5 Letter Words Ending in W

Every 5-letter English word in the JumbleFix dictionary that ends in W. Each word links to its definition. Face-value Scrabble and Words With Friends scores are shown so you can pick a high-scoring play without leaving the page.

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  1. ablow Scrabble 10 · WWF 12
    adverb. In bloom; blossoming.
  2. aflow Scrabble 11 · WWF 12
    adv. & a.. Flowing.
  3. aglow Scrabble 9 · WWF 11
    adv. & a.. In a glow; glowing; as, cheeks aglow; the landscape all aglow.
  4. aknow Scrabble 12 · WWF 13
    Earlier form of Acknow.
  5. allow Scrabble 8 · WWF 10
    v. t.. To praise; to approve of; hence, to sanction.
  6. arrow Scrabble 8 · WWF 8
    n.. A missile weapon of offense, slender, pointed, and usually feathered and barbed, to be shot from a bow.
  7. askew Scrabble 12 · WWF 12
    adv. & a.. Awry; askance; asquint; oblique or obliquely; -- sometimes indicating scorn, or contempt, or entry.
  8. aview Scrabble 11 · WWF 12
    adverb. In view; within sight.
  9. balow Scrabble 10 · WWF 12
    noun. A lullaby or a soothing song, similar to 'baloo'.
  10. bedew Scrabble 11 · WWF 12
    v. t.. To moisten with dew, or as with dew.
  11. behew Scrabble 13 · WWF 13
    verb. To cut or shape with an axe or similar tool; to hew.
  12. below Scrabble 10 · WWF 12
    prep.. Under, or lower in place; beneath not so high; as, below the moon; below the knee.
  13. bepaw Scrabble 12 · WWF 14
    verb. To handle or touch clumsily with the paws or hands.
  14. besew Scrabble 10 · WWF 11
    verb. to sew or stitch; to sew up.
  15. bylaw Scrabble 13 · WWF 14
    n.. A local or subordinate law; a private law or regulation made by a corporation for its own government.
  16. cadew Scrabble 11 · WWF 12
    n.. Alt. of Cadeworm
  17. cahow Scrabble 13 · WWF 13
    noun. A rare nocturnal seabird (Pterodroma cahow) endemic to Bermuda, also called the Bermuda petrel.
  18. carew Scrabble 10 · WWF 11
    n.. Englishman and Cavalier poet whose lyric poetry was favored by Charles I (1595-1639)
  19. cohow Scrabble 13 · WWF 13
    noun. A variant spelling of coho, a type of salmon.
  20. delaw Scrabble 9 · WWF 10
    verb. To dilute; to weaken by adding water.
  21. devow Scrabble 12 · WWF 13
    v. t.. To give up; to devote.
  22. elbow Scrabble 10 · WWF 12
    n.. The joint or bend of the arm; the outer curve in the middle of the arm when bent.
  23. embow Scrabble 12 · WWF 14
    v. t.. To bend like a bow; to curve.
  24. emmew Scrabble 12 · WWF 14
    v. t.. To mew or coop up.
  25. endow Scrabble 9 · WWF 10
    v. t.. To furnish with money or its equivalent, as a permanent fund for support; to make pecuniary provision for; to settle an income upon; especially, to furnish w...
  26. enmew Scrabble 10 · WWF 12
    v. t.. See Emmew.
  27. ennew Scrabble 8 · WWF 10
    v. t.. To make new.
  28. ewhow Scrabble 14 · WWF 13
    interjection. An expression of disgust or aversion, similar to 'ew' but with a drawn-out or exaggerated sound.
  29. finew Scrabble 11 · WWF 12
    n.. Moldiness.
  30. gamow Scrabble 11 · WWF 13
    n.. United States physicist (born in Russia) who was a proponent of the big-bang theory and who did research in radioactivity and suggested the triplet code for...
  31. immew Scrabble 12 · WWF 14
    v. t.. See Emmew.
  32. indew Scrabble 9 · WWF 10
    v. t.. To indue.
  33. indow Scrabble 9 · WWF 10
    v. t.. See Endow.
  34. inlaw Scrabble 8 · WWF 10
    v. t.. To clear of outlawry or attainder; to place under the protection of the law.
  35. inmew Scrabble 10 · WWF 12
    v. t.. To inclose, as in a mew or cage.
  36. kotow Scrabble 12 · WWF 12
    n.. The prostration made by mandarins and others to their superiors, either as homage or worship, by knocking the forehead on the ground. There are degrees in th...
