8-letter words containing m, a, w
- mackinaw — a short double-breasted coat of a thick woolen material, commonly plaid.
- madwoman — a woman who is or behaves as if insane.
- madwomen — Plural form of madwoman.
- madworts — Plural form of madwort.
- mae west — Benjamin, 1738–1820, U.S. painter, in England after 1763.
- make way — manner, mode, or fashion: a new way of looking at a matter; to reply in a polite way.
- makework — Alternative form of make-work.
- malawian — Formerly Nyasaland. a republic in SE Africa, on the W and S shores of Lake Malawi: formerly a British protectorate and part of the Federation of Rhodesia and Nyasaland; gained independence July 6, 1964; a member of the Commonwealth of Nations. 49,177 sq. mi. (127,368 sq. km). Capital: Lilongwe.
- male cow — a bull.
- maltworm — a heavy drinker
- manpower — power in terms of people available or required for work or military service: the manpower of a country.
- manswear — (transitive, UK dialectal) To swear falsely; perjure oneself.
- mansworn — Past participle of manswear.
- manwhore — (slang) A man who sells his body for money; a male prostitute.
- mar-hawk — a falconer who trains or handles the birds badly.
- markdown — a reduction in price, usually to encourage buying.
- 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.
- mawbound — (of cattle) constipated
- mawmetry — idolatry
- maxwells — Plural form of maxwell.
- may wine — a punch consisting typically of Alsatian, Moselle, or Rhine wine, flavored with woodruff.
- mayweeds — Plural form of mayweed.
- mealworm — the larva of any of several darkling beetles of the genus Tenebrio, which infests granaries and is used as food for birds and animals.
- meatware — Less common synonym for wetware.
- megawatt — a unit of power, equal to one million watts. Abbreviation: MW.
- menswear — men's wear.
- merwoman — A mermaid.
- micawber — a person who idles and trusts to fortune
- midwatch — middle watch.
- midwater — The part of a body of water near neither the bottom nor the surface.
- mindware — The mental knowledge and procedures that a person uses to solve problems or make decisions.
- misaward — to award wrongly
- misdrawn — 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).
- moldwarp — the common European mole, Talpa europaea.
- moonwalk — an exploratory walk by an astronaut on the surface of the moon.
- moonward — Also, moonwards. toward the moon: turned their eyes moonward.
- moratuwa — a city in W Sri Lanka.
- mostwhat — most
- motorway — an expressway.
- mud wasp — any of several wasps, as the mud dauber, that construct a nest of mud.
- mulloway — a large Australian saltwater fish, Sciaena antarctica. regarded as a culinary delicacy.
- muzorewa — Abel (Tendekayi) (ˈeibəl) 1925–2010, Zimabwean Methodist bishop and politician; president of the African National Council (1971–85). He was one of the negotiators of an internal settlement (1978–79); prime minister of Rhodesia (1979)
- 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.
- overwarm — to make too warm
- penwoman — a female writer
- pomwater — a kind of sharp-tasting apple
- pow camp — Prisoner of War camp: a place where soldiers who have been captured by their enemy during a war are kept as prisoners until the end of the war
- raw milk — unpasteurized milk
- raw mode — (operating system) A mode that allows a program to transfer bits directly to or from an I/O device without any processing, abstraction, or interpretation by the operating system. Systems that make this distinction for a disk file are generally regarded as broken. Compare rare mode, cooked mode.
- rawmaish — foolish or exaggerated talk; nonsense