8-letter words containing w, a, s
- castaway — A castaway is a person who has managed to swim or float to a lonely island or shore after their boat has sunk.
- catwalks — Plural form of catwalk.
- catworks — the machinery used on a drilling platform
- causeway — A causeway is a raised path or road that crosses water or wet land.
- chainsaw — a motor-driven saw, usually portable, in which the cutting teeth form links in a continuous chain
- ciswoman — (LGBT) A cisgender woman, a woman who is biologically female.
- clawless — Having no claws.
- coldslaw — coleslaw.
- coleslaw — Coleslaw is a salad of chopped raw cabbage, carrots, onions, and sometimes other vegetables, usually with mayonnaise.
- cowgrass — the common name for Trefolium medium, a species of Trefoil; also applied to the commonly cultivated form of red clover
- cowhands — Plural form of cowhand.
- coxswain — The coxswain of a lifeboat or other small boat is the person who steers the boat.
- cpu wars — /C-P-U worz/ A 1979 large-format comic by Chas Andres chronicling the attempts of the brainwashed androids of IPM (Impossible to Program Machines) to conquer and destroy the peaceful denizens of HEC (Human Engineered Computers). This rather transparent allegory featured many references to ADVENT and the immortal line "Eat flaming death, minicomputer mongrels!" (uttered, of course, by an IPM stormtrooper). It is alleged that the author subsequently received a letter of appreciation on IBM company stationery from the head of IBM's Thomas J. Watson Research Laboratories (then, as now, one of the few islands of true hackerdom in the IBM archipelago). The lower loop of the B in the IBM logo, it is said, had been carefully whited out. See eat flaming death.
- crabwise — (of motion) sideways; like a crab
- crawdads — Plural form of crawdad.
- crawfish — A crawfish is a small shellfish with five pairs of legs which lives in rivers and streams. You can eat some types of crawfish.
- crawlers — a baby's overalls; rompers
- crawlies — Fear, anxiety.
- crenshaw — a hybrid variety of melon with yellow skin and pale pink flesh
- crossway — a junction
- crowbars — Plural form of crowbar.
- curassow — any gallinaceous ground-nesting bird of the family Cracidae, of S North, Central, and South America. Curassows have long legs and tails and, typically, a distinctive crest of curled feathers
- cutaways — Plural form of cutaway.
- dawdlers — Plural form of dawdler.
- dawnings — Plural form of dawning.
- dec wars — A 1983 Usenet posting by Alan Hastings and Steve Tarr spoofing the "Star Wars" movies in hackish terms. Some years later, ESR (disappointed by Hastings and Tarr's failure to exploit a great premise more thoroughly) posted a 3-times-longer complete rewrite called "Unix WARS"; the two are often confused.
- dewclaws — Plural form of dewclaw.
- disallow — to refuse to allow; reject; veto: to disallow a claim for compensation.
- disavows — Third-person singular simple present indicative form of disavow.
- dishware — dishes used for food; tableware.
- doorways — Plural form of doorway.
- dowagers — Plural form of dowager.
- downcast — directed downward, as the eyes.
- downwash — a deflection of air downward relative to an airfoil that causes the deflection.
- dowsabel — sweetheart.
- drawbars — Plural form of drawbar.
- drawings — Plural form of drawing.
- dry wash — clothes, curtains, etc., washed and dried but not yet ironed. Compare wet wash.
- drywalls — Third-person singular simple present indicative form of drywall.
- dwarfish — like a dwarf, especially in being abnormally small; diminutive.
- dwarfism — the condition of being a dwarf or dwarfed.
- dwarvish — Synonym of dwarfish.
- earworms — Plural form of earworm.
- earywigs — Plural form of earywig.
- eastward — Also, eastwards. toward the east.
- eastwood — Clint, born 1930, U.S. actor and director.
- edgeways — with the edge forward; in the direction of the edge.
- enswathe — Envelop or wrap in a garment or piece of fabric.
- eschewal — The act of eschewing.
- fairways — Plural form of fairway.