7-letter words containing u, a, w
- unwaged — not paid a salary
- unwater — to remove or drain water from
- unwaxed — not treated with wax, esp of oranges or lemons, not sprayed with a protective coating of wax
- unwayed — having no routes, ways, or paths
- unweary — physically or mentally exhausted by hard work, exertion, strain, etc.; fatigued; tired: weary eyes; a weary brain.
- unweave — to undo, take apart, or separate (something woven); unravel.
- unwoman — to remove womanly qualities from
- upswarm — to rise or send upwards in a swarm
- upwards — toward a higher place or position: The birds flew upward.
- waesuck — alas
- wafture — the act of wafting.
- wailful — mournful; plaintive.
- wailuku — a town on NW Maui, in central Hawaii.
- 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.
- wakeful — unable to sleep; not sleeping; indisposed to sleep: Excitement made the children wakeful.
- walk-up — an apartment above the ground floor in a building that has no elevator.
- walkout — a strike by workers.
- walkups — Plural form of walkup.
- walkure — See The Ring of the Nibelung.
- 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.
- walnuts — Plural form of walnut.
- wameful — a bellyful
- wanaque — a town in NE New Jersey.
- wantful — Full of want or lack; lacking; poor.
- warburg — Otto Heinrich [awt-oh hahyn-rikh] /ˈɔt oʊ ˈhaɪn rɪx/ (Show IPA), 1883–1970, German physiologist: Nobel Prize in medicine 1931.
- wareful — (obsolete) wary; watchful; cautious.
- warehou — (New Zealand) Any of the three medusafishes Seriolella brama (the common warehou), Seriolella caerulea (the white warehou), and Seriolella punctata (the silver warehou).
- warm up — Informal. a warming: Sit by the fire and have a nice warm.
- warmful — (archaic) Full of warmth; warming.
- wash up — the act or process of washing with water or other liquid: to give the car a wash.
- washout — a washing out of earth, gravel, etc., by water, as from an embankment or a roadway by heavy rain or by a flash flood.
- washtub — a tub for use in washing clothes, linens, etc.
- watauga — a town in N Texas.
- watteau — Jean Antoine [zhahn ahn-twan] /ʒɑ̃ ɑ̃ˈtwan/ (Show IPA), 1684–1721, French painter.
- way-out — advanced in style or technique: way-out jazz.
- windaus — Adolf [ah-dawlf] /ˈɑ dɔlf/ (Show IPA), 1876–1959, German chemist: Nobel prize 1928.
- wouldja — Eye dialect of would you.
- wourali — curare.
- wrap up — something to be wrapped about the person, especially in addition to the usual indoor clothing, as a shawl, scarf, or sweater: an evening wrap.
- wrap-up — a final report or summary: a wrap-up of the evening news.
- wuchang — Pinyin, Wade-Giles. a former city in E Hubei province, in E China: now part of Wuhan.
- wudjula — a non-Aboriginal person
- wulfila — Ulfilas.
- yawnful — causing or arousing yawns, especially as the result of boredom, tedium, or the like: a yawnful story about her childhood.
- zwickau — a city in W Saxony, in E Germany.