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8-letter words containing s, w, u

  • aquashow — an exhibition of swimming and diving, often accompanied by music
  • ats&gwtu — All Trinidad Sugar and General Workers Trade Union
  • awfulest — Superlative form of awful.
  • bushwalk — to hike through bushland
  • busywork — Busywork is work that is intended to keep someone occupied and is not completely necessary.
  • buzz saw — a power-operated circular saw
  • buzz-saw — a power-operated circular saw, so named because of the noise it makes.
  • causeway — A causeway is a raised path or road that crosses water or wet land.
  • cowhouse — a shelter for cows; a byre or cowshed
  • cpu wars — /C-P-U worz/ A 1979 large-format comic by Chas Andres chronicling the attempts of the brainwashed androids of IPM (Impossible to Program Machines) to conquer and destroy the peaceful denizens of HEC (Human Engineered Computers). This rather transparent allegory featured many references to ADVENT and the immortal line "Eat flaming death, minicomputer mongrels!" (uttered, of course, by an IPM stormtrooper). It is alleged that the author subsequently received a letter of appreciation on IBM company stationery from the head of IBM's Thomas J. Watson Research Laboratories (then, as now, one of the few islands of true hackerdom in the IBM archipelago). The lower loop of the B in the IBM logo, it is said, had been carefully whited out. See eat flaming death.
  • cudweeds — Plural form of cudweed.
  • curassow — any gallinaceous ground-nesting bird of the family Cracidae, of S North, Central, and South America. Curassows have long legs and tails and, typically, a distinctive crest of curled feathers
  • cussword — a swearword
  • cutaways — Plural form of cutaway.
  • cutworms — Plural form of cutworm.
  • dewsbury — a town in N England, in Kirklees unitary authority, West Yorkshire: formerly a centre of the woollen industry. Pop: 54 341 (2001)
  • downrush — (intransitive) To rush down; rush downward.
  • dumbshow — Gestures used to convey a meaning or message without speech; mime.
  • dustbowl — An area which abounds in dust and which is very dry.
  • forswunk — overworked
  • fud wars — /fuhd worz/ Political posturing, intended to create FUD, engaged in by hardware and software vendors ostensibly committed to standardisation but actually willing to fragment the market to protect their own shares. The Unix International vs. OSF conflict is but one outstanding example.
  • fujisawa — a city on E Honshu, in Japan, S of Tokyo.
  • grownups — a mature, fully grown person; adult.
  • grub saw — a handsaw for cutting stone.
  • gun laws — laws relating to the possession and use of guns
  • gunwales — Plural form of gunwale.
  • hounslow — a borough of Greater London, England.
  • just now — a moment ago
  • kurosawa — Akira [ah-kee-rah] /ɑˈki rɑ/ (Show IPA), 1910–1998, Japanese film director.
  • lawsuits — Plural form of lawsuit.
  • lugworms — Plural form of lugworm.
  • lustwort — The sundew.
  • mud wasp — any of several wasps, as the mud dauber, that construct a nest of mud.
  • mugwumps — Plural form of mugwump.
  • newhouse — Samuel I(rving) 1895–1979, U.S. publisher.
  • oldsquaw — A marine diving duck that breeds in Arctic Eurasia and North America, the male having very long tail feathers and mainly white plumage in winter.
  • out-swim — to move in water by movements of the limbs, fins, tail, etc.
  • outflows — Plural form of outflow.
  • outgrows — Third-person singular simple present indicative form of outgrow.
  • outswear — to outdo in swearing.
  • outsweep — an outward movement of arms in swimming breaststroke
  • outswell — to exceed in swelling
  • outswept — curving outwards
  • outswims — Third-person singular simple present indicative form of outswim.
  • outswing — (cricket) The swing of the ball through the air, in a direction away from the batsman.
  • outswung — made to curve outwards
  • outwards — proceeding or directed toward the outside or exterior, or away from a central point: the outward flow of gold; the outward part of a voyage.
  • outwaste — to squander or use up wastefully
  • outworks — Plural form of outwork.
  • outwrest — to pull out or get possession of forcibly; extort

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