| aweless | (adjective) neither feeling nor showing respect | Synonyms: awless, disrespectful |
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| (adjective) devoid of any feeling of awe or reverence | Synonyms: awless |
| bejewel | (verb) adorn or decorate with precious stones | Synonyms: jewel |
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| bowel | (noun) the part of the alimentary canal between the stomach and the anus | Synonyms: gut, intestine |
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| bowelless | (adjective) ruthless in competition | Synonyms: cutthroat, fierce |
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| bowels | (noun) the center of the Earth | - |
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| buttweld | (verb) join by a butt weld | Synonyms: butt-weld |
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| crewelwork | (noun) embroidery done with loosely twisted worsted yarn | - |
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| disembowel | (verb) remove the entrails of | Synonyms: draw, eviscerate |
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| disembowelment | (noun) the act of removing the bowels or viscera; the act of cutting so as to cause the viscera to protrude | Synonyms: evisceration |
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| dishtowel | (noun) a towel for drying dishes | Synonyms: dish towel, tea towel |
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| dowel | (noun) a fastener that is inserted into holes in two adjacent pieces and holds them together | Synonyms: dowel pin, joggle |
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| doweling | (noun) fastening by dowels | - |
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| dwell | (verb) think moodily or anxiously about something | Synonyms: brood |
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| (verb) come back to | Synonyms: harp |
| (verb) be an inhabitant of or reside in | Synonyms: inhabit, live, populate |
| (verb) originate (in) | Synonyms: consist, lie, lie in |
| (verb) exist or be situated within | Synonyms: inhabit |
| dweller | (noun) a person who inhabits a particular place | Synonyms: denizen, habitant, indweller, inhabitant |
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| dwelling | (noun) housing that someone is living in | Synonyms: abode, domicile, dwelling house, habitation, home |
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| farewell | (noun) the act of departing politely | Synonyms: leave-taking, leave, parting |
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| (noun) an acknowledgment or expression of goodwill at parting | Synonyms: word of farewell |
| gromwell | (noun) European perennial branching plant; occurs in hedgerows and at the edge of woodlands | Synonyms: Lithospermum officinale |
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| indwell | (verb) to exist as an inner activating spirit, force, or principle | - |
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| indweller | (noun) a person who inhabits a particular place | Synonyms: denizen, dweller, habitant, inhabitant |
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| (noun) activation by an inner spirit or force or principle | - |
| indwelling | (adjective) existing or residing as an inner activating spirit or force or principle | - |
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| inkwell | (noun) a small well holding writing ink into which a pen can be dipped | Synonyms: inkstand |
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| jewel | (noun) a precious or semiprecious stone incorporated into a piece of jewelry | Synonyms: gem, precious stone |
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| (noun) a person who is as brilliant and precious as a piece of jewelry | Synonyms: gem |
| (verb) adorn or decorate with precious stones | Synonyms: bejewel |
| jeweled | (adjective) covered with beads or jewels or sequins | Synonyms: beady, gemmed, jewelled, sequined, spangled, spangly |
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| jeweler | (noun) someone in the business of selling jewelry | Synonyms: jeweller |
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| (noun) someone who makes jewelry | Synonyms: jeweller, jewelry maker |
| jewelled | (adjective) covered with beads or jewels or sequins | Synonyms: beady, gemmed, jeweled, sequined, spangled, spangly |
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| jeweller | (noun) someone in the business of selling jewelry | Synonyms: jeweler |
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| (noun) someone who makes jewelry | Synonyms: jeweler, jewelry maker |
| jewellery | (noun) an adornment (as a bracelet or ring or necklace) made of precious metals and set with gems (or imitation gems) | Synonyms: jewelry |
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| jewelry | (noun) an adornment (as a bracelet or ring or necklace) made of precious metals and set with gems (or imitation gems) | Synonyms: jewellery |
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| jewelweed | (noun) North American annual plant with usually yellow or orange flowers; grows chiefly on wet rather acid soil | Synonyms: celandine, Impatiens capensis, lady's earrings, orange balsam, touch-me-not |
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| knawel | (noun) widely distributed low-growing Eurasian herb having narrow leaves and inconspicuous green flowers | Synonyms: knawe, Scleranthus annuus |
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| kwela | (noun) a kind of danceable music popular among black South Africans; includes a whistle among its instruments | - |
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| maxwell | (noun) a cgs unit of magnetic flux equal to the flux perpendicular to an area of 1 square centimeter in a magnetic field of 1 gauss | Synonyms: Mx |
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| newel | (noun) the central pillar of a circular staircase | - |
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| (noun) the post at the top or bottom of a flight of stairs; it supports the handrail | Synonyms: newel post |
| rowel | (noun) a small spiked wheel at the end of a spur | - |
