6-letter words containing n, o, w
- ownest — of, relating to, or belonging to oneself or itself (usually used after a possessive to emphasize the idea of ownership, interest, or relation conveyed by the possessive): He spent only his own money.
- owning — (used as an intensifier to indicate oneself as the sole agent of some activity or action, preceded by a possessive): He insists on being his own doctor.
- renown — widespread and high repute; fame.
- rowena — a female given name.
- rowing — a noisy dispute or quarrel; commotion.
- snowed — Meteorology. a precipitation in the form of ice crystals, mainly of intricately branched, hexagonal form and often agglomerated into snowflakes, formed directly from the freezing of the water vapor in the air. Compare ice crystals, snow grains, snow pellets.
- sowens — porridge made from oat bran or husks that have been soaked in water, slightly fermented, and then boiled.
- sowing — to scatter (seed) over land, earth, etc., for growth; plant.
- strown — strew.
- sunbow — a bow or arc of prismatic colors like a rainbow, appearing in the spray of cataracts, waterfalls, fountains, etc.
- swoony — tending to swoon
- swound — swoon.
- tarnow — a city in SE Poland, E of Cracow.
- thrown — a past participle of throw.
- towner — a thickly populated area, usually smaller than a city and larger than a village, having fixed boundaries and certain local powers of government.
- townes — Charles Hard, 1915–2015, U.S. physicist and educator: Nobel Prize in physics 1964.
- townie — a resident of a town, especially a nonstudent resident of a college town.
- townly — characteristic of a town
- towson — a town in central Maryland, near Baltimore.
- uncowl — to remove a covering or monk's hood from (a head, etc.)
- ungown — to remove a gown (from)
- unmown — (of grass, crops, etc) not cut with a hand implement or machine
- unsown — a past participle of sow1 .
- unstow — to remove (tools, utensils, equipment, etc.) from stowage, especially in preparation for use.
- unwork — to destroy or undo (previous work)
- unworn — clothing: not used
- uptown — to, toward, or in the upper part of a town or city: He rode uptown on the bus.
- waggon — Alternative spelling of wagon.
- wagons — Plural form of wagon.
- walton — Ernest Thomas Sinton [sin-tn] /ˈsɪn tn/ (Show IPA), 1903–95, Irish physicist: Nobel prize 1951.
- wandoo — an Australian tree, Eucalyptus redunca, having hard, heavy wood valued as timber.
- wanion — curse; vengeance.
- wanton — done, shown, used, etc., maliciously or unjustifiably: a wanton attack; wanton cruelty.
- warton — Joseph. 1722–1800, British poet and critic, noted for his poem The Enthusiast (1744) and his Essay on the Writings and Genius of Pope (1756)
- watson — James Dewey, born 1928, U.S. biologist: Nobel Prize in medicine 1962.
- weakon — a subatomic particle
- weapon — any instrument or device for use in attack or defense in combat, fighting, or war, as a sword, rifle, or cannon.
- weldon — Fay. born 1931, British novelist and writer. Her novels include Praxis (1978), Life and Loves of a She-Devil (1984), Big Women (1998), and Rhode Island Blues (2003)
- weston — Edward, 1886–1958, U.S. photographer.
- wigeon — widgeon.
- wilson — Sir Angus (Frank Johnstone) [jon-stuh n,, -suh n] /ˈdʒɒn stən,, -sən/ (Show IPA), 1913–91, English writer.
- wilton — a town in SW Connecticut.
- window — an opening in the wall of a building, the side of a vehicle, etc., for the admission of air or light, or both, commonly fitted with a frame in which are set movable sashes containing panes of glass.
- winnow — to free (grain) from the lighter particles of chaff, dirt, etc., especially by throwing it into the air and allowing the wind or a forced current of air to blow away impurities.
- winona — a city in SE Minnesota, on the Mississippi.
- winsor — Justin, 1831–97, U.S. librarian and historian.
- winton — Tim, full name Timothy John Winton. born 1960. Australian writer. His novels include Cloudstreet (1992), The Riders (1995), and Dirt Music (2002)
- woburn — a city in E Massachusetts, N of Boston.
- woking — a district in Surrey, in SE England: a London suburb.
- wolven — Of or pertaining to wolves; wolflike; wolfish.