8-letter words containing h, a, w
- on watch — If someone is on watch, they have the job of carefully looking and listening, often while other people are asleep and often as a military duty, so that they can warn them of danger or an attack.
- outwatch — to outdo or surpass in watching.
- overwash — the act of washing over something
- pawnshop — the shop of a pawnbroker, especially one where unredeemed items are displayed and sold.
- 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.
- powhatan — a member of any of the Indian tribes belonging to the Powhatan Confederacy.
- ragwheel — a chain or sprocket wheel
- rainwash — material eroded or swept away by rain.
- rawmaish — foolish or exaggerated talk; nonsense
- rickshaw — jinrikisha.
- roadshow — travelling entertainment
- roswitha — Hrotsvitha.
- sandwich — a town in E Kent, in SE England: one of the Cinque Ports.
- sash saw — a small tenon saw used for cutting sashes
- sawhorse — a movable frame or trestle for supporting wood being sawed.
- sawshark — a shark with a long, flat, saw-like snout from the family Pristiophoridae and found in waters from South Africa to Australia and Japan
- sawtooth — one of the cutting teeth of a saw.
- say what — the true nature or identity of something, or the sum of its characteristics: a lecture on the whats and hows of crop rotation.
- say when — to state when an action is to be stopped or begun, as when someone is pouring a drink
- schawlow — Arthur Leonard, 1921–99, U.S. physicist: Nobel prize 1981.
- schwaben — German name of Swabia.
- schwartz — Delmore [del-mawr,, -mohr] /ˈdɛl mɔr,, -moʊr/ (Show IPA), 1913–1966, U.S. poet, short-story writer, and critic.
- 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.
- shallows — The shallows are the shallow part of an area of water.
- shawabti — a figurine placed in an ancient Egyptian tomb to serve as a slave for the soul or as a substitute for the soul in performing forced labor.
- shawarma — roasted meat, as lamb or beef, cooked on a spit. a dish consisting of this meat, served wrapped in pita bread with tahini or hummus.
- 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
- show bag — a bag containing samples, promotional material, etc, given out at trade fairs and other such events
- show day — (in Australia) a public holiday in a state on the date of its annual agricultural and industrial show
- showable — to cause or allow to be seen; exhibit; display.
- showboat — a boat, especially a paddle-wheel steamer, used as a traveling theater.
- showcase — a glass case for the display and protection of articles in shops, museums, etc.
- showyard — a yard where cattle and machinery are displayed
- so what! — what importance does that have?
- somewhat — in some measure or degree; to some extent: not angry, just somewhat disturbed.
- southpaw — a person who is left-handed.
- spanghew — to throw into the air
- strawhat — of or relating to a summer theater situated outside an urban or metropolitan area: strawhat theater; strawhat circuit.
- 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.
- swagshop — a shop selling cheap goods
- 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.
- swashing — Printing. noting or pertaining to a character having a swash: a swash letter.