wind
wind is a valid 4-letter word worth 8 points in Scrabble and 9 points in Words with Friends.
What does wind mean?
Raise or haul up with or as if with mechanical help.
Coil the spring of (some mechanical device) by turning a stem.
“wind your watch”
Catch the scent of; get wind of.
Form into a wreath.
Arrange or or coil around.
To move or cause to move in a sinuous, spiral, or circular course.
“the river winds through the hills”
Extend in curves and turns.
“The road winds around the lake”
A musical instrument in which the sound is produced by an enclosed column of air that is moved by bellows or the human breath.
Air moving (sometimes with considerable force) from an area of high pressure to an area of low pressure.
“trees bent under the fierce winds”
“when there is no wind, row”
An indication of potential opportunity.
A tendency or force that influences events.
“the winds of change”
Breath.
“the collision knocked the wind out of him”
A reflex that expels intestinal gas through the anus.
Empty rhetoric or insincere or exaggerated talk.
“that's a lot of wind”
The act of winding or twisting.
“he put the key in the old clock and gave it a good wind”