8-letter words containing e, w, a
- bescrawl — to cover with scrawls
- beshadow — to darken with shadow
- bestowal — to present as a gift; give; confer (usually followed by on or upon): The trophy was bestowed upon the winner.
- bethwack — to strike hard with a flat object
- bewaring — to be wary, cautious, or careful of (usually used imperatively): Beware such inconsistency. Beware his waspish wit.
- blue law — any of the strict puritanical laws prevalent in colonial New England
- bodywear — close-fitting clothing, as leotards or bodysuits, made of lightweight, usually stretch fabrics and worn for exercising, dancing, or leisure activity.
- boer war — either of two conflicts between Britain and the South African Boers, the first (1880–1881) when the Boers sought to regain the independence given up for British aid against the Zulus, the second (1899–1902) when the Orange Free State and Transvaal declared war on Britain
- bone wax — a mixture of wax, oil, and carbolic acid applied to the cut surface of a bone to prevent bleeding
- bow wave — wave that forms at the front of a ship
- bowgrace — a fender or pad used to protect the bows of a vessel from ice.
- bramwell — a male given name.
- browbeat — If someone tries to browbeat you, they try to force you to do what they want.
- by water — by ship or boat
- cableway — a system for moving people or bulk materials in which suspended cars, buckets, etc, run on cables that extend between terminal towers
- cagework — openwork resembling the bars of a cage
- cakewalk — If you say that something is a cakewalk, you mean that it is very easy to do or achieve.
- caldwell — Erskine (ˈɜːskɪn). 1903–87, US novelist whose works include Tobacco Road (1933)
- callware — (company) The developers of Phonetastic.
- camwhore — a person who performs sexual or titillating acts in front of a webcam for the gratification of online customers who reward him or her with money or gifts
- caneware — a type of unglazed, tan-coloured stoneware, developed around 1770 by Josiah Wedgwood
- canework — strips of cane that are interlaced and used in cane chairs or the like.
- capeweed — a low-growing, creeping plant, Arctotheca calendulacea, used as a ground cover in warm climates.
- capework — the use of the cape by the matador
- careware — computer software licensed in exchange for a donation to charity
- careworn — A person who looks careworn looks worried, tired, and unhappy.
- case law — Case law is law that has been established by following decisions made by judges in earlier cases.
- casework — Casework is social work that involves actually dealing or working with the people who need help.
- caseworm — any of various insect larvae that build protective cases about their bodies
- causeway — A causeway is a raised path or road that crosses water or wet land.
- cawnpore — former name of Kanpur.
- chewable — Chewable describes drugs that are best or most easily absorbed by chewing.
- chichewa — the language of the Chewa people of central Africa, widely used as a lingua franca in Malawi. It belongs to the Bantu group of the Niger-Congo family
- chippewa — Ojibwa
- clawless — Having no claws.
- clawlike — resembling a claw or claws
- clayware — pottery
- clearway — a stretch of road on which motorists may stop only in an emergency
- coleslaw — Coleslaw is a salad of chopped raw cabbage, carrots, onions, and sometimes other vegetables, usually with mayonnaise.
- cookware — Cookware is the range of pans and pots which are used in cooking.
- core war — (games) (Or more recently, "Core Wars") A game played between assembly code programs running in the core of a simulated machine (and vicariously by their authors). The objective is to kill your opponents' programs by overwriting them. The programs are written using an instruction set called "Redcode" and run on a virtual machine called "MARS" (Memory Array Redcode Simulator). Core War was devised by Victor Vyssotsky, Robert Morris Sr., and Dennis Ritchie in the early 1960s (their original game was called "Darwin" and ran on a PDP-1 at Bell Labs). It was first described in the "Core War Guidelines" of March, 1984 by D. G. Jones and A. K. Dewdney of the Department of Computer Science at The University of Western Ontario (Canada). Dewdney wrote several "Computer Recreations" articles in "Scientific American" which discussed Core War, starting with the May 1984 article. Those articles are contained in the two anthologies cited below. A.K. Dewdney's articles are still the most readable introduction to Core War, even though the Redcode dialect described in there is no longer current. The International Core War Society (ICWS) creates and maintains Core War standards and the runs Core War tournaments. There have been six annual tournaments and two standards (ICWS'86 and ICWS'88).
- cow cake — cow dung.
- cowalker — A phantom or astral body deemed to be separable from the physical body and capable of acting independently; a doppelganger.
- crabwise — (of motion) sideways; like a crab
- cranwell — a village in E England, in Lincolnshire: Royal Air Force College (1920)
- crawlers — a baby's overalls; rompers
- crawlies — Fear, anxiety.
- crenshaw — a hybrid variety of melon with yellow skin and pale pink flesh
- crew cab — A crew cab is a cab in a vehicle such as a fire engine that has been extended with a second row of seats to carry additional crew.
- crewmate — a colleague on the crew of a boat or ship