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| semivowel | (noun) a vowellike sound that serves as a consonant | Synonyms: glide |
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| sewellel | (noun) bulky nocturnal burrowing rodent of uplands of the Pacific coast of North America; the most primitive living rodent | Synonyms: Aplodontia rufa, mountain beaver |
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| speedwell | (noun) any plant of the genus Veronica | Synonyms: veronica |
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| spotweld | (verb) make circular welds | Synonyms: spot-weld |
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| stairwell | (noun) a vertical well around which there is a stairway | - |
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| swell | (adjective) excellent | Synonyms: bang-up, bully, corking, cracking, dandy, great, groovy, keen, neat, nifty, not bad, old, peachy, slap-up, smashing |
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| (noun) a crescendo followed by a decrescendo | - |
| (noun) the undulating movement of the surface of the open sea | Synonyms: crestless wave |
| (noun) a rounded elevation (especially one on an ocean floor) | - |
| (noun) a man who is much concerned with his dress and appearance | Synonyms: beau, clotheshorse, dandy, dude, fashion plate, fop, gallant, sheik |
| (verb) expand abnormally | Synonyms: intumesce, swell up, tumefy, tumesce |
| (verb) cause to become swollen | - |
| (verb) increase in size, magnitude, number, or intensity | - |
| (verb) come up, as of a liquid | Synonyms: well |
| (verb) become filled with pride, arrogance, or anger | Synonyms: puff up |
| (verb) come up (as of feelings and thoughts, or other ephemeral things) | Synonyms: well up |
| swelled | (adjective) feeling self-importance | Synonyms: big, vainglorious |
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| swellhead | (noun) a conceited and self-centered person | Synonyms: egoist, egotist |
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| swelling | (noun) the increase in volume of certain substances when they are heated (often accompanied by release of water) | Synonyms: intumescence, intumescency |
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| (noun) something that bulges out or is protuberant or projects from its surroundings | Synonyms: bulge, bump, excrescence, extrusion, gibbosity, gibbousness, hump, jut, prominence, protrusion, protuberance |
| (noun) an abnormal protuberance or localized enlargement | Synonyms: lump, puffiness |
| swelter | (verb) suffer from intense heat | - |
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| (verb) be uncomfortably hot | - |
| sweltering | (adjective) excessively hot and humid or marked by sweating and faintness | Synonyms: sweltry |
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| sweltry | (adjective) excessively hot and humid or marked by sweating and faintness | Synonyms: sweltering |
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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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| trowel | (noun) a small hand tool with a handle and flat metal blade; used for scooping or spreading plaster or similar materials | - |
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| (verb) use a trowel on; for light garden work or plaster work | - |
| twelfth | (adjective) coming next after the eleventh and just before the thirteenth in position | Synonyms: 12th |
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| (noun) one part in twelve equal parts | Synonyms: duodecimal, one-twelfth, twelfth part |
| (noun) position 12 in a countable series of things | - |
| twelve | (adjective) denoting a quantity consisting of 12 items or units | Synonyms: 12, dozen, xii |
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| (noun) the cardinal number that is the sum of eleven and one | Synonyms: 12, dozen, XII |
| twelvemonth | (noun) a period of time containing 365 (or 366) days | Synonyms: year, yr |
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| unwelcome | (adjective) not welcome; not giving pleasure or received with pleasure | - |
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| (adjective) not welcome | Synonyms: unwished-for, unwished |
| unwell | (adjective) somewhat ill or prone to illness | Synonyms: ailing, indisposed, peaked, poorly, seedy, sickly, under the weather |
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| unwellness | (noun) impairment of normal physiological function affecting part or all of an organism | Synonyms: illness, malady, sickness |
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| vowel | (noun) a speech sound made with the vocal tract open | Synonyms: vowel sound |
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| (noun) a letter of the alphabet standing for a spoken vowel | - |
| vowelise | (verb) pronounce as a vowel | Synonyms: vocalise, vocalize, vowelize |
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| vowelize | (verb) pronounce as a vowel | Synonyms: vocalise, vocalize, vowelise |
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| vowellike | (adjective) having characteristics of a vowel sound | - |
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| welch | (verb) cheat by avoiding payment of a gambling debt | Synonyms: welsh |
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| welcher | (noun) someone who swindles you by not repaying a debt or wager | Synonyms: welsher |
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| welcome | (adjective) giving pleasure or satisfaction or received with pleasure or freely granted | - |
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| (noun) a greeting or reception | - |
| (noun) the state of being welcome | - |
| (verb) bid welcome to; greet upon arrival | Synonyms: receive |
| (verb) receive someone, as into one's house | - |
| (verb) accept gladly | - |
| welcomer | (noun) a person who greets | Synonyms: greeter, saluter |
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| welcoming | (adjective) very cordial | - |
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| weld | (noun) a metal joint formed by softening with heat and fusing or hammering together | - |
