Lower

Definition: Lower

Lower

Adjective

1. The bottom one of two; "he chose the lower number".

2. (usually preceded by `no)' lower in esteem; "no less a person than the king himself".

3. Inferior in rank or status; "the junior faculty"; "a lowly corporal"; "petty officialdom"; "a subordinate functionary".

4. Of the underworld; "nether regions".

Noun

1. The lower of two berths.

Verb

1. Move something or somebody to a lower position.

2. Set lower; "lower a rating"; "lower expectations".

3. Cause to drop or sink; "The lack of rain had depressed the water level in the reservoir".

4. Make lower or quieter;"turn down the volume of a radio".

5. Wrinkle one's forehead in a sign of disapproval.

Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
 

Date "lower" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1010. (references)

Note: Lower \Low"er\, intransitive verb [imperfect & past participle. Lowered; Lowering.]. (references)

Food & Agriculture

Mining

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

Synonyms: Lower

Dejection

Depress; discourage, dishearten; dispirit; damp, dull, deject, lower, sink, dash, knock down, unman, prostrate, break one's heart; frown upon; cast a gloom, cast a shade on; sadden; damp one's hopes, dash one's hopes, wither one's hopes; weigh on the mind, lie heavy on the mind, prey on the mind, weigh on the spirits, lie heavy on the spirits, prey on the spirits; damp the spirits, depress the spirits.

Depression

Verb: depress, lower, let down, take down, let down a peg, take down a peg; cast; let drop, let fall; sink, debase, bring low, abase, reduce, detrude, pitch, precipitate.

Inferiority

Adjective: inferior, smaller; small; minor, less, lesser, deficient, minus, lower, subordinate, secondary; secondrate; (imperfect); sub, subaltern; thrown into the shade; weighed in the balance and found wanting; not fit to hold a candle to, can't hold a candle to.

Lowness

Verb: be low; Adjective: lie low, lie flat; underlie; crouch, slouch, wallow, grovel; lower; (depress).

Nonincrease, Decrease

Bate, abate, discount; depreciate; extenuate, lower, weaken, attenuate, fritter away; mitigate; (moderate); dwarf, throw into the shade; reduce; shorten; subtract. Adjective: unincreased; (see increase;); decreased; Verb: decreasing; Verb: on the wane; n.

Prediction

Usher in, herald, premise, announce; lower.

Resentment

Pout, knit the brow, frown, scowl, lower, snarl, growl, gnarl, gnash, snap; redden, color; look black, look black as thunder, look daggers; bite one's thumb; show one's teeth, grind one's teeth; champ the bit, champ at the bit.

Sullenness

Verb: be sullen; Adjective: sulk; frown, scowl, lower, glower, gloam, pout, have a hangdog look, glout.

Crosswords: Lower

Lower your voice (Clerks.; writing credit: Kevin Smith)

All others are number two or lower. (Mystery Men; writing credit: Kinka Usher, written by Bob Burden and Neil Cuthbert. Based on the comic book series.)

Mmm, lower. (Austin Powers: The Spy Who Shagged Me; writing credit: Mike Myers)

Your request is not unlike your lower intestine: stinky and loaded with danger (Ace Ventura: When Nature Calls; writing credit: Steve Oedekerk)

If you're in such a hurry, you could lower a rope or a tree branch or find something useful to do. (The Princess Bride; writing credit: William Goldman)

There's five more acres in the lower forty I've got to plow ("Ode to Billy Joe"; performing artist: Bobbie Gentry)

Makes you talk a little lower about the things you could not show her (A Long December; performing artist: Counting Crows)

Massachusetts: Our Taxes Are Lower Than Sweden's (For Most Tax Brackets) (references; author: unknown)

For a nosebleed, put the nose much lower then the body until the heart stops. (references; author: unknown)

Lower the River Don't Raise the Bridge (1967)

Upper and Lower (1922)

The Girl in Lower 9 (1916)

Lower Kicking Horse Canyon Panoramic View (1901)

Niagara Falls Lower Rapids (1896)

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

Books

• Dave Pelz's Short Game Bible: Master the Finesse Swing and Lower Your Score (Pelz, Dave. Dave Pelz Scoring Game Series, 1.) (reference)

• Eater's Choice: A Food Lover's Guide to Lower Cholesterol (reference)

• Gout Hater's Cookbook : Recipes Lower in Purines (reference)

• Lower Your Taxes - Big Time! : Wealth-Building, Tax Reduction Secrets from an IRS Insider (reference)

• My Golden Lessons: 100-Plus Ways to Improve Your Shots, Lower Your Scores, and Enjoy Golf Much, Much More (reference)

  (more book examples)

Periodicals

• Abc Barossa & Lower North Business Directory (reference)

• Cross Reference Directory - Dover & Lower Delaware (reference)

• Canadian Cystic Fibrosis Foundation - Vancouver- Lower Mainl (reference)

• Lower Cape Fear Historical Society Membership (reference)

  (more periodical examples)

Theater & Movies

• The Firm Cross Trainers: Lower Body Split (reference)

• Kathy Smith - Pilates for the Lower Body (reference)

• Living Yoga's Lower Body Yoga for Beginners (reference)

• The Best of Tae-Bo - Ultimate Lower Body (reference)