  37. macaw Scrabble 12 · WWF 14
    n.. Any parrot of the genus Sittace, or Macrocercus. About eighteen species are known, all of them American. They are large and have a very long tail, a strong h...
  38. menow Scrabble 10 · WWF 12
    n.. A minnow.
  39. miaow Scrabble 10 · WWF 11
    n.. the sound made by a cat (or any sound resembling this)
  40. minow Scrabble 10 · WWF 12
    n.. See Minnow.
  41. navew Scrabble 11 · WWF 13
    n.. A kind of small turnip, a variety of Brassica campestris. See Brassica.
  42. nohow Scrabble 11 · WWF 11
    adv.. in no manner; in no way; "We could nohow make out his handwriting"
  43. oxbow Scrabble 17 · WWF 18
    n.. A frame of wood, bent into the shape of the letter U, and embracing an ox's neck as a kind of collar, the upper ends passing through the bar of the yoke; als...
  44. papaw Scrabble 12 · WWF 14
    n.. A tree (Carica Papaya) of tropical America, belonging to the order Passifloreae. It has a soft, spongy stem, eighteen or twenty feet high, crowned with a tuf...
  45. pelew Scrabble 10 · WWF 12
    n.. a chain of more than 200 islands about 400 miles long in the western central Pacific Ocean
  46. pilaw Scrabble 10 · WWF 12
    n.. rice cooked in well-seasoned broth with onions or celery and usually poultry or game or shellfish and sometimes tomatoes
  47. pshaw Scrabble 13 · WWF 13
    interj.. Pish! pooch! -- an exclamation used as an expression of contempt, disdain, dislike, etc.
  48. renew Scrabble 8 · WWF 9
    v. t.. To make new again; to restore to freshness, perfection, or vigor; to give new life to; to rejuvenate; to re/stablish; to recreate; to rebuild.
  49. resaw Scrabble 8 · WWF 8
    v. t.. To saw again; specifically, to saw a balk, or a timber, which has already been squared, into dimension lumber, as joists, boards, etc.
  50. resew Scrabble 8 · WWF 8
    v.. sew again; "The cuff of the coat had been resewn"
  51. resow Scrabble 8 · WWF 8
    v. t.. To sow again.
  52. scraw Scrabble 10 · WWF 11
    n.. A turf.
  53. screw Scrabble 10 · WWF 11
    n.. A cylinder, or a cylindrical perforation, having a continuous rib, called the thread, winding round it spirally at a constant inclination, so as to leave a c...
  54. scrow Scrabble 10 · WWF 11
    n.. A scroll.
  55. serow Scrabble 8 · WWF 8
    n.. Alt. of Surrow
  56. shrew Scrabble 11 · WWF 10
    a.. Wicked; malicious.
  57. sinew Scrabble 8 · WWF 9
    n.. A tendon or tendonous tissue. See Tendon.
  58. sprew Scrabble 10 · WWF 11
    n.. Thrush.
  59. squaw Scrabble 17 · WWF 18
    n.. A female; a woman; -- in the language of Indian tribes of the Algonquin family, correlative of sannup.
  60. straw Scrabble 8 · WWF 8
    v. t.. To spread or scatter. See Strew, and Strow.
  61. strew Scrabble 8 · WWF 8
    v. t.. To scatter; to spread by scattering; to cast or to throw loosely apart; -- used of solids, separated or separable into parts or particles; as, to strew seed...
  62. strow Scrabble 8 · WWF 8
    v. t.. Same as Strew.
  63. thraw Scrabble 11 · WWF 10
    n. & v.. See Throse.
  64. threw Scrabble 11 · WWF 10
    imp. of Throw.
  65. throw Scrabble 11 · WWF 10
    n.. Pain; especially, pain of travail; throe.
  66. unbow Scrabble 10 · WWF 13
    v. t.. To unbend.
  67. unlaw Scrabble 8 · WWF 11
    v. t.. To deprive of the authority or character of law.
  68. unmew Scrabble 10 · WWF 13
    v. t.. To release from confinement or restraint.
  69. unsew Scrabble 8 · WWF 10
    v. t.. To undo, as something sewn, or something inclosed by sewing; to rip apart; to take out the stitches of.
  70. volow Scrabble 11 · WWF 13
    v. t.. To baptize; -- used in contempt by the Reformers.
  71. widow Scrabble 12 · WWF 12
    n.. A woman who has lost her husband by death, and has not married again; one living bereaved of a husband.