorative work involving beads. BEARWOOD (14) BECLOWNS (15) [verb] To make a fool of; to cause to appear ridiculous or foolish. | [verb] To dress or behave like a clown. BECOWARD (16) BECRAWLS (15) [verb] Third person singular present tense of "becrawl," meaning to crawl over or cover by crawling. BECROWDS (16) [verb] To crowd around or gather in large numbers around someone or something. BEDEWING (15) [verb] To make wet with or as if with dew. BEDGOWNS (15) [noun] Loose robes or gowns worn in bed, typically for sleeping or lounging. BEDSTRAW (14) [noun] Any plant of herb genus Galium of the madder family with small pointed leaves and hairy stems with small, white or yellow flowers | [noun] Any plant of the genus Cruciata. | [noun] Straw put into a bed BEDWARDS (15) [adverb] Toward bed; in the direction of bed. BEDWARFS (17) [verb] Third person singular present tense of "bedwarf," meaning to make something appear small or insignificant by comparison. BEEFWOOD (17) [noun] Any of the Australian trees having timber resembling raw beef. | [noun] The timber of those trees. BEESWING (14) [noun] A filmy, translucent crust found in port and other old wines which have been bottled-aged for a long time. | [noun] Cream of tartar; potassium bitartrate; the residual salt of tartaric acid. BEFLOWER (16) BEHOWLED (17) BEJEWELS (20) [verb] To decorate or bedeck with jewels or gems. BELLOWED (14) [verb] To make a loud, deep, hollow noise like the roar of an angry bull. | [verb] To shout in a deep voice. BELLOWER (13) [noun] One who bellows; a person or animal that makes loud, deep sounds. | [noun] A device or mechanism that produces a stream of air or gas. BELLWORT (13) [noun] A plant of the lily family with drooping yellow or white bell-shaped flowers, native to North America. BELTWAYS (16) [noun] A freeway that encircles a city. BENDWAYS (17) BENDWISE (14) BENTWOOD (14) [noun] (sometimes attributive) Lengths of wood that have been made pliable by heating with steam and then bent into the appropriate shape (to make furniture, ships' hulls, etc.). | [noun] An object, especially a piece of furniture, made from bentwood. BESHADOW (17) [verb] To cast a shadow over; to darken or obscure. BESHREWS (16) [verb] Third person singular present of "beshrew," meaning to curse or invoke evil upon someone. BESNOWED (14) [adjective] Covered with snow. BESTOWAL (13) [noun] The act of giving or granting something, typically a gift or honor. | [noun] Something that is given or bestowed; a gift. BESTOWED (14) [verb] To lay up in store; deposit for safe keeping; to stow or place; to put something somewhere. | [verb] To lodge, or find quarters for; provide with accommodation. | [verb] To dispose of. BESTREWN (13) [verb] To strew or scatter about; throw or drop here and there. | [verb] To strew anything upon; strew over or about; cover or partially cover with things strewn; cover with straw or strewing. BESTREWS (13) [verb] To strew or scatter about; throw or drop here and there. | [verb] To strew anything upon; strew over or about; cover or partially cover with things strewn; cover with straw or strewing. BESTROWN (13) [verb] Past participle of bestrew; to scatter or spread over a surface. BESTROWS (13) BESWARMS (15) [verb] Swarms over or around in large numbers; covers or fills by swarming. BEWAILED (14) [verb] To wail over; to feel or express deep sorrow for BEWAILER (13) [noun] One who bewails; a person who expresses sorrow or lamentation. | [noun] One who cries out in grief or distress. BEWARING (14) [verb] Present participle of beware; exercising caution or wariness toward something or someone. BEWIGGED (16) [adjective] Wearing a wig. | [adjective] Perplexed, bewildered. BEWILDER (14) [verb] To confuse, disorientate, or puzzle someone, especially with many different choices. BEWINGED (15) [adjective] Having wings or wing-like appendages; equipped with wings. BEWORMED (16) BEWRAYED (17) [verb] Past tense of bewray; to reveal, expose, or betray something or someone. BEWRAYER (16) [noun] One who bewrays; a person who reveals or exposes something hidden or shameful. BIKEWAYS (20) [noun] A bicycle lane or path. BILLOWED (14) [verb] To surge or roll in billows. | [verb] To swell out or bulge. BINDWEED (15) [noun] Trailing vine-like plants in the family Convolvulaceae with funnel-shaped flowers. | [noun] Plants of species in other families with similar appearance BITEWING (14) [noun] A type of dental X-ray film held between the upper and lower teeth to show the crowns and roots of teeth in a single image. BIWEEKLY (20) [noun] Something that is published or released once every two weeks. | [adjective] Occurring once every two weeks. | [adjective] Occurring twice a week (but see the Usage notes). BLOWBACK (21) [noun] A type of action where the pressure from the fired cartridge blows a sliding mechanism backward to extract the fired cartridge, chamber another cartridge, and cock the hammer. | [noun] An unintended adverse result, especially of a political action. | [noun] The act of shotgunning (inhaling from a pipe etc. and exhaling into another smoker's mouth). BLOWBALL (15) [noun] The fluffy seed head of a dandelion or similar plant that disperses seeds in the wind. BLOWDOWN (17) [noun] (chemical engineering) The removal of liquid and solid hydrocarbons from a refinery vessel by the use of pressure | [noun] (industrial engineering) Cooling fluid discharged from a plant at the end of its cycle. | [noun] Uprooting, overtopping, or bole breakage of trees by the wind; windthrow and windsnap. BLOWFISH (19) [noun] Any species of fish of the family Tetraodontidae that have the ability to inflate themselves to a globe several times their normal size by swallowing water or air when threatened. | [noun] A delicacy popular in Japan, consisting of the fish served raw as sushi or perhaps fried. It may, if improperly prepared, contain considerably deadly levels of neurotoxins. BLOWGUNS (14) [noun] A hollow tube through which a dart or similar missile may be blown. BLOWHARD (17) [noun] A person who talks too much or too loudly, especially in a boastful or self-important manner. BLOWHOLE (16) [noun] The spiracle, on the top of the head, through which cetaceans breathe. | [noun] A vent for the escape of gas. | [noun] A top-facing opening to a cavity in the ground very near an ocean's shore, leading to a marine cave from which wave water or bursts of air are expelled. BLOWIEST (13) [adjective] Windy or breezy. | [adjective] (of fabric, hair, etc.) Billowy, blowing or waving in the wind. | [adjective] (of soil) Susceptible to drifting. BLOWJOBS (22) [noun] (sex) An act of fellatio, or sucking a penis or other phallic object (such as a dildo). Stimulation of a somebody's penis or testicles with a person's lips, tongue or mouth with the purpose of giving the receiver sexual pleasure. It may or may not result in orgasm. | [noun] Excessive praise. BLOWOFFS (19) [noun] Sudden releases of pressure or steam from a valve or pipe. | [noun] Instances of abrupt termination or conclusion of something. BLOWOUTS (13) [noun] A sudden puncturing of a pneumatic tyre/tire. | [noun] A sudden release of oil and gas from a well. | [noun] A social function, especially one with large quantities of food. BLOWPIPE (17) [noun] A narrow tube through which a jet of air is directed onto a flame; used in the analysis of minerals etc and in jewelry manufacture | [noun] A weapon through which darts may be shot by blowing; a blowgun | [noun] A long narrow pipe, rotated in the hands, upon which glassware is blown BLOWSIER (13) [adjective] Having a reddish, coarse complexion, especially with a pudgy face. | [adjective] (chiefly of a woman's hair or dress) Slovenly or unkempt, in the manner of a beggar or slattern. | [adjective] Unrefined, countrified. BLOWSILY (16) [adverb] In a blowsy manner; in a ruddy, coarse, or unkempt way. BLOWTUBE (15) [noun] A tube through which a person blows air or darts, typically used as a weapon or toy. | [noun] A tube used to direct a stream of air or gas, as in glassblowing or metalworking. BLOWZIER (22) [adjective] Having a reddish, coarse complexion, especially with a pudgy face. | [adjective] (chiefly of a woman's hair or dress) Slovenly or unkempt, in the manner of a beggar or slattern. | [adjective] Unrefined, countrified. BLOWZILY (25) [adverb] In a blowzy manner; in a ruddy, coarse, or unkempt way. BLUEWEED (14) [noun] A North American plant of the borage family with blue flowers, also known as viper's bugloss. | [noun] Any of various plants with blue flowers, particularly those considered weeds. BLUEWOOD (14) BOBWHITE (18) [noun] Any one of four species of quail in the genus Colinus, of the bird family Odontophoridae, limited to the Americas. BODYWORK (21) [noun] The exterior body of a motor vehicle. | [noun] The repair of a such body. | [noun] The application of physical therapy as a preventive measure. BOGWOODS (15) BOLLWORM (15) [noun] The larvae of any of various species of moth that are pests to cotton. BOOKWORM (19) [noun] Any of various insects that infest books. | [noun] An avid book reader. BOOMTOWN (15) [noun] A town that experiences sudden and rapid growth, typically due to the discovery of natural resources or other economic opportunities. BORROWED (14) [verb] To receive (something) from somebody temporarily, expecting to return it. | [verb] To take money from a bank under the agreement that the bank will be paid over the course of time. | [verb] To adopt (an idea) as one's own. BORROWER (13) [noun] One who borrows. BOWELING (14) BOWELLED (14) [verb] Past tense of bowel; to remove the bowels or entrails from something. | [adjective] Having bowels or internal organs (archaic usage). BOWERIES (13) [noun] Plural of bowery; a farm or poultry yard, especially one in a rural area. | [noun] Historically, a neighborhood or street in New York City known for its bars and entertainment venues. BOWERING (14) [verb] To embower; to enclose. | [verb] To lodge. BOWFRONT (16) [adjective] Having an outward curving front. | [adjective] Having a bow window in front. BOWHEADS (17) [noun] A large whale, Balaena mysticetus, having a large, rounded head, that inhabits Arctic waters. BOWINGLY (17) BOWKNOTS (17) [noun] A knot that has two loops and two loose ends, either used decoratively, or to tie shoelaces. BOWLDERS (14) [noun] Large rounded masses of rock that have been detached from cliffs or mountains by weathering and erosion. | [noun] Plural of bowlder, an alternative spelling of boulder. BOWLFULS (16) [noun] Plural of bowlful; the quantity that a bowl can hold. BOWLINES (13) [noun] A knot tied so as to produce an eye or loop in the end of a rope; it will not slip or jam BOWLINGS (14) [noun] Plural of bowling; the sport or game of rolling a ball down an alley to knock down pins. | [noun] Plural of bowling; the act of delivering a ball in cricket. BOWLLIKE (17) [adjective] Resembling or having the shape of a bowl; curved or concave like a bowl. BOWSHOTS (16) [noun] The act of firing an arrow from a bow. | [noun] The distance that the arrow of an average archer can effectively travel. BOWSPRIT (15) [noun] A spar projecting over the prow of a sailing vessel to provide the means of adding sail surface. BOWWOWED (20) [verb] Past tense of bowwow; to bark like a dog or make a barking sound. BOXWOODS (21) [noun] Plural of boxwood, a dense, fine-grained wood from the boxwood tree, traditionally used for engraving blocks and fine woodwork. | [noun] Plural of boxwood, the evergreen shrub or small tree (genus Buxus) itself, commonly used in ornamental gardening and hedges. BRADAWLS (14) [noun] An awl with a blade similar to a small, straight screwdriver; used for making holes, especially in wood to take screws. BRAWLERS (13) [noun] One who brawls, engages in noisy, unseemly fights. | [noun] A beat 'em up game. BRAWLIER (13) [adjective] More inclined to brawl or engage in physical fights; more quarrelsome or aggressive. BRAWLING (14) [verb] To engage in a brawl; to fight or quarrel. | [verb] To create a disturbance; to complain loudly. | [verb] Especially of a rapid stream running over stones: to make a loud, confused noise. BRAWNIER (13) [adjective] Characterized by brawn; muscular, thewy; strong. | [adjective] Calloused; hardened. BRAWNILY (16) [adverb] In a manner characterized by muscular strength or physical power; with brawn. BREWAGES (14) [noun] Beverages or drinks, especially those that are brewed such as beer or tea. BREWINGS (14) [noun] The plural of brewing; instances or batches of beer or other beverages made by the brewing process. | [noun] The process of making beer or other drinks by steeping, boiling, and fermenting ingredients. BREWISES (13) [noun] Pieces of bread soaked in broth or gravy. | [noun] Plural of brewis, a dish made from bread softened in liquid. BROWBAND (16) [noun] A band that passes over a horse's forehead as part of the bridle. | [noun] A decorative band worn across the forehead. BROWBEAT (15) [verb] To bully in an intimidating, bossy, or supercilious way. BROWLESS (13) [adjective] Without eyebrows or lacking eyebrows. BROWNEST (13) [adjective] Having a brown colour. | [adjective] Gloomy. | [adjective] (sometimes capitalized) Of or relating to any of various ethnic groups having dark pigmentation of the skin. BROWNIER (13) [adjective] More brown in color or appearance; comparative form of brown. BROWNIES (13) [noun] A small square piece of rich cake, usually made with chocolate. | [noun] A mythical creature, a helpful elf who would secretly do people's housework for them. | [noun] A household spirit or revered ancestor. BROWNING (14) [verb] To become brown. | [verb] To cook something until it becomes brown. | [verb] To tan. BROWNISH (16) [adjective] Of a colour which resembles brown; somewhat brown. BROWNOUT (13) [noun] A period of low alternating current line voltage, causing a reduction in illumination | [noun] Temporary dimming of vision, usually with a brown hue and accompanied by loss of peripheral vision or tunnel vision. | [noun] Temporary closing of a fire station, usually due to budget restrictions. BROWSERS (13) [noun] A person or animal who browses. | [noun] A person who examines goods for sale but purchases nothing. | [noun] A web browser. BROWSING (14) [verb] To scan, to casually look through in order to find items of interest, especially without knowledge of what to look for beforehand. | [verb] To move about while sampling, such as with food or products on display. | [verb] To navigate through hyperlinked documents on a computer, usually with a browser. BUCKSAWS (19) [noun] A narrow saw set in a frame, used for cutting wood with a back-and-forth motion. | [noun] Plural of bucksaw, a type of handsaw with a blade held taut by a wooden frame. BUDWORMS (16) [noun] Any of various moth caterpillars. BUHLWORK (20) [noun] Decorative inlaywork made of tortoiseshell, ivory, and metal, used to ornament furniture. BULLWEED (14) BULLWHIP (18) [noun] A whip made from plaited leather, often with a knotted end, for use with livestock. | [verb] To beat with a bullwhip. BULWARKS (17) [noun] A defensive wall or rampart. | [noun] A defense or safeguard. | [noun] A breakwater. BUNGALOW (14) [noun] A single-storey house, typically with rooms all on one level, or sometimes also with upper rooms set into the roof space. | [noun] A thatched or tiled one-story house in India surrounded by a wide verandah BURROWED (14) [verb] To dig a tunnel or hole | [verb] (with adverbial of direction) to move underneath or press up against in search of safety or comfort | [verb] (with into) to investigate thoroughly BURROWER (13) [noun] An animal that digs burrows or tunnels in the ground. | [noun] A person or thing that burrows. BURWEEDS (14) [noun] Plural of burweed, a prickly or burred weed plant that produces seeds with hooks or barbs for dispersal. BUSHWAHS (19) [noun] Plural of bushwah; nonsense or rubbish. | [interjection] An exclamation expressing disbelief or dismissal. BUSYWORK (20) [noun] Work or activity performed with the intention or result of occupying time, and not necessarily to accomplish something productive; routine work of low priority undertaken for the sake of avoiding idleness. BUZZWIGS (32) BUZZWORD (32) [noun] A word drawn from or imitative of technical jargon, and often rendered meaningless and fashionable through abuse by non-technical persons in a seeming show of familiarity with the subject. CABLEWAY (18) [noun] A system of suspended cables from which cable cars are hung. CAKEWALK (21) [noun] A contest in which cake was offered for the best dancers. | [noun] The style of music associated with such a contest. | [noun] The dance, or strutting style of dance associated with such a contest. CALLOWER (13) [adjective] Unfledged (of a young bird). | [adjective] (by extension) Immature, lacking in life experience. | [adjective] Lacking color or firmness (of some kinds of insects or other arthropods, such as spiders, just after ecdysis); teneral. CANEWARE (13) [noun] A type of stoneware pottery with a cream or tan color, typically made from clay that contains iron oxide and fired at high temperatures, popular during the 18th and 19th centuries. CAPEWORK (19) CARASSOW (13) CARAWAYS (16) [noun] A biennial plant, Carum carvi, native to Europe and Asia, mainly grown for its seed to be used as a culinary spice. | [noun] The seed-like fruit of the caraway plant. | [noun] A cake or sweetmeat containing caraway seeds. CAREWORN (13) [adjective] Worn down by cares: showing the signs of long-term stress, tired and haggard due to prolonged worry. CASEWORK (17) [noun] The work required to deal with cases in any profession where a "case" has a specific definition (e.g. legal, social work, planning, etc.). CASEWORM (15) [noun] The larva of a caddisfly, which constructs a protective case around its body from sand, pebbles, or plant material. CASTAWAY (16) [noun] A shipwrecked sailor. | [noun] A discarded person or thing. | [noun] An outcast; someone cast out of a group or society. CATAWBAS (15) [noun] The catawba grape, a cultivar of North American Vitis labrusca. | [noun] A light sparkling wine made from this kind of grape. | [noun] Any of various species of catalpa trees Catalpa. CATCLAWS (15) CATSPAWS (15) [noun] Light gusts of wind that ruffle the water's surface in patches. | [noun] A person used by another to accomplish their purposes; a dupe or tool. CATWALKS (17) [noun] An elevated enclosed passage providing access fore and aft from the bridge of a merchant vessel. | [noun] Any similar elevated walkway. | [noun] A narrow elevated stage on which models parade; a runway CAUSEWAY (16) [noun] A road that is raised, so as to be above water, marshland, and similar low-lying obstacles. Originally causeways were much like dykes, generally pierced to let water through, whereas many modern causeways are more like bridges or viaducts. | [verb] To pave, to cobble. CHAINSAW (16) [noun] A saw that has a power-driven and fast-revolving chain of metal teeth, usually used to cut trees. | [verb] To cut with a chainsaw. CHECKROW (22) CHEWABLE (18) [adjective] Capable of being chewed; suitable for chewing. CHEWIEST (16) [adjective] Having a pliable or springy texture when chewed. CHEWINKS (20) [noun] Plural of chewink, an alternative name for the towhee, a North American songbird. CHOWCHOW (24) [noun] A breed of dog with a thick coat, curled tail, and lion-like appearance, originating from China. | [noun] A Chinese-American dish of meat or seafood served over rice with vegetables. CHOWDERS (17) [noun] A thick, creamy soup or stew. | [noun] A stew, particularly fish or seafood, not necessarily thickened. | [noun] A seller of fish. CHOWSING (17) CHOWTIME (18) CITYWARD (17) [adjective] Directed toward cities | [adverb] Toward a city or cities CITYWIDE (17) [adjective] Throughout a city. | [adverb] Throughout a city. | [noun] (chiefly Philadelphia) A combined order of a shot of distilled spirit (especially bourbon) and an order of beer CLAMWORM (17) [noun] A marine worm of the family Nereididae, commonly used as bait for fishing. CLAWLESS (13) [adjective] Lacking claws or having no claws. CLAWLIKE (17) [adjective] Resembling or having the characteristics of a claw; curved and gripping like a claw. CLAYWARE (16) [noun] Pottery or ceramic ware made from clay. CLERIHEW (16) [noun] A humorous rhyme of four lines with the rhyming scheme AABB, usually regarding a person mentioned in the first line. CLOWDERS (14) [noun] A group of cats or other small felines. CLOWNERY (16) [noun] Foolish or ridiculous behavior; antics or stunts typical of a clown. | [noun] A circus performance or entertainment involving clowns. CLOWNING (14) [verb] To act in a silly or playful fashion. | [verb] To ridicule. | [noun] Clownish behaviour. CLOWNISH (16) [adjective] Like a circus clown; comical, ridiculous. | [adjective] Pertaining to peasants; rustic. | [adjective] Uncultured, boorish; rough, coarse. COBWEBBY (22) [adjective] Resembling or covered with cobwebs; having a delicate, filmy appearance. | [adjective] Filled with cobwebs; dusty or neglected. COCKCROW (21) [noun] The time of day at which the first crow of a cockerel is heard; dawn or daybreak; first light COGWHEEL (17) [noun] A gear wheel | [noun] (When used attributively) Something behaving in similar, jerky, manner as a cogwheel, e.g. cogwheel respiration as a side effect of hyperbaric medicine COLESLAW (13) [noun] A salad of finely shredded raw cabbage and sometimes shredded carrots, dressed with mayonnaise (white slaw) or a vinaigrette (red slaw). COLEWORT (13) [noun] A plant of the genus Brassica; now specifically, a Brassica plant without a head used for food, such as kale. COMEDOWN (16) [noun] A sudden drop to a lower status, condition or level; a disappointment or letdown | [noun] A calm, mellow period experienced after the initial high from taking drugs COOKWARE (17) [noun] The assorted objects, such as pots, pans, baking sheets, etc., used for cooking COOLDOWN (14) [noun] A period of time required before an action or ability can be used again, commonly used in video games and computing. | [noun] A gradual return to normal body temperature and heart rate after intense physical exercise. CORDWAIN (14) [noun] A fine leather made from the skin of a goat or sheep, traditionally used for shoes and other goods. CORDWOOD (15) [noun] Wood suitable for use as firewood; firewood cut and split into conveniently sized pieces for easy stacking into cords. | [noun] Split and cut firewood as an economic commodity. CORKWOOD (18) [noun] Any of numerous plants with bark or wood resembling cork, of diverse orders: | [noun] The wood of Quercus suber, the cork oak. CORNROWS (13) [noun] A hairstyle, of African origin, having rows of tightly braided hair close to the scalp COWARDLY (17) [adjective] Showing cowardice; lacking in courage; weakly fearful. | [adverb] In the manner of a coward, cowardlily. COWBANES (15) [noun] Any of several related poisonous plants of the genus Cicuta | [noun] Cicuta virosa, the name species of this genus. COWBELLS (15) [noun] The lead cow in a herd. | [noun] A leader; an influencer. | [noun] A bell worn by cows; sometimes with an ornate strap. COWBERRY (18) [noun] A shrub native to the cool temperate areas of the Northern Hemisphere (Vaccinium vitis-idaea). | [noun] The berry of this shrub. COWBINDS (16) COWBIRDS (16) [noun] Any bird of the genus Molothrus. The cowbirds are brood parasites. COWERING (14) [verb] To crouch or cringe, or to avoid or shy away from something, in fear. | [verb] To crouch in general. | [verb] To cause to cower; to frighten into submission. COWFLAPS (18) COWFLOPS (18) COWGIRLS (14) [noun] A woman who tends free-range cattle, especially in the American West. | [noun] A woman who identifies with cowboy culture, including clothing such as the cowboy hat. | [noun] A playing card of queen rank. COWHAGES (17) COWHANDS (17) [noun] One who tends free-range cattle, especially in the American West. COWHERBS (18) COWHERDS (17) [noun] A person who herds cattle; a cowboy. COWHIDED (18) COWHIDES (17) COWINNER (13) COWLICKS (19) [noun] An unruly lock or section of hair that sticks straight out from the skull or lies at an angle at odds with the rest of an individual's hair, like a whorl or vortex. COWLINGS (14) [noun] A young or little cow; calf. | [noun] A removable protective covering for the engine of an aircraft, motorcycle etc COWORKER (17) [noun] Somebody with whom one works. COWPLOPS (17) COWPOKES (19) [noun] A cowhand (one who tends free-range cattle) | [noun] A 19th-century device used around the necks of cows and other livestock to prevent them from challenging fencing. The action of the device was to poke the cow when the device came into contact with the fence. COWPOXES (22) COWRITES (13) [verb] To write in collaboration with another person COWSHEDS (17) [noun] A small barn for keeping cows. COWSKINS (17) COWSLIPS (15) [noun] A low-growing plant, Primula veris, with yellow flowers. | [noun] Any of several other plants related or similar in appearance | [noun] Short for cowslip tea: a kind of green tea; an herbal tea made with cowslip flowers. COXSWAIN (20) [noun] In a ship's boat, the helmsman given charge of the boat's crew. | [noun] The member of a crew who steers the shell and coordinates the power and rhythm of the rowers. | [noun] The second or third mate of a vessel, in charge of the master's barge. CRABWISE (15) [adjective] In the manner of a crab; sideways. | [adjective] Incidental. | [adverb] In the manner of a crab; sideways. CRAWDADS (15) [noun] The crayfish. CRAWFISH (19) [noun] (Midwest US and Western US) Various freshwater crustaceans, crayfish. | [noun] Various marine crustaceans, rock lobster; especially Jasus lalandii, the Cape crawfish. | [noun] A slur against Anglo-Canadians used in some corners of Quebec (including the Gaspé). CRAWLERS (13) [noun] A person who is abused, physically or verbally, and returns to the abuser a supplicant. | [noun] A sycophant. | [noun] A child who is able to creep using his hands and knees but is not able to walk. CRAWLIER (13) CRAWLING (14) [verb] To creep; to move slowly on hands and knees, or by dragging the body along the ground. | [verb] To move forward slowly, with frequent stops. | [verb] To act in a servile manner. CRAWLWAY (19) CREWLESS (13) CREWMATE (15) CREWNECK (19) [noun] A round neckline with a ribbed texture. | [noun] (by extension) A shirt, sweater, or similar garment with such a neckline. CRIBWORK (19) [noun] Cribbing (structural members) CROSSBOW (15) [noun] A mechanised weapon, based on the bow and arrow, that shoots bolts. | [noun] A portable ballista that can be held in the hand. CROSSWAY (16) [noun] A crossroad. CROWBARS (15) [noun] An iron or steel bar, often with a flattened end which may also be hook-shaped, to be used as a lever to manually force things apart. | [noun] An electrical circuit that prevents an overvoltage from causing damage. | [noun] A type of cocktail made with only Crown Royal whiskey and lemon lime soda. CROWDERS (14) CROWDIES (14) CROWDING (15) [verb] To press forward; to advance by pushing. | [verb] To press together or collect in numbers | [verb] To press or drive together, especially into a small space; to cram. CROWFEET (16) CROWFOOT (16) [noun] Any of many plants, mostly of the genus Ranunculus, that have a leaf shaped somewhat like a bird's foot; especially the buttercups CROWNERS (13) CROWNETS (13) CROWNING (14) [verb] To place a crown on the head of. | [verb] To formally declare (someone) a king, queen, emperor, etc. | [verb] To bestow something upon as a mark of honour, dignity, or recompense; to adorn; to dignify. | [noun] A coronation. CROWSTEP (15) CUDWEEDS (15) [noun] Any of many of species of flowering plants in family Asteraceae: | [noun] Cudbear (Lecanora tartarea) CUMSHAWS (18) CURASSOW (13) [noun] Any of several species of bird in the genera Nothocrax, Mitu, Pauxi, and Crax of the Cracidae family, limited to the Americas. CUSSWORD (14) CUTAWAYS (16) [noun] A cut to a shot of person listening to a speaker so that the audience can see the listener's reaction. | [noun] The interruption of a continuously filmed action by inserting a view of something else. | [noun] A coat with a tapered frontline. CUTDOWNS (14) CUTWATER (13) [noun] The forward curve of the stem of a ship | [noun] The wedge of a bridge pier, that resists the flow of water and ice. | [noun] A black skimmer; a sea bird of the species Rynchops niger, that flies low over the sea, "cutting" the water surface with its lower mandible to catch small fish. CUTWORKS (17) CUTWORMS (15) [noun] The larva of any of many moths of the family Noctuidae; it is an agricultural pest. DAGWOODS (14) [noun] A multi-layered sandwich containing cold cuts, cheese, lettuce and any of several other fillings DAMEWORT (14) DANEWEED (13) DANEWORT (12) [noun] A European dwarf version of the elder, Sambucus ebulus, that has a bad smell DAWDLERS (13) DAWDLING (14) [verb] To spend time idly and unfruitfully, to waste time. | [verb] To spend (time) without haste or purpose. | [verb] To move or walk lackadaisically. DAWNLIKE (16) DAYGLOWS (16) DAYWORKS (19) DEADWOOD (14) [noun] Coarse woody debris. | [noun] People or things judged to be superfluous to an organization or project. | [noun] Money not realized by exiting a winning pump trade too early. DECLAWED (15) [verb] To surgically remove a cats claws; onychectomy. | [verb] To make harmless. DECROWNS (14) DEERWEED (13) DEFLOWER (15) [verb] To take the virginity of (somebody), especially a woman or girl. | [verb] To deprive of flowers. | [verb] To deprive of grace and beauty. DEWATERS (12) [verb] To remove water from. DEWAXING (20) [verb] To remove wax from a material or from a surface. | [noun] A process in which wax is removed from a material or a surface. DEWBERRY (17) [noun] Small brambles of the genus Rubus which have stems that trail along the ground. | [noun] The purple to black berries of these plants. DEWCLAWS (17) [noun] A vestigial digit, hoof or claw that does not reach the ground. DEWDROPS (15) [noun] A droplet of water formed as dew. | [noun] (1800s) A slow pitch. DEWFALLS (15) DEWINESS (12) DEWOOLED (13) DEWORMED (15) [verb] To cause an animal to excrete any worms in the digestive tract by the administration of drugs. DEWORMER (14) DISALLOW (12) [verb] To refuse to allow | [verb] To reject as invalid, untrue, or improper DISAVOWS (15) [verb] To strongly and solemnly refuse to own or acknowledge; to deny responsibility for, approbation of, and the like. | [verb] To deny; to show the contrary of; to deny legitimacy or achievement of any kind. DISBOWEL (14) DISCROWN (14) DISENDOW (13) [verb] To deprive of an endowment. DISHWARE (15) DISOWNED (13) [verb] To refuse to own, or to refuse to acknowledge one’s own. | [verb] To repudiate any connection to; to renounce. | [verb] To detach (a job or process) so that it can continue to run even when the user who launched it ends his/her login session. DOGWATCH (18) [noun] Aboard a ship, either of the two short two-hour watches that take place between 4 p.m. and 8 p.m. | [noun] (by extension) A night shift, or other very late or early period of duty. DOGWOODS (14) [noun] Any of various small trees of the genus Cornus, especially the wild cornel and the flowering cornel | [noun] The wood of such trees and shrubs. | [noun] A wood or tree similar to this genus, used in different parts of the world. DOORWAYS (15) [noun] The passage of a door; a door-shaped entrance into a house or a room. DORHAWKS (19) DOWAGERS (13) [noun] A widow holding property or title derived from her late husband | [noun] Any lady of dignified bearing DOWDIEST (13) [adjective] Plain and unfashionable in style or dress. | [adjective] Lacking stylishness or neatness; shabby. DOWDYISH (19) DOWELING (13) [verb] To fasten together with dowels. | [verb] To furnish with dowels. | [noun] A dowel. DOWELLED (13) [verb] To fasten together with dowels. | [verb] To furnish with dowels. DOWERIES (12) DOWERING (13) [verb] To give a dower or dowry. | [verb] To endow. DOWNBEAT (14) [noun] The accented beat at the beginning of a bar (indicated by a conductor with a downward stroke). | [adjective] Sad or pessimistic. | [adjective] Cautiously optimistic. DOWNCAST (14) [noun] A cast from supertype to subtype. | [noun] A melancholy look. | [noun] A ventilating shaft down which the air passes in circulating through a mine. DOWNCOME (16) DOWNFALL (15) [noun] A precipitous decline in fortune; death or rapid deterioration, as in status or wealth. | [noun] The cause of such a fall; a critical blow or error. | [noun] An act of falling down. DOWNHAUL (15) [noun] Any rope used to haul down a sail or spar. DOWNHILL (15) [noun] The fastest of the disciplines of alpine skiing. | [noun] A rapid descent of a hill in related sports, especially in alpine skiing. | [verb] To take part in downhill skiing. DOWNIEST (12) [adjective] Having down, covered with a soft fuzzy coating as of small feathers or hair. | [adjective] Sharp-witted, perceptive. DOWNLAND (13) [noun] An area of rolling hills (downs), often grassy pasture over chalk or limestone. DOWNLINK (16) [noun] The transmission of a signal from a satellite to a receiving station on earth; or the means of this transmission. | [noun] Transmission of data from a network, usually wireless, to the user. | [verb] To transmit a signal from a satellite to a terrestrial receiving station. DOWNLOAD (13) [noun] A file transfer to the local computer. | [noun] A file that has been, or will be transferred in this way. | [verb] To transfer data from a remote computer (server) to a local computer, usually via a network. DOWNPIPE (16) [noun] The drainpipe that connects a roof-line gutter with the ground. DOWNPLAY (17) [verb] To de-emphasize; to present or portray as less important or consequential. DOWNPOUR (14) [noun] A heavy rain. | [verb] To pour down; rain heavily. DOWNSIDE (13) [noun] A disadvantageous aspect of something that is normally advantageous. | [noun] A downward tendency, especially in the price of shares etc. DOWNSIZE (21) [verb] To reduce in size or number. | [verb] To reduce the workforce of. | [verb] To terminate the employment of. DOWNTICK (18) [noun] A small decrease or downward change in something that has been steady or rising. | [noun] A stock market transaction or quote at a price below a preceding one. DOWNTIME (14) [noun] The amount of time lost due to forces beyond one's control, as with a computer crash. | [noun] A period of time set aside for rest and relaxation; leisure time. DOWNTOWN (15) [noun] The main business part of a city or town, usually located at or near its center. | [adjective] Of, relating to, or situated in the central business district | [adverb] In or towards the central business district DOWNTROD (13) DOWNTURN (12) [noun] A downward trend, or the beginnings of one; a decline. | [verb] To turn downwards | [verb] To decline DOWNWARD (16) [adjective] Moving, sloping or oriented downward. | [adjective] Located at a lower level. | [adverb] Toward a lower level, whether in physical space, in a hierarchy, or in amount or value. DOWNWASH (18) [noun] Downward air turbulence caused by a propeller or jet, but especially by helicopter blades | [noun] The downward motion of air as a result of eddies behind a wing or chimney, etc. DOWNWIND (16) [adverb] In the same direction as the wind is blowing | [adverb] (+ from) positioned relative to something in such a way that it can be smelled in the wind | [adverb] In the direction opposite that of landing in a traffic pattern DOWSABEL (14) DRAWABLE (14) DRAWBACK (20) [noun] A disadvantage; something that detracts or takes away. | [noun] A partial refund of an import fee, as when goods are re-exported from the country that collected the fee. | [noun] The inhalation of a lungful of smoke from a cigarette. DRAWBARS (14) [noun] An open-mouthed bar at the end of a car, which receives a coupling link and pin by which the car is drawn. It is usually provided with a spring to give elasticity to the connection between the cars of a train. | [noun] A bar of iron with an eye at each end, or a heavy link, for coupling a locomotive to a tender or car. | [noun] A device to couple a powered road vehicle to a load to transfer tractive effort to the load, either as a push or as a pull. DRAWBORE (14) DRAWDOWN (16) [noun] The act of reduction or depletion. | [noun] The result of reduction or depletion. | [noun] A change in hydraulic head in a well or other body of water. DRAWINGS (13) [noun] A picture, likeness, diagram or representation, usually drawn on paper. | [noun] (uncountable) The act of producing such a picture. | [noun] Such acts practiced as a graphic art form. DRAWLERS (12) DRAWLIER (12) DRAWLING (13) [verb] To drag on slowly and heavily; to while or dawdle away time indolently. | [verb] To utter or pronounce in a dull, spiritless tone, as if by dragging out the utterance. | [verb] To move slowly and heavily; move in a dull, slow, lazy manner. DRAWTUBE (14) DRIVEWAY (18) [noun] Short private road that leads to a house or garage. DROPWORT (14) [noun] A perennial herb, Filipendula vulgaris, closely related to meadowsweet. | [noun] Any plant of genus Oenanthe. | [noun] Any plant of genus Oxypolis. DROWNDED (14) DROWNERS (12) DROWNING (13) [verb] To die from suffocation while immersed in water or other fluid. | [verb] To kill by suffocating in water or another liquid. | [verb] To be flooded: to be inundated with or submerged in (literally) water or (figuratively) other things; to be overwhelmed. DROWSIER (12) [adjective] Inclined to drowse; heavy with sleepiness | [adjective] Causing someone to fall sleep or feel sleepy; lulling; soporific. | [adjective] Boring. DROWSILY (15) DROWSING (13) [verb] To be sleepy and inactive. | [verb] To nod off; to fall asleep. | [verb] To advance drowsily. (Used especially in the phrase "drowse one's way" ⇒ sleepily make one's way.) DRYWALLS (15) DUCKWALK (22) [noun] A type of loaded walk in which the sportsman squats somewhat and steps forward or backward with his knees alternatingly while optionally carrying a dumbbell or kettlebell on each side or a kettlebell or cupped dumbbell between the legs. | [noun] A means of acceleration, moving with each foot turned 45 degrees from the forward position. | [noun] (preceded by definite article) A dance or dance move, popularised in the 1950s by Chuck Berry, in which the dancer steps forwards crouching on bended knees while keeping the back straight and head erect. DUCKWEED (19) [noun] Any of several reduced floating aquatic plants in the subfamily Lemnoideae of the family Araceae. DUCTWORK (18) [noun] The system of ducts in a particular building. DWARFEST (15) DWARFING (16) [verb] To render (much) smaller, turn into a dwarf (version). | [verb] To make appear (much) smaller, puny, tiny. | [verb] To make appear insignificant. DWARFISH (18) DWARFISM (17) [noun] The condition of being a dwarf. DWELLERS (12) [noun] An inhabitant of a specific place; an inhabitant or denizen. DWELLING (13) [noun] A house or place in which a person lives; a habitation, a home. | [verb] To live; to reside. | [verb] To linger (on) a particular thought, idea etc.; to remain fixated (on). DWINDLED (14) [verb] To decrease, shrink, diminish, reduce in size or intensity. | [verb] To fall away in quality; degenerate, sink. | [verb] To lessen; to bring low. DWINDLES (13) [verb] To decrease, shrink, diminish, reduce in size or intensity. | [verb] To fall away in quality; degenerate, sink. | [verb] To lessen; to bring low. DYEWEEDS (16) DYEWOODS (16) EARWAXES (18) EARWORMS (13) [noun] A tune that keeps replaying in one's head or that one keeps thinking about, especially if unwanted. | [noun] (originally United States) Short for corn earworm (“larva of the moths Helicoverpa zea (syn. Heliothis zea) and Helicoverpa armigera, which are agricultural pests”). | [noun] An earwig. EASTWARD (12) [noun] The direction or area lying to the east. | [adjective] Situated or directed towards the east. | [adverb] Towards the east. EDGEWAYS (16) [adjective] With the edge facing in the direction of movement. | [adjective] With the edge uppermost. | [adverb] With the edge facing in the direction of movement. | [noun] A form of railway in which the road is causewayed up to the level of the top of the flanges. EDGEWISE (13) [adjective] Edgeways. | [adverb] Edgeways. | [adverb] As if by an edge. EELWORMS (13) [noun] A nematode, or roundworm, especially any that resemble small eels. EISWEINS (11) [noun] Ice wine EKPWELES (17) ELBOWING (14) [verb] To push with the elbow. | [verb] (by extension) To nudge, jostle or push. | [noun] A nudge or jostle with the elbow. EMBOWELS (15) [verb] To enclose or bury. | [verb] To remove the bowels; disembowel. EMBOWERS (15) [verb] To enclose something or someone as if in a bower; shelter with foliage. | [verb] To lodge or rest in or as in a bower. | [verb] To form a bower. EMBOWING (16) EMBROWNS (15) EMPOWERS (15) [verb] To give permission, power, or the legal right to do something. | [verb] To give someone more confidence and/or strength to do something, often by enabling them to increase their control over their own life or situation. ENDOWERS (12) ENDOWING (13) [verb] To provide with a dower or a dowry. | [verb] To give property to (someone) as a gift; specifically, to provide (a person or institution) with support in the form of a permanent fund of money or other benefits. | [verb] Followed by with, or rarely by of: to enrich or furnish with some faculty or quality. ENSWATHE (14) [verb] To swathe; to envelop, as in swaddling clothes. ENTRYWAY (17) [noun] An opening or hallway allowing entry into a structure. ENTWINED (12) [verb] To twist or twine around something (or one another). ENTWINES (11) [verb] To twist or twine around something (or one another). ENTWISTS (11) ENWHEELS (14) ENWOMBED (16) EREWHILE (14) [adverb] Some time ago; beforehand; formerly. ESCHEWAL (16) ESCHEWED (17) [verb] To avoid; to shun, to shy away from. ESCROWED (14) [verb] To place in escrow. EVERYWAY (20) EYEBROWS (16) [noun] The hair that grows over the bone ridge above the eye socket. | [noun] A dormer, usually of small size, whose roof line over the upright face is typically an arched curve, turning into a reverse curve to meet the horizontal line at either end. | [noun] A clump of waste fibres that builds up in a roller machine. EYEWATER (14) [noun] A wash or lotion for application to the eyes. | [noun] Gin. | [noun] Tears; water cried from the eyes. EYEWINKS (18) FACEDOWN (17) FADEAWAY (18) FAIRWAYS (17) [noun] The area between the tee and the green, where the grass is cut short. | [noun] Any tract of land free from obstacles. | [noun] (Military) A channel either from offshore, in a river, or in a harbor that has enough depth to accommodate the draft of large vessels. (JP 4-01.6) FALLAWAY (17) [noun] A shot taken while moving away from the basket. | [adjective] Of a shot, taken while moving away from the basket. FALLOWED (15) [verb] To make land fallow for agricultural purposes. | [adjective] Of land, ploughed but left unseeded. FANWORTS (14) FAREWELL (14) [noun] A wish of happiness or safety at parting, especially a permanent departure | [noun] A departure; the act of leaving | [verb] To bid farewell or say goodbye. FARMWIFE (19) FARMWORK (20) FARROWED (15) [verb] To give birth to a (litter of piglets). FATWOODS (15) FAWNIEST (14) FAWNLIKE (18) FELLOWED (15) FELLOWLY (17) FELWORTS (14) [noun] A European herb, Swertia perennis (star swertia), of the gentian family. | [noun] Any member of any species in genus Swertia. | [noun] Any member of any species in the tribe Gentianeae FENCEROW (16) [noun] The land adjacent to a fence FESSWISE (14) FEVERFEW (20) [noun] A European aromatic perennial herb, Tanacetum parthenium (or Chrysanthemum parthenium or Pyrethrum parthenium), having daisy-like flowers; valued as a traditional medicine, especially for headaches. FEWTRILS (14) FIGWORTS (15) [noun] Any of various woodland herbs and shrubs of the genus Scrophularia. | [noun] Ficaria verna, formerly Ranunculus ficaria. FIREWEED (15) [noun] A perennial herbaceous plant (Epilobium angustifolium or Chamaenerion angustifolium) in the willowherb family Onagraceae. FIREWOOD (15) [noun] Wood intended to be burned, typically for heat. FIREWORK (18) [noun] A device using gunpowder and other chemicals which, when lit, emits a combination of coloured flames, sparks, whistles or bangs, and sometimes made to rocket high into the sky before exploding, used for entertainment or celebration. FIREWORM (16) FIRMWARE (16) [noun] Something in between hardware and software. Like software, it is created from source code, but it is closely tied to the hardware it runs on. | [noun] Software intended for such embedded computer applications. FISHBOWL (19) [noun] A small, rounded, transparent, and domestic aquarium. | [noun] (by extension) Any place or event that lacks privacy or is intensely scrutinized. | [noun] A variety of discussions where participants are organized in concentric circles and take turns where they and others in the same group are allowed to speak according to a set of rules. FISHWAYS (20) [noun] A structure built on or around dams or locks to facilitate the migration of fish. FISHWIFE (20) [noun] A woman who sells or works with fish; a female fishmonger. | [noun] A vulgar, abusive or nagging woman with a loud, unpleasant voice. | [noun] A person, especially a woman, with poor personal hygiene. FISHWORM (19) FITCHEWS (19) [noun] Polecat FLATWARE (14) [noun] Eating utensils; cutlery, such as forks, knives and spoons. | [noun] Plates, dishes and other relatively flat crockery. FLATWASH (17) FLATWAYS (17) FLATWISE (14) FLATWORK (18) FLATWORM (16) [noun] Any of very many parasitic or free-living worms, of the phylum Platyhelminthes, having a flattened body with no skeleton or body cavity. FLAWIEST (14) FLAWLESS (14) [adjective] Without flaws, defects, or shortcomings; perfect. FLEAWORT (14) [noun] Any of various unrelated plants that are supposed to kill or ward off fleas. | [noun] A herb, Plantago psyllium, whose seeds are supposed to resemble fleas FLOODWAY (18) [noun] An engineered path to channel floodwaters away from areas to be protected FLOWAGES (15) FLOWERED (15) [verb] To put forth blooms. | [verb] To decorate with pictures of flowers. | [verb] To reach a state of full development or achievement. FLOWERER (14) [noun] Something (originally a plant) that flowers (often in a specified manner, or at a specified time) FLOWERET (14) [noun] A floret, or small or component flower FLYAWAYS (20) [noun] A stray hair that is difficult to style. | [noun] Anything that is difficult to capture or restrain. | [noun] A kind of dismount from bars that incorporates one or more flips or twists. FLYBLOWN (19) [adjective] Contaminated with flyblows | [adjective] Tainted | [adjective] Sordid, squalid FLYBLOWS (19) FLYWHEEL (20) [noun] A rotating mass used to maintain the speed of a machine within certain limits while the machine receives or releases energy at a varying rate. FOLDAWAY (18) [noun] A piece of furniture, of any kind, that can be folded away when not in use. | [adjective] That may be folded away when not in use. FOLKWAYS (21) [noun] Often plural: a belief or custom common to members of a culture or society. FOLLOWED (15) [verb] To go after; to pursue; to move behind in the same path or direction. | [verb] To go or come after in a sequence. | [verb] To carry out (orders, instructions, etc.). FOLLOWER (14) [noun] One who follows, comes after another. | [noun] Something that comes after another thing. | [noun] One who is a part of master's physical group, such as a servant or retainer. FOODWAYS (18) FOOFARAW (17) FOOTWALL (14) [noun] The section of rock that extends below a diagonal fault line (the corresponding upper section being the hanging wall). | [noun] The under wall of an enclosed vein. FOOTWAYS (17) [noun] A passage for pedestrians only. FOOTWEAR (14) [noun] Items or an item of clothing that is worn on the foot; a shoe, sandal, etc. FOOTWORK (18) [noun] Any movement of the feet, especially intricate or complex movement, as in sports or dancing. | [noun] A subgenre of juke/ghetto house and style of street dance that originated in Chicago in the early 1990s. FOOTWORN (14) FOREKNEW (18) [verb] To have knowledge of beforehand. FOREKNOW (18) [verb] To have knowledge of beforehand. FOREPAWS (16) [noun] Either of the paws of an animal's foreleg, homologous to the hand in humans. FORESHOW (17) [verb] To show in advance; to foretell, predict. | [verb] To foreshadow or prefigure. | [noun] A manifestation in advance; a prior indication. FOREWARN (14) [verb] To warn in advance. FOREWENT (14) [verb] To precede, to go before. | [verb] To let pass, to leave alone, to let go. | [verb] To do without, to abandon, to renounce. FOREWING (15) [noun] (in an insect) Either member of the pair of wings closest to the head. FOREWORD (15) [noun] An introductory section preceding the main text of a book or other document; a preface or introduction. FOREWORN (14) FORMWORK (20) [noun] A temporary mould, made from planks, into which concrete is poured FORSWEAR (14) [verb] To renounce or deny something, especially under oath. | [verb] To commit perjury; to break an oath. FORSWORE (14) FORSWORN (14) [verb] To renounce or deny something, especially under oath. | [verb] To commit perjury; to break an oath. | [adjective] Having lied under oath; perjured. FORWARDS (15) [adverb] Toward the front. | [adverb] In a progressive direction. | [verb] To advance, promote. | [noun] An introductory section preceding the main text of a book or other document; a preface or introduction. FOWLINGS (15) FREEWAYS (17) [noun] A road designed for safe, high-speed operation of motor vehicles through the elimination of at-grade intersections, usually divided and having at least two lanes in each direction; a dual carriageway with no at-grade crossings, a motorway. | [noun] A toll-free highway. FREEWILL (14) [adjective] Voluntary, done of one's own accord FRETSAWS (14) [noun] A saw consisting of a metal frame having a fine-toothed narrow blade held under tension, used in making curved cuts. FRETWORK (18) [noun] Ornamental woodwork either carved in low relief or cut through FROWNERS (14) FROWNING (15) [verb] To have a frown on one's face. | [verb] To manifest displeasure or disapprobation; to look with disfavour or threateningly. | [verb] To repress or repel by expressing displeasure or disapproval; to rebuke with a look. FROWSIER (14) [adjective] Having a dingy, neglected, and scruffy appearance. FROWSTED (15) [verb] To enjoy being in a warm, close, stuffy place. FROWZIER (23) [adjective] Having a dingy, neglected, and scruffy appearance. FROWZILY (26) FUELWOOD (15) [noun] Wood grown or felled for use as commercial fuel FURBELOW (16) [noun] A frill, flounce, or ruffle, as on clothing; a decorative piece of fabric, especially one gathered or pleated as into a ruffle, etc. | [noun] A small, showy ornamentation. | [verb] To adorn with a furbelow; to ornament. FURROWED (15) [verb] To cut one or more grooves in (the ground, etc.). | [verb] To wrinkle. | [verb] To pull one's brows or eyebrows together due to concentration, worry, etc. FURROWER (14) GADWALLS (13) [noun] A common, widespread dabbling duck which breeds in the northern hemisphere (Mareca strepera, syn. Anas strepera). GANGPLOW (15) GANGWAYS (16) [noun] A passageway through which to enter or leave, such as one between seating areas in an auditorium, or between two buildings. | [noun] An articulating bridge or ramp, such as from land to a dock or a ship. | [noun] A temporary passageway, such as one made of planks. GAPEWORM (16) [noun] A parasitic nematode worm, Syngamus trachea, that infects the tracheas of some birds and causes the disease gapes. GASWORKS (16) [noun] A factory where coal is converted to coal gas and coke. GATEWAYS (15) [noun] An entrance capable of being blocked by use of a gate. | [noun] Any point that represents the beginning of a transition from one place or phase to another. | [noun] A point at which freight moving from one territory to another is interchanged between transportation lines. GAWKIEST (16) [adjective] Awkward, ungainly; lacking grace or dexterity in movement GAYWINGS (16) GETAWAYS (15) [noun] A means of escape. | [noun] The effecting of an escape. | [noun] A vacation or holiday, or the destination for one. GIFTWARE (15) [noun] Items designed to be bought as gifts GIGAWATT (13) [noun] One thousand million (109) watts, abbreviated as GW. GIVEAWAY (18) [noun] Something that is given away or handed out for free. | [noun] An event at which things are given away for free. | [noun] Something that is obvious or apparent; something that reveals a secret. GLOWERED (13) [verb] To look or stare with anger. GLOWWORM (17) [noun] The larva or wingless grub-like female of a beetle from the families Phengodidae or Lampyridae that gives out a green light from its abdomen. | [noun] A carnivorous gnat larva in the keroplatid genus Arachnocampa that spins threads to capture insects attracted by its glow. GNAWABLE (14) GNAWINGS (13) GOALWARD (13) [adjective] Moving toward a goal, or which affects movement theretoward. | [adjective] Somehow abstractly associated with a goal. | [adverb] Toward a goal; toward the goal. GOLLIWOG (13) [noun] A rag doll or mascot in the form of a caricature of a black minstrel. | [noun] (racist) A black person. | [noun] A hairy caterpillar. GOLLYWOG (16) GOODWIFE (16) [noun] A female head of a household. | [noun] A title of respect for a woman. GOODWILL (13) [noun] A favorably disposed attitude toward someone or something. | [noun] The value of a business entity not directly attributable to its tangible assets and liabilities. This value derives from factors such as consumer loyalty to the brand. | [noun] A concept used to refer to the ability of an individual or business to exert influence within a community, club, market or another type of group, without having to resort to the use of an asset (such as money or property), either directly or by the creation of a lien. GOSHAWKS (19) [noun] Any of several birds of prey, principally in the genus Accipiter. GOWNSMAN (14) GOWNSMEN (14) GREENWAY (15) [noun] A corridor of undeveloped or park land. GREWSOME (14) GROMWELL (14) [noun] Lithospermum arvense, a plant of the genus Lithospermum anciently used, because of its stony