5-letter words containing we
- sweat — to perspire, especially freely or profusely.
- swede — a native or inhabitant of Sweden.
- sweep — to move or remove (dust, dirt, etc.) with or as if with a broom, brush, or the like.
- sweer — slothful; indolent.
- sweet — having the taste or flavor characteristic of sugar, honey, etc.
- sweir — lazy
- swell — to grow in bulk, as by the absorption of moisture or the processes of growth.
- swelt — to perish
- swept — simple past tense and past participle of sweep1 .
- sweyn — known as Sweyn Forkbeard. died 1014, king of Denmark (?986–1014). He conquered England, forcing Ethelred II to flee (1013); father of Canute
- tawer — to prepare or dress (some raw material) for use or further manipulation.
- tewel — a horse's rectum
- towel — an absorbent cloth or paper for wiping and drying something wet, as one for the hands, face, or body after washing or bathing.
- tower — the fiber of flax, hemp, or jute prepared for spinning by scutching.
- tweak — to pinch and pull with a jerk and twist: to tweak someone's ear; to tweak someone's nose.
- tweed — William Marcy [mahr-see] /ˈmɑr si/ (Show IPA), ("Boss Tweed") 1823–78, U.S. politician.
- tween — contraction of between.
- tweet — a weak chirping sound, as of a young or small bird.
- twerk — to dance to hip-hop or pop music in a very sensual way typically by thrusting or shaking the buttocks and hips while in a squatting or bent-over position.
- twerp — an insignificant or despicable fellow: Her father thinks her boyfriend is just a twerp.
- unwed — to marry (another person) in a formal ceremony.
- unwet — not wet; dry as opposed to being wet
- urewe — of or relating to an early Iron Age pottery tradition of central Africa beginning in the second half of the first millennium b.c. and associated with the spread of ironworking and possibly cattle raising and the Bantu language.
- vowed — a solemn promise, pledge, or personal commitment: marriage vows; a vow of secrecy.
- vowel — Phonetics. (in English articulation) a speech sound produced without occluding, diverting, or obstructing the flow of air from the lungs (opposed to consonant). (in a syllable) the sound of greatest sonority, as i in grill. Compare consonant (def 1b). (in linguistic function) a concept empirically determined as a phonological element in structural contrast with consonant, as the (ē) of be (bē), we (wē), and yeast (yēst).
- wawes — Plural form of wawe.
- we'll — We'll is the usual spoken form of 'we shall' or 'we will'.
- we're — We're is the usual spoken form of 'we are'.
- we've — We've is the usual spoken form of 'we have', especially when 'have' is an auxiliary verb.
- weaky — (UK dialectal, Northern England, Scotland) Moist; damp; clammy.
- weald — The, a region in SE England, in Kent, Surrey, and Essex counties: once a forest area; now an agricultural region.
- weale — Alternative form of wale.
- weals — wheal.
- weans — Third-person singular simple present indicative form of wean.
- weare — Obsolete spelling of wear.
- wears — Plural form of wear.
- weary — physically or mentally exhausted by hard work, exertion, strain, etc.; fatigued; tired: weary eyes; a weary brain.
- weasy — (obsolete) Given to sensual indulgence; gluttonous.
- weave — to interlace (threads, yarns, strips, fibrous material, etc.) so as to form a fabric or material.
- webby — pertaining to, of the nature of, or resembling a web.
- weber — Ernst Heinrich [ernst hahyn-rikh] /ɛrnst ˈhaɪn rɪx/ (Show IPA), 1795–1878, German physiologist.
- wecht — (Scotland) weight.
- wedel — to engage in wedeln.
- wedge — a piece of hard material with two principal faces meeting in a sharply acute angle, for raising, holding, or splitting objects by applying a pounding or driving force, as from a hammer. Compare machine (def 3b).
- wedgy — resembling a wedge; wedgelike.
- weds. — Wednesday
- weeds — a valueless plant growing wild, especially one that grows on cultivated ground to the exclusion or injury of the desired crop.
- weedy — full of or abounding in weeds.
- weeke — Obsolete spelling of week.
- weeks — a period of seven successive days, usually understood as beginning with Sunday and ending with Saturday.