5-letter words containing s, w, e
- strew — to let fall in separate pieces or particles over a surface; scatter or sprinkle: to strew seed in a garden bed.
- swage — a tool for bending cold metal to a required shape.
- swale — a low place in a tract of land, usually moister and often having ranker vegetation than the adjacent higher land.
- sware — simple past tense of swear.
- swave — a transverse earthquake wave that travels through the interior of the earth and is usually the second conspicuous wave to reach a seismograph.
- sweal — the guttering of a candle
- swear — to make a solemn declaration or affirmation by some sacred being or object, as a deity or the Bible.
- sweat — to perspire, especially freely or profusely.
- swede — a native or inhabitant of Sweden.
- sweep — to move or remove (dust, dirt, etc.) with or as if with a broom, brush, or the like.
- sweer — slothful; indolent.
- sweet — having the taste or flavor characteristic of sugar, honey, etc.
- sweir — lazy
- swell — to grow in bulk, as by the absorption of moisture or the processes of growth.
- swelt — to perish
- swept — simple past tense and past participle of sweep1 .
- sweyn — known as Sweyn Forkbeard. died 1014, king of Denmark (?986–1014). He conquered England, forcing Ethelred II to flee (1013); father of Canute
- swine — any stout, cloven-hoofed artiodactyl of the Old World family Suidae, having a thick hide sparsely covered with coarse hair, a disklike snout, and an often short, tasseled tail: now of worldwide distribution and hunted or raised for its meat and other products. Compare hog, pig1 , wild boar.
- swipe — a strong, sweeping blow, as with a cricket bat or golf club.
- swire — a neck, or depression, between two hills
- swive — to copulate with.
- swore — a simple past tense of swear.
- tawse — a leather strap having one end cut into thongs, formerly used as an instrument of punishment by a schoolteacher
- thews — Usually, thews. muscle or sinew.
- trews — close-fitting tartan trousers, worn especially by certain Scottish regiments.
- unsew — to remove or rip the stitches of (something sewed).
- views — A Smalltalk extension for computer algebra. "An Object Oriented Approach to Algebra System Design", K. Abdali et al, in Symp Symb Alg Manip, ACM 1986, pp.24-30.
- wades — Plural form of wade.
- wages — Often, wages. money that is paid or received for work or services, as by the hour, day, or week. Compare living wage, minimum wage.
- wakes — Plural form of wake.
- wales — something that is selected as the best; choice.
- wames — Scot. and North England. belly.
- wanes — Plural form of wane.
- wares — Plural form of ware.
- waste — to consume, spend, or employ uselessly or without adequate return; use to no avail or profit; squander: to waste money; to waste words.
- waves — a member of the Waves.
- wawes — Plural form of wawe.
- waxes — Plural form of wax.
- weals — wheal.
- weans — Third-person singular simple present indicative form of wean.
- wears — Plural form of wear.
- weasy — (obsolete) Given to sensual indulgence; gluttonous.
- weds. — Wednesday
- weeds — a valueless plant growing wild, especially one that grows on cultivated ground to the exclusion or injury of the desired crop.
- weeks — a period of seven successive days, usually understood as beginning with Sunday and ending with Saturday.
- weels — Plural form of weel.
- weems — Mason Locke ("Parson Weems") 1759–1825, U.S. clergyman and biographer.
- weens — Third-person singular simple present indicative form of ween.
- weeps — Third-person singular simple present indicative form of weep.
- weest — little; very small.