4-letter words containing w, e
- newe — Archaic spelling of new.
- newf — Newfie (def 1).
- newp — NEW Programming language
- news — netnews
- newt — any of several brilliantly colored salamanders of the family Salamandridae, especially those of the genera Triturus and Notophthalmus, of North America, Europe, and northern Asia.
- owed — to be under obligation to pay or repay: to owe money to the bank; to owe the bank interest on a mortgage.
- owen — Sir Richard, 1804–92, English zoologist and anatomist.
- owse — ox.
- phew — expressing relief
- plew — a beaver skin, especially one of prime quality.
- rowe — Nicholas, 1674–1718, British poet and dramatist, poet laureate 1715–18.
- sewn — a past participle of sew1 .
- shew — show
- skew — to turn aside or swerve; take an oblique course.
- slew — simple past tense of slay.
- smew — a Eurasian duck, Mergus albellus, closely akin to mergansers: the male is white marked with black and gray.
- spew — to discharge the contents of the stomach through the mouth; vomit.
- stew — to cook (food) by simmering or slow boiling.
- swed — Sweden
- tewa — a member of a cluster of pueblo-dwelling North American Indian peoples of New Mexico and Arizona.
- thew — Usually, thews. muscle or sinew.
- twee — affectedly dainty or quaint: twee writing about furry little creatures.
- view — an instance of seeing or beholding; visual inspection.
- wace — Robert [rob-ert;; French raw-ber] /ˈrɒb ərt;; French rɔˈbɛr/ (Show IPA), ("Wace of Jersey") c1100–c1180, Anglo-Norman poet born on the Channel Island of Jersey.
- wade — to walk in water, when partially immersed: He wasn't swimming, he was wading.
- waes — woe.
- wafe — (programming) (From Widget Athena front end) A package by Gustaf Neumann <[email protected]> implementing a symbolic interface to the Athena widgets and OSF/Motif. A typical Wafe application consists of two parts: a front-end (Wafe) and an application program which runs as a separate process. The distribution contains sample application programs in Perl, GAWK, Prolog, TCL, C, and Ada talking to the same Wafe binary. The current Wafe version is 1.0.15. It supports Athena as distributed with X releases 4-6 and Motif versions 1.1, 1.2, and 2.0 but new distribution are only tested against X releases 5 and 6, and Motif versions 1.2.4 and 2.0. Mailing list: [email protected] ("subscribe Wafe
"). - wage — Often, wages. money that is paid or received for work or services, as by the hour, day, or week. Compare living wage, minimum wage.
- waie — Obsolete spelling of way.
- wake — to become roused from sleep; awake; awaken; waken (often followed by up).
- wale — something that is selected as the best; choice.
- wame — Scot. and North England. belly.
- wane — to decrease in strength, intensity, etc.: Daylight waned, and night came on. Her enthusiasm for the cause is waning.
- ware — the first season in the year; spring.
- wase — (UK, dialect) A bundle of straw, or other material, to relieve the pressure of burdens carried upon the head.
- wave — a member of the Waves.
- wawe — (obsolete) A wave.
- waye — Obsolete spelling of weye.
- wbem — Web-Based Enterprise Management
- wcew — World Championship Extreme Wrestling
- wcte — World Curling Tour Europe
- we'd — We'd is the usual spoken form of 'we had', especially when 'had' is an auxiliary verb.
- weak — not strong; liable to yield, break, or collapse under pressure or strain; fragile; frail: a weak fortress; a weak spot in armor.
- weal — wheal.
- wean — to accustom (a child or young animal) to food other than its mother's milk; cause to lose the need to suckle or turn to the mother for food.
- wear — to carry or have on the body or about the person as a covering, equipment, ornament, or the like: to wear a coat; to wear a saber; to wear a disguise.
- weba — Womens Eastern Basketball Alliance
- webb — (Martha) Beatrice (Potter) 1858–1943, and her husband, Sidney (James), 1st Baron Passfield [pas-feeld] /ˈpæsˌfild/ (Show IPA) 1859–1947, English economists, social reformers, authors, and socialists.
- webs — Plural form of web.
- wecg — West England Cricket Group