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6-letter words containing w, e

  • swiler — (in Newfoundland) a seal hunter
  • swinge — to singe.
  • swiper — a person who deals a swipe
  • swipes — a strong, sweeping blow, as with a cricket bat or golf club.
  • swipey — drunk
  • swiple — the part of a flail that strikes the grain in threshing
  • swivel — a fastening device that allows the thing fastened to turn around freely upon it, especially to turn in a full circle.
  • swivet — a state of nervous excitement, haste, or anxiety; flutter: I was in such a swivet that I could hardly speak.
  • tawery — a place where the tawing of skins is carried out
  • tawney — Richard Henry, 1880–1962, English historian, born in Calcutta.
  • tawpie — a foolish or thoughtless young person.
  • tawtie — matted; tangled
  • thawed — to pass or change from a frozen to a liquid or semiliquid state; melt.
  • thewed — having muscles or thews
  • towage — the act of towing.
  • towery — having towers: a towery city.
  • towhee — any of several long-tailed North American finches of the genera Pipilo and Chlorura.
  • towner — a thickly populated area, usually smaller than a city and larger than a village, having fixed boundaries and certain local powers of government.
  • townes — Charles Hard, 1915–2015, U.S. physicist and educator: Nobel Prize in physics 1964.
  • townie — a resident of a town, especially a nonstudent resident of a college town.
  • towser — a big dog.
  • trowel — any of various tools having a flat blade with a handle, used for depositing and working mortar, plaster, etc.
  • twaite — herring-like food fish
  • tweeds — clothes made of tweed, esp a suit
  • tweedy — made of or resembling tweed, as in texture, appearance, or the like.
  • tweeny — 'tween (def 2).
  • tweeze — to pluck, as with tweezers.
  • twelve — a cardinal number, 10 plus 2.
  • twenex — (operating system)   /twe'neks/ The TOPS-20 operating system by DEC - the second proprietary OS for the PDP-10 - preferred by most PDP-10 hackers over TOPS-10 (that is, by those who were not ITS or WAITS partisans). TOPS-20 began in 1969 as Bolt, Beranek & Newman's TENEX operating system using special paging hardware. By the early 1970s, almost all of the systems on the ARPANET ran TENEX. DEC purchased the rights to TENEX from BBN and began work to make it their own. The first in-house code name for the operating system was VIROS (VIRtual memory Operating System); when customers started asking questions, the name was changed to SNARK so DEC could truthfully deny that there was any project called VIROS. When the name SNARK became known, the name was briefly reversed to become KRANS; this was quickly abandoned when someone objected that "krans" meant "funeral wreath" in Swedish (though some Swedish speakers have since said it means simply "wreath"; this part of the story may be apocryphal). Ultimately DEC picked TOPS-20 as the name of the operating system, and it was as TOPS-20 that it was marketed. The hacker community, mindful of its origins, quickly dubbed it TWENEX (a contraction of "twenty TENEX"), even though by this point very little of the original TENEX code remained (analogously to the differences between AT&T V6 Unix and BSD). DEC people cringed when they heard "TWENEX", but the term caught on nevertheless (the written abbreviation "20x" was also used). TWENEX was successful and very popular; in fact, there was a period in the early 1980s when it commanded as fervent a culture of partisans as Unix or ITS - but DEC's decision to scrap all the internal rivals to the VAX architecture and its relatively stodgy VMS OS killed the DEC-20 and put a sad end to TWENEX's brief day in the sun. DEC attempted to convince TOPS-20 users to convert to VMS, but instead, by the late 1980s, most of the TOPS-20 hackers had migrated to Unix.
  • twenty — a cardinal number, 10 times 2.
  • twicer — Slang. a two-time loser.
  • twined — a strong thread or string composed of two or more strands twisted together.
  • twiner — a strong thread or string composed of two or more strands twisted together.
  • twinge — a sudden, sharp pain: On damp days, he's often bothered by a twinge of rheumatism.
  • twofer — a card or ticket entitling the holder to purchase two tickets to a theatrical performance at a reduced price.
  • umwelt — the environmental factors, collectively, that are capable of affecting the behaviour of an animal or individual
  • unawed — not awed or daunted
  • unclew — to unfurl (a sail) from the yardarm
  • unhewn — felled and roughly shaped by hewing: hewn logs.
  • unsewn — to remove or rip the stitches of (something sewed).
  • unware — unwary or incautious; careless
  • unweal — sadness or sorrow
  • unwell — not well; ailing; ill.
  • unwept — not wept for; unmourned: an unwept loss.
  • unwire — to remove wiring from
  • unwise — not wise; foolish; imprudent; lacking in good sense or judgment: an unwise choice; an unwise man.
  • unwive — to deprive or remove of a wife
  • upwell — to well up, as water from a spring.
  • viewed — an instance of seeing or beholding; visual inspection.
  • viewer — a person or thing that views.
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