8-letter words containing m, a, e, w
- new math — a unified, sequential system of teaching arithmetic and mathematics in accord with set theory so as to reveal basic concepts: used in some U.S. schools, especially in the 1960s and 1970s.
- overwarm — to make too warm
- penwoman — a female writer
- pomwater — a kind of sharp-tasting apple
- raw mode — (operating system) A mode that allows a program to transfer bits directly to or from an I/O device without any processing, abstraction, or interpretation by the operating system. Systems that make this distinction for a disk file are generally regarded as broken. Compare rare mode, cooked mode.
- romeward — to or toward Rome or the Roman Catholic Church.
- seawoman — a woman sailor or a woman who works on a ship or in the navy
- soembawa — Dutch name of Sumbawa.
- somewhat — in some measure or degree; to some extent: not angry, just somewhat disturbed.
- stemware — glass or crystal vessels, especially for beverages and desserts, having rounded bowls mounted on footed stems.
- swamphen — any of several large Old World gallinules varying from purple to white, all possibly belonging to the single species Porphyrio porphyrio.
- sweetman — (in the Caribbean) a man kept by a woman
- swimwear — clothing designed to be worn for swimming or at a beach.
- tapeworm — any of various flat or tapelike worms of the class Cestoidea, lacking an alimentary canal, and parasitic when adult in the alimentary canal of humans and other vertebrates: the larval and adult stages are usually in different hosts.
- teamwise — in respect of a team, in the manner of a team
- teamwork — cooperative or coordinated effort on the part of a group of persons acting together as a team or in the interests of a common cause.
- time was — there was a time
- towerman — Railroads. a person who works in a switch tower and, by means of a signal box, directs the movement of trains.
- trewsman — a Highlander
- two-name — (of commercial paper) having more than one obligor, usually a maker and endorser, both of whom are fully liable.
- unwarmed — not warmed; unheated
- wailsome — wailful.
- waldheim — Kurt [kurt;; German koo rt] /kɜrt;; German kʊərt/ (Show IPA), 1918–2007, Austrian diplomat: secretary-general of the United Nations 1972–82; president of Austria 1986–92.
- war game — a simulated military operation, carried out to test the validity of a war plan or operational concept: in its simplest form, two opposing teams of officers take part, and when necessary, military units of the required strength are employed.
- wardmate — A pal met while staying at a hospital.
- wardmote — (historical) A meeting of the inhabitants of a ward.
- wareroom — a room in which goods are stored or are displayed for sale.
- wargames — (recreation) (Not "War Games") A 1983 film about a schoolboy cracker using a wardialer to try to break into a games company's computer and accidentally connecting to a backdoor into "Whopper", a ficticious C3 computer at Norad (USAF). He then procedes to unwittingly initiate global thermonuclear warfare. Playing naughts and crosses finally teaches Whopper that the only way to win the game is never to play.
- wariment — caution
- warmaker — someone who wages war
- warmness — having or giving out a moderate degree of heat, as perceived by the senses: a warm bath.
- watchmen — a person who keeps guard over a building at night, to protect it from fire, vandals, or thieves.
- waterman — a person who manages or works on a boat; boatman.
- watermen — Plural form of waterman.
- waveform — the shape of a wave, a graph obtained by plotting the instantaneous values of a periodic quantity against the time.
- wealsman — a statesman
- web farm — a large website that uses two or more servers to handle user requests
- webcomal — COMmon Algorithmic Language
- weighman — a person whose occupation is weighing goods, produce, etc.
- weismann — August [ou-goo st] /ˈaʊ gʊst/ (Show IPA), 1834–1914, German biologist.
- weizmann — Chaim [khahy-im] /ˈxaɪ ɪm/ (Show IPA), 1874–1952, Israeli chemist and Zionist leader, born in Russia: 1st president of Israel 1948–52.
- welchman — Welshman.
- well-man — a healthy man who attends a clinic or surgery to ensure that his general health, lifestyle, and sexual performance are satisfactory
- welshman — a native or inhabitant of Wales.
- west ham — a former borough, now part of Newham, in SE England, near London.
- whaleman — a person whose occupation is whaling; whaler.
- whammies — Plural form of whammy.
- wheelman — Also, wheelsman [hweelz-muh n, weel-] /ˈʰwilz mən, ˈwil-/ (Show IPA). a helmsman or steersman.
- whiteman — Paul ("Pops") 1891–1967, U.S. orchestra conductor.
- whompage — (rare humorous slang) Whomping or whomping on; acts of whomping or whomping on, taken collectively.