6-letter words containing w, n
- renown — widespread and high repute; fame.
- resawn — to saw again.
- rewind — an act or instance of rewinding.
- rowena — a female given name.
- rowing — a noisy dispute or quarrel; commotion.
- runway — a way along which something runs.
- rwanda — a republic in central Africa, E of the Democratic Republic of the Congo: formerly comprising the N part of the Belgian trust territory of Ruanda-Urundi; became independent 1962. 10,169 sq. mi. (26,338 sq. km). Capital: Kigali.
- sawing — a tool or device for cutting, typically a thin blade of metal with a series of sharp teeth.
- sawney — a fool
- seawan — wampum (def 1).
- sewing — the amount of additional water necessary to float a grounded vessel.
- sinewy — having strong sinews: a sinewy back.
- snowed — Meteorology. a precipitation in the form of ice crystals, mainly of intricately branched, hexagonal form and often agglomerated into snowflakes, formed directly from the freezing of the water vapor in the air. Compare ice crystals, snow grains, snow pellets.
- sowens — porridge made from oat bran or husks that have been soaked in water, slightly fermented, and then boiled.
- sowing — to scatter (seed) over land, earth, etc., for growth; plant.
- spawny — resembling spawn
- stdwin — A windowing interface from CWI with windows, menus, modal dialogs, mouse and keyboard input, scroll bars, drawing primitives, etc that is portable between platforms. STDWIN is available for Macintosh and the X Window System.
- strewn — to let fall in separate pieces or particles over a surface; scatter or sprinkle: to strew seed in a garden bed.
- strown — strew.
- sunbow — a bow or arc of prismatic colors like a rainbow, appearing in the spray of cataracts, waterfalls, fountains, etc.
- sundew — any of several small, carnivorous bog plants of the genus Drosera, having sticky hairs that trap insects.
- swanee — Suwannee.
- swanky — elegant or ostentatious; swank.
- swanny — swanlike
- sweden — a kingdom in N Europe, in the E part of the Scandinavian Peninsula. 173,732 sq. mi. (449,964 sq. km). Capital: Stockholm.
- sweeny — atrophy of the shoulder muscles in horses.
- sweven — a vision; dream.
- swinge — to singe.
- swingy — characterized by swing; lively; swinging: swingy dance tunes.
- swoony — tending to swoon
- swound — swoon.
- taiwan — a Chinese island separated from the SE coast of China by Taiwan Strait: a possession of Japan 1895–1945; restored to China 1945; seat of the Republic of China since 1949. Capital: Taipei.
- talwin — pentazocine
- tarnow — a city in SE Poland, E of Cracow.
- tawney — Richard Henry, 1880–1962, English historian, born in Calcutta.
- thrawn — twisted; crooked; distorted.
- thrown — a past participle of throw.
- thwing — Charles Franklin, 1853–1937, U.S. educator and Congregational clergyman.
- tiswin — a fermented beverage made by the Apache Indians.
- tizwin — a fermented beverage made by the Apache Indians.
- 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.
- townly — characteristic of a town
- towson — a town in central Maryland, near Baltimore.
- tswana — a member of a numerous people of Botswana and neighboring parts of South Africa.
- twangy — having the sharp, vibrating tone of a plucked string.
- tweeny — 'tween (def 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.