8-letter words containing k, w, a
- saltwork — place where salt is refined
- 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
- seatwork — work that can be done by a child at his or her seat in school without supervision.
- sidewalk — a walk, especially a paved one, at the side of a street or road.
- skewback — a sloping surface against which the end of an arch rests.
- skewbald — (especially of horses) having patches of brown and white.
- ski-wear — clothes that are intended for skiing
- skil saw — a portable electric saw
- sky wave — a radio wave propagated upward from earth, whether reflected by the ionosphere or not.
- slowback — a laggard, idler or lazy person
- snowbank — a mound of snow, as a snowdrift or snow shoveled from a road or sidewalk.
- snowpack — the accumulation of winter snowfall, especially in mountain or upland regions.
- soakaway — a pit filled with rubble, etc, into which rain or waste water drains
- squawked — to utter a loud, harsh cry, as a duck or other fowl when frightened.
- squawker — to utter a loud, harsh cry, as a duck or other fowl when frightened.
- stickjaw — a food item that is difficult to chew such as toffee
- swanskin — the skin of a swan, with the feathers on.
- swastika — a figure used as a symbol or an ornament in the Old World and in America since prehistoric times, consisting of a cross with arms of equal length, each arm having a continuation at right angles.
- swayback — an excessive downward curvature of the spinal column in the dorsal region, especially of horses.
- takeaway — something taken back or away, especially an employee benefit that is eliminated or substantially reduced by the terms of a union contract.
- takedown — made or constructed so as to be easily dismantled or disassembled.
- taskwork — work assigned or imposed as a task.
- teakwood — the wood of the teak.
- teamwork — cooperative or coordinated effort on the part of a group of persons acting together as a team or in the interests of a common cause.
- the skaw — a cape at the N tip of Denmark
- tokugawa — a member of a powerful family in Japan that ruled as shoguns, 1603–1867.
- tomahawk — a light ax used by the North American Indians as a weapon and tool.
- trackway — railway (def 3).
- tweaking — to pinch and pull with a jerk and twist: to tweak someone's ear; to tweak someone's nose.
- two-pack — (of a paint, filler, etc) supplied as two separate components, for example a base and a catalyst, that are mixed together immediately before use
- unwalked — to advance or travel on foot at a moderate speed or pace; proceed by steps; move by advancing the feet alternately so that there is always one foot on the ground in bipedal locomotion and two or more feet on the ground in quadrupedal locomotion.
- wabanaki — Abenaki.
- wackiest — Superlative form of wacky.
- waesucks — alas
- waiflike — Resembling a waif; apparently homeless, starving, etc.
- wakashan — a family of American Indian languages spoken in British Columbia and Washington and including especially Kwakiutl and Nootka.
- wakayama — a seaport on S Honshu, in S Japan.
- wakeless — (of sleep) sound; deep: He lay in wakeless sleep.
- wakening — awakening.
- wakeover — A sleepover party in a public place, such as a church, at which little or no sleep actually gets done.
- wakerife — wakeful.
- waldwick — a city in N New Jersey.
- walk off — an act or instance of walking or going on foot.
- walk out — an act or instance of walking or going on foot.
- walk-off — a person who escapes easily, especially by walking away from a place of detention; a walkaway: The guards rounded up the walk-offs from the prison farm.
- walk-out — an act or instance of walking or going on foot.
- walkable — capable of being traveled, crossed, or covered by walking: a walkable road; a walkable distance.
- walkaway — an easy victory or conquest.
- walkdown — a store, living quarters, etc., located below the street level and approached by a flight of steps: It was a dimly lit walk-down optimistically called a garden apartment.
- walkless — (baseball) Without a walk.