| bestow | (verb) present | Synonyms: confer |
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| (verb) bestow a quality on | Synonyms: add, bring, contribute, impart, lend |
| (verb) give as a gift | - |
| bestowal | (noun) the act of conferring an honor or presenting a gift | Synonyms: bestowment, conferment, conferral |
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| (noun) a gift that is bestowed or conferred | Synonyms: bestowment |
| bestower | (noun) person who makes a gift of property | Synonyms: conferrer, donor, giver, presenter |
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| bestowment | (noun) the act of conferring an honor or presenting a gift | Synonyms: bestowal, conferment, conferral |
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| (noun) a gift that is bestowed or conferred | Synonyms: bestowal |
| cowtown | (noun) a small town in a cattle-raising area of western North America | Synonyms: cow town |
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| crosstown | (adjective) going or extending across a town or city | Synonyms: cross-town |
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| (adverb) across a town or city | - |
| dishtowel | (noun) a towel for drying dishes | Synonyms: dish towel, tea towel |
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| downtown | (adjective) of or located in the lower part of a town, or in the business center | - |
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| (noun) the central area or commercial center of a town or city | Synonyms: business district |
| (adverb) toward or in the lower or central part of town | - |
| hometown | (noun) the town (or city) where you grew up or where you have your principal residence | - |
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| kotow | (noun) a former Chinese custom of touching the ground with the forehead as a sign of respect or submission | Synonyms: kowtow |
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| (verb) try to gain favor by cringing or flattering | Synonyms: bootlick, fawn, kowtow, suck up, toady, truckle |
| kowtow | (noun) a former Chinese custom of touching the ground with the forehead as a sign of respect or submission | Synonyms: kotow |
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| (verb) try to gain favor by cringing or flattering | Synonyms: bootlick, fawn, kotow, suck up, toady, truckle |
| (verb) bend the knees and bow in a servile manner | Synonyms: genuflect, scrape |
| shantytown | (noun) a city district inhabited by people living in huts and shanties | - |
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| stow | (verb) fill by packing tightly | - |
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| stowage | (noun) the act of packing or storing away | Synonyms: stowing |
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| (noun) a room in which things are stored | Synonyms: storage room, storeroom |
| (noun) the charge for stowing goods | - |
| stowaway | (noun) a person who hides aboard a ship or plane in the hope of getting free passage | - |
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| stowing | (noun) the act of packing or storing away | Synonyms: stowage |
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| tow | (noun) the act of hauling something (as a vehicle) by means of a hitch or rope | Synonyms: towage |
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| (verb) drag behind | - |
| towage | (noun) the act of hauling something (as a vehicle) by means of a hitch or rope | Synonyms: tow |
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| towboat | (noun) a powerful small boat designed to pull or push larger ships | Synonyms: tower, tug, tugboat |
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| towel | (noun) a rectangular piece of absorbent cloth (or paper) for drying or wiping | - |
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| (verb) wipe with a towel | - |
| toweling | (noun) any of various fabrics (linen or cotton) used to make towels | Synonyms: towelling |
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| towelling | (noun) any of various fabrics (linen or cotton) used to make towels | Synonyms: toweling |
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| tower | (noun) a structure taller than its diameter; can stand alone or be attached to a larger building | - |
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| (noun) anything that approximates the shape of a column or tower | Synonyms: column, pillar |
| (noun) a powerful small boat designed to pull or push larger ships | Synonyms: towboat, tug, tugboat |
| (verb) appear very large or occupy a commanding position | Synonyms: hulk, loom, predominate |
| towering | (adjective) of imposing height; especially standing out above others | Synonyms: eminent, lofty, soaring |
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| towhead | (noun) a person with light blond hair | - |
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| towheaded | (adjective) of hair color; whitish | Synonyms: ash-blonde, platinum-blonde |
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| towhee | (noun) any of numerous long-tailed American finches | - |
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| towline | (noun) (nautical) a rope used in towing | Synonyms: towing line, towing rope, towrope |
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| town | (noun) the people living in a municipality smaller than a city | Synonyms: townsfolk, townspeople |
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| (noun) an urban area with a fixed boundary that is smaller than a city | - |
| (noun) an administrative division of a county | Synonyms: township |
| townee | (noun) townsman unacquainted with country life especially a slick and flashy male city dweller | - |
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| towner | (noun) a resident of a town or city | Synonyms: townsman |
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| townie | (noun) resident of a college town not affiliated with the college | Synonyms: towny |
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| townsfolk | (noun) the people living in a municipality smaller than a city | Synonyms: town, townspeople |
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| township | (noun) an administrative division of a county | Synonyms: town |
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| townsman | (noun) a person from the same town as yourself | - |
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| (noun) a resident of a town or city | Synonyms: towner |
| townspeople | (noun) the people living in a municipality smaller than a city | Synonyms: town, townsfolk |
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| towny | (noun) resident of a college town not affiliated with the college | Synonyms: townie |
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| towpath | (noun) a path along a canal or river used by animals towing boats | Synonyms: towing path |
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| towrope | (noun) (nautical) a rope used in towing | Synonyms: towing line, towing rope, towline |
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| undertow | (noun) the seaward undercurrent created after waves have broken on the shore | Synonyms: sea-poose, sea-purse, sea-puss, sea purse, sea puss |
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| (noun) an inclination contrary to the strongest or prevailing feeling | - |
| untoward | (adjective) not in keeping with accepted standards of what is right or proper in polite society | Synonyms: indecent, indecorous, unbecoming, uncomely, unseemly |
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| (adjective) contrary to your interests or welfare | Synonyms: adverse, inauspicious |
| uptown | (adjective) of or located in the upper part of a town | - |
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| (noun) a residential part of town away from the central commercial district | - |
| (adverb) toward or in the upper part of town | - |
| watchtower | (noun) an observation tower for a lookout to watch over prisoners or watch for fires or enemies | - |
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