  (more DVD examples; more video examples)

Music

• Lower Lurum (reference)

  (more classical music examples; more popular music examples)

High Tech

• Genicom 500 Sheet Lower Tray & Cassett For The Ml17 (reference)

• QMS 500 Sheet Lower Feeder For Pagepro 1100 with Letter Tray (reference)

  (more camera examples; more video game examples; more computer examples; more electronic examples; more software examples)

Consumer Goods

• Powermatic 6286425 Replacement Lower Bag for Model 73 (reference)

• Powermatic 6286601 Replacement Cear Plastic Lower Bag for Model 75 (reference)

  (more baby examples; more wireless phone examples; more garden examples; more kitchen examples; more tool examples)

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

Shown are the supermarket shelf labels indicating foods that are high in fiber and/or low in fat. This is part of a cooperative study of NCI and Giant Foods to try to change shoppers' buying habits to buy foods higher in fiber and lower in fats to help prevent cancer. Credit: Unknown photographer/artist.

Pictured are various views of portions of the Mormon Temple, Church of Jesus Christ of the Latter-Day Saints, Salt Lake City. The Mormons are being studied for their low cancer death rate, about 20% lower than the national average. Credit: Linda Bartlett (photographer).

Illustration showing fuzzy mold colony (left lower) made up of branching filaments called hyphae (left upper); smooth yeast colony (right lower) made up of ovoid cells (right upper). Credit: CDC.

Herpes simplex lesion of lower lip, second day after onset. HSV, cold sore. Credit: CDC.

Hydrotrac navigation system antenna in lower Cook Inlet Party off of PATHFINDER. Credit: Coast & Geodetic Survey Historical Image Collection.

Monterey Bay Case Study - Photo #6 Increasing detail of lower canyon including huge meander From "Submarine Canyons" by Shepard and Dill. Credit: Coast & Geodetic Survey Historical Image Collection.

Marsh area with willow trees adjacent to lower Atchafalaya River. Credit: America's Coastlines.

Submerged aquatic vegetation along the lower Atchafalaya. Whole trees frequently wash down the river at flood stage. Credit: America's Coastlines.

Harley Nygren with gravity meter - Even when in the Lower 48 he was sent to cold places. Credit: Paths Less Taken - NOAA at the Ends of the Earth.

Helicopter eye view of ship pulling net in circle to capture tuna. Workboat is in lower center of photo and is holding the end of the net. Credit: Fisheries.

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

Source: compiled by the editor from various references.

The lower middle class, the small manufacturer, the shopkeeper, the artisan, the peasant, all these fight against the bourgeoisie, to save from extinction their existence as fractions of the middle class. (reference)

Source: compiled by the editor from various references.

That young man (speaking lower) is very thoughtless

They drag us down, so to speak, to a lower level

Indeed there were no casual observers in the Old Pink Dog Bar on the lower South Side of Han Dold City because it wasn't the sort of place you could afford to do things casually in if you wanted to stay alive

But his character had been so much enfeebled by suffering, that even its lower energies were incapable of more than a temporary struggle

The lower she sank, the more all became gloomy around her, the more the sweet little angel shone out in the bottom of her heart

And then the lower line tables and the tables of the third line

He bit his lower lip and studied the floor

And one thing I might depend upon, that they would certainly tell me truth, for lying was a talent of no use in the lower world

It is commonly higher in the winter and lower in the summer, though not corresponding to the general wet and dryness

Source: compiled by the editor from various references.

Health

Some may lower cholesterol levels. (references)

A lower GI series takes about 1 to 2 hours. (references)

Lower temperatures will not kill dust mites. (references)

Business

The case continues in the lower court. (references)

This is far lower than in most other E.U. countries. (references)

They offer lower prices than American manufacturers. (references)

Children

Belarus

In other regional cities, the numbers were significantly lower. (references)

China

Neglect of baby girls is one factor in their lower survival rate. (references)

Mali

Literacy rates among girls remained significantly lower than for boys. (references)

Civil Liberties

Greece

Muslims in Thrace claim that they are hired only for lower level, part-time work. (references)

Ukraine

The newspaper appealed but the Supreme Court supported the lower court's judgement. (references)

Tajikistan

Two representatives from the IRP sit in the lower house of the national Parliament. (references)

Discrimination

Gabon

The Government also has provided a lower level of health care and educational services to children of families of other African nationalities than it provided to citizens. (references)

Economic History

Poland

Flag: Upper half white; lower red. (references)

South Africa

SouthExtension of upper and lower Roadways. (references)

Human Rights

Tajikistan

Higher courts serve as appellate courts for the lower ones. (references)

Cuba

The ANPP and its lower level counterparts choose all judges. (references)

Ghana

Parliament may establish lower courts or tribunals by decree. (references)

Indigenous People

Central African Republic

Pygmies often work for villagers at wages lower than those paid to members of other groups. (references)

Guyana

Their standard of living is much lower than that of most citizens and their ability to participate in decisions affecting their lands, cultures, traditions, and the allocation of natural resources is limited. (references)

Mexico

On April 28, the Lower House approved the revised version of the bill by a vote of 386 to 60. The constitutional reforms were then approved by the State legislatures in 17 of the country's 31 states, thus meeting the requirement that constitutional reforms be approved by at least half of the states. (references)

