8-letter words containing i, r, a, w
- swimwear — clothing designed to be worn for swimming or at a beach.
- swingarm — the main part of the rear suspension on a motorcycle
- tarwhine — a bream, Rhabdosargus sarba, of E Australia, silver in colour with gold streaks
- thrawing — British Dialect. to throw.
- trainway — a railway track; the channel in a built-up area through which a train passes
- trawling — fishing using a trawl net or trawl line
- two pair — a set of two cards of the same denomination together with another matched set of different denomination from the first.
- unixware — (operating system) Novell's implementation of Unix System 5 heavily based on Release 4.2 but with enhancements and new bundled products. In 1993 Novell acquired Unix Systems Laboratories from AT&T along with the Unix trademark. UnixWare was the result of Novell's efforts to make Unix interoperable with Novell NetWare. In 1995 Novell sold UnixWare and the rights to the Unix operating system to SCO at a time when UnixWare was gainnig popularity. It was later the first 64-bit operating system on the Intel platform, and, in 1999, is the world's fastest-growing commercial operating system.
- unwarily — not wary; not cautious or watchful, as against danger or misfortune.
- wafering — Present participle of wafer.
- wagering — Present participle of wager.
- waitered — a person, especially a man, who waits on tables, as in a restaurant.
- waitress — a woman who waits on tables, as in a restaurant.
- waitrons — Plural form of waitron.
- waivered — Allowed by waiver; permitted by exception granted from otherwise applicable rules.
- wakerife — wakeful.
- walkyrie — Valkyrie.
- wanweird — (dialectal, chiefly Scotland) Misfortune; ill or unhappy fate.
- warbling — to sing or whistle with trills, quavers, or melodic embellishments: The canary warbled most of the day.
- wardship — guardianship; custody.
- 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.
- wariment — caution
- wariness — the state or quality of being wary.
- warisons — Plural form of warison.
- warlpiri — an Aboriginal language of central Australia
- warnings — Plural form of warning.
- warpaint — A pigment or paint traditionally used in some societies, especially those of North American Indians, to decorate the face and body before battle.
- warpwise — in a vertical direction; at right angles to the filling; lengthwise.
- warrigal — dingo.
- warriors — Plural form of warrior.
- warships — Plural form of warship.
- wastrife — wastefulness
- waterily — In a watery manner.
- watering — a transparent, odorless, tasteless liquid, a compound of hydrogen and oxygen, H 2 O, freezing at 32°F or 0°C and boiling at 212°F or 100°C, that in a more or less impure state constitutes rain, oceans, lakes, rivers, etc.: it contains 11.188 percent hydrogen and 88.812 percent oxygen, by weight.
- waterish — somewhat, or tending to be, watery.
- waterski — Each of a pair of skis enabling the wearer to skim the surface of the water when towed by a motorboat.
- wavering — to sway to and fro; flutter: Foliage wavers in the breeze.
- waywiser — a device formerly used for measuring distance travelled by road
- weariest — Superlative form of weary.
- weariful — full of weariness; fatigued; exhausted.
- wearying — Causing tiredness; tiring.
- whakairo — the art of carving
- wharenui — An ornamental Maori meeting house representing the body of a tupuna, forming part of the larger marae complex.
- wharfing — Wharfs collectively.
- whinyard — a sword
- whirlbat — a weapon used in medieval times
- whitaker — a male given name.
- whitrack — a weasel; ermine or stoat.
- wigmaker — a person who makes or sells wigs.