8-letter words containing w, a, i
- hardwick — Elizabeth, 1916–2007, U.S. novelist and critic.
- hardwire — Alternative spelling of hard-wire.
- haridwar — a city in Uttar Pradesh, N India, on the Ganges River: a holy city to Hindus.
- hawaiian — of or relating to Hawaii or the Hawaiian Islands.
- hawaiite — (geology) An olivine basalt intermediate between alkali olivine and mugearite.
- hawfinch — a European grosbeak, Coccothraustes coccothraustes.
- hawkbill — hawksbill turtle.
- hawkbits — Plural form of hawkbit.
- hawklike — any of numerous birds of prey of the family Accipitridae, having a short, hooked beak, broad wings, and curved talons, often seen circling or swooping at low altitudes.
- hawkling — A small, young, or immature hawk.
- headwind — a wind opposed to the course of a moving object, especially an aircraft or other vehicle (opposed to tailwind).
- hiawatha — the central figure of The Song of Hiawatha (1855), a poem by Henry Wadsworth Longfellow: named after a legendary Indian chief, fl. c1570.
- hickwall — any of certain European woodpeckers, especially the green woodpecker.
- hideaway — a place to which a person can retreat for safety, privacy, relaxation, or seclusion; refuge: His hideaway is in the mountains.
- highwall — the unexcavated face of exposed overburden and coal in a surface mine.
- highways — Plural form of highway.
- hindward — backward
- hiveward — (of a bee's movement) towards the hive
- hiwassee — a river in NE Georgia, SW North Carolina, and SE Tennessee, flowing N to the Tennessee River. 150 miles (241 km) long.
- hoistway — a shaft for a hoist or a lift
- ichikawa — a city on E Honshu, in Japan, NE of Tokyo.
- in a row — lined up
- in a way — manner, mode, or fashion: a new way of looking at a matter; to reply in a polite way.
- interwar — occurring during a period of peace between two wars, especially between World War I and World War II.
- inwardly — in or on, or with reference to, the inside or inner part; internally.
- inweaves — Third-person singular simple present indicative form of inweave.
- ironware — articles of iron, as pots, kettles, or tools; hardware.
- iwo jima — one of the Volcano Islands, in the N Pacific, S of Japan: under U.S. administration after 1945; returned to Japan 1968.
- jawlines — Plural form of jawline.
- jigsawed — Simple past tense and past participle of jigsaw.
- kalewife — a female vegetable or cabbage seller
- katowice — a city in S Poland.
- kawasaki — a seaport on SE Honshu, in central Japan, SW of Tokyo.
- keewatin — a district in the Northwest Territories, in N Canada. 228,160 sq. mi. (590,935 sq. km).
- kiaochow — a former German-leased territory (1898–1914) on the Shandong peninsula, in E China, around Jiaozhou Bay. 200 sq. mi. (518 sq. km). Chief city, Tsingtao.
- kickshaw — a tidbit or delicacy, especially one served as an appetizer or hors d'oeuvre.
- kilowatt — a unit of power, equal to 1000 watts. Abbreviation: kW, kw.
- kingwana — a language of the Democratic Republic of Congo in W Africa, closely related to Swahili and used as a lingua franca
- kirkwall — a town on Pomona island, NE of Scotland in the Orkney Islands: administrative center of the Orkney Islands.
- kirkward — towards the church
- knifejaw — Any of the family Oplegnathidae of perciform marine fish.
- knitwear — clothing made of knitted fabric.
- kwakiutl — a member of a North American Indian people of Vancouver Island and the adjacent British Columbian coast.
- kwan-yin — one of the Chinese female Boddhisattvas, noted for her kindness: often considered an aspect of Avalokitesvara.
- kweiyang — Guiyang.
- lacewing — any of several insects of the family Chrysopidae, having delicate, lacelike wings and golden or copper-colored eyes, the larvae of which are predaceous on aphids and other small insects.
- lapwings — Plural form of lapwing.
- lawgiver — a person who promulgates a law or a code of laws.
- lawnlike — Resembling or characteristic of a lawn.
- lawsuits — Plural form of lawsuit.