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6-letter words containing w, e, n

  • sweeny — atrophy of the shoulder muscles in horses.
  • sweven — a vision; dream.
  • swinge — to singe.
  • tawney — Richard Henry, 1880–1962, English historian, born in Calcutta.
  • towner — a thickly populated area, usually smaller than a city and larger than a village, having fixed boundaries and certain local powers of government.
  • townes — Charles Hard, 1915–2015, U.S. physicist and educator: Nobel Prize in physics 1964.
  • townie — a resident of a town, especially a nonstudent resident of a college town.
  • tweeny — 'tween (def 2).
  • twenex — (operating system)   /twe'neks/ The TOPS-20 operating system by DEC - the second proprietary OS for the PDP-10 - preferred by most PDP-10 hackers over TOPS-10 (that is, by those who were not ITS or WAITS partisans). TOPS-20 began in 1969 as Bolt, Beranek & Newman's TENEX operating system using special paging hardware. By the early 1970s, almost all of the systems on the ARPANET ran TENEX. DEC purchased the rights to TENEX from BBN and began work to make it their own. The first in-house code name for the operating system was VIROS (VIRtual memory Operating System); when customers started asking questions, the name was changed to SNARK so DEC could truthfully deny that there was any project called VIROS. When the name SNARK became known, the name was briefly reversed to become KRANS; this was quickly abandoned when someone objected that "krans" meant "funeral wreath" in Swedish (though some Swedish speakers have since said it means simply "wreath"; this part of the story may be apocryphal). Ultimately DEC picked TOPS-20 as the name of the operating system, and it was as TOPS-20 that it was marketed. The hacker community, mindful of its origins, quickly dubbed it TWENEX (a contraction of "twenty TENEX"), even though by this point very little of the original TENEX code remained (analogously to the differences between AT&T V6 Unix and BSD). DEC people cringed when they heard "TWENEX", but the term caught on nevertheless (the written abbreviation "20x" was also used). TWENEX was successful and very popular; in fact, there was a period in the early 1980s when it commanded as fervent a culture of partisans as Unix or ITS - but DEC's decision to scrap all the internal rivals to the VAX architecture and its relatively stodgy VMS OS killed the DEC-20 and put a sad end to TWENEX's brief day in the sun. DEC attempted to convince TOPS-20 users to convert to VMS, but instead, by the late 1980s, most of the TOPS-20 hackers had migrated to Unix.
  • twenty — a cardinal number, 10 times 2.
  • twined — a strong thread or string composed of two or more strands twisted together.
  • twiner — a strong thread or string composed of two or more strands twisted together.
  • twinge — a sudden, sharp pain: On damp days, he's often bothered by a twinge of rheumatism.
  • unawed — not awed or daunted
  • unclew — to unfurl (a sail) from the yardarm
  • unhewn — felled and roughly shaped by hewing: hewn logs.
  • unsewn — to remove or rip the stitches of (something sewed).
  • unware — unwary or incautious; careless
  • unweal — sadness or sorrow
  • unwell — not well; ailing; ill.
  • unwept — not wept for; unmourned: an unwept loss.
  • unwire — to remove wiring from
  • unwise — not wise; foolish; imprudent; lacking in good sense or judgment: an unwise choice; an unwise man.
  • unwive — to deprive or remove of a wife
  • wagner — Honus [hoh-nuh s] /ˈhoʊ nəs/ (Show IPA), (John Peter) 1874–1955, U.S. baseball player.
  • wahine — (in Hawaii and Polynesia) a girl or young woman.
  • wakane — a type of seaweed
  • wakens — Third-person singular simple present indicative form of waken.
  • walden — a town in SE Ontario, in S Canada.
  • wander — to ramble without a definite purpose or objective; roam, rove, or stray: to wander over the earth.
  • wandle — supple or limber
  • wanged — Simple past tense and past participle of wang.
  • wanger — (obsolete) A rest or cushion for the cheek; a pillow.
  • wangle — to bring about, accomplish, or obtain by scheming or underhand methods: to wangle an invitation.
  • wanier — Also, waney. waning; decreasing; diminished in part.
  • wankel — Felix [fee-liks;; German fey-liks] /ˈfi lɪks;; German ˈfeɪ lɪks/ (Show IPA), 1902–88, German engineer: inventor of rotary engine.
  • wanker — a contemptible person; jerk.
  • wankle — wobbly or insecure
  • wanned — of an unnatural or sickly pallor; pallid; lacking color: His wan face suddenly flushed.
  • wanner — Comparative form of wan.
  • wanted — to feel a need or a desire for; wish for: to want one's dinner; always wanting something new.
  • wanter — One who wants, or who wants something.
  • warden — any of several pears having a crisp, firm flesh, used in cookery.
  • warine — (zoology) A South American monkey, one of the sapajous.
  • warned — Simple past tense and past participle of warn.
  • warner — Charles Dudley [duhd-lee] /ˈdʌd li/ (Show IPA), 1829–1900, U.S. editor and essayist.
  • warren — Earl, 1891–1974, U.S. lawyer and political leader: chief justice of the U.S. 1953–69.
  • weaken — to make weak or weaker.
  • weakon — a subatomic particle
  • weaned — Simple past tense and past participle of wean.
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