6-letter words containing w
- beware — If you tell someone to beware of a person or thing, you are warning them that the person or thing may harm them or be dangerous.
- beweep — to grieve for by weeping
- bewept — to weep over (something): to beweep one's foolish mistakes.
- bewick — Thomas. 1753–1828, English wood engraver; his best-known works are Chillingham Bull (1789), a large woodcut, Aesop's Fables (1818), and his History of British Birds (1797–1804)
- beworm — to fill or infest with worms
- bewrap — to wrap up; to conceal
- bewray — to divulge; reveal; betray
- bigwig — If you refer to an important person as a bigwig, you are being rather disrespectful.
- billow — When something made of cloth billows, it swells out and moves slowly in the wind.
- blewit — an edible pale-bluish mushroom, Tricholoma personatum.
- blowby — in an internal-combustion engine, the escape of unburned gases past the piston rings into the crankcase
- blowed — a simple past tense and past participle of blow2 .
- blower — The blower is the telephone.
- blowie — a blowfly
- blowse — a brash, red-faced woman
- blowsy — (esp of a woman) untidy in appearance; slovenly or sluttish
- blowup — an explosion
- blowzy — fat, ruddy, and coarse-looking
- bobwig — a type of wig with the hair styled in a bob
- borrow — If you borrow something that belongs to someone else, you take it or use it for a period of time, usually with their permission.
- botwar — (chat) The epic struggle of bots vying for dominance. Botwars are generally (and quite inappropriately) carried out on talk systems, typically IRC, where botwar crossfire (such as pingflooding) absorbs scarce server resources and obstructs human conversation. The wisdom of experience indicates that Core Wars, not talk systems, are the appropriate venue for aggressive bots and their botmasters. Compare penis war.
- bowell — Sir Mackenzie, 1823–1917, Canadian statesman, born in England: prime minister 1894–96.
- bowels — innards; entrails
- bowers — a musician, as a violinist, who performs with a bow on a stringed instrument.
- bowery — a farm or plantation of an early Dutch settler of New York
- bowfin — a primitive North American freshwater bony fish, Amia calva, with an elongated body and a very long dorsal fin: family Amiidae
- bowing — the technique of using the bow in playing a violin, viola, cello, or related instrument
- bowleg — a leg that curves outwards
- bowler — The bowler in a sport such as cricket is the player who is bowling the ball.
- bowles — Paul. 1910–99, US novelist, short-story writer, and composer, living in Tangiers. His novels include The Sheltering Sky (1949) and The Spider's House (1955)
- bowman — an archer
- bowpot — a large vase or pot for cut flowers or small branches.
- bowsaw — a saw with a thin blade in a bow-shaped frame
- bowser — a tanker containing fuel for aircraft, military vehicles, etc
- bowsie — a low-class mean or obstreperous person
- bowtel — boltel (def 1).
- bowtie — a small necktie tied in a bow at the collar.
- bowwow — the bark of a dog, or a sound in imitation of it
- bowyer — a person who makes or sells archery bows
- brawly — fine or fine-looking; excellent.
- brawns — strong, well-developed muscles.
- brawny — Someone who is brawny is strong and has big muscles.
- brewed — to make (beer, ale, etc.) by steeping, boiling, and fermenting malt and hops.
- brewer — Brewers are people or companies who make beer.
- brewis — bread soaked in broth, gravy, etc
- browed — having a brow of a specified kind (usually used in combination): a shaggy-browed brute.
- browne — Coral (Edith). 1913–91, Australian actress: married to Vincent Price
- browny — a dark tertiary color with a yellowish or reddish hue.
- browse — If you browse in a shop, you look at things in a fairly casual way, in the hope that you might find something you like.
- browst — a brewing (of ale, tea, etc)