4-letter words containing w
- clow — a clove
- cowk — to retch or feel nauseated
- cowl — A cowl is a large loose hood covering a person's head, or their head and shoulders. Cowls are worn especially by monks.
- cows — Plural form of cow.
- cowy — of or resembling the nature of a cow; bovine
- cqsw — Certificate of Qualification in Social Work
- craw — the stomach of an animal
- crew — The crew of a ship, an aircraft, or a spacecraft is the people who work on and operate it.
- crow — A crow is a large black bird which makes a loud, harsh noise.
- cscw — Computer Supported Cooperative Work
- cweb — (language) An ANSI C implementation of the Web literate programming language. Version 3.1 by Levy, Knuth, and Marc van Leeuwen is writen in, and outputs, ANSI C and C++.
- cwic — Compiler for Writing and Implementing Compilers. Val Schorre. One of the early metacompilers. Compare Meta-II.
- cwms — cirque (def 1).
- dawd — a reverberating blow or punch
- dawg — Eye dialect of dog8; also 'hound dawg'.
- dawk — transportation by relays of people or horses, especially in the East Indies.
- dawn — Dawn is the time of day when light first appears in the sky, just before the sun rises.
- daws — jackdaw.
- dawt — (Scottish) To fondle or caress.
- dewi — Saint, David, Saint.
- dews — moisture condensed from the atmosphere, especially at night, and deposited in the form of small drops upon any cool surface.
- dewy — Something that is dewy is wet with dew.
- dhow — a lateen-rigged coastal Arab sailing vessel with one or two masts
- dlsw — Data Link Switching
- douw — Gerard [gey-rahrt] /ˈgeɪ rɑrt/ (Show IPA), 1613–75, Dutch painter: pupil of Rembrandt.
- dowd — (archaic) A dowdy person, especially a woman; a frump.
- dowf — dull; stupid.
- dowl — Alternative form of dowle.
- down — from higher to lower; in descending direction or order; toward, into, or in a lower position: to come down the ladder.
- dowp — Alternative form of doup.
- dows — to be able.
- dowt — a cigarette butt
- dowy — dull; melancholy; dismal.
- draw — 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).
- drew — simple past tense of draw.
- drow — (fantasy gaming) a fictional race of dark elves in various fantasy settings, such as Dungeons & Dragons.
- dukw — a type of amphibious military transport used during World War II.
- dwam — a stupor or daydream (esp in the phrase in a dwam)
- dwdm — wavelength division multiplexing
- dwem — Dead White European Male
- dwim — /dwim/ [acronym, "Do What I Mean" (not what I say)] 1. Able to guess, sometimes even correctly, the result intended when bogus input was provided. 2. The BBNLISP/INTERLISP function that attempted to accomplish this feat by correcting many of the more common errors. See hairy. 3. Occasionally, an interjection hurled at a balky computer, especially when one senses one might be tripping over legalisms (see legalese). Warren Teitelman originally wrote DWIM to fix his typos and spelling errors, so it was somewhat idiosyncratic to his style, and would often make hash of anyone else's typos if they were stylistically different. Some victims of DWIM thus claimed that the acronym stood for "Damn Warren's Infernal Machine!'. In one notorious incident, Warren added a DWIM feature to the command interpreter used at Xerox PARC. One day another hacker there typed "delete *$" to free up some disk space. (The editor there named backup files by appending "$" to the original file name, so he was trying to delete any backup files left over from old editing sessions.) It happened that there weren't any editor backup files, so DWIM helpfully reported "*$ not found, assuming you meant 'delete *'". It then started to delete all the files on the disk! The hacker managed to stop it with a Vulcan nerve pinch after only a half dozen or so files were lost. The disgruntled victim later said he had been sorely tempted to go to Warren's office, tie Warren down in his chair in front of his workstation, and then type "delete *$" twice. DWIM is often suggested in jest as a desired feature for a complex program; it is also occasionally described as the single instruction the ideal computer would have. Back when proofs of program correctness were in vogue, there were also jokes about "DWIMC" (Do What I Mean, Correctly). A related term, more often seen as a verb, is DTRT (Do The Right Thing); see Right Thing.
- enew — to force (a bird) into water
- enow — (archaic) enough.
- ewer — A large jug with a wide mouth, formerly used for carrying water for someone to wash in.
- ewes — Plural form of ewe.
- ewre — (rare) Rust; oxide.
- fawn — a young deer, especially an unweaned one.
- fewe — Archaic spelling of few.
- flaw — Also called windflaw. a sudden, usually brief windstorm or gust of wind.
- flew — a simple past tense of fly1 .