7-letter words containing w, a
- forwarn — (transitive) To prohibit; forbid; deny (right, access to, etc.).
- frawzey — a celebration; treat
- freeway — an express highway with no intersections, usually having traffic routed on and off by means of a cloverleaf.
- fretsaw — A saw with a narrow blade stretched vertically on a frame, for cutting thin wood in patterns.
- frohawk — A Mohawk hairstyle worn by someone with afro-textured hair, with the crest generally standing up naturally.
- froward — willfully contrary; not easily managed: to be worried about one's froward, intractable child.
- gadwall — a grayish-brown wild duck, Anas strepera, found in temperate parts of the Northern Hemisphere.
- gaekwar — the title of the ruler of the former native state of Baroda in India
- gag law — any law restricting freedom of the press, free speech, or the right of petition.
- gallows — a wooden frame, consisting of a crossbeam on two uprights, on which condemned persons are executed by hanging.
- gangway — a passageway, especially a narrow walkway.
- gas law — ideal gas law.
- gateway — an entrance or passage that may be closed by a gate.
- gawkers — Plural form of gawker.
- gawkier — Comparative form of gawky.
- gawkily — In a gawky manner.
- gawking — to stare stupidly; gape: The onlookers gawked at arriving celebrities.
- gawkish — awkward; ungainly; clumsy.
- gawping — (British) present participle of gawp.
- geegaws — gewgaw.
- getaway — a getting away or fleeing; an escape.
- gewgaws — Plural form of gewgaw.
- glasgow — Ellen (Anderson Gholson) [gohl-suh n] /ˈgoʊl sən/ (Show IPA), 1874–1945, U.S. novelist.
- glashow — Sheldon Lee1932- ; U.S. physicist
- gnawing — the act of a person or thing that gnaws.
- gnu awk — gawk
- go away — leave!
- go awol — a soldier or other military person who is absent from duty without leave.
- godward — Also, Godwards. toward God.
- goshawk — any of several powerful, short-winged hawks, as Accipiter gentilis, of Europe and America, formerly much used in falconry.
- gownman — Archaic form of gownsman.
- grawlix — A spiral-shaped graphic used to indicate swearing in comic strips.
- guffaws — Plural form of guffaw.
- gunwale — the upper edge of the side or bulwark of a vessel.
- gwalior — a former state in central India, now part of Madhya Pradesh.
- gwyniad — A freshwater fish native to Bala Lake in Wales.
- hacksaw — a saw for cutting metal, consisting typically of a narrow, fine-toothed blade fixed in a frame.
- hadaway — an exclamation urging the hearer to refrain from delay in the execution of a task
- halfway — to half the distance; to midpoint: The rope reaches only halfway.
- halfwit — a person who is feeble-minded.
- hallows — to make holy; sanctify; consecrate.
- hallway — a corridor, as in a building.
- handsaw — any common saw with a handle at one end for manual operation with one hand.
- handsew — to sew by hand.
- harrows — Plural form of harrow.
- harwell — a village in S England, in Oxfordshire: atomic research station (1947)
- harwich — a port in SE England, in NE Essex on the North Sea. Pop: 20 130 (2001)
- haw-haw — a guffaw.
- hawaiki — a legendary Pacific island from which the Māoris migrated to New Zealand by canoe
- hawalli — a town in E central Kuwait.