8-letter words containing w, e, a, r, s
- scrawled — to write or draw in a sprawling, awkward manner: He scrawled his name hastily across the blackboard.
- scrawler — a person who scrawls.
- screwage — /skroo'*j/ Like lossage but connotes that the failure is due to a designed-in misfeature rather than a simple inadequacy or a mere bug.
- seatwork — work that can be done by a child at his or her seat in school without supervision.
- seawards — Also, seawards. toward the sea: a storm moving seaward.
- seawater — the salt water in or from the sea.
- selfward — in the direction of or toward oneself: a selfward-moving gesture.
- sewerage — the removal of waste water and refuse by means of sewers.
- shadower — a dark figure or image cast on the ground or some surface by a body intercepting light.
- sherwani — a long coat closed up to the neck, worn by men in India
- sideward — directed or moving toward one side.
- ski-wear — clothes that are intended for skiing
- slipware — pottery decorated with slip.
- 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.
- 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.
- 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.
- strewage — strewn or discarded items
- swaddler — a blanket in which to swaddle a baby
- swanherd — a person who tends swans.
- swannery — a place where swans are raised.
- swarther — swarthy.
- 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.
- trewsman — a Highlander
- unawares — while not aware or conscious of a thing oneself; unknowingly or inadvertently.
- waitress — a woman who waits on tables, as in a restaurant.
- walruses — Plural form of walrus.
- waltzers — Plural form of waltzer.
- war nose — the explosive forward section of a projectile, as of a torpedo or shell; warhead.
- warblers — Plural form of warbler.
- wardress — a woman who is a warder.
- wareless — careless
- wargames — (recreation) (Not "War Games") A 1983 film about a schoolboy cracker using a wardialer to try to break into a games company's computer and accidentally connecting to a backdoor into "Whopper", a ficticious C3 computer at Norad (USAF). He then procedes to unwittingly initiate global thermonuclear warfare. Playing naughts and crosses finally teaches Whopper that the only way to win the game is never to play.
- warheads — Plural form of warhead.
- warhorse — a horse used in war; charger.
- wariness — the state or quality of being wary.
- warmness — having or giving out a moderate degree of heat, as perceived by the senses: a warm bath.
- warpwise — in a vertical direction; at right angles to the filling; lengthwise.
- wartless — Without warts.
- wastrels — Plural form of wastrel.
- wastrife — wastefulness
- watchers — Plural form of watcher.