pericarp, in the cure of kidney stones. GROWABLE (14) GROWLERS (12) [noun] A person, creature or thing that growls. | [noun] A horse-drawn cab with four wheels. | [noun] A small iceberg or ice floe which is barely visible over the surface of the water. GROWLIER (12) [adjective] Resembling the sound of a growl; throaty GROWLING (13) [verb] To utter a deep guttural sound, as an angry animal; to give forth an angry, grumbling sound. | [verb] Of a wind instrument: to produce a low-pitched rumbling sound. | [verb] To send a user a message via the Growl software library. GROWNUPS (14) [noun] An adult (used especially by children). GRUBWORM (16) GUFFAWED (19) [verb] To laugh boisterously. GUIDEWAY (16) [noun] A track along which something is guided, such as a component in a machine, or an automated transit vehicle. GULFWEED (16) [noun] Sargassum; algae of the genus Sargassum. GUMWEEDS (15) GUMWOODS (15) GUNWALES (12) [noun] The top edge of the hull of a nautical vessel, where it meets the deck. GWEDUCKS (19) HACKSAWS (20) [noun] A saw, with a blade that is put under tension, for cutting metal | [verb] To cut with a hacksaw. HACKWORK (24) [noun] Work, usually of a professional nature, either repetitive or done to a formula. HAIRWORK (18) HAIRWORM (16) HALLOWED (15) [verb] To make holy, to sanctify. | [verb] To shout, especially to urge on dogs for hunting. | [adjective] Consecrated or sanctified; sacred, holy. HALLOWER (14) HALLWAYS (17) [noun] A corridor in a building that connects rooms. HANDSAWS (15) [noun] A saw small enough to be used by one hand. | [noun] A heron. HANDSEWN (15) HANDWORK (19) [noun] Work done by the hands, as opposed to by machine. | [verb] To work (materials) by hand, without the use of a machine. HANDWRIT (15) HARDWARE (15) [noun] Fixtures, equipment, tools and devices used for general-purpose construction and repair of a structure or object. Also such equipment as sold as stock by a store of the same name, e.g. hardware store. | [noun] Equipment. | [noun] The part of a computer that is fixed and cannot be altered without replacement or physical modification; motherboard, expansion cards, etc. Compare software. HARDWIRE (15) [verb] To connect components by means of permanent electrical wires. | [verb] To implement a feature in hardware rather than in software so that it cannot easily be changed. | [verb] (by extension) To make a pattern of behaviour automatic. HARDWOOD (16) [noun] (mostly in botany and forestry) The wood from any dicotyledonous tree, without regard to its hardness. | [noun] (in more general use) As the preceding but limited to those that are commercial timbers, and are at least average in hardness. | [noun] The tree or tree species that yields the preceding. HARROWED (15) [verb] To drag a harrow over; to break up with a harrow. | [verb] To traumatize or disturb; to frighten or torment. | [verb] To break or tear, as if with a harrow; to wound; to lacerate; to torment or distress; to vex. HARROWER (14) HATCHWAY (22) [noun] A means of passing through a wall or floor, having a hatch (especially on a ship); a doorway with a hatch rather than a door. HAWFINCH (22) [noun] A large Eurasian finch, Coccothraustes coccothraustes, with a thick bill. HAWKBILL (20) HAWKEYED (22) HAWKINGS (19) HAWKLIKE (22) HAWKMOTH (23) [noun] Any of several moths, of the family Sphingidae, that hover over flowers when sucking nectar through a long proboscis. HAWKNOSE (18) HAWKSHAW (24) [noun] (19th century) A detective. HAWKWEED (22) [noun] Any species of plant of the genus Hieracium and its segregate genus Pilosella, in the sunflower family (Asteraceae). HAWTHORN (17) [noun] Any of various shrubs and small trees of the genus Crataegus having small, apple-like fruits and thorny branches HAYWARDS (18) HAYWIRES (17) HEADWAYS (18) [noun] Movement ahead or forward. | [noun] Forward motion, or its rate. | [noun] The interval of time or distance between the fronts of two vehicles (e.g. buses) moving in succession in the same direction, especially along the same pre-determined route. HEADWIND (16) [noun] A wind that blows directly against the course of a vehicle, like an aircraft, train, or ship. HEADWORD (16) [noun] A word used as the title of a section, particularly in a dictionary, encyclopedia, or thesaurus | [noun] (grammar) any word which may be modified by an adjunct HEADWORK (19) [noun] Mental or intellectual labour; the use of logic and clear thinking. HEDGEROW (16) [noun] A row of closely planted bushes or trees forming a hedge HEEHAWED (18) [verb] To utter the cry of an ass or donkey. HEMPWEED (19) HEREAWAY (17) HEREWITH (17) [adverb] With this; especially, with this letter or communication | [adverb] By this means | [adverb] In this way, hereby HIDEAWAY (18) [noun] A hiding place, somewhere one can go to get away from other people | [adjective] Capable of being stored out of sight when not in use. HIGHBROW (20) [noun] (sometimes derogatory) A cultured or learned person or thing. | [adjective] (sometimes derogatory) Intellectually stimulating, highly cultured, sophisticated. HIGHWAYS (21) [noun] A motor vehicle for transporting large numbers of people along roads. | [noun] An electrical conductor or interface serving as a common connection for two or more circuits or components. | [noun] (medical industry) An ambulance. HOEDOWNS (15) [noun] A type of American folk or square dance. | [noun] The type of music typically played for such a dance | [noun] A gathering at which such dances take place. HOGWEEDS (16) [noun] Any coarse weedy herb. | [noun] An umbelliferous plant, of genus Heracleum, most species of which are phototoxic. | [noun] Certain plants from the genera Ambrosia, Erigeron, or Heracleum. HOLLOWED (15) [verb] To make a hole in something; to excavate | [verb] To call or urge by shouting; to hollo. HOLLOWER (14) [adjective] (of something solid) Having an empty space or cavity inside. | [adjective] (of a sound) Distant, eerie; echoing, reverberating, as if in a hollow space; dull, muffled; often low-pitched. | [adjective] Without substance; having no real or significant worth; meaningless. HOLLOWLY (17) HOMETOWN (16) [noun] An individual’s place of birth, childhood home, or place of main residence. | [noun] Designating a decision or judgement that is biased, or perceived to be biased, in favour of local preference. HOMEWARD (17) [adverb] Towards home. | [adjective] Oriented towards home HOMEWORK (20) [noun] Work that is done at home, especially school exercises assigned by a teacher. | [noun] Preliminary or preparatory work, such as research. | [noun] Housework. HONEWORT (14) [noun] Either of two plants of the family Umbelliferae. HONEYDEW (18) [noun] A sweet sticky substance deposited on leaves by insects. | [noun] A sweet sticky substance produced by the leaves of some plants. | [noun] A melon with sweet green flesh, with a smooth greenish-white exterior, of cultivar group Cucumis melo Inodorus group. HOODWINK (19) [verb] To deceive by disguise; to dupe, bewile, mislead. | [verb] To cover the eyes with a hood; to blindfold. | [verb] To overshadow something in a way that one is blind or oblivious to it. HOOKWORM (20) [noun] Any of various parasitic bloodsucking roundworms which cause disease, especially the species Ancylostoma duodenale and Necator americanus, having hooked mouthparts and entering their hosts by boring through the skin. HOOSEGOW (15) [noun] A jail. HOOSGOWS (15) HORNWORM (16) [noun] A caterpillar of a hawk moth that has a hornlike tail process. | [noun] Some moths in the genus Manduca of the hawk moth family Sphingidae. HORNWORT (14) [noun] A bryophyte with a leafless thallus characterized by a dominant gametophyte stage of the life cycle and a sporophyte stage shaped like a horn. HOWDYING (19) HOWITZER (23) [noun] A cannon that combines certain characteristics of guns and mortars. The howitzer delivers projectiles with medium velocities, by either low or high trajectories. | [noun] Normally a cannon with a tube length of 20 to 30 calibers; however, the tube length can exceed 30 calibers and still be considered a howitzer when the high angle fire zoning solution permits range overlap between charges | [noun] A powerfully hit shot. HUSWIFES (17) HUSWIVES (17) IMBOWERS (15) IMBROWNS (15) IMPAWNED (16) IMPOWERS (15) INCHWORM (18) [noun] The larva of a moth of the family Geometridae. | [verb] To move in a looping fashion, like an inchworm. | [verb] To crawl or creep slowly. INDOWING (13) INDWELLS (12) [verb] To exist within, especially as a spirit or driving force. INGROWTH (15) [noun] Growth inwards. INKWELLS (15) [noun] A container for ink, designed and usually positioned so that a person may conveniently dip a pen into it whenever a refill is needed. INKWOODS (16) INSWATHE (14) INTERROW (11) INTERWAR (11) [adjective] During or relating to the period of time between two wars, especially the two World Wars (1919–1939). INTWINED (12) [verb] To twist or twine around something (or one another). INTWINES (11) [verb] To twist or twine around something (or one another). INTWISTS (11) INWALLED (12) INWARDLY (15) [adverb] In an inward manner; on the inside or to oneself. | [adverb] Completely, fully. INWEAVED (15) INWEAVES (14) IRONWARE (11) [noun] Articles made of iron, as household utensils, tools, and the like. IRONWEED (12) IRONWOOD (12) [noun] Any of a number of tree species known for having a particularly solid wood. | [noun] The wood of any ironwood tree. IRONWORK (15) [noun] Anything made wholly or largely of iron, especially when used for decoration. | [noun] An ironworks. JACKDAWS (25) [noun] A European bird (Coloeus monedula) of the crow family, often nesting in church towers and ruins. | [noun] A Daurian jackdaw, a closely related Asian bird (Coloeus dauuricus). JAWBONED (21) [verb] To talk persistently in an attempt to persuade somebody to cooperate. | [adjective] (in combination) Having a specified kind of jawbone. JAWBONER (20) JAWBONES (20) [noun] The bone of the lower jaw; the mandible. | [noun] Any of the bones in the lower or upper jaw. | [noun] (singular or plural) A shaken musical instrument (an idiophone) made from the jawbone of an animal and shaken such that the teeth vibrate in their sockets to produce sound. JAWLINES (18) [noun] The lower edge of the side of the face (below the cheek), defined by the jawbone. JAYWALKS (25) [verb] To behave as a jaywalker; to violate pedestrian traffic regulations by crossing a street away from a designated crossing or to walk in the part of the street intended for vehicles rather than on the sidewalk. JEWELERS (18) [noun] A person whose job is making, repairing or selling jewelry. JEWELING (19) JEWELLED (19) [verb] To bejewel; to decorate or bedeck with jewels or gems. | [adjective] Set with jewels JEWELLER (18) [noun] A person whose job is making, repairing or selling jewelry. JIGSAWED (20) JOWLIEST (18) KALEWIFE (18) KEYWORDS (19) [noun] Any word used as the key to a code. | [noun] Any word used in a reference work to link to other words or other information. | [noun] A reserved word used to identify a specific command, function etc. KICKSHAW (24) [noun] A dainty or delicacy. | [noun] A trinket or gewgaw. KILOWATT (15) [noun] One thousand (103) watts. KINGWOOD (17) KNAPWEED (18) [noun] Any of various common weeds of the genus Centaurea KNITWEAR (15) [noun] Knitted garments KNOTWEED (16) [noun] Any of several plants of the genus Polygonum, with jointed stems and inconspicuous flowers KNOWABLE (17) [adjective] Capable of being known, understood or comprehended. KNOWINGS (16) KOTOWERS (15) KOTOWING (16) KOWTOWED (19) [verb] To grovel, act in a very submissive manner. | [verb] To kneel and bow low enough to touch one’s forehead to the ground. | [verb] To bow very deeply. KOWTOWER (18) LACEWING (14) [noun] Any of a number of gauzy-winged insects of certain families within the order Neuroptera. | [noun] Any of various nymphalid butterflies of the genus Cethosia. LACEWOOD (14) [noun] Any of several types of wood with a coarse texture, but especially that from several varieties of sycamore. LACEWORK (17) [noun] A piece or example of lace. LANDWARD (13) [noun] The side facing land. | [adjective] Located, facing or moving in the direction of the land, as opposed to the sea. | [adjective] Of the country as opposed to the city, rural; agricultural. LANEWAYS (14) [noun] A narrow roadway; a lane LAPWINGS (14) [noun] Any of several medium-sized wading birds belonging to the subfamily Vanellinae within family Charadriidae. | [noun] The tewit (Vanellus cristatus) (which is a type of lapwing in the first sense). | [noun] A silly man. LATEWOOD (12) LATHWORK (18) LAUWINES (11) LAWBOOKS (17) LAWFULLY (17) [adverb] Conforming to the law; legally LAWGIVER (15) [noun] One who provides laws to a society. | [noun] Any lawmaker. LAWMAKER (17) [noun] One who makes or enacts laws. LAWSUITS (11) [noun] In civil law, a case where two or more people disagree and one or more of the parties take the case to a court for resolution. LAWYERED (15) [verb] To practice law. | [verb] To perform, or attempt to perform, the work of a lawyer. | [verb] To make legalistic arguments. LAWYERLY (17) LAYAWAYS (17) [noun] Things which have had a deposit placed on them and which the owner (generally a store) has agreed to hold for the customer and accept full payment at a later time. | [noun] The system of accepting a deposit and holding for a customer to complete purchase. LAYWOMAN (16) [noun] A woman who is a layperson, one who has not taken a religious oath (such as becoming a nun). | [noun] By analogy, a woman who is not a professional in a given field LAYWOMEN (16) [noun] A woman who is a layperson, one who has not taken a religious oath (such as becoming a nun). | [noun] By analogy, a woman who is not a professional in a given field LEADWORK (16) LEADWORT (12) [noun] Any of various maritime herbs of the genus Plumbago, some of which have lead-coloured spots on the leaves or nearly lead-coloured flowers. LEAFWORM (16) LEEWARDS (12) LEFTWARD (15) [adjective] To or from the left. | [adverb] To or from the left. 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LOCKDOWN (18) [noun] The confinement of people in their own rooms (e.g. in a school) or cells (in a prison), or to their own homes or areas (e.g. in the case of a city- or nation-wide issue) as a security measure after or amid a disturbance or pandemic, etc. | [noun] A contrivance to fasten logs together in rafting. LOCKJAWS (24) LOCOWEED (14) [noun] Any of several plants indigenous to the western United States, of genus Oxytropis or Astragalus. LOGWOODS (13) [noun] A tree, Haematoxylum campechianum, in the legume family, of great economic importance and growing throughout Central America. | [noun] Any of various trees of the genus Xylosma in the willow family. LONGBOWS (14) [noun] A large bow that has a strong tension, and is usually more than 3 feet tall. The most famous longbows in history were the English longbows, which were crafted of yew. LONGWAYS (15) [adverb] (manner) Lengthwise, in the longer direction. LONGWISE (12) [adverb] Lengthwise; longways; lengthways. LOOKDOWN (16) LOWBALLS (13) [noun] The position of the ball on an American railroad ball signal that indicated Stop. | [noun] A form of poker in which the lowest-ranking poker hand wins the pot. Usually the ace is the lowest-ranking card, straights and flushes do not count making the best possible hand being A, 2, 3, 4, 5 regardless of suits (in contrast to deuce-to-seven lowball.) | [noun] A form of cribbage in which the first to score 121 (or 61) is the loser. LOWBROWS (16) [noun] Someone or something of low education or culture. LOWDOWNS (15) LOWERING (12) [noun] The act of one who, or that which, lours. | [adjective] (of sky or environment) Dark and menacing. | [adjective] That lowers or frowns. | [verb] To frown; to look sullen. LOWLANDS (12) [noun] Area which is lower than surrounding areas. LOWLIEST (11) [adjective] Not high; not elevated in place; low. | [adjective] Low in rank or social importance. | [adjective] Not lofty or sublime; humble. 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LUNGWORM (14) [noun] Any of several nematode worms, of the family Metastrongylidae, that are parasitic to mammalian lungs LUNGWORT (12) [noun] Any of various European plants, of the genus Pulmonaria (family Boraginaceae), that were once used to treat respiratory disorders. | [noun] Any of several other, unrelated plants, used to treat respiratory disorders MACCABAW (19) MACKINAW (19) [noun] A heavy woolen cloth. | [noun] A blanket made of wool, formerly distributed to the Amerindians by the U.S. government. | [noun] A flat-bottomed cargo boat; mackinaw boat. MADWOMAN (16) [noun] A woman who is insane. MADWOMEN (16) [noun] A woman who is insane. MADWORTS (14) MANPOWER (15) [noun] The total number of all available workers; the workforce. | [noun] The power exerted by a single person (analogous to horsepower.) MANWARDS (14) MARKDOWN (18) [noun] A reduction in price in order to stimulate sales. MARROWED (14) MAXWELLS (20) [noun] A unit of magnetic flux that produces one abvolt per turn per second. MAYWEEDS (17) [noun] Stinking chamomile, Anthemis cotula. | [noun] Corn chamomile, field chamomile, Anthemis arvensis. | [noun] Plants of the genera Matricaria and Tripleurospermum. MEALWORM (15) [noun] The larval stage of the mealworm beetle (Tenebrio molitor), a species of darkling beetle.. MEGAWATT (14) [noun] One million (1 000 000) watts, abbreviated as MW. MELLOWED (14) [verb] To make mellow; to relax or soften. | [verb] To become mellow. 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MOORWORT (13) MOTORWAY (16) [noun] (parts of Australia) A broad highway designed for high speed traffic, having restrictions on the vehicle types permitted and merging lanes instead of cross traffic; in parts of the United States and other places called freeway. MUCKWORM (21) MUDFLOWS (17) [noun] A type of landslide characterized by large flows of mud and water. | [noun] The dried-out product of such a flow. MUGWORTS (14) [noun] Any of several aromatic plants of the genus Artemisia native to Europe and Asia. | [noun] Artemisia vulgaris, traditionally used medicinally. MUGWUMPS (18) [noun] An independent neutral politician, especially in reference to the 1884 U.S. presidential election. | [noun] An aloof or self-important but inconsequential person. NANOWATT (11) NARROWED (12) [verb] To reduce in width or extent; to contract. | [verb] To get narrower. | [verb] (of a person or eyes) To partially lower one's eyelids in a way usually taken to suggest a defensive, aggressive or penetrating look. NARROWER (11) [adjective] Having a small width; not wide; having opposite edges or sides that are close, especially by comparison to length or depth. | [adjective] Of little extent; very limited; circumscribed. | [adjective] Restrictive; without flexibility or latitude. | [noun] One who, or that which, narrows. NARROWLY (14) [adverb] In a narrow manner; without flexibility or latitude. | [adverb] By a narrow margin; closely. NARWHALE (14) NARWHALS (14) [noun] Monodon monoceros, an Arctic cetacean that grows to about 20 feet (6 meters) long, the male having a single horn-like tusk, a twisted, pointed canine tooth that projects forward. NECKWEAR (17) [noun] Articles of clothing or jewelry which hang from the neck, such as ties or necklaces. 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OVERBLEW (16) OVERBLOW (16) OVERDRAW (15) [noun] The process by which, during the rendering of a three-dimensional scene, a pixel is replaced by one that is closer to the viewpoint, as determined by their Z coordinates. | [verb] To withdraw more money from an account than there is credit; to make an overdraft | [verb] To use a device for shooting arrows shorter than the draw of the bow. OVERDREW (15) [verb] To withdraw more money from an account than there is credit; to make an overdraft | [verb] To use a device for shooting arrows shorter than the draw of the bow. | [verb] To exaggerate. OVERFLEW (17) [verb] To fly over something. | [verb] To fly too far past something. OVERFLOW (17) [noun] The spillage resultant from overflow; excess. | [noun] Outlet for escape of excess material. | [noun] The situation where a value exceeds the available numeric range. OVERGREW (15) [verb] To grow beyond one's boundaries or containment, or beyond the proper size. | [verb] To grow over; (of one thing) to cause (a second thing) to become overgrown (with or by the first thing). OVERGROW (15) [verb] To grow beyond one's boundaries or containment, or beyond the proper size. | [verb] To grow over; (of one thing) to cause (a second thing) to become overgrown (with or by the first thing). OVERLEWD (15) OVERSEWN (14) [verb] To sew together the edges of two pieces of fabric, with every stitch passing over the join. OVERSEWS (14) [verb] To sew together the edges of two pieces of fabric, with every stitch passing over the join. OVERSLOW (14) OVERVIEW (17) [noun] A brief summary, as of a book or a presentation. | [noun] An inspection. | [verb] To engage in an overview; to provide a brief summary. 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PURVIEWS (16) PUSHDOWN (17) RACEWAYS (16) [noun] A place where races are held; a racetrack. | [noun] An easily-accessible conduit or tray for organizing runs of data or power cabling. | [noun] The canal for the current that drives a water wheel. RACKWORK (21) RADWASTE (12) [noun] Radioactive waste RAGWEEDS (13) [noun] A plant of the genus Ambrosia. These weeds are particularly noted for producing pollen which people with hay fever are allergic to. RAGWORTS (12) [noun] Any of a number of wild flowering plants with yellow flowers in the family Asteraceae, mostly belonging to Senecio and related genera. RAILWAYS (14) [noun] A transport system using rails used to move passengers or goods. | [noun] A track, consisting of parallel rails, over which wheeled vehicles such as trains may travel. 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ROLLWAYS (14) ROPEWALK (17) [noun] A place where rope is made, a rope factory. | [noun] A long straight narrow lane, or a covered pathway, where long strands of material were laid before being twisted into rope. | [noun] Any narrow walkway that has rope handrails. ROPEWAYS (16) [noun] A system of cables, slung from towers, from which carriers are suspended to transport materials. ROSEWOOD (12) [noun] The fragrant wood of Dalbergia nigra, a Brazilian tree in the legume family, which has a sweet smell. | [noun] Any of several dozen woods, resembling that of Dalbergia nigra in some respect. | [noun] The wood of a South American tree, Aniba rosaeodora, in the laurel family, with fragrant wood from which an essential oil is distilled. ROUGHHEW (18) ROUTEWAY (14) ROWBOATS (13) [noun] A small open boat propelled by oars (by rowing). ROWDIEST (12) [adjective] Loud and disorderly; riotous; boisterous. 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RUNDOWNS (12) [noun] (chiefly with definite article "the") A rough outline of a topic or situation. | [noun] A defensive play in which the runner is caught between two fielders, who steadily converge to tag the runner out. | [noun] A Caribbean stew of meat or fish (typically mackerel) with reduced coconut milk, yam, tomato, onion and seasonings. SAHIWALS (14) SALCHOWS (16) [noun] A figure skating jump with a takeoff from a back inside edge and landing on the back outside edge of the opposite foot after one or more rotations in the air. SALLOWED (12) SALLOWER (11) [adjective] (of skin) Yellowish. | [adjective] (of a person) Having skin (especially on the face) of a sickly pale colour. | [adjective] (of objects or dim light) Having a similar pale, yellowish colour. SALLOWLY (14) SALTWORK (15) SALTWORT (11) [noun] Batis maritima, a plant distributed in the southwestern United States, Caribbean, and South America in coastal saltmarshes. | [noun] Glaux maritima, a plant in the primrose family (Primulaceae) and which grows along coasts throughout the temperate regions of the Northern Hemisphere. SANDWICH (17) [noun] A dish or foodstuff where two or more slices of bread serve as the wrapper or container of some other food. | [noun] (by extension) Any combination formed by layering one type of material between two layers of some other material. | [noun] A layer cake or sandwich cake. SANDWORM (14) SANDWORT (12) [noun] Any of several plants in the genera Arenaria, Minuartia, and Moehringia. SAPWOODS (14) SASSWOOD (12) SAWBILLS (13) [noun] The red-breasted merganser. SAWBONES (13) [noun] A surgeon. SAWBUCKS (19) [noun] A framework for holding wood so that it can be sawed; a sawhorse | [noun] A ten-dollar bill SAWDUSTS (12) SAWFLIES (14) [noun] Any of various flying insects of the suborder Symphyta whose ovipositor is long and often serrated and is used to cut into plants to lay eggs. SAWHORSE (14) [noun] A structure with a crosspiece used to support timber or other material for working. SAWMILLS (13) [noun] A machine, building or company used for cutting (milling) lumber. SAWTEETH (14) SAWTOOTH (14) [noun] (plural "sawteeth") A cutting bit of a saw. | [noun] (plural "sawtooths") A sawtooth wave. | [noun] (plural "sawtooths") Any of various pierid butterflies of the genus Prioneris. SCALAWAG (14) [noun] A scrawny cow. | [noun] A rascal. | [noun] Any white Southerner who supported the federal plan of Reconstruction after the American Civil War or who joined with the black freedmen and the carpetbaggers in support of Republican Party policies. SCOFFLAW (19) [noun] One who habitually violates minor laws or fails to answer trivial court summonses (such as parking tickets). SCOWDERS (14) SCOWLERS (13) SCOWLING (14) [verb] To wrinkle the brows, as in frowning or displeasure; to put on a frowning look; to look sour, sullen, severe, or angry. | [verb] (by extension) To look gloomy, dark, or threatening; to lower. | [verb] To look at or repel with a scowl or a frown. SCRAWLED (14) [verb] To write something hastily or illegibly. | [verb] To write in an irregular or illegible manner. | [verb] To write unskilfully and inelegantly. SCRAWLER (13) SCREWERS (13) SCREWIER (13) [adjective] Crazy; silly; ridiculous | [adjective] Tipsy; slightly drunk. | [adjective] Exacting; extortionate; close. SCREWING (14) [verb] To connect or assemble pieces using a screw. | [verb] To have sexual intercourse with. | [verb] To cheat someone or ruin their chances in a game or other situation. SCREWUPS (15) [noun] A substantial mistake, usually causing problems for more people than just the person or group who made it. | [noun] A person who often makes substantial mistakes; a bungler. | [noun] A person who is mentally or emotionally damaged. SEAFOWLS (14) SEATWORK (15) SEAWALLS (11) [noun] A coastal defence in the form of a wall or an embankment. SEAWANTS (11) SEAWARDS (12) [adverb] Towards the sea. SEAWARES (11) SEAWATER (11) [noun] The saltwater of a sea or ocean. | [adjective] Consisting of seawater. | [adjective] Associated in some way with seawater, or intended for dealing with seawater. SEAWEEDS (12) [noun] Any of numerous marine plants and algae, such as a kelp. SEESAWED (12) [verb] To use a seesaw. | [verb] (by extension) To fluctuate. | [verb] To cause to move backward and forward in seesaw fashion. SELFWARD (15) SEMIWILD (14) SETSCREW (13) [noun] A screw with threads along the entire length and no head. Typically, set screws have a hex or slot drive recessed in the threaded length; a grub screw or worm screw. | [noun] Any screw used to hold or adjust a setting: frequently a set screw (sense 1), but may also be any other machine screw or thumb screw used for the purpose of setting. | [noun] (NZ) A screw with a head, usually hexagonal, like a bolt but without a shank to allow it to screw into material rather than take a nut; a tap bolt. SEWERAGE (12) [noun] A sewer system. SEWERING (12) SHADBLOW (17) SHADOWED (16) [verb] To shade, cloud or darken. | [verb] To block light or radio transmission from. | [verb] To secretly or discreetly track or follow another, to keep under surveillance. SHADOWER (15) SHALLOWS (14) [noun] A shallow portion of an otherwise deep body of water. | [noun] A fish, the rudd. | [noun] A costermonger's barrow. SHAWLING (15) SHIPWAYS (19) [noun] The sloping dry dock in which a ship is built and from where it is launched. | [noun] A navigable canal. SHIPWORM (18) [noun] Any of several wormlike marine mollusks (not true worms) of the family Teredinidae, that bore through the wooden hulls of ships and other woody material immersed in salt water. SHOPWORN (16) [adjective] Having been used, as a sample item in a retail store. | [adjective] Faded. | [adjective] Not fresh; tired or cliché. SHOWABLE (16) SHOWBOAT (16) [noun] A river steamboat having a resident theatre. | [noun] (by extension) A showoff. | [verb] To show off. SHOWCASE (16) [noun] A case for displaying merchandise or valuable items. | [noun] A setting, occasion, or medium for exhibiting something or someone, especially in an attractive or favorable aspect. | [verb] To display, demonstrate, show, or present. SHOWDOWN (18) [noun] The final battle between two nemeses, in which there can be but one victor. | [noun] The final round in a poker match, where the all remaining players' cards have to be put down on the table and shown. SHOWERED (15) [verb] (followed by with) To spray with (a specified liquid). | [verb] To bathe using a shower. | [verb] To bestow liberally, to give or distribute in abundance SHOWERER (14) SHOWGIRL (15) [noun] A non-starring but physically beautiful female dancer in an often lavishly produced theatrical revue; a chorine. SHOWIEST (14) [adjective] (sometimes derogatory) calling attention; flashy; standing out to the eye SHOWINGS (15) [noun] An occasion when something is shown. | [noun] A result, a judgement. SHOWOFFS (20) [noun] A person given to egotistically attempting to demonstrate prowess or ability. SHOWRING (15) SHOWROOM (16) [noun] A room in a business set aside for the display of the company's products. | [noun] A room or apartment where a show is exhibited. | [verb] To inspect merchandise in a physical store, then purchase the identical product from an online merchant; to use a physical store as a showroom for an online merchant. SHREWDER (15) [adjective] Showing clever resourcefulness in practical matters. | [adjective] Artful, tricky or cunning. | [adjective] Streetwise. SHREWDIE (15) SHREWDLY (18) [adverb] In a shrewd manner. SHREWING (15) SHREWISH (17) [adjective] Of or pertaining to a shrew (a nagging, ill-tempered woman). | [adjective] Bad-tempered; ill-natured; obstinate, as a shrew. SHUTDOWN (15) [noun] The action of stopping operations; a closing, of a computer, business, event, etc. | [noun] A statement, insult, etc. that prevents the opponent from replying further. | [noun] An autistic response to stress, etc. where the individual becomes silent and motionless. SHWANPAN (16) SIDESHOW (15) [noun] A minor attraction at a larger event such as a circus, fair, music festival or similar | [noun] An incidental spectacle that diverts attention from a larger concern | [noun] An incident in which drivers block traffic to perform donuts for an extended period of time SIDEWALK (16) [noun] A footpath, usually paved, at the side of a road for the use of pedestrians; a pavement (UK) or footpath (Australia, New Zealand) | [noun] (by extension) any paved footpath, even if not located at the side of a road SIDEWALL (12) [noun] The side of a tire. | [noun] The wall forming the side of a structure; a side wall. SIDEWARD (13) [adjective] Toward a side. | [adverb] Toward a side. SIDEWAYS (15) [noun] A footpath near a road. | [noun] A byway. | [adjective] Moving or directed toward one side. SIDEWISE (12) [adverb] Sideways SIGHTSAW (15) [verb] To go sightseeing; to visit places of interest in a city, town or geographical area. SILKWEED (16) SILKWORM (17) [noun] Any of various caterpillars of moths that produce silk cocoons, especially Bombyx mori, the source of most commercial silk. SINEWING (12) SKEWBACK (23) [noun] The side of an arch; the course of masonry on the top of an abutment with a slope for the base of the arch to rest against. SKEWBALD (18) [noun] A skewbald horse. | [adjective] (of horses) Marked with patches of white and non-black colours. SKEWERED (16) [verb] To impale on a skewer. | [verb] To attack a piece which has a less valuable piece behind it. | [verb] To severely mock or discredit. SKEWNESS (15) SKIDWAYS (19) SKYWALKS (22) [noun] Skyway SKYWARDS (19) [adverb] In the direction of the sky, upwards. SKYWRITE (18) SKYWROTE (18) SLIDEWAY (15) [noun] Any form of track along which things can slide. SLIPWARE (13) [noun] A type of pottery identified by its primary decorating process where slip is placed onto the dry surface by dipping, painting or splashing. SLIPWAYS (16) [noun] A sloping surface, leading down to the shore or to a river, on which ships are built, repaired or stored and from which they are launched. SLOPWORK (17) SLOWDOWN (15) [noun] A reduction in speed, or a decrease in the level of production, etc. SLOWNESS (11) [noun] The quality or state of being slow. | [noun] A unit, the reciprocal of velocity, that delineates the amount of time required for an object to travel a given distance. SLOWPOKE (17) [noun] (mildly) A person who moves slowly or takes a long time to do something. SLOWWORM (16) SNAPWEED (14) SNOWBALL (13) [noun] A ball of snow, usually one made in the hand and thrown for amusement in a snowball fight; also a larger ball of snow made by rolling a snowball around in snow that sticks to it and increases its diameter. | [noun] A cocktail made from lemonade and advocaat. | [noun] Something that snowballs (grows rapidly out of control). SNOWBANK (17) SNOWBELL (13) [noun] Any member of the genus Soldanella of flowering plants native to European mountains, typically with a basal rosette of simple, orbicular leaves and white to violet flowers. | [noun] A styrax. SNOWBELT (13) SNOWBIRD (14) [noun] A bird, Junco hyemalis, the dark-eyed junco. | [noun] A bird seen primarily in the winter time. | [noun] The snow bunting (Plectrophenax nivalis). SNOWBUSH (16) SNOWCAPS (15) [noun] A layer of snow covering a mountain top. | [noun] A small hummingbird, Microchera albocoronata, which is a resident breeder in Honduras, Nicaragua, Costa Rica and western Panama. SNOWDROP (14) [noun] Any of the 20 species of the genus Galanthus of the Amaryllidaceae, bulbous flowering plants, bearing a solitary, pendulous, white, bell-shaped flower that appears, depending on species, between autumn and late winter or early spring, all native to temperate Eurasia. | [verb] To steal clothing (especially women's underwear) from a clothesline. SNOWFALL (14) [noun] An instance of falling of snow. | [noun] The amount of snow that falls on one occasion. SNOWIEST (11) [adjective] Marked by snow, characterized by snow. | [adjective] Covered with snow, snow-covered, besnowed. | [adjective] Snow-white in color, white as snow. SNOWLAND (12) SNOWLESS (11) SNOWLIKE (15) SNOWMELT (13) [noun] Runoff from melting snow SNOWMOLD (14) SNOWPACK (19) [noun] An accumulation of packed snow, usually the seasonal amount. SNOWPLOW (16) [noun] A vehicle that is used to push snow off surfaces such as roads. | [noun] A device attached to a vehicle to enable it to be used for removing snow. | [noun] A maneuver/manoeuvre in skiing in which the tips of the skis point inwards and the back ends point outwards, imitating a snow plow. SNOWSHED (15) SNOWSHOE (14) [noun] A flat item of footwear worn to facilitate walking in deep snow. | [verb] To travel using snowshoes. SNOWSUIT (11) [noun] An all-in-one waterproof insulating garment. SOAPWORT (13) [noun] Any perennial herb of the genus Saponaria. SOFTWARE (14) [noun] Encoded computer instructions, usually modifiable (unless stored in some form of unalterable memory such as ROM). | [noun] The human beings involved in warfare, as opposed to hardware such as weapons and vehicles. SOFTWOOD (15) [noun] The wood from any conifer (or from Ginkgo), without regard to how soft this wood is. | [noun] (in more general use) Wood of this kind but limited to those that are commercial timbers. | [noun] The tree or tree species that yields this wood. SOMEWAYS (16) [adverb] Somehow, in an unspecified manner. SOMEWHAT (16) [noun] More or less; a certain quantity or degree; a part, more or less; something. | [noun] A person or thing of importance; a somebody. | [adverb] (degree) To a limited extent or degree. SOMEWHEN (16) [adverb] At some time; indefinitely; some time or other, sometime SOMEWISE (13) SORROWED (12) [verb] To feel or express grief. | [verb] To feel grief over; to mourn, regret. | [adjective] Made sad, caused to feel sorrow. SORROWER (11) SOURWOOD (12) [noun] A North American deciduous shrubby tree, of the genus Oxydendrum, having deep fissures in its bark, and sour-tasting leaves. | [noun] An Australian tree, of the genus Hibiscus; the sorrel tree. SOUTHPAW (16) [noun] One who is left-handed, especially in sports. | [noun] A boxer who leads with the right hand and guards with the left SOWBELLY (16) SOWBREAD (14) [noun] Cyclamen, plant of the genus Cyclamen SPANWORM (15) [noun] A measuring worm or inchworm (Lepidoptera, Geometridae) SPARROWS (13) [noun] The house sparrow, Passer domesticus; a small bird with a short bill, and brown, white and gray feathers. | [noun] A member of the family Passeridae, comprising small Old World songbirds. | [noun] A member of the family Emberizidae, comprising small New World songbirds. SPAWNERS (13) SPAWNING (14) [verb] To produce or deposit (eggs) in water. | [verb] To generate, bring into being, especially non-mammalian beings in very large numbers. | [verb] To bring forth in general. SPEEDWAY (17) [noun] A form of motorcycle racing on flat (without camber) oval dirt tracks using motorcycles with neither brakes nor gears. | [noun] A form of bicycle racing on flat (non-banked) oval dirt tracks. | [noun] A racetrack venue designated especially for the sport of auto racing. SPILLWAY (16) [noun] A path designed to take away overflow safely. SPRAWLED (14) [verb] To sit with the limbs spread out. | [verb] To spread out in a disorderly fashion; to straggle. SPRAWLER (13) SQUAWKED (25) [verb] To make a squawking noise; to yell, scream, or call out shrilly. | [verb] To speak out; to protest. | [verb] To report an infraction; to rat on or tattle; to disclose a secret. SQUAWKER (24) STAIRWAY (14) [noun] A set of steps allowing one to walk up or down. STALWART (11) [noun] One who has a strong build. | [noun] One who firmly supports a cause. | [noun] One who is dependable. STARWORT (11) [noun] Any of several unrelated plants that have a star-shaped flowers or leaves, but especially members of the genus Stellaria. STEMWARE (13) [noun] Drinking glasses that have a stem, such as wine glasses or champagne flutes. STEPWISE (13) [adjective] One (small) step or stage at a time; gradual; piecemeal | [adverb] One step or stage at a time; step by step STERNWAY (14) [noun] A backwards motion of a vessel. STEWARDS (12) [noun] A person who manages the property or affairs for another entity, particularly the chief administrator of a medieval manor. | [noun] A ship's officer who is in charge of making dining arrangements and provisions. | [noun] A flight attendant, a male flight attendant. STEWBUMS (15) [noun] A homeless alcoholic. STEWPANS (13) STOWABLE (13) STOWAGES (12) [noun] The act or practice of stowing. | [noun] A place where things are stowed. | [noun] Things that are stowed. STOWAWAY (17) [noun] A person who hides on board a ship, train, etc. so as to get a free passage. STRAWHAT (14) STRAWIER (11) STRAWING (12) STREWERS (11) STREWING (12) [verb] (archaic except strewn) To distribute objects or pieces of something over an area, especially in a random manner. | [verb] (archaic except strewn) To cover, or lie upon, by having been scattered. | [verb] To spread abroad; to disseminate. STROWING (12) [verb] (archaic except strewn) To distribute objects or pieces of something over an area, especially in a random manner. | [verb] (archaic except strewn) To cover, or lie upon, by having been scattered. | [verb] To spread abroad; to disseminate. STUDWORK (16) SUBWAYED (17) SUBWORLD (14) SUMPWEED (16) SUNDOWNS (12) [noun] Sunset. | [noun] A hat with a wide brim to shade the eyes from sunlight. | [verb] To experience an episode or an onset of some detrimental mental condition like agitation, anxiety, hallucination or dementia, daily at nightfall. SUNGLOWS (12) SUNWARDS (12) [adverb] Toward the sun. SWABBERS (15) SWABBIES (15) [noun] A sailor. SWABBING (16) [verb] To use a swab on something, or clean something with a swab. | [noun] The act of one who swabs. SWADDLED (14) [verb] To bind (a baby) with long narrow strips of cloth. | [verb] To beat; cudgel. SWADDLES (13) [verb] To bind (a baby) with long narrow strips of cloth. | [verb] To beat; cudgel. SWAGGERS (13) [noun] Confidence, pride. | [noun] A bold or arrogant strut. | [noun] A prideful boasting or bragging. SWAGGIES (13) [noun] A swagman. SWAGGING (14) [verb] To (cause to) sway. | [verb] To droop; to sag. | [verb] To decorate (something) with loops of draped fabric. SWAINISH (14) SWALLOWS (14) [noun] A deep chasm or abyss in the earth. | [noun] The amount swallowed in one gulp; the act of swallowing. | [noun] Any of various carbohydrate-based dishes that are swallowed without much chewing. SWAMPERS (15) [noun] A person who lives in a swampy area. | [noun] A person who clears a road for lumberers in a forest or swamp. | [noun] Someone or something that swamps or overwhelms. SWAMPIER (15) [adjective] Soggy and marshy; wet like a swamp. | [adjective] Flowing smoothly with no harsh tones but possibly including muddy tones. SWAMPING (16) [verb] To drench or fill with water. | [verb] To overwhelm; to make too busy, or overrun the capacity of. | [verb] To plunge into difficulties and perils; to overwhelm; to ruin; to wreck. SWAMPISH (18) SWANHERD (15) SWANKEST (15) SWANKIER (15) [adjective] Rather posh, elegant, ritzy. SWANKILY (18) SWANKING (16) [verb] To swagger, to show off. SWANLIKE (15) SWANNERY (14) [noun] A place where swans are bred. SWANNING (12) [verb] To travel or move about in an aimless, idle, or pretentiously casual way. | [verb] To declare (chiefly in first-person present constructions). SWANPANS (13) SWANSKIN (15) SWAPPERS (15) SWAPPING (16) [verb] To exchange or give (something) in an exchange (for something else). | [verb] To hit, to strike. | [verb] To beat the air, or ply the wings, with a sweeping motion or noise; to flap. SWARAJES (18) SWARDING (13) SWARMERS (13) [noun] Something that swarms. SWARMING (14) [verb] To move as a swarm. | [verb] To teem, or be overrun with insects, people, etc. | [verb] To fill a place as a swarm. SWASHERS (14) SWASHING (15) [verb] To swagger; to bluster and brag. | [verb] To dash or flow noisily; to splash. | [verb] To fall violently or noisily. SWASTICA (13) SWASTIKA (15) [noun] A cross with arms of equal length all bent halfway along at a 90° angle to the right or to the left, used as a religious symbol by various ancient and modern civilizations, and adopted more recently (with arms angled to the right) as a symbol of National Socialism and fascism. | [noun] (fascism, history, metonym) Nazi rule. SWATCHES (16) [noun] A piece, pattern, or sample, generally of cloth or a similar material. | [noun] A selection of such samples bound together. | [noun] A clump or portion of something. SWATHERS (14) [noun] A device on a mowing machine or combine harvester that raises uncut grain and marks the edge of the swath SWATHING (15) [verb] To bind with a swathe, band, bandage, or rollers | [noun] A wrapping. SWATTERS (11) SWATTING (12) [verb] To beat off, as insects; to bat, strike, or hit. | [verb] To illegitimately provoke a SWAT assault upon (someone). | [noun] A motion or gesture that swats; a swat. SWAYABLE (16) SWAYBACK (22) [noun] An excessive sagging of the spine of a quadruped animal, especially a horse. | [noun] An animal with such excessive sagging. SWEARERS (11) SWEARING (12) [verb] To take an oath, to promise. | [verb] To use offensive, profane, or obscene language. | [verb] To be lazy; rest for a short while during working hours. 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SWEEPIER (13) SWEEPING (14) [verb] To clean (a surface) by means of a stroking motion of a broom or brush. | [verb] To move through a (horizontal) arc or similar long stroke. | [verb] To search (a place) methodically. SWEETENS (11) [verb] To make sweet to the taste. | [verb] To make (more) pleasant or to the mind or feelings. | [verb] To make mild or kind; to soften. SWEETEST (11) [adjective] Having a pleasant taste, especially one relating to the basic taste sensation induced by sugar. | [adjective] Having a taste of sugar. | [adjective] Retaining a portion of sugar. SWEETIES (11) [noun] (often as a term of address) A person who is much loved. | [noun] A sweetheart. | [noun] A fruit that is a crossbreed between a grapefruit and a pomelo, originating in Israel. SWEETING (12) [verb] To sweeten. | [noun] A sweet apple. | [noun] A darling; term of endearment. 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SWINGMAN (14) [noun] A player who can swing between two different positions, often the small forward and shooting guard positions in basketball. SWINGMEN (14) [noun] A player who can swing between two different positions, often the small forward and shooting guard positions in basketball. SWINKING (16) SWINNEYS (14) SWIPPLES (15) [noun] The part of a flail that is free to swing, and which strikes the grain in threshing. SWIRLIER (11) [adjective] Having swirls; swirling. SWIRLING (12) [verb] To twist or whirl, as an eddy. | [verb] To be arranged in a twist, spiral or whorl. | [verb] To circulate. SWISHERS (14) SWISHIER (14) [adjective] Producing a swishing sound. | [adjective] Swish; fancy, posh, impressive. | [adjective] (of a man) Effeminate; gay SWISHING (15) [verb] To make a rustling sound while moving. | [verb] To flourish with a swishing sound. | [verb] To flog; to lash. 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TAKEAWAY (18) [noun] A restaurant that sells food to be eaten elsewhere. | [noun] A meal bought to be eaten elsewhere. | [noun] The preliminary part of a golfer′s swing when the club is brought back away from the ball. TAKEDOWN (16) [noun] A taking down: the arrest of a suspect by a police officer. | [noun] A taking down: an act of bringing one's opponent to the ground by grabbing one or both legs and applying a rearward bending moment. | [noun] Enforced removal of material from a website, etc. TALLOWED (12) [verb] To grease or smear with tallow. | [verb] To cause to have a large quantity of tallow; to fatten. TAPEWORM (15) [noun] Any parasitical worm of the class or infraclass Cestoda, which infest the intestines of animals, including humans, often infecting different host species during their life cycle. | [noun] Infection by tapeworms. TARWEEDS (12) [noun] Any of various American flowering plants that have sticky leaves. 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TRAINWAY (14) TRAMWAYS (16) [noun] The track on which a tram (streetcar) runs. | [noun] The system of cables that supports a cable car. TRAWLERS (11) [noun] A fishing boat that uses a trawl net or dragnet to catch fish. | [noun] A fisherman who uses a trawl net. TRAWLEYS (14) TRAWLING (12) [verb] To take (fish or other marine animals) with a trawl. | [verb] To fish from a slow-moving boat. | [verb] To make an exhaustive search for something within a defined area. TRAWLNET (11) TREELAWN (11) TRIPWIRE (13) [noun] A cord or wire arranged so that when snagged or pulled by an intruder, it will trigger a detector or trap or a device, such as a land mine. | [noun] Any means of detecting intruders. | [verb] To set a tripwire mechanism in (a location). TRISHAWS (14) [noun] A three-wheeled cycle rickshaw. TROWELED (12) [verb] To apply (a substance) with a trowel. | [verb] To pass over with a trowel. | [verb] To apply something heavily or unsubtly. TROWELER (11) TROWSERS (11) TRYWORKS (18) TUBEWORK (17) TURNDOWN (12) [noun] A downturn. | [noun] A rejection. | [noun] (hotels) The service of turning down the bedcovers and often leaving chocolates, etc., on the pillow. TWADDLED (14) [verb] To talk or write nonsense; to prattle. TWADDLER (13) TWADDLES (13) [noun] Empty or silly idle talk or writing; nonsense, rubbish. | [noun] One who twaddles; a twaddler. | [verb] To talk or write nonsense; to prattle. TWANGERS (12) TWANGIER (12) TWANGING (13) [verb] To produce or cause to produce a sharp vibrating sound, like a tense string pulled and suddenly let go. | [verb] To have a nasal sound. | [verb] To have a trace of a regional or foreign accent. TWANGLED (13) TWANGLER (12) TWANGLES (12) TWANKIES (15) TWASOMES (13) TWATTLED (12) [verb] To talk in a digressive or long-winded way. | [verb] To make much of, as a domestic animal; to pet. TWATTLES (11) [verb] To talk in a digressive or long-winded way. | [verb] To make much of, as a domestic animal; to pet. | [noun] A dwarf. TWEAKIER (15) TWEAKING (16) [verb] To pinch and pull with a sudden jerk and twist; to twitch. | [verb] To adjust slightly; to fine-tune. | [verb] To twit or tease. TWEEDIER (12) [adjective] (of clothing) made of tweed, or having a similar rough texture | [adjective] (of a person) wearing tweed clothing | [adjective] (of a person) preppy TWEEDLED (13) TWEEDLES (12) TWEENIES (11) [noun] A child who is not quite old enough to be a teenager; a tweenager. | [noun] A shot that is hit between the legs; a tweener. | [noun] A 650-watt fresnel motion picture lighting instrument first manufactured by the Mole-Richardson Company. TWEETERS (11) [noun] An electronic speaker designed to produce high-frequency sound. | [noun] One who posts messages ("tweets") on the social networking site Twitter. TWEETING (12) [verb] To make a short high-pitched sound, like that of certain birds. | [verb] To post an update to Twitter. | [noun] A noise that tweets. TWEEZERS (20) [noun] A small pincerlike instrument, usually made of metal, used for handling or picking up small objects (such as postage stamps), plucking out (plucking) hairs, pulling out slivers, etc. TWEEZING (21) [verb] To pluck or grasp using tweezers. | [verb] To shape by plucking out hairs with tweezers. | [verb] To pluck out hairs using tweezers. TWELFTHS (17) [noun] One of twelve equal parts of a whole. | [noun] An interval equal to an octave plus a fifth TWELVEMO (16) [noun] Duodecimo, or 12mo, a paper size, so called because it is cut 12 to a (huge, originally made) sheet | [noun] A page, book etc. of that size TWENTIES (11) [noun] The decade of the 1820s, 1920s, 2020s, etc. | [noun] The decade of one's life from age 20 through age 29. | [noun] (temperature, rates) The range between 20 and 29. TWIBILLS (13) [noun] An axe with two cutting blades. | [noun] A mattock. | [noun] A double-bladed tool used in gate-type hurdle-making for cutting out mortices, with a flat chisel and a mortice chisel or hook, similar to the much larger French carpenter's tool, the besaiguë (or bisaiguë). TWIDDLED (14) [verb] To wiggle, fidget or play with; to move around. | [verb] To flip or switch two adjacent bits (binary digits). | [verb] To be in an equivalence relation with. TWIDDLER (13) TWIDDLES (13) [verb] To wiggle, fidget or play with; to move around. | [verb] To flip or switch two adjacent bits (binary digits). | [verb] To be in an equivalence relation with. TWIGGIER (13) TWIGGING (14) [verb] To beat with twigs. | [verb] To realise something; to catch on; to recognize someone or something. | [verb] To understand the meaning of (a person); to comprehend. TWIGLESS (12) TWIGLIKE (16) TWILIGHT (15) [noun] The soft light in the sky seen before the rising and (especially) after the setting of the sun, occasioned by the illumination of the earth’s atmosphere by the direct rays of the sun and their reflection on the earth. | [noun] The time when this light is visible; the period between daylight and darkness. | [noun] The time when the sun is less than 18° below the horizon. TWILLING (12) TWINBORN (13) TWINGING (13) [verb] To pull with a twitch; to pinch; to tweak. | [verb] To affect with a sharp, sudden pain; to torment with pinching or sharp pains. | [verb] To have a sudden, sharp, local pain, like a twitch; to suffer a keen, darting, or shooting pain. TWINIEST (11) TWINIGHT (15) TWINJETS (18) [noun] An aircraft powered by two jet engines. | [noun] Two jets of particles from an event or source TWINKLED (16) [verb] (of a source of light) to shine with a flickering light; to glimmer | [verb] (chiefly of eyes) to be bright with delight | [verb] To bat, blink or wink the eyes TWINKLER (15) TWINKLES (15) [noun] A sparkle or glimmer of light | [noun] A sparkle of delight in the eyes. | [noun] A flitting movement TWINNING (12) [verb] (obsolete outside Scotland) To separate, divide. | [verb] (obsolete outside Scotland) To split, part; to go away, depart. | [verb] (usually in the passive) To join, unite; to form links between (now especially of two places in different countries). TWINSETS (11) [noun] A combination of a cardigan and a jumper, usually knitted in wool or cashmere. | [noun] A pair of cars or locomotives that are permanently coupled and treated as a single unit. | [noun] A pair of cylinders containing air for the diver to breathe. TWINSHIP (16) TWIRLERS (11) TWIRLIER (11) TWIRLING (12) [verb] To perform a twirl. | [verb] To rotate rapidly. | [verb] To twist round. TWISTERS (11) [noun] One who twists. | [noun] The instrument used in twisting, or making twists. | [noun] A ball delivered with a twist, as in cricket or billiards. TWISTIER (11) [adjective] Characterised by a twist, or that which twists. | [adjective] Curly TWISTING (12) [noun] A twisting force. | [noun] Anything twisted, or the act of twisting. | [noun] The form given in twisting. TWITCHED (17) TWITCHER (16) [noun] Someone or something that twitches. | [noun] An eager birdwatcher who is willing to travel long distances to see rare species. (See the Wikipedia article for origin.) TWITCHES (16) TWITTERS (11) [verb] (sometimes proscribed) To tweet; to post an update to Twitter. | [noun] The sound of a succession of chirps as uttered by birds. | [noun] A tremulous broken sound. TWITTERY (14) TWITTING (12) [verb] To reproach, blame; to ridicule or tease. | [verb] To ignore or killfile (a user on a bulletin board system). | [noun] The act of one who twits or teases. TWOFOLDS (15) TWOPENCE (15) [noun] A British or Irish coin worth two (old or new) pence. | [noun] A cost or value of two pence. | [noun] (by extension) A small amount or value. TWOPENNY (16) [noun] A coin or stamp worth two pence. | [noun] Ale sold for two pence per quart. | [adjective] Having a value or cost of twopence. TWOSOMES (13) [noun] A group of two; a pair; a couple; a group of two distinct individuals or components. | [noun] A dance for two people. ULTRALOW (11) UNAVOWED (15) [adjective] Not avowed. 