Words Ending -WISE

7- and 8-letter words ending with the suffix -WISE with definitions

23 total entries across 2 section(s)

7-Letter Words Ending with -WISE (8 entries)

FRONTWORDBACKDEFINITION
PAIRWISE[a.] · skillful in aviation
ANYWISE[b.] · in any way / ----- { anyway anyways anywise }
BITWISE[a.] · denoting an operator in a computer program that deals with bits
BENDWISE[b.] · lengthwise «© in the direction of the length; in a longitudinal direction» / ----- { endwise § endways endwise }
FANWISE[a.] · spread out like an open fan
MANWISE[b.] · in a manner characteristic of man
SUNWISE[b.] · from left to right
TAXWISE[a.] · pertaining to taxes

8-Letter Words Ending with -WISE (15 entries)

FRONTWORDBACKDEFINITION
BENDWISE[b.] · diagonally «© in a diagonal direction» / ----- { bendways bendwise }
CRABWISE[b.] · sideways «toward or from one side»
EDGEWISE[b.] · sideways «toward or from one side» / ----- { edgeways § edgeways edgewise § edgeways edgewise }
FESSWISE[b.] · horizontally «© in a horizontal direction or position; on a level; as, moving horizontally»
FLATWISE[b.] · with the flat side in a particular position / ----- { flatways flatwise }
LIKEWISE[b.] · in a similar manner
LONGWISE[b.] · lengthwise «© in the direction of the length; in a longitudinal direction» / ----- { longways § longways longwise }
OVERWISE[a.] · too wise
PAIRWISE[b.] · in sets of two
PALEWISE[b.] · vertically «© in a vertical manner, position, or direction; perpendicularly; as, to look down vertically; to raise a thing vertically» / ----- { palewise § paleways palewise }
SIDEWISE[b.] · sideways «toward or from one side» / ----- { sideway § sideways § sideward sidewards sideway sideways § sideward sidewards sideway sideways sidewise }
SOMEWISE[b.] · somehow «by some means» / ----- { somehow someway someways somewise }
STEPWISE[a.] · marked by a gradual progression
WARPWISE[b.] · in a vertical direction
WEFTWISE[b.] · in a horizontal direction

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