awl | (noun) a pointed tool for marking surfaces or for punching small holes | - |
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bawl | (verb) cry loudly | - |
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(verb) shout loudly and without restraint | Synonyms: bellow |
(verb) make a raucous noise | Synonyms: yawp |
bradawl | (noun) an awl for making small holes for brads or small screws | Synonyms: pricker |
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brawl | (noun) a noisy fight in a crowd | Synonyms: free-for-all |
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(noun) an uproarious party | Synonyms: bash, do |
(verb) to quarrel noisily, angrily or disruptively | Synonyms: wrangle |
crawl | (noun) a slow mode of locomotion on hands and knees or dragging the body | Synonyms: crawling, creep, creeping |
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(noun) a swimming stroke; arms are moved alternately overhead accompanied by a flutter kick | Synonyms: Australian crawl, front crawl |
(noun) a very slow movement | - |
(verb) move slowly; in the case of people or animals with the body near the ground | Synonyms: creep |
(verb) swim by doing the crawl | - |
(verb) show submission or fear | Synonyms: cower, creep, cringe, fawn, grovel |
(verb) be full of | - |
(verb) feel as if crawling with insects | - |
drawl | (noun) a slow speech pattern with prolonged vowels | - |
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(verb) lengthen and slow down or draw out | - |
pawl | (noun) a hinged catch that fits into a notch of a ratchet to move a wheel forward or prevent it from moving backward | Synonyms: click, detent, dog |
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scrawl | (noun) poor handwriting | Synonyms: cacography, scratch, scribble |
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(verb) write carelessly | Synonyms: scribble |
shawl | (noun) cloak consisting of an oblong piece of cloth used to cover the head and shoulders | - |
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spawl | (noun) a fragment broken off from the edge or face of stone or ore and having at least one thin edge | Synonyms: spall |
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sprawl | (noun) an ungainly posture with arms and legs spread about | Synonyms: sprawling |
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(noun) an aggregation or continuous network of urban communities | Synonyms: conurbation, urban sprawl |
(verb) sit or lie with one's limbs spread out | - |
(verb) go, come, or spread in a rambling or irregular way | Synonyms: straggle |
trawl | (noun) a conical fishnet dragged through the water at great depths | Synonyms: dragnet, trawl net |
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(noun) a long fishing line with many shorter lines and hooks attached to it (usually suspended between buoys) | Synonyms: setline, spiller, trawl line, trotline |
(verb) fish with trawlers | - |
wawl | (verb) make high-pitched, whiney noises | Synonyms: squall, waul |
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wrawl | (verb) cry loudly, as of animals | Synonyms: howl, yammer, yowl |
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yawl | (noun) a sailing vessel with two masts; a small mizzen is aft of the rudderpost | Synonyms: dandy |
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(noun) a ship's small boat (usually rowed by 4 or 6 oars) | - |
(verb) emit long loud cries | Synonyms: howl, roar, ululate, wail, yaup |