7-letter words that end in w
- outflow — the act of flowing out: We need flood control to stem the river's outflow.
- outglow — (transitive) To glow brighter than.
- outgnaw — to exceed in gnawing
- outgrew — to grow too large for: to outgrow one's clothes.
- outgrow — to grow too large for: to outgrow one's clothes.
- overnew — too new
- oversaw — to direct (work or workers); supervise; manage: He was hired to oversee the construction crews.
- oversew — to sew with stitches passing successively over an edge, especially closely, so as to cover the edge or make a firm seam.
- oversow — to sow again after first sowing
- pad saw — a small compass saw with a pad.
- paltrow — Gwyneth (Kate). born 1972, US film actress; her films include Emma (1996), Sliding Doors (1998), Shakespeare in Love (1998), and Sylvia (2003)
- pickmaw — a type of gull with a black head
- pilcrow — a paragraph mark.
- pit saw — a large saw used, esp. formerly, to cut timber lengthwise and worked by two men, one standing above the log, the other in a pit below it
- pow-wow — A pow-wow is a meeting or conference of Native Americans.
- pre-law — of, relating to, or engaged in studies in preparation for the formal study of law.
- preshow — to cause or allow to be seen; exhibit; display.
- preview — an earlier or previous view.
- purview — the range of operation, authority, control, concern, etc.
- rainbow — a bow or arc of prismatic colors appearing in the heavens opposite the sun and caused by the refraction and reflection of the sun's rays in drops of rain. Compare primary rainbow, secondary rainbow.
- re-drew — 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).
- re-view — a form of theatrical entertainment in which recent events, popular fads, etc., are parodied.
- renfrew — a historic county in SW Scotland.
- ringtaw — a game of marbles in which players attempt to knock other players' marbles out of a ring
- rip-saw — a saw for cutting wood with the grain.
- rzeszow — a city in SE Poland.
- saginaw — a port in E Michigan, on the Saginaw River.
- salchow — a jump in which the skater leaps from the back inside edge of one skate, making one full rotation of the body in the air, and lands on the back outside edge of the other skate.
- sea cow — any sirenian, as the manatee or dugong.
- sea mew — sea gull
- see-saw — a recreation in which two children alternately ride up and down while seated at opposite ends of a plank balanced at the middle.
- semiraw — (of food) not fully cooked; (of materials) not fully processed; raw to some degree
- shallow — of little depth; not deep: shallow water.
- shedrow — (at a racetrack) a row or double row of horse barns with individual stalls facing a walkway.
- ski tow — Also called rope tow. a type of ski lift in which skiers are hauled up a slope while grasping a looped, endless rope driven by a motor.
- somehow — in some way not specified, apparent, or known.
- soochow — Older Spelling. Suzhou.
- sparrow — any of numerous American finches of the family Emberizinae. Compare chipping sparrow, song sparrow.
- sunglow — a diffused, hazy light seen around the sun, caused by atmospheric dust.
- sunview — A windowing system from Sun Microsystems, superseded by NeWS.
- surview — a survey (with the eyes or mind)
- swallow — to take into the stomach by drawing through the throat and esophagus with a voluntary muscular action, as food, drink, or other substances.
- taichow — a city in central Jiangsu province, in E China.
- te shaw — Anna Howard, 1847–1919, U.S. physician, reformer, and suffragist, born in England.
- the few — a small number of people considered as a class
- the law — the legal system
- the new — the new vogue
- the raw — a sensitive point
- thurlow — Edward, 1st Baron, 1731–1806, British statesman: Lord Chancellor 1778–92.
- trishaw — pedicab.