8-letter words containing s, w
- 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
- overawes — Third-person singular simple present indicative form of overawe.
- overslow — too slow
- oversway — to overrule
- overswim — to swim across
- overwash — the act of washing over something
- overwise — excessively or unusually wise: overwise for a child of her age.
- owlishly — resembling or characteristic of an owl: His thick glasses give him an owlish appearance.
- pairwise — two identical, similar, or corresponding things that are matched for use together: a pair of gloves; a pair of earrings.
- palewise — by perpendicular lines
- pass law — (formerly, in South Africa) a law restricting the movement of Black Africans, esp from rural to urban areas
- passw0rd — (security) A common default password, often given out by system administrtors to new users, the hope being that they will change it immediately.
- password — a secret word or expression used by authorized persons to prove their right to access, information, etc.
- pawnshop — the shop of a pawnbroker, especially one where unredeemed items are displayed and sold.
- peepshow — a display of objects or pictures viewed through a small opening that is usually fitted with a magnifying lens.
- peesweep — an early spring storm
- peshawar — a province in Pakistan, bordering Punjab and Kashmir on the west: a former province of British India. 28,773 sq. mi. (77,516 sq. km). Capital: Peshawar.
- pigswill — slops for feeding swine
- pinswell — a small boil
- pit-sawn — (of timber, esp formerly) sawn into planks by hand in a saw-pit
- post-war — following a major conflict
- postshow — of or relating to the period after a show, occurring after a show
- powerset — (mathematics) The powerset of a set S is the set of possible subsets of S, usually written PS.
- prowfish — a fish, Zaprora silenus, of the North Pacific.
- pushdown — a list in which the last item added is at the top
- put wise — having the power of discerning and judging properly as to what is true or right; possessing discernment, judgment, or discretion.
- qawwalis — Plural form of qawwali.
- raceways — Plural form of raceway.
- rack saw — a wide-toothed saw
- radwaste — radioactive waste.
- rainbows — the Rainbow Guides, the youngest group of girls (aged 5-7 years) in The Guide Association
- rainwash — material eroded or swept away by rain.
- raw silk — reeled silk that has not had the sericin removed.
- rawlings — Marjorie Kinnan [ki-nan] /kɪˈnæn/ (Show IPA), 1896–1953, U.S. novelist and journalist.
- rawmaish — foolish or exaggerated talk; nonsense
- red snow — snow that has acquired a red color either from airborne particles of red dust or from a type of alga that contains a red pigment.
- reshower — to shower again
- rickshaw — jinrikisha.
- rift saw — a saw used for cutting wood radially from a log.
- rijswijk — a town in SW Netherlands, near The Hague: Treaty of Ryswick 1697.
- ringwise — (of a boxer) used to being in a boxing ring and able to respond appropriately
- roadshow — travelling entertainment
- robstown — a city in S Texas.
- rosebowl — a decorative bowl for displaying roses
- rosewall — Ken(neth R.) born 1934, Australian tennis player.
- rosewood — any of various reddish cabinet woods, sometimes with a roselike odor, yielded by certain tropical trees, especially belonging to the genus Dalbergia, of the legume family.
- roswitha — Hrotsvitha.