8-letter words containing u, a, w
- agueweed — a North American gentianaceous plant, Gentiana quinquefolia, that has clusters of pale blue-violet or white flowers
- aquashow — an exhibition of swimming and diving, often accompanied by music
- ats&gwtu — All Trinidad Sugar and General Workers Trade Union
- autoflow — (transitive, computing) To flow (text) automatically.
- awfulest — Superlative form of awful.
- awfulize — (psychotherapy) To react dramatically or catastrophically to distressing events.
- bawl out — If someone bawls you out, they shout at you angrily because you have done something wrong.
- blue law — any of the strict puritanical laws prevalent in colonial New England
- bulawayo — a city in SW Zimbabwe founded (1893) on the site of the kraal of Lobengula, the last Matabele king; the country's main industrial centre. Pop: 693 000 (2005 est)
- bundwall — a concrete or earth wall surrounding a storage tank containing crude oil or its refined product, designed to hold the contents of the tank in the event of a rupture or leak
- bungalow — A bungalow is a house which has only one level, and no stairs.
- bungwall — an Australian fern, Blechnum indicum, having an edible rhizome
- bushwalk — to hike through bushland
- buzz saw — a power-operated circular saw
- buzz-saw — a power-operated circular saw, so named because of the noise it makes.
- causeway — A causeway is a raised path or road that crosses water or wet land.
- cpu wars — /C-P-U worz/ A 1979 large-format comic by Chas Andres chronicling the attempts of the brainwashed androids of IPM (Impossible to Program Machines) to conquer and destroy the peaceful denizens of HEC (Human Engineered Computers). This rather transparent allegory featured many references to ADVENT and the immortal line "Eat flaming death, minicomputer mongrels!" (uttered, of course, by an IPM stormtrooper). It is alleged that the author subsequently received a letter of appreciation on IBM company stationery from the head of IBM's Thomas J. Watson Research Laboratories (then, as now, one of the few islands of true hackerdom in the IBM archipelago). The lower loop of the B in the IBM logo, it is said, had been carefully whited out. See eat flaming death.
- crudware — /kruhd'weir/ Pejorative term for the hundreds of megabytes of low-quality freeware circulated by user's groups and BBSs in the micro-hobbyist world.
- curassow — any gallinaceous ground-nesting bird of the family Cracidae, of S North, Central, and South America. Curassows have long legs and tails and, typically, a distinctive crest of curled feathers
- cutaways — Plural form of cutaway.
- cutwater — the forward part of the stem of a vessel, which cuts through the water
- downhaul — any of various lines for pulling down a sail or a yard, as for securing in a lowered position when not in use.
- draw out — 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).
- drawtube — a tube sliding within another tube, as the tube carrying the eyepiece in a microscope.
- duckwalk — Walk with the body in a squatting posture.
- fauxhawk — An imitation of the Mohawk (=UK Mohican) hairstyle in which a central tuft is created using gel without having to shave the sides of the head.
- four-way — providing access or passage in four directions: a four-way entrance.
- fud wars — /fuhd worz/ Political posturing, intended to create FUD, engaged in by hardware and software vendors ostensibly committed to standardisation but actually willing to fragment the market to protect their own shares. The Unix International vs. OSF conflict is but one outstanding example.
- fujisawa — a city on E Honshu, in Japan, S of Tokyo.
- fujiwara — a member of a powerful family in Japan who exercised power as regents in the name of the emperor, a.d. 858–1160.
- godawful — extremely dreadful or shocking: What a God-awful thing to say!
- grub saw — a handsaw for cutting stone.
- guffawed — a loud, unrestrained burst of laughter.
- guideway — a structure, usually made of concrete, that is used to support and guide trains or individual vehicles that ride over it.
- gulf war — a conflict (Jan.–Feb. 1991) between Iraq and the United States and its allies to expel Iraq from Kuwait.
- gun laws — laws relating to the possession and use of guns
- gunwales — Plural form of gunwale.
- gunwhale — Misspelling of gunwale.
- gunwoman — A female gunman.
- gurdwara — a Sikh temple in India.
- huntaway — a sheep dog.
- kurosawa — Akira [ah-kee-rah] /ɑˈki rɑ/ (Show IPA), 1910–1998, Japanese film director.
- kwakiutl — a member of a North American Indian people of Vancouver Island and the adjacent British Columbian coast.
- kwantung — Older Spelling. Guandong.
- lawcourt — a court of law
- lawfully — allowed or permitted by law; not contrary to law: a lawful enterprise.
- lawsuits — Plural form of lawsuit.
- lukewarm — moderately warm; tepid.
- mawbound — (of cattle) constipated
- moratuwa — a city in W Sri Lanka.
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