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8-letter words containing w, a, s

  • snowball — a ball of snow pressed or rolled together, as for throwing.
  • snowbank — a mound of snow, as a snowdrift or snow shoveled from a road or sidewalk.
  • snowfall — a fall of snow.
  • snowland — an area that is covered by snow
  • snowpack — the accumulation of winter snowfall, especially in mountain or upland regions.
  • so what! — what importance does that have?
  • soakaway — a pit filled with rubble, etc, into which rain or waste water drains
  • 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.
  • soembawa — Dutch name of Sumbawa.
  • 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).
  • somewhat — in some measure or degree; to some extent: not angry, just somewhat disturbed.
  • southpaw — a person who is left-handed.
  • 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.
  • spa town — a town where water comes out of the ground and people come to drink it or lie in it because they think it will improve their health
  • 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.
  • spaewife — a woman who foretells the future
  • span-new — brand-new.
  • spanghew — to throw into the air
  • spanworm — measuringworm.
  • spawning — Zoology. the mass of eggs deposited by fishes, amphibians, mollusks, crustaceans, etc.
  • speedway — a town in central Indiana.
  • spillway — a passageway through which surplus water escapes from a reservoir, lake, or the like.
  • 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.
  • squawked — to utter a loud, harsh cry, as a duck or other fowl when frightened.
  • squawker — to utter a loud, harsh cry, as a duck or other fowl when frightened.
  • squawman — a White or other non-American-Indian man married to a North American Indian woman
  • 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.
  • stayaway — a nonviolent strike by workers
  • steinway — Henry Engelhard [eng-guh l-hahrd,, -hahrt] /ˈɛŋ gəlˌhɑrd,, -ˌhɑrt/ (Show IPA), (Heinrich Engelhard Steinweg) 1797–1871, U.S. piano manufacturer, born in Germany.
  • 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.
  • stewable — capable of being made into a stew
  • stickjaw — a food item that is difficult to chew such as toffee
  • stowable — Nautical. to put (cargo, provisions, etc.) in the places intended for them. to put (sails, spars, gear, etc.) in the proper place or condition when not in use.
  • stowaway — a person who hides aboard a ship or airplane in order to obtain free transportation or elude pursuers.
  • 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
  • sulawesi — an island in central Indonesia. 72,986 sq. mi. (189,034 sq. km).
  • sunwards — Also, sunwards. toward the sun.
  • sus laws — laws authorizing the arrest and punishment of suspected persons frequenting, or loitering in, public places with criminal intent. In England, the sus law formed part of the Vagrancy Act of 1824, repealed in 1981
  • suwannee — a river in SE Georgia and N Florida, flowing SW to the Gulf of Mexico. 240 miles (386 km) long.
  • swaddler — a blanket in which to swaddle a baby
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