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WHIPSAWS (19) [noun] A rip saw often operated by two people WHIPTAIL (16) [noun] Any of many New World lizards, of the genus Cnemidophorus, that have long, slender tails. | [noun] A fish, the blue grenadier, Macruronus novaezelandiae. | [noun] A leaf-distorting disorder in the cauliflower, caused by molybdenum deficiency. WHIPWORM (21) [noun] Any of the genus Trichuris of roundworms that infect certain mammals | [noun] Trichuriasis, infection by members of the genus Trichuris. WHIRLERS (14) WHIRLIER (14) WHIRLIES (14) WHIRLING (15) [verb] To rotate, revolve, spin or turn rapidly. | [verb] To have a sensation of spinning or reeling. | [verb] To make something or someone whirl. WHIRRIED (15) WHIRRIES (14) WHIRRING (15) [verb] To move or vibrate (something) with a buzzing sound. | [verb] To make a sibilant buzzing or droning sound. | [verb] To cause (something) to make such a sound. 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WHISTLES (14) [noun] A device designed to be placed in the mouth and blown, or driven by steam or some other mechanism, to make a whistling sound. | [noun] An act of whistling. | [noun] A shrill, high-pitched sound made by whistling. WHITECAP (18) [noun] Any of several birds having a white patch on the head. | [noun] A wave having a white crest; a breaker. | [noun] A member of a self-appointed vigilante committee that carried out lynchings. Some early ones wore white hoods or masks. WHITEFLY (20) [noun] Any of various small insects of the family Aleyrodidae that have long wings, and a white body; often a garden pest WHITENED (15) [verb] (To cause) to become white or whiter; to bleach or blanch. WHITENER (14) WHITEOUT (14) [noun] A heavy snowstorm; a blizzard. | [noun] Any weather condition in which visibility and contrast are severely reduced by snow or sand causing the horizon and physical features of the terrain to disappear. | [noun] Correction fluid (from the brand name Wite-Out). 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WHOPPING (19) [verb] To throw or move (something) quickly, usually with an impact. | [verb] To administer corporal punishment | [noun] A beating. WHOREDOM (17) [noun] The state of being a whore, prostitution; sexual indulgence, fornication. WHORESON (14) [noun] Often used as a term of abuse: an illegitimate or misbegotten child born of unwed parents. | [noun] The son of a prostitute. | [adjective] Mean; base; worthless WHORTLES (14) WHOSEVER (17) [pronoun] (possessive) That of whomever; that which belongs or is related to whatever person or persons; whoever's. WHOSISES (14) WHUMPING (19) [verb] To strike something with a whump. WICKAPES (19) WICKEDER (18) [adjective] Evil or mischievous by nature. | [adjective] Excellent; awesome; masterful. WICKEDLY (21) [adverb] In a wicked manner. | [adverb] Very WICKINGS (18) WICKIUPS (19) [noun] A domed hut, similar to a wigwam, used by some semi-nomadic Native American tribes, particularly in the southwestern and western United States. 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WITHDREW (18) [verb] To pull (something) back, aside, or away. | [verb] To stop talking to, or interacting with, other people and start thinking thoughts that are not related to what is happening around. | [verb] To take back (a comment, etc); retract. WITHERED (15) [verb] To shrivel, droop or dry up, especially from lack of water. | [verb] To cause to shrivel or dry up. | [verb] To lose vigour or power; to languish; to pass away. WITHERER (14) WITHHELD (18) [adjective] That one has withheld; kept from the possession or knowledge of another. | [verb] To keep (a physical object that one has obtained) to oneself rather than giving it back to its owner. | [verb] To keep (information, assent etc) to oneself rather than revealing it. WITHHOLD (18) [verb] To keep (a physical object that one has obtained) to oneself rather than giving it back to its owner. | [verb] To keep (information, assent etc) to oneself rather than revealing it. | [verb] To stay back. 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WOBBLIES (15) [noun] A member of the Industrial Workers of the World, a militant, radical labor union. | [noun] A wobbler; a fit of rage. WOBBLING (16) [verb] To move with an uneven or rocking motion, or unsteadily to and fro. | [verb] To tremble or quaver. | [verb] To vacillate in one's opinions. WOBEGONE (14) WOEFULLY (17) [adverb] In a woeful manner. WOLFFISH (20) [noun] Any fish of the family Anarhichadidae. WOLFLIKE (18) WOLFRAMS (16) WOMANING (14) WOMANISE (13) [verb] (said of a man) To flirt with and/or seduce, or attempt to seduce, women, especially lecherously. | [verb] (usually figurative) To turn into a woman; to feminize. WOMANISH (16) [adjective] Characteristic of a woman; feminine; effeminate. | [adjective] Carried out by or pertaining to a woman. WOMANIZE (22) [verb] (said of a man) To flirt with and/or seduce, or attempt to seduce, women, especially lecherously. | [verb] (usually figurative) To turn into a woman; to feminize. 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WOODSMAN (14) [noun] A man who lives and works in woodland; a forester or woodman. | [noun] Designating a group of sports related to forestry culture, including axe throwing, wood splitting, wood chopping, axe cutting, chainsaw cutting, pulpwood tossing, log rolling and decking, pole climbing, and fire building. WOODSMEN (14) [noun] A man who lives and works in woodland; a forester or woodman. | [noun] Designating a group of sports related to forestry culture, including axe throwing, wood splitting, wood chopping, axe cutting, chainsaw cutting, pulpwood tossing, log rolling and decking, pole climbing, and fire building. WOODWIND (16) [noun] Any (typically wooden) musical instrument that produces sound by the player blowing into it, through a reed, or across an opening. Woodwind instruments include the recorder, flute, piccolo, clarinet, oboe, cor anglais and bassoon. WOODWORK (19) [noun] Something made from wood. | [noun] Wood product. | [noun] Working with wood. WOODWORM (17) [noun] Any of many beetle larvae that bore into wood. | [noun] A shipworm, a worm-like mollusk in the family Teredinidae that feeds on wood underwater in saltwater. WOOINGLY (15) WOOLFELL (14) WOOLHATS (14) WOOLIEST (11) [adjective] Made of wool. | [adjective] Having a thick, soft texture, as if made of wool. | [adjective] (of thinking, principles, etc.) Based on emotions rather than logic. WOOLLENS (11) [noun] Fabrics or clothing made from wool WOOLLIER (11) [adjective] Made of wool. | [adjective] Having a thick, soft texture, as if made of wool. | [adjective] (of thinking, principles, etc.) Based on emotions rather than logic. WOOLLIES (11) [noun] A sweater or similar garment made of wool. | [noun] A sheep not yet shorn. | [noun] A piece of woolwork. WOOLLIKE (15) WOOLLILY (14) WOOLPACK (19) [noun] A bag of wool, traditionally weighing 240 pounds. | [noun] A cirrocumulus cloud. | [noun] A charge resembling a pillow or cushion. WOOLSACK (17) [noun] A wool bale or cushion, the traditional seat of the Lord Speaker in the British House of Lords. WOOLSHED (15) [noun] A shed where sheep are shorn. WOOLSKIN (15) WOOLWORK (18) WOOMERAS (13) [noun] An Australian spearthrower consisting of a stick with a hooked end. WOOPSING (14) WOORALIS (11) WOORARIS (11) WOOSHING (15) [verb] To make a breathy sound like a whoosh. WOOZIEST (20) [adjective] Queasy, dizzy, or disoriented | [adjective] Intoxicated by drink or drugs WORDAGES (13) WORDBOOK (18) [noun] A dictionary or other reference book that lists words; a lexicon, vocabulary. | [noun] The libretto of an opera. WORDIEST (12) [adjective] Using an excessive number of words. WORDINGS (13) [noun] A choice of words and the style in which they are used in a given context. WORDLESS (12) [adjective] Conveyed without the use of words; unspoken or unsaid. | [adjective] Unable or unwilling to speak; dumb, silent or inarticulate. WORDPLAY (17) [noun] A humorous play on words; such plays on words collectively. | [noun] A witty verbal exchange; such exchanges collectively. WORKABLE (17) [adjective] Capable of functioning. | [adjective] Able to be worked or fashioned WORKADAY (19) [adjective] Suitable for everyday use. | [adjective] Mundane or commonplace. WORKBAGS (18) [noun] A bag containing tools or material used for work, especially needlework. WORKBOAT (17) [noun] A boat used for purposes other than recreation, passenger transport, or combat. WORKBOOK (21) [noun] A book, used by a student, in which answers and workings may be entered besides questions and exercises. | [noun] A book, used by a business, containing a record of work to be done, or work completed. | [noun] A collection of spreadsheets stored in the same file. WORKDAYS (19) [noun] Any of the days of a week on which work is done. The five workdays in many countries are usually Monday to Friday (and are defined as such in official and legal usage even though many people work on weekends). | [noun] That part of a day in which work is done. WORKFARE (18) [noun] A form of welfare in which people are required to work as a condition of receiving aid WORKFOLK (22) WORKINGS (16) [noun] (usually in the plural) Operation; action. | [noun] Method of operation. | [noun] The incidental or subsidiary calculations performed in solving an overall problem. WORKLESS (15) [adjective] Devoid of work. | [adjective] Having no work to do; unemployed. | [adjective] Not carried out in practice; not exemplified in fact. WORKLOAD (16) [noun] The amount of work assigned to a particular worker, normally in a specified time period | [noun] The amount of work that a machine can handle or produce WORKMATE (17) [noun] Somebody with whom one works; a coworker. WORKOUTS (15) [noun] An exercise session; a period of physical exercise. | [noun] A schedule or program of specific exercises, especially one intended to achieve a particular goal. | [noun] (by extension) Any activity that requires much physical or mental effort, or produces strain. WORKROOM (17) [noun] A room, such as a workshop or studio, where work is done. WORKSHOP (20) [noun] A room, especially one which is not particularly large, used for manufacturing or other light industrial work. | [noun] A brief, intensive course of education for a small group, emphasizing interaction and practical problem solving. | [noun] An academic conference. WORKWEEK (22) [noun] The range of days of the week that are normally worked WORMHOLE (16) [noun] A hole burrowed by a worm | [noun] A hypothetical shortcut between two points in spacetime, permitting faster-than-light travel and sometimes time travel. | [noun] A location in a monitor program containing the address of a routine, allowing the user to substitute different functionality. WORMIEST (13) [adjective] Of or like a worm or worms; shaped like a worm or worms. | [adjective] Infested with worms. WORMLIKE (17) WORMROOT (13) WORMSEED (14) [noun] An aromatic tropical plant (Dysphania ambrosioides, syn. Chenopodium ambrosioides) that yields an anthelmintic oil | [noun] Santonica or Levant wormseed, Seriphidium cinum, syn. Artemisia cina, an Asian plant related to wormwood. WORMWOOD (17) [noun] An intensely bitter herb (Artemisia absinthium and similar plants in genus Artemisia) used in medicine, in the production of absinthe and vermouth, and as a tonic. | [noun] Something that causes bitterness or affliction; a cause of mortification or vexation. WORNNESS (11) WORRIERS (11) WORRITED (12) [verb] To worry; to be anxious. | [verb] To worry (someone); to cause to be anxious. WORRYING (15) [verb] To be troubled; to give way to mental anxiety or doubt. | [verb] Disturb the peace of mind of; afflict with mental agitation or distress. | [verb] To harass; to irritate or distress. | [noun] The act of worrying or harassing somebody. WORSENED (12) [verb] To make worse; to impair. | [verb] To become worse; to get worse. | [verb] To get the better of; to worst. WORSHIPS (16) [noun] The condition of being worthy; honour, distinction. | [noun] The devotion accorded to a deity or to a sacred object. | [noun] The religious ceremonies that express this devotion. WORSTEDS (12) [noun] Yarn made from long strands of wool. | [noun] The fine, smooth fabric made from such wool yarn. WORSTING (12) [verb] To make worse. | [verb] To grow worse; to deteriorate. | [verb] To outdo or defeat, especially in battle. WORTHFUL (17) WORTHIER (14) [adjective] Having worth, merit or value | [adjective] Honourable or admirable | [adjective] Deserving, or having sufficient worth WORTHIES (14) [noun] A distinguished or eminent person WORTHILY (17) WORTHING (15) WOULDEST (12) WOUNDING (13) [verb] To hurt or injure (someone) by cutting, piercing, or tearing the skin. | [verb] To hurt (a person's feelings). | [noun] The act of inflicting a wound. WRACKFUL (20) WRACKING (18) [verb] To place in or hang on a rack. | [verb] To torture (someone) on the rack. | [verb] To cause (someone) to suffer pain. WRANGLED (13) [verb] To bicker, or quarrel angrily and noisily. | [verb] To herd (horses or other livestock); to supervise, manage (people). | [verb] To involve in a quarrel or dispute; to embroil. WRANGLER (12) [noun] Someone who wrangles or corrals. | [noun] A cowboy who takes care of saddle horses. | [noun] A cowboy who takes care of tourists. WRANGLES (12) [noun] An act of wrangling. | [noun] An angry dispute. | [verb] To bicker, or quarrel angrily and noisily. WRAPPERS (15) [noun] Something that is wrapped around something else as a cover or protection: a wrapping. | [noun] An outer garment; a loose robe or dressing gown. | [noun] One who, or that which, wraps. WRAPPING (16) [noun] The material in which something is wrapped. | [verb] To enclose (an object) completely in any flexible, thin material such as fabric or paper. | [verb] To enclose or coil around an object or organism, as a form of grasping. WRASSLED (12) WRASSLES (11) WRASTLED (12) WRASTLES (11) WRATHFUL (17) [adjective] Possessed of great wrath; very angry. WRATHIER (14) WRATHILY (17) WRATHING (15) WREAKERS (15) WREAKING (16) [verb] To cause something harmful; to afflict; to inflict; to harm or injury; to let out something harmful; . | [verb] To chasten, or chastise/chastize, or castigate, or punish, or smite. | [verb] To inflict or take vengeance on. WREATHED (15) [verb] To place an entwined circle of flowers upon or around something. | [verb] To wrap around something in a circle. | [verb] To curl, writhe or spiral in the form of a wreath. WREATHEN (14) WREATHES (14) [verb] To twist, curl or entwine something into a shape similar to a wreath. | [verb] To form a wreathlike shape around something. | [verb] To curl, writhe or spiral in the form of a wreath. WRECKAGE (18) [noun] Something wrecked, especially the remains or debris of something which has been severely damaged or destroyed. WRECKERS (17) [noun] A person or company that dismantles old or wrecked vehicles or other items, to reclaim useful parts. (Australia) | [noun] One who breaks up situations, events. | [noun] A tow truck. WRECKFUL (20) WRECKING (18) [verb] To destroy violently; to cause severe damage to something, to a point where it no longer works, or is useless. | [verb] To ruin or dilapidate. | [verb] To dismantle wrecked vehicles or other objects, to reclaim any useful parts. WRENCHED (17) [verb] To violently move in a turn or writhe. | [verb] To pull or twist violently. | [verb] To turn aside or deflect. WRENCHES (16) [noun] A movement that twists or pulls violently; a tug. | [noun] An injury caused by a violent twisting or pulling of a limb; strain, sprain. | [noun] A trick or artifice. WRESTERS (11) WRESTING (12) [verb] To pull or twist violently. | [verb] To obtain by pulling or violent force. | [verb] To seize. WRESTLED (12) [verb] To contend, with an opponent, by grappling and attempting to throw, immobilize or otherwise defeat him, depending on the specific rules of the contest | [verb] To struggle or strive | [verb] To take part in a wrestling match with someone WRESTLER (11) [noun] A person who wrestles. WRESTLES (11) [noun] A wrestling bout. | [noun] A struggle. WRETCHED (17) [adjective] Very miserable; feeling deep affliction or distress. | [adjective] Worthless; paltry; very poor or mean; miserable. | [adjective] Hatefully contemptible; despicable; wicked. WRETCHES (16) [noun] An unhappy, unfortunate, or miserable person. | [noun] An unpleasant, annoying, worthless, or despicable person. | [noun] An exile. WRICKING (18) WRIGGLED (14) [verb] To twist one's body to and fro with short, writhing motions; to squirm. | [verb] To cause to or make something wriggle. | [verb] To use crooked or devious means. WRIGGLER (13) [noun] Anything that wriggles. | [noun] The larva of a mosquito. | [noun] A cunning or tricky person; a dodger. WRIGGLES (13) [noun] A wriggling movement. | [verb] To twist one's body to and fro with short, writhing motions; to squirm. | [verb] To cause to or make something wriggle. WRINGERS (12) [noun] One who wrings. | [noun] A device for drying laundry consisting of two rollers between which the wet laundry is squeezed (or wrung); a mangle. | [noun] Something that causes pain, hardship, or exertion; an ordeal. WRINGING (13) [verb] To squeeze or twist (something) tightly so that liquid is forced out. See also wring out. | [verb] To extract (a liquid) from something wet, especially cloth, by squeezing and twisting it. | [verb] To obtain (something from or out of someone or something) by force. WRINKLED (16) [verb] To make wrinkles in; to cause to have wrinkles. | [verb] To pucker or become uneven or irregular. | [verb] (of skin) To develop irreversibly wrinkles; to age. WRINKLES (15) [noun] A small furrow, ridge or crease in an otherwise smooth surface. | [noun] A line or crease in the skin, especially when caused by age or fatigue. | [noun] A fault, imperfection or bug especially in a new system or product; typically, they will need to be ironed out. WRISTIER (11) WRISTLET (11) [noun] An elastic band worn to keep a glove from slipping off the wrist. | [noun] A decorative band or bracelet that encircles the wearer's wrist; especially, a closely knitted one to keep it warm; a muffetee. | [noun] A small handbag with a short strap for attaching it to the wearer's wrist. WRITABLE (13) WRITERLY (14) [adjective] Characteristic of a writer; using well-chosen words or well-crafted sentences. | [adjective] Of or pertaining to a writer WRITHERS (14) WRITHING (15) [verb] To twist, to wring (something). | [verb] To contort (a part of the body). | [verb] To twist or contort the body; to be distorted. WRITINGS (12) [noun] Graphism of symbols such as letters that express some meaning. | [noun] Something written, such as a document, article or book. | [noun] The process of representing a language with symbols or letters. WRONGERS (12) WRONGEST (12) WRONGFUL (15) [adjective] Wrong or unjust | [adjective] Unlawful or illegal WRONGING (13) [verb] To treat unjustly; to injure or harm. | [verb] To deprive of some right, or to withhold some act of justice. | [verb] To slander; to impute evil to unjustly. WROTHFUL (17) WRYNECKS (20) [noun] Either of two small woodpeckers, Jynx torquilla and Jynx ruficollis, of the Old World, that turn their heads almost 180 degrees when foraging. | [noun] A twisted or distorted neck; a deformity in which the neck is drawn to one side by a rigid contraction of one of the muscles; torticollis. 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ADVOWSONS (16) [noun] (ecclesiastical law) The right to present a nominee to a vacant ecclesiastical benefice or church office. AFTERGLOW (16) [noun] The glow seen in the sky after sunset. | [noun] The light emitted by an incandescent object while cooling. | [noun] The light emitted by a phosphor after excitation. AFTERWARD (16) [adverb] (temporal location) At a later or succeeding time. AFTERWORD (16) [noun] An epilogue. | [noun] (of a letter) a postscript. | [noun] (to a book) an appendix. AGALWOODS (14) AGUEWEEDS (14) [noun] A plant of the genus Agalinis, commonly found in wet areas and used historically in folk medicine. | [noun] Plants of various species believed to have properties for treating fever or ague. AIRPOWERS (14) AIRSCREWS (14) [noun] The propeller of an aircraft; the prop. | [noun] Any actuator disk whose working fluid is air. AIRWORTHY (18) [adjective] Meeting standards for safe flight AISLEWAYS (15) [noun] Plural of aisleway; passages or walkways between rows of seats, shelves, or other structures, typically in theaters, stores, or aircraft. ALLEYWAYS (18) [noun] A narrow street formed by the proximity of adjacent buildings. | [noun] A passage between two rows of cabins in a ship. ALLOWABLE (14) [noun] Permitted amount or activity. | [adjective] Appropriate; satisfactory; acceptable. | [adjective] Intellectually admissible; valid; probable. ALLOWABLY (17) ALLOWANCE (14) [noun] Permission; granting, conceding, or admitting | [noun] Acknowledgment. | [noun] That which is allowed; a share or portion allotted or granted; a sum granted as a reimbursement, a bounty, or as appropriate for any purpose; a stated quantity. ALLOWEDLY (16) [adverb] Admittedly ALPENGLOW (15) [noun] A rosy or reddish glow seen during sunset or sunrise on the summits of mountains, especially snow-covered mountains on the opposite side of the sun. ANGLEWORM (15) [noun] A earthworm, especially one used as fishing bait. ANSWERERS (12) [noun] Plural of answerer; people who answer questions or respond to inquiries. ANSWERING (13) [verb] To make a reply or response to. | [verb] To speak in defence against; to reply to in defence. | [verb] To respond to a call by someone at a door or telephone, or other similar piece of equipment. ANTIWHITE (15) ANTIWOMAN (14) ANYWHERES (18) [adverb] Anywhere ARMYWORMS (19) [noun] The larva of any of the Spodoptera and Mythimna genera of noctuid moths, which typically feed in large, destructive groups. ARROWHEAD (16) [noun] The pointed part of an arrow. | [noun] (symbol) The pointed part of an arrow. | [noun] Any plant in the genus Sagittaria. ARROWROOT (12) [noun] Maranta arundinacea from the Marantaceae family, a large perennial herb native to the Caribbean area with green leaves about 15 centimeters long. | [noun] Usually preceded by an attributive word: some other plant the rhizomes of which are used to prepare a substance similar to arrowroot (sense 3), such as Zamia integrifolia (Florida arrowroot) or Pueraria montana var. lobata (Japanese arrowroot or kudzu). | [noun] A starchy substance obtained from the rhizomes of an arrowroot plant used as a thickener. ARROWWOOD (16) [noun] Any of various shrubs or small trees of the genus Viburnum, having straight stems formerly used for arrow shafts. ARROWWORM (17) [noun] A small marine worm of the phylum Chaetognatha, characterized by arrow-shaped body and lateral fins. ASKEWNESS (16) ASSWAGING (14) [verb] Present participle of assuage; to calm, pacify, or reduce the intensity of something such as pain, anger, or thirst. AWAKENERS (16) [noun] People or things that awaken or rouse others from sleep or inactivity. | [noun] In religious contexts, those who bring spiritual awakening or revival. AWAKENING (17) [verb] To cause to become awake. | [verb] To stop sleeping; awake. | [verb] To bring into action (something previously dormant); to stimulate. AWARDABLE (15) [adjective] Capable of being awarded or given as a prize or honor. AWARENESS (12) [noun] The state or level of consciousness where sense data can be confirmed by an observer. | [noun] The state or quality of being aware of something AWESOMELY (17) [adverb] In a manner inspiring awe. AWESTRUCK (18) [adjective] Filled or overcome with awe or wonder. AWFULLEST (15) [adjective] Superlative form of awful; most awful or dreadful. AWFULNESS (15) [noun] The state or quality of being awful. | [noun] The quality of striking with awe, or with reverence | [noun] The state of being struck with awe; a spirit of solemnity; profound reverence. AWKWARDER (20) [adjective] Comparative form of awkward; more awkward or clumsy. AWKWARDLY (23) [adverb] In an awkward manner; with discomfort or lack of coordination. BACKFLOWS (23) [noun] A reversal of flow, especially of water or other fluids in a pipe or system. | [verb] Third person singular of backflow, meaning to flow backward or in the opposite direction. BACKSWEPT (22) [adjective] Swept back. BACKSWING (21) [noun] The preparatory stroke preceding that which produces contact with the target. Normally associated with sports using an implement such as a bat, club, racket or stick. BACKSWORD (21) [noun] A sword with one sharp edge. | [noun] A stick with a basket handle, used in rustic amusements. | [noun] The game in which the stick is used. BACKWARDS (21) [adjective] Oriented toward the back. | [adjective] Reversed. | [adjective] Behind current trends or technology. | [adverb] Toward the back. BACKWATER (20) [noun] The water held back by a dam or other obstruction | [noun] A remote place; somewhere that remains unaffected by new events, progresses, ideas, etc. | [noun] A rowing stroke in which the oar is pushed forward to stop the boat; see back water BACKWOODS (21) [noun] Partly or wholly uncleared forest, especially in North America. | [noun] A remote or sparsely inhabited region, especially in North America; away from big towns and from the influence of modern life. | [adjective] Pertaining to the backwoods. BACKWRAPS (22) BAILIWICK (20) [noun] The district within which a bailie or bailiff has jurisdiction. | [noun] A person's concern or sphere of operations, their area of skill or authority. BALLHAWKS (21) [noun] A player who handles the ball skilfully | [noun] (chiefly in Chicago) A person who specializes in catching home-run and foul balls. BANDWAGON (16) [noun] A large wagon used to carry a band of musicians in a parade. | [noun] A current movement that attracts wide support. BANDWIDTH (19) [noun] The width, usually measured in hertz, of a frequency band. | [noun] Of a signal, the width of the smallest frequency band within which the signal can fit. | [noun] The rate of data flow in digital networks typically measured in bits per second; the bitrate. BARBWIRES (16) BASSWOODS (15) [noun] Any of several trees of the genus Tilia; the lindens, especially Tilia americana, the American basswood. BATFOWLED (18) [verb] To catch birds at night by blinding them with light and noise, or to trick or confuse someone. | [verb] Past tense of batfowl. BATHWATER (17) [noun] The water used in a bath (bathtub). BAWDINESS (15) [noun] The quality or state of being bawdy; obscene, indecent, or humorously vulgar language or behavior. BEACHWEAR (19) [noun] Clothing suitable for wearing on the beach, though not necessarily for swimming in. BEADWORKS (19) [noun] Decorative work made from beads, such as beaded embroidery or jewelry. | [noun] A shop or establishment where beads and bead-related supplies are sold. BEARWOODS (15) BECLOWNED (17) [verb] To make a fool of; to treat or dress as a clown. | [verb] To behave in a ridiculous or foolish manner. BECOWARDS (17) BECRAWLED (17) BECROWDED (18) BEDFELLOW (18) [noun] One with whom one shares a bed. | [noun] An associate, often an otherwise improbable one. BEDSTRAWS (15) [noun] Any plant of herb genus Galium of the madder family with small pointed leaves and hairy stems with small, white or yellow flowers | [noun] Any plant of the genus Cruciata. | [noun] Straw put into a bed BEDWARFED (19) BEEFWOODS (18) [noun] Any of the Australian trees having timber resembling raw beef. | [noun] The timber of those trees. BEESWAXES (21) [noun] A wax secreted by bees from which they make honeycomb; or, the processed form of this wax used in the manufacture of various goods. | [noun] (mildly) “Business”, as in such phrases as mind your own beeswax and none of your beeswax. | [verb] To polish with beeswax. BEESWINGS (15) [noun] Thin, translucent fragments or filings of material, especially brass or metal shavings. | [noun] Fine, wispy clouds or streaks in the sky. BEFLOWERS (17) BEHOWLING (18) BEJEWELED (22) [verb] To decorate or bedeck with jewels or gems. | [adjective] Covered in jewels, especially as decoration BELLOWERS (14) [noun] Plural of bellower; those who bellow or cry out loudly. | [noun] Devices or instruments that produce a bellowing sound. BELLOWING (15) [verb] To make a loud, deep, hollow noise like the roar of an angry bull. | [verb] To shout in a deep voice. | [noun] The sound produced when someone or something bellows BELLWORTS (14) [noun] Plural of bellwort, a plant of the genus Uvularia with drooping yellow flowers and bell-shaped blossoms. BENTWOODS (15) BESHADOWS (18) [verb] To cast a shadow over; to overshadow or darken. BESHREWED (18) [verb] Past tense of beshrew; to curse or wish evil upon someone. BESNOWING (15) [verb] Present participle of "besnow," meaning to cover or sprinkle with snow. BESTOWALS (14) [noun] Plural of bestowal; the act of giving or granting something, especially a gift, honor, or right. BESTOWING (15) [verb] To lay up in store; deposit for safe keeping; to stow or place; to put something somewhere. | [verb] To lodge, or find quarters for; provide with accommodation. | [verb] To dispose of. BESTREWED (15) [verb] To strew or scatter about; throw or drop here and there. | [verb] To strew anything upon; strew over or about; cover or partially cover with things strewn; cover with straw or strewing. BESTROWED (15) [verb] Past tense of bestrow, meaning to scatter or strew about. BESWARMED (17) [verb] Past tense of bswarm; to surround or crowd around in large numbers like a swarm. BEWAILERS (14) [noun] Plural of bewailer; those who express great sorrow or lamentation over something. BEWAILING (15) [verb] To wail over; to feel or express deep sorrow for | [noun] The act of one who bewails something. BEWEARIED (15) [verb] Past tense of beweary; to make weary or tired. BEWEARIES (14) [verb] Third person singular present tense of "beweary," meaning to make weary or tire out. BEWEEPING (17) [verb] Present participle of "beweep"; to weep over or lament excessively. BEWIGGING (17) [verb] Present participle of bewig; to put a wig on someone or to cover with a wig. | [verb] To scold or rebuke someone harshly. BEWILDERS (15) [verb] To confuse, disorientate, or puzzle someone, especially with many different choices. BEWITCHED (20) [verb] To cast a spell upon. | [verb] To fascinate or charm. | [verb] To astonish, amaze. BEWITCHES (19) [verb] To cast a spell upon. | [verb] To fascinate or charm. | [verb] To astonish, amaze. BEWORMING (17) [verb] Present participle of "beworm," meaning to infest with or as if with worms. BEWORRIED (15) BEWORRIES (14) BEWRAPPED (19) [verb] Past tense of bewrap; to wrap up or cover completely. BEWRAYERS (17) [noun] Plural of bewrayer, one who betrays or reveals secrets. | [verb] Third person singular of bewray, meaning to reveal, expose, or betray. BEWRAYING (18) [verb] Present participle of "bewray," meaning to reveal, expose, or betray something that was hidden or secret. BILLOWIER (14) [adjective] More billowy; characterized by greater billowing or wavelike motion. BILLOWING (15) [verb] To surge or roll in billows. | [verb] To swell out or bulge. | [noun] The act of something that billows; a billow. BINDWEEDS (16) [noun] Plural of bindweed, any of various twining or trailing plants of the morning glory family, especially those that wind around other plants. BIRTHWORT (17) [noun] Any plant species of the genus Aristolochia. | [noun] Birthroot, Trillium erectum BITEWINGS (15) [noun] Dental X-ray films that show the crown and upper root portions of upper and lower teeth, taken by positioning the film between the teeth with the bite closure holding it in place. BLACKWOOD (21) [noun] Any of several trees yielding a very dark wood | [noun] The very dark wood of such trees BLINDWORM (17) [noun] Anguis fragilis (slowworm), a small species of legless lizard. BLOODWORM (17) [noun] The larva of a chironomid (family Chironomidae). | [noun] Any member of the genus Glycera. | [noun] The blackworm (Lumbriculus variegatus). BLOWBACKS (22) [noun] A type of action where the pressure from the fired cartridge blows a sliding mechanism backward to extract the fired cartridge, chamber another cartridge, and cock the hammer. | [noun] An unintended adverse result, especially of a political action. | [noun] The act of shotgunning (inhaling from a pipe etc. and exhaling into another smoker's mouth). BLOWBALLS (16) [noun] The plural of blowball, which is a dandelion seedhead or similar spherical cluster of seeds that disperses in the wind. BLOWDOWNS (18) [noun] (chemical engineering) The removal of liquid and solid hydrocarbons from a refinery vessel by the use of pressure | [noun] (industrial engineering) Cooling fluid discharged from a plant at the end of its cycle. | [noun] Uprooting, overtopping, or bole breakage of trees by the wind; windthrow and windsnap. BLOWFLIES (17) [noun] Any of various flies of the family Calliphoridae that lay their eggs in rotting meat, dung, or open wounds. BLOWHARDS (18) [noun] A person who talks too much or too loudly, especially in a boastful or self-important manner. BLOWHOLES (17) [noun] The spiracle, on the top of the head, through which cetaceans breathe. | [noun] A vent for the escape of gas. | [noun] A top-facing opening to a cavity in the ground very near an ocean's shore, leading to a marine cave from which wave water or bursts of air are expelled. BLOWPIPES (18) [noun] A narrow tube through which a jet of air is directed onto a flame; used in the analysis of minerals etc and in jewelry manufacture | [noun] A weapon through which darts may be shot by blowing; a blowgun | [noun] A long narrow pipe, rotated in the hands, upon which glassware is blown BLOWSIEST (14) [adjective] Having a reddish, coarse complexion, especially with a pudgy face. | [adjective] (chiefly of a woman's hair or dress) Slovenly or unkempt, in the manner of a beggar or slattern. | [adjective] Unrefined, countrified. BLOWTORCH (19) [noun] A tool which projects a controlled stream of a highly flammable gas over a spark in order to produce a controlled flame. | [verb] To apply a blowtorch to something. BLOWTUBES (16) [noun] Plural of blowtube; tubes used to blow air or projectiles through, such as hollow tubes used to shoot darts or blow dust. BLOWZIEST (23) [adjective] Having a reddish, coarse complexion, especially with a pudgy face. | [adjective] (chiefly of a woman's hair or dress) Slovenly or unkempt, in the manner of a beggar or slattern. | [adjective] Unrefined, countrified. BLUEWEEDS (15) [noun] Plural of blueweed, a plant with blue flowers, particularly referring to species like viper's bugloss or similar weedy plants with blue blooms. BLUEWOODS (15) BOARDWALK (19) [noun] A slightly elevated path for pedestrians over sandy or swampy ground, typically made out of wood; specifically one running alongside a body of water or beach. | [verb] To install a boardwalk over. BOATSWAIN (14) [noun] The officer (or warrant officer) in charge of sails, rigging, anchors, cables etc. and all work on deck of a sailing ship. | [noun] The petty officer of a merchant ship who controls the work of other seamen. | [noun] A kind of gull, the jaeger. BOBWHITES (19) [noun] Any one of four species of quail in the genus Colinus, of the bird family Odontophoridae, limited to the Americas. BODYWORKS (22) BOLLWORMS (16) [noun] The larvae of any of various species of moth that are pests to cotton. BONDWOMAN (17) [noun] A woman bound in servitude or slavery; a female slave or serf. BONDWOMEN (17) [noun] Plural of bondwoman; women held in servitude or slavery, or women bound by legal or moral obligation. BOOKWORMS (20) [noun] Any of various insects that infest books. | [noun] An avid book reader. BOOMTOWNS (16) [noun] Plural of boomtown; towns that experience sudden rapid growth, typically due to discovery of natural resources or economic opportunity. BORROWERS (14) [noun] One who borrows. BORROWING (15) [verb] To receive (something) from somebody temporarily, expecting to return it. | [verb] To take money from a bank under the agreement that the bank will be paid over the course of time. | [verb] To adopt (an idea) as one's own. BOWELLESS (14) BOWELLING (15) BOWERBIRD (17) [noun] Any of the family Ptilonorhynchidae of Australasian bird noted for building a large nest decorated with bright objects such as shells and glass. | [noun] A person who collects objects for display. BOWLEGGED (17) [adjective] Having a bowleg BOWSPRITS (16) [noun] A spar projecting over the prow of a sailing vessel to provide the means of adding sail surface. BOWSTRING (15) [noun] The string of an archer's bow. | [noun] The string of an archer's bow, as used by the Turks for strangling offenders. | [verb] To strangle with a bowstring. BOWWOWING (21) BRAINWASH (17) [noun] A distorting effect upon one's memory, belief, or ideas, as by propaganda. | [verb] To affect one's mind by using extreme mental pressure or any other mind-affecting process. (e.g. hypnosis) | [verb] To take from an electronically controlled machine its stored-up information; to erase a computer's programming. (1960) BRATWURST (14) [noun] A small pork sausage, usually served fried. BRAWLIEST (14) [adjective] Superlative form of brawly; most inclined to or characterized by brawling or fighting. BRAWNIEST (14) [adjective] Characterized by brawn; muscular, thewy; strong. | [adjective] Calloused; hardened. BREAKAWAY (21) [noun] The act of breaking away from something. | [noun] A group of riders which has gone ahead of the peloton. | [noun] A situation in the game where one or more players of a team attack towards the goal of the other team without having any defenders in front of them. BREAKDOWN (19) [noun] A failure, particularly mechanical; something that has failed | [noun] A physical collapse or lapse of mental stability | [noun] Listing, division or categorization in great detail BREEZEWAY (26) [noun] A covered walkway, with open sides, that connects two buildings. BREWERIES (14) [noun] A building where beer is produced. | [noun] A company that brews beer. BRICKWORK (24) [noun] Those parts of items that are made of brick. | [noun] The quality of the construction of brick built items. BRIDEWELL (15) [noun] A small prison, or a police station that has cells. BRINGDOWN (16) [noun] A person or thing that depresses or disappoints someone. | [noun] A drug or substance that produces a depressant effect. BROWBANDS (17) [noun] A band of leather or fabric that goes across a horse's forehead as part of the bridle or headgear. BROWBEATS (16) [verb] To bully in an intimidating, bossy, or supercilious way. BROWNIEST (14) [adjective] Superlative form of brown; most brown in color or shade. BROWNNOSE (14) [noun] One who brownnoses; one who sucks up; a bootlicker, ass-kisser, sycophant. | [verb] To flatter someone (especially a superior) in an obsequious manner, and to support their every opinion. BROWNOUTS (14) [noun] A period of low alternating current line voltage, causing a reduction in illumination | [noun] Temporary dimming of vision, usually with a brown hue and accompanied by loss of peripheral vision or tunnel vision. | [noun] Temporary closing of a fire station, usually due to budget restrictions. BROWRIDGE (16) [noun] The ridge of bone above the eye socket, forming the projection of the brow above the eyes. BRUSHWOOD (18) [noun] Branches and twigs fallen from trees and shrubs. | [noun] Small trees and shrubs. BRUSHWORK (21) [noun] The technique or practice of applying and manipulating paint (usually oil or gouache) in a painting. BUCKWHEAT (23) [noun] An Asian plant, of the species Fagopyrum esculentum. | [noun] The fruit of this plant used as a pseudocereal. | [noun] Any of the wild buckwheats in the genus Eriogonum. BUGLEWEED (16) [noun] Any of the aromatic herbs in genus Lycopus, especially Lycopus virginicus, water horehound | [noun] Ajuga, a group of herbs used for ground cover; bugle BUHLWORKS (21) [noun] Decorative inlaid woodwork or furniture embellished with tortoiseshell, ivory, and other materials, named after André-Charles Boulle, a French cabinetmaker. BULLWEEDS (15) BULLWHIPS (19) [noun] A whip made from plaited leather, often with a knotted end, for use with livestock. BULWARKED (19) [verb] Past tense of bulwark; protected or defended with or as if with a bulwark. | [adjective] Fortified or strengthened with a bulwark. BUNGALOWS (15) [noun] A single-storey house, typically with rooms all on one level, or sometimes also with upper rooms set into the roof space. | [noun] A thatched or tiled one-story house in India surrounded by a wide verandah BURROWERS (14) [noun] Animals that dig and live in holes or tunnels in the ground. | [noun] People or things that burrow or tunnel through something. BURROWING (15) [verb] To dig a tunnel or hole | [verb] (with adverbial of direction) to move underneath or press up against in search of safety or comfort | [verb] (with into) to investigate thoroughly BUSHWHACK (26) [verb] To travel through thick wooded country, cutting away scrub to make progress | [verb] To fight, as a guerilla, especially in wooded country | [verb] To ambush BUSYWORKS (21) BUZZWORDS (33) [noun] A word drawn from or imitative of technical jargon, and often rendered meaningless and fashionable through abuse by non-technical persons in a seeming show of familiarity with the subject. CABLEWAYS (19) [noun] A system of suspended cables from which cable cars are hung. CAKEWALKS (22) [noun] A contest in which cake was offered for the best dancers. | [noun] The style of music associated with such a contest. | [noun] The dance, or strutting style of dance associated with such a contest. CALLOWEST (14) [adjective] Most lacking in sympathy, compassion, or concern; most emotionally hardened or insensitive. CANEWARES (14) CAPEWORKS (20) CARASSOWS (14) [noun] Plural of curassow, a large game bird of Central and South America with a curved bill and typically dark plumage. CARTWHEEL (17) [noun] The literal wheel of a cart. | [noun] A gymnastic maneuver whereby the gymnast rotates to one side or the other while keeping arms and legs outstretched, spinning for one or more revolutions. | [noun] A crown coin; its value, 5 shillings. CARWASHES (17) [noun] An event at which people (often children) wash cars, often for a small fee or donation | [noun] A place at which a car is washed, usually for a fee and often mechanically by driving the car through a tunnel. | [noun] An instance of washing a car, especially such a place. CASEWORKS (18) [noun] The structural framework or outer covering of a machine, device, or building. | [noun] Plural of casework, referring to social work involving individual cases or clients. CASEWORMS (16) [noun] Larval forms of caddisflies that build protective cases from materials like sand, twigs, or leaves. | [noun] In textile manufacturing, worms or larvae that infest casings or wrapped materials. CASSOWARY (17) [noun] A large flightless bird of the genus Casuarius that is native to Australia and New Guinea, has a characteristic bony crest on its head, and can be very dangerous. CASTAWAYS (17) [noun] A shipwrecked sailor. | [noun] A discarded person or thing. | [noun] An outcast; someone cast out of a group or society. CATCHWORD (20) [noun] A word under the right-hand side of the last line on a book page that repeats the first word on the following page. | [noun] A word or expression repeated until it becomes representative of a party, school, business, or point of view. | [noun] Among theatrical performers, the last word of the preceding speaker, serving as a cue for the next speaker. CATERWAUL (14) [noun] A yowling. | [noun] A noisy quarrel. | [verb] To cry as cats in heat; to make a harsh, offensive noise. CAUSEWAYS (17) [noun] A road that is raised, so as to be above water, marshland, and similar low-lying obstacles. Originally causeways were much like dykes, generally pierced to let water through, whereas many modern causeways are more like bridges or viaducts. CEDARWOOD (16) [noun] A fragrant wood from cedar trees, used in making furniture, chests, and aromatic products. | [noun] The tree that produces this wood, typically an evergreen conifer. CHAINSAWS (17) [noun] A saw that has a power-driven and fast-revolving chain of metal teeth, usually used to cut trees. | [verb] To cut with a chainsaw. CHARWOMAN (19) [noun] A woman employed to do housework, traditionally coming and going on a daily basis and paid weekly wages. CHARWOMEN (19) [noun] A woman employed to do housework, traditionally coming and going on a daily basis and paid weekly wages. CHAWBACON (21) [noun] A country person or rustic; a person of rude or coarse manners. CHECKROWS (23) CHICKWEED (24) [noun] Any of several small-leaved herbs of the genera Cerastium and Stellaria. | [noun] Other plants of similar appearance and habit: CHINAWARE (17) [noun] Tableware or dishes made of china or porcelain. CHOWCHOWS (25) [noun] Plural of chowchow, a breed of dog with a thick coat and blue-black tongue, or a Chinese preserve of mixed fruits and ginger. | [noun] A relish or condiment made from mixed pickled vegetables. CHOWDERED (19) CHOWHOUND (21) [noun] A foodie or glutton. CHOWTIMES (19) CLAMPDOWN (19) [noun] A sudden repressive or punitive restriction or control CLAMWORMS (18) [noun] Plural of clamworm, a marine polychaete worm of the genus Nereis, commonly used as bait for fishing. CLAYWARES (17) [noun] Pottery or ceramic articles made from clay; earthenware products. CLEARWING (15) [noun] Any of various moths, of the family Sesiidae, that have transparent wings | [noun] Any of various nymphalid butterflies, usually of the tribe Ithomiini, that have transparent wings CLERIHEWS (17) [noun] A humorous rhyme of four lines with the rhyming scheme AABB, usually regarding a person mentioned in the first line. CLOCKWISE (20) [adjective] Moving clockwise; having rotary motion in the manner of a clock. | [adverb] In a curve or twist corresponding to the movement of the hands of a clock. CLOCKWORK (24) [noun] A mechanism powered by a coiled spring and regulated by some form of escapement; the power is transmitted through toothed gearwheels and used to drive a mechanical clock, toy, or other device. CLOSEDOWN (15) [noun] The point when a radio or television station shuts down transmission and goes off the air for a predetermined period, as used to happen overnight. COACHWORK (23) [noun] The body of a motor vehicle (as opposed to the chassis). COASTWARD (15) [adjective] Towards the coast | [adverb] Towards the coast COASTWISE (14) [adjective] Along the coast. | [adverb] Along the coast. COBWEBBED (21) [adjective] Covered with cobwebs or resembling cobwebs. | [adjective] Neglected or abandoned for a long time. COCKCROWS (22) [noun] The time of day when a rooster crows, typically at dawn. | [noun] Plural of cockcrow, referring to multiple instances of a rooster's crow or the dawn time. COGWHEELS (18) [noun] A gear wheel | [noun] (When used attributively) Something behaving in similar, jerky, manner as a cogwheel, e.g. cogwheel respiration as a side effect of hyperbaric medicine COLESLAWS (14) [noun] A salad of finely shredded raw cabbage and sometimes shredded carrots, dressed with mayonnaise (white slaw) or a vinaigrette (red slaw). COLEWORTS (14) [noun] A plant of the genus Brassica; now specifically, a Brassica plant without a head used for food, such as kale. COMEDOWNS (17) [noun] A sudden drop to a lower status, condition or level; a disappointment or letdown | [noun] A calm, mellow period experienced after the initial high from taking drugs COOKWARES (18) [noun] Utensils and containers used for cooking, such as pots, pans, and baking dishes. COOLDOWNS (15) [noun] Periods of time during which an ability, action, or power is temporarily unavailable after being used, commonly used in gaming contexts. | [noun] Temporary reductions in activity or intensity following a period of high engagement or exertion. CORDWAINS (15) [noun] A type of soft leather made from goatskin, traditionally used for fine shoes and gloves. | [noun] Shoes or other items made from cordwain leather. CORDWOODS (16) [noun] Plural of cordwood; wood that is cut and stacked in cords, typically for use as fuel. CORKSCREW (20) [noun] An implement for opening bottles that are sealed by a cork. Sometimes specifically such an implement that includes a screw-shaped part, or worm. | [noun] The screw-shaped worm of a typical corkscrew. | [noun] A type of sharp, twisting punch, often one thrown close and from the side. CORKWOODS (19) [noun] Any of numerous plants with bark or wood resembling cork, of diverse orders: | [noun] The wood of Quercus suber, the cork oak. CORNROWED (15) [verb] Past tense of cornrow; to braid hair in tight rows close to the scalp. | [adjective] Having hair styled in cornrows. COUNTDOWN (15) [noun] A count backward in fixed units to the time of some event, especially the launch of a space vehicle. | [noun] The acts of preparation carried out during this period. | [noun] A radio or television program counting down the top songs of a given week, usually in reverse order ending with the No. 1. COWARDICE (17) [noun] Lack of courage. COWFISHES (20) [noun] Any of genera Acanthostracion and Lactoria, of the boxfish family Ostraciidae. | [noun] The grampus, Grampus griseus, Risso's dolphin. | [noun] A common bottlenose dolphin of California, Tursiops truncatus gillii. COWHIDING (19) COWINNERS (14) COWLSTAFF (20) COWORKERS (18) [noun] Somebody with whom one works. 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CRIBWORKS (20) [noun] Cribbing (structural members) CROSSBOWS (16) [noun] A mechanised weapon, based on the bow and arrow, that shoots bolts. | [noun] A portable ballista that can be held in the hand. CROSSTOWN (14) [adjective] Extending across a city or town. | [adjective] (public transportation) Connecting different areas of a city or town without passing through downtown. | [adjective] Situated at the other end of town. CROSSWALK (18) [noun] Place where pedestrians can cross a street. | [noun] A mapping between equivalent elements (fields) in different database schemas. | [verb] To map equivalent elements (fields) in different database schemas. CROSSWAYS (17) [adverb] Transversely; crosswise CROSSWIND (15) [noun] A wind blowing across a line of travel. 