Sunwise is a 7 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 10 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 12 points.
You can make 101 anagrams from letters in sunwise (einssuw).
First recorded in 1860-65; sun + -wise
A wheel and a spindle were used: the wheel, the sun symbol, was turned from east to west, sunwise.
They drank the water and then moved round the well deasil (sunwise), and before departing left an offering on the stone.
Four of these circuits are sunwise; five, if a half-circuit be included, run counter-sunwise.
That was the wrong way round—the unlucky, uncanonical direction; the evil way, widdershins, the opposite of sunwise.
The circuit used by the decorator of this box is dextral or sunwise.
Wolf Paw stared, as White Bear passed his medicine stick three times in a sunwise circle over the bleeding shoulder.
This sunwise turn is practised in other cases, as in sickness or accident.
He danced in a sunwise circle around them, from east to south to west to north, bobbing his head and singing.
The course about the fields was sunwise, to have a good influence.