OWLS

"OWLS" is a plural of: owl.

Date "OWLS" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1374. (references)

Food & Agriculture

Health

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

Redundancy

Send coals to Newcastle, carry coals to Newcastle, carry owls to Athens; teach one's grandmother to suck eggs; pisces natare docere;kill the slain, " gild refined gold", "gild the lily", butter one's bread on both sides, put butter upon bacon; employ a steam engine to crack a nut; (waste).

Crosswords: OWLS

The owls! They're beautiful! (Dumb & Dumber; writing credit: Peter Farrelly; Bennett Yellin)

The two owls for the counting sketch. (Greg the Bunny; writing credit: Francesco Barilli)

They're the night owls (Night Owls; performing artist: Little River Band)

Night Owls (1930)

Screech Owls (2001)

Farley Mowat: Owls in the Family (1994)

The Night Owls (performing artist: Little River Band)

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

Books

• All About Owls (reference)

• Owls Do Cry (reference)

• The Book of North American Owls (reference)

• The Screech Owls Northern Adventure (reference)

  (more book examples)

Periodicals

• Bright Owls (reference)

  (more periodical examples)

Theater & Movies

• Laurel & Hardy: Night Owls (reference)

• Owls Up Close (reference)

  (more DVD examples; more video examples)

Music

• Night Owls 01 (reference)

• Night Owls 2 (reference)

• Owls (reference)

  (more classical music examples; more popular music examples)

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

Narragansett Bay National Estuarine Research Reserve White-footed mouse - Peromyscus leucopus. This mouse is a prey species of owls - especially screech owls and barred owls. Unfortunately, this small rhodent is also an important host in the life cycle of the deer tick and the spread of Lyme disease. Credit: National Estuarine Research Reserve System (NERR).

Western Screech Owls in man-made boxOwyhee Field OfficeLSRDLower Snake River District. Credit: Unknown.

Great horned owls perched in a tree. (Bubo virginianus). Credit: Unknown.

Burrowing owls standing on the outter edge of a hole in the ground. Credit: Unknown.

Wildlife biologist tracks owls with a remote tracker/censor. Credit: D. Huntington.

Two Great Horned Owls in the Blitzen River Wilderness Study Area. OR 2-86E. Credit: Unknown.

Great Horned Owls. Credit: Bob Savannah.

Two owls in tree. Credit: Library of Congress.

Birds. Horned owls. Credit: Library of Congress.

Magician holding rabbit and conjuring spirit surrounded by demon and owls. Credit: Library of Congress.

Source: pictures compiled by the editor from various references; see picture credits.

Source: compiled by the editor from various references.

Owls have such great big eyes.

The last thing that owls wish is a candle.

Out on you, owls! Nothing but songs of death?

And weasels came in to hunt the mice, and the brown owls flew shrieking in and out again.

I rejoice that there are owls.

Source: compiled by the editor from various references.

Health

Encourage the presence of natural predators, such as non-poisonous snakes, owls and hawks. (references)

Source: compiled by the editor from ICON Group International, Inc.; see credits.

Expressions using "OWLS": barn owls ♦ Owls Head. Additional references.

Ending with "OWLS": barn-owls, screech-owls.

Danish

uglefugle (strigidiformes). (various references)

Dutch

uilen (strigidiformes). (various references)

French

strigiformes. (various references)

German

Eulen (strigidiformes). (various references)

Greek 

γλαυκοειδή (strigidiformes). (various references)

Hungarian

éjszakai életet él (to fly with the owls). (various references)

Italian

strigiformi (strigidiformes). (various references)

Japanese Kanji 

深夜族 (the night owls). (various references)

Japanese Katakana 

し�"やぞく (the night owls). (various references)

Pig Latin

owlsay

Portuguese

estrigiformes (strigidiformes), corujas e mochos (strigidiformes). (various references)

Strigiformes. (various references)

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

Derivations

Words ending with "OWLS": batfowls, behowls, bowls, cowls, fishbowls, fowls, growls, howls, jowls, moorfowls, outhowls, peafowls, prowls, scowls, seafowls, teabowls, washbowls, waterfowls, wildfowls, yowls. (additional references)

Words containing "OWLS": cowlstaff, cowlstaffs, cowlstaves. (additional references)

Misspellings

"OWLS" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: mowls, oals, oels, ols, olsa, onles, onwis, owld, owly, owps, ows, Owusu, wolq, wols. (additional references)

Source: compiled by the editor (additional references); see credits.

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams

Direct Anagrams: lows, slow.

-1 letter: low, owl, sol, sow, wos.

-2 letters: lo, os, ow, so, wo.

+1 letter: awols, blows, bowls, cowls, flows, fowls, glows, howls, jowls, lowes, lowse, plows, scowl, slows, wolds, wolfs, wools, yowls.

+2 letters: allows, belows, blowsy, bowels, clowns, dowels, elbows, growls, lowers, lowest, lowish, owlets, owlish, prowls, rowels, sallow, sawlog, scowls, slowed, slower, slowly, towels, vowels, wholes, whorls, woalds, wolves, worlds.

+3 letters: avowals, barlows, behowls, bellows, billows, blowbys, blowers, blowsed, blowups, bowlegs, bowlers, bowless, cowslip, dewools, fallows, fellows, flowers, follows, fowlers, gallows, glowers, hallows, hollows, howlers, howlets, inflows, logways, lowboys, lowings, lowness, mallows, mellows, oilways, outlaws, pillows, plowers, reflows, reglows, salchow, sallows, sallowy, sawlogs, scowled, scowler, seafowl, shallow, showily, slowest, slowing, slowish, snowily, sowable, sunglow, swallow, swollen, tallows, trowels, upflows, vowless, wadmols, waldoes, wallops, wallows, weldors, wholism, willows, wittols, wobbles, wolfers, wolfish, wolvers, woolens, woolers, woolies, wormils, wouldst, yellows, yowlers.