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CUSSWORDS (15) CUTWATERS (14) [noun] The forward curve of the stem of a ship | [noun] The wedge of a bridge pier, that resists the flow of water and ice. | [noun] A black skimmer; a sea bird of the species Rynchops niger, that flies low over the sea, "cutting" the water surface with its lower mandible to catch small fish. DAMEWORTS (15) DANEWEEDS (14) DANEWORTS (13) [noun] A European dwarf version of the elder, Sambucus ebulus, that has a bad smell DAWSONITE (13) DAYFLOWER (19) [noun] Any of several plants, of the genus Commelina, whose flowers last only a day DEADWOODS (15) DEATHBLOW (18) [noun] A strike or blow that leads to death, especially a coup de grace. | [noun] Something that prevents the completion, or ends the existence, of a project etc.; a fatal setback. DECLAWING (16) [verb] To surgically remove a cats claws; onychectomy. | [verb] To make harmless. | [noun] The surgical removal of claws; onychectomy DECROWNED (16) DEEPWATER (15) [adjective] Having a great depth of water. | [adjective] Carried out at great depth. | [adjective] Located in or near deep ocean waters. DEERWEEDS (14) DEFLOWERS (16) [verb] To take the virginity of (somebody), especially a woman or girl. | [verb] To deprive of flowers. | [verb] To deprive of grace and beauty. DELFTWARE (16) [noun] Pottery made in Delft, Holland; especially a blue and white tin-glazed earthenware DEMIWORLD (16) DEVILWOOD (17) DEWATERED (14) [verb] To remove water from. DEWATERER (13) DEWLAPPED (18) DEWOOLING (14) DEWORMERS (15) DEWORMING (16) [verb] To cause an animal to excrete any worms in the digestive tract by the administration of drugs. | [noun] The elimination of parasitic worms from an animal. DISALLOWS (13) [verb] To refuse to allow | [verb] To reject as invalid, untrue, or improper DISAVOWAL (16) [noun] A denial of knowledge, relationship, and/or responsibility towards something (or someone). DISAVOWED (17) [verb] To strongly and solemnly refuse to own or acknowledge; to deny responsibility for, approbation of, and the like. | [verb] To deny; to show the contrary of; to deny legitimacy or achievement of any kind. | [adjective] Strongly disowned or denied. DISBOWELS (15) DISCROWNS (15) DISENDOWS (14) [verb] To deprive of an endowment. DISHWARES (16) DISHWATER (16) [noun] Water that dishes and cooking utensils have been washed in. | [noun] (by extension) Anything dull and lacking interest or flavour. DISOWNING (14) [verb] To refuse to own, or to refuse to acknowledge one’s own. | [verb] To repudiate any connection to; to renounce. | [verb] To detach (a job or process) so that it can continue to run even when the user who launched it ends his/her login session. DOWDINESS (14) DOWELLING (14) [verb] To fasten together with dowels. | [verb] To furnish with dowels. | [noun] A dowel. DOWITCHER (18) [noun] Any of three long-legged and long-billed migratory wading birds in the genus Limnodromus of the family Scolopacidae. DOWNBEATS (15) [noun] The accented beat at the beginning of a bar (indicated by a conductor with a downward stroke). DOWNBURST (15) [noun] A powerful downward air current, especially one during a thunderstorm. DOWNCASTS (15) [verb] To cast or throw down; to turn downward. | [verb] To taunt; to reproach; to upbraid. | [verb] To cast from supertype to subtype. DOWNCOMES (17) DOWNCOURT (15) DOWNDRAFT (17) [noun] A strong, downward air current; an air pocket or air hole DOWNFALLS (16) [noun] A precipitous decline in fortune; death or rapid deterioration, as in status or wealth. | [noun] The cause of such a fall; a critical blow or error. | [noun] An act of falling down. DOWNFIELD (17) [adjective] Toward the defending team's end of the playing field | [adjective] Describing an NMR resonance at a higher frequency to that of a reference signal | [adverb] Towards the lower part of a field DOWNGRADE (15) [noun] A reduction of a rating, as a financial or credit rating. | [noun] A downhill gradient on a road or railway. | [verb] To place lower in position. DOWNHAULS (16) [noun] Any rope used to haul down a sail or spar. DOWNHILLS (16) [noun] The fastest of the disciplines of alpine skiing. | [noun] A rapid descent of a hill in related sports, especially in alpine skiing. DOWNLANDS (14) [noun] An area of rolling hills (downs), often grassy pasture over chalk or limestone. DOWNLINKS (17) [noun] The transmission of a signal from a satellite to a receiving station on earth; or the means of this transmission. | [noun] Transmission of data from a network, usually wireless, to the user. | [verb] To transmit a signal from a satellite to a terrestrial receiving station. DOWNLOADS (14) [noun] A file transfer to the local computer. | [noun] A file that has been, or will be transferred in this way. | [verb] To transfer data from a remote computer (server) to a local computer, usually via a network. DOWNPIPES (17) [noun] The drainpipe that connects a roof-line gutter with the ground. DOWNPLAYS (18) [verb] To de-emphasize; to present or portray as less important or consequential. DOWNPOURS (15) [noun] A heavy rain. DOWNRANGE (14) DOWNRIGHT (17) [adjective] Directed vertically; coming straight down. | [adjective] Directly to the point; plain | [adjective] Using plain direct language; accustomed to express opinions directly and bluntly; blunt. DOWNRIVER (16) [adjective] Closer to the mouth of a river | [adverb] Travelling in the direction of the river current. DOWNSCALE (15) [verb] To reduce in size; to downsize. | [adjective] Being downmarket, of a lower quality. | [adjective] Of a series of notes, falling in pitch in regular or musical intervals; descending. DOWNSHIFT (19) [verb] To shift a transmission into a lower gear. | [verb] To function at a lower rate. | [verb] To make less controversial or risky. DOWNSIDES (14) [noun] A disadvantageous aspect of something that is normally advantageous. | [noun] A downward tendency, especially in the price of shares etc. DOWNSIZED (23) [verb] To reduce in size or number. | [verb] To reduce the workforce of. | [verb] To terminate the employment of. DOWNSIZES (22) [verb] To reduce in size or number. | [verb] To reduce the workforce of. | [verb] To terminate the employment of. DOWNSLIDE (14) DOWNSLOPE (15) [noun] A descent or declivity | [adjective] In a direction down a slope | [adverb] Down a slope DOWNSPOUT (15) [noun] A vertical pipe or conduit that carries rainwater from the scupper, guttering of a building to a lower roof level, drain, ground or storm water runoff system. DOWNSTAGE (14) [noun] The part of a stage that is closest to the audience or camera. | [verb] To restage (a cancer) to a lower stage than that found at last assessment (compare upstage). | [adjective] At the front of a stage. DOWNSTATE (13) [noun] The southern region of certain US states, particularly Michigan, New York, and Illinois. | [adjective] Of the southern section of a state. | [adverb] To the southern section of a state. DOWNSWING (17) [noun] The portion of any movement along an arc or curve, heading in a lower direction. DOWNTICKS (19) [noun] A small decrease or downward change in something that has been steady or rising. | [noun] A stock market transaction or quote at a price below a preceding one. DOWNTIMES (15) [noun] The amount of time lost due to forces beyond one's control, as with a computer crash. | [noun] A period of time set aside for rest and relaxation; leisure time. DOWNTOWNS (16) [noun] The main business part of a city or town, usually located at or near its center. DOWNTREND (14) [noun] Any gradual movement towards a lower state or value. | [verb] To undergo a downward trend. DOWNTURNS (13) [noun] A downward trend, or the beginnings of one; a decline. DOWNWARDS (17) [adverb] Towards a lower place; towards what is below. | [adverb] Towards something which is lower in order, smaller, inferior, etc. DOWSABELS (15) DRAWBACKS (21) [noun] A disadvantage; something that detracts or takes away. | [noun] A partial refund of an import fee, as when goods are re-exported from the country that collected the fee. | [noun] The inhalation of a lungful of smoke from a cigarette. DRAWBORES (15) DRAWDOWNS (17) [noun] The act of reduction or depletion. | [noun] The result of reduction or depletion. | [noun] A change in hydraulic head in a well or other body of water. DRAWERFUL (16) DRAWKNIFE (20) [noun] A joiner's tool having a blade with a handle at each end, used to shave off surfaces, by drawing it toward one; a shave; a drawshave. | [noun] A tool used for the purpose of making an incision along the path a saw is to follow, to prevent it from tearing the surface of the wood. | [verb] To cut or shave with a drawknife. DRAWLIEST (13) DRAWNWORK (20) DRAWPLATE (15) DRAWSHAVE (19) DRAWTUBES (15) DRIFTWOOD (17) [noun] A floating piece, or pieces, of wood that drifts with the current. | [noun] Such a piece of wood that has been cast ashore. DRIVEWAYS (19) [noun] Short private road that leads to a house or garage. DROPWORTS (15) [noun] A perennial herb, Filipendula vulgaris, closely related to meadowsweet. | [noun] Any plant of genus Oenanthe. | [noun] Any plant of genus Oxypolis. DROWNDING (15) DROWSIEST (13) [adjective] Inclined to drowse; heavy with sleepiness | [adjective] Causing someone to fall sleep or feel sleepy; lulling; soporific. | [adjective] Boring. DUCKWALKS (23) [noun] A type of loaded walk in which the sportsman squats somewhat and steps forward or backward with his knees alternatingly while optionally carrying a dumbbell or kettlebell on each side or a kettlebell or cupped dumbbell between the legs. | [noun] A means of acceleration, moving with each foot turned 45 degrees from the forward position. | [noun] (preceded by definite article) A dance or dance move, popularised in the 1950s by Chuck Berry, in which the dancer steps forwards crouching on bended knees while keeping the back straight and head erect. DUCKWEEDS (20) DUCTWORKS (19) DWARFISMS (18) DWARFLIKE (20) DWARFNESS (16) DWELLINGS (14) [noun] A house or place in which a person lives; a habitation, a home. DWINDLING (15) [verb] To decrease, shrink, diminish, reduce in size or intensity. | [verb] To fall away in quality; degenerate, sink. | [verb] To lessen; to bring low. EARLYWOOD (16) EARTHWARD (16) [adjective] Towards or in the direction of the earth. | [adverb] Towards or in the direction of the earth. EARTHWORK (19) [noun] Any structure made from earth; especially an embankment or rampart used as a fortification. EARTHWORM (17) [noun] A worm that lives in the ground. | [noun] A worm of the family Lumbricidae, or, more generally, of the suborder Lumbricina. | [noun] A contemptible person; a groveller. EARWIGGED (15) [verb] To fill the mind of with prejudice by insinuations. | [verb] To attempt to influence by persistent confidential argument or talk. | [verb] To eavesdrop. EASTWARDS (13) [adverb] Eastward. EDELWEISS (13) [noun] A European perennial alpine plant, Leontopodium alpinum, with downy leaves and small white flower heads in a dense cluster. EIDERDOWN (14) [noun] The down of the eider duck, used for stuffing pillows and quilts. | [noun] A quilt stuffed with this down. ELBOWROOM (16) [noun] Sufficient space to have freedom of movement | [noun] Sufficient latitude to modify something; latitude or margin ELSEWHERE (15) [noun] A place other than here. | [adverb] In or at some other place. | [adverb] To some other place. EMBOWELED (17) [verb] To enclose or bury. | [verb] To remove the bowels; disembowel. EMBOWERED (17) [verb] To enclose something or someone as if in a bower; shelter with foliage. | [verb] To lodge or rest in or as in a bower. | [verb] To form a bower. EMBROWNED (17) EMPOWERED (17) [verb] To give permission, power, or the legal right to do something. | [verb] To give someone more confidence and/or strength to do something, often by enabling them to increase their control over their own life or situation. | [noun] One who is empowered. 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FEVERWORT (18) FEWNESSES (15) FIELDWORK (20) [noun] Work done out in the fields as opposed to that done elsewhere on the farm (e.g., barn, house, outbuildings, office). | [noun] Work done out in the real world rather than in controlled conditions | [noun] (in scientific research) The collection of raw data in the field, field research, field study, field studies. FIREPOWER (17) [noun] The capacity of a weapon to deliver fire onto a target | [noun] The ability to deliver fire | [noun] The ability to shoot and score goals. FIREWATER (15) [noun] High-proof alcohol, especially whiskey (especially in the context of its sale to or consumption by Native Americans). | [noun] High-temperature hydraulic condensate discharged from industrial boilers. | [noun] Water for use in firefighting. FIREWEEDS (16) FIREWOODS (16) FIREWORKS (19) [noun] A device using gunpowder and other chemicals which, when lit, emits a combination of coloured flames, sparks, whistles or bangs, and sometimes made to rocket high into the sky before exploding, used for entertainment or celebration. | [noun] An event or a display where fireworks are set off. | [noun] A boisterous or violent event or situation. FIREWORMS (17) FIRMWARES (17) FISHBOWLS (20) [noun] A small, rounded, transparent, and domestic aquarium. | [noun] (by extension) Any place or event that lacks privacy or is intensely scrutinized. | [noun] A variety of discussions where participants are organized in concentric circles and take turns where they and others in the same group are allowed to speak according to a set of rules. FISHWIVES (21) [noun] A woman who sells or works with fish; a female fishmonger. | [noun] A vulgar, abusive or nagging woman with a loud, unpleasant voice. | [noun] A person, especially a woman, with poor personal hygiene. FISHWORMS (20) FLATWARES (15) FLATWORKS (19) FLATWORMS (17) [noun] Any of very many parasitic or free-living worms, of the phylum Platyhelminthes, having a flattened body with no skeleton or body cavity. FLEAWORTS (15) [noun] Any of various unrelated plants that are supposed to kill or ward off fleas. | [noun] A herb, Plantago psyllium, whose seeds are supposed to resemble fleas FLOODWAYS (19) [noun] An engineered path to channel floodwaters away from areas to be protected FLOWCHART (20) [noun] A schematic representation of how the different stages in a process are interconnected. 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FLYWEIGHT (22) [noun] A weight that moves outward depending on centrifugal force. | [noun] A weight class in many combat sports; e.g. in professional boxing of a maximum of 112 pounds or 50.8 kilograms. | [noun] (adjectival use) Small, light or unimportant. FLYWHEELS (21) [noun] A rotating mass used to maintain the speed of a machine within certain limits while the machine receives or releases energy at a varying rate. FOLLOWERS (15) [noun] One who follows, comes after another. | [noun] Something that comes after another thing. | [noun] One who is a part of master's physical group, such as a servant or retainer. FOLLOWING (16) [verb] To go after; to pursue; to move behind in the same path or direction. | [verb] To go or come after in a sequence. | [verb] To carry out (orders, instructions, etc.). FOOFARAWS (18) FOOTWALLS (15) [noun] The section of rock that extends below a diagonal fault line (the corresponding upper section being the hanging wall). | [noun] The under wall of an enclosed vein. FOOTWORKS (19) FOREKNOWN (19) [verb] To have knowledge of beforehand. | [adjective] Anticipated or predicted FOREKNOWS (19) [verb] To have knowledge of beforehand. FORESHOWN (18) [verb] To show in advance; to foretell, predict. | [verb] To foreshadow or prefigure. FORESHOWS (18) [verb] To show in advance; to foretell, predict. | [verb] To foreshadow or prefigure. | [noun] A manifestation in advance; a prior indication. FORESWEAR (15) FORESWORE (15) FORESWORN (15) FOREWARNS (15) [verb] To warn in advance. FOREWINGS (16) [noun] (in an insect) Either member of the pair of wings closest to the head. FOREWOMAN (17) [noun] A female leader of a work crew (a female foreperson or female foreman). | [noun] A female foreman of a jury. FOREWOMEN (17) [noun] A female leader of a work crew (a female foreperson or female foreman). | [noun] A female foreman of a jury. FOREWORDS (16) [noun] An introductory section preceding the main text of a book or other document; a preface or introduction. FORMWORKS (21) FORSWEARS (15) [verb] To renounce or deny something, especially under oath. | [verb] To commit perjury; to break an oath. FORTHWITH (21) [adverb] Without delay; immediately. FORWARDED (17) [verb] To advance, promote. | [verb] To send (a letter, email etc.) to a third party. | [verb] To assemble (a book) by sewing sections, attaching cover boards, and so on. FORWARDER (16) [noun] One who, or that which, forwards something to another destination. FORWARDLY (19) FOWLPOXES (24) FRAMEWORK (21) [noun] A support structure comprising joined parts or conglomerated particles and intervening open spaces of similar or larger size. | [noun] The arrangement of support beams that represent a building's general shape and size. | [noun] The larger branches of a tree that determine its shape. FREEWHEEL (18) [noun] A device in a transmission that disengages the driveshaft from the driven shaft when the driven shaft rotates faster than the driveshaft. | [verb] (of a gear) To continue spinning after disengagement. | [verb] (of a cyclist) To ride a bicycle without pedalling, e.g. downhill. FRETWORKS (19) FRONTWARD (16) [adjective] Frontwards. | [adverb] Frontwards. FROSTWORK (19) [noun] Any naturally occurring intricate pattern of ice crystals. | [noun] Any pattern that resembles a frost formation. FROWARDLY (19) FROWSIEST (15) [adjective] Having a dingy, neglected, and scruffy appearance. FROWSTIER (15) [adjective] Musty; stuffy (atmosphere) FROWSTING (16) [verb] To enjoy being in a warm, close, stuffy place. FROWZIEST (24) [adjective] Having a dingy, neglected, and scruffy appearance. FRUITWOOD (16) [noun] The wood of any fruit tree, particularly hardwood from species such as pear and cherry, that is valued for furniture, woodcuts and other applications. | [noun] In orchard culture, the woody growth of the scion of any grafted fruit tree above the graft, as opposed to the rootstock, which is the part of the plant below the graft. | [noun] Particular branches or twigs in particular positions, or of particular types or ages, that may be expected to bear fruit in most types of orchard trees, since fruit is not borne randomly all over the tree. FUELWOODS (16) FURBELOWS (17) [noun] A frill, flounce, or ruffle, as on clothing; a decorative piece of fabric, especially one gathered or pleated as into a ruffle, etc. | [noun] A small, showy ornamentation. FURROWERS (15) FURROWING (16) [verb] To cut one or more grooves in (the ground, etc.). | [verb] To wrinkle. | [verb] To pull one's brows or eyebrows together due to concentration, worry, etc. GALLOWSES (13) GANGPLOWS (16) GAPEWORMS (17) [noun] A parasitic nematode worm, Syngamus trachea, that infects the tracheas of some birds and causes the disease gapes. GAWKISHLY (23) GEARWHEEL (16) [noun] A wheel with a toothed rim, intended to engage with others, or similar equipment, to form a gear GIFTWARES (16) GIGAWATTS (14) [noun] One thousand million (109) watts, abbreviated as GW. GIVEAWAYS (19) [noun] Something that is given away or handed out for free. | [noun] An event at which things are given away for free. | [noun] Something that is obvious or apparent; something that reveals a secret. GLASSWARE (13) [noun] Glasses, jugs and other tableware made of glass. GLASSWORK (17) GLASSWORT (13) [noun] Any plant of the salt-tolerant genus Salicornia, once burned to produce the ash used to make soda glass. | [noun] Other salt-tolerant plants, especially those used to produce such ash. | [noun] Other salt-tolerant plants, called samphire. GLOWERING (14) [verb] To look or stare with anger. | [noun] The act of giving a glower. GLOWFLIES (16) GLOWINGLY (17) GLOWWORMS (18) [noun] The larva or wingless grub-like female of a beetle from the families Phengodidae or Lampyridae that gives out a green light from its abdomen. | [noun] A carnivorous gnat larva in the keroplatid genus Arachnocampa that spins threads to capture insects attracted by its glow. GOLLIWOGG (15) GOLLIWOGS (14) [noun] A rag doll or mascot in the form of a caricature of a black minstrel. | [noun] (racist) A black person. | [noun] A hairy caterpillar. GOLLYWOGS (17) GOODWILLS (14) GOODWIVES (17) [noun] A female head of a household. | [noun] A title of respect for a woman. GRAYWACKE (22) [noun] A hard dark sandstone with poorly sorted angular grains of quartz, feldspar, and small rock fragments in a compact, clay-fine matrix. GREENWAYS (16) [noun] A corridor of undeveloped or park land. GREENWING (14) GREENWOOD (14) [noun] A forest in full leaf, as in summer. | [noun] Wood that is green; in other words, not seasoned. | [noun] Certain half-shrubby species of genista. GREWSOMER (15) GRILLWORK (17) [noun] The mesh of metal wire or bars which makes up a decorative metal grating GROMWELLS (15) [noun] Lithospermum arvense, a plant of the genus Lithospermum anciently used, because of its stony pericarp, in the cure of kidney stones. GROWINGLY (17) [adverb] To a growing or increasing degree GROWLIEST (13) [adjective] Resembling the sound of a growl; throaty GROWTHIER (16) GRUBWORMS (17) GUESSWORK (17) [noun] An estimate, judgment or opinion made by guessing, from limited information. GUFFAWING (20) [verb] To laugh boisterously. | [noun] Boisterous laughter GUIDEWAYS (17) [noun] A track along which something is guided, such as a component in a machine, or an automated transit vehicle. GULFWEEDS (17) GUNPOWDER (16) [noun] An explosive mixture of saltpetre (potassium nitrate), charcoal and sulphur; formerly used in gunnery but now mostly used in fireworks. | [noun] Short for gunpowder tea. HACKWORKS (25) HAIRWORKS (19) HAIRWORMS (17) HALLOWERS (15) HALLOWING (16) [verb] To make holy, to sanctify. | [verb] To shout, especially to urge on dogs for hunting. | [noun] The act by which something is hallowed. HANDBLOWN (18) HANDIWORK (20) [noun] Work done by the hands. | [noun] A handmade object; handicraft | [noun] Work done personally. HANDWHEEL (19) HANDWORKS (20) HANDWOVEN (19) [adjective] Woven by hand, or with a hand-operated loom. HANDWRITE (16) HANDWROTE (16) HARDWARES (16) HARDWIRED (17) [verb] To connect components by means of permanent electrical wires. | [verb] To implement a feature in hardware rather than in software so that it cannot easily be changed. | [verb] (by extension) To make a pattern of behaviour automatic. HARDWIRES (16) [verb] To connect components by means of permanent electrical wires. | [verb] To implement a feature in hardware rather than in software so that it cannot easily be changed. | [verb] (by extension) To make a pattern of behaviour automatic. HARDWOODS (17) [noun] (mostly in botany and forestry) The wood from any dicotyledonous tree, without regard to its hardness. | [noun] (in more general use) As the preceding but limited to those that are commercial timbers, and are at least average in hardness. | [noun] The tree or tree species that yields the preceding. HARROWERS (15) HARROWING (16) [verb] To drag a harrow over; to break up with a harrow. | [verb] To traumatize or disturb; to frighten or torment. | [verb] To break or tear, as if with a harrow; to wound; to lacerate; to torment or distress; to vex. HATCHWAYS (23) [noun] A means of passing through a wall or floor, having a hatch (especially on a ship); a doorway with a hatch rather than a door. HAWKBILLS (21) HAWKISHLY (25) HAWKMOTHS (24) [noun] Any of several moths, of the family Sphingidae, that hover over flowers when sucking nectar through a long proboscis. HAWKNOSES (19) HAWKSBILL (21) [noun] A tropical marine turtle, Eretmochelys imbricata, that is a source of tortoiseshell. HAWKSHAWS (25) [noun] (19th century) A detective. HAWKWEEDS (23) [noun] Any species of plant of the genus Hieracium and its segregate genus Pilosella, in the sunflower family (Asteraceae). HAWSEHOLE (18) [noun] The hole through which a ship's anchor rope is passed. | [noun] A hole in a ship through which a hawser is passed. HAWTHORNS (18) [noun] Any of various shrubs and small trees of the genus Crataegus having small, apple-like fruits and thorny branches HEADWATER (16) [noun] (chiefly in the plural) The source (and the initial part) of a stream HEADWINDS (17) [noun] A wind that blows directly against the course of a vehicle, like an aircraft, train, or ship. HEADWORDS (17) [noun] A word used as the title of a section, particularly in a dictionary, encyclopedia, or thesaurus | [noun] (grammar) any word which may be modified by an adjunct HEADWORKS (20) [noun] Any structure at the head or diversion point of a waterway. It is smaller than a barrage and is used to divert water from a river into a canal or from a large canal into a smaller canal. HEARTWOOD (16) [noun] The wood nearer the heart of a stem or branch, different in color from the sapwood HEARTWORM (17) [noun] A parasitic organism that afflicts dogs, the roundworm Dirofilaria immitis. | [noun] The condition caused by this organism. HEDGEROWS (17) [noun] A row of closely planted bushes or trees forming a hedge HEEHAWING (19) [verb] To utter the cry of an ass or donkey. HEMPWEEDS (20) HEREAWAYS (18) HIDEAWAYS (19) [noun] A hiding place, somewhere one can go to get away from other people HIGHBROWS (21) [noun] (sometimes derogatory) A cultured or learned person or thing. HOGWASHES (19) HOLLOWARE (15) HOLLOWEST (15) [adjective] (of something solid) Having an empty space or cavity inside. | [adjective] (of a sound) Distant, eerie; echoing, reverberating, as if in a hollow space; dull, muffled; often low-pitched. | [adjective] Without substance; having no real or significant worth; meaningless. HOLLOWING (16) [verb] To make a hole in something; to excavate | [verb] To call or urge by shouting; to hollo. | [noun] The act of one who hollows; a cry or shout. HOMEGROWN (18) [adjective] Grown at home. | [adjective] Created or constructed in an informal or amateur manner; done without formal assistance, as from a business, organization, or professional. | [adjective] Raised or brought up in one's own country. HOMETOWNS (17) [noun] An individual’s place of birth, childhood home, or place of main residence. | [noun] Designating a decision or judgement that is biased, or perceived to be biased, in favour of local preference. HOMEWARDS (18) [adjective] Of or pertaining to leading toward home. | [adverb] Towards home HOMEWORKS (21) HONEWORTS (15) [noun] Either of two plants of the family Umbelliferae. HONEYDEWS (19) HOODWINKS (20) [verb] To deceive by disguise; to dupe, bewile, mislead. | [verb] To cover the eyes with a hood; to blindfold. | [verb] To overshadow something in a way that one is blind or oblivious to it. HOOKWORMS (21) [noun] Any of various parasitic bloodsucking roundworms which cause disease, especially the species Ancylostoma duodenale and Necator americanus, having hooked mouthparts and entering their hosts by boring through the skin. HOOSEGOWS (16) [noun] A jail. HORNWORMS (17) [noun] A caterpillar of a hawk moth that has a hornlike tail process. | [noun] Some moths in the genus Manduca of the hawk moth family Sphingidae. HORNWORTS (15) [noun] A bryophyte with a leafless thallus characterized by a dominant gametophyte stage of the life cycle and a sporophyte stage shaped like a horn. HORSEWEED (16) HORSEWHIP (20) [noun] A whip for use on horses. | [verb] To flog or lash with a horsewhip. HOUSEWIFE (18) [noun] (plural "housewives") A woman whose main employment is homemaking, maintaining the upkeep of her home and tending to household affairs; often, such a woman whose sole [unpaid] employment is homemaking. | [noun] (plural "housewives") The wife of a householder; the mistress of a family; the female head of a household. | [noun] (plural "housewifes") A little case or bag for materials used in sewing, and for other articles of female work. HOUSEWORK (19) [noun] Domestic household chores such as cleaning and cooking. | [noun] Homework. HOWITZERS (24) [noun] A cannon that combines certain characteristics of guns and mortars. The howitzer delivers projectiles with medium velocities, by either low or high trajectories. | [noun] Normally a cannon with a tube length of 20 to 30 calibers; however, the tube length can exceed 30 calibers and still be considered a howitzer when the high angle fire zoning solution permits range overlap between charges | [noun] A powerfully hit shot. HOWLINGLY (19) HOWSOEVER (18) [adverb] Regardless of the way in which. | [adverb] In any manner whatsoever. | [adverb] To whatever degree or extent. IMBOWERED (17) IMBROWNED (17) IMPAWNING (17) IMPOWERED (17) INCHWORMS (19) [noun] The larva of a moth of the family Geometridae. | [verb] To move in a looping fashion, like an inchworm. | [verb] To crawl or creep slowly. INDWELLER (13) INGROWING (14) [adjective] Growing inwards or abnormally towards (a part of the body) INGROWTHS (16) [noun] Growth inwards. INSWATHED (16) INSWATHES (15) INTERFLOW (15) [noun] A flowing between two or more entities. | [noun] The flow of water (from rain or snow) directly through the soil. | [verb] To flow between. INTERVIEW (15) [noun] An official face-to-face meeting of monarchs or other important figures. | [noun] Any face-to-face meeting, especially of an official nature. | [noun] A conversation in person (or, by extension, over the telephone, Internet etc.) between a journalist and someone whose opinion or statements he or she wishes to record for publication, broadcast etc. INTERWORK (16) [verb] To work (two or more things) into and through each other. | [verb] To interact. INTERWOVE (15) [verb] To combine through weaving. | [verb] To intermingle. INTWINING (13) [verb] To twist or twine around something (or one another). INTWISTED (13) INWALLING (13) INWEAVING (16) INWINDING (14) INWRAPPED (17) [verb] To wrap around, surround; to envelop | [verb] To absorb completely or engross IRONWARES (12) IRONWEEDS (13) IRONWOODS (13) [noun] Any of a number of tree species known for having a particularly solid wood. | [noun] The wood of any ironwood tree. IRONWORKS (16) [noun] Anything made wholly or largely of iron, especially when used for decoration. | [noun] An ironworks. | [noun] A factory in which iron is manufactured or iron goods are made JACKSCREW (27) [noun] A jack (mechanical lifting device) which is operated by turning a leadscrew. JACKSTRAW (25) [noun] (usually plural) One of the pieces used for the game variously called jackstraws or pick-up-sticks. | [noun] An insignificant person. | [adjective] Resembling a bundle of jackstraws that has been strewn on a surface. JAWBONERS (21) JAWBONING (22) [verb] To talk persistently in an attempt to persuade somebody to cooperate. | [noun] Persistent persuasive talk. JAYHAWKER (29) JAYWALKED (27) [verb] To behave as a jaywalker; to violate pedestrian traffic regulations by crossing a street away from a designated crossing or to walk in the part of the street intended for vehicles rather than on the sidewalk. JAYWALKER (26) JERKWATER (23) [noun] A train on a branch line. | [noun] A jerkwater town. | [adjective] Of an inhabited place, small, insignificant, and backward. JEWELLERS (19) [noun] A person whose job is making, repairing or selling jewelry. JEWELLERY (22) [noun] Collectively, personal ornamentation such as rings, necklaces, brooches and bracelets, made of precious metals and sometimes set with gemstones. 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KNAPWEEDS (19) [noun] Any of various common weeds of the genus Centaurea KNOCKDOWN (23) [noun] An act of knocking down or the condition of being knocked down. | [noun] An overwhelming blow. | [noun] Very strong ale or beer. KNOTWEEDS (17) KNOWINGER (17) KNOWINGLY (20) [adverb] In the manner of one who knows. | [adverb] With knowledge of all relevant facts. KNOWLEDGE (18) [noun] The fact of knowing about something; general understanding or familiarity with a subject, place, situation etc. | [noun] Awareness of a particular fact or situation; a state of having been informed or made aware of something. | [noun] Intellectual understanding; the state of appreciating truth or information. KOWTOWERS (19) KOWTOWING (20) [verb] To grovel, act in a very submissive manner. | [verb] To kneel and bow low enough to touch one’s forehead to the ground. | [verb] To bow very deeply. LACEWINGS (15) [noun] Any of a number of gauzy-winged insects of certain families within the order Neuroptera. | [noun] Any of various nymphalid butterflies of the genus Cethosia. LACEWOODS (15) LACEWORKS (18) LANCEWOOD (15) [noun] A tough, elastic and heavy wood obtained from the West Indies and Guiana, formerly much used for carriage shafts (Oxandra lanceolata). | [noun] New Zealand trees in the genus Pseudopanax. | [noun] Australian lancewood LANDOWNER (13) [noun] A person who owns land. LATEWOODS (13) LATHWORKS (19) LAWGIVERS (16) [noun] One who provides laws to a society. | [noun] Any lawmaker. LAWLESSLY (15) LAWMAKERS (18) [noun] One who makes or enacts laws. LAWMAKING (19) [noun] The process of passing or enacting laws; legislation. LAWYERING (16) [verb] To practice law. | [verb] To perform, or attempt to perform, the work of a lawyer. | [verb] To make legalistic arguments. 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LINKWORKS (20) LINTWHITE (15) LIVERWORT (15) [noun] A type of bryophyte (includes mosses, liverworts, and hornworts) with a leafy stem or leafless thallus characterized by a dominant gametophyte stage and a lack of stomata on the sporophyte stage of the life cycle. LOANWORDS (13) [noun] A word directly taken into one language from another one with little or no translation. LOBBYGOWS (20) LOCKDOWNS (19) [noun] The confinement of people in their own rooms (e.g. in a school) or cells (in a prison), or to their own homes or areas (e.g. in the case of a city- or nation-wide issue) as a security measure after or amid a disturbance or pandemic, etc. | [noun] A contrivance to fasten logs together in rafting. LOCOWEEDS (15) LOOKDOWNS (17) LOUSEWORT (12) [noun] Any of very many semiparasitic flowering plants, of the genus Pedicularis, related to wood betony. LOWBALLED (15) [verb] To give an intentionally low estimate of anything, not necessarily with deceptive intent. | [verb] To give (a customer) a deceptively low price or cost estimate that one has no intention of honoring or to prepare a cost estimate deliberately and misleadingly low. | [verb] To make an offer well below an item's true value, often to take advantage of the seller's desperation or desire to sell the item quickly. LOWERCASE (14) [noun] The minuscule or small letters (a, b, c, as opposed to the uppercase or capital letters, A, B, C). | [verb] To convert (text) to lower case. | [adjective] In lower case LOWERMOST (14) [adjective] Lowest LOWLANDER (13) LOWLIFERS (15) LOWLIGHTS (16) [noun] A particularly bad or mediocre aspect. | [noun] In hairstyling, a highlight in a darker colour rather than a lighter one. LOWLIHEAD (16) LOWLINESS (12) LOWNESSES (12) LOWRIDERS (13) [noun] A vehicle, usually a passenger car, with its suspension system modified so that it rides as low to level ground as possible without dragging. | [noun] (slang) The driver or a frequent passenger of such a vehicle. LUNGWORMS (15) [noun] Any of several nematode worms, of the family Metastrongylidae, that are parasitic to mammalian lungs LUNGWORTS (13) [noun] Any of various European plants, of the genus Pulmonaria (family Boraginaceae), that were once used to treat respiratory disorders. | [noun] Any of several other, unrelated plants, used to treat respiratory disorders MACCABAWS (20) MACKINAWS (20) [noun] A heavy woolen cloth. | [noun] A blanket made of wool, formerly distributed to the Amerindians by the U.S. government. | [noun] A flat-bottomed cargo boat; mackinaw boat. MANPOWERS (16) MARKDOWNS (19) [noun] A reduction in price in order to stimulate sales. MARROWFAT (17) MARROWING (15) MATCHWOOD (20) [noun] Wood, often in the form of splinters, suitable for making matches MAWKISHLY (24) MAYFLOWER (20) [noun] Any of several plants that flower in May - especially the hawthorn (in Britain) and the trailing arbutus (in the US). MEALWORMS (16) [noun] The larval stage of the mealworm beetle (Tenebrio molitor), a species of darkling beetle.. MEANWHILE (17) [noun] The time between two events. | [adverb] During the time that something is happening. | [adverb] At the same time, but elsewhere. MEGAWATTS (15) [noun] One million (1 000 000) watts, abbreviated as MW. MELLOWEST (14) [verb] To make mellow; to relax or soften. | [verb] To become mellow. | [adjective] Soft or tender by reason of ripeness; having a tender pulp. MELLOWING (15) [verb] To make mellow; to relax or soften. | [verb] To become mellow. | [noun] The process of making or becoming mellow. MELTDOWNS (15) [noun] Severe overheating of the core of a nuclear reactor resulting in the core melting and radiation escaping. | [noun] A situation being likened to a nuclear meltdown; a crisis. | [noun] A tantrum. MELTWATER (14) [noun] Water from melting ice or snow. MESHWORKS (21) [noun] A net; an assembly of meshes. METALWARE (14) [noun] Any wares made out of metal, such as pots and pans. METALWORK (18) [noun] Objects made of metal. | [noun] The act of shaping metal, metalworking. MICAWBERS (18) MICROBREW (18) [noun] A beer produced by a small local brewery, or microbrewery. | [verb] To produce beer on a small scale, as a microbrewer. MICROWATT (16) MICROWAVE (19) [noun] An electromagnetic wave with wavelength between that of infrared light and radio waves. | [verb] To cook (something) in a microwave oven. | [noun] An oven that uses microwave energy to heat food or other items placed within it. MIDWEEKLY (22) MIDWIFERY (21) [noun] The practice and science of being a midwife. MIDWIFING (19) [verb] To act as a midwife | [verb] To facilitate the emergence of MIDWINTER (15) [noun] The middle of winter. | [noun] The winter solstice; about December 21st or 22nd. MIDWIVING (19) MILDEWING (16) [verb] To taint with mildew. | [verb] To become tainted with mildew. MILKWEEDS (19) [noun] Any of several plants that have a milky sap and have pods that split to release seeds with silky tufts. | [noun] A monarch butterfly (Danaus spp). MILKWOODS (19) MILKWORTS (18) [noun] Any of more than 500 species of flowering plants of the genus Polygala that are used as a food source by the larvae of some members of the Lepidoptera order. MILLIWATT (14) [noun] One thousandth ( 10-3 ) of a watt, abbreviated as mW. MILLWORKS (18) MISAWARDS (15) MISTHROWN (17) MISTHROWS (17) MISWORDED (16) MISWRITES (14) MITERWORT (14) MITREWORT (14) MOLDWARPS (17) MONEYWORT (17) [noun] A European vine, Lysimachia nummularia, having yellow flowers; creeping Jenny, creeping Charlie. MOONWALKS (18) [noun] An exploration of the Moon's surface on foot (by an astronaut). | [noun] A dance move in which the dancer slides backwards though the feet move as if walking forwards; the backslide. | [noun] A dance style in which the dancer appears to be moving in a low gravity environment. MOONWORTS (14) [noun] A small fern, Botrychium lunaria (lesser moonwort); later, any member of the genus. | [noun] Lunaria annua (greater moonwort); also known as Honesty and Actual Honesty. MOORFOWLS (17) MOORWORTS (14) MOTORWAYS (17) [noun] (parts of Australia) A broad highway designed for high speed traffic, having restrictions on the vehicle types permitted and merging lanes instead of cross traffic; in parts of the United States and other places called freeway. MOUTHWASH (20) [noun] A liquid used to clean one's mouth. MUCKWORMS (22) MULTIWALL (14) NANOWATTS (12) NARROWEST (12) [adjective] Having a small width; not wide; having opposite edges or sides that are close, especially by comparison to length or depth. | [adjective] Of little extent; very limited; circumscribed. | [adjective] Restrictive; without flexibility or latitude. NARROWING (13) [verb] To reduce in width or extent; to contract. | [verb] To get narrower. | [verb] (of a person or eyes) To partially lower one's eyelids in a way usually taken to suggest a defensive, aggressive or penetrating look. NARWHALES (15) NETWORKED (17) [verb] To interact socially for the purpose of getting connections or personal advancement. | [verb] To connect two or more computers or other computerized devices. | [verb] To interconnect a group or system. NEWCOMERS (16) [noun] One who has recently come to a community; a recent arrival. | [noun] A new participant in some activity; a neophyte. 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OVERDRAWS (16) [noun] The process by which, during the rendering of a three-dimensional scene, a pixel is replaced by one that is closer to the viewpoint, as determined by their Z coordinates. | [verb] To withdraw more money from an account than there is credit; to make an overdraft | [verb] To use a device for shooting arrows shorter than the draw of the bow. OVERFLOWN (18) [verb] To fly over something. | [verb] To fly too far past something. | [verb] To flow over the brim of (a container). OVERFLOWS (18) [noun] The spillage resultant from overflow; excess. | [noun] Outlet for escape of excess material. | [noun] The situation where a value exceeds the available numeric range. OVERGROWN (16) [verb] To grow beyond one's boundaries or containment, or beyond the proper size. | [verb] To grow over; (of one thing) to cause (a second thing) to become overgrown (with or by the first thing). | [adjective] Having large numbers of plants which have become too big, and are hence spoiling the picturesqueness of a garden. OVERGROWS (16) [verb] To grow beyond one's boundaries or containment, or beyond the proper size. | [verb] To grow over; (of one thing) to cause (a second thing) to become overgrown (with or by the first thing). OVERPOWER (17) [verb] To subdue someone by superior force. | [verb] To excel or exceed in power; to cause to yield; to subdue. | [verb] To render imperceptible by means of greater strength, intensity etc. OVERSEWED (16) [verb] To sew together the edges of two pieces of fabric, with every stitch passing over the join. OVERSTREW (15) OVERSWEET (15) [adjective] Too sweet; excessively sweet. 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OVERWINDS (16) [verb] To wind (tighten a spring of) something excessively. | [verb] To twist itself more tightly. OVERWORDS (16) OVERWORKS (19) [verb] To make (someone) work too hard. | [verb] To work too hard. | [verb] To fill too full of work; to crowd with labour. OVERWOUND (16) [verb] To wind (tighten a spring of) something excessively. | [verb] To twist itself more tightly. | [adjective] Nervous, tense, jumpy. OVERWRITE (15) [noun] The operation of destroying older data by recording new data over it. | [verb] To destroy (older data) by recording new data over it. | [verb] To cover in writing; to write over the top of. OVERWROTE (15) [verb] To destroy (older data) by recording new data over it. | [verb] To cover in writing; to write over the top of. | [verb] To write too much. OWNERSHIP (17) [noun] The state of having complete legal control of something; possession; proprietorship. | [noun] Responsibility for something. 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PAULOWNIA (14) [noun] Any member of the genus Paulownia, comprising deciduous flowering trees native to Asia. PAWNSHOPS (19) [noun] The business premises of a pawnbroker; where loans are made, with personal property as security PEEPSHOWS (19) [noun] An exhibition of pictures or objects viewed through a small hole or magnifying glass. | [noun] A titillating or pornographic display through a small slot, generally equipped with a timer to automatically close the slot when payment has expired. PEESWEEPS (16) PEETWEETS (14) PENNYWORT (17) [noun] A name given to several unrelated plants around the world. In general they all have round leaves of about the shape and size of a (pre-decimal) penny. PEWHOLDER (18) PEWTERERS (14) PHASEDOWN (18) PICKWICKS (26) PIECEWISE (16) PIECEWORK (20) [noun] Work that a worker is paid for according to the number of units produced, rather than the number of hours worked; work done and paid for by the piece or by the job. 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POKEWEEDS (19) [noun] A poisonous North American plant, Phytolacca americana, with reddish stems, broad leaves, clusters of white flowers, and dark purple berries. POLLIWOGS (15) [noun] A tadpole. POLLYWOGS (18) [noun] A polliwog. | [noun] A sailor who has not yet crossed the equator. | [noun] A person of Polynesian (usually Samoan) descent (Poly + wog). POLYWATER (17) [noun] A supposed polymeric form of water reported to have been produced in fine capillaries; now known to be illusory PONDWEEDS (16) PORKWOODS (19) POWDERERS (15) POWDERING (16) [verb] To reduce to fine particles; to pound, grind, or rub into a powder. | [verb] To sprinkle with powder, or as if with powder. | [verb] To use powder on the hair or skin. POWERBOAT (16) [noun] A small, fast motorboat. POWERLESS (14) [adjective] Lacking sufficient power or strength. | [adjective] Lacking legal authority. POWWOWING (21) [verb] (of Native Americans) To hold a meeting; to gather together in council. | [verb] (of Native Americans and by extension other groups, such as the Pennsylvania Dutch) To conduct a ritual in which magic is used. | [verb] To hold a private conference. PREREVIEW (17) PRESHOWED (18) PRESSWORK (18) [noun] The operation of a printing press. | [noun] Printed material. | [noun] (metalwork) The act or process of pressing or drawing with dies or presses; or the product of such work. PREVIEWED (18) [verb] To show or watch something, or part of it, before it is complete. PREVIEWER (17) PREWARMED (17) PREWARNED (15) [verb] To warn beforehand; to forewarn. PREWASHED (18) [verb] To rinse something before washing it properly. PREWASHES (17) [noun] A quick rinse given to objects before they are washed properly. | [verb] To rinse something before washing it properly. PROWESSES (14) PULPWOODS (17) PUSHDOWNS (18) QUILLWORK (25) [noun] Decorative textile embellishment made from porcupine quills by certain Native Americans. RACKWORKS (22) RADWASTES (13) RAINWATER (12) [noun] Rainfall. | [noun] Water (for a house etc) sourced from rain which has not joined a spring, stream or river, pond, lake or sea. RAUWOLFIA (15) [noun] Any of several small trees and shrubs, of the genus Rauwolfia, that yields materials of medical use. | [noun] Any of a group of alkaloids extracted from these trees. RAWHIDING (17) RAWNESSES (12) REARWARDS (13) [noun] The part that comes last or is situated in the rear; conclusion, wind-up. | [noun] The last troop; the rear of an army; a rear guard. | [adjective] Rearward. REAVOWING (16) REAWAKENS (16) [verb] To wake after an extended period of sleep. | [verb] To reactivate or reanimate. 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REWELDING (14) REWETTING (13) REWIDENED (14) REWINDERS (13) REWINDING (14) [verb] To wind (something) again. | [verb] To wind (something) back, now especially of cassette or video tape, CD, DVD etc.; to go back on a video or audio recording. | [verb] To go back or think back to a previous moment or place, or a previous point in a discourse. REWINNING (13) REWORDING (14) [verb] To change the wording of; to restate using different words. | [noun] A changed wording | [noun] The act of creating a changed wording REWORKING (17) [noun] An act in which something is reworked. REWRAPPED (17) [verb] To wrap again. REWRITERS (12) REWRITING (13) [verb] To write again, differently; to modify (a piece of writing or music, etc.). | [verb] To write out again (without changes). | [noun] The process or result of writing again; a rewrite. REWRITTEN (12) [verb] To write again, differently; to modify (a piece of writing or music, etc.). | [verb] To write out again (without changes). 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ROSEWOODS (13) [noun] The fragrant wood of Dalbergia nigra, a Brazilian tree in the legume family, which has a sweet smell. | [noun] Any of several dozen woods, resembling that of Dalbergia nigra in some respect. | [noun] The wood of a South American tree, Aniba rosaeodora, in the laurel family, with fragrant wood from which an essential oil is distilled. ROSINWEED (13) ROUGHHEWN (19) [adjective] Hewn roughly without a neat finish ROUGHHEWS (19) ROUNDWOOD (14) [noun] Timber as it is cut from the tree, including the bark and without any processing or shaping into planks. ROUNDWORM (15) [noun] An invertebrate animal of the phylum Nematoda and other similar phyla. Many species of roundworms are parasites. ROUTEWAYS (15) ROWDINESS (13) ROWDYISMS (18) ROWELLING (13) [verb] To use a rowel on (something), especially to drain fluid. | [verb] To fit with spurs. | [verb] To apply the spur to. 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SANDWORMS (15) SANDWORTS (13) [noun] Any of several plants in the genera Arenaria, Minuartia, and Moehringia. SASSWOODS (13) SATINWOOD (13) [noun] Woody trees in family Rutaceae | [noun] Wood used for crafting fine furniture, particularly for inlay and marquetry, from either Chloroxylon swietenia or Zanthoxylum flavum. SAWFISHES (18) [noun] Any ray (marine fish with a flat body and wing-like fins) of the family Pristidae, having a snout that resembles a saw. SAWHORSES (15) [noun] A structure with a crosspiece used to support timber or other material for working. SAWTIMBER (16) SCALAWAGS (15) [noun] A scrawny cow. | [noun] A rascal. | [noun] Any white Southerner who supported the federal plan of Reconstruction after the American Civil War or who joined with the black freedmen and the carpetbaggers in support of Republican Party policies. 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SCREWBALL (16) [noun] A pitch thrown with added pressure by the index finger and a twisting wrist motion resulting in a motion to the right when thrown by a right-handed pitcher. | [noun] One who behaves in a crazy manner. | [adjective] (originally US) Crazy, offbeat, bizarre, zany, or weird. SCREWBEAN (16) SCREWIEST (14) [adjective] Crazy; silly; ridiculous | [adjective] Tipsy; slightly drunk. | [adjective] Exacting; extortionate; close. SCREWLIKE (18) SCREWWORM (19) [noun] The larva of the fly Cochliomyia hominivorax (New World screwworm) or Chrysomya bezziana (Old World screwworm). The larvae are parasitic in humans and animals and are distinctive in eating living flesh of mammals, unlike most maggots, which eat only dead flesh. SCRIMSHAW (19) [noun] The manufacture of handicrafts by sailors on long voyages, especially as whittled from wood or bone. | [noun] An item produced by scrimshaw. | [verb] To make an item of scrimshaw. SEATWORKS (16) SEAWATERS (12) SEAWORTHY (18) [adjective] Fit for service at sea. SEESAWING (13) [verb] To use a seesaw. | [verb] (by extension) To fluctuate. | [verb] To cause to move backward and forward in seesaw fashion. SEMIDWARF (18) SEMISWEET (14) [adjective] Partially sweet or sweetened, but having a distinct bitter component. Especially used to describe dark chocolate that is much less sugary than milk chocolate. SEMIVOWEL (17) [noun] A sound in speech which has some qualities of a consonant and some qualities of a vowel. | [noun] A letter which represents a semivowel sound, such as w or y in English. SEMIWORKS (18) SETSCREWS (14) [noun] A screw with threads along the entire length and no head. Typically, set screws have a hex or slot drive recessed in the threaded length; a grub screw or worm screw. | [noun] Any screw used to hold or adjust a setting: frequently a set screw (sense 1), but may also be any other machine screw or thumb screw used for the purpose of setting. | [noun] (NZ) A screw with a head, usually hexagonal, like a bolt but without a shank to allow it to screw into material rather than take a nut; a tap bolt. SEWERAGES (13) SHADBLOWS (18) SHADOWBOX (25) [noun] A diorama | [verb] To practice moves without an actual opponent, often in front of a mirror. SHADOWERS (16) SHADOWIER (16) [adjective] In shadow; darkened by shadows. | [adjective] (of character) Dark, obscure. | [adjective] Indulging in fancies; daydreaming. SHADOWILY (19) SHADOWING (17) [verb] To shade, cloud or darken. | [verb] To block light or radio transmission from. | [verb] To secretly or discreetly track or follow another, to keep under surveillance. SHAKEDOWN (20) [noun] Extortion, especially through blackmail | [noun] A thorough search; a frisk | [noun] A trial or test period, especially of a ship or aircraft SHALLOWED (16) [verb] To make or become less deep. SHALLOWER (15) [adjective] Having little depth; significantly less deep than wide. | [adjective] Extending not far downward. | [adjective] Concerned mainly with superficial matters. SHALLOWLY (18) SHAREWARE (15) [noun] A type of software that is distributed without payment but is limited in any combination of functionality, availability, or convenience. SHELLWORK (19) [noun] The decoration made from patterns of shells. SHEWBREAD (18) [noun] Twelve loaves of bread placed on the alter in Jewish Temples and renewed periodically. See showbread. SHIPOWNER (17) [noun] Someone who owns a ship. SHIPWORMS (19) [noun] Any of several wormlike marine mollusks (not true worms) of the family Teredinidae, that bore through the wooden hulls of ships and other woody material immersed in salt water. SHIPWRECK (23) [noun] A ship that has sunk or run aground so that it is no longer seaworthy. | [noun] An event where a ship sinks or runs aground. | [noun] Destruction; ruin; irretrievable loss SHOREWARD (16) [noun] The side facing the shore. | [adjective] In the direction of the shoreline, relatively speaking. | [adjective] Facing the shore. SHORTWAVE (18) [noun] An electromagnetic wave having a wavelength between approximately 10 and 100 meters, corresponding to frequencies between 3 and 30 MHz. | [noun] (usually in plural) Any frequency in this range, especially when used in broadcasting. | [adjective] (of radio waves) Having a wavelength of approximately 10 to 100 meters SHOWBIZZY (38) [adjective] Of or pertaining to showbiz; glitzy, glamorous (possibly implying a lack of intellectual depth). SHOWBOATS (17) [noun] A river steamboat having a resident theatre. | [noun] (by extension) A showoff. | [verb] To show off. SHOWBREAD (18) [noun] The twelve loaves of bread placed daily by the Jewish priests in the Holy Place on the table. SHOWCASED (18) [verb] To display, demonstrate, show, or present. SHOWCASES (17) [noun] A case for displaying merchandise or valuable items. | [noun] A setting, occasion, or medium for exhibiting something or someone, especially in an attractive or favorable aspect. | [verb] To display, demonstrate, show, or present. SHOWDOWNS (19) [noun] The final battle between two nemeses, in which there can be but one victor. | [noun] The final round in a poker match, where the all remaining players' cards have to be put down on the table and shown. SHOWERERS (15) SHOWERING (16) [verb] (followed by with) To spray with (a specified liquid). | [verb] To bathe using a shower. | [verb] To bestow liberally, to give or distribute in abundance SHOWGIRLS (16) [noun] A non-starring but physically beautiful female dancer in an often lavishly produced theatrical revue; a chorine. SHOWINESS (15) SHOWPIECE (19) [noun] Something that exhibits exceptional quality, something worth being shown. | [noun] Something made specifically to be displayed. 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SHWANPANS (17) SIDESHOWS (16) [noun] A minor attraction at a larger event such as a circus, fair, music festival or similar | [noun] An incidental spectacle that diverts attention from a larger concern | [noun] An incident in which drivers block traffic to perform donuts for an extended period of time SIDESWIPE (15) [noun] A blow with the side of something, such as the side of car that is changing lanes incautiously. | [noun] A catty or sarcastic remark. | [verb] To give a blow with the side, as to strike with the side of a car when turning. SIDEWALKS (17) [noun] A footpath, usually paved, at the side of a road for the use of pedestrians; a pavement (UK) or footpath (Australia, New Zealand) | [noun] (by extension) any paved footpath, even if not located at the side of a road SIDEWALLS (13) SIDEWARDS (14) [adjective] Toward a side. | [adverb] Toward a side. 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SOUTHPAWS (17) [noun] One who is left-handed, especially in sports. | [noun] A boxer who leads with the right hand and guards with the left SOUTHWARD (16) [noun] The direction or area lying to the south of a place. | [adjective] Situated or directed towards the south; moving or facing towards the south. | [adverb] Towards the south; in a southerly direction. SOUTHWEST (15) [noun] The compass point halfway between south and west, specifically 225°, abbreviated as SW. | [adjective] Of or pertaining to the southwest; southwestern. | [adjective] Towards the southwest, southwestwards, southwestern. SOWBREADS (15) [noun] Cyclamen, plant of the genus Cyclamen SPACEWALK (20) [noun] Any activity by an astronaut outside of a spacecraft or space station in space; extravehicular activity. | [verb] To perform a spacewalk. SPACEWARD (17) SPADEWORK (19) [noun] Work done by digging with a spade. | [noun] Work done in preparation for something else. 