6-letter words containing s, w
- sawing — a tool or device for cutting, typically a thin blade of metal with a series of sharp teeth.
- sawlog — a log large enough to be suitable for sawing or making into lumber
- sawney — a fool
- sawyer — a person who saws wood, especially as an occupation.
- schwag — low-quality marijuana.
- schwyz — a canton in central Switzerland, bordering on the Lake of Lucerne. 350 sq. mi. (900 sq. km).
- 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.
- scrawl — to write or draw in a sprawling, awkward manner: He scrawled his name hastily across the blackboard.
- scrawm — to scratch
- scrawp — to scratch (the skin) to relieve itching
- screws — a metal fastener having a tapered shank with a helical thread, and topped with a slotted head, driven into wood or the like by rotating, especially by means of a screwdriver.
- screwy — crazy; nutty: I think you're screwy, refusing an invitation to the governor's dinner.
- seawan — wampum (def 1).
- seaway — a way over the sea.
- seesaw — a recreation in which two children alternately ride up and down while seated at opposite ends of a plank balanced at the middle.
- segway — a two-wheeled self-balancing electric vehicle, ridden while standing up
- sew up — to join or attach by stitches.
- sewage — the waste matter that passes through sewers.
- sewall — Samuel, 1652–1730, American jurist, born in England.
- seward — William Henry, 1801–72, U.S. statesman: secretary of state 1861–69.
- sewell — Anna, 1820–78, English author.
- sewing — the amount of additional water necessary to float a grounded vessel.
- shadow — a dark figure or image cast on the ground or some surface by a body intercepting light.
- shawty — a person of less than average stature (sometimes used as a disparaging and offensive term of address).
- showed — to cause or allow to be seen; exhibit; display.
- shower — a person or thing that shows.
- shrewd — astute or sharp in practical matters: a shrewd politician.
- sinewy — having strong sinews: a sinewy back.
- sittwe — a seaport in W Burma (Myanmar).
- siwash — a conventional designation for any small, provincial college or for such colleges collectively (often preceded by old): students from old Siwash.
- skewed — to turn aside or swerve; take an oblique course.
- skewer — an oblique movement, direction, or position.
- skyway — air lane.
- slewed — simple past tense of slay.
- 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.
- spawny — resembling spawn
- spewer — to discharge the contents of the stomach through the mouth; vomit.
- sprawl — to be stretched or spread out in an unnatural or ungraceful manner: The puppy's legs sprawled in all directions.
- squawk — to utter a loud, harsh cry, as a duck or other fowl when frightened.
- stdwin — A windowing interface from CWI with windows, menus, modal dialogs, mouse and keyboard input, scroll bars, drawing primitives, etc that is portable between platforms. STDWIN is available for Macintosh and the X Window System.
- stewed — cooked by simmering or slow boiling, as food.
- stewer — a person who worries, ponders, or thinks about something a great deal
- 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.