List of Words Ending With awn

There are hundreds of words that end with ‘awn.’ However, many of those words are no longer used in English literature. Here are 216 words with their respective definition that are still used in modern news media and literature.

Awn

One of the slender bristles that terminate the glumes of the spikelet in some cereal and other grasses.

Bandsawn

A saw in the form of an endless steel belt running over pulleys; also : a power saw using this device usually with the blade in a vertical position.

Bawn

An enclosure usually of mud or stone walls about a farmhouse or castle in ireland: such as; the fortified court of a castle; a fold for livestock, especially cattle.

Begnawn

To gnaw at.

Blawn

Blow.

Brawn

The flesh of a boar; headcheese; full strong muscles.

Chawn

Gap, cleft.

Choice-drawn

Chosen with care : picked.

Daydawn

Daybreak.

Day-dawn

Daybreak.

Dawn

To begin to grow light as the sun rises; to begin to appear or develop; to begin to be perceived or understood.

Fairlawn

Borough in northeastern new jersey northeast of paterson population 32,457.

Fawn

To court favor by a cringing or flattering manner; to show affection —used especially of a dog.

Fine-drawn

Drawn out to extreme subtlety.

Flat-sawn

Sawed so as to produce a flat-grain surface.

Flawn

Manila grass.

Foredawn

The time immediately before dawn.

Frawn

Bilberry.

Frogspawn

A red alga of the genus batrachospermum; frog spit.

Frog-spawn

A red alga of the genus batrachospermum; frog spit.

Hair-drawn

Hairsplitting.

Hard-drawn

Drawn so as to produce great hardness and strength —used especially of copper wire and tubing.

Horse-drawn

Pulled by a horse or by a group of horses.

Yawn

To open wide : gape; to open the mouth wide and take a deep breath usually as an involuntary reaction to fatigue or boredom; to utter with a yawn.

Impawn

To put in pawn : pledge.

Indrawn

Aloof, reserved; drawn in.

Lawn

An open space between woods : glade; ground (as around a house or in a garden or park) that is covered with grass and is kept mowed; a relatively even layer of bacteria covering the surface of a culture medium.

Long-drawn

Extended to a great length.

Misdrawn

To draw (something) incorrectly.

Oaklawn

Village in northeastern illinois southwest of chicago population 56,690.

Outdrawn

To attract a larger audience or following than; to draw a handgun more quickly than.

Overdrawn

Having an overdrawn account.

Pawn

One of the chessmen of least value having the power to move only forward ordinarily one square at a time, to capture only diagonally forward, and to be promoted to any piece except a king upon reaching the eighth rank; one that can be used to further the purposes of another.

Pookawn

A small fishing boat usually with one mast, equipped with oars as well as sails, and often lateen-rigged.

Prawn

Any of various widely distributed edible decapod crustaceans: such as; one (as of the genera pandalus and penaeus) that resembles shrimp and has a large compressed abdomen; shrimp; especially : a large shrimp.

Predawn

Existing or occurring before dawn.

Quartersawn

Sawed from quartered logs so that the annual rings are nearly at right angles to the wide face —used of boards and planks.

Redrawn

To draw (something) again; to project an image on (a display screen) again; to become refreshed — used of a display screen or the visual information it presents.

Resawn

To saw (something) again.

Rift-sawn

Sawed radially from the log so as to have the annual rings perpendicular or nearly so to the face; quartersawed.

Shawn

Ted 1891—1972 american dancer and choreographer.

Solid-drawn

Drawn out from a heated solid bar especially by a process of spiral rolling that first hollows the bar and then expands the cavity by forcing the bar over a pointed mandrel fixed in front of the rolls —used of a weldless tube.

Spawn

To deposit or fertilize spawn; to produce young especially in large numbers; to produce or deposit (eggs) —used of an aquatic animal.

Supawn

Hasty pudding.

Tangent-sawn

To saw (a log) lengthwise by parallel cuts in regular succession.

Thrawn

Lacking in pleasing or attractive qualities: such as; perverse, recalcitrant; crooked, misshapen.

Treelawn

Tree belt.

Underdrawn

To draw a line under : underscore; to draw or depict inadequately; to overlay or line (a roof or ceiling) with thin boards or lath and plaster.

Undrawn

To draw aside : open.

Unwithdrawn

Not withdrawn.

Wiredrawn

Excessively minute and subtle.

Wire-drawn