8-letter words containing h, a, w
- headword — a word, phrase, or the like, appearing as the heading of a chapter, dictionary or encyclopedia entry, etc.
- headwork — mental labor; thought.
- heatwave — period of hot weather
- hellward — towards hell
- hen hawk — chicken hawk (def 1).
- hereaway — hereabout.
- hereward — called Hereward the Wake. 11th-century Anglo-Saxon rebel, who defended the Isle of Ely against William the Conqueror (1070–71): a subject of many legends
- hernshaw — a heron.
- hiawatha — the central figure of The Song of Hiawatha (1855), a poem by Henry Wadsworth Longfellow: named after a legendary Indian chief, fl. c1570.
- hickwall — any of certain European woodpeckers, especially the green woodpecker.
- hideaway — a place to which a person can retreat for safety, privacy, relaxation, or seclusion; refuge: His hideaway is in the mountains.
- highwall — the unexcavated face of exposed overburden and coal in a surface mine.
- highways — Plural form of highway.
- hindward — backward
- hiveward — (of a bee's movement) towards the hive
- hiwassee — a river in NE Georgia, SW North Carolina, and SE Tennessee, flowing N to the Tennessee River. 150 miles (241 km) long.
- hog-ward — someone who looks after hogs
- hoistway — a shaft for a hoist or a lift
- hole saw — crown saw.
- holy war — a war waged for what is supposed or proclaimed to be a holy purpose, as the defense of faith.
- homeward — Also, homewards. toward home.
- homeware — crockery, furniture, and furnishings with which a house, room, etc, is furnished
- horseway — a bridleway
- hot-draw — Metalworking. to draw (wire, tubing, etc.) at a temperature high enough to permit recrystallization.
- hovawart — a medium-sized strongly-built dog of a breed with a long thick coat, a thick tuft of hair round the neck, and a long bushy tail
- how far? — to what extent, distance, or degree?
- huntaway — a sheep dog.
- hwang ho — Older Spelling. Huang He.
- ichikawa — a city on E Honshu, in Japan, NE of Tokyo.
- jaw harp — jew's-harp
- jet wash — Aeronautics. the backwash caused by a jet engine.
- john law — Andrew Bonar [bon-er] /ˈbɒn ər/ (Show IPA), 1858–1923, English statesman, born in Canada: prime minister 1922–23.
- kiaochow — a former German-leased territory (1898–1914) on the Shandong peninsula, in E China, around Jiaozhou Bay. 200 sq. mi. (518 sq. km). Chief city, Tsingtao.
- kickshaw — a tidbit or delicacy, especially one served as an appetizer or hors d'oeuvre.
- landwash — the foreshore, especially that part between high and low tidemarks.
- 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.
- lathwork — work made of laths
- law-hand — a style of handwriting used in old legal documents, especially in England.
- 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.
- mar-hawk — a falconer who trains or handles the birds badly.
- 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.
- midwatch — middle watch.
- mostwhat — most
- narwhals — Plural form of narwhal.
- 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.
- now that — at the present time or moment: You are now using a dictionary.