7-letter words containing w, a
- at will — If you can do something at will, you can do it when you want and as much as you want.
- at work — If someone is at work they are doing their job or are busy doing a particular activity.
- athwart — transversely; from one side to another
- atwater — a town in central California.
- avowals — Plural form of avowal.
- avowing — Present participle of avow.
- awaited — to wait for; expect; look for: He is still awaiting an answer.
- awaiter — a person who awaits something or someone
- awakens — Third-person singular simple present indicative form of awaken.
- awaking — waking; not sleeping.
- awarded — to give as due or merited; assign or bestow: to award prizes.
- awardee — the recipient of an award.
- awarder — to give as due or merited; assign or bestow: to award prizes.
- awayday — a trip taken for pleasure, relaxation, etc; day excursion
- aweless — feeling no awe
- awesome — An awesome person or thing is very impressive and often frightening.
- awfully — in an unpleasant, bad, or reprehensible manner
- awkward — An awkward situation is embarrassing and difficult to deal with.
- awlbird — the green woodpecker
- awlwort — a small stemless aquatic plant, Subularia aquatica, of the N hemisphere, having slender sharp-pointed leaves and minute, often submerged, white flowers: family Brassicaceae (crucifers)
- awnings — Plural form of awning.
- awnless — Without awns or beard.
- awolowo — Obafemi [aw-bah-fey-mee] /ɔˈbɑ feɪ mi/ (Show IPA), 1909–1987, Nigerian lawyer and statesman.
- awright — (slang, informal) Okay; indication of approval. Variant colloquial form of \"all right\". Sometimes \"awight\" or \"ah'ight\".
- aylward — Gladys. 1903–70, English missionary in China
- azikiwe — Nnamdi (ənˈnæmdɪ) 1904–96, Nigerian statesman; first president of Nigeria (1963–66)
- b and w — (of a motion picture, photograph, drawing, etc.) black and white, as distinguished from color.
- backsaw — a small handsaw stiffened along its upper edge by a metal section
- backway — A back alley.
- bagwash — a laundry that washes clothes without drying or pressing them
- bagwork — a revetment, consisting of heavy material sewn into bags, for protecting embankments against scour.
- bagworm — the larva of moths of the family Psychidae, which forms a protective case of silk covered with grass, leaves, etc
- baklawa — a Near Eastern pastry made of many layers of paper-thin dough with a filling of ground nuts, baked and then drenched in a syrup of honey and sometimes rosewater.
- baldwin — James Arthur. 1924–87, US Black writer, whose works include the novel Go Tell it on the Mountain (1954)
- ballows — Plural form of ballow.
- ballwin — a town in E Missouri.
- bandsaw — A bandsaw is an electric saw that consists of a metal band that turns round and is used for cutting wood, metal, and other materials.
- barrows — Plural form of barrow.
- barstow — a city in S California.
- barware — the glasses and other equipment used in a bar
- barwise — (of a charge or charges) transversely across an escutcheon, in the manner of a bar.
- barwood — a red wood from a small African tree, Baphia nitida, primarily used to produce dye and in the construction of violin bows
- bashaws — Plural form of bashaw.
- batfowl — to catch birds by temporarily blinding them with light
- batwing — shaped like the wings of a bat, as a black tie, collar, etc
- bawbees — Plural form of bawbee.
- bawbles — Plural form of bawble.
- bawcock — a fine fellow
- bawdier — Comparative form of bawdy.
- bawdily — indecent; lewd; obscene: another of his bawdy stories.