8-letter words containing w, e, s, m
- wargames — (recreation) (Not "War Games") A 1983 film about a schoolboy cracker using a wardialer to try to break into a games company's computer and accidentally connecting to a backdoor into "Whopper", a ficticious C3 computer at Norad (USAF). He then procedes to unwittingly initiate global thermonuclear warfare. Playing naughts and crosses finally teaches Whopper that the only way to win the game is never to play.
- warmness — having or giving out a moderate degree of heat, as perceived by the senses: a warm bath.
- wealsman — a statesman
- webworms — Plural form of webworm.
- wegotism — (colloquial, dated) Excessive use of the pronoun 'we'.
- weismann — August [ou-goo st] /ˈaʊ gʊst/ (Show IPA), 1834–1914, German biologist.
- welcomes — a kindly greeting or reception, as to one whose arrival gives pleasure: to give someone a warm welcome.
- weldmesh — a type of metal fencing consisting of wire mesh reinforced by welding
- welshman — a native or inhabitant of Wales.
- west ham — a former borough, now part of Newham, in SE England, near London.
- westmont — a town in NE Illinois.
- westmost — westernmost.
- whammies — Plural form of whammy.
- whimpers — Plural form of whimper.
- whimsies — Plural form of whimsy.
- wimpiest — of, relating to, or characteristic of a wimp.
- wisedome — Obsolete spelling of wisdom.
- womanise — Non-Oxford British standard spelling of womanize.
- woodsmen — Plural form of woodsman.
- woomeras — Plural form of woomera.
- worksome — hard-working, industrious
- wormseed — the dried, unexpanded flower heads of a wormwood, Artemisia cina (Levant wormseed) or the fruit of certain goosefoots, especially Chenopodium anthelminticum (or C. ambrosioides), the Mexican tea or American wormseed, used as an anthelmintic drug.
- yawnsome — dull and boring; tiresome