| aircrew | (noun) the crew of an aircraft | Synonyms: air crew |
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| airscrew | (noun) a propeller that rotates to push against air | Synonyms: airplane propeller, prop |
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| anew | (adverb) again but in a new or different way | Synonyms: afresh |
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| askew | (adjective) turned or twisted toward one side | Synonyms: awry, cockeyed, lopsided, skew-whiff, wonky |
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| (adverb) turned or twisted to one side | Synonyms: awry, skew-whiff |
| bedew | (verb) cover with drops of dew or as with dew | - |
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| beshrew | (verb) wish harm upon; invoke evil upon | Synonyms: anathemise, anathemize, bedamn, curse, damn, imprecate, maledict |
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| bestrew | (verb) cover by strewing | - |
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| brew | (noun) drink made by steeping and boiling and fermenting rather than distilling | Synonyms: brewage |
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| (verb) sit or let sit in boiling water so as to extract the flavor | - |
| (verb) prepare by brewing | - |
| cashew | (noun) kidney-shaped nut edible only when roasted | Synonyms: cashew nut |
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| (noun) tropical American evergreen tree bearing kidney-shaped nuts that are edible only when roasted | Synonyms: Anacardium occidentale, cashew tree |
| chew | (noun) biting and grinding food in your mouth so it becomes soft enough to swallow | Synonyms: chewing, manduction, mastication |
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| (noun) a wad of something chewable as tobacco | Synonyms: chaw, cud, plug, quid, wad |
| (verb) chew (food); to bite and grind with the teeth | Synonyms: jaw, manducate, masticate |
| clerihew | (noun) a witty satiric verse containing two rhymed couplets and mentioning a famous person | - |
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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 |
| corkscrew | (noun) a bottle opener that pulls corks | Synonyms: bottle screw |
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| (verb) move in a spiral or zigzag course | Synonyms: spiral |
| crew | (noun) an organized group of workmen | Synonyms: gang, work party |
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| (noun) the men and women who man a vehicle (ship, aircraft, etc.) | - |
| (noun) the team of men or women manning a racing shell | - |
| (noun) an informal body of friends | Synonyms: bunch, crowd, gang |
| (verb) serve as a crew member on | - |
| curfew | (noun) a signal (usually a bell) announcing the start of curfew restrictions | - |
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| (noun) an order that after a specific time certain activities (as being outside on the streets) are prohibited | - |
| (noun) the time that the curfew signal is sounded | - |
| curlew | (noun) large migratory shorebirds of the sandpiper family; closely related to woodcocks but having a down-curved bill | - |
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| dew | (noun) water that has condensed on a cool surface overnight from water vapor in the air | - |
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| eschew | (verb) avoid and stay away from deliberately; stay clear of | Synonyms: shun |
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| feverfew | (noun) bushy aromatic European perennial herb having clusters of buttonlike white-rayed flower heads; valued traditionally for medicinal uses; sometimes placed in genus Chrysanthemum | Synonyms: Chrysanthemum parthenium, Tanacetum parthenium |
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| few | (adjective) a quantifier that can be used with count nouns and is often preceded by `a'; a small but indefinite number | - |
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| (noun) a small elite group | - |
| grandnephew | (noun) a son of your niece or nephew | Synonyms: great-nephew |
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| hew | (verb) strike with an axe; cut down, strike | - |
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| (verb) make or shape as with an axe | Synonyms: hew out |
| homebrew | (noun) an alcoholic beverage (especially beer) made at home | Synonyms: home brew |
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| honeydew | (noun) a sugar-rich sticky liquid, secreted by aphids and some scale insects as they feed on plant sap. | - |
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| (noun) the fruit of a variety of winter melon vine; a large smooth greenish-white melon with pale green flesh | Synonyms: honeydew melon |
| interview | (noun) a conference (usually with someone important) | Synonyms: audience, consultation |
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| (noun) the questioning of a person (or a conversation in which information is elicited); often conducted by journalists | - |
| (verb) conduct an interview in television, newspaper, and radio reporting | Synonyms: question |
| (verb) discuss formally with (somebody) for the purpose of an evaluation | - |
| (verb) go for an interview in the hope of being hired | - |