Minorities

Haiti

Creole is used in parliamentary debate in the Lower House of Parliament. (references)

Bahrain

In the private sector, Shi'a citizens tend to be employed in lower paid, less skilled jobs. (references)

Croatia

The OSCE reported concerns regarding the practice of holding separate classes (of allegedly lower quality) for Roma students in northern Croatia. (references)

Political Economy

Nepal

Women, the disabled, and lower castes suffer from widespread discrimination. (references)

BOLIVIA

Low rates of inflation at home and abroad have helped to lower interest rates. (references)

NICARAGUA

The tax generally is lower than 15 percent, with a few significant exceptions. (references)

Political Rights

Algeria

Laws must originate in the lower chamber. (references)

Swaziland

Citizens elect most members of the lower house of Parliament. (references)

Algeria

Thirteen of the 380 members of the lower house of Parliament are women. (references)

Trade

Guatemala

The agreement is intended to maintain lower costs of imported products. (references)

Nigeria

These loans are provided at rates lower than prevailing commercial rates. (references)

Brazil

Often one can note that usually a relatively low import tariff rate carries a lower IPI rate. (references)

Travel

Cote D'ivoire

Expect to receive lower than the daily published rates. (references)

Pakistan

Rents for office space above ground level become progressively lower. (references)

Pakistan

The hotel rates in Karachi may be slightly lower than those of Islamabad. (references)

Women

Mozambique

Women in the workplace receive lower pay than men for the same work. (references)

Indonesia

Female workers in manufacturing generally receive lower wages than men. (references)

Russia

Professions dominated by women are much lower paid than those dominated by men. (references)

Worker Rights

Nauru

The rate is progressively lower for those under 21 years of age. (references)

Burma

Children are hired at lower pay rates than adults performing similar work. (references)

Seychelles

These workers were paid lower wages and forced to work longer hours than citizens. (references)

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

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

Source: compiled by the editor from various references.

Expressions using "lower": apparatus for rehabilitation of the lower limbs ♦ at a lower place ♦ axis in the lower half ♦ crankcase lower half ♦ crew of the lower deck ♦ endoskeletal artificial lower limb ♦ greatest lower bound ♦ lower abdomen ♦ Lower Allen ♦ lower arm ♦ lower austria ♦ lower back ♦ lower balcony ♦ lower bed ♦ lower berth ♦ Lower Body Negative Pressure ♦ lower bound ♦ Lower Brule ♦ lower bumper height ♦ lower bumper reference line ♦ Lower Burrell ♦ lower California ♦ lower cannon ♦ lower Carboniferous ♦ lower Carboniferous period ♦ lower cargo compartment ♦ lower case ♦ lower chamber ♦ lower class ♦ lower class limit ♦ lower colors ♦ lower court ♦ lower critical field ♦ lower criticism ♦ lower deck ♦ lower demand ♦ lower denture ♦ lower die ♦ lower down on a rope ♦ lower edge ♦ Lower Esophageal Ring ♦ Lower Esophageal Sphincter ♦ lower eyelid ♦ Lower GI Series ♦ lower grade ♦ Lower Grand Lagoon ♦ lower heating value ♦ lower hemispherical flux ♦ lower hemispherical luminous flux ♦ lower house ♦ lower income bracket ♦ lower jaw ♦ lower jawbone ♦ Lower Kalskag ♦ Lower Lake ♦ lower Layer Protocol ♦ lower leg ♦ lower limb ♦ lower limit ♦ lower lip ♦ lower mantle ♦ lower net ♦ lower one's colour ♦ lower one's flag ♦ lower one's gaze ♦ lower oneself ♦ lower oneself down on a rope ♦ lower pair ♦ lower palpebra ♦ lower part ♦ lower part of a stream ♦ lower part of the body ♦ lower part of the thigh ♦ lower part of the trouser leg ♦ Lower Peach Tree ♦ lower Peninsula ♦ lower plate ♦ lower prices ♦ lower profits ♦ lower quality ♦ lower rank ♦ lower reaches ♦ lower register ♦ lower respiratory infection ♦ lower respiratory tract ♦ lower respiratory tract smear ♦ Lower Salem ♦ lower Saxony ♦ lower school ♦ lower secondary ♦ lower secondary school years ♦ lower set ♦ lower shield ♦ lower slide or table ♦ Lower Sonoran ♦ lower status ♦ lower stratum ♦ lower surface of wing ♦ lower tester ♦ lower the boats ♦ lower the flag. Additional references.

