awk: Prefix, Suffix and Derived words
Prefixes of awk
- hawk«Word Popularity Bar4/5
hawk
- noun diurnal bird of prey typically having short rounded wings and a long tail
- noun an advocate of an aggressive policy on foreign relations
war hawk.
- noun diurnal bird of prey typically having short rounded wings and a long tail
- mohawk3/5
mohawk
- noun haircut in which the head is shaved except for a band of hair down the middle of the scalp
mohawk haircut.
- noun a member of the Iroquoian people formerly living along the Mohawk River in New York State
- noun haircut in which the head is shaved except for a band of hair down the middle of the scalp
- tomahawk3/5
tomahawk
- noun weapon consisting of a fighting ax; used by North American Indians
hatchet.
- verb cut with a tomahawk
- noun weapon consisting of a fighting ax; used by North American Indians
- squawk2/5
squawk
- noun the noise of squawking
- she awoke to the squawk of chickens
- the squawk of car horns
- noun informal terms for objecting
gripe; beef; kick; bitch.
- I have a gripe about the service here
- noun the noise of squawking
- gawk2/5
gawk
- noun an awkward stupid person
clod; oaf; goon; lout; lump; lummox; stumblebum; lubber.
- verb look with amazement; look stupidly
goggle; gape; gawp.
- noun an awkward stupid person
- nighthawk2/5
nighthawk
- noun a person who likes to be active late at night
nightbird; night owl.
- noun mainly nocturnal North American goatsucker
mosquito hawk; bullbat.
- noun a person who likes to be active late at night
- goshawk2/5
goshawk
- noun large hawk of Eurasia and North America used in falconry
Accipiter gentilis.
- noun large hawk of Eurasia and North America used in falconry
- sparrowhawk2/5
sparrowhawk
Sorry, we do not have the definition for this word.
- seahawk1/5
seahawk
Sorry, we do not have the definition for this word.
- jayhawk1/5
jayhawk
Sorry, we do not have the definition for this word.
- sparhawk1/5
sparhawk
(Zoöl.) The sparrow hawk. Prov. Eng.
- eaglehawk1/5
- dawk1/5
- lawk1/5
lawk
Sorry, we do not have the definition for this word.
Suffixes of awk
- awkward«Word Popularity Bar5/5
awkward
- adjective satellite causing inconvenience
- they arrived at an awkward time
- adjective lacking grace or skill in manner or movement or performance
- an awkward dancer
- an awkward gesture
- too awkward with a needle to make her own clothes
- his clumsy fingers produced an awkward knot
- adjective satellite causing inconvenience
- awkwardly3/5
awkwardly
- adverb in an awkward manner
- he bent awkwardly
- adverb in an awkward manner
- awkwardness3/5
awkwardness
- noun unskillfulness resulting from a lack of training
ineptness; ineptitude; maladroitness; clumsiness; slowness.
- noun the quality of an embarrassing situation
nuisance value.
- he sensed the awkwardness of his proposal
- noun unskillfulness resulting from a lack of training
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awkwardness
- noun unskillfulness resulting from a lack of training
ineptness; ineptitude; maladroitness; clumsiness; slowness.
- noun the quality of an embarrassing situation
nuisance value.
- he sensed the awkwardness of his proposal
- noun unskillfulness resulting from a lack of training
Derived words of awk
- hawkins«Word Popularity Bar4/5
hawkins
- noun English privateer involved in the slave trade; later helped build the fleet that in 1588 defeated the Spanish Armada (1532-1595)
Hawkyns; Sir John Hawkins; Sir John Hawkyns.
- noun United States jazz saxophonist (1904-1969)
Coleman Hawkins.
- noun English privateer involved in the slave trade; later helped build the fleet that in 1588 defeated the Spanish Armada (1532-1595)
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hawk
- noun diurnal bird of prey typically having short rounded wings and a long tail
- noun an advocate of an aggressive policy on foreign relations
war hawk.
- noun diurnal bird of prey typically having short rounded wings and a long tail
- hawking3/5
hawking
- noun the act of selling goods for a living
vending; peddling; vendition.
- noun English theoretical physicist (born in 1942)
Stephen Hawking; Stephen William Hawking.
- noun the act of selling goods for a living
- hawker2/5
hawker
- noun someone who travels about selling his wares (as on the streets or at carnivals)
pitchman; peddler; packman; pedlar.
- noun a person who breeds and trains hawks and who follows the sport of falconry
falconer.