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SWAGGERED (15) [verb] To walk with a swaying motion; hence, to walk and act in a pompous, consequential manner. | [verb] To boast or brag noisily; to be ostentatiously proud or vainglorious; to bluster; to bully. SWAGGERER (14) SWALLOWED (16) [verb] To cause (food, drink etc.) to pass from the mouth into the stomach; to take into the stomach through the throat. | [verb] To take (something) in so that it disappears; to consume, absorb. | [verb] To take food down into the stomach; to make the muscular contractions of the oesophagus to achieve this, often taken as a sign of nervousness or strong emotion. SWALLOWER (15) [noun] Agent noun of swallow; one who swallows. SWAMPIEST (16) [adjective] Soggy and marshy; wet like a swamp. | [adjective] Flowing smoothly with no harsh tones but possibly including muddy tones. SWAMPLAND (17) [noun] Low-lying land that is regularly flooded; especially such land that is drier than a bog or a marsh. | [noun] The set of all possible string theories. 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SWINGINGS (14) SWINGLING (14) [verb] To beat or flog, especially for extracting the fibres from flax stalks; to scutch. | [verb] To beat off the tops of (weeds) without pulling up the roots. | [verb] To dangle; to wave hanging. SWINISHLY (18) SWIRLIEST (12) [adjective] Having swirls; swirling. SWISHIEST (15) [adjective] Producing a swishing sound. | [adjective] Swish; fancy, posh, impressive. | [adjective] (of a man) Effeminate; gay SWITCHERS (17) [noun] One who or that which switches. | [noun] A switchmode power supply. | [noun] A railway locomotive used for shunting; a shunter. SWITCHING (18) [verb] To exchange. | [verb] To change (something) to the specified state using a switch. | [verb] To whip or hit with a switch. SWITCHMAN (19) [noun] A person who operates railway switches which route trains onto rail tracks. | [noun] A person whose job is to help in the switching of railcars in a railway yard. SWITCHMEN (19) [noun] A person who operates railway switches which route trains onto rail tracks. | [noun] A person whose job is to help in the switching of railcars in a railway yard. SWITHERED (16) [verb] To be indecisive or in a state of confusion; to dither. SWIVELING (16) [verb] To swing or turn, as on a pin or pivot. | [noun] The motion of something that swivels. SWIVELLED (16) [verb] To swing or turn, as on a pin or pivot. SWIZZLERS (30) SWIZZLING (31) [verb] To stir or mix. | [verb] To permute bits. | [verb] To convert portable symbols or positions to memory-dependent pointers during deserialization. SWOOSHING (16) [verb] To move with a rushing or swirling sound SWORDFISH (19) [noun] A large marine fish with a long, pointed bill, Xiphias gladius. | [verb] To fish for swordfish. 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TIGHTWIRE (16) TIMEWORKS (18) TOMAHAWKS (21) [noun] An ax used by Native American warriors. | [noun] A dunk in which the person dunking the ball does so with his arm behind his head. | [noun] A geometric construction consisting of a semicircle and two line segments that serves as a tool for trisecting an angle; so called from its resemblance to the American Indian axe. TOMORROWS (14) [noun] The day after the present day. TOOTHWORT (15) [noun] Any of several species of flowering plants, of the genus Lathraea. | [noun] Any of several species of plants in the former genus Dentaria (now considered part of the genus Cardamine). TOPMINNOW (16) [noun] Any of the ray-finned fish in the taxonomic family Fundulidae. TOPWORKED (19) TORCHWOOD (18) TOUCHDOWN (18) [noun] A six-point score occurring when the ball enters possession of a team's player in the opponent's end zone. | [noun] A defensive action of grounding the ball in the team’s own in-goal to stop the play | [noun] A try (scoring play of grounding the ball in the opposing team’s in-goal) TOUCHWOOD (18) [noun] Decayed wood used as tinder; punk. TOWELETTE (12) [noun] A small towel. TOWELINGS (13) [noun] Any fabric suitable for towels, such as huckaback or terry cloth. | [noun] A thrashing. TOWELLING (13) [verb] To hit with a towel. | [verb] To dry by using a towel. | [verb] To block up (a door, etc.) with a towel, to conceal the fumes of a recreational drug. TOWERIEST (12) TOWERLIKE (16) TOWHEADED (17) [adjective] Having pale blond hair, resembling tow. TOWNHOMES (17) [noun] A townhouse or row house. 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WHERRYING (19) WHETSTONE (15) [noun] A sharpening stone; a hard stone or piece of synthetically bonded hard minerals that has been formed with at least one flat surface, used to sharpen or hone an edged tool. | [noun] A benchmark for evaluating the power and performance of a computer. | [noun] A stimulant. WHEYFACES (23) WHICHEVER (23) [pronoun] (interrogative) Which ever; emphatic form of 'which'. | [pronoun] Irrespective of the one(s) that; no matter which one(s). | [pronoun] Any or either one(s) that; the one(s) that. WHICKERED (22) [verb] Of a horse, to neigh softly, to make a breathy whinny. WHIFFLERS (21) WHIFFLING (22) [verb] To blow a short gust. | [verb] To waffle, talk aimlessly. | [verb] To waste time. WHIMBRELS (19) [noun] A large migratory wading bird, Numenius phaeopus, of the family Scolopacidae, with a long downcurved bill. WHIMPERED (20) [verb] To cry or sob softly and intermittently. | [verb] To cry with a low, whining, broken voice; to whine; to complain. | [verb] To say something in a whimpering manner. WHIMSICAL (19) [adjective] Given to whimsy. WHINCHATS (20) [noun] A small Old World songbird, Saxicola rubetra, that feeds on insects. WHINGEING (17) [verb] To complain, especially in an annoying or persistent manner. | [verb] To whine. | [noun] A peevish complaint. WHININGLY (19) WHINNIEST (15) WHINNYING (19) [verb] (of a horse) To make a gentle neigh. | [noun] A gentle neighing. WHINSTONE (15) [noun] (quarrying industry) Any hard dark-coloured rock. WHIPCORDS (20) [noun] A hard, twisted cord used for making whiplashes. | [noun] A type of catgut. | [noun] A strong worsted fabric, with a diagonal rib. WHIPPIEST (19) [adjective] Whiplike; thin and pliant. | [adjective] Active, nimble WHIPPINGS (20) [noun] The punishment of being whipped. | [noun] A heavy defeat; a thrashing. | [noun] A cooking technique in which air is incorporated into cream etc. WHIPSAWED (21) [verb] To operate a whipsaw. | [verb] To cause (a trader) to lose potential profit by buying shares just before the price falls, or by selling them just before the price rises. | [verb] To defeat someone in two different ways at once. WHIPSTOCK (23) [noun] The stock (rigid handle) of a whip. WHIPTAILS (17) [noun] Any of many New World lizards, of the genus Cnemidophorus, that have long, slender tails. | [noun] A fish, the blue grenadier, Macruronus novaezelandiae. | [noun] A leaf-distorting disorder in the cauliflower, caused by molybdenum deficiency. WHIPWORMS (22) [noun] Any of the genus Trichuris of roundworms that infect certain mammals | [noun] Trichuriasis, infection by members of the genus Trichuris. WHIRLIEST (15) WHIRLIGIG (17) [noun] Anything that whirls or spins around, such as a toy top or a merry-go-round. | [noun] A device incorporating spinning, wind-driven propellers or pinwheels, used as whimsical outdoor decoration in a garden or on a porch. | [noun] A whirligig beetle. WHIRLPOOL (17) [noun] A swirling body of water. | [noun] A hot tub, jacuzzi. | [noun] Turmoil, or agitated excitement. WHIRLWIND (19) [noun] A violent windstorm of limited extent, as the tornado, characterized by an inward spiral motion of the air with an upward current in the center; a vortex of air. It usually has a rapid progressive motion. | [noun] A person or body of objects or events sweeping violently onward. | [adjective] Rapid and minimal: a whirlwind tour, a whirlwind romance. WHIRRYING (19) WHISHTING (19) WHISKERED (20) WHISPERED (18) [verb] To speak softly, or under the breath, so as to be heard only by one near at hand; to utter words without sonant breath; to talk without that vibration in the larynx which gives sonorous, or vocal, sound. | [verb] To mention privately and confidentially, or in a whisper. | [verb] To make a low, sibilant sound. WHISPERER (17) [noun] Someone who whispers. | [noun] Someone who tells secrets; a gossip. | [noun] Someone who is skilled in taming or training a certain kind of animal, using gentle vocal commands and body language as opposed to physical contact. See horse whisperer. WHISTLERS (15) [noun] Someone or something that whistles, or who plays a whistle as a musical instrument. | [noun] Any of several passerine birds of the genus Pachycephala, of Australasia and the western Pacific. | [noun] Any bird that whistles or is noted for its whistling vocalisations (applied regionally to various specific species). WHISTLING (16) [verb] To make a shrill, high-pitched sound by forcing air through the mouth. To produce a whistling sound, restrictions to the flow of air are created using the teeth, tongue and lips. | [verb] To make a similar sound by forcing air through a musical instrument or a pipe etc. | [verb] To move in such a way as to create a whistling sound. | [noun] A shrill, breathy sound; a whistle. WHITEBAIT (17) [noun] The young of various species of fish, especially herrings, sprats or smelts | [noun] Food prepared from such fish, often deep fried and served as a starter or snack. WHITECAPS (19) [noun] Any of several birds having a white patch on the head. | [noun] A wave having a white crest; a breaker. | [noun] A member of a self-appointed vigilante committee that carried out lynchings. Some early ones wore white hoods or masks. WHITEFACE (20) [noun] Makeup that makes the face appear white. | [noun] Any bird of the genus Aphelocephala. | [noun] A Hereford cow. WHITEFISH (21) [noun] Any of many fish. | [noun] The beluga (both the sturgeon and the whale) WHITEHEAD (19) [noun] A pimple formed by a clogged sebaceous gland, usually with a milky-white cap. | [noun] A species of passerine bird, endemic to New Zealand (Mohoua albicilla) | [noun] The blue-winged snow goose, Anser caerulescens caerulescens. WHITENERS (15) WHITENESS (15) [noun] The state of being white (all senses). | [noun] (dysphemistic) The collective of White/Europid people and their historical heritage. WHITENING (16) [verb] (To cause) to become white or whiter; to bleach or blanch. | [noun] A substance, such as a bleach, used to make something white or whiter. | [noun] The process of making something white or whiter. WHITEOUTS (15) [noun] A heavy snowstorm; a blizzard. | [noun] Any weather condition in which visibility and contrast are severely reduced by snow or sand causing the horizon and physical features of the terrain to disappear. | [noun] Correction fluid (from the brand name Wite-Out). WHITETAIL (15) [noun] A deer, Odocoileus virginianus, family Cervidae, perhaps the most popular game animal in North America. WHITEWALL (18) [noun] A tyre/tire with white sidewalls. | [noun] A hair cut with a closely cropped back and sides and the hair on the top of the head left longer. | [adjective] (of a tyre/tire) Having white sidewalls | [noun] (Northamptonshire) The spotted flycatcher. WHITEWASH (21) [noun] A lime and water mixture for painting walls and fences bright white. | [noun] A complete victory or series of victories without suffering any losses; a clean sweep. | [noun] Any liquid composition for whitening something, such as a wash for making the skin fair. 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WHODUNITS (16) [noun] A novel or drama concerning a crime (usually a murder) in which a detective follows clues to determine the perpetrator. WHODUNNIT (16) [noun] A novel or drama concerning a crime (usually a murder) in which a detective follows clues to determine the perpetrator. WHOLENESS (15) [noun] The quality of being whole. WHOLESALE (15) [noun] The sale of products, often in large quantities, to retailers or other merchants. | [verb] To sell at wholesale. | [adjective] Of or relating to sale in large quantities, for resale. WHOLESOME (17) [adjective] Promoting good physical health and well-being. | [adjective] Promoting moral and mental well-being. | [adjective] Favourable to morals, religion or prosperity; sensible; conducive to good; salutary; promoting virtue or being virtuous. WHOLISTIC (17) [adjective] Related to holism. | [adjective] Relating to a study of the whole instead of a separation into parts. 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WINDBREAK (19) [noun] A hedge, fence or row of trees positioned to reduce wind damage to crops. | [noun] A sheet or stack of material used to protect people or fire from wind. WINDBURNS (15) WINDBURNT (15) [adjective] Of people or body parts: suffering from windburn. | [adjective] Of plants: dried or damaged by the wind. WINDCHILL (18) [noun] The still-air temperature equivalent to a given combination of temperature and wind speed, as far as its cooling effect on exposed flesh is concerned WINDFALLS (16) [noun] Something that has been blown down by the wind. | [noun] A fruit that has fallen from a tree naturally, as from wind. | [noun] A sudden large benefit; especially, a sudden or unexpected large amount of money, as from lottery or sweepstakes winnings or an unexpected inheritance or gift. WINDFLAWS (19) WINDGALLS (14) [noun] A puffy, typically fluid filled sac located just above the fetlock joint on a horse. Generally appearing on old or poorly kept horses. WINDHOVER (19) [noun] The common kestrel (Falco tinnunculus). WINDINESS (13) WINDLINGS (14) WINDMILLS (15) [noun] A machine which translates linear motion of wind to rotational motion by means of adjustable vanes called sails. | [noun] The structure containing such machinery. | [noun] A child's toy consisting of vanes mounted on a stick that rotate when blown by a person or by the wind. WINDOWING (17) [verb] To furnish with windows. | [verb] To place at or in a window. | [noun] The windows of a building; fenestration. WINDPIPES (17) [noun] The trachea. | [noun] Any duct for air or other gas. | [noun] A section of road or bridleway which has a reputation for having strong crosswinds or localized wind swirls. WINDPROOF (18) [verb] To make resistant to the wind. | [adjective] Providing protection from the wind. WINDROWED (17) WINDSOCKS (19) [noun] A large, conical, open-ended tube designed to indicate wind direction and relative wind speed, used especially at smaller airfields. 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WINGOVERS (16) [noun] An aerobatic maneuver in which an airplane makes a steep climb followed by a vertical flat-turn (the plane turns to its side, without rolling) and a short dive, levelling out to fly in the opposite direction from which the maneuver began. WINGSPANS (15) [noun] (usually in singular) The distance from the left wingtip to the right wingtip (of a bird, airplane etc.). WINNINGLY (16) [adverb] In a winning manner. WINNOWERS (15) WINNOWING (16) [verb] To subject (granular material, especially food grain) to a current of air separating heavier and lighter components, as grain from chaff. | [verb] To separate, sift, analyze, or test by separating items having different values. | [verb] To blow upon or toss about by blowing; to set in motion as with a fan or wings. 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WIREHAIRS (15) WIREPHOTO (17) WIREWORKS (19) WIREWORMS (17) [noun] The larva of the click beetle. WISEACRES (14) [noun] One who feigns knowledge or cleverness; one who is wisecracking; an insolent upstart. | [noun] A learned or wise man. WISEASSES (12) [noun] One who makes wisecracks, particularly in a sassy or cocky fashion. WISECRACK (20) [noun] A witty or sarcastic comment or quip. | [verb] To make a sarcastic, flippant, or sardonic comment. WISELIEST (12) WISEWOMAN (17) WISEWOMEN (17) WISHBONES (17) [noun] A forked bone between the neck and breast of a bird consisting chiefly of the two clavicles fused at their median or lower end, regarded as a lucky charm in some countries. | [noun] A spar in two parts, between which a sail is hoisted, the wishbone extending its clew. | [noun] Any sailing vessel rigged with a wishbone. WISHFULLY (21) WISPINESS (14) WISTARIAS (12) [noun] Any of several woody climbing vines, of the genus Wisteria, native to the East Asian countries of China, Korea, and Japan and the eastern United States. WISTERIAS (12) [noun] Any of several woody climbing vines, of the genus Wisteria, native to the East Asian countries of China, Korea, and Japan and the eastern United States. WISTFULLY (18) [adverb] In a wistful manner. WITCHIEST (17) [adjective] Of, pertaining to, or characteristic of witches; witchlike. WITCHINGS (18) WITCHLIKE (21) WITCHWEED (21) [noun] Any of several flowering plants of the genus Striga, from Africa and Asia, some of which are parasitic to crops. WITHDRAWN (19) [verb] To pull (something) back, aside, or away. | [verb] To stop talking to, or interacting with, other people and start thinking thoughts that are not related to what is happening around. | [verb] To take back (a comment, etc); retract. WITHDRAWS (19) [verb] To pull (something) back, aside, or away. | [verb] To stop talking to, or interacting with, other people and start thinking thoughts that are not related to what is happening around. | [verb] To take back (a comment, etc); retract. WITHERERS (15) WITHERING (16) [verb] To shrivel, droop or dry up, especially from lack of water. | [verb] To cause to shrivel or dry up. | [verb] To lose vigour or power; to languish; to pass away. WITHERITE (15) [noun] A yellow-grey mineral form of barium carbonate, BaCO3 WITHHOLDS (19) [verb] To keep (a physical object that one has obtained) to oneself rather than giving it back to its owner. | [verb] To keep (information, assent etc) to oneself rather than revealing it. | [verb] To stay back. WITHSTAND (16) [verb] To resist or endure (something) successfully. | [verb] To oppose (something) forcefully. WITHSTOOD (16) [verb] To resist or endure (something) successfully. | [verb] To oppose (something) forcefully. 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WOLFISHLY (21) WOLFSBANE (17) [noun] Any of several poisonous perennial herbs of the genus Aconitum. | [noun] Arnica montana WOLVERINE (15) WOMANHOOD (18) [noun] The state or condition of being an adult female human being, as distinguished from a child or a man Compare adulthood. Contrast manhood and childhood. | [noun] All of the adult female human beingss of a given locality, region, district, country, nation or state, or all of the adult female humans pertaining to a given human subgroup (culture, ethnicity, race, etc.), regarded collectively | [noun] The idealized nature of an adult female human: all of the characteristics traditionally and ideally ascribed to womanliness, as regarded collectively WOMANISED (15) [verb] (said of a man) To flirt with and/or seduce, or attempt to seduce, women, especially lecherously. | [verb] (usually figurative) To turn into a woman; to feminize. WOMANISES (14) [verb] (said of a man) To flirt with and/or seduce, or attempt to seduce, women, especially lecherously. | [verb] (usually figurative) To turn into a woman; to feminize. WOMANIZED (24) [verb] (said of a man) To flirt with and/or seduce, or attempt to seduce, women, especially lecherously. | [verb] (usually figurative) To turn into a woman; to feminize. WOMANIZER (23) [noun] A man who habitually flirts with and seduces, or attempts to seduce, women. WOMANIZES (23) [verb] (said of a man) To flirt with and/or seduce, or attempt to seduce, women, especially lecherously. | [verb] (usually figurative) To turn into a woman; to feminize. WOMANKIND (19) [noun] Women, taken collectively. WOMANLESS (14) WOMANLIER (14) WOMANLIKE (18) WOMENFOLK (21) [noun] Women collectively. | [noun] The adult female members of a community. WOMENKIND (19) [noun] All women around the world viewed as one entity. WONDERERS (13) WONDERFUL (16) [adjective] Tending to excite wonder; surprising, extraordinary. | [adjective] Surprisingly excellent; very good or admirable, extremely impressive. | [adverb] Exceedingly, to a great extent. WONDERING (14) [verb] To be affected with surprise or admiration; to be struck with astonishment; to be amazed; to marvel; often followed by at. | [verb] To ponder; to feel doubt and curiosity; to query in the mind. | [noun] The mental activity by which one wonders; a query, puzzlement, etc. WOODBINDS (16) WOODBINES (15) WOODBLOCK (21) [noun] A woodcut. | [noun] A percussion instrument consisting of a hollow block of wood struck with a drumstick. | [noun] A wooden block used as a printing form. WOODBOXES (22) WOODCHATS (18) [noun] Lanius senator, a medium-sized migratory passerine bird of the shrike family. WOODCHUCK (24) [noun] A rodent of the family Sciuridae, belonging to the group of large ground squirrels known as marmots, Marmota monax. WOODCOCKS (21) [noun] Any of several wading birds in the genus Scolopax, of the family Scolopacidae, characterised by a long slender bill and cryptic brown and blackish plumage. | [noun] A simpleton. WOODCRAFT (18) [noun] Any of the skills related to a woodland habitat, especially those relating to outdoor survival; these skills collectively. | [noun] The art or skill of wood carving. | [verb] To carve or craft from wood. WOODENEST (13) WOODINESS (13) [noun] The state of being woody. WOODLANDS (14) [noun] Land covered with woody vegetation. WOODLARKS (17) [noun] A lark, Lullula arborea, the only member of the genus Lullula, found in western Eurasia and northern Africa. WOODLORES (13) WOODNOTES (13) [noun] A natural musical sound, like birdsong in a forest. WOODPILES (15) [noun] A pile of cut wood to be used as fuel. | [noun] (games) An arrangement of dominoes. WOODRUFFS (19) [noun] Galium odoratum, an aromatic herb. WOODSHEDS (17) [noun] An enclosed, roofed structure, often an outbuilding, used primarily to store firewood. | [noun] A place where punishments or reprimands are administered. | [verb] To practice or rehearse using a musical instrument. WOODSIEST (13) [adjective] Of, relating to, or suggestive of woods. | [adjective] Having many trees. WOODSTOVE (16) [noun] A stove that burns wood, or is designed to do so WOODWAXES (23) WOODWINDS (17) WOODWORKS (20) WOODWORMS (18) [noun] Any of many beetle larvae that bore into wood. | [noun] A shipworm, a worm-like mollusk in the family Teredinidae that feeds on wood underwater in saltwater. WOOLFELLS (15) WOOLLIEST (12) [adjective] Made of wool. | [adjective] Having a thick, soft texture, as if made of wool. | [adjective] (of thinking, principles, etc.) Based on emotions rather than logic. WOOLPACKS (20) [noun] A bag of wool, traditionally weighing 240 pounds. | [noun] A cirrocumulus cloud. | [noun] A charge resembling a pillow or cushion. WOOLSACKS (18) [noun] A wool bale or cushion, the traditional seat of the Lord Speaker in the British House of Lords. WOOLSHEDS (16) [noun] A shed where sheep are shorn. WOOLSKINS (16) WOOLWORKS (19) WOOZINESS (21) WORDBOOKS (19) [noun] A dictionary or other reference book that lists words; a lexicon, vocabulary. | [noun] The libretto of an opera. WORDINESS (13) WORDPLAYS (18) WORDSMITH (18) [noun] One who uses words skillfully. | [verb] To apply craftsman-like skills to word use. WORKBENCH (23) [noun] A sturdy bench or table at which manual work is done by a carpenter, machinist, etc. WORKBOATS (18) [noun] A boat used for purposes other than recreation, passenger transport, or combat. WORKBOOKS (22) [noun] A book, used by a student, in which answers and workings may be entered besides questions and exercises. | [noun] A book, used by a business, containing a record of work to be done, or work completed. | [noun] A collection of spreadsheets stored in the same file. 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WORKWEEKS (23) [noun] The range of days of the week that are normally worked WORKWOMAN (21) WORKWOMEN (21) WORLDLIER (13) [adjective] Concerned with human or earthly matters, physical as opposed to spiritual. | [adjective] Concerned with secular rather than sacred matters. | [adjective] Sophisticated, especially because of surfeit; versed in the ways of the world. WORLDLING (14) [noun] A mundane person, preoccupied with worldly affairs rather than spiritual matters. WORLDVIEW (19) [noun] One's personal view of the world and how one interprets it. | [noun] The totality of one's beliefs about reality. | [noun] A general philosophy or view of life. WORLDWIDE (17) [adjective] Spanning the world; global. | [adverb] Throughout the world. WORMHOLES (17) [noun] A hole burrowed by a worm | [noun] A hypothetical shortcut between two points in spacetime, permitting faster-than-light travel and sometimes time travel. | [noun] A location in a monitor program containing the address of a routine, allowing the user to substitute different functionality. WORMROOTS (14) WORMSEEDS (15) [noun] An aromatic tropical plant (Dysphania ambrosioides, syn. Chenopodium ambrosioides) that yields an anthelmintic oil | [noun] Santonica or Levant wormseed, Seriphidium cinum, syn. Artemisia cina, an Asian plant related to wormwood. WORMWOODS (18) [noun] An intensely bitter herb (Artemisia absinthium and similar plants in genus Artemisia) used in medicine, in the production of absinthe and vermouth, and as a tonic. | [noun] Something that causes bitterness or affliction; a cause of mortification or vexation. WORRIEDLY (16) WORRIMENT (14) [noun] The act of worrying; anxiety. | [noun] A worrying situation or thing. 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WRINKLING (17) [verb] To make wrinkles in; to cause to have wrinkles. | [verb] To pucker or become uneven or irregular. | [verb] (of skin) To develop irreversibly wrinkles; to age. WRISTBAND (15) [noun] The cuff of a sleeve that wraps around the wrist | [noun] A strip of material worn around the wrist, e.g. to absorb perspiration, especially in sports | [noun] A band that supports a wristwatch WRISTIEST (12) WRISTLETS (12) [noun] An elastic band worn to keep a glove from slipping off the wrist. | [noun] A decorative band or bracelet that encircles the wearer's wrist; especially, a closely knitted one to keep it warm; a muffetee. | [noun] A small handbag with a short strap for attaching it to the wearer's wrist. WRISTLOCK (18) WRONGDOER (14) [noun] Someone who does wrong, whether morally, ethically or in contravention of a law. WRONGNESS (13) WRYNESSES (15) WULFENITE (15) [noun] An orange mineral, lead molybdate, PbMoO4, found in lead veins. WUTHERING (16) [verb] To make a rushing sound; to whizz. | [verb] To shake vigorously. WYANDOTTE (16) [noun] A member of the Wyandotte people. | [noun] (plural always with "-s") A breed of poultry. WYLIECOAT (17) YARDWANDS (17) YARDWORKS (20) YAWMETERS (17) YAWNINGLY (19) YELLOWEST (15) [adjective] Having yellow as its colour. | [adjective] Lacking courage. | [adjective] Characterized by sensationalism, lurid content, and doubtful accuracy. YELLOWFIN (18) [noun] Any of various fish with yellow fins. YELLOWING (16) [verb] To become yellow or more yellow. | [verb] To make (something) yellow or more yellow. | [noun] The process of turning yellow. YELLOWISH (18) [adjective] Somewhat yellow (in colour). ZEBRAWOOD (24) [noun] Any wood with a figure (grain pattern) like the striping of a zebra, most often wood of the genus Microberlinia. 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AARDWOLVES (17) [noun] The nocturnal, insectivorous, mammal, Proteles cristatus, of southern and eastern Africa, related to and resembling the hyena. AFTERGLOWS (17) [noun] The glow seen in the sky after sunset. | [noun] The light emitted by an incandescent object while cooling. | [noun] The light emitted by a phosphor after excitation. AFTERWARDS (17) [adverb] (temporal location) At a later or succeeding time. AFTERWORDS (17) [noun] An epilogue. | [noun] (of a letter) a postscript. | [noun] (to a book) an appendix. AFTERWORLD (17) [noun] A supposed world that is entered after death; the realm of the afterlife. ALDERWOMAN (16) [noun] A female alderman. ALDERWOMEN (16) [noun] A female alderman. ALLOWANCED (16) [verb] To put upon a fixed allowance (especially of provisions and drink). | [verb] To supply in a fixed and limited quantity. ALLOWANCES (15) [noun] Permission; granting, conceding, or admitting | [noun] Acknowledgment. | [noun] That which is allowed; a share or portion allotted or granted; a sum granted as a reimbursement, a bounty, or as appropriate for any purpose; a stated quantity. ALPENGLOWS (16) ANGLEWORMS (16) [noun] Earthworms, particularly those used as fishing bait. ANSWERABLE (15) [adjective] Required to justify one's actions (to somebody); accountable, responsible. | [adjective] (of a question) Able to be answered. | [adjective] Correspondent, in accordance; comparable (to). ANTIGROWTH (17) [adjective] Opposed to or inhibiting economic growth or business expansion. ARROWHEADS (17) [noun] The pointed part of an arrow. | [noun] (symbol) The pointed part of an arrow. | [noun] Any plant in the genus Sagittaria. ARROWROOTS (13) [noun] Maranta arundinacea from the Marantaceae family, a large perennial herb native to the Caribbean area with green leaves about 15 centimeters long. | [noun] Usually preceded by an attributive word: some other plant the rhizomes of which are used to prepare a substance similar to arrowroot (sense 3), such as Zamia integrifolia (Florida arrowroot) or Pueraria montana var. lobata (Japanese arrowroot or kudzu). | [noun] A starchy substance obtained from the rhizomes of an arrowroot plant used as a thickener. ARROWWOODS (17) [noun] Plural of arrowwood, a shrub or small tree of the genus Viburnum, having straight branches formerly used for arrows. ARROWWORMS (18) [noun] Marine animals of the phylum Chaetognatha, small transparent predatory worms found in ocean waters. AUTOWORKER (17) [noun] Someone who works as an assembly line worker in an automobile assembly plant. AWAYNESSES (16) [noun] The plural of awayness; the quality or state of being away or distant. AWKWARDEST (21) [adjective] The superlative form of awkward, meaning most lacking grace or skill in movement or manner, or most uncomfortable and embarrassing in social situations. BACKSWINGS (22) [noun] The preparatory stroke preceding that which produces contact with the target. Normally associated with sports using an implement such as a bat, club, racket or stick. BACKSWORDS (22) [noun] A sword with one sharp edge. | [noun] A stick with a basket handle, used in rustic amusements. | [noun] The game in which the stick is used. BACKWARDLY (25) [adverb] In a backward manner or direction. | [adverb] In a way that is contrary to what is expected or normal. BACKWASHED (25) [verb] To operate a water filter in the reverse direction in order to clean it. | [verb] To affect with backwash. | [verb] To clean the oil from wool after combing. BACKWASHES (24) [noun] The backward flow of water from oars or propeller or breaking waves. | [noun] The similar flow of air from an aircraft engine. | [noun] The result or consequence of an event; an aftermath. BACKWATERS (21) [noun] The water held back by a dam or other obstruction | [noun] A remote place; somewhere that remains unaffected by new events, progresses, ideas, etc. | [noun] A rowing stroke in which the oar is pushed forward to stop the boat; see back water BACKWOODSY (25) [adjective] Relating to or characteristic of backwoods; rural, remote, and unsophisticated. | [adjective] Having the qualities or manner of someone from the backwoods; rustic or provincial. BAILIWICKS (21) [noun] The district within which a bailie or bailiff has jurisdiction. | [noun] A person's concern or sphere of operations, their area of skill or authority. BANDWAGONS (17) [noun] A large wagon used to carry a band of musicians in a parade. | [noun] A current movement that attracts wide support. BANDWIDTHS (20) [noun] The width, usually measured in hertz, of a frequency band. | [noun] Of a signal, the width of the smallest frequency band within which the signal can fit. | [noun] The rate of data flow in digital networks typically measured in bits per second; the bitrate. BASKETWORK (23) [noun] Material woven in the style of a basket. | [noun] The craft of making such material. BATFOWLING (19) [noun] The act of catching birds at night by dazzling them with a light and striking them with a stick or net. | [noun] A trick or stratagem used to deceive someone. BATHWATERS (18) [noun] Water in a bathtub. | [noun] Plural of bathwater, the water used for bathing. BECLOWNING (18) [verb] Present participle of beclown; to make a fool of or to dress or behave like a clown. BECOWARDED (19) BECRAWLING (18) BECROWDING (19) BEDFELLOWS (19) [noun] One with whom one shares a bed. | [noun] An associate, often an otherwise improbable one. BEDWARFING (20) BEFLOWERED (19) [verb] To cover with flowers. BEGGARWEED (18) [noun] A tropical American plant of the legume family with purple flowers, also known as beggar-lice or tick clover. | [noun] Any of various plants with burrs or seeds that cling to clothing. BEJEWELING (23) [verb] To decorate or bedeck with jewels or gems. BEJEWELLED (23) [verb] To decorate or bedeck with jewels or gems. BELLFLOWER (18) [noun] Any of many plants that produce flowers that are bell-like. | [noun] A flower of one of these plants, which is shaped like a bell. BELLWETHER (18) [noun] The leading sheep of a flock, having a bell hung round its neck. | [noun] Anything that indicates future trends. | [noun] A stock or bond that is widely believed to be an indicator of the overall market's condition. BELOWDECKS (22) [adverb] Below the main deck of a ship. BESHADOWED (20) [verb] Past tense of beshadow; to cast a shadow over or to darken. | [adjective] Covered or darkened by shadow; overshadowed. BESHREWING (19) [verb] Present participle of "beshrew," meaning to curse or call down evil upon someone; to speak ill of. BESTREWING (16) [verb] To strew or scatter about; throw or drop here and there. | [verb] To strew anything upon; strew over or about; cover or partially cover with things strewn; cover with straw or strewing. BESTROWING (16) [verb] Present tense third person singular of bestow; to give or confer (something) as a gift or honor. BESWARMING (18) BEWEARYING (19) BEWILDERED (17) [verb] To confuse, disorientate, or puzzle someone, especially with many different choices. | [adjective] Baffled, confused, mystified, at a loss, not thinking clearly, or uncertain. BEWITCHERY (23) [noun] The act or practice of bewitching; enchantment or magic. | [noun] A spell or charm used to bewitch someone. BEWITCHING (21) [noun] The act by which somebody is bewitched; a curse or enchantment. | [adjective] Enchanting. BEWORRYING (19) BEWRAPPING (20) [verb] Present participle of bewrap; to wrap or cover completely with or as if with wrapping material. BILGEWATER (16) [noun] Water which collects in the bilges of a ship. | [noun] Stupid talk or writing; nonsense. BILLOWIEST (15) [adjective] Superlative form of billowy; characterized by large, rolling waves or swells; full of billows or undulating movements. BIRTHWORTS (18) [noun] Any plant species of the genus Aristolochia. | [noun] Birthroot, Trillium erectum BITTERWEED (16) [noun] A plant of the aster family with small yellow flowers, found in North America and known for its bitter taste. | [noun] Any of various plants considered weeds that have a bitter flavor or taste. BIWEEKLIES (19) [noun] Something that is published or released once every two weeks. BLACKWATER (21) [noun] Water containing loam, tannins, etc., giving it a very dark appearance. | [noun] Blackwater fever; malaria caused by Plasmodium falciparum. | [noun] Waste from domestic toilets; water containing fecal matter. BLACKWOODS (22) [noun] Any of several trees yielding a very dark wood | [noun] The very dark wood of such trees BLINDWORMS (18) [noun] Anguis fragilis (slowworm), a small species of legless lizard. BLOODWORMS (18) [noun] The larva of a chironomid (family Chironomidae). | [noun] Any member of the genus Glycera. | [noun] The blackworm (Lumbriculus variegatus). BLOWFISHES (21) [noun] Any species of fish of the family Tetraodontidae that have the ability to inflate themselves to a globe several times their normal size by swallowing water or air when threatened. | [noun] A delicacy popular in Japan, consisting of the fish served raw as sushi or perhaps fried. It may, if improperly prepared, contain considerably deadly levels of neurotoxins. BOARDWALKS (20) [noun] A slightly elevated path for pedestrians over sandy or swampy ground, typically made out of wood; specifically one running alongside a body of water or beach. | [verb] To install a boardwalk over. BOATSWAINS (15) [noun] The officer (or warrant officer) in charge of sails, rigging, anchors, cables etc. and all work on deck of a sailing ship. | [noun] The petty officer of a merchant ship who controls the work of other seamen. | [noun] A kind of gull, the jaeger. BORROWINGS (16) [noun] An instance of something being borrowed. | [noun] A borrowed word, adopted from a foreign language; loanword. BOWDLERISE (16) [verb] To remove or alter those parts of a text considered offensive, vulgar, or otherwise unseemly. BOWDLERIZE (25) [verb] To remove or alter those parts of a text considered offensive, vulgar, or otherwise unseemly. BOWERBIRDS (18) [noun] Any of the family Ptilonorhynchidae of Australasian bird noted for building a large nest decorated with bright objects such as shells and glass. | [noun] A person who collects objects for display. BOWSTRINGS (16) [noun] The string of an archer's bow. | [noun] The string of an archer's bow, as used by the Turks for strangling offenders. BRAINPOWER (17) [noun] Mental ability; intelligence. | [noun] Intelligent people considered as a group. BRATWURSTS (15) [noun] A small pork sausage, usually served fried. BRAWNINESS (15) [noun] The quality or state of being brawny; muscular strength or power. BRAZILWOOD (25) [noun] A tropical American tree that yields a red dye, formerly used in dyeing fabrics and in the production of dye. BREAKAWAYS (22) [noun] The act of breaking away from something. | [noun] A group of riders which has gone ahead of the peloton. | [noun] A situation in the game where one or more players of a team attack towards the goal of the other team without having any defenders in front of them. BREAKDOWNS (20) [noun] A failure, particularly mechanical; something that has failed | [noun] A physical collapse or lapse of mental stability | [noun] Listing, division or categorization in great detail BREAKWATER (19) [noun] A construction in or around a harbour designed to break the force of the sea and to provide shelter for vessels lying inside | [noun] A low bulkhead across the forecastle deck of a ship which diverts water breaking over the bows into the scuppers | [noun] On beaches: a wooden or concrete barrier, usually perpendicular to the shore, intended to prevent the movement of sand along a coast. BREASTWORK (19) [noun] A fortification consisting of a breast-high bulwark; a parapet. | [noun] A railing on the quarter-deck and forecastle. | [noun] A parapet. BREEZEWAYS (27) [noun] A covered walkway, with open sides, that connects two buildings. BRICKWORKS (25) [noun] A place where bricks are made. BRIDEWELLS (16) [noun] A small prison, or a police station that has cells. BRIDGEWORK (21) [noun] A partial denture that is anchored to existing teeth. | [noun] The construction or repair of bridges. | [noun] The component parts of a bridge. BRIGHTWORK (23) [noun] Polished metal fixtures, especially aboard a boat. | [noun] The varnished or oiled wood trim aboard a boat. BRINGDOWNS (17) [noun] Things that cause someone to feel depressed or disappointed. | [noun] In aviation, techniques or procedures for descending an aircraft. BROADSWORD (17) [noun] (history) A type of early modern sword that has a broad double-edged blade for cutting (as opposed to the more slender thrust-oriented rapier) and a basket hilt. | [noun] A person armed with such a sword. | [noun] Any type of sword that is comparatively long; depending on context, applied to swords of the Bronze Age, Migration period, Viking Age and Renaissance era. BROWBEATEN (17) [verb] To bully in an intimidating, bossy, or supercilious way. | [adjective] Intimidated or subjugated BROWNFIELD (19) [noun] A site, to be used for housing or commerce, that has been previously used for industry and may be contaminated or need extensive clearing | [adjective] Being a development that has to integrate with legacy systems. BROWNNOSED (16) [verb] To flatter someone (especially a superior) in an obsequious manner, and to support their every opinion. BROWNNOSER (15) [noun] A person who behaves obsequiously toward someone in authority to gain favor or advantage. BROWNNOSES (15) [noun] One who brownnoses; one who sucks up; a bootlicker, ass-kisser, sycophant. | [verb] To flatter someone (especially a superior) in an obsequious manner, and to support their every opinion. BROWNSHIRT (18) [noun] A uniformed member of the German Nazi Party (NSDAP), especially a storm trooper of the Sturmabteilung. | [noun] Any member of a fascist party; any fascist or neo-Nazi. BROWNSTONE (15) [noun] A variety of brown to red-brown sandstone once popular as a building material. | [noun] A row house built of brownstone, especially in New York City. BROWRIDGES (17) [noun] Plural of browridge; the ridge of bone above the eye socket formed by the frontal bone of the skull. BRUSHWOODS (19) [noun] Plural of brushwood; a collection of small trees, shrubs, and branches, or land covered with such vegetation. BRUSHWORKS (22) BUCKWHEATS (24) [noun] An Asian plant, of the species Fagopyrum esculentum. | [noun] The fruit of this plant used as a pseudocereal. | [noun] Any of the wild buckwheats in the genus Eriogonum. BUGLEWEEDS (17) [noun] Any of the aromatic herbs in genus Lycopus, especially Lycopus virginicus, water horehound | [noun] Ajuga, a group of herbs used for ground cover; bugle BULWARKING (20) [verb] Present participle of bulwark; to defend or protect something with or as if with a bulwark. | [verb] To serve as a bulwark or defensive barrier for. BUSHWHACKS (27) [verb] To travel through thick wooded country, cutting away scrub to make progress | [verb] To fight, as a guerilla, especially in wooded country | [verb] To ambush BUTTERWEED (16) [noun] A North American wildflower of the aster family with yellow flowers, typically found in moist areas. | [noun] Any of various plants with yellow flowers, particularly those in the genus Actinomeris or Helenium. BUTTERWORT (15) [noun] Any plant of the insectivorous genus Pinguicula. BUTTONWOOD (16) [noun] The common name given to at least three species of shrub or tree. CADDISWORM (19) [noun] The aquatic larva of a caddisfly, typically found in freshwater streams and used as fish bait. | [noun] An alternative spelling of caddis worm, referring to the same larval stage of caddisflies. CAKEWALKED (24) [verb] To perform the cakewalk dance. CAKEWALKER (23) [noun] A person who participates in a cakewalk, a social dance or marchng contest where participants walk in a pattern to win a cake as a prize. | [noun] Something that is very easy to accomplish. CALLOWNESS (15) [noun] The quality or state of being callow; immaturity or inexperience, especially in a young person. CANDLEWICK (22) [noun] The thread used to make the wicks of candles | [noun] A soft cotton yarn that gives a tufted pattern to embroidery CANDLEWOOD (17) CANKERWORM (21) [noun] Either of two caterpillars, the larvae of geometrid moths, that are destructive to fruit, buds and leaves. | [noun] A corrupting or destructive force. CARPETWEED (18) [noun] A common annual weed (Phyla nodiflora or similar plants) with small flowers, found in lawns and disturbed areas. CARTWHEELS (18) [noun] The literal wheel of a cart. | [noun] A gymnastic maneuver whereby the gymnast rotates to one side or the other while keeping arms and legs outstretched, spinning for one or more revolutions. | [noun] A crown coin; its value, 5 shillings. CASEWORKER (19) [noun] A social worker who handles individual cases and provides assistance to clients. CATCHWORDS (21) [noun] A word under the right-hand side of the last line on a book page that repeats the first word on the following page. | [noun] A word or expression repeated until it becomes representative of a party, school, business, or point of view. | [noun] Among theatrical performers, the last word of the preceding speaker, serving as a cue for the next speaker. CATERWAULS (15) [verb] To cry as cats in heat; to make a harsh, offensive noise. | [verb] To have a noisy argument, like cats. CAUSEWAYED (19) [adjective] Having a causeway; constructed with or connected by a causeway. | [verb] Past tense of causeway, meaning to build a causeway across or to connect with a causeway. CEDARWOODS (17) CHAINSAWED (19) [verb] Past tense of chainsaw; to cut with a chainsaw. CHAINWHEEL (21) [noun] A toothed wheel that is part of a chain drive mechanism, especially on a bicycle or motorcycle. CHAIRWOMAN (20) [noun] A female chairperson | [noun] A charwoman CHAIRWOMEN (20) [noun] A female chairperson | [noun] A charwoman CHAWBACONS (22) [noun] Plural of chawbacon; a country person or rustic, particularly one regarded as unsophisticated or crude. CHECKROWED (25) CHICKWEEDS (25) [noun] Any of several small-leaved herbs of the genera Cerastium and Stellaria. | [noun] Other plants of similar appearance and habit: CHINAWARES (18) [noun] Porcelain or ceramic tableware and decorative items, typically from China or made in a Chinese style. CHOWDERING (20) [verb] Present participle of chowder, meaning to make into chowder or to cook as a chowder. CHOWHOUNDS (22) [noun] A foodie or glutton. CHUCKWALLA (24) [noun] An iguana, of the genus Sauromalus, living in arid regions of the southwestern United States and northern Mexico. CLAMPDOWNS (20) [noun] A sudden repressive or punitive restriction or control CLAWHAMMER (22) [noun] A hammer with two prongs protruding back from the head to allow for removing nails from wood. | [noun] A fingerpicking technique primarily used by banjo players, but also by some guitarists. CLEARWINGS (16) [noun] Any of various moths, of the family Sesiidae, that have transparent wings | [noun] Any of various nymphalid butterflies, usually of the tribe Ithomiini, that have transparent wings CLOCKWORKS (25) [noun] The internal mechanism of a clock consisting of gears, springs, and other parts that work together to measure and display time. | [noun] Any complex system of interconnected parts working together in a precise, mechanical manner. CLOSEDOWNS (16) [noun] The point when a radio or television station shuts down transmission and goes off the air for a predetermined period, as used to happen overnight. CLOWNERIES (15) [noun] Plural of clownery; foolish, silly, or ridiculous behavior or antics. CLOWNISHLY (21) [adverb] In a manner resembling or characteristic of a clown; in a silly, foolish, or absurd way. COACHWORKS (24) [noun] A business or factory that manufactures or repairs the bodies of vehicles, especially automobiles or carriages. | [noun] The structural body of a vehicle as distinct from its chassis and mechanical components. COASTWARDS (16) [adverb] Towards the coast. COBWEBBIER (21) [adjective] More covered with cobwebs or resembling cobwebs more closely; comparative form of cobwebby. COBWEBBING (22) [verb] The act of covering with cobwebs or creating a web-like pattern. | [verb] In climbing, the practice of placing protection (such as climbing gear) in a sparse or inadequate manner, leaving gaps in safety coverage. CODSWALLOP (18) [noun] Senseless talk or writing; nonsense; rubbish. | [interjection] Used to express disbelief: nonsense!; rubbish! COMMONWEAL (19) [noun] The common good; public wellbeing or prosperity | [noun] The body politic; republic CONEFLOWER (18) [noun] Any of several similar flowering plants of tribe Heliantheae in order Asterales, in genera Dracopis, Echinacea, Rudbeckia, and Ratibida, that have a cone-shaped disk of florets. | [noun] Certain species of genus Isopogon, in order Proteales, principally of temperate Australia COPYWRITER (20) [noun] A person who writes advertising copy (the text used in advertisements). CORDWAINER (16) [noun] A shoemaker. | [noun] A worker in cordwain. | [noun] A leather from Córdoba. CORKSCREWS (21) [noun] An implement for opening bottles that are sealed by a cork. Sometimes specifically such an implement that includes a screw-shaped part, or worm. | [noun] The screw-shaped worm of a typical corkscrew. | [noun] A type of sharp, twisting punch, often one thrown close and from the side. CORNERWAYS (18) CORNERWISE (15) [adverb] Diagonally. CORNFLOWER (18) [noun] A small annual plant in the family Asteraceae, Centaurea cyanus, usually with bushy blue flowers which grows natively in European cornfields (i.e. wheatfields). | [noun] A plant of the species Cichorium intybus. | [noun] Cornflower blue. CORNROWING (16) [verb] The act of braiding hair in a style of continuous, tight braids that follow the contours of the scalp, typically worn close to the head. COTTONWEED (16) [noun] Any of several unrelated plants that have downy heads COTTONWOOD (16) [noun] A tree from one of number of species of tree in the genus Populus (poplars), typically growing along watercourses, with fluffy catkins. | [noun] Populus sect. Aigeiros, a taxonomic section of the poplar genus | [noun] Cottonwood hibiscus (Talipariti tiliaceum, syn. Hibiscus tiliaceus), a flowering shrub or tree in the mallow family COUNTDOWNS (16) [noun] A count backward in fixed units to the time of some event, especially the launch of a space vehicle. | [noun] The acts of preparation carried out during this period. | [noun] A radio or television program counting down the top songs of a given week, usually in reverse order ending with the No. 1. COURSEWARE (15) [noun] Educational material, such as software or documents, in computerized form. COWARDICES (18) [noun] Lack of courage. COWBERRIES (17) [noun] A shrub native to the cool temperate areas of the Northern Hemisphere (Vaccinium vitis-idaea). | [noun] The berry of this shrub. COWCATCHER (22) [noun] The V-shaped device on the front of a locomotive (or other large vehicle) shaped so as to push objects on the tracks out of the way, to prevent major damage to the train. | [noun] An advertisement at the start of a programme. 