5-letter words containing n, w
- prawn — any of various shrimplike decapod crustaceans of the genera Palaemon, Penaeus, etc., certain of which are used as food.
- pwned — Slang. to totally defeat or dominate, especially in a video or computer game: You just got pwned! I pwned those guys in the end.
- rawin — a method of observation of upper-air winds conducted by means of a weather balloon tracked by radar or a radio direction finder.
- renew — to begin or take up again, as an acquaintance, a conversation, etc.; resume.
- rewin — to win back or again.
- rewon — to win back or again.
- rnwmp — Royal Northwest Mounted Police: a former name for the Royal Canadian Mounted Police
- rowan — the European mountain ash, Sorbus aucuparia, having pinnate leaves and clusters of bright red berries.
- rowen — Chiefly Northern U.S. the second crop of grass or hay in a season; aftermath.
- sanwu — South African National Workers Union
- sewan — wampum (def 1).
- shawn — Ted (Edwin M) 1891–1972, U.S. dancer and choreographer (husband of Ruth St. Denis).
- shown — a past participle of show.
- sinew — a tendon.
- snowy — abounding in or covered with snow: snowy fields.
- sownd — to wield
- spawn — Zoology. the mass of eggs deposited by fishes, amphibians, mollusks, crustaceans, etc.
- suwon — a city in NW South Korea, S of Seoul.
- swain — a male admirer or lover.
- swang — simple past tense of swing1 .
- swank — dashing smartness, as in dress or appearance; style.
- sweyn — known as Sweyn Forkbeard. died 1014, king of Denmark (?986–1014). He conquered England, forcing Ethelred II to flee (1013); father of Canute
- swine — any stout, cloven-hoofed artiodactyl of the Old World family Suidae, having a thick hide sparsely covered with coarse hair, a disklike snout, and an often short, tasseled tail: now of worldwide distribution and hunted or raised for its meat and other products. Compare hog, pig1 , wild boar.
- swing — to play (music) in the style of swing.
- swink — to toil or drudge
- swoln — swollen.
- swonk — a simple past tense of swink.
- swoon — to faint; lose consciousness.
- sworn — past participle of swear.
- swung — simple past tense and past participle of swing1 .
- tawny — of a dark yellowish or dull yellowish-brown color.
- towny — townie.
- twain — Mark, pen name of Samuel Langhorne Clemens.
- twang — to give out a sharp, vibrating sound, as the string of a musical instrument when plucked.
- twank — to make a sharply curtailed twang
- tween — contraction of between.
- twine — a strong thread or string composed of two or more strands twisted together.
- twink — white correction fluid for deleting written text
- twins — either of two children or animals brought forth at a birth.
- twiny — of or resembling twine
- unlaw — to fine (someone) a sum of money
- unmew — to set free (something mewed up); release, as from confinement.
- unrwa — United Nations Relief and Works Agency
- unsew — to remove or rip the stitches of (something sewed).
- unwed — to marry (another person) in a formal ceremony.
- unwet — not wet; dry as opposed to being wet
- unwit — Obsolete. to render devoid of wit; derange.
- unwon — not won
- vinew — to become mouldy
- wagon — any of various kinds of four-wheeled vehicles designed to be pulled or having its own motor and ranging from a child's toy to a commercial vehicle for the transport of heavy loads, delivery, etc.