8-letter words containing w, a
- lakewood — a city in central Colorado, near Denver.
- lampwork — (glassblowing) A method for working with blown glass that does not require a furnace.
- landward — Also, landwards. toward the land or interior.
- landwash — the foreshore, especially that part between high and low tidemarks.
- landwehr — (in Germany, Austria, etc.) the part of the organized military forces of a nation that has completed a certain amount of compulsory training, and whose continuous service is required only in time of war.
- lane-way — a lane
- laneways — Plural form of laneway.
- lapwings — Plural form of lapwing.
- latewood — Wood formed in a tree relatively late in the season.
- lathwork — work made of laths
- law term — an expression or word used in law
- law-hand — a style of handwriting used in old legal documents, especially in England.
- lawcourt — a court of law
- lawfully — allowed or permitted by law; not contrary to law: a lawful enterprise.
- lawgiver — a person who promulgates a law or a code of laws.
- lawmaker — a person who makes or enacts law; legislator.
- lawndale — a city in SW California, near Los Angeles.
- lawnlike — Resembling or characteristic of a lawn.
- lawrence — D(avid) H(erbert) 1885–1930, English novelist.
- lawsuits — Plural form of lawsuit.
- lawyered — Simple past tense and past participle of lawyer.
- lawyerly — a person whose profession is to represent clients in a court of law or to advise or act for clients in other legal matters.
- lay away — to put or place in a horizontal position or position of rest; set down: to lay a book on a desk.
- lay down — to put or place in a horizontal position or position of rest; set down: to lay a book on a desk.
- laywoman — a woman who is not a member of the clergy.
- laywomen — a woman who is not a member of the clergy.
- leadwork — work involving lead, such as maintenance work on lead pipes
- leadwort — any plant or shrub of the genus Plumbago, having spikes of blue, white, or red flowers.
- leafworm — A caterpillar that eats the leaves of plants.
- lee wave — the wavelike effect, characterized by severe updrafts and downdrafts, that occurs when rapidly flowing air encounters the steep front of a mountain range.
- leewards — towards the lee side
- leftward — Also, leftwards. toward or on the left.
- lewisham — a borough of Greater London, England.
- limewash — A mixture of slaked lime in water.
- lindwall — Ray(mond Russell). 1921–96, Australian cricketer. A fast bowler, he played for Australia 61 times between 1946 and 1958
- liveware — /li:v'weir/ 1. A less common synonym for wetware 2. (Cambridge) Vermin. "Waiter, there's some liveware in my salad."
- loanword — a word in one language that has been borrowed from another language and usually naturalized, as wine, taken into Old English from Latin vinum, or macho, taken into Modern English from Spanish.
- lock-jaw — tetanus in which the jaws become firmly locked together; trismus.
- lockaway — an investment intended to be held for a relatively long time
- longwall — noting or pertaining to a means of extracting coal or other minerals in an underground mine from a continuous face, the roof before the face being supported at intervals by temporary or movable artificial supports. Compare room-and-pillar.
- longwave — (of radio waves) Having a wavelength of greater than 1000 meters.
- longways — longwise.
- low beam — an automobile headlight beam providing short-range illumination of a road and intended chiefly for use in driving on the streets of cities, towns, etc.
- low gear — the arrangement of gears providing little speed but great torque
- low mass — a Mass that is said, and not sung, by the celebrant, who is assisted by one server, and which has less ceremonial form than a High Mass, using no music or choir.
- low road — a method, manner, etc., that is underhand, unscrupulous, or otherwise contemptible.
- low-ball — Cards. a game of draw poker in which the player having the lowest-ranking hand wins the pot.
- low-carb — containing few or fewer carbohydrates: a low-carb diet.
- low-paid — job: poorly remunerated
- low-rate — to place a low value on: a policy of low-rating most modern artists.