- noun someone who travels about selling his wares (as on the streets or at carnivals)
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mohawk
- noun a member of the Iroquoian people formerly living along the Mohawk River in New York State
- noun the Iroquoian language spoken by the Mohawk
- noun a member of the Iroquoian people formerly living along the Mohawk River in New York State
- hawkers2/5
hawker
- noun someone who travels about selling his wares (as on the streets or at carnivals)
pitchman; peddler; packman; pedlar.
- noun a person who breeds and trains hawks and who follows the sport of falconry
falconer.
- noun someone who travels about selling his wares (as on the streets or at carnivals)
- squawking2/5
squawk
- noun the noise of squawking
- she awoke to the squawk of chickens
- the squawk of car horns
- noun informal terms for objecting
gripe; beef; kick; bitch.
- I have a gripe about the service here
- noun the noise of squawking
- hawkeye2/5
hawkeye
Sorry, we do not have the definition for this word.
- fawkes2/5
fawkes
- noun English conspirator who was executed for his role in a plot to blow up James I and the Houses of Parliament (1570-1606)
Guy Fawkes.
- noun English conspirator who was executed for his role in a plot to blow up James I and the Houses of Parliament (1570-1606)
- gawking2/5
gawk
- noun an awkward stupid person
clod; oaf; goon; lout; lump; lummox; stumblebum; lubber.
- verb look with amazement; look stupidly
goggle; gape; gawp.
- noun an awkward stupid person
- squawked2/5
squawk
- noun the noise of squawking
- she awoke to the squawk of chickens
- the squawk of car horns
- noun informal terms for objecting
gripe; beef; kick; bitch.
- I have a gripe about the service here
- noun the noise of squawking
- hawkish2/5
hawkish
- adjective satellite disposed to warfare or hard-line policies
militant; warlike.
- militant nations
- hawkish congressman
- warlike policies
- adjective satellite disposed to warfare or hard-line policies
- hawked2/5
hawk
- noun diurnal bird of prey typically having short rounded wings and a long tail
- noun an advocate of an aggressive policy on foreign relations
war hawk.
- noun diurnal bird of prey typically having short rounded wings and a long tail
- tomahawks2/5
tomahawk
- noun weapon consisting of a fighting ax; used by North American Indians
hatchet.
- verb cut with a tomahawk
- noun weapon consisting of a fighting ax; used by North American Indians
- gawked2/5
gawk
- noun an awkward stupid person
clod; oaf; goon; lout; lump; lummox; stumblebum; lubber.
- verb look with amazement; look stupidly
goggle; gape; gawp.
- noun an awkward stupid person
- gawky2/5
gawky
- adjective satellite lacking grace in movement or posture
clumsy; unwieldy; clunky; ungainly.
- a gawky lad with long ungainly legs
- clumsy fingers
- what an ungainly creature a giraffe is
- heaved his unwieldy figure out of his chair
- adjective satellite lacking grace in movement or posture
- mawkish2/5
mawkish
- adjective satellite effusively or insincerely emotional
sentimental; schmalzy; bathetic; mushy; soppy; kitschy; hokey; slushy; soupy; maudlin; schmaltzy; drippy.
- a bathetic novel
- maudlin expressions of sympathy
- mushy effusiveness
- a schmaltzy song
- sentimental soap operas
- slushy poetry
- adjective satellite effusively or insincerely emotional
- squawks2/5
squawk
- noun the noise of squawking
- she awoke to the squawk of chickens
- the squawk of car horns
- noun informal terms for objecting
gripe; beef; kick; bitch.
- I have a gripe about the service here
- noun the noise of squawking
- hawksbill2/5
hawksbill
- noun pugnacious tropical sea turtle with a hawk-like beak; source of food and the best tortoiseshell
hawksbill turtle; hawkbill; Eretmochelys imbricata; tortoiseshell turtle.
- noun pugnacious tropical sea turtle with a hawk-like beak; source of food and the best tortoiseshell
- seahawks1/5
- nighthawks1/5
nighthawk
- noun a person who likes to be active late at night
nightbird; night owl.
- noun mainly nocturnal North American goatsucker
mosquito hawk; bullbat.
- noun a person who likes to be active late at night
- gawkers1/5
gawker
- noun a spectator who stares stupidly without intelligent awareness
- noun a spectator who stares stupidly without intelligent awareness
- goshawks1/5
goshawk
- noun large hawk of Eurasia and North America used in falconry
Accipiter gentilis.
- noun large hawk of Eurasia and North America used in falconry
- hawklike1/5
- hawkey1/5
hawkey
See Holloway.Hockey .
- jayhawkers1/5
jayhawker
A name given to a free-booting, unenlisted, armed man or guerrilla. A term of opprobrium used in the war of 1861-65, U. S.
