8-letter words containing w, a, t, e
- jet wash — Aeronautics. the backwash caused by a jet engine.
- katowice — a city in S Poland.
- keewatin — a district in the Northwest Territories, in N Canada. 228,160 sq. mi. (590,935 sq. km).
- knitwear — clothing made of knitted fabric.
- latewood — Wood formed in a tree relatively late in the season.
- law term — an expression or word used in law
- leadwort — any plant or shrub of the genus Plumbago, having spikes of blue, white, or red flowers.
- leftward — Also, leftwards. toward or on the left.
- low-rate — to place a low value on: a policy of low-rating most modern artists.
- mae west — Benjamin, 1738–1820, U.S. painter, in England after 1763.
- matthews — one of the four Evangelists, a customs collector from Capernaum, summoned to be one of the 12 apostles: originally called Levi. Matt. 9:9–13.
- mawmetry — idolatry
- meatware — Less common synonym for wetware.
- megawatt — a unit of power, equal to one million watts. Abbreviation: MW.
- midwater — The part of a body of water near neither the bottom nor the surface.
- new math — a unified, sequential system of teaching arithmetic and mathematics in accord with set theory so as to reveal basic concepts: used in some U.S. schools, especially in the 1960s and 1970s.
- new talk — ntalk
- newsbeat — beat (def 40b).
- newscast — a broadcast of news on radio or television.
- no sweat — Informal. (of clothes) made to be worn for exercise, sports, or other physical activity. made of the absorbent fabric used for such clothes: sweat dresses. of, for, or associated with such clothes: the sweat look in sportswear.
- no-sweat — requiring little effort; easy: a no-sweat job.
- outlawed — a lawless person or habitual criminal, especially one who is a fugitive from the law.
- outswear — to outdo in swearing.
- outwaste — to squander or use up wastefully
- outweary — to exhaust completely
- pomwater — a kind of sharp-tasting apple
- radwaste — radioactive waste.
- redwater — a disease of cattle caused by the protozoan Babesia (or Piroplasma) bovis, which destroys the red blood cells, characterized by the passage of red or blackish urine. It is transmitted by tick bites
- routeway — a track, road, waterway, etc, used as a route to somewhere
- scawtite — a hydrated carbonate and silicate of calcium, Ca7Si6(CO3)O18·2H2O
- seatwork — work that can be done by a child at his or her seat in school without supervision.
- seawater — the salt water in or from the sea.
- shawties — a person of less than average stature (sometimes used as a disparaging and offensive term of address).
- 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.
- 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
- 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.
- strewage — strewn or discarded items
- swarther — swarthy.
- swear at — use bad language towards, curse at
- sweat it — to perspire, especially freely or profusely.
- sweatbox — a sauna or other enclosure for sweating.
- sweating — the act or process of sweating
- sweetman — (in the Caribbean) a man kept by a woman
- takeaway — something taken back or away, especially an employee benefit that is eliminated or substantially reduced by the terms of a union contract.
- takedown — made or constructed so as to be easily dismantled or disassembled.
- 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.