5-letter words containing a, w
- wawes — Plural form of wawe.
- waxed — Also called beeswax. a solid, yellowish, nonglycerine substance allied to fats and oils, secreted by bees, plastic when warm and melting at about 145°F, variously employed in making candles, models, casts, ointments, etc., and used by bees in constructing their honeycomb.
- waxen — pertaining to, made of, or resembling wax: a wax candle; a wax doll.
- waxer — a person or appliance that polishes with or applies wax.
- waxes — Plural form of wax.
- wayne — Anthony ("Mad Anthony") 1745–96, American Revolutionary War general.
- wazir — Alternative form of vizier.
- wazoo — the anus.
- wbfca — Whitley Bay Football Club Academy
- wcoaa — World Congress Of Amateur Athletes
- wdasm — (tool) (Probably "Windows disassembler") An interactive Intel 486 disassembler for Windows 3.1 written by Eric Grass at the University of Missouri, St. Louis. WDASM supports multiple disassembly formats.
- weaky — (UK dialectal, Northern England, Scotland) Moist; damp; clammy.
- weald — The, a region in SE England, in Kent, Surrey, and Essex counties: once a forest area; now an agricultural region.
- weale — Alternative form of wale.
- weals — wheal.
- weans — Third-person singular simple present indicative form of wean.
- weare — Obsolete spelling of wear.
- wears — Plural form of wear.
- weary — physically or mentally exhausted by hard work, exertion, strain, etc.; fatigued; tired: weary eyes; a weary brain.
- weasy — (obsolete) Given to sensual indulgence; gluttonous.
- weave — to interlace (threads, yarns, strips, fibrous material, etc.) so as to form a fabric or material.
- wekas — Plural form of weka.
- werra — a river in central Germany, flowing N from the Thuringian Forest and joining the Fulda River to form the Weser River. 181 miles (291 km) long.
- wesak — a festival in May celebrating the birth, enlightenment, and death of the Buddha
- wetas — Plural form of weta.
- wfbas — West Florida Baptist Academy Sports
- whack — to strike with a smart, resounding blow or blows.
- whale — any of the larger marine mammals of the order Cetacea, especially as distinguished from the smaller dolphins and porpoises, having a fishlike body, forelimbs modified into flippers, and a head that is horizontally flattened.
- whall — A light colour of the iris in horses; the state of being walleyed.
- whams — a loud sound produced by an explosion or sharp impact: the wham of a pile driver.
- whang — a thong, especially of leather.
- whaps — Plural form of whap.
- whare — Maori hut.
- wharf — a structure built on the shore of or projecting into a harbor, stream, etc., so that vessels may be moored alongside to load or unload or to lie at rest; quay; pier.
- whata — a building on stilts or a raised platform for storing provisions
- whats — the true nature or identity of something, or the sum of its characteristics: a lecture on the whats and hows of crop rotation.
- whaup — a curlew, Numenius arquata.
- wheal — a small, burning or itching swelling on the skin, as from a mosquito bite or from hives.
- wheat — the grain of any cereal grass of the genus Triticum, especially T. aestivum, used in the form of flour for making bread, cakes, etc., and for other culinary and nutritional purposes.
- whoah — Alternative form of whoa.
- wicca — (sometimes initial capital letter) a nature-oriented religion having rituals and practices derived from pre-Christian religious beliefs and typically incorporating modern witchcraft of a benevolent kind.
- wigan — borough of Greater Manchester, in W England.
- wilan — wireless local area network
- wilga — a small drought-resistant tree, Geijera parviflora, of Australia, having hard aromatic wood, white flowers, and foliage that resembles that of the willow
- wilja — a variety of potato with yellowish skin, light yellow flesh and a medium dry texture
- willa — a female given name, form of Wilhelmina.
- wilma — a female given name, form of Wilhelmina.
- winna — will not
- wirra — (Irish) Exclamation of dismay.
- wisha — an expression of surprise