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Words containing p, w

2 letter words containing p, w

  • pw — per week

3 letter words containing p, w

  • dpw — Department of Public Works
  • dwp — Department for Work and Pensions
  • lwp — (programming)   light-weight process.
  • paw — father; pa.
  • pow — the head; poll.

4 letter words containing p, w

  • gawp — to stare with the mouth open in wonder or astonishment; gape: Crowds stood gawping at the disabled ship.
  • jawp — a splash, spurt, or drop of water.
  • pawl — a pivoted bar adapted to engage with the teeth of a ratchet wheel or the like so as to prevent movement or to impart motion.
  • pawn — to deposit as security, as for money borrowed, especially with a pawnbroker: He raised the money by pawning his watch.
  • paws — father; pa.

5 letter words containing p, w

  • cowps — Council on Wage and Price Stability
  • depewChauncey Mitchell, 1834–1928, U.S. lawyer, legislator, and orator.
  • papaw — pawpaw.
  • pawed — the foot of an animal having claws.
  • pawer — the foot of an animal having claws.

6 letter words containing p, w

  • aprowl — moving about in stealthy search; covertly stalking or hunting; prowling (usually used predicatively): The sudden silence in the jungle gave warning that some huge carnivore was aprowl.
  • beweep — to grieve for by weeping
  • bewept — to weep over (something): to beweep one's foolish mistakes.
  • blowup — an explosion
  • bowpot — a large vase or pot for cut flowers or small branches.

7 letter words containing p, w

  • antwerp — a province of N Belgium. Pop: 1 668 812 (2004 est). Area: 2859 sq km (1104 sq miles)
  • asprawl — in a lolling or sprawling manner
  • bearpaw — a clam of the genus Hippopus, having a ridged, white shell with purplish-red spots.
  • brewpub — a pub that incorporates a brewery on its premises
  • catspaw — a person used to serve the purposes of another; tool.

8 letter words containing p, w

  • backwrap — anything that can be wrapped around the back to provide back support or relieve back pain
  • blowlamp — A blowlamp is a device which produces a hot flame, and is used to heat metal or remove old paint.
  • blown-up — (of a picture, photograph, image, etc.) enlarged.
  • blowpipe — a long tube from which pellets, poisoned darts, etc, are shot by blowing
  • bowsprit — a spar projecting from the bow of a vessel, esp a sailing vessel, used to carry the headstay as far forward as possible

9 letter words containing p, w

  • alpenglow — a reddish light on the summits of snow-covered mountain peaks at sunset or sunrise
  • backswept — slanting backwards
  • bioweapon — Bioweapons are biological weapons.
  • blow-pipe — a tube through which a stream of air or gas is forced into a flame to concentrate and increase its heating action.
  • cat's-paw — a person used by another as a tool; dupe

10 letter words containing p, w

  • awl-shaped — shaped like an awl
  • bahawalpur — an industrial city in Pakistan: cotton, soap. Pop: 563 000 (2005 est)
  • bear's-paw — a clam of the genus Hippopus, having a ridged, white shell with purplish-red spots.
  • borrow-pit — a pit from which construction material, as sand or gravel, is taken for use as fill at another location.
  • brainpower — Brainpower is intelligence or the ability to think.

11 letter words containing p, w

  • alpha-waves — a pattern of slow brain waves (alpha waves) in normal persons at rest with closed eyes, thought by some to be associated with an alert but daydreaming mind.
  • amperes-law — the law that a magnetic field induced by an electric current is, at any point, directly proportional to the product of the current intensity and the length of the current conductor, inversely proportional to the square of the distance between the point and the conductor, and perpendicular to the plane joining the point and the conductor.
  • bandywallop — an imaginary town, far from civilization
  • campbeltown — a seaport on the Kintyre peninsula, in SW Scotland: resort.
  • camphorweed — vinegarweed.

