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7-letter words containing r, w

  • outwork — to work harder, better, or faster than.
  • outworn — out-of-date, outmoded, or obsolete: outworn ideas; outworn methods.
  • overawe — to restrain or subdue by inspiring awe; intimidate: He often uses that imperious scowl to overawe his subordinates.
  • overnew — too new
  • oversaw — to direct (work or workers); supervise; manage: He was hired to oversee the construction crews.
  • oversew — to sew with stitches passing successively over an edge, especially closely, so as to cover the edge or make a firm seam.
  • oversow — to sow again after first sowing
  • overwet — to make or become too wet
  • paltrow — Gwyneth (Kate). born 1972, US film actress; her films include Emma (1996), Sliding Doors (1998), Shakespeare in Love (1998), and Sylvia (2003)
  • parkway — a broad thoroughfare with a dividing strip or side strips planted with grass, trees, etc.
  • partway — at or to a part of the way or distance: Shall I walk you partway? I'm already partway home.
  • payware — /pay'weir/ Commercial software. Opposite: shareware or freeware.
  • pc-ware — Pejorative term for software full of PC-isms on a machine with a more capable operating system.
  • periwig — a wig, especially a peruke.
  • pilcrow — a paragraph mark.
  • pinwork — (in the embroidery of needlepoint lace) crescent-shaped stitches raised from the surface of the design.
  • pinworm — a small nematode worm, Enterobius vermicularis, infesting the intestine and migrating to the rectum and anus, especially in children.
  • plowter — to work or play in water or mud; dabble
  • postwar — of, relating to, or characteristic of a period following a war: postwar problems; postwar removal of rationing.
  • powdery — consisting of or resembling powder: powdery sand; powdery clouds.
  • powered — operated or driven by a motor or electricity: a power mower; power tools.
  • powerpc — (processor, standard)   (PPC) A RISC microprocessor designed to meet a standard which was jointly designed by Motorola, IBM, and Apple Computer (the PowerPC Alliance). The PowerPC standard specifies a common instruction set architecture (ISA), allowing anyone to design and fabricate PowerPC processors, which will run the same code. The PowerPC architecture is based on the IBM POWER architecture, used in IBM's RS/6000 workstations. Currently IBM and Motorola are working on PowerPC chips. The PowerPC standard specifies both 32-bit and 64-bit data paths. Early implementations were 32-bit (e.g. PowerPC 601); later higher-performance implementations were 64-bit (e.g. PowerPC 620). A PowerPC has 32 integer registers (32- or 64 bit) and 32 floating-point (IEEE standard 64 bit) floating-point registers. The POWER CPU chip and PowerPC have a (large) common core, but both have instructions that the other doesn't. The PowerPC offers the following features that POWER does not: Support for running in little-endian mode. Addition of single precision floating-point operations. Control of branch prediction direction. A hardware coherency model (not in Book I). Some other floating-point instructions (some optional). The real time clock (upper and lower) was replaced with the time base registers (upper and lower), which don't count in sec/ns (the decrementer also changed). 64-bit instruction operands, registers, etc. (in 64 bit processors). See also PowerOpen, PowerPC Platform (PReP).
  • powhiri — a Māori ceremony of welcome, esp to a marae
  • pre-law — of, relating to, or engaged in studies in preparation for the formal study of law.
  • pre-war — Pre-war is used to describe things that happened, existed, or were made in the period immediately before a war, especially the Second World War, 1939-45.
  • predawn — the period immediately preceding dawn.
  • preshow — to cause or allow to be seen; exhibit; display.
  • preview — an earlier or previous view.
  • prewarm — having or giving out a moderate degree of heat, as perceived by the senses: a warm bath.
  • prewarn — to warn in advance
  • prewash — to apply water or some other liquid to (something or someone) for the purpose of cleansing; cleanse by dipping, rubbing, or scrubbing in water or some other liquid.
  • prewire — a slender, stringlike piece or filament of relatively rigid or flexible metal, usually circular in section, manufactured in a great variety of diameters and metals depending on its application.
  • prework — exertion or effort directed to produce or accomplish something; labor; toil.
  • preworn — (of clothing) previously owned and worn; secondhand.
  • prewrap — to enclose in something wound or folded about (often followed by up): She wrapped her head in a scarf.
  • prowess — exceptional valor, bravery, or ability, especially in combat or battle.
  • prowest — valiant.
  • prowled — to rove or go about stealthily, as in search of prey, something to steal, etc.
  • prowler — a person or animal that prowls.
  • purview — the range of operation, authority, control, concern, etc.
  • raceway — Chiefly British. a passage or channel for water, as a millrace.
  • ragweed — any of the composite plants of the genus Ambrosia, the airborne pollen of which is the most prevalent cause of autumnal hay fever, as the common North American species, A. trifida (great ragweed or giant ragweed) and A. artemisiifolia.
  • ragwork — masonry of thin, undressed rubble.
  • ragworm — any polychaete worm of the genus Nereis, living chiefly in burrows in sand or mud and having a flattened body with a row of fleshy parapodia along each side
  • ragwort — any of various composite plants of the genus Senecio, as S. jacobaea, of the Old World, having yellow flowers and irregularly lobed leaves, or S. aureus (golden ragwort) of North America, also having yellow flowers.
  • railway — a rail line with lighter-weight equipment and roadbed than a main-line railroad.
  • rainbow — a bow or arc of prismatic colors appearing in the heavens opposite the sun and caused by the refraction and reflection of the sun's rays in drops of rain. Compare primary rainbow, secondary rainbow.
  • raw bar — a restaurant or counter serving raw shellfish and sometimes sushi.
  • rawhead — a bogeyman, esp one with a skull as its head
  • rawhide — untanned skin of cattle or other animals.
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