8-letter words containing s, w, a
- hiwassee — a river in NE Georgia, SW North Carolina, and SE Tennessee, flowing N to the Tennessee River. 150 miles (241 km) long.
- hoistway — a shaft for a hoist or a lift
- hole saw — crown saw.
- horseway — a bridleway
- inweaves — Third-person singular simple present indicative form of inweave.
- jackdaws — Plural form of jackdaw.
- jawbones — Plural form of jawbone.
- jawlines — Plural form of jawline.
- jaywalks — Third-person singular simple present indicative form of jaywalk.
- jet wash — Aeronautics. the backwash caused by a jet engine.
- jigsawed — Simple past tense and past participle of jigsaw.
- kawasaki — a seaport on SE Honshu, in central Japan, SW of Tokyo.
- kickshaw — a tidbit or delicacy, especially one served as an appetizer or hors d'oeuvre.
- kurosawa — Akira [ah-kee-rah] /ɑˈki rɑ/ (Show IPA), 1910–1998, Japanese film director.
- landwash — the foreshore, especially that part between high and low tidemarks.
- laneways — Plural form of laneway.
- lapwings — Plural form of lapwing.
- lawsuits — Plural form of lawsuit.
- leewards — towards the lee side
- lewisham — a borough of Greater London, England.
- limewash — A mixture of slaked lime in water.
- longways — longwise.
- low mass — a Mass that is said, and not sung, by the celebrant, who is assisted by one server, and which has less ceremonial form than a High Mass, using no music or choir.
- lowlands — land that is low or level, in comparison with the adjacent country.
- madworts — Plural form of madwort.
- mae west — Benjamin, 1738–1820, U.S. painter, in England after 1763.
- manswear — (transitive, UK dialectal) To swear falsely; perjure oneself.
- mansworn — Past participle of manswear.
- matthews — one of the four Evangelists, a customs collector from Capernaum, summoned to be one of the 12 apostles: originally called Levi. Matt. 9:9–13.
- maxwells — Plural form of maxwell.
- mayweeds — Plural form of mayweed.
- menswear — men's wear.
- misaward — to award wrongly
- misdrawn — 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).
- mostwhat — most
- mud wasp — any of several wasps, as the mud dauber, that construct a nest of mud.
- narwhals — Plural form of narwhal.
- nasarawa — a state of Nigeria, in the centre east of Abuja. Capital: Lafia. Pop: 1 863 275(2006). Area: 27 117 sq km (10 470 sq miles)
- newlands — John Alexander. 1838–98, British chemist: classified the elements in order of their atomic weight, noticing similarities in every eighth and thus discovering his law of octaves
- newsbeat — beat (def 40b).
- newscast — a broadcast of news on radio or television.
- newshawk — a newspaper reporter, especially one who is energetic and aggressive.
- newslady — A newswoman.
- newspeak — (sometimes initial capital letter) an official or semiofficial style of writing or saying one thing in the guise of its opposite, especially in order to serve a political or ideological cause while pretending to be objective, as in referring to “increased taxation” as “revenue enhancement.”.
- no sweat — Informal. (of clothes) made to be worn for exercise, sports, or other physical activity. made of the absorbent fabric used for such clothes: sweat dresses. of, for, or associated with such clothes: the sweat look in sportswear.
- no-sweat — requiring little effort; easy: a no-sweat job.
- nowadays — at the present day; in these times: Few people do their laundry by hand nowadays.
- oldsquaw — A marine diving duck that breeds in Arctic Eurasia and North America, the male having very long tail feathers and mainly white plumage in winter.
- outswear — to outdo in swearing.
- outwards — proceeding or directed toward the outside or exterior, or away from a central point: the outward flow of gold; the outward part of a voyage.