5-letter words containing w, e
- sware — simple past tense of swear.
- swave — a transverse earthquake wave that travels through the interior of the earth and is usually the second conspicuous wave to reach a seismograph.
- sweal — the guttering of a candle
- swear — to make a solemn declaration or affirmation by some sacred being or object, as a deity or the Bible.
- sweat — to perspire, especially freely or profusely.
- swede — a native or inhabitant of Sweden.
- sweep — to move or remove (dust, dirt, etc.) with or as if with a broom, brush, or the like.
- sweer — slothful; indolent.
- sweet — having the taste or flavor characteristic of sugar, honey, etc.
- sweir — lazy
- swell — to grow in bulk, as by the absorption of moisture or the processes of growth.
- swelt — to perish
- swept — simple past tense and past participle of sweep1 .
- sweyn — known as Sweyn Forkbeard. died 1014, king of Denmark (?986–1014). He conquered England, forcing Ethelred II to flee (1013); father of Canute
- swine — any stout, cloven-hoofed artiodactyl of the Old World family Suidae, having a thick hide sparsely covered with coarse hair, a disklike snout, and an often short, tasseled tail: now of worldwide distribution and hunted or raised for its meat and other products. Compare hog, pig1 , wild boar.
- swipe — a strong, sweeping blow, as with a cricket bat or golf club.
- swire — a neck, or depression, between two hills
- swive — to copulate with.
- swore — a simple past tense of swear.
- tawer — to prepare or dress (some raw material) for use or further manipulation.
- tawie — docile; easy to manage.
- tawse — a leather strap having one end cut into thongs, formerly used as an instrument of punishment by a schoolteacher
- tebow — to express religious faith, gratitude, reverence, or awe, usually in public, by dropping to one knee, head resting on one's fist: People now expect her to Tebow whenever she wins a race. At his first sight of the Grand Canyon, he shocked us all by tebowing right at the edge.
- tewel — a horse's rectum
- tewit — a lapwing
- theow — a slave in Anglo-Saxon Britain
- thews — Usually, thews. muscle or sinew.
- thewy — Usually, thews. muscle or sinew.
- threw — a simple past tense of throw.
- towel — an absorbent cloth or paper for wiping and drying something wet, as one for the hands, face, or body after washing or bathing.
- tower — the fiber of flax, hemp, or jute prepared for spinning by scutching.
- towie — a form of contract bridge for three players in which the players bid for the dummy hand after six of its cards have been turned up.
- trews — close-fitting tartan trousers, worn especially by certain Scottish regiments.
- tweak — to pinch and pull with a jerk and twist: to tweak someone's ear; to tweak someone's nose.
- tweed — William Marcy [mahr-see] /ˈmɑr si/ (Show IPA), ("Boss Tweed") 1823–78, U.S. politician.
- tween — contraction of between.
- tweet — a weak chirping sound, as of a young or small bird.
- twerk — to dance to hip-hop or pop music in a very sensual way typically by thrusting or shaking the buttocks and hips while in a squatting or bent-over position.
- twerp — an insignificant or despicable fellow: Her father thinks her boyfriend is just a twerp.
- twice — two times, as in succession: Write twice a week.
- twine — a strong thread or string composed of two or more strands twisted together.
- twire — to look at (someone or something) intently or with difficulty
- twite — a small finch, Carduelis flavirostris, of northern Europe, having streaked brown plumage and, in the male, a pink breast.
- twoer — something consisting of or worth two
- unmew — to set free (something mewed up); release, as from confinement.
- unsew — to remove or rip the stitches of (something sewed).
- unwed — to marry (another person) in a formal ceremony.
- unwet — not wet; dry as opposed to being wet
- urewe — of or relating to an early Iron Age pottery tradition of central Africa beginning in the second half of the first millennium b.c. and associated with the spread of ironworking and possibly cattle raising and the Bantu language.
- views — A Smalltalk extension for computer algebra. "An Object Oriented Approach to Algebra System Design", K. Abdali et al, in Symp Symb Alg Manip, ACM 1986, pp.24-30.