8-letter words containing w, e, n
- pre-dawn — the period immediately preceding dawn.
- predrawn — to cause to move in a particular direction by or as if by a pulling force; pull; drag (often followed by along, away, in, out, or off).
- preowned — previously owned; used; secondhand: a sale of preowned furs.
- rainwear — waterproof or water-repellent clothing.
- rawboned — having little flesh, especially on a large-boned frame; gaunt.
- re-endow — to endow again
- reawaken — rouse or arouse again
- red snow — snow that has acquired a red color either from airborne particles of red dust or from a type of alga that contains a red pigment.
- red wine — wine having a predominantly red color derived from the skin pigment in the red or other dark-colored grapes used in making it.
- red wing — (Tantangamini) c1750–c1825, Sioux leader.
- renowned — celebrated; famous.
- renowner — a renown giver; someone who makes another person famous or renowned
- rewinded — an act or instance of rewinding.
- rewiring — the action or process of installing new electrical wiring
- ringwise — (of a boxer) used to being in a boxing ring and able to respond appropriately
- roweling — a small wheel with radiating points, forming the extremity of a spur.
- sandwell — a unitary authority in central England, in West Midlands. Pop: 285 000 (2003 est). Area: 86 sq km (33 sq miles)
- sawbones — a surgeon or physician.
- say when — to state when an action is to be stopped or begun, as when someone is pouring a drink
- schwaben — German name of Swabia.
- schwerin — a state in NE Germany. 8842 sq. mi. (22,900 sq. km). Capital: Schwerin.
- screw-in — fitting in by being twisted
- screw-on — attached, connected, or closed by screwing onto another part of a container or receptacle.
- seawoman — a woman sailor or a woman who works on a ship or in the navy
- set down — to put (something or someone) in a particular place: to set a vase on a table.
- shawnees — a member of an Algonquian-speaking tribe formerly in the east-central U.S., now in Oklahoma.
- sherwani — a long coat closed up to the neck, worn by men in India
- sidewind — to move like a sidewinder.
- skewness — asymmetry in a frequency distribution.
- slowness — moving or proceeding with little or less than usual speed or velocity: a slow train.
- snow ice — opaque ice formed from partly melted snow or ice; frozen slush.
- snow pea — a variety of the common pea, Pisum sativum macrocarpon, having thin, flat, edible pods that are used in cookery.
- snowbell — a small tree belonging to the genus Styrax, of the storax family, having simple, alternate leaves and showy white bell-shaped flowers.
- snowbelt — a region of annual or heavy snowfall.
- snowdome — a leisure centre with facilities for skiing, skating, etc
- snowline — limit of permanent snow
- snowmelt — water from snow that is melting or has melted.
- snowshed — a structure, as over an extent of railroad track on a mountainside, for protection against snow.
- snowshoe — a contrivance that may be attached to the foot to enable the wearer to walk on deep snow without sinking, especially a light, racket-shaped frame across which is stretched a network of rawhide.
- somewhen — sometime.
- span-new — brand-new.
- spanghew — to throw into the air
- spunware — objects formed by spinning.
- steinway — Henry Engelhard [eng-guh l-hahrd,, -hahrt] /ˈɛŋ gəlˌhɑrd,, -ˌhɑrt/ (Show IPA), (Heinrich Engelhard Steinweg) 1797–1871, U.S. piano manufacturer, born in Germany.
- sternway — Nautical. the movement of a vessel backward, or stern foremost.
- stewpond — a fishpond, often located in the garden of a monastery
- suwannee — a river in SE Georgia and N Florida, flowing SW to the Gulf of Mexico. 240 miles (386 km) long.
- swamphen — any of several large Old World gallinules varying from purple to white, all possibly belonging to the single species Porphyrio porphyrio.
- swanherd — a person who tends swans.
- swannery — a place where swans are raised.