Beginning with "lower": lower-ability, lower-attainers, lower-attaining, lower-born, lower-bound, lower-boy, lower-budget, lower-built, lower-calorie, lower-calories, Lower-case, lower-case letter, lower-caste, lower-class, lower-class low-class, lower-class vs middle-class vs upper-class low-class, lower-cost, lower-crustal, lower-cut, lower-damping, lower-deck, lower-denomination, lower-density, lower-dimensional, lower-division, lower-earnings, lower-earnings-related, Lower-east-side, lower-echelon, lower-elevation, lower-end, lower-energy, lower-fat, Lower-fat diet, lower-fertility, lower-frequency, lower-gear, lower-grade, lower-hab, lower-half, lower-hemisphere, lower-house, lower-in, lower-income, lower-input, lower-intensity, lower-intermediate, lower-key, lower-latitude, lower-layer, lower-level, lower-limb, lower-limit, lower-lip-to-top-teeth, lower-loader, lower-lying, lower-management, lower-manual, lower-margin, lower-mass, lower-mid, lower-middle, lower-middle-class, lower-middle-income, lower-middle-middle, Lower-Normandy, lower-off, lower-offs, lower-order, lower-paid, lower-performance, lower-pitched, lower-placed, lower-plate, lower-powered, lower-preference, lower-price, lower-priced, lower-priority, lower-quality, lower-range, lower-ranked, lower-ranking, lower-rate, lower-resolution, lower-risk, lower-school, lower-security, lower-sixth-form, lower-skilled, lower-spec, lower-spirited, lower-status, lower-storey, lower-stratospheric, lower-string, lower-sulphur, lower-tech, lower-temperature, lower-than-anticipated, lower-than-average, lower-than-expected, lower-tier, lower-to, lower-to-higher, lower-tonnage, lower-valued, lower-volume, lower-wage, lower-working, lower-working-class, lower-yielding.

Ending with "lower": devonian-lower, higher-to-lower, policy-lower, still-lower.

Containing "lower": middle-lower-middle, upper-lower-class, upper-lower-middle.

Afrikaans

benedeloop (lower course), agterlyf (abdomen, belly, lower part of the body), abdomen (abdomen, belly, lower part of the body). (various references)

Albanian

zbres (alight, bring down, climb down, debus, deduct, descend, dip, discount, dismount, dive, drop off, go down, knock off, let off, light, reckon off, recoup, step down, subduct, subtract, take away), vrenjtje, vrenjtet (overcloud), ul (abase, cast down, cheapen, couch, decline, depress, disparage, drop, embus, furl, humble, incline, keep down, knock off, land, modulate, pull down, reduce, scale down, seat, sink, strike, subdue, subside, throw, turn down, untuck), shikoj kërcënueshëm, poshtëroj (abase, demean, humble, humiliate, let down, mortify, vituperate, wipe the floor with), pamje kërcënuese, pakësoj (abate, abridge, curtail, cut down, deflate, degrade, diminish, lessen, narrow, pare, razee, reduce, retrench, slacken, understate, vitiate), më ulët, më i ulët (inferior, undermost). (various references)

Arabic 

‏نقص (allow, cut, cut down, decrease, deficiency, depress, deprivation, detract, diminish, diminution, disadvantage, drawback, failing, famish, flaw, gap, imperfection, incompetence, insufficiency, knock off, lack, lessen, limit, paucity, rareness, reduce, reduction, retrench, revocation, scantiness, scarcity, shortage, shortcoming, thin), ‏نزل (bring down, camp, cantonal, climb down, come down, decline, depress, descend, drop, get down, get off, glide, go down, hostel, inn, lodge, lodging house, low, miscreant, move, nest, pull down, put down, rascal, reach down, road house, scab, scroll, send, shade, sink, slip down, step down, take down, tavern), ‏واهن (atonal, atonic, crazy, doddery, effete, enervate, feeble, flagging, impotent, infirm, invalidity, lackadaisical, languid, languorous, nerveless, powerless, prostrate, rusty, shrivelled, sickly, sluggish, spiritless, stunted, tender, weak, weakling, weakly, wimp), ‏ضعيف (atonic, cold, crazy, deficient, delicate, dim, emaciated, enervate, faint, feckless, feeble, flabby, flagging, fragile, frail, haggard, helpless, impotent, inaudible, infirm, invertebrate, lame, languid, languorous, lank, lean, limp, little, low, nerveless, pale, powered, powerless, puny, rickety, run down, scant, scrawny, slender, slight, slim, small, soft, softy, streaked, supine, tenuous, thin, thready, toothless, unsubstantial, wan, weak, weakened, weakling, weakly, wimp, wishy washy), ‏خفض (ax, axe, bear, bring down, cut, debase, deplete, depreciation, depress, dropping, lessen, lowering, mark down, minimize, pull down, put down, rebate, recline, retrench, scale down, shorten, sink, slake, slam, slash, step down, stitch down, subdue, turn down, whittle down), ‏الأسفل, ‏أوطأ, ‏أدني (less, lesser, low, nethermost), ‏دنى. (various references)

Bulgarian 

нисш (inferior, low, under), изпивам (consume, down, drain, drink, drink up, put away, shift, suck down, suck up, take off), по-долен (back), подронвам, помръквам (become gloomy, become overcast, darken, wan), понижавам (abase, abate, degrade, demote, disgrace, flatten, impair, reduce, relegate, sing flat, whittle away), по-ниско (under), по-нисък (under), долен (abject, base, bottom, contemptible, currish, ignoble, ignominious, infamous, inferior, iniquitous, low, low-grade, mangy, mean, mean-spirited, rascal, ratty, reptile, rotten, scaly, scurvy, shady, under, unworthy, vile, villainous), мръщя се (frown, glower, knit one's brows, knit the brows, pucker, scowl, sulk), южен (austral, southerly, southern, southward), навеждам (bow, droop, drop, hang, incline, lean, lour, set, tilt, vail), гаврътвам (throw down, toss off, whip off), чумеря се (frown, sulk), спадам (decline, decrease, deflate, dip, ease, ease off, ebb, fall, recede, sag, sink, turn down), спускам (depress, descend, lour, slope), спускам се (decline, drop, fall, fling, flow, get down, haul down, lour, pitch, shoot, shut down, shut in, sink, step down, swoop, take downhill), снишавам (reduce), унижавам (abase, bring down, condescend, debase, degrade, demean, disgrace, gall, humble, humiliate, lour, mortify, prostrate, put down, sink), потъмнявам (blacken, darken, darkle, discolour, film over, grow dark, overcloud, tarnish). (various references)

