4-letter words containing w, i
- biwa — Lake, the largest lake in Japan, on Honshu, near Kyoto. 260 sq. mi. (673 sq. km).
- cwic — Compiler for Writing and Implementing Compilers. Val Schorre. One of the early metacompilers. Compare Meta-II.
- dewi — Saint, David, Saint.
- 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.
- fwiw — For what it's worth.
- ibew — International Brotherhood of Electrical Workers
- icws — International Core War Society.
- iiwi — a Hawaiian honeycreeper, Vestiaria coccinea, having a red body, black wings, and a deeply curved pinkish-red bill.
- ijaw — Ijo.
- ilwu — International Longshoremen's and Warehousemen's Union
- iowa — a state in the central United States: a part of the Midwest. 56,290 sq. mi. (145,790 sq. km). Capital: Des Moines. Abbreviation: IA (approved esp. for use with zip code), Ia., Io.
- iwan — a vaulted portal opening onto a courtyard: used often in Iranian mosque architecture.
- iway — information superhighway
- iwis — certainly.
- kiwi — any of several flightless, ratite birds of the genus Apteryx, of New Zealand, allied to the extinct moas.
- kwic — keyword in context
- kwik — Nonstandard spelling of quick.
- lisw — licensed independent social worker
- lwei — a monetary unit of Angola, the 100th part of a kwanza.
- nfwi — National Federation of Women's Institutes
- swig — an amount of liquid, especially liquor, taken in one swallow; draught: He took a swig from the flask.
- swim — to move in water by movements of the limbs, fins, tail, etc.
- swiz — a swindle or disappointment; swizzle
- tiwa — a member of a cluster of pueblo-dwelling North American Indian peoples of New Mexico.
- twig — style; fashion.
- twin — either of two children or animals brought forth at a birth.
- twit — to taunt, tease, ridicule, etc., with reference to anything embarrassing; gibe at. Synonyms: jeer at, mock, insult, deride.
- view — an instance of seeing or beholding; visual inspection.
- vliw — Very Long Instruction Word
- wabi — Windows Application Binary Interface
- wadi — the channel of a watercourse that is dry except during periods of rainfall.
- waid — (obsolete) Oppressed with weight; crushed; weighed down.
- waie — Obsolete spelling of way.
- waif — a person, especially a child, who has no home or friends.
- wail — to utter a prolonged, inarticulate, mournful cry, usually high-pitched or clear-sounding, as in grief or suffering: to wail with pain.
- wain — (initial capital letter) Astronomy. Charles's Wain.
- wair — A plank 6 feet long and 1 foot across.
- wais — Wide Area Information Servers
- wait — to remain inactive or in a state of repose, as until something expected happens (often followed by for, till, or until): to wait for the bus to arrive.
- wali — The governor of a province in an Arab country.
- wari — (games) a board game of the mancala family.
- wcis — Wyoming County International Speedway
- wciw — World Championship Internet Wrestling
- wdis — Who Do I Start?
- weid — a sudden illness
- weil — André, 1906–98, U.S. mathematician, born in France: brother of Simone Weil.
- weir — a small dam in a river or stream.
- wgig — War Game Inventors Guild
- whid — to move quickly and quietly.
- whig — to move along briskly.
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