8-letter words containing w, e, n
- facedown — with the face or the front or upper surface downward: He was lying facedown on the floor. Deal the cards facedown on the table.
- fencerow — the uncultivated land on each side of and below a fence.
- fernshaw — a thicket of ferns
- 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.
- foreknew — Simple past tense and past participle of foreknow.
- foreknow — to know beforehand.
- forewarn — to warn in advance.
- forewent — simple past tense of forego1 .
- forewind — a favourable wind
- forewing — either of the anterior and usually smaller pair of wings of an insect having four wings.
- foreworn — forworn.
- freetown — an independent republic in W Africa: member of the Commonwealth of Nations; formerly a British colony and protectorate. 27,925 sq. mi. (72,326 sq. km). Capital: Freetown.
- gershwin — George, 1898–1937, U.S. composer.
- get down — to receive or come to have possession, use, or enjoyment of: to get a birthday present; to get a pension.
- glenview — a city in NE Illinois, near Chicago.
- glenwood — a town in SW Iowa.
- gluhwein — mulled wine
- gnatwren — a small bird of the gnatcatcher family
- gnawable — Capable of being gnawed.
- greenway — any scenic trail or route set aside for travel or recreational activities.
- gun crew — the sailors and petty officers in charge of a gun on a ship.
- gunwales — Plural form of gunwale.
- gunwhale — Misspelling of gunwale.
- gunwomen — Plural form of gunwoman.
- gwinnett — Button, 1735?–77, American Revolutionary leader, born in England.
- handsewn — sewn by hand.
- handwave — [possibly from gestures characteristic of stage magicians] To gloss over a complex point; to distract a listener; to support a (possibly actually valid) point with blatantly faulty logic. If someone starts a sentence with "Clearly..." or "Obviously..." or "It is self-evident that...", it is a good bet he is about to handwave (alternatively, use of these constructions in a sarcastic tone before a paraphrase of someone else's argument suggests that it is a handwave). The theory behind this term is that if you wave your hands at the right moment, the listener may be sufficiently distracted to not notice that what you have said is wrong. Failing that, if a listener does object, you might try to dismiss the objection with a wave of your hand. The use of this word is often accompanied by gestures: both hands up, palms forward, swinging the hands in a vertical plane pivoting at the elbows and/or shoulders (depending on the magnitude of the handwave); alternatively, holding the forearms in one position while rotating the hands at the wrist to make them flutter. In context, the gestures alone can suffice as a remark; if a speaker makes an outrageously unsupported assumption, you might simply wave your hands in this way, as an accusation, far more eloquent than words could express, that his logic is faulty.
- hawknose — a nose curved like the beak of a hawk.
- headwind — a wind opposed to the course of a moving object, especially an aircraft or other vehicle (opposed to tailwind).
- hen hawk — chicken hawk (def 1).
- henslowe — Philip, died 1616, English theater manager.
- hernshaw — a heron.
- hoedowns — Plural form of hoedown.
- hometown — the town or city in which a person lives or was born, or from which a person comes.
- honewort — any plant of the genus Cryptotaenia, of the parsley family, especially C. canadensis, having clusters of small white flowers.
- honeydew — honeydew melon.
- hueytown — a town in central Alabama.
- i wonder — You can say 'I wonder' if you want to be very polite when you are asking someone to do something, or when you are asking them for their opinion or for information.
- ice wine — any white dessert wine produced from grapes that are kept on the vine until the first deep frost and typically pressed while still frozen.
- icewines — Plural form of icewine.
- in power — in authority
- indwells — Third-person singular simple present indicative form of indwell.
- inkwells — Plural form of inkwell.
- interrow — occurring or existing between rows
- interwar — occurring during a period of peace between two wars, especially between World War I and World War II.
- interweb — (often lowercase) the Internet: used jocularly when pretending to be or referring to an inexperienced Internet user, or when expressing a disdain for certain Internet content: vague recollections presented as fact on the Interweb.
- intwined — Simple past tense and past participle of intwine.
- inweaves — Third-person singular simple present indicative form of inweave.
- ironware — articles of iron, as pots, kettles, or tools; hardware.