8-letter words containing w, a, l
- eschewal — The act of eschewing.
- fallaway — a shot in basketball made while moving away from the basket
- fallower — A person or machine that fallows, a reaper or plowman.
- farewell — Cape, a cape in S Greenland: most southerly point of Greenland.
- firewalk — An instance of firewalking.
- firewall — a partition made of fireproof material to prevent the spread of a fire from one part of a building or ship to another or to isolate an engine compartment, as on a plane, automobile, etc.
- flat-saw — plain-saw.
- flatware — utensils, as knives, forks, and spoons, used at the table for serving and eating food.
- flatwash — an area of solid colour, whether in artwork or scenery
- flatways — with the flat side, rather than the edge, foremost or in contact.
- flatwise — with the flat side, rather than the edge, foremost or in contact.
- flatwork — sheets, tablecloths, etc., that are ordinarily ironed mechanically, as on a mangle, rather than by hand.
- flatworm — any worm of the phylum Platyhelminthes, having bilateral symmetry and a soft, solid, usually flattened body, including the planarians, tapeworms, and trematodes; platyhelminth.
- flawless — having no defects or faults, especially none that diminish the value of something: a flawless Ming Dynasty vase.
- flaxweed — Toadflax.
- fleawort — a European plantain, Plantago psyllium, having seeds that are used in medicine.
- floodway — the channel and adjacent shore areas under water during a flood, especially as determined for a flood of a given height.
- flowable — to move along in a stream: The river flowed slowly to the sea.
- flowback — return or redistribution of something that has been received or acquired.
- flowrate — The flowrate is the speed at which fluid in a pipe moves, or the speed at which it moves from a reservoir into a wellbore.
- fly swat — fly swatter.
- foldaway — designed to be folded out of the way when not in use: a foldaway bed.
- folkways — The traditional behavior or way of life of a particular community or group of people.
- footwall — Mining. the top of the rock stratum underlying a vein or bed of ore. Compare hanging wall (def 1).
- forewall — The foremost outer wall of a fortification.
- fowliang — Older Spelling. former name of Jingdezhen.
- gadwalls — Plural form of gadwall.
- galloway — a historic region in SW Scotland.
- game law — a law enacted for the preservation of game, as by restricting the number and kinds of game that may be taken and by designating periods of the year when specified game may be taken.
- gamefowl — A gamebird.
- garefowl — an extinct species of seabird (Alca impennis)
- gas laws — ideal gas law.
- gas well — a well from which natural gas is obtained.
- gladwrap — a thin polythene material that clings closely to any surface around which it is placed: used for wrapping food
- glowlamp — An aphlogistic lamp.
- gnawable — Capable of being gnawed.
- goalward — relating to a move towards a goal
- godawful — extremely dreadful or shocking: What a God-awful thing to say!
- gottwald — Klement [kle-ment] /ˈklɛ mɛnt/ (Show IPA), 1896–1953, Czech Communist leader: prime minister 1946–48; president 1948–53.
- growable — able to be cultivated or grown
- gulf war — a conflict (Jan.–Feb. 1991) between Iraq and the United States and its allies to expel Iraq from Kuwait.
- gun laws — laws relating to the possession and use of guns
- gunwales — Plural form of gunwale.
- gunwhale — Misspelling of gunwale.
- hailwood — Mike, full name Stanley Michael Bailey Hailwood. 1940–81, English racing motorcyclist: world champion (250 cc.) 1961 and 1966–67; (350 cc.) 1966–67; and (500 cc.) 1962–65
- half-raw — (of meat) only partially cooked
- half-wit — a person who is feeble-minded.
- halfwits — Plural form of halfwit.
- halfword — (computing) An area of storage one half the size of the word in a particular system; usually two bytes.
- hallowed — regarded as holy; venerated; sacred: Hallowed be Thy name; the hallowed saints; our hallowed political institutions.