5-letter words containing w, e
- dowel — a piece of wood driven into a hole drilled in a masonry wall to receive nails, as for fastening woodwork.
- dower — Law. the portion of a deceased husband's real property allowed to his widow for her lifetime.
- dowie — dull; melancholy; dismal.
- dowle — Feathery or woolly down; filament of a feather.
- dowse — to plunge or be plunged into a liquid.
- drawe — Obsolete spelling of draw.
- dwale — Deadly nightshade or belladonna.
- dweeb — Slang. nerd; wimp.
- dwell — to live or stay as a permanent resident; reside.
- dwelt — a simple past tense and past participle of dwell.
- dwile — a cloth, rag, or mop used for various cleaning purposes around the house
- dwine — (archaic except in Scotland and dialects) To wither, decline, pine away.
- edwin — MIT Scheme
- elbow — The joint between the forearm and the upper arm.
- embow — (obsolete) To bend like a bow; to curve.
- emmew — (obsolete) To mew or coop up.
- endow — Give or bequeath an income or property to (a person or institution).
- ennew — (obsolete) To make new.
- erwin — a masculine name: var. Irwin
- ewart — Gavin (Buchanan). 1916–95, British poet, noted for his light satirical verse
- ewell — ˈRichard Stoddert (ˈstɑdərt ) ; städˈərt) 1817-72; Confederate general in the Civil War
- ewers — Plural form of ewer.
- ewery — (historical, UK) An office or place of household service where the ewers were kept.
- ewhow — an expression of regret or pity
- fewer — not many but more than one: Few artists live luxuriously.
- flews — a fishing net.
- fower — (Early Modern English, dated) One who cleans (fows), as in cooking utensils or house maintenance.
- fowey — a resort and fishing village in SW England, in Cornwall, linked administratively with St Austell from 1968 to 1974. Pop: 2064 (2001)
- fowle — Obsolete spelling of fowl.
- fweep — (WPI) One step below a gweep, a person who uses the system solely to play games and use electronic mail. Compare dweeb, twink, terminal junkie, tourist, weenie.
- gawed — Simple past tense and past participle of gaw.
- gower — John, 1325?–1408, English poet.
- growe — Archaic spelling of grow.
- gweep — /gweep/ To hack, usually at night, or one who does so. At WPI, from 1977 onward, gweeps could often be found at the College Computing Center punching cards or crashing the PDP-10 or, later, the DEC-20. The term has survived the demise of those technologies, however, and is still alive in late 1991. "I'm going to go gweep for a while. See you in the morning." "I gweep from 8 PM till 3 AM during the week." "Gweep" originated as an onomatopeiac term, evoking the sound of the (once-ubiquitous) Hazeltine 9000 terminals' bell on WPI campus. A gweep is one step above a fweep.
- gwent — a county in S Wales. 531 sq. mi. (1376 sq. km).
- gweru — a city in central Zimbabwe.
- gwine — present part. of go1 .
- hawed — to utter a sound representing a hesitation or pause in speech.
- hawke — Robert (James Lee) born 1929, Australian political leader: prime minister 1983–91.
- hawse — the part of a bow where the hawseholes are located.
- hewed — to strike forcibly with an ax, sword, or other cutting instrument; chop; hack.
- hewer — to strike forcibly with an ax, sword, or other cutting instrument; chop; hack.
- hewgh — a sound made to imitate the flight of an arrow
- howel — a channel cut along the inside edge of a barrel stave to receive the barrelhead.
- hower — a hole.
- howes — Plural form of howe.
- immew — Alternative form of emmew.
- inews — (messaging, application) A Unix program for posting Usenet news articles, written by Rich $alz <[email protected]> for InterNetNews. inews reads an article (perhaps with headers) from a file or standard, adds some headers and possibly a signature, and, if the article passes some consistency checks (too much quoting, non-existent newsgroup) then inews sends the article to the local news server for distribution. If an unapproved posting is made to a moderated newsgroup, inews will try to send the article to the moderator (specified in a configuration file) by electronic mail. Version: 1.25, dated 1993/03/18.
- innew — Alternative form of ennew.
- jawed — having a jaw or jaws, especially of a specified kind (often used in combination): heavy-jawed; square-jawed.