| jackscrew | (noun) screw-operated jack | Synonyms: screw jack |
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| mew | (noun) the common gull of Eurasia and northeastern North America | Synonyms: Larus canus, mew gull, sea mew |
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| (noun) the sound made by a cat (or any sound resembling this) | Synonyms: meow, miaou, miaow, miaul |
| (verb) cry like a cat | Synonyms: meow |
| (verb) utter a high-pitched cry, as of seagulls | - |
| mildew | (noun) a fungus that produces a superficial (usually white) growth on organic matter | - |
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| (noun) the process of becoming mildewed | Synonyms: mold, mould |
| (verb) become moldy; spoil due to humidity | Synonyms: mold, mould |
| nephew | (noun) a son of your brother or sister | - |
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| new | (adjective) not of long duration; having just (or relatively recently) come into being or been made or acquired or discovered | - |
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| (adjective) unaffected by use or exposure | - |
| (adjective) (of crops) harvested at an early stage of development; before complete maturity | Synonyms: young |
| (adjective) lacking training or experience | Synonyms: raw |
| (adjective) original and of a kind not seen before | Synonyms: fresh, novel |
| (adjective) other than the former one(s); different | - |
| (adjective) (often followed by `to') unfamiliar | - |
| (adjective) having no previous example or precedent or parallel | Synonyms: unexampled |
| (adverb) very recently | Synonyms: fresh, freshly, newly |
| oversew | (verb) sew (two edges) with close stitches that pass over them both | - |
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| overview | (noun) a general summary of a subject | - |
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| pew | (noun) long bench with backs; used in church by the congregation | Synonyms: church bench |
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| preview | (noun) a screening for a select audience in advance of release for the general public | - |
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| (noun) an advertisement consisting of short scenes from a motion picture that will appear in the near future | Synonyms: prevue, trailer |
| (verb) watch (a movie or play) before it is released to the general public | - |
| purview | (noun) the range of interest or activity that can be anticipated | Synonyms: horizon, view |
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| renew | (verb) cause to appear in a new form | Synonyms: reincarnate |
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| (verb) reestablish on a new, usually improved, basis or make new or like new | Synonyms: regenerate |
| resew | (verb) sew again | - |
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| review | (noun) a subsequent examination of a patient for the purpose of monitoring earlier treatment | Synonyms: follow-up, followup, reexamination |
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| (noun) practice intended to polish performance or refresh the memory | Synonyms: brushup |
| (noun) a formal or official examination | Synonyms: inspection |
| (noun) (law) a judicial reexamination of the proceedings of a court (especially by an appellate court) | - |
| (noun) a new appraisal or evaluation | Synonyms: reappraisal, reassessment, revaluation |
| (noun) a summary at the end that repeats the substance of a longer discussion | Synonyms: recap, recapitulation |
| (noun) an essay or article that gives a critical evaluation (as of a book or play) | Synonyms: critical review, critique, review article |
| (noun) a variety show with topical sketches and songs and dancing and comedians | Synonyms: revue |
| (noun) a periodical that publishes critical essays on current affairs or literature or art | - |
| (noun) (accounting) a service (less exhaustive than an audit) that provides some assurance to interested parties as to the reliability of financial data | Synonyms: limited review |
| (verb) look at again; examine again | Synonyms: reexamine |
| (verb) look back upon (a period of time, sequence of events); remember | Synonyms: look back, retrospect |
| (verb) hold a review (of troops) | Synonyms: go over, survey |
| (verb) refresh one's memory | Synonyms: brush up, refresh |
| (verb) appraise critically | Synonyms: critique |
| screw | (noun) slang for sexual intercourse | Synonyms: ass, fuck, fucking, nookie, nooky, piece of ass, piece of tail, roll in the hay, screwing, shag, shtup |
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| (noun) a fastener with a tapered threaded shank and a slotted head | - |
| (noun) a propeller with several angled blades that rotates to push against water or air | Synonyms: screw propeller |
| (noun) a simple machine of the inclined-plane type consisting of a spirally threaded cylindrical rod that engages with a similarly threaded hole | - |
| (noun) someone who guards prisoners | Synonyms: gaoler, jailer, jailor, prison guard, turnkey |
| (verb) defeat someone through trickery or deceit | Synonyms: cheat, chicane, chouse, jockey, shaft |
| (verb) tighten or fasten by means of screwing motions | - |
| (verb) cause to penetrate, as with a circular motion | Synonyms: drive in |