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CROSSWORDS (16) [noun] (games, puzzles) A word puzzle in which interlocking words are entered usually horizontally and vertically into a grid based on clues given for each word. CROWBARRED (18) [verb] To use force to move. To prise. CROWKEEPER (21) DAWSONITES (14) DAYFLOWERS (20) [noun] Any of several plants, of the genus Commelina, whose flowers last only a day DEADWEIGHT (19) [noun] Unremitting heavy weight that does not move. | [noun] The largest weight of cargo a ship is able to carry; i.e, the weight of a ship when fully loaded minus its weight when empty. | [noun] Dead load. DEATHBLOWS (19) [noun] A strike or blow that leads to death, especially a coup de grace. | [noun] Something that prevents the completion, or ends the existence, of a project etc.; a fatal setback. DEATHWATCH (22) [noun] A vigil beside a dying person | [noun] One who guards a condemned person before execution. | [noun] A deathwatch beetle. DECROWNING (17) DEFLOWERED (18) [verb] To take the virginity of (somebody), especially a woman or girl. | [verb] To deprive of flowers. | [verb] To deprive of grace and beauty. DEFLOWERER (17) DELFTWARES (17) DEMIWORLDS (17) DEVILWOODS (18) DEWATERERS (14) DEWATERING (15) [verb] To remove water from. | [noun] Any of various techniques for the removal of water, either from a solid or from a structure. DEWBERRIES (16) [noun] Small brambles of the genus Rubus which have stems that trail along the ground. | [noun] The purple to black berries of these plants. DEWINESSES (14) DINNERWARE (14) [noun] The dishes used for serving dinner. DISALLOWED (15) [verb] To refuse to allow | [verb] To reject as invalid, untrue, or improper | [adjective] Forbidden DISAVOWALS (17) [noun] A denial of knowledge, relationship, and/or responsibility towards something (or someone). DISAVOWING (18) [verb] To strongly and solemnly refuse to own or acknowledge; to deny responsibility for, approbation of, and the like. | [verb] To deny; to show the contrary of; to deny legitimacy or achievement of any kind. DISBOWELED (17) DISCROWNED (17) DISEMBOWEL (18) [verb] To take or let out the bowels or interior parts of; to eviscerate. | [verb] To take or draw from the body, as the web of a spider. DISENDOWED (16) [verb] To deprive of an endowment. DISENDOWER (15) DISHWASHER (20) [noun] A machine for washing dishes. | [noun] Someone who washes dishes, especially one hired to wash dishes in a restaurant. | [noun] A European bird, the wagtail. DISHWATERS (17) DISOWNMENT (16) DOCKWORKER (24) [noun] A person who works on the dock of a harbor or shipyard, usually employed to load or unload freight. DOGWATCHES (20) [noun] Aboard a ship, either of the two short two-hour watches that take place between 4 p.m. and 8 p.m. | [noun] (by extension) A night shift, or other very late or early period of duty. DONKEYWORK (25) [noun] Hard, boring, routine work. DOWITCHERS (19) [noun] Any of three long-legged and long-billed migratory wading birds in the genus Limnodromus of the family Scolopacidae. DOWNBURSTS (16) [noun] A powerful downward air current, especially one during a thunderstorm. DOWNDRAFTS (18) [noun] A strong, downward air current; an air pocket or air hole DOWNFALLEN (17) DOWNGRADED (17) [verb] To place lower in position. | [verb] To 'dumb down', reduce in complexity, or remove unnecessary parts. | [verb] To disparage. DOWNGRADES (16) [noun] A reduction of a rating, as a financial or credit rating. | [noun] A downhill gradient on a road or railway. | [verb] To place lower in position. DOWNHILLER (17) [noun] Someone who is traveling downhill | [noun] A skier who participates in the downhill. DOWNLOADED (16) [verb] To transfer data from a remote computer (server) to a local computer, usually via a network. | [verb] To upload; to copy a file from a local computer to a remote computer via a network. | [verb] To transfer a file to or from removable media. DOWNPLAYED (20) [verb] To de-emphasize; to present or portray as less important or consequential. DOWNSCALED (17) [verb] To reduce in size; to downsize. DOWNSCALES (16) [verb] To reduce in size; to downsize. DOWNSHIFTS (20) [verb] To shift a transmission into a lower gear. | [verb] To function at a lower rate. | [verb] To make less controversial or risky. DOWNSIZING (24) [verb] To reduce in size or number. | [verb] To reduce the workforce of. | [verb] To terminate the employment of. DOWNSLIDES (15) DOWNSPOUTS (16) [noun] A vertical pipe or conduit that carries rainwater from the scupper, guttering of a building to a lower roof level, drain, ground or storm water runoff system. DOWNSTAGES (15) DOWNSTAIRS (14) [noun] The lower floor of a house, at ground level. | [noun] The genitalia | [adjective] A floor lower than the current one. DOWNSTATER (14) DOWNSTATES (14) DOWNSTREAM (16) [verb] To stream downward. | [adjective] Lower down, in relation to a river, stream or flow of fluid | [adjective] In the direction from the server to the client. DOWNSTROKE (18) [noun] A downward stroke, especially one that is part of a sequence of alternating upward and downward strokes. DOWNSWINGS (18) [noun] The portion of any movement along an arc or curve, heading in a lower direction. DOWNTOWNER (17) DOWNTRENDS (15) [noun] Any gradual movement towards a lower state or value. DOWNWARDLY (21) [adverb] In a downward direction DOWNWASHES (20) [noun] Downward air turbulence caused by a propeller or jet, but especially by helicopter blades | [noun] The downward motion of air as a result of eddies behind a wing or chimney, etc. DRAWBRIDGE (18) [noun] A hinged bridge which can be raised (to prevent its being crossed, as across a moat, or to allow watercraft to travel beneath it). DRAWERFULS (17) DRAWKNIVES (21) [noun] A joiner's tool having a blade with a handle at each end, used to shave off surfaces, by drawing it toward one; a shave; a drawshave. | [noun] A tool used for the purpose of making an incision along the path a saw is to follow, to prevent it from tearing the surface of the wood. DRAWLINGLY (18) DRAWNWORKS (21) DRAWPLATES (16) DRAWSHAVES (20) DRAWSTRING (15) [noun] A string or cord, encased in a fabric tube, with one or more small openings into the tube, on a bag or garment, allowing the item to be closed (as with a bag) or tightened (as with sweatpants or a bathing suit). DREAMWORLD (17) [noun] An imaginary world, such as experienced while dreaming. DRIFTWOODS (18) DROWSINESS (14) [noun] State of being drowsy. DUCKWALKED (25) [verb] To jump on one leg while moving the other back and forth, a motion sometimes employed by guitar players in popular music. | [verb] To walk while squatting. DUMBWAITER (18) [noun] A small elevator used to move food etc. from one floor of a building to another. | [noun] A table or set of trays on rollers used for serving food. | [noun] A lazy Susan. DWARFISHLY (23) EARLYWOODS (17) EARTHWARDS (17) [adjective] Towards the earth; earthward. | [adverb] Towards the earth; earthward. EARTHWORKS (20) [noun] Any structure made from earth; especially an embankment or rampart used as a fortification. EARTHWORMS (18) [noun] A worm that lives in the ground. | [noun] A worm of the family Lumbricidae, or, more generally, of the suborder Lumbricina. | [noun] A contemptible person; a groveller. EARWIGGING (16) [verb] To fill the mind of with prejudice by insinuations. | [verb] To attempt to influence by persistent confidential argument or talk. | [verb] To eavesdrop. EARWITNESS (13) [noun] A witness who gives evidence of what he or she has heard. | [verb] To hear an event directly. EIDERDOWNS (15) [noun] The down of the eider duck, used for stuffing pillows and quilts. | [noun] A quilt stuffed with this down. ELBOWROOMS (17) EMBOWELING (18) [verb] To enclose or bury. | [verb] To remove the bowels; disembowel. | [noun] An act of disembowelment. EMBOWELLED (18) [verb] To enclose or bury. | [verb] To remove the bowels; disembowel. EMBOWERING (18) [verb] To enclose something or someone as if in a bower; shelter with foliage. | [verb] To lodge or rest in or as in a bower. | [verb] To form a bower. EMBROWNING (18) EMPOWERING (18) [verb] To give permission, power, or the legal right to do something. | [verb] To give someone more confidence and/or strength to do something, often by enabling them to increase their control over their own life or situation. | [adjective] That empowers. ENAMELWARE (15) [noun] Articles coated with decorative enamel | [noun] Cooking utensils that have a corrosion resistant layer of enamel fused to the surface ENDOWMENTS (16) [noun] Something with which a person or thing is endowed. | [noun] Property or funds invested for the support and benefit of a person or not-for-profit institution. | [noun] Endowment assurance or pure endowment. ENSWATHING (17) [verb] To swathe; to envelop, as in swaddling clothes. ENTWISTING (14) ENWHEELING (17) ENWRAPPING (18) [verb] To wrap around, surround; to envelop | [verb] To absorb completely or engross | [noun] That which enwraps; a wrapping. ENWREATHED (17) [verb] To surround or encompass as with a wreath. ENWREATHES (16) [verb] To surround or encompass as with a wreath. EVERYWHERE (22) [adverb] In or to all locations under discussion. | [adverb] In or to a few or more locations. EVERYWOMAN (21) [noun] In fiction, drama, or allegory, the archetypical ordinary woman. EVERYWOMEN (21) EXPRESSWAY (25) [noun] A divided highway where intersections and direct access to adjacent properties have been eliminated. | [noun] (parts of the US) A road built to freeway standards. | [noun] A road built for high speed traffic, but not up to motorway standards or designated a motorway. EYEWITNESS (16) [noun] Someone who sees an event and can report or testify about it. | [verb] To be present at an event, and see it FALLOWNESS (16) FALSEWORKS (20) FANCYWORKS (25) FAREWELLED (17) [verb] To bid farewell or say goodbye. FARMWORKER (22) [noun] A person hired to work on the farm or in the agricultural industry. FELLOWSHIP (21) [noun] A company of people that share the same interest or aim. | [noun] Company, companions; a group of people or things following another. | [noun] A feeling of friendship, relatedness or connection between people. FEVERWORTS (19) FIELDWORKS (21) [noun] Work done out in the fields as opposed to that done elsewhere on the farm (e.g., barn, house, outbuildings, office). | [noun] Work done out in the real world rather than in controlled conditions | [noun] (in scientific research) The collection of raw data in the field, field research, field study, field studies. FIREPOWERS (18) FIREWATERS (16) FLATWASHES (19) FLAWLESSLY (19) [adverb] In a flawless manner. FLOODWATER (17) [noun] (chiefly in the plural) The water of a flood. FLOWCHARTS (21) [noun] A schematic representation of how the different stages in a process are interconnected. FLOWERAGES (17) FLOWERETTE (16) FLOWERIEST (16) [adjective] Pertaining to flowers. | [adjective] Decorated with or abundant in flowers. | [adjective] (of a speech or piece of writing) overly complicated or elaborate; with grandiloquent expressions FLOWERLESS (16) FLOWERLIKE (20) FLOWERPOTS (18) [noun] A pot filled with soil in which plants are grown. FLOWMETERS (18) [noun] Any of various devices used to measure the flow of a fluid through a pipe, etc. FLOWSTONES (16) FLYBLOWING (22) FLYSWATTER (19) [noun] A hand-held device for swatting flies or other insects, to kill or shoo them. FLYWEIGHTS (23) [noun] A weight that moves outward depending on centrifugal force. | [noun] A weight class in many combat sports; e.g. in professional boxing of a maximum of 112 pounds or 50.8 kilograms. | [noun] (adjectival use) Small, light or unimportant. FOAMFLOWER (21) FOLLOWINGS (17) [noun] A group of followers, attendants or admirers; an entourage. | [noun] Vocation; business; profession. | [noun] (with definite article, treated as singular or plural) A thing or things to be mentioned immediately after. FORESHADOW (20) [verb] To presage, or suggest something in advance. FORESHOWED (20) [verb] To show in advance; to foretell, predict. | [verb] To foreshadow or prefigure. FORESWEARS (16) FOREWARNED (17) [verb] To warn in advance. FORWARDERS (17) [noun] One who, or that which, forwards something to another destination. FORWARDEST (17) FORWARDING (18) [verb] To advance, promote. | [verb] To send (a letter, email etc.) to a third party. | [verb] To assemble (a book) by sewing sections, attaching cover boards, and so on. FRAMEWORKS (22) [noun] A support structure comprising joined parts or conglomerated particles and intervening open spaces of similar or larger size. | [noun] The arrangement of support beams that represent a building's general shape and size. | [noun] The larger branches of a tree that determine its shape. FREEDWOMAN (19) FREEDWOMEN (19) FREEWHEELS (19) [noun] A device in a transmission that disengages the driveshaft from the driven shaft when the driven shaft rotates faster than the driveshaft. FRESHWATER (19) [noun] Water with a very low content of dissolved salt, as opposed to brackish water or salt water. | [noun] A body of fresh water | [adjective] Living in fresh water. FRONTWARDS (17) [adjective] Oriented towards the front. | [adverb] Towards the front. FROSTWORKS (20) FROWNINGLY (20) FROWSTIEST (16) [adjective] Musty; stuffy (atmosphere) FRUITWOODS (17) [noun] The wood of any fruit tree, particularly hardwood from species such as pear and cherry, that is valued for furniture, woodcuts and other applications. | [noun] In orchard culture, the woody growth of the scion of any grafted fruit tree above the graft, as opposed to the rootstock, which is the part of the plant below the graft. | [noun] Particular branches or twigs in particular positions, or of particular types or ages, that may be expected to bear fruit in most types of orchard trees, since fruit is not borne randomly all over the tree. FURBELOWED (19) [verb] To adorn with a furbelow; to ornament. GEARWHEELS (17) [noun] A wheel with a toothed rim, intended to engage with others, or similar equipment, to form a gear GHOSTWRITE (17) [verb] (authorship) To write under the name of another (especially literary works). | [verb] (authorship) To author a literary work or speech in the place of another. GHOSTWROTE (17) [verb] (authorship) To write under the name of another (especially literary works). | [verb] (authorship) To author a literary work or speech in the place of another. GLASSWARES (14) GLASSWORKS (18) [noun] A factory that produces glass. GLASSWORTS (14) [noun] Any plant of the salt-tolerant genus Salicornia, once burned to produce the ash used to make soda glass. | [noun] Other salt-tolerant plants, especially those used to produce such ash. | [noun] Other salt-tolerant plants, called samphire. GOLLIWOGGS (16) GOODWILLED (16) GRAYWACKES (23) [noun] A hard dark sandstone with poorly sorted angular grains of quartz, feldspar, and small rock fragments in a compact, clay-fine matrix. GREASEWOOD (15) [noun] Spiny shrubs containing oil, of the genus Sarcobatus, native to the United States, especially Sarcobatus vermiculatus. | [noun] Any of several other North American desert shrubs with glossy or resinous leaves GREENSWARD (15) [noun] A tract of land that is green with grass. GREENWINGS (15) GREENWOODS (15) [noun] A forest in full leaf, as in summer. | [noun] Wood that is green; in other words, not seasoned. | [noun] Certain half-shrubby species of genista. GREWSOMEST (16) GRILLWORKS (18) [noun] The mesh of metal wire or bars which makes up a decorative metal grating GROUNDWOOD (16) GROUNDWORK (19) [noun] The foundation; the basic or fundamental parts that support or allow for the rest. GROWLINESS (14) GROWLINGLY (18) GROWTHIEST (17) GUESSWORKS (18) GUIDWILLIE (15) GUNPOWDERS (17) HANDBARROW (19) HANDIWORKS (21) HANDWHEELS (20) HANDWORKER (21) HANDWRITES (17) HARDWIRING (18) [verb] To connect components by means of permanent electrical wires. | [verb] To implement a feature in hardware rather than in software so that it cannot easily be changed. | [verb] (by extension) To make a pattern of behaviour automatic. HAWFINCHES (24) [noun] A large Eurasian finch, Coccothraustes coccothraustes, with a thick bill. HAWKSBILLS (22) [noun] A tropical marine turtle, Eretmochelys imbricata, that is a source of tortoiseshell. HAWSEHOLES (19) [noun] The hole through which a ship's anchor rope is passed. | [noun] A hole in a ship through which a hawser is passed. HEADWAITER (17) [noun] A waiter who has a supervisory position over the other wait staff; chief waiter. HEADWATERS (17) [noun] The source of a river, the set of streams that feed into the river's beginning. HEARTWOODS (17) HEARTWORMS (18) [noun] A parasitic organism that afflicts dogs, the roundworm Dirofilaria immitis. | [noun] The condition caused by this organism. HEAVENWARD (20) [adjective] Which leads toward heaven | [adverb] Toward heaven HIGHBROWED (23) HIGHWAYMAN (25) [noun] A person usually mounted on horseback who robbed travelers on public roads. HIGHWAYMEN (25) [noun] A person usually mounted on horseback who robbed travelers on public roads. HITHERWARD (20) [adverb] Toward this place HOLLOWARES (16) HOLLOWNESS (16) HOLLOWWARE (19) [noun] Items such as sugar bowls, creamers, coffee pots, teapots, soup tureens, etc. (but not flatware) intended to accompany the pottery on a table. | [noun] Hollow articles of ironware, such as pots and kettles. HOODWINKED (22) [verb] To deceive by disguise; to dupe, bewile, mislead. | [verb] To cover the eyes with a hood; to blindfold. | [verb] To overshadow something in a way that one is blind or oblivious to it. HOODWINKER (21) [noun] One who hoodwinks. HORSEPOWER (18) [noun] Power derived from the motion of a horse. | [noun] A non-metric unit of power (symbol hp) with various definitions, for different applications. The most common of them is probably the mechanical horsepower, approximately equal to 745.7 watts. | [noun] A metric unit (symbol often PS from the German abbreviation), approximately equal to 735.5 watts. HORSEWEEDS (17) HORSEWHIPS (21) [noun] A whip for use on horses. | [verb] To flog or lash with a horsewhip. HORSEWOMAN (18) [noun] A woman who is skilled with horses, a female equestrian HORSEWOMEN (18) [noun] A woman who is skilled with horses, a female equestrian HOUSEWARES (16) [noun] Homeware. 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INTERTWIST (13) [verb] To twist together; to intertwine INTERVIEWS (16) [noun] An official face-to-face meeting of monarchs or other important figures. | [noun] Any face-to-face meeting, especially of an official nature. | [noun] A conversation in person (or, by extension, over the telephone, Internet etc.) between a journalist and someone whose opinion or statements he or she wishes to record for publication, broadcast etc. INTERWEAVE (16) [verb] To combine through weaving. | [verb] To intermingle. INTERWORKS (17) [verb] To work (two or more things) into and through each other. | [verb] To interact. INTERWOVEN (16) [verb] To combine through weaving. | [verb] To intermingle. 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KNOCKDOWNS (24) [noun] An act of knocking down or the condition of being knocked down. | [noun] An overwhelming blow. | [noun] Very strong ale or beer. KNOCKWURST (23) [noun] A highly seasoned scalded sausage made from beef, pork, and fatty tissue similar to a frankfurter, but shorter and thicker. KNOWINGEST (18) KNOWLEDGES (19) [noun] The fact of knowing about something; general understanding or familiarity with a subject, place, situation etc. | [noun] Awareness of a particular fact or situation; a state of having been informed or made aware of something. | [noun] Intellectual understanding; the state of appreciating truth or information. LANCEWOODS (16) [noun] A tough, elastic and heavy wood obtained from the West Indies and Guiana, formerly much used for carriage shafts (Oxandra lanceolata). | [noun] New Zealand trees in the genus Pseudopanax. | [noun] Australian lancewood LANDOWNERS (14) [noun] A person who owns land. 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NEEDLEWORK (18) [noun] The art or process of working with a needle especially in embroidery or needlepoint. | [noun] The product of such art or process. | [noun] The occupation or employment of a person skilled in embroidery, needlepoint, etc. NETWORKING (18) [verb] To interact socially for the purpose of getting connections or personal advancement. | [verb] To connect two or more computers or other computerized devices. | [verb] To interconnect a group or system. NEWFANGLED (18) [adjective] (usually derogatory or humorous) Modern, unfamiliar, or different. NEWMARKETS (19) NEWSAGENTS (14) [noun] A retail business selling newspapers, magazines, and stationery; a stationer. | [noun] The proprietor of such a business. NEWSBREAKS (19) NEWSCASTER (15) [noun] One who delivers the news for broadcast on television, radio, etc; a newsreader. NEWSDEALER (14) NEWSHOUNDS (17) [noun] An investigative reporter. 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OUTWORKERS (17) [noun] A subcontractor who carries out work at an off-site facility. | [noun] One who works outdoors. | [noun] One who takes away work to do at home. OUTWORKING (18) [noun] The process by which something is carried out or accomplished; the act or results of developing something. | [verb] To work out to a finish; to complete. | [verb] To work faster or harder than. OUTWRESTLE (13) OUTWRITING (14) [verb] To write more or better than. | [verb] To transcribe, write out OUTWRITTEN (13) [verb] To write more or better than. | [verb] To transcribe, write out OUTWROUGHT (17) OVERBORROW (18) [verb] To borrow too much money. OVERBROWSE (18) OVERCROWDS (19) [verb] To fill beyond reasonable limits, with people, animals, objects or information. OVERFLOWED (20) [verb] To flow over the brim of (a container). | [verb] To cover with a liquid, literally or figuratively. | [verb] To cause an overflow. OVERGROWTH (20) [noun] A usually abundant, luxuriant growth over or on something else. 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OVERWINTER (16) [verb] To keep or preserve for the winter. | [verb] To spend the winter (in a particular place). | [adjective] Occurring over the winter season. OVERWORKED (21) [verb] To make (someone) work too hard. | [verb] To work too hard. | [verb] To fill too full of work; to crowd with labour. OVERWRITES (16) [verb] To destroy (older data) by recording new data over it. | [verb] To cover in writing; to write over the top of. | [verb] To write too much. OWLISHNESS (16) OWNERSHIPS (18) [noun] The state of having complete legal control of something; possession; proprietorship. | [noun] Responsibility for something. PAINTWORKS (19) PALMERWORM (19) PANDOWDIES (17) [noun] A pudding of spiced, sliced apples (or other fruit), sugar and butter, baked with a crumble topping in a deep dish PANTYWAIST (18) [noun] An undergarment composed, in part, of panties attached to a waistband. | [noun] An ineffectual, weak, or timid person, especially a boy or young man; a sissy. | [adjective] (especially of a male person) Weak, timid, effeminate, ineffectual. PAPERWORKS (21) PASSAGEWAY (19) [noun] A covered walkway, between rooms or buildings. | [noun] Any way for passing in, out or through something. PASTEDOWNS (16) [noun] The part of an endpaper that is pasted to a book's cover PATCHWORKS (24) [noun] A work, such as a blanket, composed of many different colors and shapes, sewn together to make an interesting whole. | [noun] Any kind of creation that utilizes many different aspects to create one whole piece. | [noun] A state of regulations whose constituents have an opaque scope of application because of their questionable delimitation with regard to each other. PAULOWNIAS (15) [noun] Any member of the genus Paulownia, comprising deciduous flowering trees native to Asia. PAWNBROKER (21) [noun] A person who makes monetary loans at interest, taking personal property as security – which may be sold if not redeemed. PECKERWOOD (22) [noun] A woodpecker. | [noun] A peckerwood sawmill. | [noun] A white person, especially a Southerner, or one who is ignorant, rustic, or bigoted. PENNYWORTH (21) [noun] The amount that can be bought for a penny. | [noun] A small value or quantity. | [noun] A good bargain. PENNYWORTS (18) [noun] A name given to several unrelated plants around the world. In general they all have round leaves of about the shape and size of a (pre-decimal) penny. PERIWIGGED (18) PERIWINKLE (19) [noun] Any of several evergreen plants of the genus Vinca with blue or white flowers. | [noun] Similar plants of genus Catharanthus. | [noun] A color with bluish and purplish hues, somewhat light. | [noun] A mollusk of genus Littorina. PEWHOLDERS (19) PHASEDOWNS (19) PIECEWORKS (21) PIGEONWING (17) PILLOWCASE (17) [noun] A washable, easily removable cloth cover for pillows. PINWHEELED (19) [verb] To spin. PIPSISSEWA (17) [noun] Any of several evergreen plants, of the genus Chimaphila; the prince's pine; in particular, the umbellate wintergreen, Chimaphila umbellata. PITCHWOMAN (22) PITCHWOMEN (22) PLANETWIDE (16) PLAYFELLOW (21) [noun] Playmate; companion for someone (especially children) to play with. PLAYWRIGHT (22) [noun] A writer and creator of theatrical plays. PLOWSHARES (18) [noun] The cutting edge of a plow, typically a metal blade. POISONWOOD (16) POLYWATERS (18) POWDERLESS (16) POWDERLIKE (20) [adjective] Resembling powder. POWERBOATS (17) [noun] A small, fast motorboat. POWERFULLY (21) [adverb] In a powerful manner. POWERHOUSE (18) [noun] A power station. | [noun] Any source of power, energy or strength. | [noun] A very good hand of cards, likely to win. PRESHOWING (19) PRESSWORKS (19) PRESWEETEN (15) PREVIEWERS (18) PREVIEWING (19) [verb] To show or watch something, or part of it, before it is complete. PREWARMING (18) PREWARNING (16) [verb] To warn beforehand; to forewarn. PREWASHING (19) [verb] To rinse something before washing it properly. 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ROSINWEEDS (14) ROTTWEILER (13) [noun] A very large muscular breed of dog of German origin with black fur and tanned markings. ROUGHHEWED (21) ROUNDWOODS (15) ROUNDWORMS (16) [noun] An invertebrate animal of the phylum Nematoda and other similar phyla. Many species of roundworms are parasites. ROWANBERRY (18) SADDLEBOWS (17) SAFFLOWERS (19) [noun] A cultivated thistle-like plant, Carthamus tinctorius, family Asteraceae, now grown mainly for its oil. SALESWOMAN (15) [noun] A woman whose occupation it is to sell things. SALESWOMEN (15) [noun] A woman whose occupation it is to sell things. SALLOWNESS (13) SANDALWOOD (15) [noun] Any of various tropical trees of the genus Santalum, native or long naturalized in India, Australia, Hawaii, and many south Pacific islands. | [noun] The aromatic heartwood of these trees used in ornamental carving, in the construction of insect-repellent boxes and chests, and as a source of certain perfumes. SANDWICHED (20) [verb] To place one item between two other, usually flat, items | [verb] To put or set something between two others, in time. SANDWICHES (19) [noun] A dish or foodstuff where two or more slices of bread serve as the wrapper or container of some other food. | [noun] (by extension) Any combination formed by layering one type of material between two layers of some other material. | [noun] A layer cake or sandwich cake. SATINWOODS (14) [noun] Woody trees in family Rutaceae | [noun] Wood used for crafting fine furniture, particularly for inlay and marquetry, from either Chloroxylon swietenia or Zanthoxylum flavum. SAWBONESES (15) SAWTIMBERS (17) SCALLYWAGS (19) [noun] A disreputable fellow, a good-for-nothing, a scapegrace, a blackguard | [noun] A badly behaved person, especially a child; a mischief-maker; a rascal SCARECROWS (17) [noun] An effigy, typically made of straw and dressed in old clothes, fixed to a pole in a field to deter birds from eating seeds or crops planted there. | [noun] A tall, thin, awkward person. | [noun] Anything that appears terrifying but presents no danger. SCHOOLWORK (22) [noun] Work done for school, including both in class and homework. SCOWDERING (17) SCOWLINGLY (19) SCRAWLIEST (15) SCRAWNIEST (15) [adjective] Thin, malnourished and weak. SCREWBALLS (17) [noun] A pitch thrown with added pressure by the index finger and a twisting wrist motion resulting in a motion to the right when thrown by a right-handed pitcher. | [noun] One who behaves in a crazy manner. SCREWBEANS (17) SCREWINESS (15) SCREWWORMS (20) [noun] The larva of the fly Cochliomyia hominivorax (New World screwworm) or Chrysomya bezziana (Old World screwworm). The larvae are parasitic in humans and animals and are distinctive in eating living flesh of mammals, unlike most maggots, which eat only dead flesh. SCRIMSHAWS (20) [verb] To make an item of scrimshaw. | [verb] To engrave fanciful designs on (shells, whales' teeth, etc.). SCROLLWORK (19) [noun] Ornamentation in a scroll pattern, especially in woodwork. SCRUBWOMAN (19) SCRUBWOMEN (19) SEMIDWARFS (19) SEMIVOWELS (18) [noun] A sound in speech which has some qualities of a consonant and some qualities of a vowel. | [noun] A letter which represents a semivowel sound, such as w or y in English. SEMIWEEKLY (22) [adjective] Occurring twice a week; occurring once every one-half a week | [noun] A periodical published twice a week. 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SHAREWARES (16) SHEARWATER (16) [noun] Any of the long-winged pelagic seabirds of the family Procellariidae in genera Puffinus, Ardenna, and Calonectris, that breed on islands and coastal cliffs. | [noun] (by extension) Any of the entire family Procellariidae, including certain of the petrels. SHELLWORKS (20) SHEWBREADS (19) [noun] Twelve loaves of bread placed on the alter in Jewish Temples and renewed periodically. See showbread. SHIPOWNERS (18) [noun] Someone who owns a ship. SHIPWRECKS (24) [noun] A ship that has sunk or run aground so that it is no longer seaworthy. | [noun] An event where a ship sinks or runs aground. | [noun] Destruction; ruin; irretrievable loss SHIPWRIGHT (22) [noun] A person who designs, builds and repairs ships, especially wooden ones. SHIRTWAIST (16) [noun] A woman's tailored blouse, buttoned down the front. SHOPWINDOW (22) [noun] A large window at the front of a shop, behind which items for sale are displayed. 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SUNFLOWERS (16) [noun] Any plant of the genus Helianthus, so called probably from the form and color of its floral head, having the form of a large disk surrounded by yellow ray flowers. | [noun] A bright yellow, like that of the flower petals. | [noun] Any flat, radially symmetric organic compound such as coronene SUPERPOWER (17) [noun] Excessive or superior power. | [noun] A sovereign state with dominant status on the globe and a very advanced military, especially the Soviet Union or United States. | [noun] A fictional extraordinary physical or mental ability, especially possessed by a superhero or supervillain. SUPERSHOWS (18) SUPERSWEET (15) SUPERWAVES (18) SUPERWIVES (18) SUPERWOMAN (17) [noun] A woman who looks after a home and children as well as being employed in a full-time job. | [noun] A woman with superhuman powers. SUPERWOMEN (17) [noun] A woman who looks after a home and children as well as being employed in a full-time job. | [noun] A woman with superhuman powers. 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It has now been replaced by personal covenants and the covenant of warranty. | [noun] A legal agreement, either written or oral (an expressed warranty) or implied through the actions of the buyer and seller (an implied warranty), which states that the goods or property in question will be in exactly the same state as promised, such as in a sale of an item or piece of real estate. WARRANTING (14) [verb] To protect, keep safe (from danger). | [verb] To give (someone) an assurance or guarantee (of something); also, with a double object: to guarantee (someone something). | [verb] To guarantee (something) to be (of a specified quality, value, etc.). WARRANTORS (13) [noun] One making a warrant to the benefit of a warrantee. WASHATERIA (16) [noun] A laundromat. | [noun] A building that houses a village's only running water for drinking, washing, and showering. WASHBASINS (18) [noun] A basin used for washing, particularly a permanently installed sink, fitted with a water supply and a drain, for washing the hands and face. WASHBOARDS (19) [noun] A board with a corrugated surface against which laundry may be rubbed. | [noun] Such a board used as a simple percussion instrument. | [noun] A board fastened along a ship's gunwale to prevent splashing; a splashboard. WASHCLOTHS (21) [noun] A small cloth used to wash the face and body. WASHETERIA (16) [noun] A laundromat. | [noun] A building that houses a village's only running water for drinking, washing, and showering. WASHHOUSES (19) [noun] A domestic outbuilding used as a laundry WASHSTANDS (17) [noun] (furniture) A table containing a basin and a pitcher of water for washing | [noun] In a stable or garage, a place in the floor prepared so that carriages or automobiles may be washed there and the water run off. WASSAILERS (13) WASSAILING (14) [verb] To toast, to drink to the health of another. | [verb] To drink wassail. | [verb] To go from house to house at Christmastime, singing carols. WASTEFULLY (19) WASTELANDS (14) [noun] A region with no remaining resources; a desert. | [noun] Any barren or uninteresting place. WASTEPAPER (17) WASTEWATER (16) [noun] Any water that has been used in some human domestic or industrial activity and, because of that, now contains waste products. WATCHABLES (20) WATCHBANDS (21) WATCHCASES (20) [noun] The casing that holds the mechanism of a watch. WATCHCRIES (20) WATCHFULLY (24) WATCHMAKER (24) [noun] A person who repairs (and originally made) watches. 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WATERMELON (15) [noun] A plant of the species Citrullus lanatus, bearing a melon-like fruit. | [noun] The fruit of the watermelon plant, having a green rind and watery flesh that is typically bright red when ripe and contains black pips. | [noun] An environmentalist with socialist leanings (from the similarity to the fruit, being green on the outside, and red (Communist) on the inside). WATERPOWER (18) [noun] Mechanical or electrical energy derived from running or falling water; originally obtained from a waterwheel immersed in a stream; modern hydroelectric power is obtained from turbines fed from reservoirs | [noun] A site capable of generating power or the right to use a site to generate power. | [noun] The capacity to shoot water, as from a fire hose or squirt gun WATERPROOF (18) [noun] A substance or preparation for rendering cloth, leather, etc., impervious to water. | [noun] Cloth made waterproof, or any article made of such cloth, or of other waterproof material, as rubber; especially, an outer garment made of such material. | [verb] To make waterproof or water-resistant. WATERSCAPE (17) [noun] An aquatic landscape; a view or site prominently involving water. WATERSHEDS (17) [noun] The topographical boundary dividing two adjacent catchment basins, such as a ridge or a crest. | [noun] A region of land within which water flows down into a specified body, such as a river, lake, sea, or ocean; a drainage basin. | [noun] A critical point marking a change in course or development. WATERSIDES (14) [noun] The land bordering a body of water WATERSPOUT (15) [noun] A whirlwind that forms over water, not associated with a mesocyclone of a thunderstorm (contrary to a true tornado). | [noun] A true tornado that passes over a body of water. | [noun] A channel through which water is discharged, especially from the gutters of a roof. WATERTIGHT (17) [adjective] So tightly made that water cannot enter or escape. | [adjective] So devised or planned as to be impossible to defeat, evade or nullify. WATERWEEDS (17) WATERWHEEL (19) [noun] A wheel, propelled by running or falling water, used to power machinery. | [noun] A wheel with buckets used to raise water. 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WEATHERING (17) [verb] To expose to the weather, or show the effects of such exposure, or to withstand such effects. | [verb] (by extension) To sustain the trying effect of; to bear up against and overcome; to endure; to resist. | [verb] To break down, of rocks and other materials, under the effects of exposure to rain, sunlight, temperature, and air. WEATHERIZE (25) [verb] To protect a structure against damage by the weather. WEATHERMAN (18) [noun] A person, especially a male one, who reports the weather conditions or forecasts. WEATHERMEN (18) [noun] A person, especially a male one, who reports the weather conditions or forecasts. WEAVERBIRD (19) [noun] Any of various Old World passerine birds in either of two families known for building nests of intricately woven vegetation. WEEKENDERS (18) [noun] Someone who visits a place for a weekend break. | [noun] Someone who takes part in a sport or similar event at weekends. | [noun] A small suitcase with the capacity needed for a weekend break. WEEKENDING (19) [verb] To spend the weekend. WEEKNIGHTS (21) WEIGHTIEST (17) [adjective] Heavy. | [adjective] Important; serious; not trivial or petty. | [adjective] Rigorous; severe; afflictive. WEIGHTLESS (17) [adjective] Which has no weight. | [adjective] Which is not being affected by gravity. WEIMARANER (15) WELFARISMS (18) WELFARISTS (16) WELLNESSES (13) WELLSPRING (16) [noun] The source of water for a stream, spring or well; a fountainhead; a wellhead. | [noun] A perennial source of anything; a fountainhead of supply or emanation; resource. WENTLETRAP (15) [noun] Any of numerous species of elegant, usually white, marine shells of the family Epitoniidae, especially Epitonium scalare, which was formerly highly valued. WEREWOLVES (19) [noun] A person who is transformed or can transform into a wolf or a wolflike human, often said to transform during a full moon. WESTERLIES (13) [noun] A westerly wind or storm. WESTERNISE (13) [verb] To make something western in character. WESTERNIZE (22) [verb] To make something western in character. WHALEBACKS (24) [noun] A kind of cargo steamship with a hull that continuously curved above the waterline from vertical to horizontal | [noun] A land form (typically a sand dune) having the form of the back of a whale WHALEBOATS (18) [noun] A long narrow rowing boat, formerly used in whaling, which is pointed at both ends so that it can move either forwards or backwards equally well. | [noun] A boat resembling this and carried on a warship or other ship. WHALEBONES (18) [noun] The horny material from the fringed plates of the upper jaw of baleen whales that are used to filter plankton; once used as stays in corsets WHARFINGER (20) [noun] The owner or manager of a wharf. WHATNESSES (16) WHATSOEVER (19) [adjective] Whatever. | [adjective] In any way; at all. | [pronoun] Whatever WHEELBASES (18) [noun] The horizontal distance between the front and rear axles of a road or rail vehicle. WHEELCHAIR (21) [noun] A chair mounted on large wheels for the transportation or use of a sick or disabled person. | [noun] Designed for use by wheelchairbound people. | [noun] (by extension) Any device involving wheels designed to assist a non-human animal with locomotion. WHEELHORSE (19) WHEELHOUSE (19) [noun] A building or other structure containing a (large) wheel, such as the water wheel of a mill. | [noun] A prehistoric structure from the Iron Age found in Scotland, characteristically including an outer wall within which a circle of stone piers (resembling the spokes of a wheel) form the basis for lintel arches supporting corbelled roofing with a hearth at the hub. | [noun] (by extension from sense 1.2) A pitch location which is favourable to the hitter. WHEELWORKS (23) WHEEZINESS (25) WHENSOEVER (19) [adverb] Whenever; at any time at all WHEREABOUT (18) WHEREFORES (19) WHETSTONES (16) [noun] A sharpening stone; a hard stone or piece of synthetically bonded hard minerals that has been formed with at least one flat surface, used to sharpen or hone an edged tool. | [noun] A benchmark for evaluating the power and performance of a computer. | [noun] A stimulant. WHICKERING (23) [verb] Of a horse, to neigh softly, to make a breathy whinny. | [noun] The act of producing a whicker. WHIMPERING (21) [verb] To cry or sob softly and intermittently. | [verb] To cry with a low, whining, broken voice; to whine; to complain. | [verb] To say something in a whimpering manner. WHINSTONES (16) WHIPLASHES (21) [noun] The lash of a whip | [noun] An injury to the upper spine connected to a violent jerk of the head in either a backward or forward or side to side direction, resembling the motion of a whip WHIPSAWING (22) [verb] To operate a whipsaw. | [verb] To cause (a trader) to lose potential profit by buying shares just before the price falls, or by selling them just before the price rises. | [verb] To defeat someone in two different ways at once. WHIPSTITCH (23) [noun] A stitch that passes diagonally over an edge. | [noun] A tailor. | [noun] Anything hastily put or stitched together; a hasty composition. WHIPSTOCKS (24) [noun] The stock (rigid handle) of a whip. WHIRLIGIGS (18) [noun] Anything that whirls or spins around, such as a toy top or a merry-go-round. | [noun] A device incorporating spinning, wind-driven propellers or pinwheels, used as whimsical outdoor decoration in a garden or on a porch. | [noun] A whirligig beetle. WHIRLPOOLS (18) [noun] A swirling body of water. | [noun] A hot tub, jacuzzi. | [noun] Turmoil, or agitated excitement. WHIRLWINDS (20) [noun] A violent windstorm of limited extent, as the tornado, characterized by an inward spiral motion of the air with an upward current in the center; a vortex of air. It usually has a rapid progressive motion. | [noun] A person or body of objects or events sweeping violently onward. WHIRLYBIRD (22) [noun] A helicopter. WHISPERERS (18) [noun] Someone who whispers. | [noun] Someone who tells secrets; a gossip. | [noun] Someone who is skilled in taming or training a certain kind of animal, using gentle vocal commands and body language as opposed to physical contact. See horse whisperer. WHISPERING (19) [verb] To speak softly, or under the breath, so as to be heard only by one near at hand; to utter words without sonant breath; to talk without that vibration in the larynx which gives sonorous, or vocal, sound. | [verb] To mention privately and confidentially, or in a whisper. | [verb] To make a low, sibilant sound. WHISTLINGS (17) WHITEBAITS (18) WHITEBEARD (19) WHITEFACES (21) [noun] Makeup that makes the face appear white. | [noun] Any bird of the genus Aphelocephala. | [noun] A Hereford cow. WHITEFLIES (19) [noun] Any of various small insects of the family Aleyrodidae that have long wings, and a white body; often a garden pest WHITEHEADS (20) [noun] A pimple formed by a clogged sebaceous gland, usually with a milky-white cap. | [noun] A species of passerine bird, endemic to New Zealand (Mohoua albicilla) | [noun] The blue-winged snow goose, Anser caerulescens caerulescens. WHITENINGS (17) WHITESMITH (21) [noun] A person who forges things out of tin or pewter; a tinsmith. | [noun] A worker in iron who finishes or polishes the work, in distinction from one who forges it. WHITETAILS (16) [noun] A deer, Odocoileus virginianus, family Cervidae, perhaps the most popular game animal in North America. WHITEWALLS (19) [noun] A tyre/tire with white sidewalls. | [noun] A hair cut with a closely cropped back and sides and the hair on the top of the head left longer. | [noun] (Northamptonshire) The spotted flycatcher. WHITEWINGS (20) WHITEWOODS (20) [noun] Any of several deciduous trees that are used for furniture, especially the tulip tree. | [noun] The wood of these trees. | [noun] A prototype version of a pinball table, without the final artwork. WHITTLINGS (17) WHIZZBANGS (37) [noun] A type of firework that made a whiz before exploding | [noun] A small artillery shell | [noun] (by extension) Someone or something that holds an explosive amount of success, skill or effectiveness. WHODUNNITS (17) [noun] A novel or drama concerning a crime (usually a murder) in which a detective follows clues to determine the perpetrator. WHOLESALED (17) [verb] To sell at wholesale. WHOLESALER (16) [noun] A person or company that buys merchandise from manufacturers, importers, or distributors and resells the merchandise to retail businesses and to business and institutional end users. WHOLESALES (16) [noun] The sale of products, often in large quantities, to retailers or other merchants. | [verb] To sell at wholesale. WHOMSOEVER (21) [pronoun] Whatever person or persons (as object of a verb or preposition): emphasised or elaborated form of whomever. WHOREHOUSE (19) [noun] Brothel. WICKEDNESS (20) [noun] The state of being wicked; evil disposition; immorality. | [noun] A wicked or sinful thing or act; morally bad or objectionable behaviour. WICKERWORK (26) [noun] A thing or things made of wicker. WIDEAWAKES (21) [noun] A bird, the sooty tern. | [noun] A type of hat with a broad brim made of black or brown felt. WIDENESSES (14) WIDESPREAD (17) [adjective] Affecting a large area (e.g. the entire land or body); broad in extent; widely diffused. WIDOWHOODS (21) WIFELINESS (16) WIGWAGGING (20) [verb] To move gently in one direction and then another; to wig or wiggle, to wag or waggle. | [verb] To oscillate between two states. | [verb] To send a signal by waving a flag to and fro. WILDCATTED (17) [verb] To drill for oil in an area where no oil has been found before. WILDCATTER (16) [noun] Someone who drills for oil speculatively. | [noun] A worker who participates in a wildcat strike. | [noun] A person who makes wildcat cartridges and the guns that use them. WILDEBEEST (16) [noun] Gnu. WILDERMENT (16) WILDERNESS (14) [noun] An unsettled and uncultivated tract of land in its natural state; a barren land; a wild or waste. | [noun] A place that is uncared for, and therefore devoted to disorder or wildness. | [noun] Wild or unrefined state; wildness. WILDFLOWER (20) [noun] A wild (uncultivated) flowering plant. | [noun] A flower from such a plant. WILDFOWLER (20) WILDNESSES (14) WILINESSES (13) WILLEMITES (15) WILLINGEST (14) WILLOWIEST (16) [adjective] Resembling a willow. | [adjective] (of a person) Tall, slender and graceful. | [adjective] (of a place) Having willow trees. WILLOWLIKE (20) WILLOWWARE (19) [noun] Articles made from willow. WILLPOWERS (18) WINDBLASTS (16) WINDBREAKS (20) [noun] A hedge, fence or row of trees positioned to reduce wind damage to crops. | [noun] A sheet or stack of material used to protect people or fire from wind. WINDBURNED (17) [adjective] Of people or body parts: suffering from windburn. | [adjective] Of plants: dried or damaged by the wind. WINDCHILLS (19) WINDFLOWER (20) [noun] An early spring flowering species of the family Ranunculaceae, Anemone nemorosa. WINDHOVERS (20) [noun] The common kestrel (Falco tinnunculus). WINDJAMMER (25) [noun] One who plays a wind instrument, especially a bugler in the army. | [noun] A sailing ship; especially a large, iron-hulled, square-rigged ship with three or more masts. | [noun] A member of the crew of a ship of this kind. WINDLASSED (15) [verb] To raise with, or as if with, a windlass; to use a windlass. | [verb] To take a roundabout course; to work warily or by indirect means. WINDLASSES (14) [noun] Any of various forms of winch, in which a rope or cable is wound around a cylinder, used for lifting heavy weights | [noun] A winding and circuitous way; a roundabout course. | [noun] An apparatus resembling a winch or windlass, for bending the bow of an arblast, or crossbow. WINDLESSLY (17) WINDMILLED (17) [verb] To rotate with a sweeping motion. | [verb] Of a rotating part of a machine, to (become disengaged and) rotate freely. WINDOWLESS (17) [adjective] Having no windows, especially no external windows WINDOWPANE (19) [noun] A piece of glass filling a window or a section of a window | [noun] A quadruple dose of liquid LSD. WINDOWSILL (17) [noun] The horizontal member protruding from the base of a window frame WINDROWING (18) WINDSCREEN (16) [noun] A transparent screen made of glass, located at the front of a vehicle in order to protect its occupants from the wind and weather | [noun] A cover for a microphone to exclude airy noises such as wind and breathing. | [verb] To install a windscreen on. WINDSHIELD (18) [noun] A transparent screen made of glass, located at the front and back of a vehicle in front of its occupants to protect them from the wind and weather. | [noun] A cover for a microphone to exclude airy noises such as wind and breathing. | [verb] To install a windshield on. WINDSTORMS (16) [noun] A storm in which there are strong, violent winds but no precipitation. WINDSURFED (18) [verb] To ride a surfboard that has an attached sail WINDTHROWS (20) WINEGROWER (17) [noun] A person or company that owns a vineyard and produces wine. 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WIRETAPPER (17) WIRINESSES (13) WISECRACKS (21) [noun] A witty or sarcastic comment or quip. | [verb] To make a sarcastic, flippant, or sardonic comment. WISENESSES (13) WITCHCRAFT (23) [noun] The practice of witches; magic, sorcery or the use of supernatural powers to influence or predict events. | [noun] Something, such as an advanced technology, that seems almost magical. WITCHERIES (18) WITCHGRASS (19) [noun] Any of several grasses, of the genus Panicum, often found as a weed. | [noun] Couch grass (a European grass that spreads rapidly, Elymus repens) WITCHWEEDS (22) WITHDRAWAL (20) [noun] Receiving from someone's care what one has earlier entrusted to them. Usually refers to money. | [noun] A method of birth control which consists of removing the penis from the vagina before ejaculation. | [noun] A type of metabolic shock the body undergoes when a substance, usually a toxin such as heroin, to which a patient is dependent is withheld. Sometimes used with the substance as modifier. WITHERITES (16) WITHHOLDER (20) WITHSTANDS (17) [verb] To resist or endure (something) successfully. | [verb] To oppose (something) forcefully. WITNESSING (14) [verb] To furnish proof of, to show. | [verb] To take as evidence. | [verb] To see or gain knowledge of through experience. WITTICISMS (17) [noun] A witty remark WIZARDRIES (23) WOBBLINESS (17) WOEFULLEST (16) WOEFULNESS (16) WOLFFISHES (22) [noun] Any fish of the family Anarhichadidae. WOLFHOUNDS (20) [noun] A dog of various breeds originally developed to hunt wolves. WOLFRAMITE (18) [noun] A mineral that consists of a tungstate of iron and manganese; (Fe,Mn)WO4. WOLFSBANES (18) [noun] Any of several poisonous perennial herbs of the genus Aconitum. | [noun] Arnica montana WOLVERINES (16) WOMANHOODS (19) WOMANISHLY (21) WOMANISING (16) [verb] (said of a man) To flirt with and/or seduce, or attempt to seduce, women, especially lecherously. | [verb] (usually figurative) To turn into a woman; to feminize. WOMANIZERS (24) [noun] A man who habitually flirts with and seduces, or attempts to seduce, women. WOMANIZING (25) [verb] (said of a man) To flirt with and/or seduce, or attempt to seduce, women, especially lecherously. | [verb] (usually figurative) To turn into a woman; to feminize. WOMANLIEST (15) WOMANPOWER (20) WOMENFOLKS (22) WONDERLAND (15) [noun] An imaginary or real place full of wonder or marvels. WONDERMENT (16) [noun] A state, arousal, or thing describable by wonder, strange, awe, surprise, marvel, or astonishment. | [noun] A puzzle or curiosity. WONDERWORK (21) WONDROUSLY (17) WONTEDNESS (14) WOODBLOCKS (22) [noun] A woodcut. | [noun] A percussion instrument consisting of a hollow block of wood struck with a drumstick. | [noun] A wooden block used as a printing form. WOODCHUCKS (25) [noun] A rodent of the family Sciuridae, belonging to the group of large ground squirrels known as marmots, Marmota monax. WOODCRAFTS (19) WOODCUTTER (16) [noun] A person who cuts down trees; a lumberjack. | [noun] A person who cuts wood. | [noun] A person who makes woodcuts. WOODENHEAD (18) WOODENNESS (14) [noun] The state of being wooden (often in a figurative sense). WOODENWARE (17) WOODLANDER (15) [noun] A dweller in a woodland. WOODPECKER (22) [noun] Any bird of many-species subfamily Picinae, with a sharp beak suitable for pecking holes in wood. | [noun] Type 92 heavy machine gun WOODSTOVES (17) [noun] A stove that burns wood, or is designed to do so WOODWORKER (21) WOOLLINESS (13) WORDLESSLY (17) [adverb] Without words. WORDMONGER (17) WORDSMITHS (19) [noun] One who uses words skillfully. | [verb] To apply craftsman-like skills to word use. WORKAHOLIC (22) [noun] A person who feels compelled to work excessively. | [adjective] In the nature or manner of a workaholic. WORKBASKET (23) [noun] A basket used to hold materials for needlework, etc. WORKFORCES (22) [noun] All the workers employed by a specific organization or state, or on a specific project | [noun] The total population of a country or region that is employed or employable. WORKHORSES (20) [noun] A horse used primarily for manual labor; a draft horse | [noun] (by extension) Anyone or anything that does a lot of work; something or someone who works consistently or regularly. WORKHOUSES (20) [noun] An institution for the poor homeless, funded by the local parish where the able-bodied were required to work. Wp | [noun] A prison in which the sentence includes manual labour. | [noun] A factory; a place of manufacture. WORKINGMAN (20) [noun] A man who works in exchange for payment, especially one that does manual labour. WORKINGMEN (20) [noun] A man who works in exchange for payment, especially one that does manual labour. WORKPEOPLE (21) [noun] A worker; an employee. WORKPIECES (21) [noun] (machining, woodworking, etc.) The raw material or partially finished piece that is shaped by performing various operations. WORKPLACES (21) [noun] The place where someone works. WORKTABLES (19) [noun] A table designed for work of a specific type. WORLDLIEST (14) [adjective] Concerned with human or earthly matters, physical as opposed to spiritual. | [adjective] Concerned with secular rather than sacred matters. | [adjective] Sophisticated, especially because of surfeit; versed in the ways of the world. WORLDLINGS (15) [noun] A mundane person, preoccupied with worldly affairs rather than spiritual matters. WORLDVIEWS (20) [noun] One's personal view of the world and how one interprets it. | [noun] The totality of one's beliefs about reality. | [noun] A general philosophy or view of life. WORNNESSES (13) WORRIMENTS (15) WORRYWARTS (19) [noun] A person who worries excessively, especially about unimportant matters. WORSHIPERS (18) [noun] A person who worships, especially at a place of assembly for religious services. WORSHIPFUL (21) [noun] One who is respected or worshipped. | [adjective] Tending to worship; showing reverence. | [adjective] Used as respectful form of address for a person or body of persons, especially in the name of a livery company. For example, Most Worshipful Grand Master of the Orange Order in Ireland. WORSHIPING (19) [verb] To reverence (a deity, etc.) with supreme respect and veneration; to perform religious exercises in honour of. | [verb] To honour with extravagant love and extreme submission, as a lover; to adore; to idolize. | [verb] To participate in religious ceremonies. WORSHIPPED (21) [verb] To reverence (a deity, etc.) with supreme respect and veneration; to perform religious exercises in honour of. | [verb] To honour with extravagant love and extreme submission, as a lover; to adore; to idolize. | [verb] To participate in religious ceremonies. WORSHIPPER (20) [noun] A person who worships, especially at a place of assembly for religious services. WORTHINESS (16) [noun] The state or quality of having value or merit. | [noun] The result or product of having value or merit. | [noun] The state or quality of being qualified or eligible. WORTHWHILE (22) [adjective] Good and important enough to spend time, effort, or money on. WRAITHLIKE (20) WRAPAROUND (16) [noun] A garment that is wrapped around the body and tied. | [noun] A label or advertising display that wraps around a container. | [noun] A segment where material featuring one person (such as a reporter) is introduced and concluded by another person. WRATHFULLY (22) WRESTLINGS (14) WRETCHEDER (19) [adjective] Very miserable; feeling deep affliction or distress. | [adjective] Worthless; paltry; very poor or mean; miserable. | [adjective] Hatefully contemptible; despicable; wicked. WRETCHEDLY (22) WRIGGLIEST (15) WRINKLIEST (17) [adjective] Having wrinkles. WRISTBANDS (16) [noun] The cuff of a sleeve that wraps around the wrist | [noun] A strip of material worn around the wrist, e.g. to absorb perspiration, especially in sports | [noun] A band that supports a wristwatch WRISTLOCKS (19) WRISTWATCH (21) [noun] A watch that is worn on a strap or band fastened around the wrist WRONGDOERS (15) [noun] Someone who does wrong, whether morally, ethically or in contravention of a law. WRONGDOING (16) [verb] To do something wrong; to break a rule or offend. | [noun] Violation of standards of behavior. | [noun] An instance of doing wrong. WRONGFULLY (20) [adverb] In a wrongful manner; unjustly. WULFENITES (16) WUNDERKIND (19) [noun] A child prodigy; a phenom. | [noun] A highly talented or gifted individual; one who is successful at a young age. WYANDOTTES (17) [noun] A member of the Wyandotte people. | [noun] (plural always with "-s") A breed of poultry. WYLIECOATS (18) YELLOWFINS (19) [noun] Any of various fish with yellow fins. YELLOWLEGS (17) [noun] Either of two species of shorebirds, of the genus Tringa, that have yellow legs YELLOWTAIL (16) [noun] Yellowtail amberjack (Seriola lalandi). | [noun] A fish native to the northwest Pacific, often used in sushi, the Japanese amberjack (Seriola quinqueradiata). | [noun] Any of various fish with yellow tails, including: YELLOWWARE (19) YELLOWWOOD (20) [noun] Any of the tree genus Cladrastis. | [noun] Flindersia xanthoxyla, a tall rainforest tree of Australia. | [noun] The osage orange tree. YOKEFELLOW (23) ZEBRAWOODS (25) [noun] Any wood with a figure (grain pattern) like the striping of a zebra, most often wood of the genus Microberlinia. ZWITTERION (22) [noun] A molecule, such as an amino acid, that carries both a positive and a negative charge.

