8-letter words containing s, w, e
- 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.”.
- newsreel — a short motion picture presenting current or recent events.
- newsroom — a room in the offices of a newspaper, news service, or broadcasting organization in which the news is processed.
- newswire — a service transmitted especially by teletypewriter and providing late-breaking news stories, stock-market results, or other up-to-the-minute information: We took the story off the newswires.
- no sweat — Informal. (of clothes) made to be worn for exercise, sports, or other physical activity. made of the absorbent fabric used for such clothes: sweat dresses. of, for, or associated with such clothes: the sweat look in sportswear.
- no-sweat — requiring little effort; easy: a no-sweat job.
- nonsweet — Not having a sweet taste.
- nosewing — the flared portion of each side of the nose; a nasal ala.
- nowheres — in or at no place; not anywhere: The missing pen was nowhere to be found.
- old west — the western region of the U.S., especially in the frontier period of the 19th century.
- oswiecim — Polish name of Auschwitz.
- outswear — to outdo in swearing.
- outsweep — an outward movement of arms in swimming breaststroke
- outswell — to exceed in swelling
- outswept — curving outwards
- outwaste — to squander or use up wastefully
- outwrest — to pull out or get possession of forcibly; extort
- overawes — Third-person singular simple present indicative form of overawe.
- overslow — too slow
- oversway — to overrule
- overswim — to swim across
- overwash — the act of washing over something
- overwise — excessively or unusually wise: overwise for a child of her age.
- 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
- peepshow — a display of objects or pictures viewed through a small opening that is usually fitted with a magnifying lens.
- peesweep — an early spring storm
- 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.
- pinswell — a small boil
- powerset — (mathematics) The powerset of a set S is the set of possible subsets of S, usually written PS.
- put wise — having the power of discerning and judging properly as to what is true or right; possessing discernment, judgment, or discretion.
- raceways — Plural form of raceway.
- radwaste — radioactive waste.
- red snow — snow that has acquired a red color either from airborne particles of red dust or from a type of alga that contains a red pigment.
- reshower — to shower again
- ringwise — (of a boxer) used to being in a boxing ring and able to respond appropriately
- rosebowl — a decorative bowl for displaying roses
- rosewall — Ken(neth R.) born 1934, Australian tennis player.
- rosewood — any of various reddish cabinet woods, sometimes with a roselike odor, yielded by certain tropical trees, especially belonging to the genus Dalbergia, of the legume family.
- sandwell — a unitary authority in central England, in West Midlands. Pop: 285 000 (2003 est). Area: 86 sq km (33 sq miles)
- saw edge — the serrated edge of a saw
- sawblade — the blade of a saw
- sawbones — a surgeon or physician.
- sawhorse — a movable frame or trestle for supporting wood being sawed.
- say when — to state when an action is to be stopped or begun, as when someone is pouring a drink
- sb awe32 — (multimedia, music, hardware) A standard SB16 MultiCD sound card with the EMU8000 "Advanced WavEffect" music synthesizer integrated circuit. The card includes all the standard SB16 features as well as the Advanced Signal Processor and multiple interfaces supporting Creative, Mitsumi and Sony CD-ROM drives. The EMU8000 comes integrated with 1MB of General MIDI samples and 512kB of DRAM for additional sample downloading. It can address up to 28 MB of external DRAM. The SB AWE32 supports General MIDI, Roland GS, and Sound Canvas MT-32 emulation.
- scawtite — a hydrated carbonate and silicate of calcium, Ca7Si6(CO3)O18·2H2O
- schwaben — German name of Swabia.
- schwerin — a state in NE Germany. 8842 sq. mi. (22,900 sq. km). Capital: Schwerin.
- scrawled — to write or draw in a sprawling, awkward manner: He scrawled his name hastily across the blackboard.