6-letter words containing w, a, s
- mawson — Sir Douglas, 1882–1958, Australian antarctic explorer, born in England.
- miaows — Plural form of miaow.
- misway — (obsolete) A wrong way.
- nawabs — Plural form of nawab.
- oshawa — a city in SE Ontario, in S Canada, NE of Toronto, on Lake Ontario.
- oswald — Lee Harvey, 1939–63, designated by a presidential commission to be the lone assassin of John F. Kennedy.
- padsaw — a small compass saw with a pad.
- pesewa — a bronze coin and monetary unit of Ghana, the 100th part of a cedi.
- pitsaw — a two-handed saw used in pit sawing.
- psywar — psychological warfare.
- rawest — uncooked, as articles of food: a raw carrot.
- resawn — to saw again.
- rewash — to apply water or some other liquid to (something or someone) for the purpose of cleansing; cleanse by dipping, rubbing, or scrubbing in water or some other liquid.
- ripsaw — a saw for cutting wood with the grain.
- s wave — a transverse earthquake wave that travels through the interior of the earth and is usually the second conspicuous wave to reach a seismograph.
- sadowa — a village in NE Bohemia, in the W Czech Republic: Prussian victory over Austrians 1866.
- sallow — of a sickly, yellowish or lightish brown color: sallow cheeks; a sallow complexion.
- sawder — flattery; compliments (esp in the phrase soft sawder)
- sawfly — any of numerous hymenopterous insects of the family Tenthredinidae, the female of which has a sawlike ovipositor for inserting the eggs in the tissues of a host plant.
- sawing — a tool or device for cutting, typically a thin blade of metal with a series of sharp teeth.
- sawlog — a log large enough to be suitable for sawing or making into lumber
- sawney — a fool
- sawyer — a person who saws wood, especially as an occupation.
- schwag — low-quality marijuana.
- scrawl — to write or draw in a sprawling, awkward manner: He scrawled his name hastily across the blackboard.
- scrawm — to scratch
- scrawp — to scratch (the skin) to relieve itching
- seawan — wampum (def 1).
- seaway — a way over the sea.
- seesaw — a recreation in which two children alternately ride up and down while seated at opposite ends of a plank balanced at the middle.
- segway — a two-wheeled self-balancing electric vehicle, ridden while standing up
- sewage — the waste matter that passes through sewers.
- sewall — Samuel, 1652–1730, American jurist, born in England.
- seward — William Henry, 1801–72, U.S. statesman: secretary of state 1861–69.
- shadow — a dark figure or image cast on the ground or some surface by a body intercepting light.
- shawty — a person of less than average stature (sometimes used as a disparaging and offensive term of address).
- siwash — a conventional designation for any small, provincial college or for such colleges collectively (often preceded by old): students from old Siwash.
- skyway — air lane.
- sowcar — a Hindu banker.
- spawny — resembling spawn
- sprawl — to be stretched or spread out in an unnatural or ungraceful manner: The puppy's legs sprawled in all directions.
- squawk — to utter a loud, harsh cry, as a duck or other fowl when frightened.
- strawy — of, containing, or resembling straw.
- subway — Also called, especially British, tube, underground. an underground electric railroad, usually in a large city.
- swabby — Slang. (in the Navy or Coast Guard) a sailor; gob.
- swabia — a region and medieval duchy in SW Germany: it constituted the area presently included in the states of Baden-Württemberg and Bavaria, in S Germany.
- swaddy — a private soldier
- swados — Harvey, 1920–72, U.S. novelist and short-story writer.
- swager — a tool for bending cold metal to a required shape.
- swally — an alcoholic drink