5-letter words containing a, w, s
- shwas — the mid-central, neutral vowel sound typically occurring in unstressed syllables in English, however spelled, as the sound of a in alone and sofa, e in system, i in easily, o in gallop, u in circus.
- sowar — an Indian cavalryman
- spawl — spittle
- spawn — Zoology. the mass of eggs deposited by fishes, amphibians, mollusks, crustaceans, etc.
- squaw — Older Use: Disparaging and Offensive. a contemptuous term used to refer to a North American Indian woman, especially a wife.
- straw — a single stalk or stem, especially of certain species of grain, chiefly wheat, rye, oats, and barley.
- swack — a hard blow
- swage — a tool for bending cold metal to a required shape.
- swain — a male admirer or lover.
- swale — a low place in a tract of land, usually moister and often having ranker vegetation than the adjacent higher land.
- swalk — sealed with a loving kiss: sometimes written on the back of envelopes
- swami — an honorific title given to a Hindu religious teacher.
- swamp — a tract of wet, spongy land, often having a growth of certain types of trees and other vegetation, but unfit for cultivation.
- swamy — swami.
- swang — simple past tense of swing1 .
- swank — dashing smartness, as in dress or appearance; style.
- swapo — South-West Africa People's Organization
- sward — the grassy surface of land; turf.
- sware — simple past tense of swear.
- swarf — an accumulation of fine particles of metal or abrasive cut or ground from work by a machine tool or grinder.
- swarm — a body of honeybees that emigrate from a hive and fly off together, accompanied by a queen, to start a new colony.
- swart — swarthy.
- swash — to splash, as things in water, or as water does: Waves were swashing against the piers.
- swath — the space covered by the stroke of a scythe or the cut of a mowing machine.
- swati — Swat (def 2).
- swats — a special section of some law enforcement agencies trained and equipped to deal with especially dangerous or violent situations, as when hostages are being held (often used attributively): a SWAT team.
- swave — a transverse earthquake wave that travels through the interior of the earth and is usually the second conspicuous wave to reach a seismograph.
- swazi — a member of a Nguni people of Swaziland and the Republic of South Africa.
- sweal — the guttering of a candle
- swear — to make a solemn declaration or affirmation by some sacred being or object, as a deity or the Bible.
- sweat — to perspire, especially freely or profusely.
- tawse — a leather strap having one end cut into thongs, formerly used as an instrument of punishment by a schoolteacher
- twats — vulva.
- usdaw — (in Britain) Union of Shop, Distributive, and Allied Workers
- waals — a river in the central Netherlands, flowing W to the Meuse River: the center branch of the lower Rhine. 52 miles (84 km) long.
- wacks — Plural form of wack.
- wadds — Plural form of wadd.
- wades — Plural form of wade.
- wadis — the channel of a watercourse that is dry except during periods of rainfall.
- wafts — Third-person singular simple present indicative form of waft.
- wages — Often, wages. money that is paid or received for work or services, as by the hour, day, or week. Compare living wage, minimum wage.
- wagsl — Washington Area Girls Soccer League
- waifs — Plural form of waif.
- wails — Plural form of wail.
- wains — (initial capital letter) Astronomy. Charles's Wain.
- waist — the part of the body in humans between the ribs and the hips, usually the narrowest part of the torso.
- waits — Plural form of wait.
- wakes — Plural form of wake.
- wales — something that is selected as the best; choice.
- walis — Plural form of wali.