8-letter words containing r, a, w
- waxworks — an exhibition of or a museum for displaying wax figures, ornaments, etc.
- way port — a port of call on a particular route
- wayboard — a thin geological seam separating larger strata
- waycross — a city in SE Georgia.
- wayfarer — a traveler, especially on foot.
- waymarks — Plural form of waymark.
- waywiser — a device formerly used for measuring distance travelled by road
- weakener — A person who, or thing that weakens.
- weaponry — weapons or weaponlike instruments collectively.
- wear off — to carry or have on the body or about the person as a covering, equipment, ornament, or the like: to wear a coat; to wear a saber; to wear a disguise.
- wear out — the act of wearing; use, as of a garment: articles for winter wear; I've had a lot of wear out of this coat; I had to throw away the shirt after only three wears.
- wear-out — the act or fact of wearing out; a worn-out condition: wear-out at the knees of pants.
- wearable — capable of being worn; appropriate, suitable, or ready for wearing: old shoes that are still wearable.
- weariest — Superlative form of weary.
- weariful — full of weariness; fatigued; exhausted.
- wearying — Causing tiredness; tiring.
- weathers — Third-person singular simple present indicative form of weather.
- web farm — a large website that uses two or more servers to handle user requests
- webboard — an internet site where users can post messages, tutorials, information, and topics for discussion
- wellfare — Obsolete form of welfare.
- werebear — (fiction) A shapeshifter who can change between bear and human form.
- westenra — Hayley (Dee). born 1987, New Zealand singer, known for the purity of her voice in many musical genres
- westward — moving, bearing, facing, or situated toward the west: a westward migration of farm workers.
- whakairo — the art of carving
- wharenui — An ornamental Maori meeting house representing the body of a tupuna, forming part of the larger marae complex.
- wharfage — the use of a wharf: to charge higher rates for wharfage.
- wharfing — Wharfs collectively.
- wharfman — A man who works on a wharf.
- wharves' — a structure built on the shore of or projecting into a harbor, stream, etc., so that vessels may be moored alongside to load or unload or to lie at rest; quay; pier.
- what for — the true nature or identity of something, or the sum of its characteristics: a lecture on the whats and hows of crop rotation.
- whatever — in any amount; to any extent: whatever merit the work has.
- wheatear — any of several small, chiefly Old World thrushes of the genus Oenanthe, having a distinctive white rump, especially O. oenanthe, of Eurasia and North America.
- whinyard — a sword
- whirlbat — a weapon used in medieval times
- whitaker — a male given name.
- whitrack — a weasel; ermine or stoat.
- wigmaker — a person who makes or sells wigs.
- wildcard — (computing) A character that takes the place of any other character or string that is not known or specified.
- willaert — Adrian [ey-dree-uh n,, ah-dree-ahn] /ˈeɪ dri ən,, ˈɑ driˌɑn/ (Show IPA), c1480–1562, Flemish composer.
- willyard — obstinate; willful.
- windfarm — a large grouping of wind generators or wind plants located at a site having dependable strong winds.
- windward — toward the wind; toward the point from which the wind blows.
- wine bar — a bar, especially of a café or restaurant, that features a variety of wines served by the glass.
- wing bar — a line of contrasting color along the coverts of a bird's wing.
- wiredraw — to draw (metal) out into wire, especially by pulling forcibly through a series of holes of gradually decreasing diameter in a succession of dies.
- wirehair — a fox terrier having a wiry coat.
- wiretaps — Plural form of wiretap.
- wiseacre — a person who possesses or affects to possess great wisdom.
- wistaria — Alternative spelling of wisteria.
- wisteria — any climbing shrub belonging to the genus Wisteria, of the legume family, having showy, pendent clusters of blue-violet, white, purple, or rose flowers.