8-letter words containing w, a, r
- townwear — tailored, usually conservative clothing appropriate for business or other activities in a town or city.
- trackway — railway (def 3).
- trainway — a railway track; the channel in a built-up area through which a train passes
- trawling — fishing using a trawl net or trawl line
- treelawn — a narrow band of grass between a road and a pavement, usually planted with trees
- treeware — books, magazines, or other reading materials that are printed on paper made from wood pulp as opposed to texts in the form of computer software, CD-ROM, audio books, etc
- trewsman — a Highlander
- turf war — dispute over territory
- twaddler — trivial, feeble, silly, or tedious talk or writing.
- twangler — a person who twangles
- twattler — a person who twattles; a chatterbox
- two pair — a set of two cards of the same denomination together with another matched set of different denomination from the first.
- two-star — of or being a major general, as indicated by two stars on an insignia.
- ultralow — extremely low
- unawares — while not aware or conscious of a thing oneself; unknowingly or inadvertently.
- underjaw — the lower jaw
- underway — occurring while under way: the underway activities on a cruise ship.
- unixware — (operating system) Novell's implementation of Unix System 5 heavily based on Release 4.2 but with enhancements and new bundled products. In 1993 Novell acquired Unix Systems Laboratories from AT&T along with the Unix trademark. UnixWare was the result of Novell's efforts to make Unix interoperable with Novell NetWare. In 1995 Novell sold UnixWare and the rights to the Unix operating system to SCO at a time when UnixWare was gainnig popularity. It was later the first 64-bit operating system on the Intel platform, and, in 1999, is the world's fastest-growing commercial operating system.
- untoward — unfavorable or unfortunate: Untoward circumstances forced him into bankruptcy.
- unwarded — not warded or guarded; undefended
- unwarely — unwarily or incautiously; carelessly
- unwarily — not wary; not cautious or watchful, as against danger or misfortune.
- unwarmed — not warmed; unheated
- unwarned — not warned or cautioned; without warning
- unwarped — not warped, as a phonograph record or flooring.
- unwatery — not watery
- van wert — a city in NW Ohio.
- w-r star — a very hot (35,000–100,000 K) and luminous star in the early stages of evolution, with broad emission lines in its spectrum.
- wafering — Present participle of wafer.
- wagering — Present participle of wager.
- waggoner — Alternative spelling of wagoner.
- wagoneer — One who drives a wagon.
- waitered — a person, especially a man, who waits on tables, as in a restaurant.
- waitress — a woman who waits on tables, as in a restaurant.
- waitrons — Plural form of waitron.
- waivered — Allowed by waiver; permitted by exception granted from otherwise applicable rules.
- wakeover — A sleepover party in a public place, such as a church, at which little or no sleep actually gets done.
- wakerife — wakeful.
- walburga — Walpurgis.
- waldhorn — an organ reed stop
- waldrapp — the hermit ibis, Geronticus eremita, found in parts of N Africa and the Middle East
- walkover — Racing. a walking or trotting over the course by a contestant who is the only starter.
- walkthru — (US) alternative spelling of walkthrough.
- walkyrie — Valkyrie.
- wall rue — a small, delicate fern, Asplenium rutamuraria, having fan-shaped leaflets and growing on walls and cliffs.
- wallaroo — any of several large kangaroos of the genus Macropus (Osphranter), of the grassy plains of Australia, especially M. robustus, having a reddish-gray coat and inhabiting rocky hills.
- walloper — to beat soundly; thrash.
- wallower — a person or thing that wallows.
- wallwort — a caprifoliaceous plant, Sambucus Ebulus, often used formerly for medicinal purposes
- walruses — Plural form of walrus.