5-letter words containing s, w, i
- whiss — to whistle or make some kind of sibilant sound
- whist — Chiefly Irish. silence: Hold your whist.
- whits — a particle; bit; jot (used especially in negative phrases): not a whit better.
- wicks — Plural form of wick.
- wides — Plural form of wide.
- wifes — a married woman, especially when considered in relation to her partner in marriage.
- wiggs — Plural form of wigg.
- wikes — Plural form of wike.
- wikis — (sometimes initial capital letter) a website that allows anyone to add, delete, or revise content by using a web browser.
- wilds — Plural form of wild.
- wiles — a trick, artifice, or stratagem meant to fool, trap, or entice; device.
- wills — a male given name, form of William.
- wilts — to become limp and drooping, as a fading flower; wither.
- wimps — Plural form of wimp.
- winds — Plural form of wind.
- wines — Plural form of wine.
- wings — either of the two forelimbs of most birds and of bats, corresponding to the human arms, that are specialized for flight.
- winks — to close and open one or both eyes quickly.
- winos — Plural form of wino.
- wipes — Plural form of wipe.
- wires — a slender, stringlike piece or filament of relatively rigid or flexible metal, usually circular in section, manufactured in a great variety of diameters and metals depending on its application.
- wisby — German name of Visby.
- wisd. — Wisdom of Solomon
- wised — Simple past tense and past participle of wise.
- wisen — To become wiser.
- wiser — having the power of discerning and judging properly as to what is true or right; possessing discernment, judgment, or discretion.
- wises — Plural form of wise.
- wisha — an expression of surprise
- wishe — Obsolete spelling of wish.
- wisht — (obsolete) Simple past tense and past participle of wish.
- wisla — Vistula
- wisly — (rare, dialectal, or, obsolete) certainly; surely.
- wisps — Plural form of wisp.
- wispy — being a wisp or in wisps; wisplike: a wispy plant.
- wisła — a river in Poland, flowing N from the Carpathian Mountains past Warsaw into the Baltic near Danzig. About 650 miles (1050 km) long.
- wites — a fine imposed by a king or lord on a subject who committed a serious crime. a fee demanded for granting a special privilege.
- witts — (mining, UK, dialect, Cornwall) Tin ore freed from earthy matter by stamping.
- wives — plural of wife.
- wppsi — a group of intelligence tests, including the Wechsler Adult Intelligence Scale (WAIS) later revised (WAIS-R) the Wechsler Intelligence Scale for Children (WISC) later revised (WISC-R) the Wechsler Preschool and Primary Scale of Intelligence (WPPSI) and the Wechsler-Bellevue Scale, no longer used, all of which emphasize performance and verbal skills and give separate scores for subtests in vocabulary, arithmetic, memory span, assembly of objects, and other abilities.
- wries — Third-person singular simple present indicative form of wry.
- wrist — the carpus or lower part of the forearm where it joins the hand.
- writs — Plural form of writ.
- wuhsi — Wuxi.