5-letter words containing a, w
- bawdy — A bawdy story or joke contains humorous references to sex.
- bawls — Third-person singular simple present indicative form of bawl.
- bawns — Plural form of bawn.
- bowat — a small lamp or lantern
- brawl — A brawl is a rough or violent fight.
- brawn — Brawn is physical strength.
- braws — fine apparel
- bwana — (in E Africa) a master, often used as a respectful form of address corresponding to sir
- bylaw — A bylaw is a law which is made by a local authority and which applies only in their area.
- byway — A byway is a small road which is not used by many cars or people.
- cahow — a rare nocturnal Atlantic seabird, Pterodroma cahow, with brown and white plumage, formerly thought to be extinct
- carew — Thomas. ?1595–?1639, English Cavalier poet
- cawed — Simple past tense and past participle of caw.
- chawk — a jackdaw
- chawl — A type of building found in India. Often having 4 to 5 stories with about 10 to 20 tenements, they are also known as kholis.
- chaws — Plural form of chaw.
- chewa — a member of a Negroid people of Malawi, E Zambia, and N Zimbabwe, related to the Bemba
- claws — Plural form of claw.
- cowal — a shallow lake or swampy depression supporting vegetation
- cowan — a person who makes dry-stone walls
- crawl — When you crawl, you move forward on your hands and knees.
- craws — Plural form of craw.
- dawah — the practice or policy of conveying the message of Islam to non-Muslims
- dawed — Simple past tense and past participle of daw.
- dawes — Charles Gates. 1865–1951, US financier, diplomat, and statesman, who devised the Dawes Plan for German reparations payments after World War I; vice president of the US (1925–29); Nobel peace prize 1925
- dawgs — Plural form of dawg.
- dawks — a person who advocates neither a conciliatory nor a belligerent national attitude.
- dawns — Plural form of dawn.
- dewan — (formerly in India) the chief minister or finance minister of a state ruled by an Indian prince
- dewar — Donald. 1937–2000, Scottish Labour politician; secretary of state for Scotland (1997–99); first minister of Scotland (1999–2000)
- dewax — to remove wax from
- diwan — (in India) any of certain officials, as a financial minister or prime minister of a native colony.
- djawa — Java2
- drawe — Obsolete spelling of draw.
- drawl — an act or utterance of a person who drawls.
- drawn — past participle of draw.
- draws — Plural form of draw.
- dwaal — a state of befuddlement
- dwale — Deadly nightshade or belladonna.
- dwalm — faint
- dwarf — a person of abnormally small stature owing to a pathological condition, especially one suffering from cretinism or some other disease that produces disproportion or deformation of features and limbs.
- ewart — Gavin (Buchanan). 1916–95, British poet, noted for his light satirical verse
- fatwa — an Islamic religious decree issued by the ʿulama.
- fawns — Plural form of fawn.
- fawny — of a color like fawn.
- flawn — Obsolete form of flan.
- flaws — Plural form of flaw.
- gamow — George, 1904–68, U.S. nuclear physicist and writer, born in Russia.
- gawed — Simple past tense and past participle of gaw.
- gawks — Third-person singular simple present indicative form of gawk.