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8-letter words containing p, w

  • put wise — having the power of discerning and judging properly as to what is true or right; possessing discernment, judgment, or discretion.
  • put-down — a landing of an aircraft.
  • rawlplug — a short fibre or plastic tube used to provide a fixing in a wall for a screw
  • rope tow — ski tow.
  • ropewalk — a long, narrow path or building where ropes are made.
  • ropework — the activities involved in making, mending, tying, and using ropes
  • screw up — a metal fastener having a tapered shank with a helical thread, and topped with a slotted head, driven into wood or the like by rotating, especially by means of a screwdriver.
  • screw-up — a metal fastener having a tapered shank with a helical thread, and topped with a slotted head, driven into wood or the like by rotating, especially by means of a screwdriver.
  • sea wasp — any of various highly poisonous stinging jellyfishes of the order Cubomedusae, of tropical seas.
  • sea whip — a gorgonian coral that forms a flexible colony resembling shrubbery on the ocean floor.
  • shipworm — any of various wormlike marine bivalve mollusks that burrow into the timbers of ship, wharves, etc.
  • shopworn — worn or marred, as goods exposed and handled in a store.
  • showjump — to take part in a showjumping competition
  • slipware — pottery decorated with slip.
  • slopwork — the manufacture of cheap clothing.
  • slowpoke — a person who makes slow progress.
  • snow pea — a variety of the common pea, Pisum sativum macrocarpon, having thin, flat, edible pods that are used in cookery.
  • snowdrop — any of several early-blooming bulbous plants belonging to the genus Galanthus, of the amaryllis family, native to Eurasia, especially G. nivalis, having drooping white flowers with green markings.
  • snowpack — the accumulation of winter snowfall, especially in mountain or upland regions.
  • snowplow — an implement or machine for clearing away snow from highways, railroad tracks, etc.
  • snowslip — a body of snow that slips down a mountain; an avalanche
  • soapwort — a plant, Saponaria officinalis, of the pink family, whose leaves are used for cleansing.
  • southpaw — a person who is left-handed.
  • 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
  • spacewar — (games)   A space-combat simulation game for the PDP-1 written in 1960-61 by Steve Russell, an employee at MIT. SPACEWAR was inspired by E. E. "Doc" Smith's "Lensman" books, in which two spaceships duel around a central sun, shooting torpedoes at each other and jumping through hyperspace. MIT were wondering what to do with a new vector video display so Steve wrote the world's first video game. Steve now lives in California and still writes software for HC12 emulators. SPACEWAR aficionados formed the core of the early hacker culture at MIT. Nine years later, a descendant of the game motivated Ken Thompson to build, in his spare time on a scavenged PDP-7, the operating system that became Unix. Less than nine years after that, SPACEWAR was commercialised as one of the first video games; descendants are still feeping in video arcades everywhere.
  • spaewife — a woman who foretells the future
  • 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.
  • speedway — a town in central Indiana.
  • spillway — a passageway through which surplus water escapes from a reservoir, lake, or the like.
  • sprawled — to be stretched or spread out in an unnatural or ungraceful manner: The puppy's legs sprawled in all directions.
  • spunware — objects formed by spinning.
  • stepwise — in a steplike arrangement.
  • stewpond — a fishpond, often located in the garden of a monastery
  • stopword — any of a number of very commonly used words, as a, and, in, and to, that are normally excluded by computer search engines or when compiling a concordance.
  • sumpweed — a herbaceous, oily, annual plant, Iva annua, native to North America and once cultivated for its edible seeds
  • supercow — a dairy cow that produces a very high milk yield as a result of selective breeding or genetic modification
  • swagshop — a shop selling cheap goods
  • 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.
  • 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.
  • sweep up — clean with a broom, brush
  • sweeping — of wide range or scope.
  • sweetlip — any of various Australian fish with large lips
  • sweetsop — a sweet, pulpy fruit having a thin, tuberculate rind, borne by a tropical American tree or shrub, Annona squamosa, of the annona family.
  • swell up — become enlarged
  • swinepox — a variety of chicken pox.
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