8-letter words containing n, s, w
- spa town — a town where water comes out of the ground and people come to drink it or lie in it because they think it will improve their health
- span-new — brand-new.
- spanghew — to throw into the air
- spanworm — measuringworm.
- spawning — Zoology. the mass of eggs deposited by fishes, amphibians, mollusks, crustaceans, etc.
- spunware — objects formed by spinning.
- squawman — a White or other non-American-Indian man married to a North American Indian woman
- steinway — Henry Engelhard [eng-guh l-hahrd,, -hahrt] /ˈɛŋ gəlˌhɑrd,, -ˌhɑrt/ (Show IPA), (Heinrich Engelhard Steinweg) 1797–1871, U.S. piano manufacturer, born in Germany.
- sternway — Nautical. the movement of a vessel backward, or stern foremost.
- stewpond — a fishpond, often located in the garden of a monastery
- stowdown — the packing of or stowing in a ship's hold
- stowlins — stealthily
- strawman — a mass of straw formed to resemble a man, as for a doll or scarecrow.
- strawson — Sir Peter (Frederick). 1919–2006, British philosopher. His early work deals with the relationship between language and logic, his later work with metaphysics. His books include The Bounds of Sense (1966) and Freedom and Resentment (1974)
- sunwards — Also, sunwards. toward the sun.
- suwannee — a river in SE Georgia and N Florida, flowing SW to the Gulf of Mexico. 240 miles (386 km) long.
- swagging — Slang. plunder; booty. money; valuables. free merchandise distributed as part of the promotion of a product, company, etc. self-confidence and personal style as shown by one's appearance and demeanor: the top ten athletes with the most swag. schwag (def 1).
- swaining — courtship
- swamphen — any of several large Old World gallinules varying from purple to white, all possibly belonging to the single species Porphyrio porphyrio.
- swamping — a tract of wet, spongy land, often having a growth of certain types of trees and other vegetation, but unfit for cultivation.
- swanherd — a person who tends swans.
- swanndri — an all-weather heavy woollen shirt
- swannery — a place where swans are raised.
- swanskin — the skin of a swan, with the feathers on.
- swapping — to exchange, barter, or trade, as one thing for another: He swapped his wrist watch for the radio.
- swaption — A swaption is an over-the-counter option on a swap.
- swashing — Printing. noting or pertaining to a character having a swash: a swash letter.
- swathing — to wrap, bind, or swaddle with bands of some material; wrap up closely or fully.
- swatting — to hit; slap; smack.
- swear in — to make a solemn declaration or affirmation by some sacred being or object, as a deity or the Bible.
- sweating — the act or process of sweating
- sweeping — of wide range or scope.
- sweet on — fond of or infatuated with
- sweeting — a sweet variety of apple.
- sweetman — (in the Caribbean) a man kept by a woman
- swelinck — Jan Pieters [yahn pee-tuh rs] /yɑn ˈpi tərs/ (Show IPA), or Jan Pieterszoon [yahn pee-tuh r-sohn] /yɑn ˈpi tərˌsoʊn/ (Show IPA), 1562–1621, Dutch organist and composer.
- swelling — the act of swelling or the condition of being swollen.
- swiftian — of or relating to Jonathan Swift
- swigging — an amount of liquid, especially liquor, taken in one swallow; draught: He took a swig from the flask.
- swilling — liquid or partly liquid food for animals, especially kitchen refuse given to swine; hogwash.
- swim fin — one of a pair of flippers.
- swimming — an act, instance, or period of swimming.
- swindled — (of a gem) cut so as to retain the maximum weight of the original stone or to give a false impression of size, especially by having the table too large.
- swindler — to cheat (a person, business, etc.) out of money or other assets.
- swinepox — a variety of chicken pox.
- swing by — Aerospace. a trajectory that uses the gravitational field of one celestial body to alter the course of a spacecraft destined for another body.
- swingarm — the main part of the rear suspension on a motorcycle
- swingers — a person or thing that swings.
- swinging — Also called Big Band music, swing music. a style of jazz, popular especially in the 1930s and often arranged for a large dance band, marked by a smoother beat and more flowing phrasing than Dixieland and having less complex harmonies and rhythms than modern jazz.
- swingism — former resistance to the use of agricultural machines