6-letter words containing w, a, l
- harlow — Jean, 1911–37, U.S. motion-picture actress.
- hawala — A system or agency for transferring money traditionally used in the Muslim world, whereby the money is paid to an agent who then instructs a remote associate to pay the final recipient.
- in-law — a relative by marriage.
- inlaws — Plural form of inlaw.
- inwale — (in an open boat) a horizontal timber binding together the frames along the top strake.
- inwall — to enclose with a wall.
- knawel — any of several plants belonging to the genus Scleranthus, of the pink family, native to Eurasia, especially S. annuus, a common, low-growing weed that forms dense mats.
- kotwal — an Indian police officer.
- l wave — an earthquake wave that travels around the earth's surface and is usually the third conspicuous wave to reach a seismograph.
- lawers — Plural form of lawer.
- lawful — allowed or permitted by law; not contrary to law: a lawful enterprise.
- lawing — the principles and regulations established in a community by some authority and applicable to its people, whether in the form of legislation or of custom and policies recognized and enforced by judicial decision.
- lawman — an officer of the law, as a sheriff or police officer.
- lawmen — Plural form of lawman.
- lawned — Provided with a lawn.
- lawson — of or relating to a style of overstuffed sofa or chair that is boxy in shape, with square back and seat cushions and broad, square or rounded arms that are lower in height than the back: a Lawson sofa.
- lawton — a city in SW Oklahoma.
- lawyer — a person whose profession is to represent clients in a court of law or to advise or act for clients in other legal matters.
- leasow — to graze or pasture
- lebowa — a former Bantu homeland in NE South Africa, consisting of three separate territories with several smaller exclaves: abolished in 1993
- leeway — extra time, space, materials, or the like, within which to operate; margin: With ten minutes' leeway we can catch the train.
- logway — gangway (def 7).
- luwian — an extinct ancient Anatolian language written in cuneiform.
- malawi — Formerly Nyasaland. a republic in SE Africa, on the W and S shores of Lake Malawi: formerly a British protectorate and part of the Federation of Rhodesia and Nyasaland; gained independence July 6, 1964; a member of the Commonwealth of Nations. 49,177 sq. mi. (127,368 sq. km). Capital: Lilongwe.
- mallow — any of various plants of the genus Malva, including several popular garden plants, as the musk mallow.
- mawlid — a Muslim holiday celebrating the birth of Muhammad, occurring on the twelfth day of the month of Rabiʿ al-awwal, and characterized especially by the recitation of panegyrical poems honoring Muhammad.
- mowlam — Mo, full name Marjorie Mowlam. 1949–2005, British Labour politician; secretary of state for Northern Ireland (1997–99) and minister for the cabinet office (1999–2001)
- mu-law — The North America standard for nonuniform quantising logarithmic compression.
- narwal — Archaic form of narwhal.
- oilway — a hole in a machine which allows oil to be inserted for lubrication
- oswald — Lee Harvey, 1939–63, designated by a presidential commission to be the lone assassin of John F. Kennedy.
- outlaw — a lawless person or habitual criminal, especially one who is a fugitive from the law.
- prawle — a brawl
- pulwar — a light Indian river boat used for carrying cargo
- qawwal — A performer of qawwali.
- sallow — of a sickly, yellowish or lightish brown color: sallow cheeks; a sallow complexion.
- sawfly — any of numerous hymenopterous insects of the family Tenthredinidae, the female of which has a sawlike ovipositor for inserting the eggs in the tissues of a host plant.
- sawlog — a log large enough to be suitable for sawing or making into lumber
- scrawl — to write or draw in a sprawling, awkward manner: He scrawled his name hastily across the blackboard.
- sewall — Samuel, 1652–1730, American jurist, born in England.
- sprawl — to be stretched or spread out in an unnatural or ungraceful manner: The puppy's legs sprawled in all directions.
- swally — an alcoholic drink
- tallow — the fatty tissue or suet of animals.
- talwin — pentazocine
- tulwar — any of several Indian sabers.
- unweal — sadness or sorrow
- wabble — the larva of a botfly, Cuterebra emasculator, that infests squirrels and other rodents, rendering the males sterile.
- wabbly — shaky; unsteady.
- waddle — to walk with short steps, swaying or rocking from side to side, as a duck.
- wadmal — a bulky woolen fabric woven of coarse yarn and heavily napped, formerly much used in England and Scandinavia for the manufacture of durable winter garments.