7-letter words containing c, w, a
- hacksaw — a saw for cutting metal, consisting typically of a narrow, fine-toothed blade fixed in a frame.
- harwich — a port in SE England, in NE Essex on the North Sea. Pop: 20 130 (2001)
- hawbuck — a country bumpkin
- jackdaw — a glossy, black, European bird, Corvus monedula, of the crow family, that nests in towers, ruins, etc.
- lanchow — a city in and the capital of Gansu province, in N China, on the Huang He.
- lichway — a path used to carry a coffin into a church or to burial
- lockjaw — tetanus in which the jaws become firmly locked together; trismus.
- low-cal — containing fewer calories than usual or standard: a low-cal diet.
- newcast — (transitive) To recast; form or mould anew.
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- nowcast — (meteorology) A weather forecast predicting the weather for a very short upcoming period, usually of a few hours.
- paceway — a racecourse for trotting and pacing
- packwax — a neck ligament
- packway — a path for pack animals
- pc-ware — Pejorative term for software full of PC-isms on a machine with a more capable operating system.
- pickmaw — a type of gull with a black head
- raceway — Chiefly British. a passage or channel for water, as a millrace.
- salchow — a jump in which the skater leaps from the back inside edge of one skate, making one full rotation of the body in the air, and lands on the back outside edge of the other skate.
- sawatch — a mountain range in central Colorado: part of the Rocky Mountains. Highest peak, Mount Elbert, 14,431 feet (4400 meters).
- sawbuck — a ten-dollar bill.
- schwann — Theodor [tey-oh-dawr] /ˈteɪ oʊˌdɔr/ (Show IPA), 1810–82, German zoologist.
- schwarz — Hermann Amandus [her-mahn ah-mahn-doo s] /ˈhɛr mɑn ɑˈmɑn dʊs/ (Show IPA), 1843–1921, German mathematician.
- scrawly — written or drawn awkwardly or carelessly.
- scrawny — excessively thin; lean; scraggy: a long, scrawny neck.
- sea cow — any sirenian, as the manatee or dugong.
- snowcap — a layer of snow forming a cap on or covering the top of something, as a mountain peak or ridge.
- snowcat — snowmobile.
- swacked — in a state of intoxication, stupor, or euphoria induced by drugs or alcohol
- taichow — a city in central Jiangsu province, in E China.
- tow car — wrecker (def 3).
- towsack — South Midland and Southern U.S. gunnysack.
- wackest — wacko.
- wackier — Comparative form of wacky.
- wackily — In a way or to an extent that is wacky.
- wackjob — Alternative spelling of whackjob.
- waconda — (in Native American culture) the supreme spirit
- waesuck — alas
- waichow — Older Spelling. Huizhou.
- walcott — Derek, born 1930, West Indian poet and playwright: Nobel prize 1992.
- wallace — Alfred Russel [ruhs-uh l] /ˈrʌs əl/ (Show IPA), 1823–1913, English naturalist, explorer, and author.
- wallach — Otto [ot-oh;; German awt-oh] /ˈɒt oʊ;; German ˈɔt oʊ/ (Show IPA), 1847–1931, German chemist: Nobel prize 1910.
- wang pc — (computer) Personal computers made by Wang Laboratories. Wang's PCs had an operating system (based on MS-DOS) which was not compatible with the IBM PC. The Wang floppy disk format was compatible with the IBM PC. However, running an IBM "exe" program would generally crash a Wang PC unless a special Industry-Standard emulator program was running on the Wang. This program required the addition of a special card to the Wang PC. It enabled the Wang PC to run most, but not all, software written for the IBM PC. Most Wang software made use of two special keys: CANCEL and EXECUTE. These keys were used to carry out commands, make menu selections, and so on. The Wang OS was menu-driven.
- war cry — a cry, word, phrase, etc., shouted in charging or in rallying to attack; battle cry.
- warbeck — Perkin [pur-kin] /ˈpɜr kɪn/ (Show IPA), 1474–99, Flemish imposter who pretended to the throne of England.
- warlock — a man who professes or is supposed to practice magic or sorcery; a male witch; sorcerer.
- warwick — Earl of (Richard Neville, Earl of Salisbury"the Kingmaker") 1428–71, English military leader and statesman.
- watched — to be alertly on the lookout, look attentively, or observe, as to see what comes, is done, or happens: to watch while an experiment is performed.
- watcher — a person who watches or who keeps watch.
- watches — to be alertly on the lookout, look attentively, or observe, as to see what comes, is done, or happens: to watch while an experiment is performed.