7-letter words containing w, r
- medawar — Peter Brian, 1915–87, English zoologist and anatomist, born in Brazil: Nobel Prize in medicine 1960.
- meldrew — a person, esp a middle-aged or elderly man, who is habitually peevish, pessimistic, and cynical; curmudgeon
- midword — Within a word.
- misdraw — to cause to move in a particular direction by or as if by a pulling force; pull; drag (often followed by along, away, in, out, or off).
- misgrow — (ambitransitive) To grow incorrectly or amiss.
- miswart — /mis-wort/ [By analogy with misbug] A feature that superficially appears to be a wart but has been determined to be the Right Thing. For example, in some versions of the Emacs text editor, the "transpose characters" command exchanges the character under the cursor with the one before it on the screen, *except* when the cursor is at the end of a line, in which case the two characters before the cursor are exchanged. While this behaviour is perhaps surprising, and certainly inconsistent, it has been found through extensive experimentation to be what most users want. This feature is a miswart.
- miswire — a slender, stringlike piece or filament of relatively rigid or flexible metal, usually circular in section, manufactured in a great variety of diameters and metals depending on its application.
- misword — to word incorrectly.
- morphew — A blemish or mark on the skin.
- morrows — Plural form of morrow.
- morwong — Any of various perciform fishes comprising the family Cheilodactylidae.
- mowburn — the natural process of heating and fermenting that takes place when hay or corn is piled up when it is damp or green
- ms word — Microsoft Word
- mudwort — a plant of the genus Limosella found growing in muddy areas near water
- mugwort — any of certain weedy composite plants of the genus Artemisia, especially A. vulgaris, having aromatic leaves and small, greenish flower heads.
- nagware — Computer software that is free for a trial period during which the user is frequently reminded on screen to register and pay for the program in order to continue using it when the trial period is over.
- narrows — of little breadth or width; not broad or wide; not as wide as usual or expected: a narrow path.
- narwals — Plural form of narwal.
- narwhal — a small arctic whale, Monodon monoceros, the male of which has a long, spirally twisted tusk extending forward from the upper jaw.
- nayward — the negative view
- nayword — a proverb or byword
- netware — Novell NetWare
- network — any netlike combination of filaments, lines, veins, passages, or the like: a network of arteries; a network of sewers under the city.
- newberg — a town in NW Oregon.
- newbery — John, 1713–67, English publisher.
- newborn — recently or only just born.
- newburg — (of seafood) cooked with a cream sauce containing sherry: lobster Newburg.
- newbury — a market town in West Berkshire unitary authority, S England: scene of a Parliamentarian victory (1643) and a Royalist victory (1644) during the Civil War; telecommunications, racecourse. Pop: 32 675 (2001)
- newport — a seaport in Gwent, in SE Wales, near the Severn estuary.
- nonword — a word that is not recognized or accepted as legitimate, as one produced by a spelling or typographical error.
- nonwork — exertion or effort directed to produce or accomplish something; labor; toil.
- norwalk — a city in SW California.
- norward — Archaic form of northward.
- norwich — a city in E Norfolk, in E England: cathedral.
- norwood — a town in E Massachusetts.
- notwork — (networking, humour) /not'werk/ A network that is performing badly. Said at IBM to have originally referred to a particular period of flakiness on IBM's VNET corporate network ca. 1988; but there are independent reports of the term from elsewhere. The joke sounds better in Russian, where "nyet" means "no", hence nyetwork /nyet'werk/.
- now for — People such as television presenters sometimes use now for when they are going to start talking about a different subject or presenting a new activity.
- nowhere — in or at no place; not anywhere: The missing pen was nowhere to be found.
- nym war — a dispute about the right to publish material on the internet under a fictitious name
- oarweed — any of various brown seaweeds, esp a kelp of the genus Laminaria, with long broad fronds, common below the low-water mark
- onwards — toward a point ahead or in front; forward, as in space or time.
- or what — In conversation, you say or what? after a question as a way of stating an opinion forcefully and showing that you expect other people to agree.
- oreweed — a marine algae or seaweed
- outcrow — to exceed in crowing or to crow louder than
- outdraw — to draw a gun, revolver, etc., from a holster, faster than (an opponent or competitor): She could outdraw any member of the club.
- outdrew — to draw a gun, revolver, etc., from a holster, faster than (an opponent or competitor): She could outdraw any member of the club.
- outgrew — to grow too large for: to outgrow one's clothes.
- outgrow — to grow too large for: to outgrow one's clothes.
- outward — proceeding or directed toward the outside or exterior, or away from a central point: the outward flow of gold; the outward part of a voyage.
- outwear — to wear or last longer than; outlast: a well-made product that outwears its competition.