| (verb) turn like a screw | - |
| (verb) have sexual intercourse with | Synonyms: bang, be intimate, bed, bonk, do it, eff, fuck, get it on, get laid, have a go at it, have intercourse, have it away, have it off, have sex, hump, jazz, know, lie with, love, make love, make out, roll in the hay, sleep together, sleep with |
| setscrew | (noun) a screw (often without a head) that fits into the boss or hub of a wheel or cam etc. and prevents motion of the part relative to the shaft on which it is mounted | - |
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| (noun) a screw that is used to adjust the tension on a spring | - |
| sew | (verb) fasten by sewing; do needlework | Synonyms: run up, sew together, stitch |
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| (verb) create (clothes) with cloth | Synonyms: tailor-make, tailor |
| shew | (verb) establish the validity of something, as by an example, explanation or experiment | Synonyms: demonstrate, establish, prove, show |
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| shrew | (noun) small mouselike mammal with a long snout; related to moles | Synonyms: shrewmouse |
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| (noun) a scolding nagging bad-tempered woman | Synonyms: termagant |
| sinew | (noun) possessing muscular strength | Synonyms: brawn, brawniness, heftiness, muscle, muscularity |
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| (noun) a cord or band of inelastic tissue connecting a muscle with its bony attachment | Synonyms: tendon |
| skew | (adjective) having an oblique or slanting direction or position | Synonyms: skewed |
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| (verb) turn or place at an angle | - |
| 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 |
| smew | (noun) smallest merganser and most expert diver; found in northern Eurasia | Synonyms: Mergus albellus |
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| spew | (verb) eject the contents of the stomach through the mouth | Synonyms: barf, be sick, cast, cat, chuck, disgorge, honk, puke, purge, regorge, regurgitate, retch, sick, spue, throw up, upchuck, vomit, vomit up |
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| (verb) expel or eject (saliva or phlegm or sputum) from the mouth | Synonyms: ptyalise, ptyalize, spit, spue |
| (verb) eject or send out in large quantities, also metaphorical | Synonyms: eruct, spew out |
| stew | (noun) food prepared by stewing especially meat or fish with vegetables | - |
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| (noun) agitation resulting from active worry | Synonyms: fret, lather, sweat, swither |
| (verb) cook slowly and for a long time in liquid | - |
| (verb) bear a grudge; harbor ill feelings | Synonyms: grudge |
| (verb) be in a huff; be silent or sullen | Synonyms: brood, grizzle |
| strew | (verb) spread by scattering ("straw" is archaic) | Synonyms: straw |
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| (verb) cover; be dispersed over | - |
| sundew | (noun) any of various bog plants of the genus Drosera having leaves covered with sticky hairs that trap and digest insects; cosmopolitan in distribution | Synonyms: daily dew, sundew plant |
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| thumbscrew | (noun) screw designed to be turned with the thumb and fingers | - |
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| (noun) instrument of torture that crushes the thumb | - |
| unscrew | (verb) loosen something by unscrewing it | - |
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| (verb) loosen by turning | - |
| view | (noun) the act of looking or seeing or observing | Synonyms: sight, survey |
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| (noun) graphic art consisting of the graphic or photographic representation of a visual percept | Synonyms: scene |
| (noun) the range of interest or activity that can be anticipated | Synonyms: horizon, purview |
| (noun) outward appearance | - |
| (noun) purpose; the phrase `with a view to' means `with the intention of' or `for the purpose of' | - |
| (noun) the visual percept of a region | Synonyms: aspect, panorama, prospect, scene, vista |
| (noun) a way of regarding situations or topics etc. | Synonyms: perspective, position |
| (noun) a personal belief or judgment that is not founded on proof or certainty | Synonyms: opinion, persuasion, sentiment, thought |
| (noun) a message expressing a belief about something; the expression of a belief that is held with confidence but not substantiated by positive knowledge or proof | Synonyms: opinion |
| (noun) the range of the eye | Synonyms: eyeshot |
| (verb) deem to be | Synonyms: consider, reckon, regard, see |
| (verb) look at carefully; study mentally | Synonyms: consider, look at |
| (verb) see or watch | Synonyms: catch, see, take in, watch |
| woodscrew | (noun) a metal screw that tapers to a point so that it can be driven into wood with a screwdriver | - |
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| yew | (noun) any of numerous evergreen trees or shrubs having red cup-shaped berries and flattened needlelike leaves | - |
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| (noun) wood of a yew; especially the durable fine-grained light brown or red wood of the English yew valued for cabinetwork and archery bows | - |