8-letter words containing w, e, n
- menswear — men's wear.
- merwoman — A mermaid.
- merwomen — Plural form of merwoman.
- mindware — The mental knowledge and procedures that a person uses to solve problems or make decisions.
- mindwipe — (transitive, science fiction) To erase the memories and personality, while still leaving an intact, living brain and body. This is frequently portrayed as a form of capital punishment, which leaves an viable body into which a different personality or mind can be uploaded.
- minnewit — Peter, Minuit, Peter.
- moonwise — (nonstandard) Anticlockwise.
- nanowire — A nanoscale rod made of semiconducting material, used in miniature transistors and some laser applications.
- narrowed — Simple past tense and past participle of narrow.
- narrower — of little breadth or width; not broad or wide; not as wide as usual or expected: a narrow path.
- neckdown — An angled narrowing of the roadway and widening of the pavement, used as a traffic calming measure.
- neckwear — articles of dress worn round or at the neck.
- neckweed — a type of flowering weed (Veronica peregrine) native to North America
- networks — Plural form of network.
- new ager — a believer in New Age
- new bern — a city in E North Carolina.
- new chum — a recent British immigrant
- new city — a city in SE New York.
- new deal — the principles of the progressive wing of the Democratic Party, especially those advocated under the leadership of President Franklin D. Roosevelt for economic recovery and social reforms.
- new face — Someone who is new in a particular public role can be referred to as a new face.
- new hope — a town in SE Minnesota, near Minneapolis.
- new left — (sometimes lowercase) a radical leftist political movement active especially during the 1960s and 1970s, composed largely of college students and young intellectuals whose goals included racial equality, de-escalation of the arms race, nonintervention in foreign affairs, and other major changes in the political, economic, social, and educational systems.
- new life — fresh start, reinvented existence
- new look — a new or changed appearance, approach, etc., especially one characterized by marked departure from the previous or traditional one.
- 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 moon — the moon either when in conjunction with the sun or soon after, being either invisible or visible only as a slender crescent.
- new talk — ntalk
- new town — (sometimes initial capital letters) a comprehensively planned, self-sufficient urban community that provides housing, educational, recreational, and commercial facilities and often serves to absorb residents from a nearby overcrowded metropolis.
- new wave — a movement, trend, or vogue, as in art, literature, or politics, that breaks with traditional concepts, values, techniques, or the like.
- new wool — wool that is being processed or woven for the first time
- new year — New Year's Day.
- new york — Also called New York State. a state in the NE United States. 49,576 sq. mi. (128,400 sq. km). Capital: Albany. Abbreviation: NY (for use with zip code), N.Y.
- new-mint — to mint or coin afresh.
- new-mown — recently mown or cut: the refreshing smell of new-mown hay.
- new-rich — newly or suddenly wealthy.
- newborns — A recently born child or animal.
- newburgh — a city in SE New York, on the Hudson.
- newcombe — John (David). born 1944, Australian tennis player; winner of seven Grand Slam singles titles (1967–75), including three at Wimbledon (1967, 1970, 1971)
- newcomen — Thomas, 1663–1729, English inventor.
- newcomer — a person or thing that has recently arrived; new arrival: She is a newcomer to our city. The firm is a newcomer in the field of advertising.
- newfound — newly found or discovered: newfound friends.
- newhaven — a seaport in S Connecticut, on Long Island Sound.
- newhouse — Samuel I(rving) 1895–1979, U.S. publisher.
- newlands — John Alexander. 1838–98, British chemist: classified the elements in order of their atomic weight, noticing similarities in every eighth and thus discovering his law of octaves
- newlines — Plural form of newline.
- newlywed — a person who has recently married.
- news peg — a news story that forms the basis of or justification for a feature story, editorial, political cartoon, or the like.
- newsbeat — beat (def 40b).
- newsboys — Plural form of newsboy.
- newscast — a broadcast of news on radio or television.