8-letter words containing t, w, a
- hovawart — a medium-sized strongly-built dog of a breed with a long thick coat, a thick tuft of hair round the neck, and a long bushy tail
- huntaway — a sheep dog.
- interwar — occurring during a period of peace between two wars, especially between World War I and World War II.
- jet wash — Aeronautics. the backwash caused by a jet engine.
- katowice — a city in S Poland.
- kawabata — Yasunari [yah-soo-nah-ree] /ˈyɑ sʊˈnɑ ri/ (Show IPA), 1899–1972, Japanese novelist and short-story writer: Nobel Prize 1968.
- keewatin — a district in the Northwest Territories, in N Canada. 228,160 sq. mi. (590,935 sq. km).
- kilowatt — a unit of power, equal to 1000 watts. Abbreviation: kW, kw.
- knitwear — clothing made of knitted fabric.
- kwakiutl — a member of a North American Indian people of Vancouver Island and the adjacent British Columbian coast.
- kwantung — Older Spelling. Guandong.
- latewood — Wood formed in a tree relatively late in the season.
- lathwork — work made of laths
- law term — an expression or word used in law
- lawcourt — a court of law
- lawsuits — Plural form of lawsuit.
- leadwort — any plant or shrub of the genus Plumbago, having spikes of blue, white, or red flowers.
- leftward — Also, leftwards. toward or on the left.
- low-rate — to place a low value on: a policy of low-rating most modern artists.
- madworts — Plural form of madwort.
- mae west — Benjamin, 1738–1820, U.S. painter, in England after 1763.
- maltworm — a heavy drinker
- 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.
- mawmetry — idolatry
- meatware — Less common synonym for wetware.
- megawatt — a unit of power, equal to one million watts. Abbreviation: MW.
- midwatch — middle watch.
- midwater — The part of a body of water near neither the bottom nor the surface.
- moratuwa — a city in W Sri Lanka.
- mostwhat — most
- motorway — an expressway.
- nanowatt — a unit of power equal to one billionth of a watt
- new math — a unified, sequential system of teaching arithmetic and mathematics in accord with set theory so as to reveal basic concepts: used in some U.S. schools, especially in the 1960s and 1970s.
- new talk — ntalk
- newsbeat — beat (def 40b).
- newscast — a broadcast of news on radio or television.
- 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.
- nottaway — a river in SW Quebec, Canada, flowing NW to James Bay. 140 miles (225 km) long.
- nottoway — a river in S Virginia, flowing SE to the Blackwater River at the North Carolina border. 170 miles (274 km) long.
- now that — at the present time or moment: You are now using a dictionary.
- oak wilt — a disease of oaks, characterized by wilting and discoloration of the leaves and defoliation, usually starting at and spreading from the top of the tree and the ends of the branches, caused by a fungus, Chalara quercina.
- on watch — If someone is on watch, they have the job of carefully looking and listening, often while other people are asleep and often as a military duty, so that they can warn them of danger or an attack.
- outbrawl — to defeat in a brawl
- outcrawl — to crawl further than or faster than
- outlawed — a lawless person or habitual criminal, especially one who is a fugitive from the law.
- outlawry — the act or process of outlawing.
- 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.
- outwaste — to squander or use up wastefully