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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.
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