8-letter words containing w, a, l
- catwalks — Plural form of catwalk.
- chewable — Chewable describes drugs that are best or most easily absorbed by chewing.
- clamworm — any of several burrowing polychaete worms of the genus Nereis, used as bait for fishing.
- claw bar — a crowbar or lever having a bend at one end with a claw for pulling spikes.
- claw off — to avoid the dangers of (a lee shore or other hazard) by beating
- clawback — the recovery of a sum of money, esp by taxation or penalty
- clawfoot — (medicine, uncountable) A condition of the human foot in which the sole of the foot is distinctly hollow when bearing weight, i.e. it has a fixed plantar flexion.
- clawless — Having no claws.
- clawlike — resembling a claw or claws
- clayware — pottery
- clearway — a stretch of road on which motorists may stop only in an emergency
- cold war — The Cold War was the period of hostility and tension between the Soviet bloc and the Western powers that followed the Second World War.
- coldslaw — coleslaw.
- coleslaw — Coleslaw is a salad of chopped raw cabbage, carrots, onions, and sometimes other vegetables, usually with mayonnaise.
- colorway — (arts) The scheme of two or more colors in which a design is available. It is often used to describe variegated or ombre (shades of one color) print yarns, fabric, or thread. It can also be applied to apparel, to wallpaper and other interior design motifs, and to specifications for printed materials such as magazines or newspapers.
- corn law — any of the laws regulating domestic and foreign trading of grain, the last of which was repealed in 1846.
- cornwall — a former administrative county of SW England; became a unitary authority in 2009: hilly, with a deeply indented coastline. Administrative centre: Truro. Pop: 513 500 (2003 est). Area: 3564 sq km (1376 sq miles)
- cow-tail — a coarse wool of poor quality.
- cowalker — A phantom or astral body deemed to be separable from the physical body and capable of acting independently; a doppelganger.
- cowardly — If you describe someone as cowardly, you disapprove of them because they are easily frightened and avoid doing dangerous and difficult things.
- cranwell — a village in E England, in Lincolnshire: Royal Air Force College (1920)
- crawlers — a baby's overalls; rompers
- crawlies — Fear, anxiety.
- crawling — a defect in freshly applied paint or varnish characterized by bare patches and ridging
- crawlway — a low passageway in a cave or mine that can only be negotiated by crawling
- cycleway — A cycleway is a road, route, or path for cyclists.
- dawdlers — Plural form of dawdler.
- dawdling — proceeding at a slow pace
- dawnlike — the first appearance of daylight in the morning: Dawn broke over the valley.
- declawed — Simple past tense and past participle of declaw.
- delaware — a member of a North American Indian people formerly living near the Delaware River
- dew claw — a functionless claw of some dogs, not reaching the ground in walking.
- dewclaws — Plural form of dewclaw.
- disallow — to refuse to allow; reject; veto: to disallow a claim for compensation.
- downfall — descent to a lower position or standing; overthrow; ruin.
- downhaul — any of various lines for pulling down a sail or a yard, as for securing in a lowered position when not in use.
- downland — An area of rolling downs, often grassy pasture over chalk or limestone.
- download — to transfer (software, data, character sets, etc.) from a distant to a nearby computer, from a larger to a smaller computer, or from a computer to a peripheral device.
- downplay — to treat or speak of (something) so as to reduce emphasis on its importance, value, strength, etc.: The press has downplayed the president's role in the negotiations.
- dowsabel — sweetheart.
- drawable — to cause to move in a particular direction by or as if by a pulling force; pull; drag (often followed by along, away, in, out, or off).
- drawhole — a funnel-shaped vertical opening cut at the bottom of a stope, which permits the loading of ore into conveyances in the passageways below.
- drawling — an act or utterance of a person who drawls.
- drawlink — (rail transport) drawbar.
- dry-wall — to construct or renovate with dry wall: to dry-wall the interior of a house.
- drywalls — Third-person singular simple present indicative form of drywall.
- duckwalk — Walk with the body in a squatting posture.
- e-wallet — an electronic device, website, software system, or database that facilitates commercial transactions by storing a consumer's credit card, shipping address, and other payment data.
- eelwrack — eelgrass
- enwallow — to plunge or roll around in