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8-letter words containing h, a, w, e

  • homeward — Also, homewards. toward home.
  • homeware — crockery, furniture, and furnishings with which a house, room, etc, is furnished
  • horseway — a bridleway
  • jet wash — Aeronautics. the backwash caused by a jet engine.
  • landwehr — (in Germany, Austria, etc.) the part of the organized military forces of a nation that has completed a certain amount of compulsory training, and whose continuous service is required only in time of war.
  • lewisham — a borough of Greater London, England.
  • limewash — A mixture of slaked lime in water.
  • 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.
  • 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.
  • newhaven — a seaport in S Connecticut, on Long Island Sound.
  • newshawk — a newspaper reporter, especially one who is energetic and aggressive.
  • overwash — the act of washing over something
  • pear haw — a shrub or small tree, Crataegus uniflora, of the eastern and southern coastal areas of the U.S., having pear-shaped, orange-red fruit.
  • peshawar — a province in Pakistan, bordering Punjab and Kashmir on the west: a former province of British India. 28,773 sq. mi. (77,516 sq. km). Capital: Peshawar.
  • ragwheel — a chain or sprocket wheel
  • sawhorse — a movable frame or trestle for supporting wood being sawed.
  • say when — to state when an action is to be stopped or begun, as when someone is pouring a drink
  • schwaben — German name of Swabia.
  • sea whip — a gorgonian coral that forms a flexible colony resembling shrubbery on the ocean floor.
  • shadowed — of or relating to a shadow cabinet.
  • shadower — a dark figure or image cast on the ground or some surface by a body intercepting light.
  • shadwell — Thomas, 1642?–92, English dramatist: poet laureate 1688–92.
  • shawnees — a member of an Algonquian-speaking tribe formerly in the east-central U.S., now in Oklahoma.
  • shawties — a person of less than average stature (sometimes used as a disparaging and offensive term of address).
  • sherwani — a long coat closed up to the neck, worn by men in India
  • showable — to cause or allow to be seen; exhibit; display.
  • showcase — a glass case for the display and protection of articles in shops, museums, etc.
  • somewhat — in some measure or degree; to some extent: not angry, just somewhat disturbed.
  • spanghew — to throw into the air
  • swadeshi — a political movement in British India that encouraged domestic production and the boycott of foreign, especially British, goods as a step toward home rule.
  • swamphen — any of several large Old World gallinules varying from purple to white, all possibly belonging to the single species Porphyrio porphyrio.
  • swanherd — a person who tends swans.
  • swarther — swarthy.
  • szechwan — Sichuan.
  • tarwhine — a bream, Rhabdosargus sarba, of E Australia, silver in colour with gold streaks
  • the jaws — a dangerously close position
  • the skaw — a cape at the N tip of Denmark
  • the swan — the constellation Cygnus
  • the waca — this Association's cricket ground in Perth
  • the wain — Charles's Wain
  • the wash — a shallow inlet of the North Sea on the E coast of England, between Lincolnshire and Norfolk
  • unswathe — to free from something that swathes: to unswath the child of her bandages.
  • unthawed — not thawed; still frozen
  • unwashed — not cleaned or purified by or as if by washing: unwashed dishes; the unwashed soul of a sinner.
  • wahpeton — a member of a North American Indian people belonging to the Santee branch of the Dakota.
  • waldheim — Kurt [kurt;; German koo rt] /kɜrt;; German kʊərt/ (Show IPA), 1918–2007, Austrian diplomat: secretary-general of the United Nations 1972–82; president of Austria 1986–92.
  • wanhsien — Wade-Giles. Wanxian.
  • war hero — a person who is admired for bravery in war
  • warhable — able to fight in war
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