6-letter words containing s, w
- crowns — Plural form of crown.
- cushaw — a variety of crookneck squash (Cucurbita moschata) similar to the pumpkin
- dawson — a town in NW Canada, in the Yukon on the Yukon River: a boom town during the Klondike gold rush (at its height in 1899). Pop: 1251 (2001)
- deskew — (transitive, computing) To rotate a scanned image to compensate for skewing.
- disown — to refuse to acknowledge as belonging or pertaining to oneself; deny the ownership of or responsibility for; repudiate; renounce: to disown one's heirs; to disown a published statement.
- dowels — Plural form of dowel.
- dowers — Plural form of dower.
- dowlas — a coarse linen or cotton cloth.
- dowsed — Simple past tense and past participle of dowse.
- dowser — Also called dowsing rod [dou-zing] /ˈdaʊ zɪŋ/ (Show IPA). divining rod.
- dowses — Plural form of dowse.
- dowset — Obsolete form of doucet.
- dowson — Ernest (Christopher) 1867–1900, English poet.
- drawls — an act or utterance of a person who drawls.
- drowns — Third-person singular simple present indicative form of drown.
- drowse — to be sleepy or half-asleep.
- drowsy — half-asleep; sleepy.
- dwarfs — Plural form of dwarf.
- dweebs — Plural form of dweeb.
- dwells — Third-person singular simple present indicative form of dwell.
- ecowas — Economic Community of West African States.
- elbows — Plural form of elbow.
- endows — Plural form of endow.
- eschew — Deliberately avoid using; abstain from.
- escrow — A bond, deed, or other document kept in the custody of a third party, taking effect only when a specified condition has been fulfilled.
- fatwas — Plural form of fatwa.
- fawkes — Guy, 1570–1606, English conspirator and leader in the Gunpowder plot of 1605: Guy Fawkes Day is observed on November 5 by the building of effigies and bonfires.
- fewest — not many but more than one: Few artists live luxuriously.
- flawns — Plural form of flawn.
- fowers — Plural form of fower.
- fowles — John (Martin). 1926–2005, British novelist. His books include The Collector (1963), The Magus (1966), The French Lieutenant's Woman (1969), and The Tree (1991)
- frowns — Plural form of frown.
- frowst — A warm, stuffy atmosphere in a room.
- frowsy — frowzy.
- gawpus — a clumsy or silly person
- gowans — Plural form of gowan.
- growls — Plural form of growl.
- growse — (UK, dialect, obsolete) To shiver; to have chills.
- hawkes — John, 1925–1998, U.S. novelist and short-story writer.
- hawser — a heavy rope for mooring or towing.
- hewers — Plural form of hewer.
- hewish — Antony, born 1924, British astronomer: discovered pulsars; Nobel Prize in Physics 1974.
- how so — in what way or manner; by what means?: How did the accident happen?
- indows — Third-person singular simple present indicative form of indow.
- inlaws — Plural form of inlaw.
- jawans — Plural form of jawan.
- jewels — a female given name.
- jewess — a term used to refer to a Jewish girl or woman.
- jewish — of, relating to, or characteristic of the Jews or Judaism: Jewish customs.
- jigsaw — Also, jig saw. an electric machine saw with a narrow blade mounted vertically in a frame, for cutting curves or other difficult lines or patterns.