Chinese 

降下 , 比较低, 下 (below, down, latter, next, second, to decline, to go down, under, underneath). (various references)

Czech

spodní (bottom, downstairs, neap, Nether, under, underarm, underlying), snížit se (come down, demean, sag, slacken, slip, stoop), dolní (bottom, Nether), dát (belt, give, hand, impart, issue, lay, put, score, set, set by, to give). (various references)

Danish

slække (pay out, veer, veer out), give los (pay out, veer, veer out), fire (four). (various references)

Dutch

verlagen (abase, abate, decrease, degrade), afdraaien (abase, abate, decrease, grind out, rattle off, reel off, turn away). (various references)

Esperanto

malplialtigi (decrease), mallevi, malhisi, malaltigi (abase, decrease). (various references)

Farsi 

فروکش کردن (Abate, Ebb, Subside), پست تر (Beneath, Less), پاءین تر (Beneath, Subordinate), هوای گرفته وابری , کاستن از (Extenuate), تنزل دادن (Playdown, Reduce), تخفیف دادن (Abate, Alight, Assuage, Bate, Discount, Extenuate, Mitigate, Relieve), ترشروءی (Scowl, Sulk), عبوس (Grim, Moody, Morose, Peevish, Rusty, Stern, Sulky, Sullen), خفیف کردن , اخم کردن (Glower, Pout, Scowl). (various references)

Finnish

laskea (account, calculate, compute, count, decrease, discharge, drop, empty, estimate, fall, figure, go down, include, lay, let, let down, let go, reckon, set, work out). (various references)

French

abaisser, baisser. (various references)

Frisian

ôfslaan (abase, abate, aberrate, decrease, discount, rebate, reduce the price, reject, turn). (various references)

German

senken (bow, bring down, cut, decrease, descend, dip, lessen, plant, reduce, send down, sink), niedrigerer, niedriger (inferior), herunterlassen (let down, take down), herabsetzen (abandon ship, belittle, cheapen, cry down, cut, debase, degrade, depreciate, diminish, disparage, lessen, mark down, minimize, price down, reduce, slacken off, slash, to abandon ship, to degrade, to depreciate, to derate, to disparage, to remit), aussetzen (abandon, adjourn, bequeath, break off, cut out, defer, expose, fail, find fault, give out, interrupt, launch, make a halt, maroon, Miss, occur intermittently, offer, plant out, put up, release, sit out, stay, suspend, to suspend). (various references)

Greek 

χαμηλώνω (abase, droop, reduce). (various references)

Hebrew 

לשלשל (bring down, drop in, insert, let down), להוזיל (cheapen, reduce), להוריד (bring down, decrease, depress, let down, sink, subtract, take down), להשפיל (abase, debase, degrade, demean, humble, humiliate, mortify, snub), להפחית (abate, abridge, cut down, decrease, devaluate, diminish, reduce, remit, step down, subtract, take away), להנמיך (depress, tone down), תחתי (underground), תחתון (inferior), הוריד (take down), נמוך יותר. (various references)

Hungarian

alsó (bottom, down, knave, low, Nether, under, underneath), alacsonyabb. (various references)

Icelandic

niðurlægja (abase, abate, decrease). (various references)

Indonesian

lebih rendah, merendahkan (attemper, blacken, debase, humiliate), membungkuk-bungkuk (bow repectfully). (various references)

Italian

inferiore (below, bottom, down, inferior, junior, lesser, low, lowly, Nether, subordinate, under, underneath), abbassare (abase, abate, debase, depress, dip, droop, drop, duck, let down, lower oneself, move down, put down, reduce, sink, soften, stoop, wind down). (various references)

Japanese Kanji 

降ろす (to, to drop, to launch, to lower, to take down), 垂れる (to, to dangle, to drip, to droop, to drop, to hang, to lower, to ooze, to pull down, to sag), 下肢 (lower extremities, the legs). (various references)

