DOWLE

Definition: DOWLE

DOWLE

Noun

1. Feathery or wool-like down; filament of a feather.

Source: Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913)

Date "DOWLE" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1611. (references)

Etymology: Dowle \Dowle\, noun. [Compare to Old French douille soft. Compare to Ductile.]. (Websters 1913)

Domain	Definition
Industry	Feathery or woolly down: filament. Source: European Union. (references)
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

Crosswords: DOWLE

English words defined with "DOWLE": Dowl. (references)

"DOWLE" is generally used as a noun (proper) -- approximately 100.00% of the time. "DOWLE" is used about 3 times out of a sample of 100 million words spoken or written in English. Its rank is based on over 700,000 words used in the English language. Some parts-of-speech are not covered due to the samples used by the British National Corpus. (note: percents less than one-hundredth of one percent have been omitted)

Parts of Speech	Percent	Usage per 100 Million Words	Rank in English
Noun (proper)	100%	3	202,518

Language		Translations for "DOWLE"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses.
French		duvet (down), bourre (bud down, dowl), barbe (dowl). (various references)

Pig Latin		owleday
Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references.

Derivations
	Words containing "DOWLE": shadowless, windowless. (additional references)
Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references).

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams
	Direct Anagrams: dowel, lowed.
	Words within the letters "d-e-l-o-w"
	-1 letter: dole, lewd, lode, lowe, owed, weld, wold.
	-2 letters: del, dew, doe, dol, dow, eld, led, low, ode, old, ole, owe, owl, wed, woe.
	-3 letters: de, do, ed, el, lo, od, oe, ow, we, wo.
	Words containing the letters "d-e-l-o-w"
	+1 letter: blowed, bowled, cowled, dewool, dowels, flowed, fowled, glowed, howled, jowled, plowed, slowed, weldor, wolfed, wooled, yowled.
	+2 letters: allowed, blowsed, blowzed, boweled, bowlder, clowder, clowned, cowedly, dewools, dowable, doweled, elbowed, growled, letdown, lowbred, lowered, oldwife, prowled, roweled, scowled, toweled, waldoes, wedlock, weldors, whorled, wobbled, woolled.
	+3 letters: avowedly, behowled, bellowed, billowed, bluewood, bowelled, bowlders, clowders, deflower, dewooled, disbowel, doweling, dowelled, dowsabel, fallowed, fellowed, flowered, followed, fuelwood, glowered, hallowed, hollowed, lacewood, latewood, leadwork, leadwort, letdowns, locoweed, lowrider, mellowed, meltdown, oldwives, outlawed, outwiled, overlewd, pillowed, plowhead, poleward, reflowed, reglowed, rowelled, sallowed, tallowed, towelled, troweled, unplowed, upflowed, walloped, wallowed, wedlocks, welcomed, welldoer, willowed, wontedly, woodenly, woodless, woodlore, woodpile, woolshed, wordless, wouldest, yellowed.
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