4-letter words containing w, a
- gawd — Eye dialect of god.
- gawk — to stare stupidly; gape: The onlookers gawked at arriving celebrities.
- gawn — (obsolete, UK, dialect) A small tub or lading vessel.
- gawp — to stare with the mouth open in wonder or astonishment; gape: Crowds stood gawping at the disabled ship.
- gnaw — to bite or chew on, especially persistently.
- gtwa — Greater Toronto Workers Assembly
- hawk — a medium-range, mobile U.S. surface-to-air missile system.
- hawm — to move awkwardly
- haws — to utter a sound representing a hesitation or pause in speech.
- hawt — Eye dialect or leet spelling of hot.
- hwan — a former monetary unit of South Korea.
- ijaw — Ijo.
- iowa — a state in the central United States: a part of the Midwest. 56,290 sq. mi. (145,790 sq. km). Capital: Des Moines. Abbreviation: IA (approved esp. for use with zip code), Ia., Io.
- iwan — a vaulted portal opening onto a courtyard: used often in Iranian mosque architecture.
- iway — information superhighway
- jawa — Java2
- jawn — Obsolete form of yawn.
- jawp — a splash, spurt, or drop of water.
- jaws — a swelling wave of water; billow.
- jawy — (obsolete) Relating to the jaws.
- kawa — Alternative form of kava.
- knaw — Archaic spelling of gnaw.
- lacw — leading aircraftwoman
- lawe — Obsolete spelling of law.
- lawl — (Internet) alternative spelling of lol.
- lawn — wireless local area network
- laws — Plural form of law.
- mawk — (obsolete except in dialects) a maggot.
- mawn — a measure of capacity, varying between regions and dependent upon the commodity measured
- maws — mother1 .
- meaw — Dated form of meow.
- mwah — Making the sound of a kiss; the sound used to indicate sending a kiss through the air; Frequently used in email, chat and text messages to indicate sending a kiss to someone.
- nawk — New AWK. AT&T. Pattern scanning and processing language. An enhanced version of AWK, with dynamic regular expressions, additional built-ins and operators, and user-defined functions.
- pawl — a pivoted bar adapted to engage with the teeth of a ratchet wheel or the like so as to prevent movement or to impart motion.
- pawn — to deposit as security, as for money borrowed, especially with a pawnbroker: He raised the money by pawning his watch.
- paws — father; pa.
- sawm — fasting, especially during the month of Ramadan; the fourth of the Pillars of Islam.
- sawn — simple past tense of see1 .
- scaw — (in Shetland) a headland or promontory
- shaw — Anna Howard, 1847–1919, U.S. physician, reformer, and suffragist, born in England.
- shwa — the mid-central, neutral vowel sound typically occurring in unstressed syllables in English, however spelled, as the sound of a in alone and sofa, e in system, i in easily, o in gallop, u in circus.
- skaw — The, a cape at the N tip of Denmark.
- slaw — coleslaw.
- swab — a large mop used on shipboard for cleaning decks, living quarters, etc.
- swad — a loutish person
- swag — Slang. plunder; booty. money; valuables. free merchandise distributed as part of the promotion of a product, company, etc. self-confidence and personal style as shown by one's appearance and demeanor: the top ten athletes with the most swag. schwag (def 1).
- swak — sealed with a kiss
- swam — simple past tense of swim.
- swan — Sir Joseph Wilson, 1828–1914, British chemist, electrical engineer, and inventor.
- swap — to exchange, barter, or trade, as one thing for another: He swapped his wrist watch for the radio.