5-Letter Words Containing: WIS

• a native or inhabitant of New Zealand

• climbing vine native to China; cultivated in New Zealand for its fuzzy edible fruit with green meat

• fuzzy brown egg-shaped fruit with slightly tart green flesh

• nocturnal flightless bird of New Zealand having a long neck and stout legs; only surviving representative of the order Apterygiformes

• a brushing or rustling sound

• elegant and fashionable

• move with or cause to move with a whistling or hissing sound

• a small tuft or lock

• a small person

• a small bundle of straw or hay

• a flock of snipe

• having or prompted by wisdom or discernment

• a way of doing or being

• United States Jewish leader (born in Hungary) (1874-1949)

• United States religious leader (born in Bohemia) who united reform Jewish organizations in the United States (1819-1900)

• marked by the exercise of good judgment or common sense in practical matters

• evidencing the possession of inside information

• improperly forward or bold

• United States rock star singer and pianist (born in 1935)

• United States athlete who won gold medals at the Olympics for his skill in sprinting and jumping (born in 1961)

• United States explorer and soldier who lead led an expedition from St. Louis to the mouth of the Columbia River (1774-1809)

• United States labor leader who was president of the United Mine Workers of America from 1920 to 1960 and president of the Congress of Industrial Organizations from 1935 to 1940 (1880-1969)

• United States novelist who satirized middle-class America in his novel Main Street (1885-1951)

• English critic and novelist; author of theological works and of books for children (1898-1963)

• an unforeseen development

• an interpretation of a text or action

• any clever maneuver

• the act of rotating rapidly

• a sharp strain on muscles or ligaments

• a sharp bend in a line produced when a line having a loop is pulled tight

• a circular segment of a curve

• a miniature whirlpool or whirlwind resulting when the current of a fluid doubles back on itself

• a jerky pulling movement

• a hairdo formed by braiding or twisting the hair

• social dancing in which couples vigorously twist their hips and arms in time to the music; was popular in the 1960s

• the act of winding or twisting

• turning or twisting around (in place)

• to move in a twisting or contorted motion, (especially when struggling)

• cause (an object) to assume a crooked or angular form

• turn in the opposite direction

• form into a spiral shape

• form into twists

• extend in curves and turns

• do the twist

• twist or pull violently or suddenly, especially so as to remove (something) from that to which it is attached or from where it originates

• practice sophistry; change the meaning of or be vague about in order to mislead or deceive

• twist suddenly so as to sprain

• of or relating to Switzerland or its people or culture

• the natives or inhabitants of Switzerland

• having or prompted by wisdom or discernment

• a way of doing or being

• United States Jewish leader (born in Hungary) (1874-1949)

• United States religious leader (born in Bohemia) who united reform Jewish organizations in the United States (1819-1900)

• marked by the exercise of good judgment or common sense in practical matters

• evidencing the possession of inside information

• improperly forward or bold