8-letter words containing w, e, t, n
- new city — a city in SE New York.
- 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 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 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-mint — to mint or coin afresh.
- newsbeat — beat (def 40b).
- newscast — a broadcast of news on radio or television.
- no sweat — Informal. (of clothes) made to be worn for exercise, sports, or other physical activity. made of the absorbent fabric used for such clothes: sweat dresses. of, for, or associated with such clothes: the sweat look in sportswear.
- no-sweat — requiring little effort; easy: a no-sweat job.
- nonsweet — Not having a sweet taste.
- nonwhite — a sociocultural classification of modern humans with darker pigmentation of the skin than is characteristic in people of European descent.
- note row — tone row.
- now then — used to preface an important remark, the next step in an argument, etc
- nyetwork — notwork
- set down — to put (something or someone) in a particular place: to set a vase on a table.
- snowbelt — a region of annual or heavy snowfall.
- snowmelt — water from snow that is melting or has melted.
- 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
- sweating — the act or process of sweating
- sweet on — fond of or infatuated with
- sweeting — a sweet variety of apple.
- sweetman — (in the Caribbean) a man kept by a woman
- takedown — made or constructed so as to be easily dismantled or disassembled.
- tarwhine — a bream, Rhabdosargus sarba, of E Australia, silver in colour with gold streaks
- tea gown — a semiformal gown of fine material, especially one styled with soft, flowing lines, worn for afternoon social occasions.
- teardown — a taking apart; disassembly.
- tentwise — in the manner of a tent
- the news — current affairs reporting
- the swan — the constellation Cygnus
- the wain — Charles's Wain
- tie down — that with which anything is tied.
- tie-down — a device for tying something down.
- timeworn — worn or impaired by time.
- tone row — a series of tones in which no tone is duplicated, and in which the tones generally recur in fixed sequence, with variations in rhythm and pitch, throughout a composition.
- toweling — an absorbent cloth or paper for wiping and drying something wet, as one for the hands, face, or body after washing or bathing.
- towering — very high or tall; lofty: a towering oak.
- towerman — Railroads. a person who works in a switch tower and, by means of a signal box, directs the movement of trains.
- townhome — town house (def 3).
- townsend — Francis Everett, 1867–1960, U.S. physician and proposer of the Townsend plan.
- townwear — tailored, usually conservative clothing appropriate for business or other activities in a town or city.
- towplane — an aeroplane that tows gliders
- treelawn — a narrow band of grass between a road and a pavement, usually planted with trees
- trewsman — a Highlander
- twangler — a person who twangles
- tweaking — to pinch and pull with a jerk and twist: to tweak someone's ear; to tweak someone's nose.
- tweenage — (of a child) between about eight and fourteen years old
- tweeting — a weak chirping sound, as of a young or small bird.