8-letter words containing f, a, w
- kalewife — a female vegetable or cabbage seller
- knifejaw — Any of the family Oplegnathidae of perciform marine fish.
- lawfully — allowed or permitted by law; not contrary to law: a lawful enterprise.
- leafworm — A caterpillar that eats the leaves of plants.
- leftward — Also, leftwards. toward or on the left.
- new face — Someone who is new in a particular public role can be referred to as a new face.
- pawn off — If you pawn off something or someone that you do not want on another person, you persuade the person to accept them.
- rift saw — a saw used for cutting wood radially from a log.
- sawn-off — (of a shotgun) having the barrel cut short, mainly to facilitate concealment of the weapon
- scofflaw — a person who flouts the law, especially one who fails to pay fines owed.
- sea wolf — any of several large, voracious, marine fishes, as the wolffish or sea bass.
- selfward — in the direction of or toward oneself: a selfward-moving gesture.
- snowfall — a fall of snow.
- software — Computers. the programs used to direct the operation of a computer, as well as documentation giving instructions on how to use them. Compare hardware (def 5).
- spaewife — a woman who foretells the future
- subdwarf — a star which is smaller than a dwarf star
- swags of — lots of
- swiftian — of or relating to Jonathan Swift
- turf war — dispute over territory
- twinleaf — a North American herb, Jeffersonia diphylla, having a single white blossom and leaves divided in two.
- unflawed — perfect
- unlawful — not lawful; contrary to law; illegal.
- wafering — Present participle of wafer.
- waffling — to talk foolishly or without purpose; idle away time talking.
- wagonful — a quantity of objects or people that will fill a wagon
- waiflike — Resembling a waif; apparently homeless, starving, etc.
- wakerife — wakeful.
- walk off — an act or instance of walking or going on foot.
- walk-off — a person who escapes easily, especially by walking away from a place of detention; a walkaway: The guards rounded up the walk-offs from the prison farm.
- wall off — If part of a place is walled off, it is separated from the rest of the place by a wall.
- wallfish — a snail, Helix pomatia
- warcraft — The art or skill of conducting a war.
- ward off — a division or district of a city or town, as for administrative or political purposes.
- warfarer — a person engaged in warfare; a warrior
- warfarin — a colorless, crystalline, water-insoluble anticoagulant, C 19 H 16 O 4 , used chiefly as a rodenticide.
- warfield — David, 1866–1951, U.S. actor.
- warn off — If you warn someone off, you tell them to go away or to stop doing something because of possible danger or punishment.
- wasteful — given to or characterized by useless consumption or expenditure: wasteful methods; a wasteful way of life.
- wastrife — wastefulness
- watchful — vigilant or alert; closely observant: The sentry remained watchful throughout the night.
- wave-off — (on an aircraft carrier) the last-minute signaling to an aircraft making its final landing approach that it is not to land on that particular pass but is to go around and come in again.
- waveform — the shape of a wave, a graph obtained by plotting the instantaneous values of a periodic quantity against the time.
- wayfarer — a traveler, especially on foot.
- weakfish — any food fish of the genus Cynoscion, as C. regalis, inhabiting waters along the Atlantic and Gulf coasts of the U.S.
- wear off — to carry or have on the body or about the person as a covering, equipment, ornament, or the like: to wear a coat; to wear a saber; to wear a disguise.
- weariful — full of weariness; fatigued; exhausted.
- web farm — a large website that uses two or more servers to handle user requests
- wellfare — Obsolete form of welfare.
- wharfage — the use of a wharf: to charge higher rates for wharfage.
- wharfing — Wharfs collectively.