| beltway | (noun) a highway that encircles an urban area so that traffic does not have to pass through the center | Synonyms: bypass, ring road, ringway |
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| catwalk | (noun) narrow pathway high in the air (as above a stage or between parts of a building or along a bridge) | - |
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| (noun) narrow platform extending out into an auditorium | - |
| coastward | (adverb) in the direction of the coast | - |
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| eastward | (adjective) moving toward the east | Synonyms: eastbound |
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| (noun) the cardinal compass point that is at 90 degrees | Synonyms: due east, E, east |
| (adverb) toward the east | Synonyms: eastwards |
| eastwards | (adverb) toward the east | Synonyms: eastward |
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| fatwa | (noun) a ruling on a point of Islamic law that is given by a recognized authority | - |
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| fatwah | (noun) (Islam) a legal opinion or ruling issued by an Islamic scholar | - |
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| flatware | (noun) silverware eating utensils | Synonyms: silver |
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| (noun) tableware that is relatively flat and fashioned as a single piece | - |
| footwall | (noun) the lower wall of an inclined fault | - |
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| frontward | (adverb) at or to or toward the front; forward | Synonyms: forrad, forrard, forward, forwards, frontwards |
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| frontwards | (adverb) at or to or toward the front; forward | Synonyms: forrad, forrard, forward, forwards, frontward |
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| heartwarming | (adjective) causing gladness and pleasure | - |
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| leastways | (adverb) if nothing else (`leastwise' is informal and `leastways' is colloquial) | Synonyms: at any rate, at least, leastwise |
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| meltwater | (noun) melted snow or ice | - |
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| nightwalker | (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: angleworm, crawler, dew worm, earthworm, fishing worm, fishworm, nightcrawler, red worm, wiggler |
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| northeastward | (adjective) toward the northeast | - |
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| (noun) the compass point midway between north and east; at 45 degrees | Synonyms: NE, nor'-east, northeast |
| (adverb) in a northeastward direction | Synonyms: northeastwardly |
| northeastwardly | (adverb) in a northeastward direction | Synonyms: northeastward |
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| northwestward | (adjective) toward the northwest | - |
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| (noun) the compass point midway between north and west; at 315 degrees | Synonyms: nor'-west, northwest, NW |
| (adverb) in a northwestward direction | Synonyms: northwestwardly |
| northwestwardly | (adverb) in a northwestward direction | Synonyms: northwestward |
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| outward | (adjective) relating to physical reality rather than with thoughts or the mind | - |
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| (adjective) that is going out or leaving | Synonyms: departing, outbound, outward-bound |
| (adverb) toward the outside | Synonyms: outwards |
| outwardly | (adverb) in outward appearance | - |
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| (adverb) with respect to the outside | Synonyms: externally |
| outwardness | (noun) the quality or state of being outside or directed toward or relating to the outside or exterior | Synonyms: externality |
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| (noun) a concern with or responsiveness to outward things (especially material objects as opposed to ideal concepts) | - |
| (noun) concern with outward things or material objects as opposed to the mind and spirit | - |
| outwards | (adverb) toward the outside | Synonyms: outward |
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| portwatcher | (noun) a watchman on a wharf | Synonyms: port watcher |
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| postwar | (adjective) belonging to the period after a war | - |
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| saltwater | (noun) water containing salts | Synonyms: brine, seawater |
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| shirtwaist | (noun) a blouse with buttons down the front | Synonyms: shirtwaister |
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| shirtwaister | (noun) a blouse with buttons down the front | Synonyms: shirtwaist |
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| slantways | (adverb) at a slant; moving or directed in a slantwise position or direction | Synonyms: slantwise |
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| software | (noun) (computer science) written programs or procedures or rules and associated documentation pertaining to the operation of a computer system and that are stored in read/write memory | Synonyms: computer software, package, software package, software program, software system |
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| southeastward | (adjective) toward the southeast | - |
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| (noun) the compass point midway between south and east; at 135 degrees | Synonyms: SE, sou'-east, southeast |
| (adverb) in a southeastward direction | Synonyms: southeastwardly |
| southeastwardly | (adverb) in a southeastward direction | Synonyms: southeastward |
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| southwestward | (adjective) toward the southwest | - |
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| (noun) the compass point midway between south and west; at 225 degrees | Synonyms: sou'-west, southwest, SW |
| (adverb) in a southwestward direction | Synonyms: southwestwardly |
| southwestwardly | (adverb) in a southwestward direction | Synonyms: southwestward |
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| straightway | (adverb) in a direct course | - |
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| (adverb) at once | - |
| streetwalk | (verb) walk the streets in search of customers | Synonyms: street-walk |
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| streetwalker | (noun) a prostitute who attracts customers by walking the streets | Synonyms: floozie, floozy, hooker, hustler, slattern, street girl |
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| tightwad | (noun) a miserly person | Synonyms: cheapskate |
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| twaddle | (noun) pretentious or silly talk or writing | Synonyms: baloney, bilgewater, boloney, bosh, drool, humbug, taradiddle, tarradiddle, tommyrot, tosh |
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| (verb) speak (about unimportant matters) rapidly and incessantly | Synonyms: blab, blabber, chatter, clack, gabble, gibber, maunder, palaver, piffle, prate, prattle, tattle, tittle-tattle |
| twaddler | (noun) someone who twaddles; someone who writes or talks twaddle | - |
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| twain | (noun) two items of the same kind | Synonyms: brace, couple, couplet, distich, duad, duet, duo, dyad, pair, span, twosome, yoke |
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| twang | (noun) exaggerated nasality in speech (as in some regional dialects) | Synonyms: nasal twang |
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| (noun) a sharp vibrating sound (as of a plucked string) | - |
| (verb) pronounce with a nasal twang | - |
| (verb) pluck (strings of an instrument) | - |
| (verb) sound with a twang | - |
| (verb) cause to sound with a twang | - |
| (verb) twitch or throb with pain | - |
| twat | (noun) obscene terms for female genitals | Synonyms: cunt, puss, pussy, slit, snatch |
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| (noun) a man who is a stupid incompetent fool | Synonyms: bozo, cuckoo, fathead, goof, goofball, goose, jackass, zany |
| twayblade | (noun) orchid having a pair of ovate leaves and a long slender raceme of green flowers sometimes tinged red-brown; Europe to central Asia | Synonyms: Listera ovata |
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| (noun) an orchid of the genus Liparis having a pair of leaves | - |
| westward | (adjective) moving toward the west | Synonyms: westbound, westerly |
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| (noun) the cardinal compass point that is at 270 degrees | Synonyms: due west, W, west |
| (adverb) toward the west | Synonyms: westwards |
| westwards | (adverb) toward the west | Synonyms: westward |
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| wristwatch | (noun) a watch that is worn strapped to the wrist | Synonyms: wrist watch |
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