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8-letter words containing w, a, r

  • soapwort — a plant, Saponaria officinalis, of the pink family, whose leaves are used for cleansing.
  • soaraway — If you describe something as a soaraway success, you mean that its success has suddenly increased.
  • software — Computers. the programs used to direct the operation of a computer, as well as documentation giving instructions on how to use them. Compare hardware (def 5).
  • sowarree — an Indian mounted escort
  • sowbread — any of several species of cyclamen, especially Cyclamen hederifolium, a low-growing Old World plant having mottled leaves and pink or white flowers.
  • spacewar — (games)   A space-combat simulation game for the PDP-1 written in 1960-61 by Steve Russell, an employee at MIT. SPACEWAR was inspired by E. E. "Doc" Smith's "Lensman" books, in which two spaceships duel around a central sun, shooting torpedoes at each other and jumping through hyperspace. MIT were wondering what to do with a new vector video display so Steve wrote the world's first video game. Steve now lives in California and still writes software for HC12 emulators. SPACEWAR aficionados formed the core of the early hacker culture at MIT. Nine years later, a descendant of the game motivated Ken Thompson to build, in his spare time on a scavenged PDP-7, the operating system that became Unix. Less than nine years after that, SPACEWAR was commercialised as one of the first video games; descendants are still feeping in video arcades everywhere.
  • spanworm — measuringworm.
  • sprawled — to be stretched or spread out in an unnatural or ungraceful manner: The puppy's legs sprawled in all directions.
  • spunware — objects formed by spinning.
  • squawker — to utter a loud, harsh cry, as a duck or other fowl when frightened.
  • stairway — a passageway from one level, as of a building, to another by a series of stairs; staircase.
  • stalwart — strongly and stoutly built; sturdy and robust.
  • starwort — any of several chickweeds of the genus Stellaria.
  • stemware — glass or crystal vessels, especially for beverages and desserts, having rounded bowls mounted on footed stems.
  • sternway — Nautical. the movement of a vessel backward, or stern foremost.
  • strawhat — of or relating to a summer theater situated outside an urban or metropolitan area: strawhat theater; strawhat circuit.
  • strawman — a mass of straw formed to resemble a man, as for a doll or scarecrow.
  • strawson — Sir Peter (Frederick). 1919–2006, British philosopher. His early work deals with the relationship between language and logic, his later work with metaphysics. His books include The Bounds of Sense (1966) and Freedom and Resentment (1974)
  • strewage — strewn or discarded items
  • subdwarf — a star which is smaller than a dwarf star
  • sunwards — Also, sunwards. toward the sun.
  • swaddler — a blanket in which to swaddle a baby
  • swanherd — a person who tends swans.
  • swanndri — an all-weather heavy woollen shirt
  • swannery — a place where swans are raised.
  • swarther — swarthy.
  • sway bar — stabilizer bar.
  • swear at — use bad language towards, curse at
  • swear by — to make a solemn declaration or affirmation by some sacred being or object, as a deity or the Bible.
  • swear in — to make a solemn declaration or affirmation by some sacred being or object, as a deity or the Bible.
  • swimwear — clothing designed to be worn for swimming or at a beach.
  • swingarm — the main part of the rear suspension on a motorcycle
  • swordman — swordsman.
  • tamworth — a city in E Australia.
  • tapeworm — any of various flat or tapelike worms of the class Cestoidea, lacking an alimentary canal, and parasitic when adult in the alimentary canal of humans and other vertebrates: the larval and adult stages are usually in different hosts.
  • tarwhine — a bream, Rhabdosargus sarba, of E Australia, silver in colour with gold streaks
  • taskwork — work assigned or imposed as a task.
  • teamwork — cooperative or coordinated effort on the part of a group of persons acting together as a team or in the interests of a common cause.
  • tearaway — designed to be easily separated or opened by tearing: a box with a tearaway seal.
  • teardown — a taking apart; disassembly.
  • terawatt — a unit of power equal to one million megawatts
  • thraward — contrary, stubborn or obstinate
  • thrawart — obstinate or intractable.
  • thrawing — British Dialect. to throw.
  • thrawnly — in a thrawn, contrary or perverse manner
  • thwartly — sideways or crosswise
  • toleware — articles made of tole.
  • towardly — apt to learn; promising.
  • towerman — Railroads. a person who works in a switch tower and, by means of a signal box, directs the movement of trains.
  • town car — an automobile having an enclosed rear seat separated by a glass partition from the open driver's seat.
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