| alewife | (noun) shad-like food fish that runs rivers to spawn; often salted or smoked; sometimes placed in genus Pomolobus | Synonyms: Alosa pseudoharengus, Pomolobus pseudoharengus |
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| (noun) flesh of shad-like fish abundant along the Atlantic coast or in coastal streams | - |
| anglewing | (noun) nymphalid butterfly having angular notches on the outer edges of the forewings | - |
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| angleworm | (noun) terrestrial worm that burrows into and helps aerate soil; often surfaces when the ground is cool or wet; used as bait by anglers | Synonyms: crawler, dew worm, earthworm, fishing worm, fishworm, nightcrawler, nightwalker, red worm, wiggler |
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| applewood | (noun) wood of any of various apple trees of the genus Malus | - |
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| battlewagon | (noun) large and heavily armoured warship | Synonyms: battleship |
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| beetleweed | (noun) tufted evergreen perennial herb having spikes of tiny white flowers and glossy green round to heart-shaped leaves that become coppery to maroon or purplish in fall | Synonyms: coltsfoot, galax, Galax urceolata, galaxy, wandflower |
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| blewits | (noun) edible agaric that is pale lilac when young; has a smooth moist cap | Synonyms: Clitocybe nuda |
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| bugleweed | (noun) any of various low-growing annual or perennial evergreen herbs native to Eurasia; used for ground cover | Synonyms: bugle |
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| (noun) a mildly narcotic and astringent aromatic herb having small whitish flowers; eastern United States | Synonyms: Lycopus virginicus |
| candlewick | (noun) the wick of a candle | - |
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| (noun) loops of soft yarn are cut to give a tufted pattern | - |
| candlewood | (noun) any of several resinous trees or shrubs often burned for light | - |
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| clew | (noun) evidence that helps to solve a problem | Synonyms: clue, cue |
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| (noun) a ball of yarn or cord or thread | - |
| (verb) roll into a ball | Synonyms: clue |
| clews | (noun) the cords used to suspend a hammock | - |
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| colewort | (noun) a hardy cabbage with coarse curly leaves that do not form a head | Synonyms: borecole, Brassica oleracea acephala, cole, kail, kale |
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| crackleware | (noun) glazed china with a network of fine cracks on the surface | Synonyms: crackle, crackle china |
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| curlew | (noun) large migratory shorebirds of the sandpiper family; closely related to woodcocks but having a down-curved bill | - |
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| flews | (noun) The fleshy hanging upper lip of a bloodhound or similar dog. | - |
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| gentlewoman | (noun) a woman of refinement | Synonyms: dame, lady, ma'am, madam |
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| lewd | (adjective) suggestive of or tending to moral looseness | Synonyms: obscene, raunchy, salacious |
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| (adjective) driven by lust; preoccupied with or exhibiting lustful desires | Synonyms: lascivious, libidinous, lustful |
| lewdly | (adverb) in a lewd and obscene manner | Synonyms: obscenely |
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| lewdness | (noun) the trait of behaving in an obscene manner | Synonyms: bawdiness, obscenity, salaciousness, salacity |
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| marblewood | (noun) large Asiatic tree having hard marbled zebrawood | Synonyms: Andaman marble, Diospyros kurzii, marble-wood |
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| (noun) hard marbled wood | Synonyms: marble-wood |
| middleweight | (noun) a professional boxer who weighs between 155 and 160 pounds | - |
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| (noun) a wrestler who weighs 172-192 pounds | - |
| (noun) an amateur boxer who weighs no more than 165 pounds | - |
| needlewoman | (noun) a woman who makes or mends dresses | Synonyms: modiste, seamstress, sempstress |
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| needlewood | (noun) large bushy shrub with pungent pointed leaves and creamy white flowers; central and eastern Australia | Synonyms: Hakea leucoptera, needle-wood, needle wood |
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| needlework | (noun) work (such as sewing or embroidery) that is done with a needle | Synonyms: needlecraft |
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| (noun) a creation created or assembled by needle and thread | Synonyms: needlecraft |
| needleworker | (noun) someone who does work (as sewing or embroidery) with a needle | - |
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| nimblewill | (noun) slender branching American grass of some value for grazing in central United States | Synonyms: Muhlenbergia schreberi, nimble Will |
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| noblewoman | (noun) a woman of the peerage in Britain | Synonyms: Lady, peeress |
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| paddlewheel | (noun) a large wheel fitted with paddles and driven by an engine in order to propel a boat | Synonyms: paddle wheel |
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| pilewort | (noun) perennial herb native to Europe but naturalized elsewhere having heart-shaped leaves and yellow flowers resembling buttercups; its tuberous roots have been used as a poultice to relieve piles | Synonyms: lesser celandine, Ranunculus ficaria |
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| slew | (noun) (often followed by `of') a large number or amount or extent | Synonyms: batch, deal, flock, good deal, great deal, hatful, heap, lot, mass, mess, mickle, mint, mountain, muckle, passel, peck, pile, plenty, pot, quite a little, raft, sight, spate, stack, tidy sum, wad |
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| (verb) turn sharply; change direction abruptly | Synonyms: curve, cut, sheer, slue, swerve, trend, veer |
| (verb) move obliquely or sideways, usually in an uncontrolled manner | Synonyms: skid, slide, slip, slue |
| slews | (noun) a large number or amount | Synonyms: dozens, gobs, heaps, lashings, loads, lots, oodles, piles, rafts, scads, scores, stacks, tons, wads |
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| tableware | (noun) articles for use at the table (dishes and silverware and glassware) | - |
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| teleworking | (noun) employment at home while communicating with the workplace by phone or fax or modem | Synonyms: telecommuting |
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| thimbleweed | (noun) a common North American anemone with cylindrical fruit clusters resembling thimbles | Synonyms: Anemone cylindrica |
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| trestlework | (noun) a supporting structure composed of a system of connected trestles; for a bridge or pier or scaffold e.g. | - |
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| tumbleweed | (noun) any plant that breaks away from its roots in autumn and is driven by the wind as a light rolling mass | - |
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| (noun) bushy annual weed of central North America having greenish flowers and winged seeds | Synonyms: Cycloloma atriplicifolium, winged pigweed |
| (noun) bushy plant of western United States | Synonyms: Amaranthus albus, Amaranthus graecizans |
| (noun) prickly bushy Eurasian plant; a troublesome weed in central and western United States | Synonyms: Russian cactus, Russian thistle, Russian tumbleweed, Salsola kali tenuifolia |