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5-Letter Words That Start With: DOW

There are 17 5-letter words, 0 5-letter phrases and 0 5-letter abbr's that start with DOW.

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dowdy5
13 adjectiveadj
noun

• deep-dish apple dessert covered with a rich crust

• British marshal of the RAF who commanded the British air defense forces that defeated the Luftwaffe during the Battle of Britain (1882-1970)

adjective satellite

• lacking in smartness or taste

• primly out of date

dowry5
12 nounn
noun

• money or property brought by a woman to her husband at marriage

downy5
12 adjectiveadj
adjective satellite

• like down or as soft as down

• covered with fine soft hairs or down

dowed5
10
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downs5
9 verb, nounv, n
adjective

• being or moving lower in position or less in some value

noun

• soft fine feathers

• English physician who first described Down's syndrome (1828-1896)

• (American football) a complete play to advance the football

• (usually plural) a rolling treeless highland with little soil

• fine soft dense hair (as the fine short hair of cattle or deer or the wool of sheep or the undercoat of certain dogs)

adverb

• spatially or metaphorically from a higher to a lower level or position

• away from a more central or a more northerly place

• paid in cash at time of purchase

• from an earlier time

• to a lower intensity

• in an inactive or inoperative state

adjective satellite

• extending or moving from a higher to a lower place

• becoming progressively lower

• being put out in a game of baseball

• understood perfectly

• lower than previously

• shut

• not functioning (temporarily or permanently)

• filled with melancholy and despondency

verb

• drink down entirely

• eat up completely, as with great appetite

• bring down or defeat (an opponent)

• shoot at and force to come down

• cause to come or go down

• improve or perfect by pruning or polishing

dower5
9 nounn
noun

• money or property brought by a woman to her husband at marriage

• a life estate to which a wife is entitled on the death of her husband

verb

• furnish with an endowment

dowel5
9 nounn
noun

• a fastener that is inserted into holes in two adjacent pieces and holds them together

dowse5
9 verbv
noun

• searching for underground water or minerals by using a dowsing rod

verb

• wet thoroughly

• use a divining rod in search of underground water or metal

• slacken

• cover with liquid; pour liquid onto

dowie5
9 adjectiveadj
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