7-letter words containing i, a, w
- lauwine — (poetic, dated) avalanche.
- lawlike — the principles and regulations established in a community by some authority and applicable to its people, whether in the form of legislation or of custom and policies recognized and enforced by judicial decision.
- lawsuit — a case in a court of law involving a claim, complaint, etc., by one party against another; suit at law.
- lewisia — any of various perennial herbs of the genus Lewisia of the family Portulacaceae, which are native to western North America and which have pink or white flowers
- lichway — a path used to carry a coffin into a church or to burial
- lifeway — a way of life; a manner of living.
- manwise — in the manner of a human being: The dog stood on his hind legs and walked manwise.
- mapwise — from a mapping point of view
- mawkins — Plural form of mawkin.
- mawkish — characterized by sickly sentimentality; weakly emotional; maudlin.
- mawning — Eye dialect of morning, representing non-rhotic.
- meawing — Present participle of meaw.
- miaowed — Simple past tense and past participle of miaow.
- midways — Plural form of midway.
- misdraw — to cause to move in a particular direction by or as if by a pulling force; pull; drag (often followed by along, away, in, out, or off).
- miswart — /mis-wort/ [By analogy with misbug] A feature that superficially appears to be a wart but has been determined to be the Right Thing. For example, in some versions of the Emacs text editor, the "transpose characters" command exchanges the character under the cursor with the one before it on the screen, *except* when the cursor is at the end of a line, in which case the two characters before the cursor are exchanged. While this behaviour is perhaps surprising, and certainly inconsistent, it has been found through extensive experimentation to be what most users want. This feature is a miswart.
- mwalimu — a teacher
- nowacki — ErrorTitleDiv {.
- ojibway — Ojibwa.
- okinawa — the largest of the Ryukyu Islands, in the N Pacific, SW of Japan: taken by U.S. forces April–June 1945 in the last major amphibious campaign of World War II. 544 sq. mi. (1409 sq. km).
- outwait — to surpass in waiting or expecting; wait longer than.
- pawning — to deposit as security, as for money borrowed, especially with a pawnbroker: He raised the money by pawning his watch.
- peishwa — a leader of the Maratha people
- pickmaw — a type of gull with a black head
- pigwash — slops used to feed pigs
- pinwale — (of a fabric, especially corduroy) having very thin wales.
- pit saw — a large saw used, esp. formerly, to cut timber lengthwise and worked by two men, one standing above the log, the other in a pit below it
- qawwali — a style of Sufi devotional music marked by rhythmic improvisatory repetition of a short phrase, intended to rouse participants to a state of mystical ecstasy.
- railway — a rail line with lighter-weight equipment and roadbed than a main-line railroad.
- rainbow — a bow or arc of prismatic colors appearing in the heavens opposite the sun and caused by the refraction and reflection of the sun's rays in drops of rain. Compare primary rainbow, secondary rainbow.
- rawhide — untanned skin of cattle or other animals.
- rawlins — a town in S Wyoming.
- ridgway — Matthew Bunker, 1895–1993, U.S. army general: chief of staff 1953–55.
- ringtaw — a game of marbles in which players attempt to knock other players' marbles out of a ring
- rip-saw — a saw for cutting wood with the grain.
- saginaw — a port in E Michigan, on the Saginaw River.
- sahiwal — a breed of cattle in India
- saw pit — a place for pit sawing.
- saw-pit — a place for pit sawing.
- sawbill — any of various hummingbirds of the genus Ramphodon
- sawfish — a large, elongated ray of the genus Pristis, living along tropical coasts and lowland rivers, with a bladelike snout bearing strong teeth on each side.
- sawmill — a place or building in which timber is sawed into planks, boards, etc., by machinery.
- seawife — a variety of sea fish which is tropical, brightly coloured and has spiny fins
- semiraw — (of food) not fully cooked; (of materials) not fully processed; raw to some degree
- shawlie — a working-class woman, esp one who wears a shawl
- shipway — the structure that supports a ship being built.
- sideway — a byway.
- ski wax — a substance put on the base of a ski to increase the freezing point of water on the base of the ski
- skidway — a road or path formed of logs, planks, etc., for sliding objects.
- skiwear — activewear designed to be worn for skiing, as jackets, sweaters, and pants.