8-letter words containing s, p, a, w
- cpu wars — /C-P-U worz/ A 1979 large-format comic by Chas Andres chronicling the attempts of the brainwashed androids of IPM (Impossible to Program Machines) to conquer and destroy the peaceful denizens of HEC (Human Engineered Computers). This rather transparent allegory featured many references to ADVENT and the immortal line "Eat flaming death, minicomputer mongrels!" (uttered, of course, by an IPM stormtrooper). It is alleged that the author subsequently received a letter of appreciation on IBM company stationery from the head of IBM's Thomas J. Watson Research Laboratories (then, as now, one of the few islands of true hackerdom in the IBM archipelago). The lower loop of the B in the IBM logo, it is said, had been carefully whited out. See eat flaming death.
- fig wasp — a chalcid wasp, Blastophaga psenes, introduced into the U.S. from Europe, that pollinates figs, usually of the Smyrna variety.
- forepaws — Plural form of forepaw.
- lapwings — Plural form of lapwing.
- mud wasp — any of several wasps, as the mud dauber, that construct a nest of mud.
- newspeak — (sometimes initial capital letter) an official or semiofficial style of writing or saying one thing in the guise of its opposite, especially in order to serve a political or ideological cause while pretending to be objective, as in referring to “increased taxation” as “revenue enhancement.”.
- pairwise — two identical, similar, or corresponding things that are matched for use together: a pair of gloves; a pair of earrings.
- palewise — by perpendicular lines
- pass law — (formerly, in South Africa) a law restricting the movement of Black Africans, esp from rural to urban areas
- passw0rd — (security) A common default password, often given out by system administrtors to new users, the hope being that they will change it immediately.
- password — a secret word or expression used by authorized persons to prove their right to access, information, etc.
- pawnshop — the shop of a pawnbroker, especially one where unredeemed items are displayed and sold.
- peshawar — a province in Pakistan, bordering Punjab and Kashmir on the west: a former province of British India. 28,773 sq. mi. (77,516 sq. km). Capital: Peshawar.
- pit-sawn — (of timber, esp formerly) sawn into planks by hand in a saw-pit
- post-war — following a major conflict
- 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.
- slipware — pottery decorated with slip.
- snow pea — a variety of the common pea, Pisum sativum macrocarpon, having thin, flat, edible pods that are used in cookery.
- snowpack — the accumulation of winter snowfall, especially in mountain or upland regions.
- 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.
- 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.
- wardship — guardianship; custody.
- warpwise — in a vertical direction; at right angles to the filling; lengthwise.
- warships — Plural form of warship.
- 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
- wavetops — Plural form of wavetop.
- webpages — Plural form of webpage.
- webspace — (computing, Internet) Disk space used to store webpages and other content that can be accessed through the Web.
- whiplash — the lash of a whip.
- whipsaws — Plural form of whipsaw.
- wingspan — the distance between the wing tips of an airplane.
- wiretaps — Plural form of wiretap.
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