5-letter words containing a, w
- wisla — Vistula
- wisła — a river in Poland, flowing N from the Carpathian Mountains past Warsaw into the Baltic near Danzig. About 650 miles (1050 km) long.
- witan — the members of the national council or witenagemot.
- wmrra — Washington Motorcycle Road Racing Association
- woads — a European plant, Isatis tinctoria, of the mustard family, formerly cultivated for a blue dye extracted from its leaves.
- woald — weld2 .
- wocas — a yellow pond lily, Nuphar polysepalum, of northwestern North America, having heart-shaped leaves and cup-shaped flowers.
- wokas — a yellow pond lily, Nuphar polysepalum, of northwestern North America, having heart-shaped leaves and cup-shaped flowers.
- woman — the female human being, as distinguished from a girl or a man.
- wonga — (slang, British, chiefly London, New Zealand) money.
- wotan — the supreme god in Germanic mythology
- wpqha — Western Pennsylvania Quarter Horse Association
- wraac — a member of the Women's Royal Australian Army Corps
- wraaf — Women's Royal Australian Air Force
- wrack — Also called cloud rack. a group of drifting clouds.
- wrang — Simple past form of wring.
- wrans — Women's Royal Australian Naval Service
- wraps — to enclose in something wound or folded about (often followed by up): She wrapped her head in a scarf.
- wrapt — a simple past tense and past participle of wrap.
- wrath — Cape, a high promontory in NW Scotland: most NW point on mainland.
- wrawl — to howl or bawl
- wreak — to inflict or execute (punishment, vengeance, etc.): They wreaked havoc on the enemy.
- wtsda — World Tang Soo Do Association
- wuhan — a province in central China. 72,394 sq. mi. (187,500 sq. km). Capital: Wuhan.
- wulac — Watsonia United Little Athletics Club
- wumaa — World United Martial Arts Alliance
- wuxia — A genre of Chinese fiction concerning the adventures of martial artists.
- wviac — West Virginia Intercollegiate Athletic Conference
- wwiac — Wisconsin Womens Intercollegiate Athletic Conference
- wyatt — James, 1746–1813, English architect.
- yakow — a hybrid animal, produced by crossbreeding yaks with cows.
- yalow — Rosalyn (Sussman) [roz-uh-lin suhs-muh n] /ˈrɒz ə lɪn ˈsʌs mən/ (Show IPA), 1921–2011, U.S. medical physicist: Nobel Prize in medicine 1977.
- yawed — to deviate temporarily from a straight course, as a ship.
- yawey — of or relating to yaws.
- yawls — (nautical) Plural form of yawl.
- yawns — Third-person singular simple present indicative form of yawn.
- yawny — emitting or causing yawns: yawny spectators; a yawny debate.
- yawps — Plural form of yawp.