6-letter words containing s, w, o
- frowsy — frowzy.
- gowans — Plural form of gowan.
- growls — Plural form of growl.
- growse — (UK, dialect, obsolete) To shiver; to have chills.
- how so — in what way or manner; by what means?: How did the accident happen?
- indows — Third-person singular simple present indicative form of indow.
- knowes — knoll1 .
- knowns — Plural form of known.
- lawson — of or relating to a style of overstuffed sofa or chair that is boxy in shape, with square back and seat cushions and broad, square or rounded arms that are lower in height than the back: a Lawson sofa.
- leasow — to graze or pasture
- lowers — to cause to descend; let or put down: to lower a flag.
- lowest — situated, placed, or occurring not far above the ground, floor, or base: a low shelf.
- lowish — situated, placed, or occurring not far above the ground, floor, or base: a low shelf.
- mawson — Sir Douglas, 1882–1958, Australian antarctic explorer, born in England.
- miaows — Plural form of miaow.
- moscow — a former federal union of 15 constituent republics, in E Europe and W and N Asia, comprising the larger part of the former Russian Empire: dissolved in December 1991. 8,650,069 sq. mi. (22,402,200 sq. km). Capital: Moscow. Abbreviation: U.S.S.R., USSR.
- mowers — Plural form of mower.
- nowels — Plural form of nowel.
- nowise — noway.
- onslow — George, 1784–1853, French composer.
- oshawa — a city in SE Ontario, in S Canada, NE of Toronto, on Lake Ontario.
- oswald — Lee Harvey, 1939–63, designated by a presidential commission to be the lone assassin of John F. Kennedy.
- oswego — a town in NW Oregon.
- owelsh — Old Welsh
- owlish — resembling or characteristic of an owl: His thick glasses give him an owlish appearance.
- ownest — of, relating to, or belonging to oneself or itself (usually used after a possessive to emphasize the idea of ownership, interest, or relation conveyed by the possessive): He spent only his own money.
- owosso — a city in central Michigan.
- powers — ability to do or act; capability of doing or accomplishing something.
- reshow — to show again
- restow — Nautical. to put (cargo, provisions, etc.) in the places intended for them. to put (sails, spars, gear, etc.) in the proper place or condition when not in use.
- sadowa — a village in NE Bohemia, in the W Czech Republic: Prussian victory over Austrians 1866.
- sallow — of a sickly, yellowish or lightish brown color: sallow cheeks; a sallow complexion.
- sawlog — a log large enough to be suitable for sawing or making into lumber
- scowed — any of various vessels having a flat-bottomed rectangular hull with sloping ends, built in various sizes with or without means of propulsion, as barges, punts, rowboats, or sailboats.
- shadow — a dark figure or image cast on the ground or some surface by a body intercepting light.
- showed — to cause or allow to be seen; exhibit; display.
- shower — a person or thing that shows.
- slowly — in a slow manner; at a slow speed: Sauté the peppers slowly. I drove slowly back home.
- snowed — Meteorology. a precipitation in the form of ice crystals, mainly of intricately branched, hexagonal form and often agglomerated into snowflakes, formed directly from the freezing of the water vapor in the air. Compare ice crystals, snow grains, snow pellets.
- sorrow — distress caused by loss, affliction, disappointment, etc.; grief, sadness, or regret.
- sowcar — a Hindu banker.
- sowens — porridge made from oat bran or husks that have been soaked in water, slightly fermented, and then boiled.
- soweto — a group of townships in NE South Africa, SW of and administered by Johannesburg: constructed in the 1950s and early 1960s to provide housing and services for black Africans. 26 sq. mi. (67 sq. km).
- sowing — to scatter (seed) over land, earth, etc., for growth; plant.
- stow's — a city in NE Ohio.
- stowed — Nautical. to put (cargo, provisions, etc.) in the places intended for them. to put (sails, spars, gear, etc.) in the proper place or condition when not in use.
- stower — a person who stows
- strown — strew.
- suchow — a city in N Jiangsu province, in E China.
- sunbow — a bow or arc of prismatic colors like a rainbow, appearing in the spray of cataracts, waterfalls, fountains, etc.