8-letter words containing e, w, a
- manpower — power in terms of people available or required for work or military service: the manpower of a country.
- manswear — (transitive, UK dialectal) To swear falsely; perjure oneself.
- manwhore — (slang) A man who sells his body for money; a male prostitute.
- matthews — one of the four Evangelists, a customs collector from Capernaum, summoned to be one of the 12 apostles: originally called Levi. Matt. 9:9–13.
- mawmetry — idolatry
- maxwells — Plural form of maxwell.
- may wine — a punch consisting typically of Alsatian, Moselle, or Rhine wine, flavored with woodruff.
- mayweeds — Plural form of mayweed.
- mealworm — the larva of any of several darkling beetles of the genus Tenebrio, which infests granaries and is used as food for birds and animals.
- meatware — Less common synonym for wetware.
- megawatt — a unit of power, equal to one million watts. Abbreviation: MW.
- menswear — men's wear.
- merwoman — A mermaid.
- micawber — a person who idles and trusts to fortune
- midwater — The part of a body of water near neither the bottom nor the surface.
- mindware — The mental knowledge and procedures that a person uses to solve problems or make decisions.
- muzorewa — Abel (Tendekayi) (ˈeibəl) 1925–2010, Zimabwean Methodist bishop and politician; president of the African National Council (1971–85). He was one of the negotiators of an internal settlement (1978–79); prime minister of Rhodesia (1979)
- nanowire — A nanoscale rod made of semiconducting material, used in miniature transistors and some laser applications.
- narrowed — Simple past tense and past participle of narrow.
- narrower — of little breadth or width; not broad or wide; not as wide as usual or expected: a narrow path.
- neckwear — articles of dress worn round or at the neck.
- new ager — a believer in New Age
- new deal — the principles of the progressive wing of the Democratic Party, especially those advocated under the leadership of President Franklin D. Roosevelt for economic recovery and social reforms.
- new face — Someone who is new in a particular public role can be referred to as a new face.
- new math — a unified, sequential system of teaching arithmetic and mathematics in accord with set theory so as to reveal basic concepts: used in some U.S. schools, especially in the 1960s and 1970s.
- new talk — ntalk
- new wave — a movement, trend, or vogue, as in art, literature, or politics, that breaks with traditional concepts, values, techniques, or the like.
- new year — New Year's Day.
- newhaven — a seaport in S Connecticut, on Long Island Sound.
- newlands — John Alexander. 1838–98, British chemist: classified the elements in order of their atomic weight, noticing similarities in every eighth and thus discovering his law of octaves
- newsbeat — beat (def 40b).
- newscast — a broadcast of news on radio or television.
- newshawk — a newspaper reporter, especially one who is energetic and aggressive.
- newslady — A newswoman.
- newspeak — (sometimes initial capital letter) an official or semiofficial style of writing or saying one thing in the guise of its opposite, especially in order to serve a political or ideological cause while pretending to be objective, as in referring to “increased taxation” as “revenue enhancement.”.
- newwaver — a member of a new wave
- neyagawa — a city in S Honshu, Japan: a suburb of Osaka.
- no sweat — Informal. (of clothes) made to be worn for exercise, sports, or other physical activity. made of the absorbent fabric used for such clothes: sweat dresses. of, for, or associated with such clothes: the sweat look in sportswear.
- no-sweat — requiring little effort; easy: a no-sweat job.
- obwalden — one of the two divisions of the canton of Unterwalden, in central Switzerland. 189 sq. mi. (490 sq. km). Capital: Sarnen.
- open-jaw — relating to a ticket that allows a traveller to arrive in one place and depart from another
- outlawed — a lawless person or habitual criminal, especially one who is a fugitive from the law.
- outswear — to outdo in swearing.
- outwaste — to squander or use up wastefully
- outweary — to exhaust completely
- ovenware — heat-resistant dishes of glass, pottery, etc., for baking and serving food; bakeware.
- overawed — Impress (someone) so much that they become silent or inhibited.
- overawes — Third-person singular simple present indicative form of overawe.
- overdraw — to draw upon (an account, allowance, etc.) in excess of the balance standing to one's credit or at one's disposal: It was the first time he had ever overdrawn his account.
- oversway — to overrule