Japanese Katakana 

かふう (family tradition, lower position, poetic style, subordinate position), かりゅうしゃかい (lower classes), かい (assembly, association, avail, being in between, buyer, buying, club, concerning oneself with, counter for occurrences, effect, -floor, large, low rank, lower order, mediation, meeting, mystery, oar, paddle, party, purchase, result, scull, shell, shellfish, stories, subordinate, the feelings of the people, together, use, wonder, worth), かいじょうたつ (conveyance of the opinions of the lower classes to the powers that be), かいん (cause of trouble, Lower House, lowerbody, section staff), かいんぎ (lower house), かいんぎいん (commoner, member of the lower house), かいか (blooming, civilization, downstairs, enlightenment, fire of mysterious or suspicious origin, lower floor, open access, open shelves), かかい (lower bound), えいこもじ (lower-case letters), かふく (abdomen, lower parts, stomach, under parts, weal and woe), かわじり (lower stream, mouth of a river), かぶ (lower part, share, singing and dancing, stock, stump, subordinate, substructure, turnip), かぶそしき (infrastructure, lower branch), かしん (auspicious occasion, excitation, happy day, lower lip, low-rank retainer, lucky day, overestimating ability, retainer, tidings of flowers, trusting too much, vassal, word from home), かきゅう (emergency, junior, low class, lower grade, raising salaries, urgency), かきゅうさいばんしょ (a lower court), かきゅうしん (lower court), かきゃく (freight and passengers, good visitor, legs, lower limbs), かそう (appearance, construction of a house, converted, cremation, disguise, fancy dress, imagination, lower strata, masquerade, phenomenon, potential, supposition, temporary burial), かそうかいきゅう (lower classes, proletariat), かほう (addition, artillery, extra allowance, family code, good fortune, happiness, heirloom, lower part, lower region, luck, overpraise, slump), かとう (base, excessive, exorbitant, flexible, fructose, fruit sugar, inferior, light case of smallpox, low grade, lower class, sweetened, sweetening, vulgar), ちゅうりゅうのかそうかいきゅう (lower middle class), ていい (imperial majesty, lower position, orientation, position, the crown, the throne), ていがくねん (lower grades in school), げみん (the common people, the lower classes, the masses), むこうずね (front of lower leg, shin), あしゆ (washing the feet or lower legs), りしをにぶがたひきさげる (to lower the rate of interest by 2 percent), こもじ (lower case letters), こうあつざい (drug to lower blood pressure), かりゅう (downstream, granule, lower classes, lower reaches of a river, red-light district, stream, swirling current, vulcanizing), かし (apparent death, asphyxiation, being granted, blemish, defect, evergreen oak, Fahrenheit, false tooth, filament, fish market, flaw, granting, imperial grant, lending, loan, lower extremities, noncommissioned officer, pastry, river bank, riverside, song lyrics, the legs, visibility, words of a song), かり (acting, assumed, borrowing, clip, cut, debt, fleeting, hunting, informal, interim, loan, lower official, potash, potassium, provisional, prune, reap, shear, temporary, trim, unauthorized, wild goose), かとうどうぶつ (lower animals), かとうしょくぶつ (lower plants), かはん (affixing a seal, lower half, recently, riverside, some time ago, the greater part), かはんしん (lower half of body), かみん (doze, estivation, nap, the common people, the lower classes, the masses), かみしも (an old ceremonial garb, samurai garb, the government and the people, the upper and the lower parts of the body), かげん (addition and subtraction, adjustment, allowance for, chance, condition, degree, extent, flavor, flowery words, good words, influence, last quarter, lower limit, measure, moderation, reticence, seasoning, source of misfortune, state of health, taciturnity, wise saying), かよう (available, ballad, caring for the sick, comely face, floral leaf, in such a manner, like this, lotus leaf, lower leaves, solubilizing, soluble, song, taking care of oneself, to attend, to commute, to go back and forth, to ply between, Tuesday), かず (face, figure, lower illustration, number), いちまいした (one step lower), したのかい (lower floor), かそうしゃかい (lower ranks of society, the underworld), しゅうぎいんぎいん (member of the Lower House), くらいをくだす (to degrade, to lower in rank), ねかた (lower part, root), したて (dressmaking, humble position, left part of the stage, lower direction, lower part, making, preparation, sewing, tailoring, the foot). (various references)

Korean 

더 낮은. (various references)

Manx

mooirjeenaghey, lhiggey sheese (droop), lhieggal (beat down, beat down price, bowl over, cast down, chop down, dismount, fall, fell, fetch down, get down, knock over, lay low, level, pull down, pull over, raze, run down, topple, tumble), inshley (nether), cur sheese (book, deposit, depress, discharge, give in, lay, prescribe, put down, salt, send down, suppress), cur neose (dismount). (various references)

Mohawk

-'senhtha' (to lower), orenhsa (lower part of the leg). (various references)

Norwegian

lavere (inferior), under-, senke (immerse), nedre, fire (four). (various references)

Papiamen

abdómen (abdomen, belly, lower part of the body). (various references)

Pig Latin

owerlay.(various references)

Polish

przedramię (lower-arm). (various references)

Portuguese

arriar (drop, muzzle), abaixar (bring down, decrease, derogate, descend, down-grade, reduce, turn down). (various references)

