6-letter words containing s, w
- swivet — a state of nervous excitement, haste, or anxiety; flutter: I was in such a swivet that I could hardly speak.
- swoony — tending to swoon
- swoopy — tending to swoop
- swoosh — to move with or make a rustling, swirling, or brushing sound.
- swotty — given to studying hard, esp to the exclusion of other activities
- swound — swoon.
- tihwas — Dihua.
- tiswas — a state of anxiety, confusion or excitement
- tiswin — a fermented beverage made by the Apache Indians.
- townes — Charles Hard, 1915–2015, U.S. physicist and educator: Nobel Prize in physics 1964.
- towser — a big dog.
- towson — a town in central Maryland, near Baltimore.
- tswana — a member of a numerous people of Botswana and neighboring parts of South Africa.
- tweeds — clothes made of tweed, esp a suit
- twisty — (especially of a road) twisting or winding: a twisty little path through the woods.
- unsawn — not cut with a saw
- unsewn — to remove or rip the stitches of (something sewed).
- unsown — a past participle of sow1 .
- unstow — to remove (tools, utensils, equipment, etc.) from stowage, especially in preparation for use.
- unwise — not wise; foolish; imprudent; lacking in good sense or judgment: an unwise choice; an unwise man.
- unwish — to cease to wish for.
- unwist — unknown
- upsway — to swing upwards in the air
- usward — toward us.
- vowels — Phonetics. (in English articulation) a speech sound produced without occluding, diverting, or obstructing the flow of air from the lungs (opposed to consonant). (in a syllable) the sound of greatest sonority, as i in grill. Compare consonant (def 1b). (in linguistic function) a concept empirically determined as a phonological element in structural contrast with consonant, as the (ē) of be (bē), we (wē), and yeast (yēst).
- vowess — a woman who has vowed chastity or devotion to a religious life; a nun
- wabash — a river flowing from W Ohio through Indiana, along part of the boundary between Indiana and Illinois, into the Ohio River. 475 miles (765 km) long.
- wackos — Plural form of wacko.
- waders — a person or thing that wades.
- wadset — to pledge or mortgage
- wafers — Plural form of wafer.
- wagers — Plural form of wager.
- wagons — Plural form of wagon.
- wahoos — Plural form of wahoo.
- wais-r — 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.
- waists — Plural form of waist.
- waives — Plural form of waive.
- wakens — Third-person singular simple present indicative form of waken.
- walays — Sir William, Wallace, Sir William.
- waldos — Plural form of waldo.
- walers — Plural form of waler.
- walesa — Lech [lek] /lɛk/ (Show IPA), born 1943, Polish labor leader: a leader of Solidarity 1980; president 1990–96; Nobel Peace Prize 1983.
- wallas — Plural form of walla.
- wallis — Harold Brent [brent] /brɛnt/ (Show IPA), ("Hal") 1899–1986, U.S. film producer.
- walras — (Marie Esprit) Léon [ma-ree e-spree ley-awn] /maˈri ɛˈspri leɪˈɔ̃/ (Show IPA), 1834–1910, French economist.
- walrus — a large marine mammal, Odobenus nosmarus, of arctic seas, related to the seals, and having flippers, a pair of large tusks, and a tough, wrinkled skin.
- wammus — wamus (def 2).
- wampus — a strange or objectionable person; lout.
- warsaw — a republic in E central Europe, on the Baltic Sea. About 121,000 sq. mi. (313,400 sq. km). Capital: Warsaw.
- warsle — wrestle