7-letter words containing w, a, l
- paltrow — Gwyneth (Kate). born 1972, US film actress; her films include Emma (1996), Sliding Doors (1998), Shakespeare in Love (1998), and Sylvia (2003)
- paywall — a system in which access to all or part of a website is restricted to paid subscribers: Some newspapers have put their content behind a paywall.
- peafowl — any of several gallinaceous birds of the genera Pavo, of India, Sri Lanka, southeastern Asia, and the East Indies, and Afropavo, of Africa.
- pinwale — (of a fabric, especially corduroy) having very thin wales.
- plowman — a man who plows.
- pre-law — of, relating to, or engaged in studies in preparation for the formal study of law.
- qawwali — a style of Sufi devotional music marked by rhythmic improvisatory repetition of a short phrase, intended to rouse participants to a state of mystical ecstasy.
- railway — a rail line with lighter-weight equipment and roadbed than a main-line railroad.
- rawlins — a town in S Wyoming.
- renewal — the act of renewing.
- rollway — a place on which things are rolled or moved on rollers.
- rowable — able to be rowed
- rowland — a masculine name
- sahiwal — a breed of cattle in India
- salchow — a jump in which the skater leaps from the back inside edge of one skate, making one full rotation of the body in the air, and lands on the back outside edge of the other skate.
- sallowy — full of sallows: a sallowy glade.
- salween — a river in SE Asia, flowing S from SW China through E Burma (Myanmar) to the Bay of Bengal. 1750 miles (2815 km) long.
- saw log — a log large enough to saw into boards.
- sawbill — any of various hummingbirds of the genus Ramphodon
- sawmill — a place or building in which timber is sawed into planks, boards, etc., by machinery.
- scrawly — written or drawn awkwardly or carelessly.
- seafowl — seabird.
- sealwax — a sealing wax made from a preparation of shellac and turpentine that is soft and fluid when heated, but which hardens upon cooling
- seawall — groyne: wave barrier
- sewable — capable of being fastened or enclosed by stitches
- sexwale — Tokyo. full name Mosima Gabriel Sexwale. born 1953; South African political activist and businessman
- shallow — of little depth; not deep: shallow water.
- shalwar — loose, pajamalike trousers worn by both men and women in India and southeast Asia.
- shawlie — a working-class woman, esp one who wears a shawl
- shawwal — the tenth month of the Muslim calendar.
- shulwar — loose, pajamalike trousers worn by both men and women in India and southeast Asia.
- skywalk — skybridge (def 1).
- slipway — (in a shipyard) the area sloping toward the water, on which the ways are located.
- sprawly — tending to sprawl; straggly: The colt's legs were long and sprawly.
- swaddle — to bind (an infant, especially a newborn infant) with long, narrow strips of cloth to prevent free movement; wrap tightly with clothes.
- swahili — a member of a Bantu people of Zanzibar and the neighboring coast of Africa.
- swallet — an underground stream.
- swallow — to take into the stomach by drawing through the throat and esophagus with a voluntary muscular action, as food, drink, or other substances.
- swazzle — a small metal instrument held in the mouth of a Punch and Judy puppeteer, used to produce the characteristic shrill voice of Mr Punch
- tallowy — resembling tallow in consistency, color, etc.; fatty: a tallowy mass of moistened powder; tallowy skin.
- teabowl — a small bowl used for serving tea
- thalweg — a line, as drawn on a map, connecting the lowest points of a valley.
- the law — the legal system
- tollway — toll road.
- trawler — a person who trawls.
- twaddle — trivial, feeble, silly, or tedious talk or writing.
- twaddly — of, containing, or relating to twaddle
- twangle — to make a twanging sound, esp on a musical instrument
- tynwald — the legislature of the Isle of Man, consisting of the lieutenant governor, the council, and the House of Keys.
- wackily — In a way or to an extent that is wacky.