8-letter words containing u, a, w
- mud wasp — any of several wasps, as the mud dauber, that construct a nest of mud.
- mulloway — a large Australian saltwater fish, Sciaena antarctica. regarded as a culinary delicacy.
- muzorewa — Abel (Tendekayi) (ˈeibəl) 1925–2010, Zimabwean Methodist bishop and politician; president of the African National Council (1971–85). He was one of the negotiators of an internal settlement (1978–79); prime minister of Rhodesia (1979)
- 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.
- 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
- outwatch — to outdo or surpass in watching.
- outweary — to exhaust completely
- put away — to move or place (anything) so as to get it into or out of a specific location or position: to put a book on the shelf.
- quadword — (computing) A numerical value of four times the magnitude of a word, thus typically 64 bits.
- rawlplug — a short fibre or plastic tube used to provide a fixing in a wall for a screw
- routeway — a track, road, waterway, etc, used as a route to somewhere
- run away — to go quickly by moving the legs more rapidly than at a walk and in such a manner that for an instant in each step all or both feet are off the ground.
- sawdusty — filled with or suggesting sawdust.
- southpaw — a person who is left-handed.
- spunware — objects formed by spinning.
- squawked — to utter a loud, harsh cry, as a duck or other fowl when frightened.
- squawker — to utter a loud, harsh cry, as a duck or other fowl when frightened.
- squawman — a White or other non-American-Indian man married to a North American Indian woman
- subdwarf — a star which is smaller than a dwarf star
- sulawesi — an island in central Indonesia. 72,986 sq. mi. (189,034 sq. km).
- sunwards — Also, sunwards. toward the sun.
- sus laws — laws authorizing the arrest and punishment of suspected persons frequenting, or loitering in, public places with criminal intent. In England, the sus law formed part of the Vagrancy Act of 1824, repealed in 1981
- suwannee — a river in SE Georgia and N Florida, flowing SW to the Gulf of Mexico. 240 miles (386 km) long.
- thaw out — defreeze
- tokugawa — a member of a powerful family in Japan that ruled as shoguns, 1603–1867.
- turf war — dispute over territory
- ultralow — extremely low
- unavowed — acknowledged; declared: an avowed enemy.
- unawares — while not aware or conscious of a thing oneself; unknowingly or inadvertently.
- unclawed — not mauled, scratched, or otherwise damaged by claws
- underjaw — the lower jaw
- underway — occurring while under way: the underway activities on a cruise ship.
- unflawed — perfect
- unhallow — to desecrate; profane.
- unixware — (operating system) Novell's implementation of Unix System 5 heavily based on Release 4.2 but with enhancements and new bundled products. In 1993 Novell acquired Unix Systems Laboratories from AT&T along with the Unix trademark. UnixWare was the result of Novell's efforts to make Unix interoperable with Novell NetWare. In 1995 Novell sold UnixWare and the rights to the Unix operating system to SCO at a time when UnixWare was gainnig popularity. It was later the first 64-bit operating system on the Intel platform, and, in 1999, is the world's fastest-growing commercial operating system.
- unlawful — not lawful; contrary to law; illegal.
- unshadow — to remove a shadow from
- unswathe — to free from something that swathes: to unswath the child of her bandages.
- unswayed — swaybacked.
- unthawed — not thawed; still frozen
- untoward — unfavorable or unfortunate: Untoward circumstances forced him into bankruptcy.
- unwaived — to refrain from claiming or insisting on; give up; forgo: to waive one's right; to waive one's rank; to waive honors.
- unwalked — to advance or travel on foot at a moderate speed or pace; proceed by steps; move by advancing the feet alternately so that there is always one foot on the ground in bipedal locomotion and two or more feet on the ground in quadrupedal locomotion.
- unwalled — not surrounded by walls, not having or protected by walls