Romanian

lãsa în jos (couch, dip, down, draw, droop, hang), întunecare (darkening, darkness, dusk, gloominess, sombreness), aer posac, aer posomorât, apleca (be inclined, bend, bow, enslave, hang down, humiliate, incline, slope, stoop, submit, surrender, tilt, tilt over), coborî (abate, alight, bring low, climb down, come down, couch, cut, debase, decline, depreciate, descend, detrain, dip, dismount, down, drop, duck, fall, get off, go down, move down, reduce, suppress), înnourare, mai jos (beneath, hereunder), se umili (cower, crouch, eat humble pie, grovel, kiss the dust, prostrate, truckle), micşora (abate, abridge, attenuate, Bate, belittle, contract, cut, deaden, decrease, detract, dilute, dock, drop, dwarf, ease, knock down, lessen, lighten, mellow, mitigate, narrow, palliate, pare, pare down, put down, rebate, reduce, remit, restrain, retrench, shorten, stop, subdue, subjugate, weaken, whittle away), reduce (abate, abridge, ax, axe, bear down, bring, cancel out, contract, curtail, cut, decrease, derogate, detract, diminish, discount, draw in, drop, extenuate, fine down, knock down, knock off, lessen, make good, narrow down, pare down, prune, recover, reduce, retrench, slacken, stint, stop, unbend, weaken), scãdea (abate, abstract, decay, decline, decrease, deduct, deflate, depress, derogate from, diminish, drop, dwindle, ebb, fade, fall, go down, recede, reduce, relax, sag, shrink, sink, subside, subtract, take off, wane), se înjosi (abase, cower, demean oneself, stoop), se degrada, se reduce (amount to, boil down, cancel, decrease, lessen), inferior (base, below the mark, bottom, coarse, feeble, inferior, less, lesser, mean, Nether, penny-a-line, second, subordinate, under). (various references)

Russian 

унижать (abase, degrade, demean, depreciate, humiliate, mortify), уменьшать более низкий ниже, снижать (abase, abate, cut, cut down, fall back, mark down, reduce, slowed), смотреть угрюмо (lour), спускать (launch, let fall), разжаловать (degrade, relegate), опустить (put down), недавний (late, latter, neoteric, recent), наспех съесть, низший (inferior, under, undermost), нижний (caudal, early, nether, nizhniy), ниже (below, beneath, hereafter, hereinafter, in what follows, infra, lour, lower than, sub, thereunder, under, underneath), понизить, понижать (abase, degrade, demote, drop, reduce). (various references)

Scottish

diocail. (various references)

Serbo-Croatian

srozati se (droop, slump, vulgarize), srozati (vulgarize), spustiti (bring down, drop, fall, hang up, keep down, lay down, lend, let down, put down, set down, turn down), sniziti (abate, demote, humble, knock down), slabiti (fail, weaken), plići, opustiti (drop, loosen, relax, slack up, unclench), niži (inferior, minor), niže (below, beneath, infra), donji (subjacent, under). (various references)

Spanish

inferior (base, below, bottom, inferior, less, Nether, under-), bajar (abase, abate, bow, bring down, climb down, come down, cut, decline, decrease, deign, demean, demote, depreciate, descend, detrain, discount, dismount, download, drop, drop off, duck, ebb, fall, fall away, fall back, fall off, get down, get off, get out, go below, go belowdecks, go down, hand down, hang, hop off, let down, lift down, pull down, put down, rebate, recede, reduce, ring down, sag, set out, sink, step down, stoop, subside, take down, trail, turn down, walk down, walk off, wind down), arriar (deluge, haul down). (various references)

Swedish

lägre (inferior, junior, under), nedre (Nether). (various references)

Thai

ฟันล่าง, ทำให้ต่ำต้อย, ทำให้ต่ำลง (let down), ทำหน้าบูดบึ้ง (grimace), การขมวดคิ้ว, ที่อยู่ชั้นล่าง, ลดตัวลงไป, ลดลง (boil down, dip, ebb, lessen, roll back, slide), ลดระดับความดังของเสียง, จมลง (founder, sag, sag down). (various references)

Turkish

surat asmak (frown, have the pouts, lour, make face, pout, pull a face, sour, sulk), surat asma (lour, making face, mouth, pout), somurtmak (be in the sulks, frown, go sour, have the pouts, make face, mump, pout, sour, sulk, turn sour), somurtma (frowning, huff, lour, pout, sulk, sulking), karartmak (becloud, bedim, befog, black, blacken, blackout, cloud, darken, dim, dim out, fade, fade out, fog, lour, obfuscate, obscure, shadow), küçültmek (abase, belittle, decrease, derogate, diminish, dispraise, lessen, make smaller, miniaturize, minify, minimize, reduce, shrink), küçük düşürmek (abase, affront, bring into contempt, debase, degrade, depreciate, detract, disparage, give affront to, give smb. the wall, humiliate, lessen, make smb. feel small, run down, score smb. off, snub, stigmatize, stultify, take smb. down a peg), indirmek (bash, bring down, cast down, clip, clout, clump, cut, degrade, dismount, down, draw down, drop off, dump, land, lay low, let down, lift down, plant, put down, reduce, relegate, send down, set down, strike, take down, take from, take off, unlade), daha alçak, daha aşağı, düşürmek (beat down, cause to fall, curtail, deflate, depress, drop, flop, knock off, let down, let fall, mark down, overthrow, precipitate, pull dawn, put down, reduce, roll back, scale down, screw down, send down, sink, slim down, spill, step down, take from, throw, topple over, trip), alt (base, bottom, buttom, inferior, infra, infra-, lower part, Nether, sub-, subordinate, under, underneath, underside), alçaltmak (bastardize, belittle, bemean, debase, detract, downgrade, drag down, lift down, reduce, set down, sink), aşağıdaki (downstairs, Nether, the following, the undermentioned), aşağı (below, down, hedge, hypo-, inferior, infra, infra-, lowly, minus, on the right side of, sub-). (various references)

