8-letter words containing s, e, a, w
- walleyes — Plural form of walleye.
- wallsend — a city in Tyne and Wear, NE England, near the mouth of the Tyne River.
- walruses — Plural form of walrus.
- waltzers — Plural form of waltzer.
- wanhsien — Wade-Giles. Wanxian.
- wannabes — Plural form of wannabe.
- wantless — (archaic) Having no want; abundant; fruitful.
- war nose — the explosive forward section of a projectile, as of a torpedo or shell; warhead.
- warblers — Plural form of warbler.
- wardress — a woman who is a warder.
- wareless — careless
- 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.
- warheads — Plural form of warhead.
- warhorse — a horse used in war; charger.
- wariness — the state or quality of being wary.
- warmness — having or giving out a moderate degree of heat, as perceived by the senses: a warm bath.
- warpwise — in a vertical direction; at right angles to the filling; lengthwise.
- wartless — Without warts.
- washable — capable of being washed without shrinking, fading, or the like.
- wasplike — any of numerous social or solitary hymenopterous insects of the Vespidae, Sphecidae, and allied families, generally having a long, slender body and narrow waist and, in the female, a stinger.
- waspnest — the nest of a wasp
- wastages — Plural form of wastage.
- wastebin — A wastebasket; a bin used for household or office waste.
- wasteful — given to or characterized by useless consumption or expenditure: wasteful methods; a wasteful way of life.
- wastelot — a vacant lot, especially one overgrown with weeds or covered with rubbish.
- wasteway — an open ditch for the passage of waste water
- wastrels — Plural form of wastrel.
- wastrife — wastefulness
- watchers — Plural form of watcher.
- waterbus — Alternative spelling of water bus.
- waterish — somewhat, or tending to be, watery.
- waterski — Each of a pair of skis enabling the wearer to skim the surface of the water when towed by a motorboat.
- wattless — using no power
- waukesha — a city in SE Wisconsin, W of Milwaukee.
- waveless — Free from waves.
- wavelets — Plural form of wavelet.
- waverers — Plural form of waverer.
- wavetops — Plural form of wavetop.
- waviness — curving alternately in opposite directions; undulating: a wavy course; wavy hair.
- waxiness — The quality of being waxy.
- waysides — Plural form of wayside.
- waywiser — a device formerly used for measuring distance travelled by road
- weakfish — any food fish of the genus Cynoscion, as C. regalis, inhabiting waters along the Atlantic and Gulf coasts of the U.S.
- weakness — the state or quality of being weak; lack of strength, firmness, vigor, or the like; feebleness.
- weakside — the side of the court away from the ball
- wealsman — a statesman
- wealthys — a variety of red apple, grown in the U.S., ripening in early autumn.
- weariest — Superlative form of weary.
- weaseled — (US) Simple past tense and past participle of weasel.
- weaselly — resembling a weasel, especially in features or manner: a weaselly little clerk with furtive eyes.