7-letter words containing p, w, a
- saw pit — a place for pit sawing.
- saw-pit — a place for pit sawing.
- shipway — the structure that supports a ship being built.
- slipway — (in a shipyard) the area sloping toward the water, on which the ways are located.
- snowcap — a layer of snow forming a cap on or covering the top of something, as a mountain peak or ridge.
- sparrow — any of numerous American finches of the family Emberizinae. Compare chipping sparrow, song sparrow.
- sprawly — tending to sprawl; straggly: The colt's legs were long and sprawly.
- spurway — a path used by horse riders
- spyware — Computers. software that is installed surreptitiously and gathers information about an Internet user's browsing habits, intercepts the user's personal data, etc., transmitting this information to a third party: a parent's use of spyware to monitor a child's online activities.
- stewpan — a pan for stewing; saucepan.
- suppawn — cornmeal mush.
- swamped — a tract of wet, spongy land, often having a growth of certain types of trees and other vegetation, but unfit for cultivation.
- swamper — Informal. a person who inhabits, works in, or is exceptionally familiar with swamps.
- swanpan — a kind of abacus formerly used in China
- swapped — to exchange, barter, or trade, as one thing for another: He swapped his wrist watch for the radio.
- swapper — to exchange, barter, or trade, as one thing for another: He swapped his wrist watch for the radio.
- towpath — a path along the bank of a canal or river, for use in towing boats.
- upswarm — to rise or send upwards in a swarm
- upwards — toward a higher place or position: The birds flew upward.
- waipahu — a city in Hawaii, on S Oahu.
- wait up — to remain inactive or in a state of repose, as until something expected happens (often followed by for, till, or until): to wait for the bus to arrive.
- wake up — awake from sleep
- wake-up — a watching, or a watch kept, especially for some solemn or ceremonial purpose.
- walk-up — an apartment above the ground floor in a building that has no elevator.
- walkups — Plural form of walkup.
- wall up — If someone walls up a room, or if someone is walled up in it, walls are built blocking every door so that nobody can get in or out.
- wallops — Plural form of wallop.
- walpole — Horace, 4th Earl of Orford [awr-ferd] /ˈɔr fərd/ (Show IPA), (Horatio Walpole) 1717–97, English novelist and essayist (son of Sir Robert Walpole).
- wampish — to wave about or flop to and fro.
- wang pc — (computer) Personal computers made by Wang Laboratories. Wang's PCs had an operating system (based on MS-DOS) which was not compatible with the IBM PC. The Wang floppy disk format was compatible with the IBM PC. However, running an IBM "exe" program would generally crash a Wang PC unless a special Industry-Standard emulator program was running on the Wang. This program required the addition of a special card to the Wang PC. It enabled the Wang PC to run most, but not all, software written for the IBM PC. Most Wang software made use of two special keys: CANCEL and EXECUTE. These keys were used to carry out commands, make menu selections, and so on. The Wang OS was menu-driven.
- wanhope — anguish or despondency
- wapatoo — an arrowhead plant, Sagittaria latifolia.
- wapitis — Plural form of wapiti.
- wappend — fatigued; tired
- warm up — Informal. a warming: Sit by the fire and have a nice warm.
- warpage — to bend or twist out of shape, especially from a straight or flat form, as timbers or flooring.
- warpath — the path or course taken by American Indians on a warlike expedition.
- warping — to bend or twist out of shape, especially from a straight or flat form, as timbers or flooring.
- warship — a ship built or armed for combat purposes.
- wash up — the act or process of washing with water or other liquid: to give the car a wash.
- washpot — A pot which holds water for washing.
- waspdom — The state or essence of being a wasp.
- waspish — Waspy.
- wavetop — The top of a wave.
- wax cap — any fungus of the basidiomycetous family Hygrophoraceae, having thick waxy gills. Many are brightly coloured, like the parrot toadstool (Hygrophorus psittacinus), which is yellow with a covering of green slime, and the orange-red H. conicus
- waypost — A sign or other marker that indicates the way along a road or trail.
- weapons — Plural form of weapon.
- web pal — a person one meets and corresponds with over the internet
- webpage — a single, usually hypertext document on the World Wide Web that can incorporate text, graphics, sounds, etc.
- whample — a stroke; blow