| DOWNFALL | • downfall n. A precipitous decline in fortune; death or rapid deterioration, as in status or wealth. • downfall n. The cause of such a fall; a critical blow or error. • downfall n. An act of falling down. |
| DOWNHAUL | • downhaul n. (Nautical) Any rope used to haul down a sail or spar. • DOWNHAUL n. a rope for hauling down sails. |
| DOWNLAND | • downland n. (UK) An area of rolling hills (downs), often grassy pasture over chalk or limestone. • DOWNLAND n. a rolling treeless upland. |
| DOWNLOAD | • download n. A file transfer to a given computer or device from a remote one through a network connection. • download n. A file that has been or is intended to be transferred in this way. • download v. (Transitive, computing) To transfer data to a given computer from a remote one via a network. |
| DOWNPLAY | • downplay v. (Transitive) To de-emphasize; to present or portray as less important or consequential. • DOWNPLAY v. to understate, underemphasise. |
| GOWLANDS | • GOWLAND n. (dialect) a name for various yellow flowers including marigold, also GOLLAN, GOLLAND, GOWLAN. |
| LOANWORD | • loanword n. A word directly taken into one language from another one with little or no translation. • loan␣word n. Alternative spelling of loanword. • LOANWORD n. a word taken from another language. |
| LOWLANDS | • lowlands n. Plural of lowland. • Lowlands prop.n. A low-lying region of Scotland between the Highlands and England. • LOWLAND n. an area of land lying lower than the adjacent country, also LALLAN, LALLAND, LAWLAND. |
| ONWARDLY | • onwardly adv. Onward. • ONWARDLY adv. going on. |
| PLAYDOWN | • playdown n. (Sports) Any match that is part of a playoff. • play␣down v. (Idiomatic, transitive) To make or attempt to make something seem less important, likely, or obvious. • PLAYDOWN n. a playoff. |
| PLOWLAND | • plowland n. Alternative spelling of ploughland. • PLOWLAND n. land under the plough, also PLOUGHLAND. |
| SNOWLAND | • snowland n. A snowy region or snowscape. • SNOWLAND n. an area marked by a great amount of snow. |
| TOWNLAND | • townland n. (Ireland) A geographical unit of land smaller than a parish. • TOWNLAND n. esp. in Ireland, a division of land of varying extent; a township. |
| WALDHORN | • waldhorn n. A French horn. • WALDHORN n. (German) a French valveless hunting horn. |
| WINDLOAD | • WINDLOAD n. the force on a structure arising from the impact of wind on it. |
| WOODLAND | • woodland adj. Of a creature or object: growing, living, or existing in a woodland. • woodland adj. (Obsolete) Having the character of a woodland. • woodland n. Land covered with woody vegetation. |