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a. - Designating, or situated in, that part of a church which is opposite to, and farthest from, the east, or the part containing the chancel and choir. ²
n. - The point in the heavens where the sun is seen to set at the equinox; or, the corresponding point on the earth; that one of the four cardinal points of the compass which is in a direction at right angles to that of north and south, and on the left hand of a person facing north; the point directly opposite to east. ²
n. - A country, or region of country, which, with regard to some other country or region, is situated in the direction toward the west. ²
n. - The Westen hemisphere, or the New World so called, it having been discovered by sailing westward from Europe; the Occident. ²
n. - Formerly, that part of the United States west of the Alleghany mountains; now, commonly, the whole region west of the Mississippi river; esp., that part which is north of the Indian Territory, New Mexico, etc. Usually with the definite article. ²
a. - Lying toward the west; situated at the west, or in a western direction from the point of observation or reckoning; proceeding toward the west, or coming from the west; as, a west course is one toward the west; an east and west line; a west wind blows from the west. ²
adv. - Westward. ²
v. i. - To pass to the west; to set, as the sun. ²
v. i. - To turn or move toward the west; to veer from the north or south toward the west. ²

The word "west" uses 4 letters: E S T W.

Direct anagrams of west:
  stew   tews   wets

Words formed by adding one letter before or after west (in bold), or to estw in any order:
a -   sweat   tawse   twaes   waste   e -   sweet   weest   weets   f -   wefts   h -   thews   whets   i -   wites   l -   welts   n -   newts   p -   swept   r -   strew   trews   wrest   s -   stews   wests   y -   wytes  

Shorter words found within west:
es   et   set   sew   tew   we   wet  

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