7-letter words containing s, w, i
- inswing — (cricket) The swing of a ball through the air in a direction towards the batsman.
- intwist — entwist.
- inwards — toward the inside, interior, or center, as of a place, space, or body.
- ipswich — a city in SE Suffolk, in E England.
- jahwism — the worship of Yahweh or the religious system based on such worship.
- jawfish — any of several large-mouthed fishes of the family Opisthognathidae, common along sandy bottoms of warm seas.
- jewfish — any of several very large fishes, especially of the family Serranidae, as the giant sea bass and the groupers Epinephelus itajara and E. nigritus, found in the tropical Atlantic Ocean.
- jigsaws — Plural form of jigsaw.
- kashiwa — a city in E Honshu, Japan.
- keswick — a market town in NW England, in Cumbria in the Lake District: tourist centre. Pop: 4984 (2001)
- kewpies — Plural form of kewpie.
- kiwanis — an organization founded in 1915 for the promulgation of higher ideals in business, industrial, and professional life.
- kwangsi — Guangxi
- kweisui — former name of Hohhot.
- lawsuit — a case in a court of law involving a claim, complaint, etc., by one party against another; suit at law.
- lewises — Plural form of lewis.
- lewisia — any of various perennial herbs of the genus Lewisia of the family Portulacaceae, which are native to western North America and which have pink or white flowers
- manwise — in the manner of a human being: The dog stood on his hind legs and walked manwise.
- mapwise — from a mapping point of view
- mawkins — Plural form of mawkin.
- mawkish — characterized by sickly sentimentality; weakly emotional; maudlin.
- midways — Plural form of midway.
- midwest — Middle West.
- mildews — Third-person singular simple present indicative form of mildew.
- minnows — Plural form of minnow.
- misdraw — to cause to move in a particular direction by or as if by a pulling force; pull; drag (often followed by along, away, in, out, or off).
- misgrow — (ambitransitive) To grow incorrectly or amiss.
- misknew — Simple past form of misknow.
- misknow — to fail to understand or recognize; misunderstand: to misknow the problem.
- mistbow — fogbow.
- miswart — /mis-wort/ [By analogy with misbug] A feature that superficially appears to be a wart but has been determined to be the Right Thing. For example, in some versions of the Emacs text editor, the "transpose characters" command exchanges the character under the cursor with the one before it on the screen, *except* when the cursor is at the end of a line, in which case the two characters before the cursor are exchanged. While this behaviour is perhaps surprising, and certainly inconsistent, it has been found through extensive experimentation to be what most users want. This feature is a miswart.
- misween — to assess wrongly
- miswend — to go astray or go badly
- miswire — 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.
- misword — to word incorrectly.
- newbies — Plural form of newbie.
- newsies — Plural form of newsy.
- nitwits — Plural form of nitwit.
- outswim — (transitive) To swim faster than.
- outwish — to wish more or more strongly than
- outwits — Third-person singular simple present indicative form of outwit.
- owenism — the socialistic philosophy of Robert Owen.
- peishwa — a leader of the Maratha people
- pigwash — slops used to feed pigs
- pit saw — a large saw used, esp. formerly, to cut timber lengthwise and worked by two men, one standing above the log, the other in a pit below it
- rawlins — a town in S Wyoming.
- retwist — to twist again
- rip-saw — a saw for cutting wood with the grain.
- ryswick — a town in SW Netherlands, near The Hague: Treaty of Ryswick 1697.
- s twist — a direction of the twist in yarns, from top left to bottom right, resembling the long stroke of the letter S.