7-letter words containing w, a, s
- shawwal — the tenth month of the Muslim calendar.
- shipway — the structure that supports a ship being built.
- showman — a person who presents or produces a show, especially of a theatrical nature.
- shulwar — loose, pajamalike trousers worn by both men and women in India and southeast Asia.
- sideway — a byway.
- skagway — a town in SE Alaska, near the famous White and Chilkoot passes to the Klondike gold fields: railway terminus.
- ski wax — a substance put on the base of a ski to increase the freezing point of water on the base of the ski
- skidway — a road or path formed of logs, planks, etc., for sliding objects.
- skiwear — activewear designed to be worn for skiing, as jackets, sweaters, and pants.
- skywalk — skybridge (def 1).
- skyward — Also, skywards. toward the sky.
- slipway — (in a shipyard) the area sloping toward the water, on which the ways are located.
- snowcap — a layer of snow forming a cap on or covering the top of something, as a mountain peak or ridge.
- snowcat — snowmobile.
- snowman — a figure of a person made of packed snow.
- so what — the true nature or identity of something, or the sum of its characteristics: a lecture on the whats and hows of crop rotation.
- someway — in some way; somehow.
- sparrow — any of numerous American finches of the family Emberizinae. Compare chipping sparrow, song sparrow.
- sprawly — tending to sprawl; straggly: The colt's legs were long and sprawly.
- spurway — a path used by horse riders
- spyware — Computers. software that is installed surreptitiously and gathers information about an Internet user's browsing habits, intercepts the user's personal data, etc., transmitting this information to a third party: a parent's use of spyware to monitor a child's online activities.
- squawky — unpleasantly discordant or harsh in sound; cacophonous.
- steward — a person who manages another's property or financial affairs; one who administers anything as the agent of another or others.
- stewart — Also, Stuart. Darnley, Lord Henry.
- stewpan — a pan for stewing; saucepan.
- stowage — an act or operation of stowing.
- strawen — of straw or strawlike
- strawer — a single stalk or stem, especially of certain species of grain, chiefly wheat, rye, oats, and barley.
- sumbawa — one of the Lesser Sunda Islands, in Indonesia: destructive eruption in 1815 of Mt. Tambora. 5965 sq. mi. (15,449 sq. km).
- sunward — Also, sunwards. toward the sun.
- suppawn — cornmeal mush.
- swabber — a person who uses a swab.
- swabian — 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.
- swacked — in a state of intoxication, stupor, or euphoria induced by drugs or alcohol
- swaddle — to bind (an infant, especially a newborn infant) with long, narrow strips of cloth to prevent free movement; wrap tightly with clothes.
- swagers — a tool for bending cold metal to a required shape.
- swagger — to walk or strut with a defiant or insolent air.
- swaging — a tool for bending cold metal to a required shape.
- swagman — a tramp, hobo, or vagabond.
- swahili — a member of a Bantu people of Zanzibar and the neighboring coast of Africa.
- swakara — the fur of Karakul sheep raised in Namibia; Persian lamb.
- swallet — an underground stream.
- swallow — to take into the stomach by drawing through the throat and esophagus with a voluntary muscular action, as food, drink, or other substances.
- swamies — an honorific title given to a Hindu religious teacher.
- swamped — a tract of wet, spongy land, often having a growth of certain types of trees and other vegetation, but unfit for cultivation.
- swamper — Informal. a person who inhabits, works in, or is exceptionally familiar with swamps.
- swanker — dashing smartness, as in dress or appearance; style.
- swanpan — a kind of abacus formerly used in China
- swansea — a seaport in West Glamorgan, in S Wales.
- swanson — Gloria (Gloria Josephine May Swenson) 1899–1983, U.S. film actress.