8-letter words containing w, a
- hovawart — a medium-sized strongly-built dog of a breed with a long thick coat, a thick tuft of hair round the neck, and a long bushy tail
- how far? — to what extent, distance, or degree?
- huntaway — a sheep dog.
- hwang ho — Older Spelling. Huang He.
- ichikawa — a city on E Honshu, in Japan, NE of Tokyo.
- in a row — lined up
- in a way — manner, mode, or fashion: a new way of looking at a matter; to reply in a polite way.
- interwar — occurring during a period of peace between two wars, especially between World War I and World War II.
- inwardly — in or on, or with reference to, the inside or inner part; internally.
- inweaves — Third-person singular simple present indicative form of inweave.
- ironware — articles of iron, as pots, kettles, or tools; hardware.
- iwo jima — one of the Volcano Islands, in the N Pacific, S of Japan: under U.S. administration after 1945; returned to Japan 1968.
- jackdaws — Plural form of jackdaw.
- jaw harp — jew's-harp
- jawboned — Simple past tense and past participle of jawbone.
- jawboner — a person who jawbones
- jawbones — Plural form of jawbone.
- jawlines — Plural form of jawline.
- jaywalks — Third-person singular simple present indicative form of jaywalk.
- jet wash — Aeronautics. the backwash caused by a jet engine.
- jigsawed — Simple past tense and past participle of jigsaw.
- john law — Andrew Bonar [bon-er] /ˈbɒn ər/ (Show IPA), 1858–1923, English statesman, born in Canada: prime minister 1922–23.
- kakogawa — a city in S Honshu, Japan.
- kalewife — a female vegetable or cabbage seller
- kanazawa — a seaport on W Honshu, in central Japan.
- kangwane — (formerly) a Bantu homeland in South Africa; abolished in 1994. Capital: Schoemansdal
- katowice — a city in S Poland.
- kawabata — Yasunari [yah-soo-nah-ree] /ˈyɑ sʊˈnɑ ri/ (Show IPA), 1899–1972, Japanese novelist and short-story writer: Nobel Prize 1968.
- kawakawa — an aromatic shrub or small tree of New Zealand, Macropiper excelsum: held to be sacred by the Māoris
- kawasaki — a seaport on SE Honshu, in central Japan, SW of Tokyo.
- keewatin — a district in the Northwest Territories, in N Canada. 228,160 sq. mi. (590,935 sq. km).
- kiaochow — a former German-leased territory (1898–1914) on the Shandong peninsula, in E China, around Jiaozhou Bay. 200 sq. mi. (518 sq. km). Chief city, Tsingtao.
- kickshaw — a tidbit or delicacy, especially one served as an appetizer or hors d'oeuvre.
- kilowatt — a unit of power, equal to 1000 watts. Abbreviation: kW, kw.
- kingwana — a language of the Democratic Republic of Congo in W Africa, closely related to Swahili and used as a lingua franca
- kirkwall — a town on Pomona island, NE of Scotland in the Orkney Islands: administrative center of the Orkney Islands.
- kirkward — towards the church
- knapweed — any composite plant of the genus Centaurea, especially the weedy C. nigra, having rose-purple flowers set on a dark-colored, knoblike bract.
- knifejaw — Any of the family Oplegnathidae of perciform marine fish.
- knitwear — clothing made of knitted fabric.
- know-all — a know-it-all.
- knowable — capable of being known.
- kurosawa — Akira [ah-kee-rah] /ɑˈki rɑ/ (Show IPA), 1910–1998, Japanese film director.
- kwakiutl — a member of a North American Indian people of Vancouver Island and the adjacent British Columbian coast.
- kwan-yin — one of the Chinese female Boddhisattvas, noted for her kindness: often considered an aspect of Avalokitesvara.
- kwantung — Older Spelling. Guandong.
- kweiyang — Guiyang.
- lacewing — any of several insects of the family Chrysopidae, having delicate, lacelike wings and golden or copper-colored eyes, the larvae of which are predaceous on aphids and other small insects.
- lacewood — the quartersawed wood of the sycamore tree.
- lacework — lace (def 1).