5-letter words containing a, w
- 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.
- tawai — any of various species of beech of the genus Nothofagus of New Zealand, originally called "birches" by the settlers
- tawer — to prepare or dress (some raw material) for use or further manipulation.
- tawie — docile; easy to manage.
- tawny — of a dark yellowish or dull yellowish-brown color.
- tawse — a leather strap having one end cut into thongs, formerly used as an instrument of punishment by a schoolteacher
- thawy — relating to a thaw; tending to thaw or melt
- thraw — British Dialect. to throw.
- tihwa — Dihua.
- trawl — Also called trawl net. a strong fishing net for dragging along the sea bottom.
- twain — Mark, pen name of Samuel Langhorne Clemens.
- twang — to give out a sharp, vibrating sound, as the string of a musical instrument when plucked.
- twank — to make a sharply curtailed twang
- twats — vulva.
- tweak — to pinch and pull with a jerk and twist: to tweak someone's ear; to tweak someone's nose.
- unlaw — to fine (someone) a sum of money
- unrwa — United Nations Relief and Works Agency
- urawa — a city in E Honshu, in Japan.
- usdaw — (in Britain) Union of Shop, Distributive, and Allied Workers
- wa-12 — Workflow Analysis in 12 different organisations. A project from the Department of Computer Science from the University of Twente, Enschede, The Netherlands. The final report of this project is available to the public (ISBN 90-365-0683-2).
- wa-wa — a sound or effect like the muted sound of a trumpet, especially in music.
- waaaf — Women's Auxiliary Australian Air Force
- waadt — German name of Vaud.
- 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.
- wacke — a poorly sorted sandstone containing fragments of rock and minerals in a clayey matrix.
- wacko — Also, wack. an eccentric, strange, or odd person.
- wacks — Plural form of wack.
- wacky — odd or irrational; crazy: They had some wacky plan for selling more books.
- wadai — a former independent sultanate of the Sudan, in N central Africa: now part of the Republic of Chad.
- wadds — Plural form of wadd.
- waddy — a heavy wooden war club of the Australian Aborigines.
- waded — to walk in water, when partially immersed: He wasn't swimming, he was wading.