Turkmen 

sallamak (cast down, drop), яazdyrmak (unbutton, unfasten), myssarmak (let down, wilt), зцket (low), aюaklamak. (various references)

Ukrainian

темніти (darkle, overcast, thicken), ослабляти (abate, allay, attenuate, deaden, debilitate, depress, emasculate, enfeeble, extenuate, impair, infirm, let down, loosen, overcome, relax, slack, slacken, subdue, unbind, water, weaken), опускатися (droop, fall, sink), опускати (cast down, decay, demit, down, let down, omit, pull down, put down, sink), нижчий (inferior), нижній (base, bottom, downmost, downstairs, nethermore, under, underneath), знижуватися (descend, run low, weaken, wither), знижувати (abate, bring down, невимушенІсть [f], degrade, depress, discount, put down, reduce, send down, take from), принижувати (belittle, невимушенІсть [f], deject, demean, derogate, detract, humble, humiliate, mortify, slur, snub, spite, vilify), дивитися похмуро. (various references)

Welsh

iselhau (abase, degrade), is (below, beneath, inferior, sub-, under, under-, vice-), gwgu (frown, scowl), gostwng (abase, abate, bow, humble, put down, reduce), darostwng (abase, humble, humiliate, subdue, subject). (various references)

demitto, deteriora, deterius, inclina, inclinabit, inclinabitur, inclinabo, inclinabuntur, inclinans, inclinaretur, inclinasset, inclinasti, inclinastis, inclinat, inclinata, inclinate, inclinati, inclinato, inclinatur, inclinaturque, inclinatus, inclinaverat, inclinaveris, inclinaverit, inclinaverunt, inclinavi, inclinavit, inclinentur, inclinet, inclino, inferam, inferas, inferi, inferior, inferiora, inferiorem, inferiores, inferiori, inferioribus, inferioris, inferis, inferni, inferno, infernum, infernus, infero, inferorum, inferos, inferus, submiserit, submiserunt, submisit, submisso, submissoque, submittebant, submittentes, submittere, submitti, submittit, submittite. (various references)

apara. (various references)

onhyldan. (various references)

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

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

Derivations

Words beginning with "lower": lowercase, lowercased, lowercases, lowercasing, lowerclassman, lowerclassmen, lowered, lowering, lowermost, lowers, lowery. (additional references)

Words ending with "lower": beflower, bellflower, bellower, blanketflower, blower, callower, cauliflower, coneflower, cornflower, cuckooflower, dayflower, deflower, flower, foamflower, follower, gillyflower, glassblower, globeflower, glower, hallower, hollower, mayflower, mellower, mindblower, moonflower, pasqueflower, passionflower, plower, reflower, safflower, sallower, shallower, slower, snowblower, starflower, strawflower, sunflower, swallower, twinflower, wallflower, wallower, whistleblower, wildflower, willower, windflower, yellower. (additional references)

Words containing "lower": beflowered, beflowering, beflowers, bellflowers, bellowers, blanketflowers, blowers, caulifloweret, cauliflowerets, cauliflowers, coneflowers, cornflowers, cuckooflowers, dayflowers, deflowered, deflowerer, deflowerers, deflowering, deflowers, flowerage, flowerages, flowerbed, flowerbeds, flowered, flowerer, flowerers, floweret, flowerets, flowerette, flowerettes, flowerful, flowerier, floweriest, flowerily, floweriness, flowerinesses, flowering, flowerless, flowerlike, flowerpot, flowerpots, flowers, flowery, foamflowers, followers, followership, followerships, gillyflowers, glassblowers, globeflowers, glowered. (additional references)

Misspellings

"Lower" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: eower, jower, lawner, lewe, Lewer, lewur, llawer, Lloer, Llowarch, llwybr, loaer, loder, loer, loew, Loewi, Loewy, lofer, lojer, Loker, Lopera, lorer, loter, louar, louer, lowa, Lowara, Lowder, lowe, lowel, Lowen, Lowie, lowii, lowir, Lowit, Lowke, lowner, lowor, lowr, low'r, Lowrey, lowwer, lowyer, loxer, Loyer, lozer, lozere, lswer, Luwen, luwero, luweru, lwe, oler, oller, Olmer, Olwig, olwiz, ower, wower. (additional references)

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

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams

Direct Anagrams: rowel.

-1 letter: lore, lowe, orle, role, wore.

-2 letters: low, ole, ore, owe, owl, roe, row, woe.

-3 letters: el, er, lo, oe, or, ow, re, we, wo.

+1 letter: blower, bowler, flower, fowler, glower, howler, lowers, lowery, plower, reflow, reglow, rowels, slower, trowel, weldor, wolfer, wolver, wooler, yowler.

+2 letters: blowers, blowier, bowlder, bowlers, clowder, eelworm, felwort, flowers, flowery, fowlers, glowers, growled, growler, howlers, jowlier, legwork, lowbred, lowered, lowlier, plowers, prowled, prowler, reflown, reflows, reglows, rowable, roweled, scowler, trowels, weldors, werwolf, whorled, whortle, wobbler, wolfers, wolvers, woolers, woolier, yowlers.