5-letter words containing o, w
- jowls — a fold of flesh hanging from the jaw, as of a very fat person.
- jowly — having prominent jowls.
- jows' — the ringing, tolling, or sound of a bell.
- kapow — Alternative spelling of kerpow.
- kiowa — a member of a Plains Indian people of the southwestern U.S.
- knowe — knoll1 .
- known — past participle of know1 .
- knows — to perceive or understand as fact or truth; to apprehend clearly and with certainty: I know the situation fully.
- kotow — kowtow.
- loewe — Frederick, 1904–88, U.S. composer, born in Austria.
- loewi — Otto [ot-oh;; German awt-oh] /ˈɒt oʊ;; German ˈɔt oʊ/ (Show IPA), 1873–1961, German pharmacologist in the U.S.: Nobel Prize in Medicine 1936.
- loewy — Raymond Fernand [fer-nand] /fərˈnænd/ (Show IPA), 1893–1986, U.S. industrial designer, born in France.
- lowan — mallee fowl.
- lowed — to burn; blaze.
- lower — to cause to descend; let or put down: to lower a flag.
- lowes — John Livingston, 1867–1945, U.S. scholar, critic, and teacher.
- lowly — humble in station, condition, or nature: a lowly cottage.
- lowns — loon2 .
- lowry — (Clarence) Malcolm (Boden) [bohd-n] /ˈboʊd n/ (Show IPA), 1909–57, U.S. novelist, born in England.
- lowse — loose
- lowth — (UK dialectal, Northern England) Lowness.
- lwoff — André [ahn-drey] /ɑ̃ˈdreɪ/ (Show IPA), 1902–1994, French microbiologist: Nobel Prize in Medicine 1965.
- maewo — an almost uninhabited island in Vanuatu
- meows — Plural form of meow.
- miaow — to make the sound of a cat.
- minow — Archaic form of minnow.
- miwok — a member of an American Indian people formerly living in several noncontiguous areas of California north of San Francisco Bay and eastward from the San Joaquin-Sacramento delta to the Sierras.
- mlowg — Middle Low German
- mohwa — mahua.
- mowat — Farley (McGill) 1921–2014, Canadian writer.
- mowed — Simple past tense and past participle of mow.
- mower — lawn mower.
- mowra — mahua.
- nohow — under no circumstances; in no way (usually preceded by another negative): I can't learn this nohow.
- norw. — Norway
- noway — in no way, respect, or degree; not at all; nowise: He was noway responsible for the accident.
- noweb — (programming) A system of structured programming and documentation from M.Speh in DESY. See literate programming.
- nowed — Knotted; (of a snake) depicted interlaced in a knot.
- nowel — Noel (def 2).
- nower — without further delay; immediately; at once: Either do it now or not at all.
- nowty — bad-tempered
- ofwat — Office of Water Services: a government body set up in 1989 to regulate the activities of the water companies in England and Wales, and to protect the interests of their consumers
- olwen — a princess, the daughter of Ysbaddaden Chief-giant.
- orrow — not regular or scheduled; odd: orra work.
- otway — Thomas, 1652–85, English dramatist.
- owens — Sir Richard, 1804–92, English zoologist and anatomist.
- owing — owed, unpaid, or due for payment: to pay what is owing.
- owler — a smuggler (esp of sheep, from England to France)
- owlet — a young owl.
- owned — of, relating to, or belonging to oneself or itself (usually used after a possessive to emphasize the idea of ownership, interest, or relation conveyed by the possessive): He spent only his own money.