8-letter words containing e, w, a
- warfield — David, 1866–1951, U.S. actor.
- wargames — (recreation) (Not "War Games") A 1983 film about a schoolboy cracker using a wardialer to try to break into a games company's computer and accidentally connecting to a backdoor into "Whopper", a ficticious C3 computer at Norad (USAF). He then procedes to unwittingly initiate global thermonuclear warfare. Playing naughts and crosses finally teaches Whopper that the only way to win the game is never to play.
- warhable — able to fight in war
- warheads — Plural form of warhead.
- warhorse — a horse used in war; charger.
- wariment — caution
- wariness — the state or quality of being wary.
- warmaker — someone who wages war
- warmness — having or giving out a moderate degree of heat, as perceived by the senses: a warm bath.
- warplane — an airplane designed for, or used in, warfare.
- warpower — the ability to wage war
- warpwise — in a vertical direction; at right angles to the filling; lengthwise.
- warrener — the keeper of a rabbit warren.
- wartless — Without warts.
- wartweed — any of various plants, Euphorbia Helioscopia, E. Peplus and Chelidonium majus, used to cure warts
- washable — capable of being washed without shrinking, fading, or the like.
- wasplike — any of numerous social or solitary hymenopterous insects of the Vespidae, Sphecidae, and allied families, generally having a long, slender body and narrow waist and, in the female, a stinger.
- waspnest — the nest of a wasp
- wastages — Plural form of wastage.
- wastebin — A wastebasket; a bin used for household or office waste.
- wasteful — given to or characterized by useless consumption or expenditure: wasteful methods; a wasteful way of life.
- wastelot — a vacant lot, especially one overgrown with weeds or covered with rubbish.
- wasteway — an open ditch for the passage of waste water
- wastrels — Plural form of wastrel.
- wastrife — wastefulness
- watchers — Plural form of watcher.
- watcheye — an eye, especially of a dog, with a whitish iris or a white opacity of the cornea; walleye.
- watchmen — a person who keeps guard over a building at night, to protect it from fire, vandals, or thieves.
- water ox — water buffalo.
- waterage — the transportation of cargo by means of ships, or the charges for such transportation
- waterbed — a bed having a liquid-filled rubber or plastic mattress in a rigid, often heated, waterproof frame, and providing a surface that conforms to the sleeper's body in any position.
- waterboy — Alternative spelling of water boy.
- waterbus — Alternative spelling of water bus.
- waterdog — any of several large salamanders, as a mudpuppy or hellbender.
- watereth — Archaic third-person singular form of water.
- waterhen — An aquatic rail, especially a moorhen or related bird.
- waterily — In a watery manner.
- watering — a transparent, odorless, tasteless liquid, a compound of hydrogen and oxygen, H 2 O, freezing at 32°F or 0°C and boiling at 212°F or 100°C, that in a more or less impure state constitutes rain, oceans, lakes, rivers, etc.: it contains 11.188 percent hydrogen and 88.812 percent oxygen, by weight.
- waterish — somewhat, or tending to be, watery.
- waterjet — a stream of water forced out through a small aperture.
- waterlog — to cause (a boat, ship, etc.) to become uncontrollable as a result of flooding.
- waterloo — a village in central Belgium, south of Brussels: Napoleon decisively defeated here on June 18, 1815.
- waterman — a person who manages or works on a boat; boatman.
- watermen — Plural form of waterman.
- waterpot — A pot or jug for holding water.
- waterpox — chickenpox
- waterski — Each of a pair of skis enabling the wearer to skim the surface of the water when towed by a motorboat.
- waterway — a river, canal, or other body of water serving as a route or way of travel or transport.
- wattless — using no power
- waukegan — a city in NE Illinois, on Lake Michigan, N of Chicago.