- hawkshaw1/5
hawkshaw
- noun someone who is a detective
gumshoe; dick.
- noun someone who is a detective
- hawkeyes1/5
- tomahawked1/5
tomahawk
- noun weapon consisting of a fighting ax; used by North American Indians
hatchet.
- verb cut with a tomahawk
- noun weapon consisting of a fighting ax; used by North American Indians
- hawkweed1/5
hawkweed
- noun any of various plants of the genus Pilosella
- noun any of numerous often hairy plants of the genus Hieracium having yellow or orange flowers that resemble the dandelion
- noun any of various plants of the genus Pilosella
- hawkings1/5
hawking
- noun English theoretical physicist (born in 1942)
Stephen Hawking; Stephen William Hawking.
- noun the act of selling goods for a living
vending; peddling; vendition.
- noun English theoretical physicist (born in 1942)
- jayhawks1/5
- sparrowhawks1/5
sparrowhawks
Sorry, we do not have the definition for this word.
- hawkyns1/5
hawkyns
- noun English privateer involved in the slave trade; later helped build the fleet that in 1588 defeated the Spanish Armada (1532-1595)
Hawkins; Sir John Hawkins; Sir John Hawkyns.
- noun English privateer involved in the slave trade; later helped build the fleet that in 1588 defeated the Spanish Armada (1532-1595)
- hawkmoth1/5
hawkmoth
- noun any of various moths with long narrow forewings capable of powerful flight and hovering over flowers to feed
hawk moth; sphinx moth; sphingid; hummingbird moth.
- noun any of various moths with long narrow forewings capable of powerful flight and hovering over flowers to feed
- fawkner1/5
fawkner
A falconer. Obs. Donne.
- mawkishness1/5
mawkishness
- noun insincere pathos
bathos.
- noun falsely emotional in a maudlin way
sentimentality; soupiness; drippiness; mushiness; sloppiness.
- noun insincere pathos
- drawknife1/5
drawknife
- noun a woodworker's knife to shave surfaces
drawshave.
- noun a woodworker's knife to shave surfaces
- pawky1/5
pawky
- adjective satellite cunning and sly
- the pawky rich old lady who incessantly scores off her parasitical descendants"- Punch
- adjective satellite cunning and sly
- hawkmoths1/5
hawkmoth
- noun any of various moths with long narrow forewings capable of powerful flight and hovering over flowers to feed
hawk moth; sphinx moth; sphingid; hummingbird moth.
- noun any of various moths with long narrow forewings capable of powerful flight and hovering over flowers to feed
- jayhawker1/5
jayhawker
A name given to a free-booting, unenlisted, armed man or guerrilla. A term of opprobrium used in the war of 1861-65, U. S.
- gawker1/5
gawker
- noun a spectator who stares stupidly without intelligent awareness
- noun a spectator who stares stupidly without intelligent awareness
- gawks1/5
gawk
- noun an awkward stupid person
clod; oaf; goon; lout; lump; lummox; stumblebum; lubber.
- verb look with amazement; look stupidly
goggle; gape; gawp.
- noun an awkward stupid person
- hawksbills1/5
hawksbill
- noun pugnacious tropical sea turtle with a hawk-like beak; source of food and the best tortoiseshell
hawksbill turtle; hawkbill; Eretmochelys imbricata; tortoiseshell turtle.
- noun pugnacious tropical sea turtle with a hawk-like beak; source of food and the best tortoiseshell
- hawkishness1/5
hawkishness
- noun any political orientation favoring aggressive policies
- noun any political orientation favoring aggressive policies
- lawks1/5
- hawkweeds1/5
hawkweed
- noun any of various plants of the genus Pilosella
- noun any of numerous often hairy plants of the genus Hieracium having yellow or orange flowers that resemble the dandelion
- noun any of various plants of the genus Pilosella
- squawky1/5
squawky
- adjective satellite like the cackles or squawks a hen makes especially after laying an egg
cackly.
- adjective satellite like the cackles or squawks a hen makes especially after laying an egg
- fawkener1/5
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About Prefix and Suffix Words
This page lists all the words created by adding prefixes, suffixes to the word `awk`. For each word, youwill notice a blue bar below the word. The longer the blue bar below a word, the more common/popular the word. Very short blue bars indicate rare usage.
While some of the words are direct derivations of the word `awk`, some are not.
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About Prefix and Suffix Words
This page lists all the words created by adding prefixes, suffixes to the word `awk`. For each word, youwill notice a blue bar below the word. The longer the blue bar below a word, the more common/popular the word. Very short blue bars indicate rare usage.
While some of the words are direct derivations of the word `awk`, some are not.
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