12 letter words containing p, w

  • all-powerful — An all-powerful person or organization has the power to do anything they want.
  • athwartships — from one side to the other of a vessel at right angles to the keel
  • attawapiskat — a river in NE Ontario, Canada, flowing E and N to James Bay. 465 miles (748 km) long.
  • baden-powell — Robert Stephenson Smyth (smɪθ, smaɪθ), 1st Baron Baden-Powell. 1857–1941, British general, noted for his defence of Mafeking (1899–1900) in the Boer War; founder of the Boy Scouts (1908) and (with his sister Agnes) the Girl Guides (1910)
  • buying-power — Also called buying power. the ability to purchase goods and services.

13 letter words containing p, w

  • aperitif-wine — a small drink of alcoholic liquor taken to stimulate the appetite before a meal.
  • awe-inspiring — If you describe someone or something as awe-inspiring, you are emphasizing that you think that they are remarkable and amazing, although sometimes rather frightening.
  • bishop's-weed — goutweed.
  • cape-farewellCape, a cape in S Greenland: most southerly point of Greenland.
  • carpenterworm — the larva of the carpenterworm moth.

14 letter words containing p, w

  • bophuthatswana — (formerly) a Bantu homeland in N South Africa: consisted of six separate areas; declared independent by South Africa in 1977 although this was not internationally recognized; abolished in 1993. Capital: Mmabatho
  • carpet-sweeper — a household device with a revolving brush for sweeping carpets
  • compound-wound — noting an electric device in which part of the field circuit is in parallel with the armature circuit and part is in series with it.
  • disempowerment — to deprive of influence, importance, etc.: Voters feel they have become disempowered by recent political events.
  • dusting-powder — a powder used on the skin, especially to relieve irritation or absorb moisture.

15 letter words containing p, w

  • cross-ownership — ownership of two or more similar or related businesses, as communications media, especially in the same locality: to forbid cross-ownership of newspapers and TV or radio stations in the same city.
  • dishwasherproof — (of dishes, cooking utensils, etc.) able to withstand washing in an automatic dishwasher without breaking, chipping, fading, etc.
  • good-fellowship — a pleasant, convivial spirit; comradeship; geniality.
  • horsepower-hour — a foot-pound-second unit of energy or work, equal to the work done by a mechanism with a power output of one horsepower over a period of one hour.
  • phase-switching — a technique used in radio interferometry in which the signal from one of the two antennae is periodically reversed in phase before being multiplied by the signal from the other antenna

16 letter words containing p, w

  • packet-switching — a method of efficient data transmission whereby the initial message is broken into relatively small units, or packets, that are routed independently and subsequently reassembled.
  • pay-as-you-throw — denoting a system for waste collection in which households are charged according to the amount of refuse they leave
  • superheavyweight — an amateur boxer weighing more than 91 kg
  • well-appreciated — to be grateful or thankful for: They appreciated his thoughtfulness.
  • well-compensated — to recompense for something: They gave him ten dollars to compensate him for his trouble.

17 letter words containing p, w

18 letter words containing p, w

  • berwick-upon-tweed — a town in N England, in N Northumberland at the mouth of the Tweed: much involved in border disputes between England and Scotland between the 12th and 16th centuries; neutral territory 1551–1885. Pop: 12 870 (2001)
  • farewell-to-spring — a slender, showy plant, Clarkia amoena, of the evening primrose family, native to western North America, having satiny, cup-shaped, lilac-crimson or reddish-pink flowers and roundish fruit.

20 letter words containing p, w

  • llanfairpwllgwyngyll — a village in NW Wales, in SE Anglesey: reputed to be the longest place name in Great Britain when unabbreviated; means: St Mary's Church in the hollow of the white hazel near the rapid whirlpool of Llandysilio of the red cave
  • phillips-screwdriver — a screw head having two partial slots crossed at right angles, driven by a special screwdriver (Phillips screwdriver)
  • strawberry-raspberry — an arching, prickly, Japanese plant, Rubus illecebrosus, of the rose family, having an herbaceous stem, white, fragrant flowers, and large, edible, scarlet fruit.

22 letter words containing p, w

  • the-leaning-tower-pisa — a round, marble campanile in Pisa, Italy, begun in 1174 and now 17 feet (5.2 meters) out of the perpendicular in its height of 179 feet (54 meters).

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