8-letter words containing s, w, e
- crowstep — corbiestep.
- cudweeds — Plural form of cudweed.
- dawdlers — Plural form of dawdler.
- dec wars — A 1983 Usenet posting by Alan Hastings and Steve Tarr spoofing the "Star Wars" movies in hackish terms. Some years later, ESR (disappointed by Hastings and Tarr's failure to exploit a great premise more thoroughly) posted a 3-times-longer complete rewrite called "Unix WARS"; the two are often confused.
- desqview — A system from Quarterdeck Office Systems implementing multitasking under MS-DOS.
- dewclaws — Plural form of dewclaw.
- dewdrops — a drop of dew.
- dewiness — The state or quality of being dewy.
- dewsbury — a town in N England, in Kirklees unitary authority, West Yorkshire: formerly a centre of the woollen industry. Pop: 54 341 (2001)
- disbowel — (rare) To disembowel.
- disendow — to deprive (a church, school, etc.) of endowment.
- dishware — dishes used for food; tableware.
- disowned — Simple past tense and past participle of disown.
- dowagers — Plural form of dowager.
- dowdiest — Superlative form of dowdy.
- dowfness — the quality or characteristic of being dowf
- downiest — Superlative form of downy.
- downless — the soft, first plumage of many young birds.
- downside — the lower side or part.
- downsize — company: make redundancies
- downstep — An downward shift of tone between the syllables or words of a tonal language.
- dowsabel — sweetheart.
- dropwise — in the form of a drop
- drowsier — Comparative form of drowsy.
- dweebish — Dweeby.
- dwellers — to live or stay as a permanent resident; reside.
- dwindles — Third-person singular simple present indicative form of dwindle.
- dyeworks — a factory producing dyes
- earworms — Plural form of earworm.
- earywigs — Plural form of earywig.
- eastward — Also, eastwards. toward the east.
- eastwood — Clint, born 1930, U.S. actor and director.
- edgeways — with the edge forward; in the direction of the edge.
- edgewise — with the edge forward; in the direction of the edge.
- eelworms — Plural form of eelworm.
- eggwhisk — A kitchen utensil made of multiple loops of wire used to beat eggs.
- elsewise — (now rare) Otherwise.
- embowers — Third-person singular simple present indicative form of embower.
- empowers — Third-person singular simple present indicative form of empower.
- endowers — Plural form of endower.
- enswathe — Envelop or wrap in a garment or piece of fabric.
- entwines — Third-person singular simple present indicative form of entwine.
- eschewal — The act of eschewing.
- eschewed — Deliberately avoid using; abstain from.
- eschewer — One who eschews.
- escrowed — Simple past tense and past participle of escrow.
- ex works — (of a price, value, etc) excluding the cost of delivery from the factory and sometimes excluding the commission or profit of the distributor or retailer
- eyebrows — Plural form of eyebrow.
- far west — the area of the U.S. west of the Great Plains.
- fernshaw — a thicket of ferns