8-letter words containing p, w, a
- wardship — guardianship; custody.
- warlpiri — an Aboriginal language of central Australia
- warpaint — A pigment or paint traditionally used in some societies, especially those of North American Indians, to decorate the face and body before battle.
- warplane — an airplane designed for, or used in, warfare.
- warpower — the ability to wage war
- warpwise — in a vertical direction; at right angles to the filling; lengthwise.
- warships — Plural form of warship.
- wasplike — any of numerous social or solitary hymenopterous insects of the Vespidae, Sphecidae, and allied families, generally having a long, slender body and narrow waist and, in the female, a stinger.
- waspnest — the nest of a wasp
- waterpot — A pot or jug for holding water.
- waterpox — chickenpox
- wavetops — Plural form of wavetop.
- wax palm — a tall, pinnate-leaved palm, Ceroxylon alpinum (or C. andicola), of the Andes, whose stem and leaves yield a resinous wax.
- waxplant — a shrubby climbing plant, Hoya carnosa, of the milkweed family, native to Australia, with umbels of waxy pink or white flowers.
- way port — a port of call on a particular route
- waypoint — a place or point between major points on a route.
- weaponed — Armed with a weapon.
- weaponry — weapons or weaponlike instruments collectively.
- web page — a single, usually hypertext document on the World Wide Web that can incorporate text, graphics, sounds, etc.
- webpages — Plural form of webpage.
- webspace — (computing, Internet) Disk space used to store webpages and other content that can be accessed through the Web.
- wet pack — a type of bath in which wet sheets are applied to the patient.
- whapping — whopping.
- whipjack — a beggar imitating a distressed sailor
- whiplash — the lash of a whip.
- whipsaws — Plural form of whipsaw.
- whiptail — any of numerous New World lizards of the family Teiidae, especially of the genus Cnemidophorus, characterized by great agility and alertness.
- whitecap — a wave with a broken and foaming white crest.
- whompage — (rare humorous slang) Whomping or whomping on; acts of whomping or whomping on, taken collectively.
- wind gap — a cut that indents only the upper part of a mountain ridge, usually a former water gap.
- wingspan — the distance between the wing tips of an airplane.
- wipeable — able to be wiped
- wiretaps — Plural form of wiretap.
- with pay — with wages or salary included
- wolfpack — A family or other group of wild wolves.
- woodwasp — Any of various unrelated insects of the suborder Symphyta (the sawflies, not true wasps), whose larvae are found in wood.
- woolpack — a coarse fabric, usually of jute, in which raw wool is packed for transport.
- wordplay — clever or subtle repartee; verbal wit.
- wrapover — (of a garment, esp a skirt) not sewn up at one side, but worn wrapped round the body and fastened so that the open edges overlap
- wrappage — The act of wrapping.
- wrappers — Plural form of wrapper.
- wrapping — something to be wrapped about the person, especially in addition to the usual indoor clothing, as a shawl, scarf, or sweater: an evening wrap.
- \uparrow — (character) An upward pointing arrow in LaTeX. See closure.