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8-letter words containing s, w, a, r

  • saltwork — place where salt is refined
  • saltwort — any of various plants of sea beaches, salt marshes, and alkaline regions, especially belonging to the genus Salsola, of the amaranth family, as S. kali, a bushy plant having prickly leaves, or belonging to the genus Salicornia.
  • sandworm — any of several marine worms that live in sand.
  • sandwort — any plant belonging to the genus Arenaria, of the pink family, having narrow leaves and clusters of usually white flowers, many of which grow in sandy soil.
  • saw-wort — a perennial Old World plant, Serratula tinctoria, having serrated leaves that yield a yellow dye: family Asteraceae (composites)
  • sawgrass — any of various sedges of the genus Cladium, of tropical and temperate regions, having spiny, serrated leaves.
  • sawhorse — a movable frame or trestle for supporting wood being sawed.
  • sawshark — a shark with a long, flat, saw-like snout from the family Pristiophoridae and found in waters from South Africa to Australia and Japan
  • schwartz — Delmore [del-mawr,, -mohr] /ˈdɛl mɔr,, -moʊr/ (Show IPA), 1913–1966, U.S. poet, short-story writer, and critic.
  • scrawled — to write or draw in a sprawling, awkward manner: He scrawled his name hastily across the blackboard.
  • scrawler — a person who scrawls.
  • screwage — /skroo'*j/ Like lossage but connotes that the failure is due to a designed-in misfeature rather than a simple inadequacy or a mere bug.
  • seatwork — work that can be done by a child at his or her seat in school without supervision.
  • seawards — Also, seawards. toward the sea: a storm moving seaward.
  • seawater — the salt water in or from the sea.
  • selfward — in the direction of or toward oneself: a selfward-moving gesture.
  • sewerage — the removal of waste water and refuse by means of sewers.
  • shadower — a dark figure or image cast on the ground or some surface by a body intercepting light.
  • shawarma — roasted meat, as lamb or beef, cooked on a spit. a dish consisting of this meat, served wrapped in pita bread with tahini or hummus.
  • sherwani — a long coat closed up to the neck, worn by men in India
  • showyard — a yard where cattle and machinery are displayed
  • sideward — directed or moving toward one side.
  • ski-wear — clothes that are intended for skiing
  • slipware — pottery decorated with slip.
  • soapwort — a plant, Saponaria officinalis, of the pink family, whose leaves are used for cleansing.
  • soaraway — If you describe something as a soaraway success, you mean that its success has suddenly increased.
  • software — Computers. the programs used to direct the operation of a computer, as well as documentation giving instructions on how to use them. Compare hardware (def 5).
  • sowarree — an Indian mounted escort
  • sowbread — any of several species of cyclamen, especially Cyclamen hederifolium, a low-growing Old World plant having mottled leaves and pink or white flowers.
  • 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.
  • spanworm — measuringworm.
  • 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.
  • squawker — to utter a loud, harsh cry, as a duck or other fowl when frightened.
  • stairway — a passageway from one level, as of a building, to another by a series of stairs; staircase.
  • stalwart — strongly and stoutly built; sturdy and robust.
  • starwort — any of several chickweeds of the genus Stellaria.
  • stemware — glass or crystal vessels, especially for beverages and desserts, having rounded bowls mounted on footed stems.
  • sternway — Nautical. the movement of a vessel backward, or stern foremost.
  • strawhat — of or relating to a summer theater situated outside an urban or metropolitan area: strawhat theater; strawhat circuit.
  • 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)
  • strewage — strewn or discarded items
  • subdwarf — a star which is smaller than a dwarf star
  • sunwards — Also, sunwards. toward the sun.
  • swaddler — a blanket in which to swaddle a baby
  • swanherd — a person who tends swans.
  • swanndri — an all-weather heavy woollen shirt
  • swannery — a place where swans are raised.
  • swarther — swarthy.
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