8-letter words containing s, w
- crawlies — Fear, anxiety.
- crenshaw — a hybrid variety of melon with yellow skin and pale pink flesh
- crewless — with no crew
- crossbow — A crossbow is a weapon consisting of a small, powerful bow that is fixed across a piece of wood, and aimed like a gun.
- crossway — a junction
- crowbars — Plural form of crowbar.
- crowners — Plural form of crowner.
- crownets — Plural form of crownet.
- crowstep — corbiestep.
- 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.
- dawdlers — Plural form of dawdler.
- dawnings — Plural form of dawning.
- dec wars — A 1983 Usenet posting by Alan Hastings and Steve Tarr spoofing the "Star Wars" movies in hackish terms. Some years later, ESR (disappointed by Hastings and Tarr's failure to exploit a great premise more thoroughly) posted a 3-times-longer complete rewrite called "Unix WARS"; the two are often confused.
- desqview — A system from Quarterdeck Office Systems implementing multitasking under MS-DOS.
- dewclaws — Plural form of dewclaw.
- dewdrops — a drop of dew.
- dewiness — The state or quality of being dewy.
- dewsbury — a town in N England, in Kirklees unitary authority, West Yorkshire: formerly a centre of the woollen industry. Pop: 54 341 (2001)
- disallow — to refuse to allow; reject; veto: to disallow a claim for compensation.
- disavows — Third-person singular simple present indicative form of disavow.
- disbowel — (rare) To disembowel.
- discrown — to deprive of a crown; dethrone; depose.
- disendow — to deprive (a church, school, etc.) of endowment.
- dishware — dishes used for food; tableware.
- disowned — Simple past tense and past participle of disown.
- dog show — a competitive event in which dogs are exhibited and judged by an established standard or set of ideals prescribed for each breed.
- dogwoods — Plural form of dogwood.
- doorways — Plural form of doorway.
- dowagers — Plural form of dowager.
- dowdiest — Superlative form of dowdy.
- dowdyish — Like a dowdy; frumpy.
- dowdyism — the quality of being dowdy
- dowfness — the quality or characteristic of being dowf
- downcast — directed downward, as the eyes.
- downiest — Superlative form of downy.
- downless — the soft, first plumage of many young birds.
- downmost — in the lowest position
- downrush — (intransitive) To rush down; rush downward.
- downside — the lower side or part.
- downsize — company: make redundancies
- downspin — spin (def 19).
- downstep — An downward shift of tone between the syllables or words of a tonal language.
- downwash — a deflection of air downward relative to an airfoil that causes the deflection.
- dowsabel — sweetheart.
- drawbars — Plural form of drawbar.
- drawings — Plural form of drawing.