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8-letter words containing p, w, a

  • picowave — to irradiate (food) with gamma rays in order to retard spoilage.
  • pit-sawn — (of timber, esp formerly) sawn into planks by hand in a saw-pit
  • playdown — a play-off.
  • playwear — playclothes.
  • plowback — a reinvestment of earnings or profits in a business enterprise.
  • poleward — Also, polewards. toward a pole of the earth; toward the North or South Pole.
  • pomwater — a kind of sharp-tasting apple
  • poor law — a law or system of laws providing for the relief or support of the poor at public expense.
  • post-war — following a major conflict
  • 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
  • powhatan — a member of any of the Indian tribes belonging to the Powhatan Confederacy.
  • pre-dawn — the period immediately preceding dawn.
  • pre-draw — 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).
  • predrawn — 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).
  • put away — to move or place (anything) so as to get it into or out of a specific location or position: to put a book on the shelf.
  • rawlplug — a short fibre or plastic tube used to provide a fixing in a wall for a screw
  • ropewalk — a long, narrow path or building where ropes are made.
  • sea wasp — any of various highly poisonous stinging jellyfishes of the order Cubomedusae, of tropical seas.
  • sea whip — a gorgonian coral that forms a flexible colony resembling shrubbery on the ocean floor.
  • slipware — pottery decorated with slip.
  • snow pea — a variety of the common pea, Pisum sativum macrocarpon, having thin, flat, edible pods that are used in cookery.
  • snowpack — the accumulation of winter snowfall, especially in mountain or upland regions.
  • soapwort — a plant, Saponaria officinalis, of the pink family, whose leaves are used for cleansing.
  • southpaw — a person who is left-handed.
  • spa town — a town where water comes out of the ground and people come to drink it or lie in it because they think it will improve their health
  • spacewar — (games)   A space-combat simulation game for the PDP-1 written in 1960-61 by Steve Russell, an employee at MIT. SPACEWAR was inspired by E. E. "Doc" Smith's "Lensman" books, in which two spaceships duel around a central sun, shooting torpedoes at each other and jumping through hyperspace. MIT were wondering what to do with a new vector video display so Steve wrote the world's first video game. Steve now lives in California and still writes software for HC12 emulators. SPACEWAR aficionados formed the core of the early hacker culture at MIT. Nine years later, a descendant of the game motivated Ken Thompson to build, in his spare time on a scavenged PDP-7, the operating system that became Unix. Less than nine years after that, SPACEWAR was commercialised as one of the first video games; descendants are still feeping in video arcades everywhere.
  • spaewife — a woman who foretells the future
  • span-new — brand-new.
  • spanghew — to throw into the air
  • spanworm — measuringworm.
  • spawning — Zoology. the mass of eggs deposited by fishes, amphibians, mollusks, crustaceans, etc.
  • speedway — a town in central Indiana.
  • spillway — a passageway through which surplus water escapes from a reservoir, lake, or the like.
  • sprawled — to be stretched or spread out in an unnatural or ungraceful manner: The puppy's legs sprawled in all directions.
  • spunware — objects formed by spinning.
  • swagshop — a shop selling cheap goods
  • swamphen — any of several large Old World gallinules varying from purple to white, all possibly belonging to the single species Porphyrio porphyrio.
  • swamping — a tract of wet, spongy land, often having a growth of certain types of trees and other vegetation, but unfit for cultivation.
  • swapping — to exchange, barter, or trade, as one thing for another: He swapped his wrist watch for the radio.
  • swaption — A swaption is an over-the-counter option on a swap.
  • tapeworm — any of various flat or tapelike worms of the class Cestoidea, lacking an alimentary canal, and parasitic when adult in the alimentary canal of humans and other vertebrates: the larval and adult stages are usually in different hosts.
  • towplane — an aeroplane that tows gliders
  • two pair — a set of two cards of the same denomination together with another matched set of different denomination from the first.
  • 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
  • unwarped — not warped, as a phonograph record or flooring.
  • unweapon — to remove weapons from; disarm
  • wahpeton — a member of a North American Indian people belonging to the Santee branch of the Dakota.
  • waldrapp — the hermit ibis, Geronticus eremita, found in parts of N Africa and the Middle East
  • walloped — to beat soundly; thrash.
  • walloper — to beat soundly; thrash.
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