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| (noun) European mignonette cultivated as a source of yellow dye; naturalized in North America | Synonyms: dyer's mignonette, dyer's rocket, Reseda luteola |
| (verb) unite closely or intimately | - |
| (verb) join together by heating | - |
| welder | (noun) joins pieces of metal by welding them together | - |
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| welding | (noun) fastening two pieces of metal together by softening with heat and applying pressure | - |
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| weldment | (noun) an assembly of parts welded together | - |
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| welfare | (noun) governmental provision of economic assistance to persons in need | Synonyms: public assistance, social welfare |
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| (noun) something that aids or promotes well-being | Synonyms: benefit |
| (noun) a contented state of being happy and healthy and prosperous | Synonyms: eudaemonia, eudaimonia, upbeat, well-being, wellbeing |
| welfarist | (adjective) of or relating to a welfare state | Synonyms: welfare-statist |
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| welkin | (noun) the apparent surface of the imaginary sphere on which celestial bodies appear to be projected | Synonyms: celestial sphere, empyrean, firmament, heavens, sphere, vault of heaven |
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| well | (adjective) in good health especially after having suffered illness or injury | - |
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| (adjective) wise or advantageous and hence advisable | - |
| (adjective) resulting favorably | Synonyms: good |
| (noun) a deep hole or shaft dug or drilled to obtain water or oil or gas or brine | - |
| (noun) an enclosed compartment in a ship or plane for holding something as e.g. fish or a plane's landing gear or for protecting something as e.g. a ship's pumps | - |
| (noun) an open shaft through the floors of a building (as for a stairway) | - |
| (noun) a cavity or vessel used to contain liquid | - |
| (noun) an abundant source | Synonyms: fountainhead, wellspring |
| (adverb) (often used as a combining form) in a good or proper or satisfactory manner or to a high standard (`good' is a nonstandard dialectal variant for `well') | Synonyms: good |
| (adverb) without unusual distress or resentment; with good humor | - |
| (adverb) indicating high probability; in all likelihood | Synonyms: easily |
| (adverb) thoroughly or completely; fully; often used as a combining form | - |
| (adverb) favorably; with approval | - |
| (adverb) to a suitable or appropriate extent or degree | - |
| (adverb) in financial comfort | Synonyms: comfortably |
| (adverb) in a manner affording benefit or advantage | Synonyms: advantageously |
| (adverb) to a great extent or degree | Synonyms: considerably, substantially |
| (adverb) with skill or in a pleasing manner | - |
| (adverb) with prudence or propriety | - |
| (adverb) with great or especially intimate knowledge | Synonyms: intimately |
| (adverb) (used for emphasis or as an intensifier) entirely or fully | - |
| (verb) come up, as of a liquid | Synonyms: swell |
| wellbeing | (noun) a contented state of being happy and healthy and prosperous | Synonyms: eudaemonia, eudaimonia, upbeat, welfare, well-being |
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| wellborn | (adjective) of good or upper-class lineage | - |
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| wellerism | (noun) a comparison comprising a well-known quotation followed by a facetious sequel | - |
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| wellhead | (noun) a structure built over a well | - |
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| (noun) the source of water for a well | Synonyms: wellspring |
| wellness | (noun) a healthy state of wellbeing free from disease | Synonyms: health |
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| wellpoint | (noun) a perforated tube driven into the ground to collect water from the surrounding area | Synonyms: well point |
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| wellspring | (noun) an abundant source | Synonyms: fountainhead, well |
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| (noun) the source of water for a well | Synonyms: wellhead |
| welsh | (verb) cheat by avoiding payment of a gambling debt | Synonyms: welch |
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| welsher | (noun) someone who swindles you by not repaying a debt or wager | Synonyms: welcher |
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| welt | (noun) a raised or strengthened seam | - |
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| (noun) a raised mark on the skin (as produced by the blow of a whip); characteristic of many allergic reactions | Synonyms: wale, weal, wheal |
| (verb) put a welt on | - |
| (verb) beat severely with a whip or rod | Synonyms: flog, lash, lather, slash, strap, trounce, whip |
| welter | (noun) a confused multitude of things | Synonyms: clutter, fuddle, jumble, mare's nest, muddle, smother |
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| (verb) be immersed in | - |
| (verb) roll around | Synonyms: wallow |
| (verb) toss, roll, or rise and fall in an uncontrolled way | - |
| welterweight | (noun) A weight class division in combat sports, for fighters heavier than those in the lightweight division and lighter than those in the middleweight division. | - |
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| (noun) a professional boxer who weighs between 141 and 147 pounds | - |
| (noun) a wrestler who weighs 154-172 pounds | - |
| (noun) an amateur boxer who weighs no more than 148 pounds | - |
| (noun) a weight of 28 pounds; sometimes imposed as a handicap in a horse race (such as a steeplechase) | - |
| welwitschia | (noun) curious plant of arid regions of southwestern Africa having a yard-high and yard-wide trunk like a turnip with a deep taproot and two large persistent woody straplike leaves growing from the base; living relic of a flora long disappeared; some may be 700-5000 years old | Synonyms: Welwitschia mirabilis |
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