8-letter words containing w, e, i
- desqview — A system from Quarterdeck Office Systems implementing multitasking under MS-DOS.
- dew line — distant early warning line, a network of radar stations situated mainly in Arctic regions to give early warning of aircraft or missile attack on North America
- dewikify — (Wiktionary and WMF jargon) To remove wiki markup formatting, such as internal links.
- dewiness — The state or quality of being dewy.
- dewpoint — temperature at which water vapour in the air becomes saturated and water droplets begin to form
- die away — If a sound dies away, it gradually becomes weaker or fainter and finally disappears completely.
- die down — If something dies down, it becomes very much quieter or less intense.
- dillweed — the leaves of the dill plant, especially when used dried and as a food flavoring.
- diredawa — a city in E Ethiopia.
- disbowel — (rare) To disembowel.
- disendow — to deprive (a church, school, etc.) of endowment.
- dishware — dishes used for food; tableware.
- disowned — Simple past tense and past participle of disown.
- dowdiest — Superlative form of dowdy.
- doweling — Also called dowel pin. Carpentry. a pin, usually round, fitting into holes in two adjacent pieces to prevent their slipping or to align them.
- dowering — Present participle of dower.
- downiest — Superlative form of downy.
- downlike — having the quality or characteristics of feathers or down
- downline — Alternative spelling of down line.
- downpipe — downspout.
- downside — the lower side or part.
- downsize — company: make redundancies
- downtime — a time during a regular working period when an employee is not actively productive.
- driveway — a road, especially a private one, leading from a street or other thoroughfare to a building, house, garage, etc.
- dropwise — in the form of a drop
- drowsier — Comparative form of drowsy.
- dry wine — wine that is not sweet
- dweebish — Dweeby.
- dwelling — Machinery. a flat or cylindrical area on a cam for maintaining a follower in a certain position during part of a cycle. a period in a cycle in the operation of a machine or engine during which a given part remains motionless.
- dwindled — Simple past tense and past participle of dwindle.
- dwindles — Third-person singular simple present indicative form of dwindle.
- earwiggy — having an infestation or a swarm of earwigs
- earywigs — Plural form of earywig.
- edgewise — with the edge forward; in the direction of the edge.
- edward i — ("Edward Longshanks") 1239–1307, king of England 1272–1307 (son of Henry III).
- eggwhisk — A kitchen utensil made of multiple loops of wire used to beat eggs.
- elbowing — Present participle of elbow.
- elsewise — (now rare) Otherwise.
- endowing — Present participle of endow.
- eniwetok — an atoll in the W Pacific Ocean, in the NW Marshall Islands: taken by the US from Japan in 1944; became a naval base and later a testing ground for atomic weapons. Pop: 820 (1999 est)
- entwined — Wind or twist together; interweave.
- entwines — Third-person singular simple present indicative form of entwine.
- erewhile — A while before ; some time ago.
- fairview — a town in NE New Jersey.
- farmwife — the wife of a farmer
- fesswise — (of a charge on a coat of arms) oriented horizontally
- fewtrils — trifles; things of little value
- fidonews — (messaging, history) The weekly official on-line newsletter of FidoNet, also known as "'Snooz". As the editorial policy of Fidonews was "anything that arrives, we print", there were often large articles completely unrelated to FidoNet, which in turn tend to elicit flamage in subsequent issues.
- finedraw — (transitive) To sew up so finely that the seam is not visible; to renter.
- firewalk — An instance of firewalking.