8-letter words containing w, a, l
- hallways — Plural form of hallway.
- hardwall — a type of gypsum plaster used as a basecoat.
- hawk owl — a gray and white diurnal owl, Surnia ulula, of northern parts of the Northern Hemisphere, resembling a hawk in appearance and actions.
- hawkbell — a small bell fitted to a hawk's leg
- hawkbill — hawksbill turtle.
- 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.
- headwall — a cliff or steep slope rising at one end of a glaciated valley.
- hellward — towards hell
- hickwall — any of certain European woodpeckers, especially the green woodpecker.
- highwall — the unexcavated face of exposed overburden and coal in a surface mine.
- hole saw — crown saw.
- holy war — a war waged for what is supposed or proclaimed to be a holy purpose, as the defense of faith.
- inwardly — in or on, or with reference to, the inside or inner part; internally.
- jawlines — Plural form of jawline.
- jaywalks — Third-person singular simple present indicative form of jaywalk.
- john law — Andrew Bonar [bon-er] /ˈbɒn ər/ (Show IPA), 1858–1923, English statesman, born in Canada: prime minister 1922–23.
- kalewife — a female vegetable or cabbage seller
- kilowatt — a unit of power, equal to 1000 watts. Abbreviation: kW, kw.
- kirkwall — a town on Pomona island, NE of Scotland in the Orkney Islands: administrative center of the Orkney Islands.
- know-all — a know-it-all.
- knowable — capable of being known.
- kwakiutl — a member of a North American Indian people of Vancouver Island and the adjacent British Columbian coast.
- 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.
- lacewood — the quartersawed wood of the sycamore tree.
- lacework — lace (def 1).
- lakewood — a city in central Colorado, near Denver.
- lampwork — (glassblowing) A method for working with blown glass that does not require a furnace.
- landward — Also, landwards. toward the land or interior.
- landwash — the foreshore, especially that part between high and low tidemarks.
- landwehr — (in Germany, Austria, etc.) the part of the organized military forces of a nation that has completed a certain amount of compulsory training, and whose continuous service is required only in time of war.
- lane-way — a lane
- laneways — Plural form of laneway.
- lapwings — Plural form of lapwing.
- latewood — Wood formed in a tree relatively late in the season.
- lathwork — work made of laths
- law term — an expression or word used in law
- law-hand — a style of handwriting used in old legal documents, especially in England.
- lawcourt — a court of law
- lawfully — allowed or permitted by law; not contrary to law: a lawful enterprise.
- lawgiver — a person who promulgates a law or a code of laws.
- lawmaker — a person who makes or enacts law; legislator.
- lawndale — a city in SW California, near Los Angeles.
- lawnlike — Resembling or characteristic of a lawn.
- lawrence — D(avid) H(erbert) 1885–1930, English novelist.
- lawsuits — Plural form of lawsuit.
- lawyered — Simple past tense and past participle of lawyer.
- lawyerly — a person whose profession is to represent clients in a court of law or to advise or act for clients in other legal matters.
- lay away — to put or place in a horizontal position or position of rest; set down: to lay a book on a desk.
- lay down — to put or place in a horizontal position or position of rest; set down: to lay a book on a desk.