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ACKNOWLEDGE (22) [verb] To admit the knowledge of; to recognize as a fact or truth; to declare one's belief in | [verb] To own or recognize in a particular quality, character or relationship; to admit the claims or authority of; to give recognition to. | [verb] To be grateful of (e.g. a benefit or a favour) AFTERWORLDS (18) [noun] The plural of afterworld, referring to life or existence after death; the realm or state believed to follow death in various religious or spiritual traditions. ALLOWANCING (17) [verb] To put upon a fixed allowance (especially of provisions and drink). | [verb] To supply in a fixed and limited quantity. ANCHORWOMAN (21) [noun] A female anchorperson. ANCHORWOMEN (21) [noun] A female anchorperson. ANTIWELFARE (17) ANTIWHALING (18) ANTIWRINKLE (18) [adjective] Designed to prevent or reduce the appearance of wrinkles, typically used to describe skincare products or treatments. ASKEWNESSES (18) [noun] The plural of askewness; the quality or state of being askew or crooked. ATHWARTSHIP (22) [adjective] Across the width of a ship from side to side; perpendicular to the ship's length. AUTOWORKERS (18) [noun] Someone who works as an assembly line worker in an automobile assembly plant. AWARENESSES (14) [noun] The state or level of consciousness where sense data can be confirmed by an observer. | [noun] The state or quality of being aware of something AWESOMENESS (16) [noun] The quality of being awesome. AWESTRICKEN (20) [adjective] Filled with awe. AWFULNESSES (17) [noun] Plural of awfulness; the quality or state of being awful or extremely bad. AWKWARDNESS (22) [noun] The state or quality of being awkward; clumsiness; unskillfulness. | [noun] The quality of an embarrassing situation. BACKWASHING (26) [noun] A form of water treatment in which water is pumped backwards through the filter media, sometimes with intermittent use of compressed air. BASKETWORKS (24) BATTLEWAGON (17) BAWDINESSES (17) [noun] The plural of bawdiness; the quality or state of being bawdy, indecent, or obscene in language or behavior. BECOWARDING (20) BEFLOWERING (20) [verb] Present participle of beflower; to cover or decorate with flowers. BEGGARWEEDS (19) [noun] Plural of beggarveed; a plant of the legume family with small flowers, also known as beggar-ticks or tick clover, found in warm regions. | [noun] The seeds or pods of this plant that cling to clothing or animal fur. BEJEWELLING (24) [verb] To decorate or bedeck with jewels or gems. BELLFLOWERS (19) [noun] Any of many plants that produce flowers that are bell-like. | [noun] A flower of one of these plants, which is shaped like a bell. BELLWETHERS (19) [noun] The leading sheep of a flock, having a bell hung round its neck. | [noun] Anything that indicates future trends. | [noun] A stock or bond that is widely believed to be an indicator of the overall market's condition. BELOWGROUND (18) [adjective] Located, occurring, or existing beneath the surface of the ground. | [adverb] Beneath the surface of the ground. BENCHWARMER (23) [noun] A player who rarely or never gets to play in the games or matches, and is most often a substitute. BESHADOWING (21) BETWEENNESS (16) [noun] The quality or state of being between two things or positions. | [noun] In geometry and mathematics, a property describing a point or object located between two other points or objects on a line or path. BEWHISKERED (24) [adjective] Having whiskers BEWILDERING (18) [verb] To confuse, disorientate, or puzzle someone, especially with many different choices. | [adjective] Very confusing, perplexing, or baffling, often due to a very large choice being available. | [noun] Bewilderment. BEWITCHMENT (23) [noun] The act of enchanting or casting a spell over someone. | [noun] A state of being under a spell or magical influence; enchantment. BILGEWATERS (17) [noun] Water which collects in the bilges of a ship. | [noun] Stupid talk or writing; nonsense. BITTERSWEET (16) [noun] Solanum dulcamara. | [noun] Bittersweetness. | [noun] A vine, of the genus Celastrus, having small orange fruit that open to reveal red seeds. BITTERWEEDS (17) [noun] Plural of bitterweed, a plant of the genus Ambrosia or similar plants with bitter properties, often considered a weed in pastures and fields. BLACKWATERS (22) BLADDERWORT (18) [noun] Any of many aquatic carnivorous plants, of the genus Utricularia, that have open bladders that trap minute insects and crustaceans. BLAMEWORTHY (24) [adjective] Deserving blame or censure; reprehensible. BLOWTORCHES (21) [noun] A tool which projects a controlled stream of a highly flammable gas over a spark in order to produce a controlled flame. | [verb] To apply a blowtorch to something. BOWDLERISED (18) [verb] To remove or alter those parts of a text considered offensive, vulgar, or otherwise unseemly. BOWDLERISES (17) [verb] To remove or alter those parts of a text considered offensive, vulgar, or otherwise unseemly. BOWDLERIZED (27) [verb] To remove or alter those parts of a text considered offensive, vulgar, or otherwise unseemly. BOWDLERIZER (26) [noun] One who bowdlerizes; a person who removes or censors content deemed offensive or inappropriate from a text or work. BOWDLERIZES (26) [verb] To remove or alter those parts of a text considered offensive, vulgar, or otherwise unseemly. BRAINPOWERS (18) BRAINWASHED (20) [verb] To affect one's mind by using extreme mental pressure or any other mind-affecting process. (e.g. hypnosis) | [verb] To take from an electronically controlled machine its stored-up information; to erase a computer's programming. (1960) BRAINWASHER (19) [noun] A person who engages in brainwashing; someone who manipulates or indoctrinates others through psychological techniques. BRAINWASHES (19) [verb] To affect one's mind by using extreme mental pressure or any other mind-affecting process. (e.g. hypnosis) | [verb] To take from an electronically controlled machine its stored-up information; to erase a computer's programming. (1960) BRAZILWOODS (26) [noun] A tropical hardwood tree (Caesalpinia echinata) native to Brazil, valued for its red dye and used historically in dyeing textiles. | [noun] The reddish wood of this tree, formerly an important export from Brazil. BREADTHWISE (20) [adjective] Directed across the breadth of an object or place. | [adverb] Across the breadth of an object or place. BREADWINNER (17) [noun] The primary income-earner in a household. BREAKWATERS (20) [noun] A construction in or around a harbour designed to break the force of the sea and to provide shelter for vessels lying inside | [noun] A low bulkhead across the forecastle deck of a ship which diverts water breaking over the bows into the scuppers | [noun] On beaches: a wooden or concrete barrier, usually perpendicular to the shore, intended to prevent the movement of sand along a coast. BREASTWORKS (20) [noun] A fortification consisting of a breast-high bulwark; a parapet. | [noun] A railing on the quarter-deck and forecastle. | [noun] A parapet. BRIDGEWORKS (22) BRIGHTWORKS (24) BROADSWORDS (18) [noun] (history) A type of early modern sword that has a broad double-edged blade for cutting (as opposed to the more slender thrust-oriented rapier) and a basket hilt. | [noun] A person armed with such a sword. | [noun] Any type of sword that is comparatively long; depending on context, applied to swords of the Bronze Age, Migration period, Viking Age and Renaissance era. BROWBEATING (19) [verb] To bully in an intimidating, bossy, or supercilious way. | [noun] A scolding. BROWNFIELDS (20) [noun] Industrial or commercial sites that are abandoned or underutilized and may be contaminated by hazardous substances or pollution. BROWNNOSERS (16) [noun] Plural of brownnoser; people who flatter or show excessive deference to someone in authority to gain advantage or favor. BROWNNOSING (17) [verb] To flatter someone (especially a superior) in an obsequious manner, and to support their every opinion. BROWNSHIRTS (19) [noun] A uniformed member of the German Nazi Party (NSDAP), especially a storm trooper of the Sturmabteilung. | [noun] Any member of a fascist party; any fascist or neo-Nazi. BROWNSTONES (16) [noun] A variety of brown to red-brown sandstone once popular as a building material. | [noun] A row house built of brownstone, especially in New York City. BULLWHIPPED (24) [verb] To beat with a bullwhip. BUSHWHACKED (29) [verb] To travel through thick wooded country, cutting away scrub to make progress | [verb] To fight, as a guerilla, especially in wooded country | [verb] To ambush BUSHWHACKER (28) [noun] One who travels through the woods, off the designated path. | [noun] A person who lives in the bush, especially as a fugitive; a person who clears woods and bush country. | [noun] A guerrilla (of either side) during the American Civil War. BUTTERWEEDS (17) [noun] Plural of butterweed, a plant of the genus Asclepias or Senecio with yellow flowers, common in North American meadows and wetlands. BUTTERWORTS (16) [noun] Any plant of the insectivorous genus Pinguicula. BUTTONWOODS (17) [noun] The common name given to at least three species of shrub or tree. CABBAGEWORM (23) [noun] Any of various lepidopterans whose larvae feed on cabbages and other cole crops. CABINETWORK (22) [noun] Decorative woodwork or furniture made by a cabinetmaker; the craft or art of making fine wooden furniture and fittings. CADDISWORMS (20) [noun] Aquatic larvae of caddisflies that typically construct protective cases from silk and debris, used as fish bait. CAKEWALKERS (24) [noun] People who participate in a cakewalk, a dance or competition where participants walk in a circle to music and win cakes or prizes. | [noun] People or things that move or proceed with ease; those who find something effortless. CAKEWALKING (25) [verb] To perform the cakewalk dance. CAMERAWOMAN (20) [noun] A woman who operates any kind of camera. CAMERAWOMEN (20) [noun] A woman who operates any kind of camera. CANDLEPOWER (19) [noun] Unit of luminous intensity of a light source, equal to 0.981 candelas CANDLEWICKS (23) [noun] Strings or cords that are soaked in wax or tallow and used as the burning part of candles. | [noun] Plural of candlewick, also referring to a type of embroidered fabric with a looped pile design. CANDLEWOODS (18) CANKERWORMS (22) [noun] Either of two caterpillars, the larvae of geometrid moths, that are destructive to fruit, buds and leaves. | [noun] A corrupting or destructive force. CARPETWEEDS (19) [noun] A plant of the family Aizoaceae, characterized by small flowers and fleshy leaves, commonly found in warm regions. | [noun] Plural of carpetWeed, a low-growing weed that spreads across the ground like a carpet. CARRIAGEWAY (20) [noun] The part of a road that carries traffic. CARTWHEELED (20) [verb] To perform the gymnastics feat of a cartwheel. | [verb] To flip end over end: normally said of a crashing vehicle or aircraft. CARTWHEELER (19) [noun] A person who performs cartwheels, especially as part of gymnastics or acrobatics. CASEWORKERS (20) [noun] Plural of caseworker; social workers or professionals who manage individual cases for clients needing social services or assistance. CASSOWARIES (16) [noun] A large flightless bird of the genus Casuarius that is native to Australia and New Guinea, has a characteristic bony crest on its head, and can be very dangerous. CATERWAULED (17) [verb] To cry as cats in heat; to make a harsh, offensive noise. | [verb] To have a noisy argument, like cats. CAULIFLOWER (19) [noun] Brassica oleracea var. botrytis, an annual variety of cabbage, of which the cluster of young flower stalks and buds is eaten as a vegetable. | [noun] The edible head or curd of a cauliflower plant. | [noun] The swelling of a cauliflower ear. CAUSEWAYING (20) [verb] The present participle of causeway, meaning to construct or provide with a causeway (a raised road or path across low or wet ground). CHAINSAWING (20) [verb] Cutting or dividing something with a chainsaw. | [verb] In computing or gaming, rapidly removing or eliminating something in large quantities. CHAINWHEELS (22) [noun] Toothed wheels or sprockets that are connected by a chain to transmit motion in machinery, such as on bicycles or motorcycles. CHECKROWING (26) CHOWDERHEAD (24) [noun] An idiot; a dummy. CHUCKAWALLA (25) [noun] A large herbivorous lizard native to the southwestern United States and Mexico that hides in rock crevices and inflates its body when threatened. CHUCKWALLAS (25) [noun] An iguana, of the genus Sauromalus, living in arid regions of the southwestern United States and northern Mexico. CHURCHWOMAN (26) [noun] The female equivalent of a churchman. CHURCHWOMEN (26) [noun] The female equivalent of a churchman. CLAPPERCLAW (22) [verb] To scratch or claw; to quarrel or wrangle with someone. CLERGYWOMAN (22) [noun] An ordained (female) Christian minister; a female member of the clergy. | [noun] A woman belonging to a clergyman's family. CLERGYWOMEN (22) [noun] An ordained (female) Christian minister; a female member of the clergy. | [noun] A woman belonging to a clergyman's family. COBWEBBIEST (22) [adjective] Covered with or resembling cobwebs; having the most cobwebs or cobweb-like qualities. CODSWALLOPS (19) [noun] Nonsense or rubbish; absurd or ridiculous talk or ideas. COMMONWEALS (20) [noun] Plural of commonwealth; a nation, state, or group of states unified by common interests. | [noun] The common good or welfare of the public. CONEFLOWERS (19) [noun] Any of several similar flowering plants of tribe Heliantheae in order Asterales, in genera Dracopis, Echinacea, Rudbeckia, and Ratibida, that have a cone-shaped disk of florets. | [noun] Certain species of genus Isopogon, in order Proteales, principally of temperate Australia COPYWRITERS (21) [noun] A person who writes advertising copy (the text used in advertisements). CORDWAINERS (17) [noun] A shoemaker. | [noun] A worker in cordwain. | [noun] A leather from Córdoba. CORDWAINERY (20) [noun] The trade or craft of making or selling cordwain (a type of fine leather), or a cordwainer's shop or business. CORKSCREWED (23) [verb] To wind or twist in the manner of a corkscrew; to move with much horizontal and vertical shifting. | [verb] To cause something to twist or move in a spiral path or shape. | [verb] To extract information or consent from someone. CORNFLOWERS (19) [noun] A small annual plant in the family Asteraceae, Centaurea cyanus, usually with bushy blue flowers which grows natively in European cornfields (i.e. wheatfields). | [noun] A plant of the species Cichorium intybus. | [noun] Cornflower blue. COTTONWEEDS (17) [noun] Any of several unrelated plants that have downy heads COTTONWOODS (17) [noun] A tree from one of number of species of tree in the genus Populus (poplars), typically growing along watercourses, with fluffy catkins. | [noun] Populus sect. Aigeiros, a taxonomic section of the poplar genus | [noun] Cottonwood hibiscus (Talipariti tiliaceum, syn. Hibiscus tiliaceus), a flowering shrub or tree in the mallow family COUNTERBLOW (18) COUNTERFLOW (19) [noun] A flow in the opposite direction; or the flow of two fluids in opposite directions | [verb] To flow in the opposite direction COUNTERVIEW (19) COUNTRYWIDE (20) [adjective] Throughout a country; nationwide. | [adverb] Throughout a country; nationwide. COURSEWARES (16) COWCATCHERS (23) [noun] The V-shaped device on the front of a locomotive (or other large vehicle) shaped so as to push objects on the tracks out of the way, to prevent major damage to the train. | [noun] An advertisement at the start of a programme. COWPUNCHERS (23) [noun] A cowboy COXSWAINING (24) CRACKLEWARE (22) CRAFTSWOMAN (21) [noun] A female artisan. CRAFTSWOMEN (21) [noun] A female artisan. CRASHWORTHY (25) [adjective] (of a vehicle) Capable of withstanding a crash. | [adjective] (of a social event) Worthy of being gatecrashed. CRAWFISHING (23) [verb] To backpedal, desert or withdraw (also used with out). | [noun] Fishing for crawfish CREWELWORKS (23) CROSSBOWMAN (20) CROSSBOWMEN (20) CROWBARRING (19) [verb] To use force to move. To prise. CROWBERRIES (18) [noun] Empetrum; a small genus of dwarf evergreen shrubs that bear edible fruit. | [noun] A fruit of this plant. CROWDEDNESS (18) CROWKEEPERS (22) CROWSTEPPED (21) [adjective] Having a crowstep. DEADWEIGHTS (20) [noun] Unremitting heavy weight that does not move. | [noun] The largest weight of cargo a ship is able to carry; i.e, the weight of a ship when fully loaded minus its weight when empty. | [noun] Dead load. DEFLOWERERS (18) DEFLOWERING (19) [verb] To take the virginity of (somebody), especially a woman or girl. | [verb] To deprive of flowers. | [verb] To deprive of grace and beauty. DINNERWARES (15) DISALLOWING (16) [verb] To refuse to allow | [verb] To reject as invalid, untrue, or improper DISAVOWABLE (20) DISBOWELING (18) DISBOWELLED (18) DISCROWNING (18) DISEMBOWELS (19) [verb] To take or let out the bowels or interior parts of; to eviscerate. | [verb] To take or draw from the body, as the web of a spider. DISENDOWERS (16) DISENDOWING (17) [verb] To deprive of an endowment. DISHWASHERS (21) [noun] A machine for washing dishes. | [noun] Someone who washes dishes, especially one hired to wash dishes in a restaurant. | [noun] A European bird, the wagtail. DISOWNMENTS (17) DOCKWORKERS (25) [noun] A person who works on the dock of a harbor or shipyard, usually employed to load or unload freight. DONKEYWORKS (26) DOWDINESSES (16) DOWNGRADING (18) [verb] To place lower in position. | [verb] To 'dumb down', reduce in complexity, or remove unnecessary parts. | [verb] To disparage. DOWNHEARTED (19) [adjective] Sad, discouraged, in low spirits, unhappy, having no hope DOWNHILLERS (18) [noun] Someone who is traveling downhill | [noun] A skier who participates in the downhill. DOWNLOADING (17) [verb] To transfer data from a remote computer (server) to a local computer, usually via a network. | [verb] To upload; to copy a file from a local computer to a remote computer via a network. | [verb] To transfer a file to or from removable media. DOWNPLAYING (21) [verb] To de-emphasize; to present or portray as less important or consequential. | [noun] The act by which something is downplayed, or made to seem less important. 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ELECTROWEAK (20) [adjective] Describing the combination of the electromagnetic and weak nuclear forces. EMBOWELLING (19) [verb] To enclose or bury. | [verb] To remove the bowels; disembowel. | [noun] An act of disembowelment. EMPOWERMENT (20) [noun] The achievement of political, social or economic power by an individual or group. | [noun] The process of supporting another person or persons to discover and claim personal power. | [noun] The state of being empowered (either generally, or specifically). ENAMELWARES (16) ENTRANCEWAY (19) [noun] Something that provides access to an entrance; an entryway ENWREATHING (18) [verb] To surround or encompass as with a wreath. EQUATORWARD (24) EXPRESSWAYS (26) [noun] A divided highway where intersections and direct access to adjacent properties have been eliminated. | [noun] (parts of the US) A road built to freeway standards. | [noun] A road built for high speed traffic, but not up to motorway standards or designated a motorway. FAREWELLING (18) [verb] To bid farewell or say goodbye. FARMWORKERS (23) [noun] A person hired to work on the farm or in the agricultural industry. FELLOWSHIPS (22) [noun] A company of people that share the same interest or aim. | [noun] Company, companions; a group of people or things following another. | [noun] A feeling of friendship, relatedness or connection between people. FISHERWOMAN (22) [noun] A woman who fishes. | [noun] A woman whose profession is catching fish. FISHERWOMEN (22) [noun] A woman who fishes. | [noun] A woman whose profession is catching fish. FLOODWATERS (18) [noun] The waters of a flood FLOORWALKER (21) [noun] An employee in a large shop (especially a department store) who supervises sales staff and assists customers. FLOWERETTES (17) FLOWERINESS (17) FLYSWATTERS (20) [noun] A hand-held device for swatting flies or other insects, to kill or shoo them. FOAMFLOWERS (22) FOREKNOWING (22) [noun] Foreknowledge | [verb] To have knowledge of beforehand. 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FREEWHEELER (20) [noun] A vehicle that can freewheel. | [noun] Someone acting freely or even irresponsibly. | [noun] A person who is primarily concerned with having a good time. FREEWRITING (18) FRESHWATERS (20) FROWARDNESS (18) FURBELOWING (20) [verb] To adorn with a furbelow; to ornament. GALLOWGLASS (16) [noun] A mercenary warrior élite among Gaelic-Norse clans residing in the Western Isles of Scotland and Scottish Highlands from the mid 13th century to the end of the 16th century. GAWKISHNESS (22) GENTLEWOMAN (17) [noun] A woman of the nobility. GENTLEWOMEN (17) [noun] A woman of the nobility. GHOSTWRITER (18) [noun] A professional writer who is paid to write material that is officially credited to another person; one who writes on behalf of someone else, often for a celebrity. GHOSTWRITES (18) [verb] (authorship) To write under the name of another (especially literary works). | [verb] (authorship) To author a literary work or speech in the place of another. 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GREASEWOODS (16) [noun] Spiny shrubs containing oil, of the genus Sarcobatus, native to the United States, especially Sarcobatus vermiculatus. | [noun] Any of several other North American desert shrubs with glossy or resinous leaves GREENSWARDS (16) [noun] A tract of land that is green with grass. GROUNDSWELL (16) [noun] A broad undulation of the open ocean, often as the result of a distant disturbance | [noun] (by extension) A broadly-based shifting of public opinion GROUNDWATER (16) [noun] Water that exists beneath the earth's surface in underground streams and aquifers. GROUNDWOODS (17) GROUNDWORKS (20) GROWTHINESS (18) HANDBARROWS (20) HANDWORKERS (22) HANDWRINGER (19) HANDWRITING (19) [verb] To write something manually, normally used to emphasise that it is not being typed. | [noun] The act or process of writing done with the hand, rather than typed or word-processed. | [noun] Text that was written by hand. HANDWRITTEN (18) [verb] To write something manually, normally used to emphasise that it is not being typed. | [adjective] Written with a pen or pencil, as opposed to typed HANDWROUGHT (22) HARDWORKING (23) [adjective] Of a person, taking their work seriously and doing it well and rapidly. HAWKISHNESS (24) HEADWAITERS (18) [noun] A waiter who has a supervisory position over the other wait staff; chief waiter. HEAVENWARDS (21) [adverb] Upwards, in the direction of the sky or heavens. HEAVYWEIGHT (27) [noun] A very large, heavy, or impressive person. | [noun] The professional boxing weight class for boxers weighing more than 190 pounds; a boxer in that division. | [noun] (uncountable) A similar division and contestant in other sports. HEREINBELOW (19) HIGHBROWISM (25) HOLLOWWARES (20) HOODWINKERS (22) [noun] One who hoodwinks. 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JOURNEYWORK (28) KITCHENWARE (23) [noun] Instruments and utensils found in a kitchen, particularly those associated with the preparation and serving of food. | [noun] Of or pertaining to utensils and appliances used for food preparation. KNACKWURSTS (24) [noun] A highly seasoned scalded sausage made from beef, pork, and fatty tissue similar to a frankfurter, but shorter and thicker. KNOCKWURSTS (24) [noun] A highly seasoned scalded sausage made from beef, pork, and fatty tissue similar to a frankfurter, but shorter and thicker. KNOWINGNESS (19) KWASHIORKOR (25) [noun] A form of malnutrition, found in children, caused by dietary insufficiency of protein in combination with a high-carbohydrate diet. LACQUERWARE (25) [noun] Decorative items coated with lacquer. LACQUERWORK (29) [noun] Artistic or decorative work made with lacquer. LANDOWNINGS (16) LATTICEWORK (20) [noun] A lattice or lattice-like structure; interlacing laths or strips. 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MASTERWORKS (20) [noun] A piece done to prove possession of skill sufficient to be ranked a master. | [noun] A piece of quality, indicative of having been made by a master; a masterpiece. | [noun] An act of primary importance. MAWKISHNESS (23) MEADOWLANDS (18) [noun] A tract of land cultivated as a meadow. MEADOWLARKS (21) [noun] The meadow pipit (Anthus pratensis). | [noun] Any of several songbirds of the genera Sturnella and Leistes, native to the Americas. MEADOWSWEET (20) [noun] A Eurasian perennial flowering plant of Rosaceae family, Filipendula ulmaria. | [noun] Any plant of the genus Spiraea of the Rosaceae family, native to the temperate Northern Hemisphere and consisting of about 80-100 species of shrubs. METALWORKER (20) MICROBREWER (20) MICROSWITCH (23) [noun] An electrical switch that operates with very little travel of (or pressure on) the actuator. MICROWAVING (22) [verb] To cook (something) in a microwave oven. 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NEEDLEWOMAN (17) [noun] A woman who works with a needle; a female embroiderer, sewer, etc. NEEDLEWOMEN (17) [noun] A woman who works with a needle; a female embroiderer, sewer, etc. NEEDLEWORKS (19) NETHERWORLD (18) [pronoun] The place to which one's spirit descends upon death, conceived as below the surface of the earth. | [pronoun] The locale of the spirit world or afterlife, whether deemed to be situated below the world of the living or not. | [pronoun] Specifically, a location of punishment in the afterlife; a hell. NETWORKINGS (19) NEWSCASTERS (16) [noun] One who delivers the news for broadcast on television, radio, etc; a newsreader. NEWSDEALERS (15) NEWSINESSES (14) NEWSLETTERS (14) [noun] A periodically sent publication containing current events or the like, generally on a particular topic or geared toward a limited audience. 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OUTWHIRLING (18) OUTWRESTLED (15) OUTWRESTLES (14) OVERBLOWING (20) [verb] To cover with blossoms or flowers. | [verb] To blow over; pass over; pass away. | [verb] To blow hard or with much violence. OVERBORROWS (19) [verb] To borrow too much money. OVERBROWSED (20) OVERBROWSES (19) OVERCROWDED (21) [verb] To fill beyond reasonable limits, with people, animals, objects or information. | [adjective] Containing too many occupants for an area of its size. OVERDRAWING (19) [verb] To withdraw more money from an account than there is credit; to make an overdraft | [verb] To use a device for shooting arrows shorter than the draw of the bow. | [verb] To exaggerate. OVERFLOWING (21) [verb] To flow over the brim of (a container). | [verb] To cover with a liquid, literally or figuratively. | [verb] To cause an overflow. OVERGROWING (19) [verb] To grow beyond one's boundaries or containment, or beyond the proper size. | [verb] To grow over; (of one thing) to cause (a second thing) to become overgrown (with or by the first thing). OVERGROWTHS (21) OVERPOWERED (20) [verb] To subdue someone by superior force. | [verb] To excel or exceed in power; to cause to yield; to subdue. | [verb] To render imperceptible by means of greater strength, intensity etc. OVERSHADOWS (21) [verb] To obscure something by casting a shadow. | [verb] To dominate something and make it seem insignificant. | [verb] To shelter or protect. OVERSTREWED (18) OVERSWEETEN (17) OVERWARMING (20) OVERWATERED (18) [adjective] Watered too much. OVERWEARING (18) OVERWEENING (18) [adjective] Unduly confident; arrogant | [adjective] Exaggerated, excessive. | [noun] An excessively high opinion of oneself or one’s abilities; presumption, arrogance. | [verb] To think too highly or arrogantly of (oneself). OVERWEIGHED (22) OVERWEIGHTS (21) [verb] To weigh down: to put too heavy a burden on. | [verb] To place excessive weight or emphasis on; to overestimate the importance of. OVERWETTING (18) OVERWHELMED (23) [verb] To engulf, surge over and submerge. | [verb] To overpower, crush. | [verb] To overpower emotionally. OVERWINDING (19) [verb] To wind (tighten a spring of) something excessively. | [verb] To twist itself more tightly. OVERWINTERS (17) [verb] To keep or preserve for the winter. | [verb] To spend the winter (in a particular place). OVERWORKING (22) [verb] To make (someone) work too hard. | [verb] To work too hard. | [verb] To fill too full of work; to crowd with labour. OVERWRITING (18) [verb] To destroy (older data) by recording new data over it. | [verb] To cover in writing; to write over the top of. | [verb] To write too much. OVERWRITTEN (17) [verb] To destroy (older data) by recording new data over it. | [verb] To cover in writing; to write over the top of. | [verb] To write too much. OVERWROUGHT (21) [adjective] Excessively nervous, excited, tense, angry, anxious, or upset; overemotional; very uneasy. | [adjective] Elaborate; overdone. PALMERWORMS (20) PANTYWAISTS (19) [noun] An undergarment composed, in part, of panties attached to a waistband. | [noun] An ineffectual, weak, or timid person, especially a boy or young man; a sissy. PAPERWEIGHT (22) [noun] A small, decorative, somewhat weighty object placed on one or more pieces of paper to keep them from fluttering away. | [noun] Any object used for this purpose. | [noun] A useless piece of equipment. PASSAGEWAYS (20) [noun] A covered walkway, between rooms or buildings. | [noun] Any way for passing in, out or through something. PASSAGEWORK (21) [noun] An ornamental passage in a musical work, often resembling a scale; or the performance of such a passage PAWNBROKERS (22) [noun] A person who makes monetary loans at interest, taking personal property as security – which may be sold if not redeemed. PAWNBROKING (23) PECKERWOODS (23) [noun] A woodpecker. | [noun] A peckerwood sawmill. | [noun] A white person, especially a Southerner, or one who is ignorant, rustic, or bigoted. PENNYWEIGHT (23) [noun] A unit of mass equal to 24 grains, or 1/20 of a troy ounce PENNYWORTHS (22) [noun] The amount that can be bought for a penny. | [noun] A small value or quantity. | [noun] A good bargain. PERIWINKLES (20) [noun] Any of several evergreen plants of the genus Vinca with blue or white flowers. | [noun] Similar plants of genus Catharanthus. | [noun] A color with bluish and purplish hues, somewhat light. PIECEWORKER (22) PIGEONWINGS (18) PILLOWCASES (18) [noun] A washable, easily removable cloth cover for pillows. PINWHEELING (20) [verb] To spin. PIPSISSEWAS (18) [noun] Any of several evergreen plants, of the genus Chimaphila; the prince's pine; in particular, the umbellate wintergreen, Chimaphila umbellata. PLASTERWORK (20) [noun] Architectural work executed in plaster. PLAYFELLOWS (22) [noun] Playmate; companion for someone (especially children) to play with. PLAYWRIGHTS (23) [noun] A writer and creator of theatrical plays. PLAYWRITING (20) [noun] (authorship) The writing of plays. POISONWOODS (17) POLICEWOMAN (20) [noun] A female police officer. POLICEWOMEN (20) [noun] A female police officer. POSTWEANING (17) POWERHOUSES (19) [noun] A power station. | [noun] Any source of power, energy or strength. | [noun] A very good hand of cards, likely to win. POWERLESSLY (19) PRESWEETENS (16) PREWRAPPING (21) PREWRITINGS (17) PRIZEWINNER (25) [noun] A person or thing that wins a prize. QUARTERSAWN (23) [verb] Cut radially (towards the heart of the log), at right angles to the growth rings, for stability or the production of decorative patterns. RACEWALKERS (20) RACEWALKING (21) [verb] To participate in the sport of racewalking. | [noun] A sport in which people try to walk as fast as possible, subject to the constraint that at least one foot must be on the ground at all time (or else they would be running). RAINBOWLIKE (20) [adjective] Resembling a rainbow; displaying a range of colours. RAINWASHING (18) RAWINSONDES (15) REAWAKENING (19) [verb] To wake after an extended period of sleep. | [verb] To reactivate or reanimate. | [noun] A second or subsequent awakening. REFLOWERING (18) REINTERVIEW (17) REREVIEWING (18) REWARDINGLY (19) ROPEWALKERS (20) [noun] An acrobat who performs a tightrope dance; a ropedancer. ROTTWEILERS (14) [noun] A very large muscular breed of dog of German origin with black fur and tanned markings. ROUGHHEWING (22) ROWDINESSES (15) SANDALWOODS (16) [noun] Any of various tropical trees of the genus Santalum, native or long naturalized in India, Australia, Hawaii, and many south Pacific islands. | [noun] The aromatic heartwood of these trees used in ornamental carving, in the construction of insect-repellent boxes and chests, and as a source of certain perfumes. SANDWICHING (21) [verb] To place one item between two other, usually flat, items | [verb] To put or set something between two others, in time. SCHOOLWORKS (23) SCHWARMEREI (21) SCRAWNINESS (16) SCREWDRIVER (20) [noun] A hand or machine tool which engages with the head of a screw and allows torque to be applied to turn the screw, thus driving it in or loosening it. | [noun] A drink made of vodka and orange juice. SCRIMSHAWED (22) [verb] To make an item of scrimshaw. | [verb] To engrave fanciful designs on (shells, whales' teeth, etc.). SCROLLWORKS (20) SEMIDWARVES (20) SHADOWBOXED (28) [verb] To practice moves without an actual opponent, often in front of a mirror. SHADOWBOXES (27) [noun] A diorama | [verb] To practice moves without an actual opponent, often in front of a mirror. SHADOWGRAPH (24) [noun] A shadow-picture; a radiograph or X-ray photograph; a sciagram. | [noun] An optical technique of visualizing patterns of fluid flow by using differences in refractive index | [verb] To outline in a shadow-picture on a screen. SHADOWINESS (18) SHALLOWNESS (17) [noun] The property of being shallow SHANTYTOWNS (20) [noun] An area containing a collection of shacks, shanties or makeshift dwellings. SHEARWATERS (17) [noun] Any of the long-winged pelagic seabirds of the family Procellariidae in genera Puffinus, Ardenna, and Calonectris, that breed on islands and coastal cliffs. | [noun] (by extension) Any of the entire family Procellariidae, including certain of the petrels. SHIPWRECKED (26) [verb] To wreck a boat through a collision or mishap. | [adjective] Stranded as a result of a shipwreck. SHIPWRIGHTS (23) [noun] A person who designs, builds and repairs ships, especially wooden ones. SHIRTWAISTS (17) [noun] A woman's tailored blouse, buttoned down the front. SHITTIMWOOD (20) SHOPWINDOWS (23) [noun] A large window at the front of a shop, behind which items for sale are displayed. SHOWBOATING (20) [verb] To show off. SHOWERHEADS (21) SHOWINESSES (17) SHOWMANSHIP (24) [noun] The quality or skill of giving an engaging or compelling performance; a stage presence. SHOWSTOPPER (21) [noun] A performance or segment of a theatrical production that induces a positive audience reaction strong enough to pause the production. | [noun] Any impediment that prevents all further progress; especially a software bug that must be fixed before any further development is possible. SIDESWIPING (18) [verb] To give a blow with the side, as to strike with the side of a car when turning. SIDEWINDERS (16) [noun] A North American rattlesnake, Crotalus cerastes, that inhabits lowland deserts. | [noun] A person who is untrustworthy and dangerous. | [noun] A heavy swinging blow from the side which disables an adversary. SILVERWARES (17) SILVERWEEDS (18) SKYWRITINGS (22) SLEEPWALKED (21) [verb] To walk and/or perform other actions while sleeping; to somnambulate. SLEEPWALKER (20) SMALLSWORDS (17) [noun] A light one-handed sword, designed for thrusting, which evolved out of the longer and heavier rapier of the late Renaissance. SNEEZEWEEDS (24) SNOWBALLING (17) [verb] To rapidly grow out of proportion or control. | [verb] To play at throwing snowballs. | [verb] To pelt with snowballs; to throw snowballs at. SNOWBERRIES (16) [noun] A shrub bearing white berries: | [noun] The fruit of shrubs of these genera. 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SWINISHNESS (17) SWITCHBACKS (27) [noun] A zigzag path, road or railway track; especially a railway track in which the train travels in a reverse direction at each switch | [noun] A hairpin bend. | [noun] A roller coaster. SWITCHBLADE (22) [noun] A folding knife with a blade which opens automatically (under spring pressure) when a button is pressed. | [verb] To attack or cut with a switchblade. | [verb] To spring open or up. SWITCHBOARD (22) [noun] The electronic panel that is used to direct telephone calls to the desired recipient. | [noun] A device that directs electricity from one source to another. SWITCHEROOS (19) [noun] A sneaky, unexpected, or clever swap or exchange. | [verb] To swap or exchange surreptitiously. SWITCHGRASS (20) [noun] A tall North American perennial grass, Panicum virgatum, used as forage and to make hay. SWITCHYARDS (23) [noun] Part of a railway with an arrangement of switches (or points) allowing trains to be diverted and reassembled. 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TYPEWRITERS (19) [noun] A device, at least partially mechanical, used to print text by pressing keys that cause type to be impressed through an inked ribbon onto paper. | [noun] One who uses a typewriter; a typist. | [noun] A machine gun (from the noise it makes when firing). TYPEWRITING (20) TYPEWRITTEN (19) UNAWARENESS (14) UNBEKNOWNST (20) [adverb] (followed by to) without the knowledge of UNDERGROWTH (19) [noun] The plants in a forest which only reach a relatively low height (such as shrubs and bushes). UNDERWEIGHT (19) [noun] The state or quality of being underweight. | [noun] An underweight person. | [verb] To underestimate the weight of. UNDERWHELMS (20) [verb] To fail to impress; to perform disappointingly. UNDERWORLDS (16) [noun] The world of the dead, located underneath the world of the living; the afterlife. | [noun] That part of society that is engaged in crime or vice. | [noun] The portion of a game that is set below ground. 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WATERPOWERS (19) WATERPROOFS (19) [noun] A substance or preparation for rendering cloth, leather, etc., impervious to water. | [noun] Cloth made waterproof, or any article made of such cloth, or of other waterproof material, as rubber; especially, an outer garment made of such material. | [verb] To make waterproof or water-resistant. WATERSCAPES (18) [noun] An aquatic landscape; a view or site prominently involving water. WATERSKIING (19) [noun] The sport of riding on water skis, whilst being towed by a motorboat. WATERSPOUTS (16) [noun] A whirlwind that forms over water, not associated with a mesocyclone of a thunderstorm (contrary to a true tornado). | [noun] A true tornado that passes over a body of water. | [noun] A channel through which water is discharged, especially from the gutters of a roof. WATERTHRUSH (20) [noun] Either of two New World warblers, Parkesia motacilla (the Louisiana waterthrush) and Parkesia noveboracensis (the Northern waterthrush). WATERWHEELS (20) [noun] A wheel, propelled by running or falling water, used to power machinery. | [noun] A wheel with buckets used to raise water. WATTLEBIRDS (17) [noun] Any of a group of Australian birds in the genus Anthochaera of the honeyeater family Meliphagidae. | [noun] Any of three birds in the family Callaeidae, endemic to New Zealand. WAVELENGTHS (21) [noun] The length of a single cycle of a wave, as measured by the distance between one peak or trough of a wave and the next; it is often designated in physics as λ, and corresponds to the velocity of the wave divided by its frequency. 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WHEELHORSES (20) WHEELHOUSES (20) [noun] A building or other structure containing a (large) wheel, such as the water wheel of a mill. | [noun] A prehistoric structure from the Iron Age found in Scotland, characteristically including an outer wall within which a circle of stone piers (resembling the spokes of a wheel) form the basis for lintel arches supporting corbelled roofing with a hearth at the hub. | [noun] (by extension from sense 1.2) A pitch location which is favourable to the hitter. WHEELWRIGHT (24) [noun] A person who builds and repairs wheels, especially wooden spoked ones. WHEREABOUTS (19) [noun] Location; where something is situated. | [adverb] In, at or near what location WHERESOEVER (20) [adverb] Wherever | [conjunction] Wherever WHEREWITHAL (23) [noun] The ability and means required to accomplish some task. | [adverb] In what way; how. 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WHITEWASHED (24) [verb] To paint over with a lime and water mixture so as to brighten up a wall or fence. | [verb] To cover over errors or bad actions. | [verb] To repay the financial debts of (another person). WHITEWASHER (23) WHITEWASHES (23) [noun] A lime and water mixture for painting walls and fences bright white. | [noun] A complete victory or series of victories without suffering any losses; a clean sweep. | [noun] Any liquid composition for whitening something, such as a wash for making the skin fair. WHITHERWARD (24) WHOLENESSES (17) WHOLESALERS (17) [noun] A person or company that buys merchandise from manufacturers, importers, or distributors and resells the merchandise to retail businesses and to business and institutional end users. WHOLESALING (18) [verb] To sell at wholesale. WHOLESOMELY (22) WHOREHOUSES (20) [noun] Brothel. WHOREMASTER (19) [noun] A man who uses the services of prostitutes. | [noun] A pimp. | [noun] An exploiter of people. 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WINDLESTRAW (18) WINDMILLING (18) [verb] To rotate with a sweeping motion. | [verb] Of a rotating part of a machine, to (become disengaged and) rotate freely. | [noun] The process of milling with a windmill. WINDOWPANES (20) [noun] A piece of glass filling a window or a section of a window | [noun] A quadruple dose of liquid LSD. WINDOWSILLS (18) [noun] The horizontal member protruding from the base of a window frame WINDSCREENS (17) [noun] A transparent screen made of glass, located at the front of a vehicle in order to protect its occupants from the wind and weather | [noun] A cover for a microphone to exclude airy noises such as wind and breathing. WINDSHIELDS (19) [noun] A transparent screen made of glass, located at the front and back of a vehicle in front of its occupants to protect them from the wind and weather. | [noun] A cover for a microphone to exclude airy noises such as wind and breathing. WINDSURFING (19) [verb] To ride a surfboard that has an attached sail | [noun] A marine sport in which one stands on a floating board (typically 2 - 3 meters in length) to which a sail is attached. The board is steered by tilting the sail or banking the board. Some windsurfers use large waves to perform jumps and other stunts. WINEGLASSES (15) [noun] A glass vessel, normally with a stem, from which wine is drunk. WINEGROWERS (18) [noun] A person or company that owns a vineyard and produces wine. WINEPRESSES (16) [noun] A device used to squeeze juice from grapes as the first part of the process of winemaking. WINGSPREADS (18) [noun] The distance between the extreme tips of the wings of a bird, insect or aircraft. WINSOMENESS (16) WINTERBERRY (19) [noun] A species of holly native to the United States and Canada and producing red berries, Ilex verticillata. | [noun] The fruit of this plant. WINTERGREEN (15) [noun] Any evergreen plant. | [noun] One of various unrelated evergreen plants, including: | [noun] The spicy red berries of Gaultheria procumbens. WINTERIZING (24) [verb] To prepare (something) for winter weather. | [verb] To remove the saturated fats from (a vegetable oil) by cooling and filtering it, so that it does not go cloudy in the winter. WINTERKILLS (18) WINTERTIDES (15) WINTERTIMES (16) WIREDRAWERS (18) WIREDRAWING (19) [verb] To stretch (some physical thing) out, as though drawing wire; to elongate. | [verb] To stretch (words, a meaning etc.) to suit one's own purpose. | [noun] The stretching of words, etc. to suit one's own purposes. WIRELESSING (15) WIRETAPPERS (18) WIRETAPPING (19) [verb] To install or to use such a connection. | [noun] The installation or monitoring of wiretaps. WISECRACKED (23) [verb] To make a sarcastic, flippant, or sardonic comment. WISECRACKER (22) WISENHEIMER (19) [noun] (mildly humorous) A self-assertive and arrogant person; a know-it-all or smart aleck. WISHFULNESS (20) WISPINESSES (16) WISTFULNESS (17) WITCHCRAFTS (24) WITENAGEMOT (17) [noun] (history, usually uncountable, sometimes countable) Any of several assemblies which existed in Anglo-Saxon England from the 7th to the 11th century, initially with regional jurisdiction (there being different ones in Essex, Kent, Mercia, Northumbria, Sussex and Wessex), later with national jurisdiction, made up of important noblemen. | [noun] (history) A specific session of such an assembly. WITHDRAWALS (21) [noun] Receiving from someone's care what one has earlier entrusted to them. Usually refers to money. | [noun] A method of birth control which consists of removing the penis from the vagina before ejaculation. | [noun] A type of metabolic shock the body undergoes when a substance, usually a toxin such as heroin, to which a patient is dependent is withheld. Sometimes used with the substance as modifier. WITHDRAWING (22) [verb] To pull (something) back, aside, or away. | [verb] To stop talking to, or interacting with, other people and start thinking thoughts that are not related to what is happening around. | [verb] To take back (a comment, etc); retract. WITHERINGLY (21) WITHERSHINS (20) [adverb] Anti-clockwise, in the contrary direction, especially to the left or opposite to the direction of the sun. WITHHOLDERS (21) WITHHOLDING (22) [verb] To keep (a physical object that one has obtained) to oneself rather than giving it back to its owner. | [verb] To keep (information, assent etc) to oneself rather than revealing it. | [verb] To stay back. WITHINDOORS (18) WITLESSNESS (14) WITTINESSES (14) WOLFBERRIES (19) [noun] Any of flowering species of the genus Lycium. | [noun] Lycium barbarum or Lycium chinense | [noun] The berry of this plant. WOLFISHNESS (20) WOLFRAMITES (19) WOMANLINESS (16) WOMANPOWERS (21) WONDERFULLY (21) [adverb] In a wonderful manner. | [adverb] To an extent inspiring wonder. WONDERLANDS (16) [noun] An imaginary or real place full of wonder or marvels. WONDERMENTS (17) WONDERWORKS (22) WOODCHOPPER (24) WOODCUTTERS (17) [noun] A person who cuts down trees; a lumberjack. | [noun] A person who cuts wood. | [noun] A person who makes woodcuts. WOODCUTTING (18) WOODENHEADS (19) WOODENWARES (18) WOODINESSES (15) WOODLANDERS (16) [noun] A dweller in a woodland. WOODPECKERS (23) [noun] Any bird of many-species subfamily Picinae, with a sharp beak suitable for pecking holes in wood. | [noun] Type 92 heavy machine gun WOODSHEDDED (21) [verb] To practice or rehearse using a musical instrument. WOODWORKERS (22) WOODWORKING (23) [noun] The crafts of carpentry, cabinet making and related skills of making things from wood. WOOZINESSES (23) WORDINESSES (15) WORDMONGERS (18) WORKABILITY (23) WORKAHOLICS (23) [noun] A person who feels compelled to work excessively. WORKAHOLISM (23) [noun] The urge of a person to work excessively. WORKBASKETS (24) [noun] A basket used to hold materials for needlework, etc. WORKBENCHES (25) [noun] A sturdy bench or table at which manual work is done by a carpenter, machinist, etc. WORKMANLIKE (24) [adjective] Resembling or characteristic of a workman. | [adjective] Done competently but without flair. | [adjective] Performed with the skill of an artisan or craftsman. WORKMANSHIP (25) [noun] The skill of an artisan or craftsman. | [noun] The quality of something made by an artisan or craftsman. WORKSTATION (18) [noun] A desktop computer, normally more powerful than a normal PC and often dedicated to a specific task, such as graphics | [noun] An area, at a workplace, for a single worker WORLDLINESS (15) [noun] The quality of being worldly; familiarity with the ways of the world. WORRISOMELY (19) WORSHIPLESS (19) WORSHIPPERS (21) [noun] A person who worships, especially at a place of assembly for religious services. WORSHIPPING (22) [verb] To reverence (a deity, etc.) with supreme respect and veneration; to perform religious exercises in honour of. | [verb] To honour with extravagant love and extreme submission, as a lover; to adore; to idolize. | [verb] To participate in religious ceremonies. WORTHLESSLY (20) WRAPAROUNDS (17) [noun] A garment that is wrapped around the body and tied. | [noun] A label or advertising display that wraps around a container. | [noun] A segment where material featuring one person (such as a reporter) is introduced and concluded by another person. WRENCHINGLY (23) WRETCHEDEST (20) [adjective] Very miserable; feeling deep affliction or distress. | [adjective] Worthless; paltry; very poor or mean; miserable. | [adjective] Hatefully contemptible; despicable; wicked. WRONGDOINGS (17) [noun] Violation of standards of behavior. | [noun] An instance of doing wrong. WRONGHEADED (20) [adjective] Having an obstinately (persistently, stubbornly) perverse/erroneous opinion or judgement. WRONGNESSES (15) YELLOWTAILS (17) [noun] Yellowtail amberjack (Seriola lalandi). | [noun] A fish native to the northwest Pacific, often used in sushi, the Japanese amberjack (Seriola quinqueradiata). | [noun] Any of various fish with yellow tails, including: YELLOWWARES (20) YELLOWWOODS (21) [noun] Any of the tree genus Cladrastis. | [noun] Flindersia xanthoxyla, a tall rainforest tree of Australia. | [noun] The osage orange tree. YOKEFELLOWS (24) ZWITTERIONS (23) [noun] A molecule, such as an amino acid, that carries both a positive and a negative charge.

