7-letter words containing w, a, d
- headway — headroom (def 2).
- heyward — DuBose [duh-bohz] /dəˈboʊz/ (Show IPA), 1885–1940, U.S. playwright, novelist, and poet.
- howdahs — Plural form of howdah.
- indrawn — reserved; introspective: a quiet, indrawn man.
- inwards — toward the inside, interior, or center, as of a place, space, or body.
- jackdaw — a glossy, black, European bird, Corvus monedula, of the crow family, that nests in towers, ruins, etc.
- larwood — Harold. 1904–95, English cricketer. An outstanding fast bowler, he played 21 times for England between 1926 and 1933
- laydown — a hand held by a declarer that is or can be played with all cards exposed because no action by the opponents can prevent the declarer from taking the number of tricks necessary to make the contract.
- leawood — a town in E Kansas.
- leeward — pertaining to, situated in, or moving toward the quarter toward which the wind blows (opposed to windward).
- lowland — land that is low or level, in comparison with the adjacent country.
- madwort — a mat-forming plant, Aurinia saxatilis (or Alyssum saxatille), of the mustard family, having spatulate leaves and open clusters of pale yellow flowers.
- manward — Also, manwards. toward humankind: The church directed its attention manward as well as heavenward.
- matweed — any of several grasses that are used to make mats or that grow in a densely interwoven or tangled mass, esp mat grass, Nardus stricta
- mawseed — the seed of the opium poppy, Papaver somniferum, which is used as feed for caged birds
- mayweed — a composite plant, Anthemis cotula, native to Europe and Asia but naturalized in North America, having pungent, rank-smelling foliage and flower heads with a yellow disk and white rays.
- maywood — a city in NE Illinois, near Chicago.
- meadows — Plural form of meadow.
- meadowy — a tract of grassland used for pasture or serving as a hayfield.
- medawar — Peter Brian, 1915–87, English zoologist and anatomist, born in Brazil: Nobel Prize in medicine 1960.
- miaowed — Simple past tense and past participle of miaow.
- midways — Plural form of midway.
- misdraw — 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).
- nayward — the negative view
- nayword — a proverb or byword
- new lad — a cultural stereotype, which is basically a throwback to a supposedly more masculine or macho image of masculinity in reaction against the supposedly feminized 'New Man' of the 1990s
- newmade — Newly made.
- norward — Archaic form of northward.
- nowaday — Existing nowadays; current, present; contemporary.
- nowdays — Eye dialect of nowadays.
- oakwood — A wood populated with oak trees.
- oarweed — any of various brown seaweeds, esp a kelp of the genus Laminaria, with long broad fronds, common below the low-water mark
- oldowan — of or designating a Lower and Middle Pleistocene industrial complex of eastern Africa, characterized by assemblages of stone tools about two million years old that are the oldest well-documented artifacts yet known.
- onwards — toward a point ahead or in front; forward, as in space or time.
- ostwald — Wilhelm [vil-helm] /ˈvɪl hɛlm/ (Show IPA), 1853–1932, German chemist: Nobel prize 1909.
- outdraw — to draw a gun, revolver, etc., from a holster, faster than (an opponent or competitor): She could outdraw any member of the club.
- outward — 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.
- pad saw — a small compass saw with a pad.
- predawn — the period immediately preceding dawn.
- ragweed — any of the composite plants of the genus Ambrosia, the airborne pollen of which is the most prevalent cause of autumnal hay fever, as the common North American species, A. trifida (great ragweed or giant ragweed) and A. artemisiifolia.
- rawhead — a bogeyman, esp one with a skull as its head
- rawhide — untanned skin of cattle or other animals.
- red-wat — stained with blood; bloody.
- redrawn — 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).
- redware — a large brown seaweed, Laminaria digitata, common off northern Atlantic coasts.
- rewards — the benefits of doing something
- ridgway — Matthew Bunker, 1895–1993, U.S. army general: chief of staff 1953–55.
- roadway — the land over which a road is built; a road together with the land at its edge.
- rowland — a masculine name
- rwandan — a republic in central Africa, E of the Democratic Republic of the Congo: formerly comprising the N part of the Belgian trust territory of Ruanda-Urundi; became independent 1962. 10,169 sq. mi. (26,338 sq. km). Capital: Kigali.