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7-letter words containing b, w

  • rowboat — a small boat designed for rowing.
  • rubdown — a massage, especially after exercise or a steam bath.
  • sawbill — any of various hummingbirds of the genus Ramphodon
  • sawbuck — a ten-dollar bill.
  • sewable — capable of being fastened or enclosed by stitches
  • showbiz — show business: entertainment
  • showbox — a box containing a showman's material
  • sobukwe — Robert (Mangaliso). 1924–78, South African politician. Founder of the Pan-Africanist Congress
  • sow bug — any of several small, terrestrial isopods, especially of the genus Oniscus; wood louse.
  • stewbum — a drunken bum.
  • sumbawa — one of the Lesser Sunda Islands, in Indonesia: destructive eruption in 1815 of Mt. Tambora. 5965 sq. mi. (15,449 sq. km).
  • swabber — a person who uses a swab.
  • swabian — a region and medieval duchy in SW Germany: it constituted the area presently included in the states of Baden-Württemberg and Bavaria, in S Germany.
  • swingby — act of spacecraft passing close to planet
  • teabowl — a small bowl used for serving tea
  • the web — (as modifier)
  • tow bar — a metal bar for attaching a vehicle to a load to be towed.
  • towboat — a diesel-powered or steam-powered boat used especially on inland waterways to push groups of barges lashed to it in front or on one side or both.
  • twibbon — a company which provides users with an icon which they can paste over an avatar or profile photo on a social networking site, indicating the user's support for a given cause, group, brand, etc.
  • twibill — a mattock with one arm like that of an adz and the other like that of an ax.
  • two-bit — costing twenty-five cents.
  • unblown — (of a flower) still in the bud
  • unbowed — not bowed or bent.
  • unibrow — a pair of eyebrows that appear to be connected because of some extra hair growing in the space between them: He had very bushy eyebrows, almost a unibrow.
  • w boson — either of two types of charged intermediate vector bosons, one having a positive charge and the other a negative charge. Symbols: W + , W −.
  • wackjob — Alternative spelling of whackjob.
  • wadable — that can be waded: a wadable stream.
  • wagabee — a woman who aspires to be the wife or girlfriend of a famous sportsman
  • wahhabi — a follower of ʿAbd al-Wahhab (1703–1792), who stringently opposed all practices not sanctioned by the Koran. The Wahhabis, founded in the 18th century, are the most conservative Muslim group and are today found mainly in Saudi Arabia.
  • wallaba — any of several trees belonging to the genus Eperua, of the legume family, native to the Guianas and northern Brazil.
  • wallaby — any of various small and medium-sized kangaroos of the genera Macropus, Thylogale, Petrogale, etc., some of which are no larger than rabbits: several species are endangered.
  • wannabe — one who aspires, often vainly, to emulate another's success or attain eminence in some area.
  • warbeck — Perkin [pur-kin] /ˈpɜr kɪn/ (Show IPA), 1474–99, Flemish imposter who pretended to the throne of England.
  • warbird — a vintage military aeroplane
  • warbled — Past participle of warble.
  • warbler — any of several small, chiefly Old World songbirds of the subfamily Sylviidae. Compare blackcap (def 1), reed warbler.
  • warbles — Plural form of warble.
  • warblog — A weblog dealing with a war, or written by an active participant in or witness to warfare.
  • warburg — Otto Heinrich [awt-oh hahyn-rikh] /ˈɔt oʊ ˈhaɪn rɪx/ (Show IPA), 1883–1970, German physiologist: Nobel Prize in medicine 1931.
  • wasabis — Plural form of wasabi.
  • washbag — a bag for toiletries, toothbrushes, etc
  • washtub — a tub for use in washing clothes, linens, etc.
  • waxable — able to be waxed
  • waxbill — any of several small Old World finches, especially of the genus Estrilda, that have white, pink, or red bills of waxy appearance and are often kept as cage birds.
  • waybill — a list of goods sent by a common carrier, as a railroad, with shipping directions.
  • web 2.0 — a second generation in the development of the World Wide Web, conceived as a combination of concepts, trends, and technologies that focus on user collaboration, sharing of user-generated content, and social networking.
  • web pal — a person one meets and corresponds with over the internet
  • web-bug — a very small graphic image or other object embedded in an HTML-formatted web page or email, used to track the online actions and activity of users: Web beacons that monitor customer preferences.
  • web-fed — (of a printing press) fed by and designed to print a continuous roll of paper.
  • webbing — something formed by or as if by weaving or interweaving.
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