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ACKNOWLEDGED (24) [verb] To admit the knowledge of; to recognize as a fact or truth; to declare one's belief in | [verb] To own or recognize in a particular quality, character or relationship; to admit the claims or authority of; to give recognition to. | [verb] To be grateful of (e.g. a benefit or a favour) ACKNOWLEDGES (23) [verb] To admit the knowledge of; to recognize as a fact or truth; to declare one's belief in | [verb] To own or recognize in a particular quality, character or relationship; to admit the claims or authority of; to give recognition to. | [verb] To be grateful of (e.g. a benefit or a favour) ATHWARTSHIPS (23) [adverb] Across the width of a ship from one side to the other; in a direction perpendicular to the length of a ship. BACKWARDNESS (24) [noun] The state of being backward. | [noun] Reluctance. BACKWOODSMAN (26) [noun] A person who is acclimated to living in a forest area that is far removed from civilization or modern conveniences. | [noun] An uncivilized person. | [noun] (UK politics) A Peer who is seldom present in the House of Lords of the United Kingdom Parliament, who may be encouraged to attend when a very important vote is expected. BACKWOODSMEN (26) [noun] A person who is acclimated to living in a forest area that is far removed from civilization or modern conveniences. | [noun] An uncivilized person. | [noun] (UK politics) A Peer who is seldom present in the House of Lords of the United Kingdom Parliament, who may be encouraged to attend when a very important vote is expected. BANTAMWEIGHT (23) [noun] A weight class in boxing and other sports, intermediate between flyweight and featherweight. In boxing it ranges from 112 to 118 pounds (51 to 54 kg). | [noun] A boxer or other competitor of this weight. BATTLEWAGONS (18) [noun] Plural of battlewagon; large, heavily armored warships, typically battleships. | [noun] In informal usage, large, powerful vehicles or machines. BENCHWARMERS (24) [noun] A player who rarely or never gets to play in the games or matches, and is most often a substitute. BETWEENBRAIN (19) BETWEENTIMES (19) [noun] The space or time between two things; intervals or pauses. | [adverb] During the intervening time; occasionally or at intervals. BEWILDEREDLY (22) [adverb] In a confused or bewildered manner; with a state of perplexity or disorientation. BEWILDERMENT (20) [noun] The state of being bewildered. | [noun] A confusing or perplexing situation. BEWITCHERIES (22) [noun] Plural of bewitchery; the action or practice of bewitching or casting spells. | [noun] Delightful or captivating qualities that enchant or charm someone. BEWITCHINGLY (26) [adverb] In a manner that enchants, charms, or fascinates irresistibly. BEWITCHMENTS (24) [noun] Plural of bewitchment; the state of being under a spell or magical influence. | [noun] Acts or instances of bewitching or enchanting someone. BITTERSWEETS (17) [noun] Solanum dulcamara. | [noun] Bittersweetness. | [noun] A vine, of the genus Celastrus, having small orange fruit that open to reveal red seeds. BLADDERWORTS (19) [noun] Any of many aquatic carnivorous plants, of the genus Utricularia, that have open bladders that trap minute insects and crustaceans. BOWDLERISING (19) [verb] To remove or alter those parts of a text considered offensive, vulgar, or otherwise unseemly. BOWDLERIZERS (27) [noun] Plural of bowdlerizer, one who edits or censors a text by removing words or passages considered indecent or offensive. | [verb] Third person singular present tense of bowdlerize, to remove objectionable parts from a book or other text. BOWDLERIZING (28) [verb] To remove or alter those parts of a text considered offensive, vulgar, or otherwise unseemly. BRAINWASHERS (20) [noun] Plural of brainwasher; people who engage in brainwashing, the process of systematically changing someone's beliefs through psychological pressure or manipulation. | [noun] In informal usage, those who attempt to influence others' thoughts or opinions through intensive persuasion or propaganda. BRAINWASHING (21) [noun] A form of indoctrination that forces people to abandon their beliefs in favour of another set of beliefs by conditioning through various forms of pressure or torture | [verb] To affect one's mind by using extreme mental pressure or any other mind-affecting process. (e.g. hypnosis) | [verb] To take from an electronically controlled machine its stored-up information; to erase a computer's programming. (1960) BRAWNINESSES (17) [noun] The plural of brawniness; the quality or state of being brawny, muscular, or strong. BREADWINNERS (18) [noun] The primary income-earner in a household. BREADWINNING (19) [verb] Present participle of breadwin, meaning to serve as the primary earner of income for one's family. | [noun] The act of being the main income earner in a household. BULLWHIPPING (25) [verb] To beat with a bullwhip. | [noun] A beating with a bullwhip. BUSHWHACKERS (29) [noun] One who travels through the woods, off the designated path. | [noun] A person who lives in the bush, especially as a fugitive; a person who clears woods and bush country. | [noun] A guerrilla (of either side) during the American Civil War. BUSHWHACKING (30) [verb] To travel through thick wooded country, cutting away scrub to make progress | [verb] To fight, as a guerilla, especially in wooded country | [verb] To ambush CABBAGEWORMS (24) [noun] Any of various lepidopterans whose larvae feed on cabbages and other cole crops. CABINETWORKS (23) CALLOWNESSES (17) [noun] The plural of callowness; the quality or state of being callow, immature, or inexperienced. CANDLEPOWERS (20) [noun] The plural of candlepower, a unit of luminous intensity equal to the light produced by a standard candle. CARRIAGEWAYS (21) [noun] The part of a road that carries traffic. CARRYFORWARD (24) [noun] An amount of money, credits, or other value that is transferred from one accounting period to the next. | [verb] To transfer an amount forward to a subsequent period or account. CARTWHEELERS (20) [noun] Plural of cartwheeler; people or things that perform cartwheels. | [noun] In gymnastics or acrobatics, athletes who specialize in or perform cartwheels. CARTWHEELING (21) [verb] To perform the gymnastics feat of a cartwheel. | [verb] To flip end over end: normally said of a crashing vehicle or aircraft. CATERWAULING (18) [verb] To cry as cats in heat; to make a harsh, offensive noise. | [verb] To have a noisy argument, like cats. | [noun] A sound that caterwauls. CAULIFLOWERS (20) [noun] Brassica oleracea var. botrytis, an annual variety of cabbage, of which the cluster of young flower stalks and buds is eaten as a vegetable. | [noun] The edible head or curd of a cauliflower plant. | [noun] The swelling of a cauliflower ear. CHOWDERHEADS (25) [noun] An idiot; a dummy. CHUCKAWALLAS (26) [noun] Large lizards found in the southwestern United States and Mexico that inhabit rocky desert areas and can inflate their bodies when threatened. CHURCHWARDEN (26) [noun] A lay officer of the Church of England who handles the secular affairs of the parish. | [noun] A similar functionary of the Episcopal church. | [noun] A churchwarden pipe. CLAPPERCLAWS (23) [verb] To scratch or claw at someone; to engage in a fight or quarrel with scratching and clawing motions. | [noun] A person who scratches or claws; a quarrelsome person. CLOWNISHNESS (20) [noun] The quality or behavior of being like a clown; foolish, silly, or ridiculous conduct. COCHAIRWOMAN (24) [noun] A woman who shares the position of chairperson with another person or persons. COCHAIRWOMEN (24) [noun] Plural of cochairwoman; women who share the position of chair or chairperson of a committee, organization, or event. COLLYWOBBLES (24) [noun] Stomachache or stomach upset. | [noun] Anxiety, fear, uneasiness. COMMONWEALTH (24) [noun] The well-being of a community. | [noun] The entirety of a (secular) society, a polity, a state. | [noun] Republic. Often capitalized, as Commonwealth. COMPANIONWAY (24) [noun] A staircase or ladder from one deck to another on a ship CONTRARIWISE (17) [adverb] In the contrary or opposite way, order, or direction | [adverb] On the other hand CORKSCREWING (24) [verb] To wind or twist in the manner of a corkscrew; to move with much horizontal and vertical shifting. | [verb] To cause something to twist or move in a spiral path or shape. | [verb] To extract information or consent from someone. COUNCILWOMAN (21) [noun] A female member of a council, especially a city council; now often replaced by gender-neutral councilor (British, councillor). COUNCILWOMEN (21) [noun] A female member of a council, especially a city council; now often replaced by gender-neutral councilor (British, councillor). COUNTERBLOWS (19) COUNTERFLOWS (20) [noun] A flow in the opposite direction; or the flow of two fluids in opposite directions COUNTERPOWER (19) COUNTERVIEWS (20) COUNTERWORLD (18) COUNTRYWOMAN (22) [noun] A female compatriot | [noun] A woman who lives in the country or has retained country ways COUNTRYWOMEN (22) [noun] A female compatriot | [noun] A woman who lives in the country or has retained country ways COWARDLINESS (18) CRACKLEWARES (23) CREDITWORTHY (24) [adjective] Deemed likely to repay debts. | [adjective] Having an acceptable credit rating. CUCKOOFLOWER (26) [noun] Either of two flowering plants DEATHWATCHES (24) [noun] A vigil beside a dying person | [noun] One who guards a condemned person before execution. | [noun] A deathwatch beetle. DISALLOWANCE (18) DISBOWELLING (19) DISEMBOWELED (21) [verb] To take or let out the bowels or interior parts of; to eviscerate. | [verb] To take or draw from the body, as the web of a spider. DISENDOWMENT (19) DOWNLOADABLE (19) [noun] Something that can be downloaded. | [adjective] Capable of being downloaded. DOWNSHIFTING (23) [verb] To shift a transmission into a lower gear. | [verb] To function at a lower rate. | [verb] To make less controversial or risky. DOWNWARDNESS (20) DROWSINESSES (16) DWARFISHNESS (22) EARTHENWARES (18) EARWITNESSES (15) [noun] A witness who gives evidence of what he or she has heard. | [verb] To hear an event directly. EMPOWERMENTS (21) [noun] The achievement of political, social or economic power by an individual or group. | [noun] The process of supporting another person or persons to discover and claim personal power. | [noun] The state of being empowered (either generally, or specifically). ENTRANCEWAYS (20) [noun] Something that provides access to an entrance; an entryway EYEWITNESSES (18) [noun] Someone who sees an event and can report or testify about it. FALLOWNESSES (18) FELLOWSHIPED (24) FLAMETHROWER (23) [noun] A device that projects a flame for starting fires, and sometimes also additional fuel to help ignition. Used either as a weapon or a tool. FLAWLESSNESS (18) FLOORWALKERS (22) [noun] An employee in a large shop (especially a department store) who supervises sales staff and assists customers. FLOWCHARTING (24) FOLLOWERSHIP (23) FORESHADOWED (23) [verb] To presage, or suggest something in advance. FORESHADOWER (22) FORESWEARING (19) FREEWHEELERS (21) [noun] A vehicle that can freewheel. | [noun] Someone acting freely or even irresponsibly. | [noun] A person who is primarily concerned with having a good time. FREEWHEELING (22) [verb] (of a gear) To continue spinning after disengagement. | [verb] (of a cyclist) To ride a bicycle without pedalling, e.g. downhill. | [verb] (of a motorist) To operate a motor vehicle which is coasting without power, e.g. downhill. FREEWRITINGS (19) GHOSTWRITERS (19) [noun] A professional writer who is paid to write material that is officially credited to another person; one who writes on behalf of someone else, often for a celebrity. GHOSTWRITING (20) [verb] (authorship) To write under the name of another (especially literary works). | [verb] (authorship) To author a literary work or speech in the place of another. | [noun] Writing for pay without the expectation of receiving credit by name. GHOSTWRITTEN (19) [adjective] Written by a ghostwriter. GILLYFLOWERS (22) [noun] Clove pink. | [noun] Any clove-scented flower. | [noun] Any of several species of wallflower. GLASSBLOWERS (18) GLASSBLOWING (19) [noun] The art of making objects from molten glass, especially by manipulating a lump of molten glass on the end of a tube whilst blowing into it. GLASSWORKERS (20) GLOBEFLOWERS (21) [noun] Trollius europaeus, a plant with globe-shaped flowers. | [noun] Trollius laxus, a similar American plant. | [noun] More generally, any plant of the genus Trollius. GRANDNEPHEWS (22) [noun] A grandson of one's sibling; a son of one's nephew or niece. (Brother's grandson: fraternal grandnephew. Sister's grandson: sororal grandnephew.) GRANITEWARES (16) GROUNDSWELLS (17) [noun] A broad undulation of the open ocean, often as the result of a distant disturbance | [noun] (by extension) A broadly-based shifting of public opinion GROUNDWATERS (17) GROWLINESSES (16) HANDWRINGERS (20) HANDWRITINGS (20) HEARTWARMING (21) [adjective] Eliciting cosy feelings of tenderness and sympathy. HEAVYWEIGHTS (28) [noun] A very large, heavy, or impressive person. | [noun] The professional boxing weight class for boxers weighing more than 190 pounds; a boxer in that division. | [noun] (uncountable) A similar division and contestant in other sports. HENCEFORWARD (24) [adverb] From now on; from this time on HIGHBROWISMS (26) HOLLOWNESSES (18) HORNSWOGGLED (21) [verb] To deceive or trick. HORNSWOGGLES (20) [verb] To deceive or trick. HORSEWHIPPED (26) [verb] To flog or lash with a horsewhip. HORSEWHIPPER (25) HOUSEWARMING (21) [noun] A party to celebrate moving into a new home. | [noun] The act of welcoming a person/family to their newly purchased or newly rented home. INTERGROWTHS (19) [noun] A growing together and through each other of two crystals. INTERTWINING (16) [verb] To twine something together. | [verb] To become twined together. | [noun] The pattern or motion of something that intertwines. INTERTWISTED (16) [verb] To twist together; to intertwine INTERVIEWEES (18) [noun] Someone being interviewed, i.e. the person answering the questions. INTERVIEWERS (18) [noun] One who interviews. INTERVIEWING (19) [verb] To ask questions of (somebody); to have an interview. | [verb] To be interviewed; to attend an interview. INTERWEAVING (19) [verb] To combine through weaving. | [verb] To intermingle. | [noun] The motion or position of things that interweave; an elaborate tangle. INTERWORKING (20) [noun] Interoperability. INWARDNESSES (16) JOURNEYWORKS (29) KITCHENWARES (24) KWASHIORKORS (26) LACQUERWARES (26) LACQUERWORKS (30) LATTICEWORKS (21) LAWBREAKINGS (22) LAWFULNESSES (18) LEATHERWOODS (19) [noun] A deciduous shrub, of the genus Dirca, that has leathery bark | [noun] A subalpine shrub or small tree found only in New Zealand, Olearia colensoi LIGHTWEIGHTS (23) [noun] A particular weight class, or member of such, as prescribed by the rules, between that of the heavier welterweight and the lighter featherweight. See Wikipedia for the specifics of each sport. | [noun] A particular weight category as prescribed by the rules, separate from an open or heavyweight class. | [noun] A competitive weight division as prescribed by the rules, between the heavier middleweight and the lighter featherweight. LUKEWARMNESS (21) MARSHMALLOWS (22) [noun] A species of mallow, Althaea officinalis, that grows in marshy terrain. | [noun] A type of confectionery, originally (since Ancient Egyptian times) made from this plant, but now generally made of sugar or corn syrup, gelatin that has been pre-softened in water, gum arabic, flavorings, and sometimes beaten egg whites, all whipped to a spongy consistency. | [noun] Someone who is soft and benign. MARSHMALLOWY (25) MEADOWSWEETS (21) [noun] A Eurasian perennial flowering plant of Rosaceae family, Filipendula ulmaria. | [noun] Any plant of the genus Spiraea of the Rosaceae family, native to the temperate Northern Hemisphere and consisting of about 80-100 species of shrubs. MELLOWNESSES (17) METALWORKERS (21) METALWORKING (22) MICROBREWERS (21) MICROBREWERY (24) [noun] A small commercial brewery, often one serving a single pub at which it is physically located; in the United States, often used to indicate a brewery that produces fewer than 15,000 barrels of beer annually. MICROBREWING (22) MICROWAVABLE (24) MIDDLEWEIGHT (23) [noun] A weight class in professional boxing between light middleweight or welterweight and super middleweight or cruiserweight; a similar division in wrestling and other sports | [noun] A boxer who fights in this division; a similar wrestler etc | [noun] (by extension) An employee ranking anywhere between junior and senior. MINESWEEPERS (19) [noun] A vehicle, device or person with the purpose of removing explosive mines (landmines or water mines). | [noun] A logic-based computer game in which the player has to discover the position of mines in a rectangular grid, based on numerical hints. MINESWEEPING (20) MISKNOWLEDGE (23) MULLIGATAWNY (21) [noun] An Indian soup having a meat base and curry seasoning. MULTITOWERED (18) MULTIWARHEAD (21) NARROWNESSES (15) NEEDLEWORKER (20) NETHERWORLDS (19) NEWSMAGAZINE (27) NEWSPAPERING (20) NEWSPAPERMAN (21) [noun] A man who works in the production of the text of a newspaper; a reporter, editor, etc. NEWSPAPERMEN (21) [noun] A man who works in the production of the text of a newspaper; a reporter, editor, etc. NEWSWEEKLIES (22) NEWSWRITINGS (19) NIGHTWALKERS (23) [noun] A vampire. 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OVERBROWSING (21) OVERCROWDING (22) [verb] To fill beyond reasonable limits, with people, animals, objects or information. | [noun] The situation where a space holds more occupants than it can comfortably accommodate. OVERPOWERING (21) [verb] To subdue someone by superior force. | [verb] To excel or exceed in power; to cause to yield; to subdue. | [verb] To render imperceptible by means of greater strength, intensity etc. OVERSHADOWED (23) [verb] To obscure something by casting a shadow. | [verb] To dominate something and make it seem insignificant. | [verb] To shelter or protect. OVERSTREWING (19) OVERSWEETENS (18) OVERSWINGING (20) OVERTHROWING (22) [verb] To bring about the downfall of (a government, etc.), especially by force. | [verb] To throw down to the ground, to overturn. | [verb] To throw (something) so that it goes too far. OVERWATERING (19) [verb] To water too much. 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ACKNOWLEDGING (25) [verb] To admit the knowledge of; to recognize as a fact or truth; to declare one's belief in | [verb] To own or recognize in a particular quality, character or relationship; to admit the claims or authority of; to give recognition to. | [verb] To be grateful of (e.g. a benefit or a favour) AIRWORTHINESS (19) [noun] The quality or state of being safe and fit to fly, as certified for an aircraft. ANTICLOCKWISE (24) [adjective] (South Africa, AU, of movement) in a circular fashion so as to be moving to the left at the top of the circle and to the right at the bottom (when viewed from the front), in the opposite direction to the way the hands of an analogue clock move. | [adverb] In an anticlockwise fashion. ASSEMBLYWOMAN (25) [noun] A female member of an assembly. | [noun] A member of the lower house of certain US state legislatures. ASSEMBLYWOMEN (25) [noun] A female member of an assembly. | [noun] A member of the lower house of certain US state legislatures. AWESOMENESSES (18) [noun] The plural of awesomeness; the quality or state of being awesome or inspiring awe. AWKWARDNESSES (24) [noun] The state or quality of being awkward; clumsiness; unskillfulness. | [noun] The quality of an embarrassing situation. BANTAMWEIGHTS (24) [noun] A weight class in boxing and other sports, intermediate between flyweight and featherweight. In boxing it ranges from 112 to 118 pounds (51 to 54 kg). | [noun] A boxer or other competitor of this weight. BETWEENBRAINS (20) BETWEENNESSES (18) [noun] The quality or state of being between two things or positions. | [noun] In geometry, the property of a point lying on a line segment between two other points. BETWEENWHILES (24) [adverb] During the intervening time; at intervals; now and then. BEWILDERINGLY (23) [adverb] In a manner that causes confusion or perplexity; confusingly. BEWILDERMENTS (21) [noun] The state of being bewildered. | [noun] A confusing or perplexing situation. BITTERSWEETLY (21) [adverb] In a manner that is both bitter and sweet; with mixed feelings of pleasure and pain or joy and sorrow. BLANKETFLOWER (25) [noun] A North American wildflower of the genus Gaillardia, typically having red and yellow flowers. BRAILLEWRITER (18) BRAINWASHINGS (22) [noun] The plural form of brainwashing, referring to multiple instances or types of systematic efforts to change someone's beliefs or behaviors through psychological manipulation and coercion. BREADWINNINGS (20) BUSINESSWOMAN (20) [noun] A woman involved in business. BUSINESSWOMEN (20) [noun] A woman involved in business. CARRYFORWARDS (25) [noun] Amounts or balances transferred from one accounting period to the next. | [noun] In sports, leads or advantages maintained from one game or competition to another. CAULIFLOWERET (21) CHOWDERHEADED (27) [adjective] Stupid or foolish; having a blockhead or dull mind. CHURCHWARDENS (27) [noun] A lay officer of the Church of England who handles the secular affairs of the parish. | [noun] A similar functionary of the Episcopal church. | [noun] A churchwarden pipe. CLAPPERCLAWED (25) COMMONWEALTHS (25) [noun] The well-being of a community. | [noun] The entirety of a (secular) society, a polity, a state. | [noun] Republic. Often capitalized, as Commonwealth. COMPANIONWAYS (25) [noun] A staircase or ladder from one deck to another on a ship CONGRESSWOMAN (21) [noun] A female member of congress | [noun] A female member of the House of Representatives CONGRESSWOMEN (21) [noun] A female member of congress | [noun] A female member of the House of Representatives CORDWAINERIES (19) [noun] Shops or businesses where cordwain (a type of leather) is made or sold, or the craft of making cordwain leather goods. COUNTERPOWERS (20) COUNTERWEIGHT (22) [noun] A heavy mass of often iron or concrete, mechanically linked in opposition to a load which is to be raised and lowered, with the intent of reducing the amount of work which must be done to effect the raising and lowering. Counterweights are used, for example, in cable-hauled elevators and some kinds of movable bridges (e.g. a bascule bridge). | [verb] To fit with a counterweight. COUNTERWORLDS (19) CROWDEDNESSES (20) CUCKOOFLOWERS (27) [noun] Either of two flowering plants DISALLOWANCES (19) DISEMBOWELING (22) [verb] To take or let out the bowels or interior parts of; to eviscerate. | [verb] To take or draw from the body, as the web of a spider. | [noun] The act by which somebody is disemboweled. DISEMBOWELLED (22) [verb] To take or let out the bowels or interior parts of; to eviscerate. | [verb] To take or draw from the body, as the web of a spider. DISENDOWMENTS (20) DOWNHEARTEDLY (24) DOWNRIGHTNESS (21) FEATHERWEIGHT (26) [noun] A weight class in many combat sports; e.g. in professional boxing of a maximum of 126 pounds or 57.2 kilograms. | [noun] A sportsman who fights in this division. | [noun] The lightest weight that may be carried by a racehorse. FELLOWSHIPING (25) FELLOWSHIPPED (27) FLAMETHROWERS (24) [noun] A device that projects a flame for starting fires, and sometimes also additional fuel to help ignition. Used either as a weapon or a tool. FLOWCHARTINGS (25) FLOWERINESSES (19) FOLLOWERSHIPS (24) FOREKNOWLEDGE (25) [noun] Knowing beforehand, prescience, foresight, precognition FORESHADOWERS (23) FORESHADOWING (24) [verb] To presage, or suggest something in advance. | [noun] (authorship, usually uncountable) A literary device whereby an author drops hints or symbolic representations of plot developments to come later in the story. FORWARDNESSES (20) FROWARDNESSES (20) GALLOWGLASSES (18) [noun] A mercenary warrior élite among Gaelic-Norse clans residing in the Western Isles of Scotland and Scottish Highlands from the mid 13th century to the end of the 16th century. GAWKISHNESSES (24) GLASSBLOWINGS (20) GROWTHINESSES (20) HAWKISHNESSES (26) HORNSWOGGLING (22) [verb] To deceive or trick. HORSEWHIPPERS (26) HORSEWHIPPING (27) [verb] To flog or lash with a horsewhip. | [noun] A beating with a horsewhip. HOUSEWARMINGS (22) [noun] A party to celebrate moving into a new home. | [noun] The act of welcoming a person/family to their newly purchased or newly rented home. HOUSEWIFERIES (22) HUNDREDWEIGHT (25) [noun] A measure of weight containing 100 avoirdupois pounds (45.5 kg). | [noun] A measure of weight containing 8 stone or 112 avoirdupois pounds (51 kg). INGROWNNESSES (17) INTERTWISTING (17) [verb] To twist together; to intertwine | [noun] A twisting together. INTERWORKINGS (21) JABBERWOCKIES (33) [noun] Invented or meaningless language; nonsense KNOWINGNESSES (21) KNOWLEDGEABLE (24) [noun] A person who has knowledge; an informed party. | [adjective] Having knowledge, especially of a particular subject. | [adjective] Educated and well informed. KNOWLEDGEABLY (27) LANDOWNERSHIP (22) LAWLESSNESSES (16) MAWKISHNESSES (25) METALWORKINGS (23) MICROBREWINGS (23) MICROSWITCHES (25) [noun] An electrical switch that operates with very little travel of (or pressure on) the actuator. MICROWAVEABLE (25) MIDDLEWEIGHTS (24) [noun] A weight class in professional boxing between light middleweight or welterweight and super middleweight or cruiserweight; a similar division in wrestling and other sports | [noun] A boxer who fights in this division; a similar wrestler etc | [noun] (by extension) An employee ranking anywhere between junior and senior. MINESWEEPINGS (21) MISKNOWLEDGES (24) MOUTHWATERING (22) [adjective] That is pleasing to the sense of taste; appetizing. | [adjective] (by extension) Enticing or tantalizing. MULTIMEGAWATT (21) NARROWCASTING (19) [verb] To transmit a programme to selected individuals or groups, especially via cable. | [verb] To transmit a medical intervention to a specific organ or type of tissue. NEEDLEWORKERS (21) NEWSMAGAZINES (28) NONLANDOWNERS (17) NORTHEASTWARD (20) [adjective] In or toward the northeast | [adverb] Toward the northeast NORTHWESTERLY (22) [noun] A strong wind or storm from the northwest. | [adjective] Situated in, or pointing to, the northwest | [adjective] (chiefly of a wind) coming from the northwest NORTHWESTWARD (23) [adjective] In or toward the northwest | [adverb] Toward the northwest OUTWARDNESSES (17) OVERBEJEWELED (29) OVERBORROWING (22) [verb] To borrow too much money. OVERSHADOWING (24) [verb] To obscure something by casting a shadow. | [verb] To dominate something and make it seem insignificant. | [verb] To shelter or protect. OVERSWEETENED (20) OVERSWEETNESS (19) OVERWEENINGLY (23) OVERWEIGHTING (24) [verb] To weigh down: to put too heavy a burden on. | [verb] To place excessive weight or emphasis on; to overestimate the importance of. OVERWINTERING (20) [verb] To keep or preserve for the winter. | [verb] To spend the winter (in a particular place). | [noun] The action of overwintering OVERWITHHOLDS (26) PASQUEFLOWERS (30) [noun] Various deciduous perennial flowering plants, of the genus Pulsatilla, found in clumps in certain grassland areas. PASSIONFLOWER (21) [noun] Any of very many vines, in North America and elsewhere, of the genus Passiflora that bear edible fruit called passion fruit, and showy flowers of a structure symbolic of the Passion of Christ. | [noun] The flower of this plant. PENNYWHISTLES (24) [noun] A six-holed flute-like instrument with a fipple. They have approximately a two octave range (sometimes a little higher). Stereotypically, they are made out of tin, but in reality they come in all sorts of varieties, including tin, brass, nickel, cane, polymer, etc. PICKERELWEEDS (25) PLAYWRIGHTING (26) POWERLESSNESS (18) [noun] The state or character of being powerless; absence or lack of power PREINTERVIEWS (21) PRESWEETENING (19) REINTERVIEWED (20) SCHOOLFELLOWS (24) [noun] A person who was a fellow attendee at one's school. SCRAWNINESSES (18) SCREENWRITERS (18) [noun] One who writes for the screen, who writes drama for film or television; especially a professional who knows the conventions appropriate to such work. SCRIPTWRITERS (20) [noun] A person who writes scripts. SEAWORTHINESS (19) SHADOWINESSES (20) SHALLOWNESSES (19) SNOWBOARDINGS (20) SNOWMOBILINGS (21) SNOWMOBILISTS (20) SORROWFULNESS (19) SOUTHEASTWARD (20) [adjective] In or toward the southeast | [adverb] Toward the southeast SOUTHERNWOODS (20) [noun] An aromatic shrub, Artemisia abrotanum, related to wormwood. SOUTHWESTERLY (22) [noun] A strong wind or storm from the southwest. | [adjective] Situated in, or pointing to, the southwest | [adjective] (chiefly of a wind) coming from the southwest SOUTHWESTWARD (23) [adjective] In or toward the southwest | [adverb] Toward the southwest SPEECHWRITERS (23) [noun] Someone who writes speeches for others, especially as a profession SPORTSWRITERS (18) [noun] Someone who writes about sports-related topics professionally. SPORTSWRITING (19) STRAIGHTAWAYS (23) [noun] A straight section of a racetrack. STREETWALKERS (20) [noun] Someone walking in the street; an average citizen. | [noun] A prostitute who looks for customers on the streets and in other public places. STREETWALKING (21) SUBNETWORKING (23) SUPERHIGHWAYS (28) [noun] An expressway, especially one designed for high speeds. | [noun] (by extension) A major route that carries most of the traffic going in a given direction by a specified mode of transportation. | [noun] (metaphoric) The primary mechanism used in the movement of electronic data or information; information superhighway. SUPERPOWERFUL (23) SWARTHINESSES (19) SWASHBUCKLERS (27) [noun] A swordsman or fencer who engages in showy or extravagant sword play. | [noun] A daring adventurer. | [noun] A kind of period adventure story with flashy action and lighthearted tone. SWASHBUCKLING (28) [adjective] Adventurous, exciting. SWINISHNESSES (19) SWITCHBACKING (30) SWITCHGRASSES (22) SWORDSMANSHIP (24) THENCEFORWARD (25) [adverb] From then on; from that time on THOROUGHWORTS (23) THUNDERSHOWER (23) [noun] A rain shower accompanied by thunder and lightning. TIDDLEDYWINKS (26) [noun] A small disc used in the game of tiddlywinks. | [noun] An unlicensed pawnshop, brothel, or beerhouse. | [noun] (games) A game in which the objective is to shoot winks into a cup or at a target by flicking them with a shooter (nowadays called a squidger) from a surface. TRUSTWORTHILY (22) ULTRAPOWERFUL (21) UNAWARENESSES (16) UNBOWDLERIZED (29) UNDERWHELMING (23) [adjective] Failing to interest; not as exciting as promised or expected. UNKNOWABILITY (25) UNTRUSTWORTHY (22) [adjective] Not deserving of trust; unreliable. UNWARRANTABLE (18) [adjective] Not warrantable; indefensible; not vindicable; not justifiable UNWARRANTABLY (21) UNWHOLESOMELY (24) UNWILLINGNESS (17) [noun] The property of being unwilling. UNWORKABILITY (25) UNWORLDLINESS (17) WAFFLESTOMPER (26) WAGGISHNESSES (21) WAINSCOTTINGS (19) WAKEBOARDINGS (24) WAKEFULNESSES (23) WALKINGSTICKS (27) [noun] A tool, such as a cane, used to ease pressure on the legs, and to aid stability, when walking. | [noun] A stick insect (order Phasmida). | [noun] A playing card with the rank of seven. WALLYDRAIGLES (21) WARMONGERINGS (20) WASHABILITIES (21) WASPISHNESSES (21) WATERCOLORIST (18) WATERFLOODING (21) WATERFOWLINGS (23) WATERLESSNESS (16) WATERMANSHIPS (23) WATERPROOFERS (21) WATERPROOFING (22) [verb] To make waterproof or water-resistant. | [noun] The treatment of something to make it waterproof. | [noun] A waterproof material. WATERTHRUSHES (22) [noun] Either of two New World warblers, Parkesia motacilla (the Louisiana waterthrush) and Parkesia noveboracensis (the Northern waterthrush). WAYWARDNESSES (23) WEALTHINESSES (19) WEARABILITIES (18) WEARISOMENESS (18) WEATHERBOARDS (22) [noun] The windward side of a vessel. | [noun] A plank placed over an opening to keep out driven water. | [noun] Any of a series of horizontal boards used to cover the exterior of a timber-framed building; clapboard. WEATHERCASTER (21) WEATHERPERSON (21) WEATHERPROOFS (24) [verb] To make something resistant to damage caused by the weather. WEIGHTINESSES (20) WEISENHEIMERS (21) [noun] (mildly humorous) A self-assertive and arrogant person; a know-it-all or smart aleck. WELCOMENESSES (20) WELTERWEIGHTS (23) [noun] A boxer weighing more than a lightweight boxer and less than a middleweight boxer; someone boxing in the welterweight class | [noun] A weight of 28 pounds (or 40 pounds: a heavy welterweight), sometimes imposed in addition to weight for age, chiefly in steeplechases and hurdle races. WELTSCHMERZES (32) WETTABILITIES (18) WHEELBARROWED (25) WHIGMALEERIES (22) WHIMSICALNESS (23) WHIPPOORWILLS (26) [noun] A nocturnal insectivorous bird of North America, Caprimulgus vociferus, a type of nightjar, named after its characteristic call. WHIPSTITCHING (27) [verb] To sew using such a stitch. | [verb] To half-plough or rafter. WHITEWASHINGS (26) WHITHERSOEVER (25) [adverb] To what place soever; wherever. WHOLESOMENESS (21) WILLFULNESSES (19) WILLINGNESSES (17) WIMPISHNESSES (23) WINSOMENESSES (18) WINTERBERRIES (18) [noun] A species of holly native to the United States and Canada and producing red berries, Ilex verticillata. | [noun] The fruit of this plant. WINTERIZATION (25) WISHFULNESSES (22) WISTFULNESSES (19) WITENAGEMOTES (19) WITHDRAWNNESS (23) WITLESSNESSES (16) WOEBEGONENESS (19) WOLFISHNESSES (22) WOLLASTONITES (16) WOMANLINESSES (18) WONDERFULNESS (20) WOOLGATHERERS (20) WOOLGATHERING (21) [noun] The gathering of fragments of wool torn from sheep by bushes, etc. | [noun] Indulgence in idle fancies or daydreams. WORKABILITIES (22) WORLDLINESSES (17) WORRISOMENESS (18) WORTHLESSNESS (19) WRONGHEADEDLY (25) YELLOWHAMMERS (26) [noun] A passerine bird, Emberiza citrinella, of western Eurasia, which is mainly yellow in colour. | [noun] The northern flicker, Colaptes auratus. | [noun] A native or resident of the American state of Alabama. YELLOWTHROATS (22) [noun] A mostly yellow-colored group of New World warblers in the genus Geothlypis

14-Letter Words (114)

ACKNOWLEDGEDLY (29) [adverb] In a manner that is generally recognized or admitted; admittedly. ACKNOWLEDGMENT (27) [noun] The act of acknowledging | [noun] The act of recognizing in a particular character or relationship; recognition of existence, authority, truth, or genuineness. | [noun] A reward or other expression or token of gratitude. BACKWARDNESSES (26) [noun] The plural of backwardness; the quality or state of being backward, underdeveloped, or slow in progress. | [noun] Instances or conditions of being shy, reluctant, or lacking confidence. BEWILDEREDNESS (21) [noun] The state of being bewildered; confusion or perplexity. BLANKETFLOWERS (26) [noun] Plural form of blanketflower, a North American wildflower (genus Gaillardia) with red and yellow petals. BOWDLERIZATION (29) [noun] The removal or alteration of words or passages considered offensive or indecent from a literary work. | [noun] The practice of editing or censoring content to make it more acceptable or less controversial. BRAILLEWRITERS (19) BRAUNSCHWEIGER (25) [noun] A type of German smoked sausage made from pork liver and meat, typically served as a spread or sliced cold. CAULIFLOWERETS (22) [noun] Small individual florets of cauliflower, typically separated for cooking or serving. CLAPPERCLAWING (26) [verb] Present participle of clapperclaw, meaning to scratch, claw, or attack someone verbally or physically; to scold or revile harshly. CLOWNISHNESSES (22) [noun] The plural form of clownishness; the quality or state of being clownish, characterized by foolish, buffoonish, or comical behavior. COMMITTEEWOMAN (25) [noun] A woman who is a member of a committee. | [noun] A woman who is a local leader of a political party. COMMITTEEWOMEN (25) [noun] A woman who is a member of a committee. | [noun] A woman who is a local leader of a political party. COUNTERWEIGHTS (23) [noun] A heavy mass of often iron or concrete, mechanically linked in opposition to a load which is to be raised and lowered, with the intent of reducing the amount of work which must be done to effect the raising and lowering. Counterweights are used, for example, in cable-hauled elevators and some kinds of movable bridges (e.g. a bascule bridge). COWARDLINESSES (20) DISEMBOWELLING (23) [verb] To take or let out the bowels or interior parts of; to eviscerate. | [verb] To take or draw from the body, as the web of a spider. | [noun] The act by which somebody is disembowelled. DISEMBOWELMENT (24) DOWNWARDNESSES (22) DWARFISHNESSES (24) ELECTROWINNING (20) FEATHERWEIGHTS (27) [noun] A weight class in many combat sports; e.g. in professional boxing of a maximum of 126 pounds or 57.2 kilograms. | [noun] A sportsman who fights in this division. | [noun] The lightest weight that may be carried by a racehorse. FELLOWSHIPPING (28) FLAWLESSNESSES (20) FOREKNOWLEDGES (26) FREEWHEELINGLY (27) GEWURZTRAMINER (29) HUNDREDWEIGHTS (26) [noun] A measure of weight containing 100 avoirdupois pounds (45.5 kg). | [noun] A measure of weight containing 8 stone or 112 avoirdupois pounds (51 kg). HYPERAWARENESS (25) INTERTWINEMENT (19) LANDOWNERSHIPS (23) LUKEWARMNESSES (23) MICROBREWERIES (23) [noun] A small commercial brewery, often one serving a single pub at which it is physically located; in the United States, often used to indicate a brewery that produces fewer than 15,000 barrels of beer annually. MULLIGATAWNIES (20) MULTIMEGAWATTS (22) NARROWCASTINGS (20) NEWFANGLEDNESS (22) NEWSPAPERWOMAN (26) [noun] A woman who works in the production of the text of a newspaper; a reporter, editor, etc. NEWSPAPERWOMEN (26) [noun] A woman who works in the production of the text of a newspaper; a reporter, editor, etc. NEWSWORTHINESS (23) NORTHEASTWARDS (21) NORTHWESTWARDS (24) [adjective] Northwestward | [adverb] Northwestward NOTEWORTHINESS (20) OVERPOWERINGLY (26) OVERSWEETENING (21) OVERWHELMINGLY (29) [adverb] In an overwhelming manner; very greatly or intensely. PASSIONFLOWERS (22) [noun] Any of very many vines, in North America and elsewhere, of the genus Passiflora that bear edible fruit called passion fruit, and showy flowers of a structure symbolic of the Passion of Christ. | [noun] The flower of this plant. PLAYWRIGHTINGS (27) PRAISEWORTHILY (25) PREINTERVIEWED (23) REINTERVIEWING (21) RENEWABILITIES (19) ROADWORTHINESS (21) SHADOWGRAPHIES (27) SHREWISHNESSES (23) SOUTHEASTWARDS (21) [adjective] Southeastward | [adverb] Southeastward SOUTHWESTWARDS (24) [adjective] Southwestward | [adverb] Southwestward SPORTSWRITINGS (20) STALWARTNESSES (17) STREETWALKINGS (22) SWAINISHNESSES (20) SWEATERDRESSES (18) SWEEPINGNESSES (20) SWORDSMANSHIPS (25) TELETYPEWRITER (22) [noun] An electromechanical communications device consisting of a typewriter keyboard and printer together with a punched paper tape reader/writer and connection to a modem so that information may be sent and received over a telephone system. THENCEFORWARDS (26) THUNDERSHOWERS (24) [noun] A rain shower accompanied by thunder and lightning. TOWARDLINESSES (18) UNACKNOWLEDGED (26) [adjective] Not acknowledged UNLAWFULNESSES (20) UNTOWARDNESSES (18) UNWASHEDNESSES (21) UNWIELDINESSES (18) UNWONTEDNESSES (18) UNWORTHINESSES (20) WAFFLESTOMPERS (27) WAPPENSCHAWING (30) WASTEFULNESSES (20) WATCHFULNESSES (25) WATERCOLORISTS (19) WATERISHNESSES (20) WATERPROOFINGS (23) WATERPROOFNESS (22) WATERTIGHTNESS (21) WEARIFULNESSES (20) WEATHERABILITY (25) WEATHERBOARDED (24) [verb] To cover with a weatherboard. WEATHERCASTERS (22) WEATHERGLASSES (21) WEATHERIZATION (29) WEATHERPERSONS (22) WEATHERPROOFED (26) [verb] To make something resistant to damage caused by the weather. WEIGHTLESSNESS (21) [noun] The state of being free from the effects of gravity. | [noun] An experience or instance of being weightless. WELTANSCHAUUNG (23) [noun] A person's or a group's conception, philosophy or view of the world; a worldview. WESTERNISATION (17) WESTERNIZATION (26) WHEELBARROWING (26) WHIMSICALITIES (24) WHIPPERSNAPPER (28) [noun] A young and cheeky or presumptuous person. WHOLEHEARTEDLY (27) [adverb] In a wholehearted manner; enthusiastically; without reserve. WHORTLEBERRIES (22) [noun] Any of several shrubs belonging to the genus Vaccinium: | [noun] A berry of one of these shrubs. WINGLESSNESSES (18) WINTERIZATIONS (26) WOMANISHNESSES (22) WONDROUSNESSES (18) WOOLGATHERINGS (22) WORDLESSNESSES (18) WORDSMITHERIES (23) WORKABLENESSES (23) WORKLESSNESSES (21) WORSHIPFULNESS (25) WORTHWHILENESS (26) WRATHFULNESSES (23) WRETCHEDNESSES (23) WRONGFULNESSES (21)

15-Letter Words (56)

ACKNOWLEDGEMENT (28) [noun] The act of acknowledging | [noun] The act of recognizing in a particular character or relationship; recognition of existence, authority, truth, or genuineness. | [noun] A reward or other expression or token of gratitude. ACKNOWLEDGMENTS (28) [noun] The act of acknowledging | [noun] The act of recognizing in a particular character or relationship; recognition of existence, authority, truth, or genuineness. | [noun] A reward or other expression or token of gratitude. AIRWORTHINESSES (21) [noun] The plural form of airworthiness; the quality or state of being in a condition suitable and safe for flight, as applied to multiple aircraft or instances. BITTERSWEETNESS (20) [noun] The quality of being bittersweet; a mixture of bitter and sweet flavors or emotions. BLAMEWORTHINESS (25) [noun] The quality or state of being deserving of blame or censure. BOWDLERIZATIONS (30) [noun] The plural of bowdlerization; instances of removing or censoring words or passages considered offensive or objectionable from a text or work. | [noun] Instances of expurgating a literary work by removing words or passages deemed unsuitable or offensive. BRAUNSCHWEIGERS (26) [noun] Plural of braunschweiger, a type of German smoked sausage or liverwurst. COUNTERWEIGHTED (25) CRASHWORTHINESS (26) [noun] The state or quality of being crashworthy. DISEMBOWELMENTS (25) DOWNHEARTEDNESS (23) DOWNRIGHTNESSES (23) ELECTROWINNINGS (21) GEWURZTRAMINERS (30) HOUSEWIFELINESS (24) INTERTWINEMENTS (20) MOUTHWATERINGLY (27) MULTIWAVELENGTH (27) NOTWITHSTANDING (23) [noun] An instance of the word "notwithstanding", often characteristic of legalese. | [adverb] Nevertheless, all the same. | [preposition] In spite of, despite. OVERSWEETNESSES (21) OVERWITHHOLDING (29) POWERLESSNESSES (20) PREINTERVIEWING (24) SEAWORTHINESSES (21) SORROWFULNESSES (21) STRAIGHTFORWARD (26) [adjective] Proceeding in a straight course or manner; not deviating. | [adjective] Easy, simple, without difficulty | [adjective] Direct; honest; frank SWELLHEADEDNESS (23) TELETYPEWRITERS (23) [noun] An electromechanical communications device consisting of a typewriter keyboard and printer together with a punched paper tape reader/writer and connection to a modem so that information may be sent and received over a telephone system. TRUSTWORTHINESS (21) [noun] The state or quality of being trustworthy or reliable. UNANSWERABILITY (23) UNKNOWABILITIES (24) UNKNOWLEDGEABLE (26) [adjective] Lacking knowledge, ignorant, naive, or foolish. UNWILLINGNESSES (19) UNWORKABILITIES (24) UNWORLDLINESSES (19) WAPPENSCHAWINGS (31) WARMHEARTEDNESS (24) WARRANTABLENESS (20) WATERLESSNESSES (18) WEARISOMENESSES (20) WEATHERBOARDING (25) [noun] A type of wooden siding in which a house is sided with long, thin, overlapping boards. WEATHERIZATIONS (30) WEATHERPROOFING (27) [verb] To make something resistant to damage caused by the weather. WELTANSCHAUUNGS (24) WESTERNISATIONS (18) WESTERNIZATIONS (27) WHATCHAMACALLIT (30) [noun] A metasyntactic term used for any object whose actual name the speaker does not know or cannot remember; a doodad, gizmo, thingamajig, thingy. WHIMSICALNESSES (25) WHIPPERSNAPPERS (29) [noun] A young and cheeky or presumptuous person. WHOLESOMENESSES (23) WITHDRAWNNESSES (25) WOEBEGONENESSES (21) WONDERFULNESSES (22) WORRISOMENESSES (20) WORTHLESSNESSES (21) WRONGHEADEDNESS (24)

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